whiryno said:
While the idea may play out fine/harmless, why they are making that into news worthy spoiler leaks is kinda crazy. Bond has been about a good looking spy who gets to play with really cool tech gadgets, hook up with multiple hot women and usually has a strong, sexy traditional woman supporting him throughout. What were they thinking the obvious direct targeted audience for these films reaction would be? Somehow it would help at the box office if 75% of the fanbase would consider boycotting? Film makers get to make their choices, and so do their customers. Bewildering some of these choices with the lack of vision.
TC responding basically acknowledging he isn't a Bond fan but telling everyone else they're being ridiculous - as the target audience, no less - is pretty deaf.
Ha, I'm being deaf? Congratulations on having *the* most ironic post in the thread.
First of all, no one needs to have seen all 24 Bond movies to understand the character. I've still seen EIGHT movies with the character and have read countless takes and articles, seen documentaries, clips, etc. He's not that complicated of a figure. Understanding him isn't rocket science, and it doesn't take five decades of research and experience to comprehend all that he is.
But to the issue at hand, it's insane to me how little reading comprehension critics of this decision are exercising. The conclusions being jumped to are flat out ridiculous. Do you guys just completely ignore the takes that aren't in line with your own gut reaction? Or do you read them but you're simply incapable of understanding nuance or the context or the logical arguments continually being presented? I truly don't get it.
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Bond has been about a good looking spy who gets to play with really cool tech gadgets, hook up with multiple hot women and usually has a strong, sexy traditional woman supporting him throughout.
Please, point me in the direction where anyone has said that any of this is going away. What makes you think they're suddenly stripping Bond of everything that makes Bond Bond? Why do people like you keep jumping to these conclusions based on nothing more than conjecture? The rest of your post reads as if the filmmakers officially unveiled a billboard in Times Square with a black female on it that says 'THE NEW JAMES BOND! #SJW #METOO" and the only way to combat the elitists and their announcement is to organize a mass boycott or something (a "strategy" that only crazed fanboys have ever "participated" in; one that has never once worked).
For all we know, this whole 007 thing is going to comprise ONE scene of the movie and it's over and done with and dismissed in winking fashion, like a fart in the wind. The Daily Mail report - which is a dubious outlet at best when it comes to Hollywood news - gives hardly any context. It's all the "Hollywood and its socialist agenda!" crazies who are stoking the fire and turning this into something WAY bigger than it actually is, and people like you are falling for it hook, line, and sinker.
It's like once every six weeks all the blowhards here decide to get worked up about what ALWAYS turns out to be NOTHING. Over and over and over again. With the exact same result every single time. From First Man to Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and everything in between, all the "outrage" is nothing more than manufactured bullsh*t. The final product is never as bad as the mob even remotely suggests. It never ceases to amaze me how this fact is ignored time and time again.
