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To: ArcLight
The first few Bond movies were really good and so were the girls.

Now Bond movies are basically cartoons. I guess they are entertaining to some but I hate them. In Dr. No and Goldfinger, From Russia With Love, and Thunderball, Bond did not do anything that a well trained agent couldn't do.

Now he routinely does Superman type stunts. For me they should have at least a little believeability.

BTW there hasn't been a decent "Bond Girl" in a long time too.

17 posted on 02/05/2004 7:36:09 PM PST by yarddog
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To: yarddog
Now Bond movies are basically cartoons. I guess they are entertaining to some but I hate them. In Dr. No and Goldfinger, From Russia With Love, and Thunderball, Bond did not do anything that a well trained agent couldn't do.

This may sound like an odd perception, but my personal view is that the Bond movies went downhill when they started having totally different theme music on the opening and end titles. To be sure, some of the older Bond title musics have been pretty lackluster (e.g. Thunderball) but for me, the music does a lot to set up the movie. The Man with the Golden Gun may have been a lackluster movie, but the title song was great [actually, perhaps because of the theme song, I wouldn't criticize tMwtGG as severely as some, though I would give it an award for worst sound effect (slide whistle)].

50 posted on 02/05/2004 8:01:24 PM PST by supercat (Why is it that the more "gun safety" laws are passed, the less safe my guns seem?)
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