I'd argue that Bond still represents the idea of Old Britain, a romanticized extension of England's old colonialism. It was touched on in Skyfall, and has been a major element of his character ever since Dr. No. Other elements may change, but that bit has been consistent.

Bond as a character is an extension of British colonialism, though. A romanticized representation of it, to be sure - but in many ways Bond is Old Britain. Saving the world for Queen and Country, in far off exotic places. He belongs to an old money, aristocratic family in Britain with a house crest and words of "The…

I didn't get that vibe from Die Another Day, but it's admittedly been a long time since I've seen it and I have no desire to rewatch it any time soon…

Tomorrow Never Dies is the greatest Brosnan Bond film and has the best car chase of all the 007 movies.

Bring back Halle Berry as Jinx for the spinoff of Die Another Day that was never made!

Roger Moore wasn't a great Bond though. I'd rather not return to his run, and his age is one of the main reasons films like Octopussy are as bad as they are.

Following up: the great Bond films happen when the Bond is younger.

If Craig does the film after Spectre, he will have been "Bond" since his announcement in 2005 to the release of the next film in 2017-2018. Either way, a decade's still a pretty long time. A Bond in his early 40s is one thing, but Elba would be Bonding in his late fifties. To that I say never! (say never again)

Assuming he'd do about a decade and a half of Bond movies, he'd be in his sixties by his final film.

Indeed. I like Idris Elba as much as everyone else here, but he's way too old. The last thing we want is another Octopussy or View To A Kill, where Bond is in his sixties. I want Bond to be in his prime, not as a pervier older man!

Thanks for replying.

I can assure you I am in fact not trolling, and that I am also quite knowledgeable about this stuff. Just that my conclusions regarding the VMAs would differ.

1) 60% of the VMA Video of the Year nominees are black. Nicki wasn't nominated for this award for other reasons. If it was skin color, then Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar, and Bruno Mars would've been snubbed too.

Honestly, that isn't very clear in the tweets. Blame the medium, I guess - Twitter's not great for nuance. But nominations are a fairly zero-sum game. Hard not to read that and not think she's saying "I deserve it, those 'other girls' don't."

The tweet quoted in the article pretty clearly calls out 'other girls' who get nominations. As probable 'other girls' Minaj was talking about, it's easy to see how Swift and Cyrus viewed that as Minaj saying they weren't deserving of their noms.

From my perspective, it did really look as if Minaj was off-base about her VMA criticisms. Anaconda didn't get nominated for Video of the Year, but it *did* get noms for Best Female Video and Best Hip-Hop Video; Nicki got a total of 4 nominations. Three of the five nominations for Video of the Year were by black…

Your comment was deleted, but upthread you said "And this guy keeps deleting my plugs for my reviews which just happen to review the same show, not fair play IMO". I don't know what you said that got deleted, but if it was in the vein of that comment, it's just disrespectful to spam your own to criticize the author.

Well, it is by definition spam. And that second paragraph is a wee bit entitled, honestly.

But-but- women aren't funny! /s

Even Sam Worthington would've been a better choice than Jai Courtney