James Bond Films To Air On Netflix As Part Of Shock Deal With Amazon
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Netflix will launch Die Another Day, No Time to Die, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall on January 15
  • Microw@piefed.zipEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I suspect this is a move to assure people “look, no need for new anti-trust laws!”

    • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Here are two ones that are worth watching as movies.

      “From Russia, With Love.” I like this one because Bond is a cog in a larger machine. We have different agencies with different agendas playing off each other. Also, an incredible fight between actual boxers Connery and Robert Shaw.

      “Thunderball” Good old fashioned live action underwater with no CGI. A company of US Navy SEALs parachute into the middle of the ocean and have a speargun battle with SPECTRE agents with sea sleds. 1960s Playboy fantasy disguised as Cold War drama.

      I will also give a shout out to the Dalton films. He got the unenviable job of playing Bond without excess drinking, smoking or sex, because it was the 1980s and Nancy Reagan was telling us to ‘just say no.’

      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        I stopped after Skyfall. It was the worst of both worlds; not grounded enough to work as a serious spy movie like Casino Royale did, but also not fun like past Bond movies.

        • MimicJar@lemmy.world
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          1 day ago

          Spectre tried to have a lot of twists, none of which worked.

          Spoilers for Spectre going forward. First the film pretended that Waltz wasn’t Blofeld, he was some other character. He looked like Blofeld and acted like Blofeld, but he was someone else entirely. Then the movie happens and guess what… He was Blofeld. Second, they made Blofeld his secret brother for some reason. I think everyone enjoyed Skyfall and it was a fun little peek behind the mysterious “James Bond” figure, but it was also a risk. Skyfall was just so well told that it largely worked. So they tried again, but it was just silly. Remember James? Your long lost secret adoptive brother that you forgot? It was like a soap opera. Finally we’re going to recon all the previous films and say that Blofeld did it all. Maybe if they had told that story better it would have worked, but it just came out silly.

          I think if you want to do Blofeld, especially as the Craig serries was full of origin stories, you have to introduce or hint at him much earlier.