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Perhaps I just feel old.. but I really, really wish they'd go back to making Bond films like Moonraker, Diamonds are Forever, and the Man with the Golden Gun. N

Perhaps I just feel old.. but I really, really wish they'd go back to making Bond films like Moonraker, Diamonds are Forever, and the Man with the Golden Gun. No big explosions, just nice cars, suave hero, good stories, and all the spy gadgets and things many of us love. Albert Broccoli had the formula right and IMHO we should go back.

vunderba 1y ago
It feels like with the meteoric success of Christopher Nolan's "Batman Begins" in 2005, every studio felt like they had to follow suit and make their movies "dark and edgy". Personally, I wasn't a huge fan of the Daniel Craig reboot either. We already had a thousand overly serious spy thriller series at that point (Bourne Identity, Mission Impossible, etc.). Give me the almost cartoonishly villainous enemies, the outlandish technological gadgetry, and the punchy one-liners of the original James Bond movies any day.
- jinushaun 1y ago
  Hopefully the pendulum swings back. Reminds me of the pure evil vs relatable villain meme. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/evil https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/evil I used to be tired of simple villains, but now I’m tired of complex relatable ones.
- Molitor5901 1y ago
  Dark and edge movies. That's a good point. It felt like in television land, we had moved beyond the dark and foreboding Nordic Noir style programs and into something less dark. I liked Casino Royal, I thought that was as exciting of an action-Bond that I've seen. For those of us who have invested in a chain or series for a long time, it may feel comfortable, predictable, and so when something changes it can burst the magical bubble of cinema. Perhaps that's the danger of film series that are basically the same, just a different story, whereas short periods before change conditions the audience to let go of a nostalgia, and keep plowing ahead because it's just enough of a change not to disrupt that comfort - yet modernizes etc. too modern. As with a lot of series modernized, it may have the effect of taking something familiar, changing something that disrupts the.. nostalgia?
tim333 1y ago
Of course those ones were based on Ian Fleming novels of which there were a limited number.

vunderba 1y ago

It feels like with the meteoric success of Christopher Nolan's "Batman Begins" in 2005, every studio felt like they had to follow suit and make their movies "dark and edgy". Personally, I wasn't a huge fan of the Daniel Craig reboot either. We already had a thousand overly serious spy thriller series at that point (Bourne Identity, Mission Impossible, etc.). Give me the almost cartoonishly villainous enemies, the outlandish technological gadgetry, and the punchy one-liners of the original James Bond movies any day.

jinushaun 1y ago
Hopefully the pendulum swings back. Reminds me of the pure evil vs relatable villain meme. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/evil https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/evil I used to be tired of simple villains, but now I’m tired of complex relatable ones.
Molitor5901 1y ago
Dark and edge movies. That's a good point. It felt like in television land, we had moved beyond the dark and foreboding Nordic Noir style programs and into something less dark. I liked Casino Royal, I thought that was as exciting of an action-Bond that I've seen. For those of us who have invested in a chain or series for a long time, it may feel comfortable, predictable, and so when something changes it can burst the magical bubble of cinema. Perhaps that's the danger of film series that are basically the same, just a different story, whereas short periods before change conditions the audience to let go of a nostalgia, and keep plowing ahead because it's just enough of a change not to disrupt that comfort - yet modernizes etc. too modern. As with a lot of series modernized, it may have the effect of taking something familiar, changing something that disrupts the.. nostalgia?

tim333 1y ago

Of course those ones were based on Ian Fleming novels of which there were a limited number.