Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Was it Time for James Bond to Die?

I've heard that James Bond (SPOILER ALERT) dies at the end of the new Bond film, No Time to Die. From what I have heard about this movie, whether you liked the plot or the acting or any of it, there is no disputing this was not the James Bond Ian Fleming created in 1952.

Nope, he was not politically correct, not up to today's standards, and even Sean Connery's personal life was known to be a bit controversial. But because someone somewhere decided to bring Bond up to date instead of creating a new spy franchise, seems lazy to me, there was no way he could survive that makeover. No doubt Connery would have been horrified and had something colorful to say about it. 

James Bond no longer smoking, no longer a chauvinist, womanizing, sexy, spy, settled down with one woman with a child? For those of us who will always consider Sean Connery to be the real 007, this one had been well, essentially neutered.

Seems to me the ending of this film was fitting because the original James Bond would not have wanted to live that way and pretty sure I wouldn't want to watch him that way either.


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