James Bond Is at WAR With Amazon - Can He Survive?

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  • @disparutoo
    @disparutoo  18 днів тому +257

    James Bond is not the same person that he used to be, but as Amazon and Barbara Broccoli all want to update him for a modern audience, can we preserve what James Bond was? Even in the movies seen as a throw back man from a by gone age, the message was always, that's a good thing. He was the hero the world needed, because the modernisation of the world was wrong. Yet that changed with Daniel Craig as he was deconstructed as a character, and reduced to the level of whiny and crying. James Bond in Daniel Craig's form already couldn't fulfil the job he was intended for. What will the future hold as Amazon wants to spin off the frachise, while Barbara doesn't like Amazon's ideas, yet doesn't have any better ideas herself.
    Bond is trapped in a deadlock between 2 awful forces, where the best outcome for him ironically, as that the stalemate remains for as long as possible. But what do you think of of the future for Bond? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)

    • @itsaKindaMagik
      @itsaKindaMagik 18 днів тому +7

      Hope you have a lovely Christmas, Dis 😊Look forward to more of your content in 2025.

    • @stijnvdv2
      @stijnvdv2 18 днів тому +14

      Daniel Craig emotions and feelings as Bond? Where? I've seen a motionless face from him through whatever movies I've seen of him, Casino Royal and Skyfall. It was really bad cardboard cut out acting. A piece of lumber. So bad in fact that except for those two, I refused to watch ANY of his other interpretations coz it's not James Bond. It's a bland version of Jason Bourne.

    • @Suzanne_sf
      @Suzanne_sf 18 днів тому +7

      I took his Bond to be when he first was hired, but then as the movies went on it seemed to jump ahead in his career, but he seemed not to really learn anything by what happened to him. I'd like a Bond who looks like he knows what he's doing. As a fan of Bond who is a woman, I like the evolution of the Bond girl from being simply arm candy to someone who is smart and beautiful, but not the evolution of Bond himself. Keep him sexist. He's got to have some flaws, that is a known flaw of his. He's stoic, also. We shouldn't be able to know what he's feeling. He's a spy.

    • @mandylorian89
      @mandylorian89 18 днів тому

      ​​@@Suzanne_sfagreed, spies aren't effeminate girl boys, they're supposed to be MEN

    • @tcaudiobooks737
      @tcaudiobooks737 18 днів тому +5

      @@stijnvdv2 The absolute worst acting by anyone in a Bond film was Craig in the M office scene in NTTD. Just dreadful!

  • @the_absurd_hero
    @the_absurd_hero 18 днів тому +301

    "The enemy of my enemy is.. someone I could put up with for a bit"
    Words to live by

    • @CD-Gaming
      @CD-Gaming 18 днів тому +5

      Why does that seem like a mantra that Optimus Prime and Megatron can get onboard with...? Hell, that might explain how Megatron puts up with Starscream...

    • @Lord_Numpty
      @Lord_Numpty 18 днів тому +4

      The enemy of my enemy is the enemy of my enemy, nothing more.

  • @j.springer1496
    @j.springer1496 18 днів тому +241

    "A Moneypenny spinoff is just her answering phones and licking stamps." Actually Netflix already made that spinoff, it's called The Six Triple Eight.

    • @dlewis9760
      @dlewis9760 18 днів тому +35

      "Medic!!!!! Medic!!!! Wanda in section 4 has a paper cut!!!!! She's sorting 2 year old magazines!!!! Those pages are lethal!!!!"

    • @j.springer1496
      @j.springer1496 18 днів тому +7

      @@dlewis9760 Hahaha!

    • @RockOfLions
      @RockOfLions 18 днів тому +15

      They think that Moneypenny is like Alfred Pennyworth. They both have pennies don't they and they're English...

    • @kingcosworth2643
      @kingcosworth2643 18 днів тому +8

      However an Octopussy spinoff could be a little interesting

    • @Kiyoone
      @Kiyoone 18 днів тому +5

      Don't forget the most important task> SORTING OUT THE MAIL

  • @1738Creations
    @1738Creations 18 днів тому +267

    I remember when Bond used to fight underwater and go in to space, rather than running over endless rooftops of nameless movie sets.

    • @skylx0812
      @skylx0812 18 днів тому +22

      Dressed in rainbow fashions looking like he was rushing to get to a nearest dance club.

    • @EA_Kar
      @EA_Kar 18 днів тому +17

      That scuba squad fight was great

    • @Homeschoolsw6
      @Homeschoolsw6 18 днів тому +10

      " Space " in movies tends to show up when writers run out of ideas. But a Space bond now might work now. We are in the Space age after all.

    • @lordhelwintr283
      @lordhelwintr283 18 днів тому +13

      @@Homeschoolsw6 lol bonds been to space before in moon raker

    • @Homeschoolsw6
      @Homeschoolsw6 18 днів тому +10

      @@lordhelwintr283 Yeah I know. I watched it two days ago lol. He can go there again is what I mean.

  • @JohnDoe-i5z5c
    @JohnDoe-i5z5c 18 днів тому +518

    When Daniel Craig was cast he said that he didn’t like guns, didn’t know how to drive stick, didn’t like the workout routine for the film.
    I’m a nobody, if you cast me as James Bond, by the filming started I would be a firearms expert, know how to drive anything with wheels and be in the best shape of my life and probably learned a few more languages. That is the kind of commitment you need to play a character like James Bond.
    It isn’t like he was doing anything else.

    • @TRAZ4004
      @TRAZ4004 18 днів тому +39

      What’s stopping you from doing all that now? Doe. James Doe. International spy and UA-cam commenter.

    • @JohnDoe-i5z5c
      @JohnDoe-i5z5c 18 днів тому +37

      @ easy. I haven’t been cast as James Bond. But I’ve already got the firearms, driving, and foreign languages (speak two, write three) down if anybody is casting.

    • @The_Assassin_of_The_Gray
      @The_Assassin_of_The_Gray 18 днів тому +45

      That is why "Mopeface Dullard" Craig was *_NEVER_* James Bond, but a mockery

    • @anandmorris
      @anandmorris 18 днів тому +10

      Tbf, i think Roger Moore said something similar. Yet he is by far my favourite Bond.

    • @jaysmall5586
      @jaysmall5586 18 днів тому +5

      But Daniel Craig did do all of that by the time filming started for Casino Royale. Aside from maybe the languages.

  • @MannlyButzz
    @MannlyButzz 18 днів тому +335

    As a woman, I absolutely adore the Bond books. Which is why I must say- Keep Jennifer Salke as far from James Bond as humanly possible. He's going to start asking why a boat floats and the stone doesn't!!

    • @marhawkman303
      @marhawkman303 18 днів тому +25

      Yeah, making "strong female characters"... I mean... did these people WATCH any of the movies??? That's actually a key part of being a "Bond Girl"... they're NOT helpless waifs.

    • @jjcometa9333
      @jjcometa9333 18 днів тому +1

      Good analogy

    • @Haven6419
      @Haven6419 18 днів тому +14

      As an American gay man who grew up die hard Bond fan - Brosnan is my favorite but love to debate with others on this topic - PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD keep Bond, Bond. Gun shooting, womanizing, car driving, you know the KIND OF MAN YOU WANT STOPPING GLOBAL THREATS?!?!? If they wanna do a race switch do Idris Elba, he’s 52 now and in great shape. Just don’t go making him a little bitch. My fiancé, I, you, and millions of others I know agree with this sentiment. I like a strong man playing out our fantasies in movies/television 😏😉

    • @Haven6419
      @Haven6419 18 днів тому +11

      @@marhawkman303RIGHT?!?!? Halle Berry in Die another day, Elektra King - who had an amazing backstory - in The World is Not Enough, etc, etc, etc.

    • @marhawkman303
      @marhawkman303 18 днів тому

      @@Haven6419 That one who's famous for trying to strangle Bond with her thighs....

  • @Mr_SpinelesS
    @Mr_SpinelesS 18 днів тому +233

    It's the conflict of wanting a Feminine Bond coupled with the Desire to keep making money off of Bond and knowing a feminine bond would fail (as proven by Daniel Craig)

    • @SolarisKane
      @SolarisKane 18 днів тому +9

      What's said is with proper direction and writing, Craig could have been an amazing Bond.

    • @rikardandersson5582
      @rikardandersson5582 18 днів тому +25

      @@SolarisKane Craig wanted feminist Bond though and therefore hired Phoebe Waller Bridge

    • @knotengajin7359
      @knotengajin7359 18 днів тому +7

      Craig’s Bond began as Jason Bourne and went downhill from there.

    • @emceedoctorb3022
      @emceedoctorb3022 18 днів тому +16

      I love Bond and have watched the first twenty films numerous times. I utterly hated Craig as Bond, I watched Cassino Royale twice and the next three once each and completely skipped the last one. Bond, like pretty much all of my favourite franchises from Star Wars to Star Trek to Doctor Who, are utterly dead to me.

    • @catstac2542
      @catstac2542 17 днів тому +1

      Correct me if I'm wrong, but... didn't Craig's Bond movies make very well at the box office?

  • @DarkysLPs
    @DarkysLPs 18 днів тому +224

    "What's best for society today"
    It never stops with these people. You are supposed to entertain, not lecture.

    • @Theseus9-cl7ol
      @Theseus9-cl7ol 18 днів тому

      They are pushing an agenda dude, an Anti-White agenda. It's called the Kalergi Plan. In 100 years no more White people.

    • @mandylorian89
      @mandylorian89 18 днів тому +23

      They act like they know what we want better than we do. Like they're the ones who will offer us what we SHOULD want, instead of just giving us what we actually want. Beyond annoying.

    • @Theseus9-cl7ol
      @Theseus9-cl7ol 18 днів тому

      @@mandylorian89 Wow my reply got deleted. It's like Larry Finkrat from Blackrock said "We have to force behavior". They are pushing this woke agenda on us like this.

    • @rochskier
      @rochskier 18 днів тому +28

      In their utopia, the endless lectures are a feature, not a bug.

    • @AnonymousNoNayme
      @AnonymousNoNayme 18 днів тому +18

      @@rochskier Exactly what happens when people are so insane/deluded they believe a dystopia IS a utopia...

  • @Briansgate
    @Briansgate 18 днів тому +182

    You don't have to find a direction with Bond movies. You just make Bond movies. There is nothing to think about here.

    • @jaysmall5586
      @jaysmall5586 18 днів тому +9

      They ran out of Ian Fleming books to adapt. Plus, everyone who made the films in the 70s and 80s are dead now. So no, they do have to put thought into it now.

    • @Homeschoolsw6
      @Homeschoolsw6 18 днів тому +9

      The direction was chosen in the 1960's, you're right. stick with who the established character.

    • @Anione111
      @Anione111 9 годин тому

      @@jaysmall5586 Hollywood writers have always been brilliant at writing futuristic scripts. I are sure there are few who can do the reverse.

  • @dailyencouragementtolovego3836
    @dailyencouragementtolovego3836 18 днів тому +121

    Bond is classic male adventure fantasy fiction. He is an alpha male, loaded with self-confidence, an easy charm, and a bit of swagger, while also possessing a keen intellect, killer instincts, lethal training, and fierce loyalty to Crown and country. If you want to know what direction to go in, bring back Bond, James Bond.

    • @seanwoods5943
      @seanwoods5943 17 днів тому +2

      Make Megan markle the villain.

    • @mikemizrahi5616
      @mikemizrahi5616 17 днів тому +1

      Top comment!

    • @dantauche7917
      @dantauche7917 17 днів тому

      That won't happen in 2025+ unfortunately. Anything machismo is bad in Hollywood

    • @Markunator
      @Markunator 12 днів тому +1

      Being “loyal to Crown and country” is actually _very_ bad…

    • @konobuzoggu239
      @konobuzoggu239 9 днів тому +1

      ​@@Markunator is it for a british agent, though?

  • @OdinReactor
    @OdinReactor 18 днів тому +557

    Amazon is an American corporation and owns Bond now. He will be re-imagined into a trans black womax in a wheelchair.

    • @HammerheadStarcraft
      @HammerheadStarcraft 18 днів тому +75

      Yes, because if he was owned by a British company he’d be respected.
      Like Doctor Who.

    • @NoNameNo.5
      @NoNameNo.5 18 днів тому

      Right, like it would be any LESS work if it were owned by Brits still….like Jaguar! He better be careful what he writes on the internet or the UK though police will come take him away.

    • @M1r0sl4v1
      @M1r0sl4v1 18 днів тому +12

      I stopped watching that franchise some time ago but didn't they already done this?

    • @AdmiringLlama-pe4sq
      @AdmiringLlama-pe4sq 18 днів тому +4

      "I AM BROCCOLI"! 🥦👀

    • @mandylorian89
      @mandylorian89 18 днів тому +27

      As an American, I'd like to apologize for all the things my people are deliberately destroying, and I want you to know that most of us want them to stop, too.

  • @CrudelyMade
    @CrudelyMade 18 днів тому +82

    might as well cast Macaulay Culkin as bond. he's got a better record of beating enemies, gadgets, general survival out of his element, etcetera. :-D

    • @NJGuy1973
      @NJGuy1973 15 днів тому +2

      Why aren't you running Amazon? You should be. No, really. You have a good idea.

    • @CrudelyMade
      @CrudelyMade 14 днів тому

      @@NJGuy1973 because movie ideas aren't the skillset it takes to run a company, or even make a movie, or write a script.
      I've run companies, I've written scripts, I haven't made movies, but I am an enthusiast and know a bit of their history and making, and I've been in a few movies.
      but ideas are a dime a dozen, for inventions, stories, etc.
      I've also been a business analyst and it doesn't take really smart folks to see when a pattern of doing a similar thing is bringing negative results. or the general stagnation from hollywood entities remaking things, trying to ride name recognition instead of being risky with new concepts, stories, etc.
      but, if you learn anything in the story writing business, is that things go in waves, circles, however you want to think about it, and there'll be another renaissance of creativity at some point. maybe not in hollywood, but it'll happen.
      stupid little ideas like Macaulay Culkin as bond will be generated (and are already being generated) as AI trailers for the concept. I wouldn't be surprised if these AI trailers aren't how idea are pitched to execs within a year or three.

    • @DustinBarlow8P
      @DustinBarlow8P 9 днів тому +1

      Canon Home Alone is a James Bond prequel! ha ha ha

    • @CrudelyMade
      @CrudelyMade 8 днів тому +1

      @@DustinBarlow8P it does seem to align darned well with, like, a bourne identity agent back story, if ever there was one. ;-)
      I wouldn't object if someone did that crossover.

    • @Anione111
      @Anione111 9 годин тому

      @@NJGuy1973 I am sure he was being sarcastic.

  • @mr.nimbus537
    @mr.nimbus537 18 днів тому +41

    "So what do you think of my master plan Mr Bond?"
    "It's MA'AM!"

  • @ilyafoskin
    @ilyafoskin 18 днів тому +32

    As a lifetime Bond fan, I actually have a lot of trouble trying to imagine him in the modern era. I did like the first few Daniel Craig films but it didn’t feel very Bond. They made new versions of old villains that didn’t mesh with the setting. I think as we move even further from the Cold War era they should turn Bond into a period action series and set the next one in a very obvious 1950s Cold War setting and retell the story a little differently

    • @winters3772
      @winters3772 15 днів тому +2

      I liked the first one… thought it was an interesting take. Watching James Bond grow and develop into the suave, debonair spy we love….But that didn’t happen lol.

    • @RaveyDavey
      @RaveyDavey 2 дні тому +1

      That's exactly what I've been thinking: go back to the cold war. However, that assumes Hollywood has writers of the calibre necessary not to turn it all into an embarrassing rethink of the era, viewed through the eyes of modernity. And that is a bit assumption.

  • @thetryingscotsman4065
    @thetryingscotsman4065 18 днів тому +281

    Just cast Henry Cavill, bring Bond back to its roots, make it brutal and Bond cold and ruthless. Simple.....maybe or not.

    • @WolfWolf-o3q
      @WolfWolf-o3q 18 днів тому +53

      Somehow that kinda fits for almost every problem in hollywood.... simply ask Henry Cavill.... You want the audience to love your protagonist? Ask Henry Cavill. You want a story and a script that the audience likes? Ask Henry Cavill. You want a way out of this money-burning swamp that Hollywood has become? Ask Henry Cavill! 😂

    • @Theseus9-cl7ol
      @Theseus9-cl7ol 18 днів тому

      They aren't going to do that ever man, never ever again.....don't you get it? All they care about is pushing the woke agenda and brainwashing you.

    • @seabookfarno8656
      @seabookfarno8656 18 днів тому +29

      @@WolfWolf-o3q - **Honestly? I love MAN FROM UNCLE movie with him. Close enough as a potential bond protagonist and seriously he is british just as daniel. Just sad what we are all on nowadays**

    • @alesksander
      @alesksander 18 днів тому

      Ahh noooought .We dont wanna toxic males in movies.

    • @MonsterKidCory
      @MonsterKidCory 18 днів тому +23

      @@seabookfarno8656 I consider Man from UNCLE to be Cavill's de facto Bond screen test. But the chances of a Bond period piece starring Henry Cavill and directed by Guy Ritchie is zero, despite that being the best of all possible outcomes.

  • @nickhayes1626
    @nickhayes1626 18 днів тому +80

    I enjoyed Casino Royale, but after that Craig movies went down drastically, with No Time to Die being the final and most egregious insult.

    • @AICW
      @AICW 18 днів тому +12

      Even Casino Royale's plot went off the rails after the torture scene with Le Chiffre. The writers used the old trick of "an unknown man with a gun walks into the room" to get out of a sticky situation they had written themselves into with no clear way of resolving it.

    • @JRRob3wn
      @JRRob3wn 18 днів тому +10

      @@AICW I believe that scene is book accurate though.

    • @JRRob3wn
      @JRRob3wn 18 днів тому +8

      Agree. I love Casino, but the rest are not Bond films. Some are actually decent action films, but they bear no resemblance to Bond.

    • @andrewpepper8031
      @andrewpepper8031 18 днів тому +5

      My thoughts exactly. Casino was great then rapidly downhill. Craig turned into a poor Bond. Connery is and always will be the only James Bond.

    • @edenbreckhouse
      @edenbreckhouse 18 днів тому

      Making the 'new' 007 a black female is the ultimate piss take.

  • @Yolanda8419
    @Yolanda8419 18 днів тому +79

    We have a saying in Greece which is “two donkeys were fighting in another man’s barn”. This is all this is, although instead of donkeys we have hens.

  • @Mark-vr7pt
    @Mark-vr7pt 18 днів тому +89

    James Bond was cool because he was doing things we, men, can't. But very want to. Every single hero is like that.
    So representing reality is going in the exact opposite way from it.

    • @James_Bee
      @James_Bee 18 днів тому +10

      Yes.
      They KNOW THIS.
      That's why they are making a concerted effort to destroy everything.

    • @PerkulatorBenny
      @PerkulatorBenny 17 днів тому +3

      Even representing reality would lead to a better product than what they've got, because what they're actually representing is their own delusions.

    • @RaveyDavey
      @RaveyDavey 2 дні тому

      Yeah but they don't want men to want these things, least of all to do them, in in the fantasy of a film.

  • @Eric_Hunt194
    @Eric_Hunt194 18 днів тому +70

    Mr Disparu, merry Christmas and thank you. Thank you not only for watching terrible shows so that I don't have to, but also for reading articles and tweets so that I don't have to.

  • @muznick
    @muznick 18 днів тому +32

    They should make Bond in the 1950's where he belongs. No more effiminate "emotional intelligence" please. He should be an unapologetic badass, that kills bad guys and bangs hot women in equal measure.

    • @rosycandyhaven
      @rosycandyhaven 14 днів тому +5

      As a woman, I approve this idea.

    • @tatianaoliveira2191
      @tatianaoliveira2191 13 днів тому +5

      As a woman and fan of the 007 movies, I approve that idea

    • @RaveyDavey
      @RaveyDavey 2 дні тому

      How did we get to the point where banging hot women is seen as a bad thing anyway?

  • @QuorkEx
    @QuorkEx 18 днів тому +65

    that quote from one of the original novels was very perceptive. ‎interesting that our current dire state of affairs was anticipated as far back at the 1950s.

  • @rocketroux5838
    @rocketroux5838 18 днів тому +11

    I'm a simple man. Someone has the last name Brocoli, and I laugh

  • @ced1106
    @ced1106 18 днів тому +6

    I'm just glad that, thanks to UA-cam and video technology, we have more content that is outside the control of studios.

  • @nuclearwinter391
    @nuclearwinter391 18 днів тому +21

    They should've given this role to Henry Cavill more than a decade ago. I just want old school Bond movies with a lot of action and the hottest women. Movies made for entertaining. This was standard 2 decades ago. Why is this impossible nowadays?

  • @JessicaDwyer
    @JessicaDwyer 18 днів тому +79

    I should have felt something at the end of the last James Bond film, but all I could feel was relief that it was finally fucking over. God it felt like an eternity watching that thing.

    • @rochskier
      @rochskier 18 днів тому +9

      From a purely film making perspective, "No Time to Die," was at least 30 minutes too long. A professional director and editor would have easily recognized that.

    • @JessicaDwyer
      @JessicaDwyer 18 днів тому +5

      @@rochskier Besides the fact that Bond was completely out of character for him you are totally right. It's like they felt they couldn't cut anything and it trudged along like a dying elephant.

    • @JRRob3wn
      @JRRob3wn 18 днів тому +4

      Horrible movie through and through.

    • @svetlanaandrasova6086
      @svetlanaandrasova6086 18 днів тому +5

      Worst JB movie ever

    • @lancekemal8989
      @lancekemal8989 18 днів тому +2

      Glad I never watched in theatre so u could turn it off. I still haven't fully watched it but I know the ending. Crap movie

  • @jeniferclemente1252
    @jeniferclemente1252 18 днів тому +25

    “Looks like he needs a feather to fly” that was great 😆

  • @abbynormal5849
    @abbynormal5849 18 днів тому +63

    Maybe if Amazon didn't waste so much money on garbage, we wouldn't have ads forced on us now

    • @multitimmytiger2
      @multitimmytiger2 18 днів тому +1

      Stop giving companies that hate you your money.

    • @hammerofscience534
      @hammerofscience534 16 днів тому +1

      Commercials are coming back, streaming us just going to be cable, as that's how they make money, ads.

  • @mark7s980
    @mark7s980 18 днів тому +42

    A lethal government agent can't be a blubbering fool! He's going to get caught if he breaks down crying after every hit.

  • @theghostofmaximumvolume3414
    @theghostofmaximumvolume3414 18 днів тому +65

    1960-2010 James Bond: "I am James Bond."
    2020 James Bond: "I am Gaymes Bond. Look how fierce my shoes are."

  • @carbonbasedlifeform8335
    @carbonbasedlifeform8335 18 днів тому +45

    Dear God, James Bond is going to say "There is a tempest in ME!", I just know it....ugh

    • @MasticinaAkicta
      @MasticinaAkicta 18 днів тому +4

      JANE BOND, thank you very much. And every mission she will be in another wheelchair that has been provided with a lot of nice useful tricks and toys. There is even one where she can extend a glider from her wheelchair and land.

    • @Treblaine
      @Treblaine 18 днів тому +4

      "There is a tempest in me!"
      "That time of the month again, luv?"

  • @satnav1980
    @satnav1980 18 днів тому +11

    For all of us who love movies, TV shows and games, it feels like we are living in a nightmare we can't wake from. Everything is turned to piss and shit. And no American company should own James Bond.

  • @veronicab15
    @veronicab15 18 днів тому +30

    As a young woman, I want characters I can have a crush on. These soy simps don't cut it.
    Kind reminder there is A REASON why 50 shades of crap was so successful.

  • @jaysmall5586
    @jaysmall5586 18 днів тому +36

    3:42 But that's the right response. Bonds have never named a successor. That's the producer's job.

  • @jjaarr3208
    @jjaarr3208 18 днів тому +28

    After Specter I bought the complete Bond dvd set because when no time to die came out (which I won't capitalize because its not a real title because its not a real bond movie) because I knew the franchise was likely over, and thank God I did, it won't be long before they start to edit the orginal movies so as to not offend modern audiences.

  • @BillPeschel
    @BillPeschel 18 днів тому +18

    It's hilarious that two women who fundamentally agree to feminize Bond can't get along. Women, amirite?

  • @urbanspaceman7183
    @urbanspaceman7183 18 днів тому +19

    Strong women in bond have never been a problem, Grace Jones for example. Problem is when they're stronger than Bond.

  • @Garrett122
    @Garrett122 18 днів тому +41

    I liked Pierce Brosnan's Bond, and disliked everything about Daniel Craig well before his first Bond movie.

  • @haraldsulzmann3893
    @haraldsulzmann3893 18 днів тому +14

    In past times, movie creators asked what the audience want to watch. Today, they make movies for theirselves, for an audience that only exists in their minds. And when the critics are horrible and bad, they blame the audience as to stupid, not flexible and out of touch. Good luck.

  • @pcblues
    @pcblues 18 днів тому +8

    Merry Xmas, my dude. The next Bond should be Henry Cavill or Ryan Reynolds. Aside from being good looking, they will hold the production hostage until they come up with a satisfyingly straight movie.

  • @davidh6799
    @davidh6799 18 днів тому +26

    Damn I'm going to watch a Dalton movie tonight just because of this

    • @ggrarl
      @ggrarl 18 днів тому +1

      I've been re-watching all the old James Bond films, so I started with "Dr. No" and I'm up to "The Spy Who Loved Me"

    • @BryceShamwow
      @BryceShamwow 18 днів тому +3

      Hot Fuzz for the win!

    • @KimBailey-w2g
      @KimBailey-w2g 10 днів тому

      @@BryceShamwow Skinner the slasher of prices would literally take out Daniel Craig’s bond in a heartbeat

  • @Oblithian
    @Oblithian 18 днів тому +31

    A film isn't about "what is best for society today", it is about telling a story and what will best entertain society today.

    • @Willrocs
      @Willrocs 17 днів тому +1

      Thought police

  • @everyoneash
    @everyoneash 18 днів тому +38

    I'm still not sure bond has survived the Daniel Craig era....

  • @Gantiz
    @Gantiz 18 днів тому +103

    Pierce Brosnan was the last James Bond, we haven't had a new film since Die Another Day.

    • @rochskier
      @rochskier 18 днів тому +25

      Thank you. It's nice to see there are others who also recognize how hugely overrated the Craig films are.

    • @RhysCallinan-hf7qx
      @RhysCallinan-hf7qx 18 днів тому +6

      Went from driving tanks through Moscow to having a silk over being a wuss. What a downgrade.

    • @Gantiz
      @Gantiz 18 днів тому +5

      @@rochskier Craig is overrated as an actor in general and completely lacking any of the charisma that's at the core of James Bond (even Timothy Dalton had that going for him).

    • @MikaelLV
      @MikaelLV 18 днів тому +7

      @@rochskier Not just overrated, but the man himself seems to have this arrogant hatred towards the Bond character. Evident by how eager Craig was to deconstruct him. Every actor, maybe except Connery in his last few films absolutely loved the role and were great ambassadors for the franchise. Bond kick started or revived their careers, including Craig, but he is the only one that seems ungrateful for it.

    • @MikaelLV
      @MikaelLV 18 днів тому +10

      @@fenris6051 Disagree. His films hit the perfect middle ground.

  • @kellymallory9852
    @kellymallory9852 14 днів тому +5

    Thanks!

  • @ASoberBear
    @ASoberBear 18 днів тому +25

    I came for the cheeky Brits take on James Bond and I was not disappointed.

  • @Gordulan
    @Gordulan 18 днів тому +158

    Best Bond was hands down Dalton during his two movie run. He was stoic, brutal, mission focused and actually indimidating whilst also showing a humorous side without going full Roger Moore in terms of quipping. It really showed a dangerous and gritty take on the world that Bond existed in.

    • @sarasunshinemt4444
      @sarasunshinemt4444 18 днів тому +15

      Agreed! I loved his run. Tho to be fair, I've loved him since his turn as Mister Rochester 😍

    • @rochskier
      @rochskier 18 днів тому +27

      Dalton's brief run is hugely underrated. Comparing his films to the rest of the series, his films had two of the best pre-credit sequences, two of the best theme songs, two of the best scores, two of the best enemy henchmen, one of the best Astons, and one of the best heavies.
      One of the best things about, "The Living Daylights," and a testament to Dalton's acting ability is how he was able to make the audience believe his Bond had been in espionage for years only 10 or 15 minutes into the film.

    • @tcaudiobooks737
      @tcaudiobooks737 18 днів тому +29

      Really gets on my tits when people call Dalton a prototype Craig. Dalton was so much better, and he actually cared about respecting the source material.

    • @mynameisbondTD
      @mynameisbondTD 18 днів тому +5

      Thanks

    • @amandajean7738
      @amandajean7738 18 днів тому +13

      Dalton>Craig

  • @koroba01
    @koroba01 18 днів тому +36

    And it should collapse…Amazon is famous for screwing up any film project they lay their grubby little hands on. The Bond franchise, as much as I liked it (from reading the books starting back in the ‘60s), may be overextending as most of all the other franchises such as Marvel, DC, Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, and others. Make sure the original Bond books are covered or better yet, redo the entire book series in the order they were written and stay true to the books (yes I know, that will never happen). Many of the later Bond movies strayed so far from books that The Spy Who Loved Me would be totally unrecognizable to current non bond book reading public.

    • @MasticinaAkicta
      @MasticinaAkicta 18 днів тому +3

      Yup, the old movies. The really old ones. SOOO CLASSIC!
      But, as it ran into the modern age things got slowly but surely worse.
      But now? Even in the best case... I don't know if you can even call this character BOND anymore.

    • @BoingBB
      @BoingBB 16 днів тому

      The first three Bond movies did stick very well to the books but Goldfinger didn't, which was a great disappointment to me. Gadgets and ridiculous action scenes became the norm after that, so I never watched any more. As time has gone on the franchise got further and further away from Fleming's James Bond, until the Daniel Graig films finally (in my mind) put an end to the franchise. It is no longer James Bond. btw if they cast an American as the next Bond it wouldn't surprise me. Everybody knows the British Secret Service is full of Americans, right?

  • @ZolaRenard_01
    @ZolaRenard_01 18 днів тому +17

    "I don't want to be Jamie Bond. We should leave the male-lead franchise alone. Women can have their own original franchise." ___Jenna Ortega (2024)
    Hollywood better start to listen to their based actors.

  • @bazzzzz6175
    @bazzzzz6175 18 днів тому +40

    I wish they stopped when they ran out of books.

    • @Homeschoolsw6
      @Homeschoolsw6 18 днів тому +8

      007 was too profitable for his own good it seems.

  • @jasonwrathorn9281
    @jasonwrathorn9281 18 днів тому +25

    I think Judi dench did a commendable job as M, particularly in the Early Pierce Brosnan movies. I don't mind the world changing around Bond, when done right he is a timeless enough character to support that. Just as he outgrew the cold war, he can deal with a female authority figure.
    It is worth note that in that self-same movie, he smirked though his new boss tirade, was right about the weapons program 'golden-eye-, and had already seduced the young woman she sent to 'evaluate' him... and it's fair to say that he won the new lady boss over during his run. The world can change, but in a very core way, James Bond doesn't.
    I never really liked Daniel Craig as bond. Casino Royal had far too many jibes at the old movies, suggesting it was 'above' them. While the capture/abuse scene was just wholly mismatched with the tone. My true hatred of Craig/Bond really started with the 'waste of good scotch' scene. That's when was totally convinced this iteration of Bond held no value. I know a lot of people don't care for 'The world is not enough' but bond killing Electra in that movie had a lot more gravitas than anything in the Craig-Era. I like the Juxtaposition of 'you'd miss me' to 'I never miss' was a strong exchange.
    Bond is a broken man, orphan to navy, to license to kill. He dose not represent the reality of what men should aspire to. He is more extreme, violent, driven, cavalier and chauvinistic, more than willing to kill for his mission, and have as much as fun he can on the way to an early grave. He hides any real emotion behind a snarky quip and a irreverent smirk... affording only rare glimpses of the emotion underneath.
    Many of the most compelling and engaging characters are broken, often terrible human beings who don't really fit with social norms. Bond occupies a fantastic world where he is just the kind of bastard who is needed to get the job done. The core mantra of James Bond has always been: "women want him and men want to be him"... I'm going to guess the overall percentage of the male population that wants to take the place of James Bond in Casino Royale is vanishingly small... and probably not enough to sustain the franchise long term.
    I also would rather no bond then one that is so modernized as to be James Bond 007 in name and number alone.

    • @jaysmall5586
      @jaysmall5586 18 днів тому

      So, "He dose not represent the reality of what men should aspire to.", but also it's a problem when "the overall percentage of the male population that wants to take the place of James Bond in Casino Royale is vanishingly small".
      Seems like a contradiction in what you're talking about there, which is fine. Bond movies have always had a push and pull between Ian Fleming's original concept of a brutal secret agent who doesn't really like his profession and copes with women and alcohol, and the suave playboy who has all the fun gadgets, best quips, and is an instant lothario.
      The key is, whichever you go with, it needs to be done well. And if you don't go with either and veer off into a different direction, than nobody is gonna like it no matter how well it's done.

    • @jasonwrathorn9281
      @jasonwrathorn9281 18 днів тому +1

      @@jaysmall5586 I get what you are saying, but there is no contradiction for me. I've not read the more realistic and grounded books. My experience with bond comes entirely from the movies... which even at their best, tend to be highly unrealistic.
      I look for more of that from any new bond movie, which is probably why I so utterly detest Craig... there is nothing fun about his portrayal, (probably because he totally hated doing it) and while it might be more realistic, it is antithetical to everything I personally love about Bond.
      If I am looking for a grounded and realistic spy thriller... i will look elsewhere. For me bond is the mystique of a suave secret agent, he quips with sardonic intellect at the henchmen, trades witty barbs with the mastermind, and 'gets' one or more very attractive women... anything else and the studio is wasting my time.

    • @PerkulatorBenny
      @PerkulatorBenny 17 днів тому

      I totally agree about Judi Dench. Her M made for an excellent foil to Bond.
      You need the "bean counter" behind the desk to make the long term decisions that keep things going in the right direction, but you also need Bond's "go by your gut instinct" because sometimes anything more than an immediate decision without even half of the necessary information will be too late and _not_ acting will always be the wrong choice.
      And eventually their (professional) relationship found an equilibrium that elevated both of them to greater heights.
      ​@@jaysmall5586 I think there is no real contradiction when you consider the fact that "want to" and "shouldn't" are two different things. Especially when they can also be for different reasons. One shouldn't be like him because he is violent and chauvanistic, but one might want to because he is clever and charismatic.

  • @sydneyslaughter7163
    @sydneyslaughter7163 18 днів тому +6

    A Miss Moneypenny miniseries could be fun. Just a pretty lady going about her day while occasionally an agent on a mission comes into the office to flirt with her. She could be friends with the staff who clean and repair the many broken gadgets that 007 alone brings back.

  • @averageguysgadgetguy
    @averageguysgadgetguy 18 днів тому +18

    I didnt think they could make the greatest franchise of all time any worse than the Craig era...amazon steps in...HOLD MY BEER BOYS

  • @AutoholicsAnonymous
    @AutoholicsAnonymous 18 днів тому +12

    You earned my subscription with this one…. Please keep bringing attention to it. It is the only franchise I even care about anymore….. something my father and I shared… him now passed. And all they want to do is destroy a legacy in any single interesting model for men.

  • @sigy4ever
    @sigy4ever 18 днів тому +28

    Whoever wins, we lose (but I'm hoping anyone but Sulke wins)

  • @SmashedCr4bs
    @SmashedCr4bs 18 днів тому +89

    Pierce Brosnan, Roger Moore and Sean Connery were the best Bonds imo. Daniel Craig sucked ass and came across as a moping teenager to me

    • @HEAVY_IS_THE_METAL
      @HEAVY_IS_THE_METAL 18 днів тому +16

      The first 2 movies were solid. The last few movies were definitely melancholy, mopey & without the pulse of the first 2

    • @Guardsmen4
      @Guardsmen4 18 днів тому +7

      i have real soft spot for tim aswell i know i might have bad taste

    • @ventzxX
      @ventzxX 18 днів тому +12

      Craig only had 1 solid movie Casino Royale, everything else ranges from mediocre to outright bad.

    • @alphax4785
      @alphax4785 18 днів тому +11

      @@ventzxX Yep, Casino Royale was a Bond film, and then Craig fell off a cliff.

    • @anandmorris
      @anandmorris 18 днів тому +10

      ​@Guardsmen4 no bad taste, he was brilliant in The Living Daylights. One of my favourites. He really came across as a deadly assassin. Moore is by far my favourite.

  • @mgamingchannel4282
    @mgamingchannel4282 18 днів тому +7

    Can't wait to see Ncuti Gatwa as bond, who cries every 10 minutes

    • @markburns2621
      @markburns2621 14 днів тому

      That thing made The Importance of Being Earnest too Gay after Rupert Everett had actually failed to do so. That's impressive in some way.

  • @nuclearmedicineman6270
    @nuclearmedicineman6270 18 днів тому +24

    How very Hollywood of them. It's not about if Bond will get completely feminized, but about which of them gets to remake him into her own image.

  • @majina.m8112
    @majina.m8112 18 днів тому +8

    Barbara broccoli sounds like a villain name

  • @Rahab84
    @Rahab84 18 днів тому +13

    We have a spin off, Austin Powers. Wait can we have another Austin Powers ? Quick get Mick Myers, and the freaking Sharks with freaking Laser beams attached to their heads.

  • @drgoremd
    @drgoremd 16 днів тому +4

    I mean, the plot of the novel "Moonraker" centers on a foreigner who emigrated to Britain, become a billionaire, started a private aerospace company and used the occurrence of a rocket test flight to try and nuke London, so...maybe 'modern audiences' might be open to such a villain?

  • @calcariachimera
    @calcariachimera 18 днів тому +8

    What I think made Bond so iconic at the start, especially with Connery, is how he balanced humor even in the most intense, terrifying situations. He showed us that, no matter how grim things got, the British 'stiff upper lip' always prevailed, allowing him to remain calm and fearless. That combination of wit and resilience is what made his actions so captivating to watch....NOT HIS FEELINGS

  • @do0ranfrump260
    @do0ranfrump260 18 днів тому +18

    I really don't like the idea of amazon controlling the bond franchise.

    • @rogerk6180
      @rogerk6180 18 днів тому +1

      It is either that or disney nowdays.

    • @zakofrx
      @zakofrx 17 днів тому

      Their is still others..
      Paramount, WB, Sony and probably many I can't Remember..

    • @zakofrx
      @zakofrx 17 днів тому

      ​@@rogerk6180 How about Paramount..
      They are making modern non woke shows now.. Thats new Oil Man series.. Yellow Stone.
      that Stallone Mob series...

  • @calcariachimera
    @calcariachimera 18 днів тому +7

    Disparu -
    "If you're not creating, you're not destroying" 2024

  • @sneeringimperialist6667
    @sneeringimperialist6667 18 днів тому +19

    Bring back the gadget Bond. He made regular guys feel like they could BE Bond, if they had those gadgets! Craig was more Bourne than Bond... The only gadget Craig ever used was a credit card...

    • @jesusknight1
      @jesusknight1 18 днів тому +1

      EXACTLY! The gadgets were amazing and interesting, and so was their inventor in the show. ALWAYS loved to see the new gadgets he would be using against his enemies.

    • @rogerk6180
      @rogerk6180 18 днів тому +2

      Yeah, the gadgets, the women and oneliners is what defines the bond franchise.
      It's just general action movie slop now.

  • @maryking9706
    @maryking9706 18 днів тому +28

    Super cool vid, love how you keep it fresh.

  • @DensilGrant
    @DensilGrant 18 днів тому +22

    Man just today i was thinking Craig just wanted to ruin Bond and make him gay and now this news pops up.

  • @kimomallon5862
    @kimomallon5862 18 днів тому +8

    As a woman I want a James Bond who is a man’s man. I love James Bond.

  • @wuldntuliktonoptb6861
    @wuldntuliktonoptb6861 17 днів тому +2

    It never ceases to amaze me really. Like how can you have a more successful copyright then either 007 or Star Wars like how could you possibly screw that up? They’ll find a way tho.

  • @lacolem1
    @lacolem1 18 днів тому +10

    That passage from Fleming could’ve been written for today 😂

  • @kellymallory9852
    @kellymallory9852 14 днів тому +1

    I hope you had a great Christmas. I HOPE the new year is good to you! Thank you for all the truth, and sarcasm of 2024.

  • @scorchik11
    @scorchik11 18 днів тому +5

    God forbid a franchise stays consistent in today’s society

  • @MonsterKidCory
    @MonsterKidCory 18 днів тому +16

    Cast Henry Cavill and Bond and Hugh Grant as M. Get Guy Ritchie to direct. Make it a Cold War period piece... Okay, basically, Man from UNCLE. Make the next Bond movie Man from UNCLE.

  • @Defixio.
    @Defixio. 18 днів тому +15

    Incoming prequel where a jane bond founded the agency and they go by james to praise the matriarch

  • @CubanWriter
    @CubanWriter 18 днів тому +22

    There was that James Bond movie that opened with Moneypenny being a field agent who shot James Bond, and I totally thought they were going to spinoff from that into a Moneypenny show.

    • @rochskier
      @rochskier 18 днів тому +10

      You mean, "Skyfall?" The one society keeps trying to tell me is the greatest 007 film ever?

    • @AnonymousNoNayme
      @AnonymousNoNayme 18 днів тому +1

      @@rochskier That's not society, that's the enemy...

    • @FastestHandInTheWest
      @FastestHandInTheWest 18 днів тому +1

      ​@@rochskierbecause it kinda is

    • @ggrarl
      @ggrarl 18 днів тому +3

      ​@@rochskierthe only good thing about "Skyfall" is the song

    • @RhysCallinan-hf7qx
      @RhysCallinan-hf7qx 18 днів тому

      ​@@rochskierWhat a giant cope. I loved Goldeneye (my first Bond film) but know there are several that contend it. I loved Lee in The Man With The Golden Gun. Retarded brain thought he was Nicholas Cage until over halfway through.

  • @mudcrab3420
    @mudcrab3420 18 днів тому +13

    2:16 - "We're afraid to walk the streets at night"
    Spoiler - it has been dangerous to walk the streets at night since well before streets were invented. We are daylight animals. Once the sun went down traditionally there was very little for us to do, especially since once the sun came up we would need to be devoting most of our energy into attempting to prepare for that time of the year when things froze and you could no longer just walk around picking fruit off the nearest tree.
    So once humans evolved into static groups there was no rational reason to be at night and anyone 'walking the streets' was probably up to no good.
    Reclaim the Streets is a lie. The streets were never claimed in the first place and if they even came close to being claimed it was because your community funded the police.

    • @ThatAnnalisa
      @ThatAnnalisa 18 днів тому +4

      I'm a woman and I have no reason to be walking the streets at night. I'm at home, minding my own business. I can't help thinking that women who want to be safe walking around *at night* are either out clubbing (which I think is dumb) or are the ones soliciting you for certain things on street corners and don't want to get arrested...

    • @adamzain6770
      @adamzain6770 18 днів тому +3

      It depends on the nature of your community. It’s very safe to walk the streets at night in my area. The keys are a cohesive culture with shared values, low population density, a lack of extreme poverty, and a willingness to get on with each other. The advantage of having a large brain is that we’re not constrained by the conditions we evolved under; we are able to adapt very quickly, and change our culture, for good and bad.

    • @pyepye-io4vu
      @pyepye-io4vu 15 днів тому +1

      Everything women say is a lie.
      To be more precise, they are "false threat narratives."
      It's a female instinct to invent threat narratives.
      It's part of their sexual competition.
      It says "I'm so attractive, everyone wants to attack / grape me".

  • @Paragon..
    @Paragon.. 18 днів тому +3

    A Hitman with emotions?
    Imagine Agent 47 having "feelings"

  • @thibaldus3
    @thibaldus3 18 днів тому +12

    The spectator article was incredibly refreshing.

  • @Rich77UK
    @Rich77UK 18 днів тому +5

    Stick to your guns Barbara Broccoli. We DO NOT want James Bond going down the same path as Star Wars!

  • @stevet2342
    @stevet2342 18 днів тому +17

    The only scene I really remenber and tbh enjoyed from the last few Bond movies is where Ana de Armas is in an evening gown firing a machine and kicking arse. Sadly they'd probably have Bond in the even gown in the next one and getting his arse kicked.

  • @JosephTerracina-c7l
    @JosephTerracina-c7l 18 днів тому +1

    Outstanding video! Preach Disparu!

  • @jerrydethomas8058
    @jerrydethomas8058 18 днів тому +7

    when it comes to hearing what Bond fan's really want, Broccoli seems to have cauliflower ears...

  • @Kiyoone
    @Kiyoone 18 днів тому

    07:34 😂🤣 This editing tho. Got me

  • @ThereIsAlwaysaWay2
    @ThereIsAlwaysaWay2 18 днів тому +4

    Will be another high quality show like Rings of Pawa. Number #1 BABY

  • @grimhammer00
    @grimhammer00 18 днів тому +4

    How many times do we have to teach Hollywood…this will get boycotted.

  • @user-we1ii3em6s
    @user-we1ii3em6s 18 днів тому +11

    James Bond is dead and we will never see him again. The only thing we can do is watch the older movies and enjoy a different era.

  • @loshobittos959
    @loshobittos959 18 днів тому +6

    Bond was destroyed already. It was made for men, but that couldn't be allowed in modern day. Men can't have anything, everything needs to gather to whamen. F Hollywood, I'll rather watch old Bond movies and Conan the Barbarian if I want some entertainment.

  • @RanockIronfist
    @RanockIronfist 18 днів тому +11

    Hollywood will try anything to make Bond "new and fresh" except do what no one has ever done before; something that even old bond failed to do. Actually adapt the books faithfully.

  • @mickfriday
    @mickfriday 17 днів тому +2

    Theo James. Only one worth considering. Looks perfect, is fairly young so provides longevity and has the perfect voice. He was born to be the Bond we love and miss.

  • @Dam-a-fence
    @Dam-a-fence 18 днів тому +3

    2:10, if'n you got to qualify the synopsis/sales pitch with the phrase "financially successful", before the phrase "critically acclaimed" well, Chronos was a titan for a reason.

  • @MasticinaAkicta
    @MasticinaAkicta 18 днів тому +16

    Well if Amazon gets full control, I can see a black Jane Bond who is better then every men around.
    But lets be fair, Daniel Craigs bond was weakening too soo...
    I don't think that there is much left.
    Unless we get a fresh new SUPERMANLY bond.

    • @ChaoticYak1
      @ChaoticYak1 18 днів тому

      Quite frankly, if they got someone like Idris Elba to be the black James Bond, I'd be okay with that. Still is unnecessary, but I like Idris Elba as an actor, and I think he could pull it off.

    • @Thomasmemoryscentral
      @Thomasmemoryscentral 15 днів тому +1

      @@ChaoticYak1 Idris turned down the role because he doesn’t want to be black James Bond and frankly, he sounds right since his casting smells of out of touch pandering

    • @ChaoticYak1
      @ChaoticYak1 15 днів тому

      @@Thomasmemoryscentral I don't blame him for that. I wasn't saying that I WANT a black James Bond, but if they are going to do it, they should at least get a good masculine actor to play the role.

  • @Jimmy-bg5bx
    @Jimmy-bg5bx 18 днів тому +12

    R.I.P 007.

  • @dennisfitzpatrick8237
    @dennisfitzpatrick8237 18 днів тому +1

    I think this episode should have been named “Cat-Fight’ rather than ‘War’.😂

  • @linkyssj2
    @linkyssj2 18 днів тому +13

    His new name will be "Bond... Broke Bond.."

  • @GreenGrugach
    @GreenGrugach 13 днів тому

    The 'advert' you played during the opening 007 montage i will be honest, i do not know what it's off but just by listening i can tell it's something about 'pocs' saving the day as usual.

  • @DavidM_10
    @DavidM_10 18 днів тому +5

    To make a good James Bond movie, you need to like masculinity and you need to like Britain. No modern activist should be allowed within a space laser's distance of the franchise.

  • @masudashizue777
    @masudashizue777 16 днів тому +1

    I'm still convinced that the best Bond film has yet to be made. Perhaps if we keep going, we may have something close to my ideal in a century or so.

    • @seanbelanger8708
      @seanbelanger8708 7 днів тому

      bring back to the royal roots of the founding of the kingdom

  • @davidhughes8966
    @davidhughes8966 18 днів тому +4

    Doesn't matter anymore, James bond was already destroyed past any point of redemption with fans after the last 4 movies

  • @wuldntuliktonoptb6861
    @wuldntuliktonoptb6861 17 днів тому +1

    Honestly Bond is probably the hardest role to fill. You’re locked in for a multi movie career that is like 30 movies deep now. Pierce Actually wanted to do another one before he got pushed out after 5 movies. CG him and there’s your stop gap.

  • @JenRut-kz9vx
    @JenRut-kz9vx 18 днів тому +36

    You’re so good at this! Keep going.

  • @A-Negative
    @A-Negative 18 днів тому +14

    Took IP to a big showrunner at 20th when Salke was there as head of the studio. They approved a terrible pitch to take to broadcasters. I couldn’t convince her otherwise. It bombed.