Yes, I just called the new James Bond movie "brilliant". It is one of the most masterful pieces of propaganda (not in a bad way... there is good propaganda, you know, all that white hat stuff) that I have seen in my life time. Remember how most of our perception about the movie was linked with the Queen of England months before the movie came out? She parachuted into the Olympics with that blond guy, thereby totally connecting herself with the Dame Judi Densch character.
The Dame Judi character is an old woman who is still as sharp as a tack. She's also brave, protective, and fierce. She and the old blond guy can save the world without all sorts of computer trickery. They can save the world with a cheap radio and old junk they find.
There's also a graphic that rather pointedly equates the Dame and the Queen in sort of a negative way using the V For Vendetta style. Which is also brilliant, because it allows you to take a negative image (the G-d Save the Queen poster from V) and make you feel a bit protective of her having been attacked.
Also, Skyfall is just fun. I had to laugh in the theater when James shows off his fancy car and an audible male moan of lust rose from the audience.
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