Sam Mendes, who directed the mess that is Skyfall will direct the next installment. Hopefully it will not feature a complete inexplicable and ridiculous plot and a female protagonist that Bond can actually have sexy time with without making you feel disgusted.
That’s like… your opinion, man.
I thought the direction was the only redeeming feature of Skyfall. The movie looked gorgeous, but I would blame the writer(s) and producers for the silly mess that they called a story.
Bond’s dalliances are supposed to be gritty and non gushy/romantic. That’s a small part of why I enjoyed Skyfall and why I was irritated with that Vesper tramp in Casino Royal.
It’s not that the dalliances are gritty, its that the woman is a sex-slave and Bond still comes on to her, because…Bond.
I know. Awesome, right?! 
Seems women are largely disposable to Bond. What’s more disposable than a sex slave? Also, I’m too lazy to go back and review the various other Bond girls through history but something tells me she’s not the first disposable sex slave in the franchise.
Why start now?
I take it you guys watch movies and don’t read books. 
What’s a “books”?
Or watch Bond movies.
nm.
Hmm…really?
Over a $ billion in ticket sales and rave reviews…
I suppose you are still pissed off that Peter Jackson’s LOTR and Hobbit were also such colossal flops.
I don’t think he called it a flop, just a mess. I disagree, as I rather liked Skyfall, but still. I think it was worse than Casino Royale, but slightly bigger than the very underrated Quantum of Solace.
They’re flops (to me) as far as bond movies go. They’re good movies on their own, but I want super cheesy, over-the-top Bond things to happen, all while wearing a tuxedo. The only time Bond should bleed is when Ivana Onatopp gets too freaky and bites his lip too hard. Not in an interrogation chair coupled with testicular trauma.
Bond promised his protection to two women in Skyfall and they both wound up getting killed. Not a great track record for a super spy.
Right from the novel.
The “look” of a movie is generally more the responsibility of the cinematographer (in this case, the esteemed Roger Deakins who had been the d.p. for the Coen Brothers since Fargo and many other well-regarded films) and the production designer (Dennis Gassner, also a frequent Coen collaborator). The director is responsible for coordinating the actors and crew, providing overall “vision” for how scenes are executed, and making judgments about when the story and dialogue do not work in execution. While it is sometimes the case that the director is hired simply to execute a script with minimal creative input it seems unlikely that Mendes–recruited from outside the Eon Productions stable to bring fresh talent–had no input into the story. And regardless of how beautiful the film was, the story and pacing was a complete mess, with a film that was easily thirty minutes longer than it needed to be, a cold open that was possibly the least exciting chase scene in a Bond film since the Roger Moore era, and a bunch of inclusions that were clearly just sops to the fans (such as the DB-5 tricked out with machine guns and ejector seat…why would the modern Bond have such a thing?)
In fact, the entire plot seemed to be a convolution of two of the worst Bond movies ever made: The Man With The Golden Gun and The World Is Not Enough. If you are going to crib from prior movies in the franchise, at least pick some decent films. Sure, it made a lot of money, but then, so did the Transformers movies, and no one is suggesting that these have elevated the quality of modern blockbusters.
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Aw, man!
Oh, like he was actually going to call them the next day!
You mean computer hackers can’t program office buildings to blow up?