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22-Nov-2012, 1:42 PM

zombie84 said:

I never really got the Bond series. They are okay movies, I like some of them and have seen almost all of them, but I would put them in the same category as Michael Bay films, some of which I also enjoy in the same sort of dumb, comic-book sort of way. I just never got why people go ga-ga over Bond while condemning similarly stupid films to hell. Half the Bond films aren't worth watching, and of the other half that are, only half of that are really good, so that's like.....6 out of 22? Casino Royale looked like a really good film but when I finally saw it I found it to be only better-than-average. I dunno, Bond has just never excited me. Decent films, worth watching, just nothing special. I look forward to seeing Skyfall since it's supposed to be great, but I'm really only expecting something above-average, and I will definitely be waiting for home video. I only see one or two films a month, including repertoire cinemas, and my money has better places to go.

End unpopular Bond rant.

The fictional spy is our modern day equivalent of the escapist adventurer, or at least Bond is that way. The films and novels broke taboos when originally released, but over time the films began to simply want to create credible plotboilers that were credibly made. This really started when the Broccoli-Saltzman partnership broke up in 1974/75 and reared its head first fully on For Your Eyes Only. Compound this with the loss over time of the essential original crew members.

There are 10 to 15 great films with some being merely good, 1 interesting compromised experiment (LTK), the troubled Brosnans, the Craig abominations, and the two unoffcials.

But they are always intelligent and well crafted ('till 2006), which is why I think the Michael Bay comparison is absolutely unjustified.

To each their own, but I am the guy who's thesis was on 007. Not obsessed...;)