Skyfall | James Bond 007 Movies #RANKED Ep. 23

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📋 PREVIOUS EPISODE RANKED LIST:
1. GoldenEye https://youtu.be/HzCdqmEc2FA
2. Casino Royale https://youtu.be/OJfNg6hXFIE
3. Goldfinger https://youtu.be/rJWYnd7VsMg
4. From Russia With Love https://youtu.be/QTdJwc5VNcM
5. License To Kill https://youtu.be/IxVzJWAPLzk
6. The Spy Who Loved Me https://youtu.be/0cwkHZB69GQ
7. The Man With The Golden Gun https://youtu.be/p7MJdltoAgM
8. Dr. No https://youtu.be/t1v81dsXTd4
9. The World Is Not Enough https://youtu.be/MWZqfiGf5l0
10. A View To A Kill https://youtu.be/yysqo4TQqL4
11. For Your Eyes Only https://youtu.be/IHnTmDO05sI
12. On Her Majesty's Secret Service https://youtu.be/ff-kknW82iE
13. Quantum of Solace https://youtu.be/E2YcCUewyJE
14. Thunderball https://youtu.be/4r_K9eVbXlE
15. Tomorrow Never Dies https://youtu.be/04W7R3od_QM
16. Octopussy https://youtu.be/YelzN17nNWw
17. The Living Daylights https://youtu.be/nsms_4RPIAo
18. Live and Let Die https://youtu.be/X34xxjjtQTk
19. Moonraker https://youtu.be/u3o5CByVQBs
20. Diamonds Are Forever https://youtu.be/eEuhmncHzHs
21. Die Another Day https://youtu.be/OrsKyDE8l-A
22. You Only Live Twice https://youtu.be/uoEfmdIEzRI

SKYFALL is a frustrating movie and it’s a particularly difficult one for me to RANK, because precisely one half of me loves it, while the other half f***ing hates it.

The guys who wrote The World Is Not Enough are back to once again give Bond a shoulder injury that hardly has any bearing on the plot while they try their best to remake GoldenEye, the story of an older and (according to other characters in the film) washed up James Bond who faces his equal but opposite, his shadow, an ex-00 agent named Silva who just like Alec Trevelyan heads up his own criminal enterprise taking on missions for cash instead of for king and country.

However, where GoldenEye had the advantage of coming on the heels of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War (the very reason the 00 program was instituted in the first place), Skyfall has what? The Internet? Does that mean war and threats from rogue states and the necessity of maintaining boots on the ground is suddenly outdated? The whole argument is that the shadows don’t exist anymore, which is absurd because this movie takes place ten years after 9/11.

It’s all meant to give the impression that this movie is super smart and meaningful, which perhaps it is in part, I’ll definitely give it good bad guy status, but simultaneously it is by far the most annoyingly contrived and self-aggrandizing Bond film to date, which we’ll get into in excruciating detail by tearing apart the plot, and when it crumbles, we will stand tall and face it all, together.

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🕰 TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Intro | Chucky Rants Monologue
00:03:50 McCurdy Trivia
00:22:36 Initial RANKING
00:35:38 Themes
00:50:47 A Tale of Love and Hate
02:28:38 *The Comments Section*
02:53:25 Narrowing It Down
03:22:43 What Makes Skyfall Effective
03:36:31 Final RANKING
03:40:51 Toasting Judi Dench

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