Posted on 12/21/2024 6:18:17 PM PST by bitt
Ultimately, the bell tolls for everyone, and it may now be tolling for the suavest man ever to hit the big screen. That’s right: we may have seen the last of Agent 007. The James Bond series is currently tangled up in red tape that woke executives have spooled out, and the dashing, unflappable, impeccably dressed, outrageously smooth special agent may finally have reached the end of the line. As we prepare to attend his wake and say some word of sympathy to Miss Moneypenny, however, the real question is this: how has he lasted this long?
Fox News reported Saturday that “the next installment in the ‘James Bond’ franchise is still in development limbo due to a rift between the series' main producer and its new owners, Amazon.” It seems that “longtime Bond producer Barbara Broccoli and Amazon — which bought MGM studios in 2021 — are in an ‘ugly stalemate’ over decisions about the future of the franchise.” If you suspect that this “ugly stalemate” has to be over whether this dashing, upper-crust, womanizing agent for the forces of good is going to be turned into a woke shadow of his former self, you’re right on the money.
During a recent meeting to discuss Bond’s fate, one Amazon executive laid it on the line, saying: "I have to be honest, I don't think James Bond is a hero." Of course. How could he be? Think about all the ways in which Bond is not a hero from the standpoint of a grim, humorless, doctrinaire leftist. Bond, in all his incarnations from Sean Connery to Daniel Craig, has been white. And that’s just the beginning of his sins.
He is most decidedly not gay. He doesn’t believe in body positivity. He is not trans: for all his interest in
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His 2015 Man From U.N.C.L.E, and this year's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare were good auditions for assuming the mantle.
barbara is killing the franchise.
The first James Bond movie was in 1962 (Dr. No), 62 years ago! I am old enough to remember the first one.
I was 7 years old and saw it then.
No Mr. Bond I expect you to die
If he isn’t a hero, its because of what they have turned him into.
The original Bond would be fighting his own government that exists today in the UK. Those evil woke misandrist socialists are as bad as any Bond villain who thinks they are so much smarter and deserving of authoritarian control. The real Bond character would lead the charge against them, he wouldn’t fight for them and what they’ve done to the country.
Just wait a few years for the social pendulum to swing back. It's already turning around.
How about Operation Double Double 07 aka Kid Brother?
https://youtu.be/OqsgzAyfAEo?si=L7y4qH2XTLzbMg0N
I learned about Neil’s movie from MST3K.
The End of James Bond.
But Bond Will Return in James Bond 2.0.
Rachel Zegler is looking for work,
NSNA wasn’t that bad. It was nice to see Sean Connery in a last hurrah.
FRWL and GF aren’t even his best. I much prefer You Only Live Twice, my favorite Connery Bond.
NSNA wasn’t that bad. It was nice to see Sean Connery in a last hurrah.
FRWL and GF aren’t even his best. I much prefer You Only Live Twice, my favorite Connery Bond.
Unless you count the Casino Royale TV movie of 1954.
Maybe he can join the Bondettes.
https://youtu.be/OLRc2pSpo6g
Considering Amazon’s record with expanding upon the story based on the works of famous British authors, I foresee “James Bond: Spies of Power” which would be completely unrecognizable to Ian Flemming fans.
Beyond being a white, heterosexual male Bond also kills criminals and fascists.
That got to stick in a Progressive's craw.
Dr. No is my favorite.
Touche’
And most excellent.
Neutering the character goes back at least to the 80’s when they tried to tone down the image of Timothy Dalton’s Bond as a ladykiller “in the age of AIDS.”
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