I remember my childhood friend her older brother had the James bond Nintendo game and they played it all the time and were obsessed with wall mining and headshots then after that it felt like the james bond franchise was dead because I never met or heard of anyone who cared about James bond since.
I have a (millennial) friend who is obsessed with James Bond. He’s seen every movie, many of them multiple times, and I think he’s also read all the books. We haven’t spoken in a year.
He’s a good guy and quite a character. He’s been one of my closest friends for over twenty years. I radicalized into a Marxist a few years ago but he hasn’t. He’s also trans and I’ve heard that he’s using she/her pronouns but he hasn’t actually told me this so I don’t know for sure. But he’s also pretty rich and has admitted that while capitalism sucks, he can’t support communism because it means concentration camps for everyone (in his mind).
That kind of spy movie is extinct now because it needed the Cold War as a backdrop. James Bond was really the only franchise that survived to this day, and it turned into much more of generic action thriller.
I don't think the series ever truly tried to adapt to modern audiences - Goldeneye did some winking to the audience about how dated the premise was after history ended and Casino Royale rode the ”gritty and realistic shaky cam” coattails of Bourne, but really it was the same it ever was.
Bond is a nostalgia act and the people who remember the days of Connery and Moore when the franchise was at its cultural peak are getting very old. Last year was the 60th anniversary of Dr. No, and I don't remember that being a big deal in the media at all. When Skyfall came out, the 50th anniversary got a lot more press, and all of this tells me the marketing ghouls don't feel like James Bond is worth the money to advertise.
I remember watching the terrible James Bond Jr. cartoon as a kid, and that was just a sad attempt at making a generic 90s cartoon with the characters, real ”fellow kids” energy and of course it was a flop. Unironically, I think Goldeneye on the N64 is more memorable to anyone under like 50 than any of the movies that have been released since the 90s.
I remember my childhood friend her older brother had the James bond Nintendo game and they played it all the time and were obsessed with wall mining and headshots then after that it felt like the james bond franchise was dead because I never met or heard of anyone who cared about James bond since.
I have a (millennial) friend who is obsessed with James Bond. He’s seen every movie, many of them multiple times, and I think he’s also read all the books. We haven’t spoken in a year.
Sounds like a good year lol.
He’s a good guy and quite a character. He’s been one of my closest friends for over twenty years. I radicalized into a Marxist a few years ago but he hasn’t. He’s also trans and I’ve heard that he’s using she/her pronouns but he hasn’t actually told me this so I don’t know for sure. But he’s also pretty rich and has admitted that while capitalism sucks, he can’t support communism because it means concentration camps for everyone (in his mind).
That kind of spy movie is extinct now because it needed the Cold War as a backdrop. James Bond was really the only franchise that survived to this day, and it turned into much more of generic action thriller.
I don't think the series ever truly tried to adapt to modern audiences - Goldeneye did some winking to the audience about how dated the premise was after history ended and Casino Royale rode the ”gritty and realistic shaky cam” coattails of Bourne, but really it was the same it ever was.
Bond is a nostalgia act and the people who remember the days of Connery and Moore when the franchise was at its cultural peak are getting very old. Last year was the 60th anniversary of Dr. No, and I don't remember that being a big deal in the media at all. When Skyfall came out, the 50th anniversary got a lot more press, and all of this tells me the marketing ghouls don't feel like James Bond is worth the money to advertise.
I remember watching the terrible James Bond Jr. cartoon as a kid, and that was just a sad attempt at making a generic 90s cartoon with the characters, real ”fellow kids” energy and of course it was a flop. Unironically, I think Goldeneye on the N64 is more memorable to anyone under like 50 than any of the movies that have been released since the 90s.
I think the N64 GoldenEye game and Austin Powers are more memorable lmao