James Bond 25 - Speculation and Anticipation Thread*

Dan Stevens. Downton Abbey and the new Beauty and the Beast. Check the thriller, The Guest.

 

Cool. Thanks!

 

He could be great.

 

And don't forget LEGION.

 

Oh if only...

 

He's in Legion? I didn't recognize him. I love that show!

 

The main man !

 

"Daniel your a star ⭐️"

 

I wonder how long this series is going to go on? I mean, are they still going to be making them 40 years from now? And then there will be a big retrospective and nationwide homage paid to the longest running movie series in history --- 100 years of James Bond. I think that would be completely pathetic. Our culture has grown so sad and fairly ridiculous with its dependence on these fantasies that have mutated into faux religions like the Star Wars and the Marvel universes. James bond has always been its own little fetish niche for males so it's no surprise he's become such an important part of our culture. Our culture is so empty that people live their entire lives based around the iconography of some dime novels Sci-Fi movies, so much so that they treat with the same reverence as holy saints some absurd cartoon character cooked up in a money-driven boiler room in Manhattan under Stan Lee or an overgrown orangutan who drives space ship -- the brainchild of a nerd from California. I suppose the old Gods have become outmoded, but the new ones we've installed look equally absurd and silly. Pop culture is the new religion. I guess it just proves how Mundane in life is that we spend our lives eulogizing some claptrap a writer came up with to pay the rent and have the Game of Thrones emblems tattoo that on our asses to show our allegiance to a nonexistent kingdom. I guess it beats only having beans and rice and having to take out the garbage to look forward to.

 

Bond meant something in the early sixties. Now he doesn't have a libido, wish the producers would give the character viagra and bring him back to his hedonistic martini shaken stirred self.

 

I think you need to separate the silent majority who enjoy these film series' as mere entertainment from the altogether noisier and more obsessive minority you rightly criticize in the above post... they shouldn't be tarred with the same brush. That being said, the quasi-religious fervor surrounding Star Wars from some quarters has always both bewildered and rubbed me the wrong way something awful... but then some were treating Tolkien's literary works the same way decades ago (both Tolkien and Lucas wanted to create modern mythologies and boy did they succeed!), and I'm sure Shakespeare had (and still has) his obsessive fans back in his day too; just imagine the Christopher Marlowe vs Shakespeare flame-wars if they had today's technology back then... humans just gravitate towards mythic stories and hold to them as 'their' story, some just happen to gravitate and embrace them a little more tighter than others, it's human nature.

And quite frankly, with the utter crap we're facing in the real world right now, people dressing up as Stormtroopers or as Wonder Woman at the occasional fan convention is the least of our problems... who can blame people for retreating to fantasy when you see the horrors of the daily news!?

But I do agree with the main thrust and points of your assertion, no arguments there.

 

Pop culture takes a back seat to the fetish of professional sports.
Also, very few, if any, are self flagellating at altars and starting intercontinental ultra violent war over the belief in The Hulk of The Smurfs.
Folk Art....common people having fun in a cruel world. My goodness!

 

Well PulP fIctiOn did have the gimp.

 

Gee, I just enjoy Bond films to be entertained.

 

I loved the intensity Daniel Craig brought to the Bond films. You guys probably already discussed this, but who do you think is going to be the next Bond?

 

How about Alex O'Loughlin from Hawaii Five-O? I heard he's done after this coming season.

 

As The Hermit rightly pointed out, the vast majority of the fans of these franchises are interested in being entertained, nothing more. There is a very small vocal minority that treats these franchises with obsessive religious reverence.

Of course, it isn't just movies. This kind of obsessive religious reverence from the extreme vocal minority can extend to just about anything, most notably, music, sports and politics. Politics is where it can and does get extremely dangerous as history has borne out.

 

No disrespect but the above commentary is a little deep for a movie series that's fictitious and just simple fun entertainment. I've enjoyed the series lately with Daniel Craig and will be interested to see who replaces him. If one has no interest in the Bond movie series that's cool. No one's forcing anyone to watch them .

 

I would have never thought of him as Bond, but I think he's actually a great choice. I've been watching Five-O a lot over the past month...

 

great f'ing movie.

 

Looks 60 in the new Luc Besson film Valerian.

 

I'd like to see an older, world-weary Bond.

 

What film is this?