Skyfall & the Dark Knight
To my disappointment, while the newest James Bond movie Skyfall isn't a bad movie, it nonetheless bears more resemblance to this past summer's genuinely bad The Dark Knight Rises than it does to the best of the James Bond movies, which are very very good indeed. I didn't review The Dark Knight Rises when it opened, let me discuss it some now, to explain why I would say that this well-reviewed and well-received movie was (with the exception of the excellent fighting extras used in the climactic battle at City Hall) genuinely bad. For one, it is no fun. It is a comic book movie, but there isn't a fun thing about it. To me, comic book movies should be at least a little bit fun. Also, it makes absolutely no sense. Who is Bane? What are his motivations? What does he expect to get out of his plotting against Gotham City? For all the laborious time spent on flashbacks, there's nothing to explain -- nothing! -- what he's up to in the forward moving stor...