Now that's just nonsense. Even the harshest reviewer on Metacritic seemed to think the reason it deserved a 40/100 was just because it wasn't as great as the top spy movies we've had in the last 20 years.
There’s some nice early-60s period production design and the whole thing moves along smoothly, if unhurriedly. But it never delivers anything like the punch of Tom Cruise’s M:I adventures, nor the wit and distinctiveness of 007.
I watched 2 minutes of it and it was really ultra-serious and nothing like the TV show. Sorry, but after JJ Trek, I'm done with millenials rebooting my culture just so they can ass-rape it.
Not gonna bother going through that fucking legion of comments because I think I know what it's gonna contain:
An unbearably smug circlejerk over how you shouldn't watch James Bond without first acknowledging the franchise's prahblemaaatic elements, combined with an equally smug counterjerk where the SRDines do enough penance to make themselves feel good about watching the movies, sort of like that time the MDEtards went into overdrive trying to explain why watching the majority-black NFL isn't race treason.
Someone like fallouttubes or MizzMoose acting like a retard.
A few Dramaposters who jumped the fence.
Did I miss anything? Anyway, I think Idris could do it. He'd probably look the part for at least two or three films, provided they work on a fast schedule. And it's time for Craig's Bond to retire. I refuse to recognize as canon any sequel where his new lady-love gets killed off.
This whole thing kind of reminds me of the female doctor stuff. There's nothing inherent to bond's character that says he has to be a white guy, same as there's nothing in the doctor's character that says they have to be male.
One of the key motifs of the whole franchise is that Bond is a relic of British imperialism.
He's fighting xenophobic caricatures of villains that ceased being a real-world threat decades ago in most of the films. How much more on the nose does this message need to be for them to get it?
Yeah and they say it's not a big deal because being white was never a key feature of the character. How much would you bet that these are the same people who cheered on Elba in The Dark Tower where the character was actually implicitly white and it was a big part of the story (in the books)?
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1 SnapshillBot 2018-08-13
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1 CordialCalamity 2018-08-13
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1 rnjbond 2018-08-13
After Man from UNCLE and Mission Impossible, I would love to see Henry Cavill as Bond.
Also, a non-white Bond is totally cool too.
1 carthoris26 2018-08-13
Man from UNCLE was incredible, I don't know why it was received so poorly.
1 BoringNormalGuy 2018-08-13
Too many "cut backs" to show what was going on; should've just trusted the audience.
1 Matthew94 2018-08-13
Because it was trash.
1 carthoris26 2018-08-13
Now that's just nonsense. Even the harshest reviewer on Metacritic seemed to think the reason it deserved a 40/100 was just because it wasn't as great as the top spy movies we've had in the last 20 years.
1 Redactor0 2018-08-13
I watched 2 minutes of it and it was really ultra-serious and nothing like the TV show. Sorry, but after JJ Trek, I'm done with millenials rebooting my culture just so they can ass-rape it.
1 IFuckedZoeQuinn 2018-08-13
Cultural appropriation?
1 andrew2209 2018-08-13
Daily Mail would have a field day with this
1 voicelesshoodwinker 2018-08-13
They already did..lol
1 cruelandusual 2018-08-13
If Batwoman must be played by a Jewish lesbian, then Bond must be played by a white misogynist.
1 munstersthompson 2018-08-13
what have you got against trans people tho?
1 I_DRINK_TO_FORGET 2018-08-13
They are disgusting and unfuckable.
1 grep_var_log 2018-08-13
Hopefully they'll do another scene where Bond tapes his eyes all slanty so he pretends to be Asian again.
1 Burnnoticelover 2018-08-13
Finally, someone else wants Cavill.
1 YungCamus 2018-08-13
U.N.C.L.E was really really good
1 schoolboystirner 2018-08-13
As long as Idris Elba acts like he was written by an erotic fiction writer from the 50's the movie would be authentic.
1 Denny_Craine 2018-08-13
Personally I'd fully support a female James Bond if they retained the character's womanizing misogyny and alcoholism.
A lesbian Bond who drinks too much and treats women like dumb disposable sex objects would actually be kinda interesting
1 TherapyFortheRapy 2018-08-13
Fuck a hundred men you barely remember? Totally empowered woman!
Fuck a hundred women you barely remember? Misogynistic asshole who sees women as disposable sex objects.
1 Denny_Craine 2018-08-13
...right
1 Yiin 2018-08-13
Try to at least keep your angerposts relevant.
1 LightUmbra 2018-08-13
Ok sweaty
1 choriposting 2018-08-13
It's such a shame that the doctor botched your abortion.
1 GayLordMcMuffins 2018-08-13
Hush child, maybe one day you too will feel the warm embrace of another human bean.
1 dogDroolsCatsRules 2018-08-13
I would totally go watch that.
1 skivian 2018-08-13
Nah, I want a lady Bond and Bond dudes with names like Andy Phucter or Clint Toris
1 Denny_Craine 2018-08-13
Art Areola
1 dootwiththesickness 2018-08-13
Not gonna bother going through that fucking legion of comments because I think I know what it's gonna contain:
An unbearably smug circlejerk over how you shouldn't watch James Bond without first acknowledging the franchise's prahblemaaatic elements, combined with an equally smug counterjerk where the SRDines do enough penance to make themselves feel good about watching the movies, sort of like that time the MDEtards went into overdrive trying to explain why watching the majority-black NFL isn't race treason.
Someone like fallouttubes or MizzMoose acting like a retard.
A few Dramaposters who jumped the fence.
Did I miss anything? Anyway, I think Idris could do it. He'd probably look the part for at least two or three films, provided they work on a fast schedule. And it's time for Craig's Bond to retire. I refuse to recognize as canon any sequel where his new lady-love gets killed off.
1 AlwaysFeral 2018-08-13
Timothy Dalton was my favorite Bond.
1 ____________13 2018-08-13
One of the key motifs of the whole franchise is that Bond is a relic of British imperialism.
He's fighting xenophobic caricatures of villains that ceased being a real-world threat decades ago in most of the films. How much more on the nose does this message need to be for them to get it?
Oh right, they're a Doctor Who fan...
1 captainpriapism 2018-08-13
i like that srdines deny its a shoehorned in pc idea
people only ever said idris elba for bond because he was the only black actor they knew, its not like he suits the character
1 Phyloss 2018-08-13
Yeah and they say it's not a big deal because being white was never a key feature of the character. How much would you bet that these are the same people who cheered on Elba in The Dark Tower where the character was actually implicitly white and it was a big part of the story (in the books)?
1 captainpriapism 2018-08-13
how else are they going to pretend to be progressive? do things irl? fat chance
1 SlavophilesAnonymous 2018-08-13
Kevin Hart for Bond
Ice Cube for Bond
The Rock for Bond
1 captainpriapism 2018-08-13
well the first black guy that wasnt a stand up comedian
and the rock isnt black is he
tbh i have no idea what race he is he could very well be black
1 SlavophilesAnonymous 2018-08-13
The Rock is half Samoan, half Black Nova Scotian (descendants of the blacks the British freed to help them fight the Revolutionary War).
1 Redactor0 2018-08-13
Sorry if we don't all "study" black actors each night, then look down at what we sprayed out and suddenly feel a tinge of guilt and remorse.
1 captainpriapism 2018-08-13
lol yeah its clearly on my mind
1 mohkohnsepicgun 2018-08-13
At least he's British.
God help us if they ever cast another fucking Australian in the role.
1 bonerdude420 2018-08-13
Steve Irwin could have been a good bond
1 mohkohnsepicgun 2018-08-13
Steve Irwin fucked koalas.
1 mohkohnsepicgun 2018-08-13
No.
No, no no nononononono.
James Bond must be from places I approve of.