Skyfallen

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Original Release Date:
2012
Original Running Time:
143
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Fanedit Running Time:
118
Time Cut:
25
Brief Synopsis:
The purpose of Skyfallen is purely to streamline this 50th anniversary movie in an attempt to tighten the pacing somewhat. Also, it's to rein in some of Bardem's overacting in the part of the main villain, Silva, and hopefully make him a bit more threatening in the process. Subtle edits are also attempted to give it that "classic" Bond feel, including use of music from other Bond movies.
Intention:
I'm a huge Bond fan, but as is the case with many of the films in the series, I feel they could often do with a bit of nip and tuck here and there. After my fanediting attempts at Quantum of Solace and Die Another Day, Skyfallen is my third... perhaps last Bond fanedit??? Never say never ;)
Other Sources:
Music....
Fire and Ice - Within Temptation
Skyfall - Within Temptation
Die Another Day soundtrack
Casino Royale soundtrack
Tomorrow Never Dies soundtrack
Quantum of Solace soundtrack
Special Thanks:
Sophie Welch, Bionic Bob, TM2YC, Zarius, Reaper 18783X, Dangermouse
Release Information:
DVD
Special Features
Audio Commentary
Trailer
Cuts and Additions:
- Gun barrel sequence moved to the start of the film
- Cut Bond's quips about not needing the wing mirrors as they are broken off
- Pre-credits chase sequence shortened (including removal of blatant "product placement" dialogue about the VW Bettle cars falling off the train)
- Adele's Skyfall title song removed and replaced
- Very brief shot of the bulldog figure on M's desk, cut (we see this again later)
- cut slight product placement shot of Bond drinking Heiniken whilst he's "enjoying death", in bed with a woman.
- cut Eve's line "Then you better keep moving"
- Trimmed scene at airport where Bond witnesses Patrice arriving in Shanghai. Bond’s attempt at disguise, by keeping his sunglasses on whilst inside the airport at night makes him far too conspicious. Now you just see him from behind.
- slightly trimmed Bond’s witnessing of Patrice killing the security guards, only by getting Bond into the building more quickly (rather than seeing him walking all the way from his car to the building entrance
- Trimmed some of the build up to Bond's confrontation with Patrice directly before their fight
- Cut Eve giving Bond a shave, now she just turns up says what is needed and the scene ends with Bond saying "I like to do some things the old fashioned way"
- Rearranged scene where Bond arrives at the casino to edit awkward one-liners between Bond and Eve
- Trimmed some of the dialogue between Bond and Severine
- cut Bond's fight with Severine's bodyguards and the encounter with the komodo dragon
- Added music (by David Arnold from Die Another Day soundtrack) when Severine is waiting for Bond on her yacht
- Intro to Silva's character heavily trimmed (in an attempt to rein in the over the top nature of Bardem's performance)
- Re-edited scene where Silva shoots Severine. Added music from David Arnolds's Casino Royale soundtrack and Bond now appears as if he actually cared for her and is bothered by Silva's actions
- Trimmed scene where Bond catches up with Silva in the underground tunnels. Silva now wastes no time with talking and just detonates the bomb. Thereafter trimmed the scene of the underground train coming through the hole Silva has created.
- Re-edited scene where M is giving her speech about defending MI6, cutting her recital of the Tennyson poem.
- Trimmed Aston Martin DB6 scene
- Scenes at Skyfall when Bond, M and Kincade prepare for the arrival of Silva and his men are slightly trimmed, including no more "A-Team" style montage and traps
- Silva's arrival restructured with extensive sound replacement work, meaning no music playing through the helicopters outboard speakers. Again the intention is to make him more threatening and serious
- Entire battle sequence at Skyfall is trimmed. This includes less importance placed on the Aston Martin being destroyed
- After the helicopter crashes into Skyfall, reframed scenes so it appears only Silva and Bond have survived. Silva's henchmen die in the explosion.
- Removed scene where Bond goes across the ice and then encounters Silva and his remaining henchman
- Silva's death trimmed
- Rooftop scene where Eve shows Bond what M left him in her will, now has added music from Casino Royale in an attempt to lend the scene more emotion and that classic Bond feel
- Eve's formal introduction as Moneypenny to Bond, slightly trimmed.
- Added Within Temptation's cover of Adele's Skyfall to end credits.
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If the original movie was somewhat flawed, I don't knock the editor if his finished product isn't an A+. You can only work with what you got. Based on the theatrical cut, this edit is a great improvement. The story was improved as was the understanding of the plot. I always prefer the classic bond theme, so I liked this change. Thanks for the hard work!

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I haven’t seen the theatrical in many years so I was watching more or less with fresh eyes. The only places where I noticed changes were the weird fade in to Silva on the island, the change in theme song, and the lack of booby traps. I clearly got a general sense of Silva being toned down, which was appreciated, but the aforementioned fade in felt like a fan edit, so I’m assuming it was one. I can’t say I agree with the change of theme music. Swapping out Radiohead for Sam Smith in Spectre sure. But the Adele theme is one of the better themes in my opinion and the replacement isn’t as good. But I suppose that is personal preference. Finally, the omission of the booby traps I think works very well and is a welcome change. I'm not sure what the original video quality was. I had to convert to MP4 in order to watch on my Apple TV. But the quality was noticeably lacking. I didn't really deduct though because I can't be sure the quality issues were due to my Handbrake conversion.

On to the movie itself. I think this is one of the better Bond movies and for me it is the most beautiful to look at (@TM2YC is insane in his dislike of Deakins :P ). But it’s a movie that is clearly trying to raise the bar. And as such it needs to be judged that way. In my opinion it fails to achieve what it clearly set out to do. It wants to make you think about themes such as how expendable human capital is in military and intelligence, the changing nature of conflict in the world, among other things. But the movie merely pays them lip service and doesn’t rise to its own challenges. That’s why, for me, Casino Royale remains the best of the Craig Bond movies.

It's still one of the better Bond movies and LS's edit is an improvement in most areas.

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This is one of the best Skyfall edits. It's too bad I can't find an HD version. LastSurvivor handled the final battle the best out of all the fanedits and I'm glad he took out the home alone stuff. It didn't seem fitting for a Bond movie to me. At first I was missing Adele's Skyfall and I didn't know what the other song was but I think it actually served the narrative more somehow. I wasn't expecting that. I still love her song though. If I can find an HD version I'll be set.

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I really like SkyFall, I had no big issues with it. So, what did I think about LastSurvivor's SkyFallen? I liked it, but if the shower scene would have been cut, I would have loved this cut more!

I love SkyFall by Adele, but the opening song works!

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Hmmmm.... Mixed thoughts on this. Some really nice changes, but also some unfortunate ones.

Adele's theme is great. One of the best bond themes in my opinion - I don't understand why this was changed. This is obviously a preferential thing though and the replacement was well integrated.

Product placement - gone. As is the CGI comodo dragon, the overblown car chase at the start, the cringy shave scene, and various bits and pieces of poor dialogue. The fight on the ice is fairly silly, but still fun. Cutting it out makes the Silva's death seem ever so slightly anticlimactic (no classic final one on one fight), but it isn't essential and for the most part wasn't missed.

Now, about Silva - I don't have a problem with him. I don't think his performance is over the top. He's just an eccentric, unhinged character, and this is a bond movie... The bad guys should be larger than life. Cutting his introduction and performance was not only jarring and noticeable (I watched this with 2 others who were definitely taken out of the experience by it), but it robs him of necessary character development and devalues his character. Similarly with the train crash dialogue - this shouldn't have been shaved down.
These 2 simple changes are what makes it hard for me to decide whether or not I would recommend this edit. If someone has never seen the original, I probably wouldn't, but it's definitely worth a watch for those who would like to see many of the other cringy elements removed.

Video/audio - excellent. No complaints there.

Visual editing - very good, apart from what was mentioned.

Audio editing - nothing noticeable. Soundtrack changes seemed to fit.

Narrative - suffers a lot in my opinion, due to the bad guy trims. There's a lack of weight to his motives and cutting his introduction makes him very unmemorable.

Enjoyment - 8. I like this film. This may be my go to version, I'm not sure. I'd have to watch the original again. More than likely I will have to do my own edit at somepoint as this did not leave me satisfied.

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