why James Bond should have died with the Cold War
Ever watch Dr No and think "wow this is really old and completely out of context in today's world" well its true in one sense but the truth is that the 1960's were when spies were cool and that's when James Bond was at his best.
Remember From Russia With Love which followed in 1963?
The whole move was basically Bond just going around kicking commie ass, and Goldfinger, well if you haven't seen it there is something seriously wrong with you.
The Connery era which started the same year as the Cuban Missile Crisis were truly the best and made in the most relevant time, counting out George Lazenby Roger Moore was to follow, and I'm sorry but everybody knows that during this time Bond was an absolutely twat, but the stories were relevant for the time, for instance the 1983 film Octopussy concerned the detonation of a nuclear bomb on a West German air base, and in the end Bond crashes the circus there by dressing as a clown.
Moore made Bond look like an idiot, and a pervert at the same time considering most of the women in his era where young enough to be his grand daughters!
Timothy Dalton took the role as Bond in a more serious approach, The Living Daylights made in 1987 was a good movie, however it has dated quickly considering that at one stage Bond joined the Mujahideen (today's Taliban is a dissident of them) to fight Soviets forces.
In 1989 License To Kill dealt with the bad guy a major drugs dealer in South America, the movie was very good but didn't gross that much money, the producer of the Bond movies since 1962 (Albert R. Broccoli) died shortly later, the Berlin Wall had come down and the Cold War had ended, the series went into a hiatus.
Pierce Brosnans first movie Goldeneye seemed to try and make up a credible threat, spies in the 90's weren't cool, that's final, and they even had Bond level half of Saint Petersburg with a tank, which was kinda cruel when you think about it.
The bad guys base consisted of a satellite receiver for a Goldeneye satellite hidden in an artificial lake!
Tomorrow Never Dies was about a media typhoon who uses a stealth boat to 'make the news', by forcing the west and the Peoples Republic of China closer to war by using stealth to use a sea drill to sink British ships, there's one big hole there, how did the cooperation manage to buy a stealth boat, and further how did nobody know about it?
The World Is Not Enough had a modest enough plot, Die Another Day however shows another media typhoon who buys a large laser like satellite to create an artificial sun, he promises to do nothing bad with it, apart from melting his ice palace to kill two people, yeah two people for Christ sake instead of just shooting them!!!
He then uses it to start destroying the 38th Parallel kills Bond and gets away with it, (just kidding, good won at the end of the day).
Casino Royale however has started to reboot the series into something that was (in 2006) a lot more promising for today's world, showing Bond not as a super hero spy, but a good one who makes mistakes, and has weaknesses and feels pain.
Quantum of Solace however is the worst Bond movie ever to come out, there I said it, the movie can't seen to identify itself or who Bond is, is he Jason Bourne in the Bourne Supremacy or is he James Bond?
What the series will bring next I don't know, but I doubt it will be of the quality of Casino Royale, or anything before 1989!
Remember From Russia With Love which followed in 1963?
The whole move was basically Bond just going around kicking commie ass, and Goldfinger, well if you haven't seen it there is something seriously wrong with you.
The Connery era which started the same year as the Cuban Missile Crisis were truly the best and made in the most relevant time, counting out George Lazenby Roger Moore was to follow, and I'm sorry but everybody knows that during this time Bond was an absolutely twat, but the stories were relevant for the time, for instance the 1983 film Octopussy concerned the detonation of a nuclear bomb on a West German air base, and in the end Bond crashes the circus there by dressing as a clown.
Moore made Bond look like an idiot, and a pervert at the same time considering most of the women in his era where young enough to be his grand daughters!
Timothy Dalton took the role as Bond in a more serious approach, The Living Daylights made in 1987 was a good movie, however it has dated quickly considering that at one stage Bond joined the Mujahideen (today's Taliban is a dissident of them) to fight Soviets forces.
In 1989 License To Kill dealt with the bad guy a major drugs dealer in South America, the movie was very good but didn't gross that much money, the producer of the Bond movies since 1962 (Albert R. Broccoli) died shortly later, the Berlin Wall had come down and the Cold War had ended, the series went into a hiatus.
Pierce Brosnans first movie Goldeneye seemed to try and make up a credible threat, spies in the 90's weren't cool, that's final, and they even had Bond level half of Saint Petersburg with a tank, which was kinda cruel when you think about it.
The bad guys base consisted of a satellite receiver for a Goldeneye satellite hidden in an artificial lake!
Tomorrow Never Dies was about a media typhoon who uses a stealth boat to 'make the news', by forcing the west and the Peoples Republic of China closer to war by using stealth to use a sea drill to sink British ships, there's one big hole there, how did the cooperation manage to buy a stealth boat, and further how did nobody know about it?
The World Is Not Enough had a modest enough plot, Die Another Day however shows another media typhoon who buys a large laser like satellite to create an artificial sun, he promises to do nothing bad with it, apart from melting his ice palace to kill two people, yeah two people for Christ sake instead of just shooting them!!!
He then uses it to start destroying the 38th Parallel kills Bond and gets away with it, (just kidding, good won at the end of the day).
Casino Royale however has started to reboot the series into something that was (in 2006) a lot more promising for today's world, showing Bond not as a super hero spy, but a good one who makes mistakes, and has weaknesses and feels pain.
Quantum of Solace however is the worst Bond movie ever to come out, there I said it, the movie can't seen to identify itself or who Bond is, is he Jason Bourne in the Bourne Supremacy or is he James Bond?
What the series will bring next I don't know, but I doubt it will be of the quality of Casino Royale, or anything before 1989!
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