[Impy]

The franchise has turned into cinematic equivalent of NFL Europe.

Jesus dude! That's depressing.

I had to know what the "hook" is so I looked at Wikipedia. Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler, the text is in White scroll over to see So the bad guy is Blofeld after all their denials, yawn. Weak.

[Impy]

And the foster brother thing is just...weird.Weird.

[BillyBoy]

The "twist" at the end sounds just like the "twist" of the last Star Trek movie. Before the film came out, the cast and crew swore up and down that Benedict Cumberbatch played a bold unique character full of surprises who was definitely NOT Khan.

Sometimes I wonder if these creatively bankrupt Hollywood studio hacks share notes. "Hey guys, Paramount just turned a long established heterosexual character into a flaming homo! They did it to disguise that they shamelessly recycled the plot of a 30 year old movie! We better follow suit at 20th Century Fox!"

[BillyBoy]

>> Get John Malkovich to play the role! <<

Heh. If they did do that, I guarantee you some useful idiots on the internet would be PRAISING Malkovic Bond as "closest to the books" and "Best Bond yet". It's scary how people actually encourage Hollywood to ruin classics.

>> I watch all the Bond movies, I'll watch this one. <<

I still watch 'em IN SPITE of Craig in the title role. I had a bad feeling that whoever replaces him will be even worse and cause me to lose interest in the franchise permanently.

Some "nuke the fridge" moments in cinematic franchises for me:

- Watched every Batman film since Keaton's 1989 debut. The second film with Bale as throat-cancer Batman and Joker In Name Only caused me to lose any interest in seeing a third Bale Batman movie. Odd that so many people worship that film.

- Watched every Superman film since Reeve's 1978 debut. The worthless 2013 "reboot" just being a Michael Bay style remake of Superman II with lots of CGI video game type fights caused me to give up on the Superman film franchise.

- Been enjoying X-Men movies since 2000, have all 7 on DVD, and will be watching the 8th one when it comes out in 2016. But last week they announced the Deadpool "spinoff" will change the character to be the "world's first pansexual superhero". That's nice. Striked that film off my list.

-- Loved the silly Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies as a kid. Thought the attempt to revive the movie series in 2007 with CGI turtles was adequete. Lost all interest when they "rebooted" the franchise with Michael Bay producing some creepy "realistic" turtles and casting Megan Fox as "April O'Neill".

- Seen all the Pink Panther films, even the crappy post-Peter Sellers death ones of the 1980s, which pretty much exploited his memory for $$$. Finally gave up on the franchise when they "reimagined" it with Steve Martin in the title role.

- Love the original Indiana Jones trilogy. Never watched the 2008 revival with Shia LeBeouf as Indy's "illegitimate son, Mutt", and glad I didn't. Felt sorry for the gullible audiences who were convinced it would be good.

Haven't given up on Star Trek, Star Wars, Rocky Balboa, or James Bond...yet. My gut feeling says seeing Terminator 5 when it comes out on DVD will kill off any chance of me seeing future Terminator stuff. I'll keep you posted.