By Thom Yee

Skyfall images courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures

After I wake up, I take a moment to think about the day ahead.  If it’s early enough, I’ll make myself a nice [Skyfall] breakfast.  I take a shower, get [Skyfall] dressed, and head out to spend the rest of my [Skyfall] day.  I work on [Skyfall] articles, [Skyfall] essays, and [Skyfall] presentations.  When I get home, I catch up on the [Skyfall] news of the day, make myself a quick [Skyfall] dinner, watch some [Skyfall] TV, and do my usual [Skyfall] workout.  When it’s time for bed, I set my [Skyfall] alarm, do some light [Skyfall] reading, and mentally prepare myself for the next [Skyfall] day.  Sometimes sleep comes [Skyfall] quickly, and sometimes it’s induced by [Skyfall] drugs.  And as I sleep, I dream Skyfall dreams.

Skyfall is one of those movies that terrifies me.  It occupies my mind, disrupts my waking life, and pervades my slumbered thoughts.  It’s one of those movies that not only distracts me, but makes me nervous the longer I go after its release date without having seen it.  Y’know that feeling, like everyone’s made some wonderous discovery and you’re the only one left out?

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By Thom Yee

Quantum of Solace images courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures

“Oh crap,” I thought to myself as the realization set in.  After completing a review of Casino Royale (CR) in the lead up to Skyfall, it dawned on me that I would also have to do a Quantum of Solace review.  Well, here it goes.

Ask any Bond fan, any real Bond fan.  It doesn’t matter if you like Daniel Craig by a little or a lot; Quantum of Solace (QoS) was not good.  That’s an opinion that’s sort of warranted, but also a little perplexing, because, frankly, there are a lot of crap Bonds (or “junk Bonds” as my screenwriting instructor likes to call them, though I haven’t gotten him to commit as to which ones he’s referring).  Certainly to me and to a lot of newer Bond fans, CR was a revelation.  If you read my CR review, you know that Daniel Craig’s Bond was not only my first real exposure to the franchise, but that CR is almost wholly responsible for my being a fan.  And despite my natural inclination towards psychological sedation and withdrawal (and the mixed advance reviews), I remember actually being excited to see QoS.

And then I saw it.

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By Thom Yee

Casino Royale images courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures

Casino Royale is the first Bond movie I ever saw.

There.  I said it.

Though, to be more accurate, it’s the first Bond movie I ever saw all the way through.  Sure. I’d seen bits and pieces of various Bond movies at various times, pieced together which ones were usually Moneypenny and which ones were usually M.  Eventually I figured out why a picture of Sean Connery signed by Roger Moore was such a funny joke.  But I never cared about any of it.

Casino Royale is the first Bond movie I ever saw all the way through that I actually cared about.  It inspired me to go ahead and watch all the preceding Bond movies.  In order.  All 20.  All in less than a week.  All the way through.

And to be honest, I still didn’t really care about any of them.

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