@ezekiel43 said:
@uninspiredcup said:
@ezekiel43 said:
@uninspiredcup said:
She's 007 at the start of the movie, he's retired.
Having female side-kicks in the action role is nothing new. People throwing rattles on both side who i'm guessing had little interest in the franchise to begin with.
https://youtu.be/NRMqcxBF4aM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBI44xnQ9oE
https://youtu.be/LyMtP0QjVVA
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Ignoring OHMSS (which was ahead of it's time) maybe in Connery and Moore era we can argue woman were treated like crap, but again, the idea that Bond as a franchise treats woman poorly is mostly a myth.
Once you get up to the Dalton era they are treated with respect and typically have much stronger roles, the most very obvious one being M.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEujAIjTldk
People bringing up "woke" are a good couple of decades too late, wither it be your right-wing nut-jobs or equally wackos over at your PolygonyReseteras screaming garby poo.
This feels so random and irrelevant. I have no idea where this tangent is coming from.
Not really sure why that confuses you, it directly pertains to your comments.
Can reiterate once again in a simple statement "nothing here is new the movies have been doing this for decades".
No, they haven't. James Bond has never been removed. And he WILL be removed. Put away until her run is over. Again, they will NOT be making concurrent 007 movies. I'd be surprised if James Bond made a return right after her. I can just see the social media outrage that would come from her being replaced by a man.
Bond won't be removed and she won't take up any-more screen-time in this movie than a typical fem character.
If somehow in the unlikely case you are right, it will be nothing but a fad that will fizzle out fast. Might get attention as a curio thanks to outrage culture we now inhabit, for a short burst, but that's it.
Massive over-reaction.
@ezekiel43 said:
By the way, the concept of someone running around in $3,000 designer suits, supposedly blending in, in the twenty-first century, is really dumb. They were smart enough to give him ordinary wear in Casino Royale. Just more reason to take him back to the fifties. Suits were more common then.
It's James Bond. The entire series is fantastical and dumb, it's part of the appeal. Exotic locations, beautiful woman, massively over the top super-villains, expensive cars, weird and creative gadgets, spectacular action sequences, memorable soundtracks.
Part of the problem Craig movies have had, Casino Royal, while a good movie, is a bad Bond movie, likewise with Quantum of Solace.
Skyfall and Spectre (which isn't good) are the only Craig movies that feel closer to a Bond movie than something like the Bourne movies.
From this trailer we can see the typical super-villain with a gimmick, a car shooting out machine-guns and some pretty rad looking stunt work.
The problem with that movie (as mentioned above) isn't "oh noes Bond lady", but the fact instead of being a stand-alone thing, they are basically making it episodic carrying over all the junk from the other movies, and Spectre wasn't a good movie.
Very rarely has that worked well The only two aspects being Spectre during the Connery movies, Bonds wife being dead as a small mention carried throughout most of the series and Jaws, brought back for the masterpiece that is Moonraker.
Whatever comes next that's shit they need to drop, I want stand alone adventures, not Eastenders.
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