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Hot take: 007 franchise was overrated proto-capeshit foisted on boomers

I say this as a lifelong fan. Now that I'm older, I realize ...
French spot
  04/08/22
I think this is pretty well known at this point.
Swashbuckling Locale
  04/08/22
They were just supposed to be fun movies, not as self-seriou...
Mustard startled famous landscape painting school cafeteria
  04/08/22
They varied, as does capeshit, but I hear you
French spot
  04/08/22
I learned a lot about gender relations from the rooftop pool...
Chocolate half-breed
  04/08/22
At least they had some restraint. No Moneypenny movie or...
Alcoholic circlehead
  04/08/22
This will probably happen
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  04/08/22
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Bateful purple gay wizard
  04/08/22
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Big-titted multi-colored shitlib
  04/08/22
fuck
rusted lodge
  04/08/22
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Swashbuckling Locale
  04/08/22
You can reduce any hero quest movie to capeshit, really. ...
Sepia halford dilemma
  04/08/22
IIRC Roger Moore skied while shooting a machine gun
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  08/15/25
much more creative than capeshit. better villains and settin...
Bateful purple gay wizard
  04/08/22
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at-the-ready fishy philosopher-king
  04/08/22
it's transparent middle aged boomer fantasy. but i miss the ...
Odious Clear Theatre
  04/08/22
What about Mission Impossible
brindle aromatic dingle berry
  04/08/22
its wish fulfillment. similar in ways to Entourage - imagine...
Geriatric market really tough guy
  04/08/22
It was actually better when they cranked them out like clock...
French spot
  04/08/22
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Geriatric market really tough guy
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Odious Clear Theatre
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Mustard startled famous landscape painting school cafeteria
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Swashbuckling Locale
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Misanthropic Boiling Water
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guy doing uninteresting things online
  08/15/25
I don't think anyone even holds it in all that high of regar...
cowshit
  08/15/25
By the 70s and 80s the mediocrity of the franchise was the p...
.....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,;
  08/15/25
why do they say it was all about the cold war when he doesn'...
cowshit
  08/15/25
1) you are pretty stupid overall and a terrible curator, see...
.....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,;
  08/15/25
that's just a thing that boomers say happened that probably ...
cowshit
  08/15/25


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Date: April 8th, 2022 9:55 AM
Author: French spot

I say this as a lifelong fan. Now that I'm older, I realize that maybe 4 or 5 of them are somewhat great, and the majority are very mediocre movies



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#44301713)



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Date: April 8th, 2022 9:55 AM
Author: Swashbuckling Locale

I think this is pretty well known at this point.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#44301714)



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Date: April 8th, 2022 9:59 AM
Author: Mustard startled famous landscape painting school cafeteria

They were just supposed to be fun movies, not as self-serious as capeshit movies.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#44301736)



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Date: April 8th, 2022 10:00 AM
Author: French spot

They varied, as does capeshit, but I hear you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#44301746)



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Date: April 8th, 2022 10:00 AM
Author: Chocolate half-breed

I learned a lot about gender relations from the rooftop pool scene in goldfinger

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#44301742)



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Date: April 8th, 2022 10:41 AM
Author: Alcoholic circlehead

At least they had some restraint.

No Moneypenny movie or Q origin story in some Bond cinematic univer$e

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#44301960)



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Date: April 8th, 2022 10:46 AM
Author: Mustard startled famous landscape painting school cafeteria

This will probably happen

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#44301991)



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Date: April 8th, 2022 10:58 AM
Author: Bateful purple gay wizard



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Date: April 8th, 2022 12:28 PM
Author: Big-titted multi-colored shitlib



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Date: April 8th, 2022 1:13 PM
Author: rusted lodge

fuck

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#44302916)



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Date: April 8th, 2022 1:14 PM
Author: Swashbuckling Locale



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#44302923)



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Date: April 8th, 2022 10:50 AM
Author: Sepia halford dilemma

You can reduce any hero quest movie to capeshit, really.

But the big difference is that 007 did everything he did without super powers. He was an ordinary athletic guy who kicked ass and fucked beautiful women. It was achievable for guys, there was nothing different about him except his job.

Far cry from idolizing a hero who has super powers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#44302015)



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Date: August 15th, 2025 9:14 PM
Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK


IIRC Roger Moore skied while shooting a machine gun

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#49189031)



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Date: April 8th, 2022 10:56 AM
Author: Bateful purple gay wizard

much more creative than capeshit. better villains and settings. more sex appeal, but still projected class

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#44302047)



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Date: April 8th, 2022 10:57 AM
Author: at-the-ready fishy philosopher-king



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#44302052)



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Date: April 8th, 2022 10:58 AM
Author: Odious Clear Theatre

it's transparent middle aged boomer fantasy. but i miss the days when the leading man could fuck and suck with impunity.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#44302059)



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Date: April 8th, 2022 11:12 AM
Author: brindle aromatic dingle berry

What about Mission Impossible

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#44302128)



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Date: April 8th, 2022 11:53 AM
Author: Geriatric market really tough guy

its wish fulfillment. similar in ways to Entourage - imagine if you were a rich A lister. Imagine if you were a cool spy with unlimited access to money, cars, women. Nothing wrong with that at all. Problem is they tried to turn it into an event that occurs every 4-5 years. Its just not that deep, nor should it be.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#44302335)



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Date: April 8th, 2022 11:55 AM
Author: French spot

It was actually better when they cranked them out like clockwork ever two years in the 70s and 80s. Slowing the pace down causes undeserved hype to build

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#44302353)



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Date: April 8th, 2022 11:58 AM
Author: Geriatric market really tough guy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#44302378)



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Date: April 8th, 2022 12:00 PM
Author: Bateful purple gay wizard



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#44302394)



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Date: April 8th, 2022 12:01 PM
Author: Odious Clear Theatre



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#44302401)



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Date: April 8th, 2022 12:27 PM
Author: Mustard startled famous landscape painting school cafeteria



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#44302564)



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Date: April 8th, 2022 1:14 PM
Author: Swashbuckling Locale



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#44302922)



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Date: April 8th, 2022 1:20 PM
Author: Misanthropic Boiling Water



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Date: August 15th, 2025 8:01 PM
Author: guy doing uninteresting things online



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#49188915)



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Date: August 15th, 2025 8:07 PM
Author: cowshit

I don't think anyone even holds it in all that high of regard. Millennials like Brosnan because of Goldeneye. I think since the game was so awesome that seeing the gunbarrel sequence brings all of us involuntary joy and allows us to forgive a Film being boring and shit. Anyway Film-wise it's almost like Star Wars in that the "original trilogy" holds up the best of any of them. I've never met any boomers who are huge fans and love Sean Connery or something. Remember, these Films weren't on video, they just existed for a month and then disappeared.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#49188923)



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Date: August 15th, 2025 8:08 PM
Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,;


By the 70s and 80s the mediocrity of the franchise was the primary framework in real time for all pop culture discussion of 007. The whole point was the Cold War.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#49188925)



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Date: August 15th, 2025 8:11 PM
Author: cowshit

why do they say it was all about the cold war when he doesn't really go up against actual Russians that often? seems like a liberal artist take.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#49188931)



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Date: August 15th, 2025 8:30 PM
Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,;


1) you are pretty stupid overall and a terrible curator, see eg: https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Cold_War#:~:text=Novels,to%20all%20out%20nuclear%20war.

2) the movies back off the direct Russian villian stuff after the early ones because they realize any foreign accent plus a spy with a dry cool wit and Superman capabilities and competence was all that was needed to provide the most comfortable escapism in times when people earnestly contemplated and schools ran drills to prepare for the possibility of a nuclear war.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#49188972)



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Date: August 15th, 2025 8:41 PM
Author: cowshit

that's just a thing that boomers say happened that probably stopped by like 1969. Also most of the Films are adaptations of Books. They just don't have a lot of Russian villains outside of SMERSH.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5078908&forum_id=2Reputation#49188983)