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Can anyone properly pull off camp these days? I don't think I'd trust it not to be a smug post-ironic parody even if it set out with good intentions. There's a sort of naive earnestness necessary for camp that I don't think a $200 million movie is capable of pulling off. If the closest we can get is Barbie, I'm out. However, if they could manage to thread that needle, hell yeah. That goofy Craig Heineken ad just about pulled it off. While we're wishing, I would love some over-the-top cartoon production design, too. A little of that 60s mod flair to bring the franchise back full-circle, a dash of Danger: Diabolik if I'm getting greedy. I guess reading that, maybe what I really want is another OSS 117 flick 
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Small Strange Bird posted:Roman Coppola's CQ is a love letter to that era, and even features John Philip Law himself! The movie is one of my personal favorites, but the DVD also includes the film-within-the-film (as much of it as appeared, anyway), which is about 20 minutes of endearingly camp 1960s spy-fi that is spot-on at honoring its inspirations. It's been on my watchlist forever, but hearing about that bonus feature has finally given me the incentive to track it down. Unfortunately no Blu-ray, but at least it was cheap.
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Just give me more Dalton bond. Old man Bond starring a dashing debonaire grandpa.
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The Laserdisc commentaries are the fun ones. Ignore the click bait title/thumb and watch this series if you want to experience the best bits piecemeal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRY9rd_FQYc Essentially, the LD commentaries were a bit too "tell all" and were excised from later releases. A lot of the full commentaries have been uploaded to YouTube if you just want to experience them in full, though.
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Feb 12, 2025 13:01
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We should be so lucky. With that approach one of them might actually be good. Instead, we'll get a bad TV show and a bad movie series that peters out after 2 flicks before being rebooted again. Bond will be an actor who was carefully calculated to provide as much buzz as possible even if they're not right for the job, which means that they'll look at fan casting and Tom Hiddleston's phone is about to ring. The movie will chase MCU humor and grey action slop, and the TV series will focus on MI6 as an organization and chase the NCIS audience. They will offer $500m to the Russos to spearhead both. Neither will feel anything like Bond, but they will look very handsome and expensive. Marketing will insist that they are going back to the source material to channel Flemming's vision, by which they actually mean that they want to remove all compelling aspects of the series that the Broccolis brought to the table.
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Feb 21, 2025 17:12
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Snapchat just launched a “story” functionality, which is sort of “day in the life of me” told in a series of snapchats that expire after 24 hours. It has a very VIP quality about it, since invitation only. Getting invited into James Bond's Snapchat circle would be huge, and very buzzworthy and cool.
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Mar 26, 2025 09:12
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A rising trend we see with Millennials are the really extreme forms of experiential exercise like Tough Mudder (a sort of filthy triathalon), the Color Run and even things like Hot Power Yoga, veganism etc. Millennials will often post “N.B.D.” on their social media after doing it , as in No Big Deal, also known as the “humble brag”…..wondering if James Bond could get into that in some way….he’s super athletic, bendy, strong, intense….and it’s all NBD to him, of course.
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Mar 27, 2025 00:56
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Basebf555 posted:Chalamet would be terrible but I will say that for a long time I've been wanting them to cast a younger Bond. Someone in their mid-20s who can grow into the role and might actually have a shot at making five or six movies without looking like a decrepit old man. But a person in my late 30s, people in their mid-20s frighten me. That wouldn't do at all! A mid-20s Bond could be interesting, but they would really have to lean into it. Bond has generally been portrayed as hyper-condifent and near-infallible. A rookie Bond couldn't and shouldn't be either of these things, or if he is, his arrogance would have to be his Achilles heel. That would be cool to see play out, but I don't trust Amazon and Amy Pascal to pull it off.
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Mar 27, 2025 20:21
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:The Color Run is not an extreme form of exercise lol. It's literally a bunch of kids and non-serious runners doing the laziest 5k ever. How does it feel to be empirically more intelligent than a major Hollywood executive
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Mar 30, 2025 07:07
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Most of them are Amazon Prime creative executives
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I wish Dalton had gotten a full run, because I would have liked to see his comedic camp side come out in the inevitable silly later entries.
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Apr 15, 2025 16:44
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:"American James Bond" is Indiana Jones, full-stop. I would say the first three films, definitely. But unfortunately, the series has moved beyond that—the newer 2 films become weirdly obsessed with continuity and canon in a way that is antithetical to the James Bond model. Cross your fingers Amazon doesn't do the same thing with James Bond, because it's a huge loving bummer.
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Recently listened to an excellent in-depth and nuanced breakdown of the production of Quantum of Solace in connection to the writers strike on the podcast Going Rogue. Big recommend for anyone who hasn't dug into that story before and only has a surface level understanding.
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