The very first 1 sheet movie poster. Cigarette, tux and gun. Only the tux is acceptable to the left these days and who knows maybe not even that.
Posted on 10/07/2025 9:55:21 AM PDT by Twotone
Amazon Prime Video is backtracking after fan outrage erupted over its decision to digitally erase guns from James Bond promotional artwork — a move critics mocked as absurd.
The images in question featured actors who played the Bond character, including Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig. But rather than holding guns in the images, all of them stand awkwardly and empty-handed.
The company’s revised artwork now features images from the movies themselves, though none of the promotional images show 007 with a weapon.
In posters from Connery’s “Dr. No” and Brosnan’s “Goldeneye,” the guns were edited out of the original images and replaced with nothing. In Moore’s “A View To A Kill” and Craig’s “Spectre,” the images were altered and cropped to remove the weapons.
The backlash on social media began on October 5, James Bond Day, when UK-based fans noticed the blatant photo manipulations.
“They photoshopped all the guns out of the James Bond movie thumbnails. Just in case you still had hope for Amazon being in charge of the franchise,” one person noted.
“Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker,” British actor Rufus Jones wrote, echoing what many others were saying.
“Gaaagh! I feel my testosterone levels dropping just looking at these,” a third fan said.
“When are they giving the characters on the posters purple hair and a mask?” another commenter joked.
Amazon acquired the rights to the Bond franchise in 2022. Reps for Amazon MGM said at the time of the acquisition that they were “committed to honoring the legacy” of James Bond, a fictional British Secret Service agent created by Ian Fleming in 1953. His popular books were later adapted into films, which became one of the highest-grossing movie franchises of all time, earning more than $7 billion at the box office since Sean Connery first took on the role of “Dr. No” in 1962.
The last film in the franchise, starring Daniel Craig as 007, “No Time to Die,” premiered in 2021 following a COVID delay.
There are no known Bond movies in the works.
Everything the left touches turns to poo.
This reminds of Spielberg editing the guns out of E.T.
At least later he realized it was wrong to do that.
Yet, almost every new program that Amazon Prime advertises is built around “guns”...
Strange...
Han shot first.
It seems the ‘violence’ really came from Fleming and the script writers; so why make the movies at all...
The very first 1 sheet movie poster. Cigarette, tux and gun. Only the tux is acceptable to the left these days and who knows maybe not even that.
Sorry, the women have to go too. Way too much heteronormativity going on there...
The Man With The Golden None
They should make a woke version of the video itself where AI replaces guns with finger-wagging, and change the plot to Global Warming, so commies are not the bad guys.
Amazon treatment
What! No George Lazenby?
I do understand why David Niven might be left out.
In 1968, when Bobby Kennedy was murdered by a Palestinian Immigrant, an anti-gun anti-violence hysteria seized the TV and movie industry.
TV shows for adults but safe for kids were dumbed down to kiddie shows.
Movies from the 1940s through 1980 were butchered to remove guns and violence when put on TV. It was common to see a bad guy pull a gun, the good guy shoots him with ONE SHOT, bad guy falls dead with four bullet holes in him.
The movie industry said they would “police themselves” with a joke of a ratings system(GMRX) to reign in violence.
Instead it unleashed a flood of the most vile, violent sexual explicit films to get the now coveted “X” and “R” ratings.
A list of TV shows designed to hate guns...
Hawaii 5-0
The New People
Quinsy M.E. (We have to stop “IT” before “IT” kills again!) a reference to a pistol
Heck Ramsey
Streets of San Francisco
McCloud
A Gun In The House (TV movie)
Family Ties
All In The Family
Revenge for a Rape TV movie.
There were many, many more.
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