Amazon disarms James Bond

[Bush Master]

Where does it end?

[DirtyDolph]

I came of age with Bond, myself.  He taught an entire generation of men to drink too much, smoke too much, drive too fast, and treat women badly.

Same for me, and I couldn't have asked for a better male role model!

Jokes aside, happy I trashed my Amazon subscription long ago. Maybe this kind of ridiculous virtue signaling will wake some people up to the fact convenience isn't the end all be all and they'll follow suit.

[Kurokage]

Amazon appears to be doing a U-turn on it's changes...

https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/c...40353.html

Amazon Prime Video quietly restores James Bond artwork to originals

[UltraBudgie]

Amazon appears to be doing a U-turn on it's changes...

https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/c...40353.html

Hmm:

The streamer quietly restored the original artwork, including the guns, by Monday following the widespread backlash.

So on the previous page of the thread I posted a link showing they'd restored the posters, but were still cropping out the guns, by zooming instead of editing the artwork. This says they've made the guns visible again? Can anyone confirm?

Some speculated that the initial alterations might have been a deliberate marketing ploy to generate online discussion about the franchise.

This sounds like spin. We're mostly just mocking Amazon, right?

[Roma]

Roger is still my all time favorite Bond. Many would disagree, but TMWTGG is by far my favorite Bond movie of all time. Moonraker and Live and Let Die are pretty up there too. 

My personal order goes:

1. Roger Moore
   
2. Timothy Dalton
   
3. Pierce Brosnan
   
4. George Lazenby
   
5. Daniel Craig
   
6. Sean Connery
   
7. Barry Nelson
   

Although I'm not sure that last one counts. That TV movie with American CIA agent "Jimmy Bond" really pissed Fleming off. 

Wanna hear something crazy? My favorite Connery film is Never Say Never Again and it's not even an official Bond flick. Childhood me loved its aesthetic apparently, and now it's nostalgia. Connery is still my least favorite Bond, which I know is blasphemy to some. 

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Man with the Golden Gun is my 2nd fav Bond film.  My first is On Her Majesty's Secret Service.  

Interesting order you have there.  Everyone is entitled to their opinions as George Lazenby is my favorite (and many would disagree).  Timothy Dalton is underrated and the victim of bad writing IMO.

Never Say Never Again was a remake of Thunderball.  Can anyone else name the two other Bond films that were loosely remade?

[Roma]

Interesting, I never considered A View to a Kill as a remake.   To me it was more of the same over the top action and not much substance we endured after Ian Flemming's death.  (ie: no good source material)

The two loose remakes I'm thinking of both starred Daniel Craig.  The first was Casino Royale.  You can make a case that this doesn't count since the David Niven version was a comedy.

The second was No Time to Die which to me was a loose remake of Oh Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Fun fact: they wanted to reshoot the car stunt (you know the one) in Man with the Golden Gun and the driver flat out refused to do it again.

[argentus]

The Spy Who Loved Me for sure, but I'm not sure about the second. Maybe A View To A Kill. It's basically the same plot as Goldfinger.

Lazenby is incredibly underrated. More fitting of the role too considering he conned his way into the job. Maybe con is a strong word, but it was definitely finesse.

As far as Dalton is concerned, License to Kill was probably his best out of the two. Daylights wasn't terrible, with the exception of Joe Don Baker. Although I really liked him later on as Jack Wade.

The Spy Who Loved Me premiered in London.   The U.S. 'premiere' was in Hollywood, CA in August of 1977.   I had just left home and driven 350 miles give or take a few diversions and landed in a horrible, but educational dive on N. Cherokee just off Hollywood Blvd.    Handy walking distance to Church's Chicken, the Pussycat Theater,  Fredrick's of Hollywood, and The Egyptian Theatre, where I got a job as an usher/cashier/ticketeer/rubber overbaked hot dog vendor and where The Spy Who Loved Me premiered.   It was a red-carpet event.   Himself wasn't there, but Barbara Bach (swoooon) and Richard Kiel were.   They were who I wanted to see most of all anyway.   Didn't get to meet them.   Didn't get to get near them. 

The entourage brought their own ushers.  Cheeky bastards.   Seven limos stayed parked out front, some double-parked, mostly choking up the Hollywood Blvd traffic.    A good time was had by all.   I had been in California for three weeks.   It was home for a while. 

I  think it is such a limp and flaccid move of Amazon to edit out the guns on the posters.   I think they will find that this move won't attract people who they thought might try out 007, but will only disgust those who already are Bond fans.   This would be like making George Clooney the spokesperson for Miller Beer.

[UltraBudgie]

Thnx Amazon!

[Raptured]

Yeah guys.  I'm really amped with Villeneuve on board

[putnam6]

I never go to the cinema anymore.
Don't buy new films through streaming.
Turn off TV series at the slightest hint of woke and never watch them again.

I like to go back and watch movies from before the early 2010s - so much better.
Some rewatches, some I have not seen before.

Sometimes shows and movies will come around that go against the woke trend , and I will eventually find out about them and watch them.

But I refuse to be lectured to as part of my down time entertainment.

The mediorce pre 2010 movies are better than most of the award winners coming out of Hollywood these days.

But still will watch new movies it's just not as many as before

LOL, my daughters know my tastes well, we talk movies a good bit, they know I'd like The Revenant and they were right  but yes Id mostly rather watch the older movies too