So is it just me or is it way overdue for James Bond to hang up his gun? I mean seriously, even if his gadget buddy has been sneaking him some kind of anti-aging formula over the past 40 years or so, you’d think he wouldda caught at least one STD and fathered a string of illegitimate children all across Europe by now. Not to mention the Cold War has been over for how long?
I only mention this because I saw the preview for the newest one coming up and quite frankly I’m still recovering from that last one.
So in the last one, they did a pseudo re-launch of the series. It’s his first mission as a “OO”, but it’s present day. So he’s a spy in present day non-Cold War, and all the same characters (mostly played by the same actors as well) are there too. So Bond doesn’t get any older, but his colleagues do, even when they re-launch the series, confused yet?
Here’s a rundown of the last film. Bond chases some dude through Africa, insert big crazy ridiculous stunts. Then he chases some dude through an airport somewhere in Europe, insert more big crazy ridiculous stunts. Then he’s on a boat or in some hotel or something playing Poker in some other distant corner of the earth, and yes to answer your question this is all somehow connected. And if I remember correctly I’m pretty sure there was an invisible car (which became invisible somehow involving built in cameras and mirrors) in there somewhere.
The funny part is if you watch the last few bond films it becomes apparent that he either needs to put on a cape or start fighting vampire ninjas. That would make the films make more sense.
Also, I don’t know if this ad is playing in all the theaters right now, but apparently if you’re Kidd Rock then you can make a song about “warriors” and just splice together scenes of soldiers playing with children in Iraq, Nascar racing, and lots of flags and then you just automatically become the biggest baddest patriot this side of the trailer park…
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They should have just let everyone age naturally like Sean Connery and whoever has died gets their character written out, until all that's left to battle is someone's shaking wrinkled foot from a hospital bed as Bond, in his wheelchair, beats it with a rotten wooden stick..
I know what you mean, I guess I've just always looked at the film series as excuse to watch explosions and big shiny things. In that respect I don't care for it to be cohesive or make a lot of sense, because they've kept the "Bond" branding I know exactly what I'm getting into.
Kidd Rock? Is he still around? I guess I'm not patriotic enough to have noticed.
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