News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Where Is James Bond? Trapped in an Ugly Stalemate with Am... by fatbird on Monday December 30, 2024 @04:41PM (#42553874)
OP is saying that the old Bonds (Connery, Lazenby, Moore) were suited to male tastes that haven't changed since, thus the attempt to modernize Bond is misguided at best.

What I'm saying is that my (male) tastes have modernized, that the male tastes that made old Bonds popular are tastes I find gross and unrealistic today, and I don't feel like I'm alone.

Re:Where Is James Bond? Trapped in an Ugly Stalemate with Am... by some_random on Monday December 30, 2024 @05:05PM (#42554053)
I think the specifics are less important than the general tastes in this case, men still want to be highly trusted international "spies" gallivanting across the world fighting evil with women lusting after them every stop of the way, it's just that the details as to what that looks like have changed.
Re:Where Is James Bond? Trapped in an Ugly Stalemate with Am... by fatbird on Monday December 30, 2024 @05:13PM (#42554123)
I think the Craig movies are the high point so far of the series for a variety of reasons. They still have the swaggering machismo of Bond, but with more varied and interesting consequences. Bond still gets laid, but it's not treated as a mid-mission diversion (or post-mission reward) to which Bond is entitled. Craig proved there's lots of modernizing that can be done without touching the core conceit of being a 00 agent.
Re:Where Is James Bond? Trapped in an Ugly Stalemate with Am... by altairprime on Monday December 30, 2024 @05:32PM (#42554277)
I agree! Whatever else they are from a critique standpoint, I absolutely love how they’ve modernized the Bond-the-slutty-sociopath role into something that’s actually plausibly what I would expect to find in today’s reality. They did beautiful work with that aspect of modernization and the Craig movies are most memorable of all of them to me now (though I will always hold a fondness in my heart for LASER BEAMS IN SPACE).

They did not do so well with modernizing any of Bond’s skin color, gender, or bedroom scene co-stars; nor did they portray him assaulting women for information like he would men.

Re:Where Is James Bond? Trapped in an Ugly Stalemate with Am... by vouaobrasil on Monday December 30, 2024 @04:45PM (#42553896)
I guess you're probably not.