I’m having a standalone day today. Nothing I do today is going to be canon going forward. Gonna get weird!

So is Lentulus Batiatus

I really want to meet someone who cared so much about Cara Dune as a character that they’d foresake a Rangers of the New Republic series if it didn’t have her in it. And I don’t mean a Nazi who likes the character because of their reactionary political fealty to Gina Carano. I mean someone who legitimately believes…

Still never understood why Raimi agreed to include Venom — a character he clearly had no interest in. I understand he was getting heavy pressure from the studio, but he had just delivered them back to back blockbuster home runs. I find it hard to believe they would have fired him after that.

I think a lifetime of working as an editor has trained the hairs on my arms and back of my neck to stand up whenever I hear off-camera punch-up. When it’s not some stupid goofy aside, it’s usually a character re-iterating the stakes or goal of the characters for everyone who’s been too busy watching their phones in…

I would chalk that up as it being a much weirder film than you would assume. It’s bro-ish and stupid enough to satisfy juveniles but has a streak of pure strangeness that at a glance, makes one wonder if there isn’t more depth to it?

Casino Royale is a strong contender for the best-made James Bond movie, but “best-made” isn’t really what I’m looking for in a Bond film, which is why I’m team Roger Moore all the way (The Spy Who Loved Me will probably always be my GOAT Bond film, personally).

I’ve always thought that they should explore more of the “Double-O” universe. It’s canon that Bond is just one of the agents with a license to kill, but in nearly 50 years of movies we’ve rarely seen any of the others. So if I were king of the universe, their next movie would focus on 008 or 009 - who can be anyone…

guy punches hole in wall, puts creepy doll in with note, makes the news.

Holy shit, OG James Bond was Sterling Archer.

Here’s my review of the first five episodes:

Why shouldn’t women actors have a chance to deeply hate playing James Bond as much as Daniel Craig did?

Either you have her behave exactly like the male Bonds—a womanizing, martini-drinking, tuxedo-wearing, quip-happy assassin—which...could be kind of fun, but a lot of people would just interpret it as parody. Or you completely rewrite the character, in which case the best possible audience reaction would probably be…

That’s basically my take on the “why can’t a woman be Bond?” discourse. Why would a woman want to be Bond? He’s kind of a sad Cold War relic whose (toxic? depends on the interpretation) masculinity is pretty central to the character.

i think 10 years ago that could have been cool, but the ship has sailed. he’d be over 50 by the time it gets going.

I know I would much rather see something like Black Panther which is by and about POC that tells stories from their perspective than “It’s James Bond but he’s [record scratch] a Lady!?”

That first episode, WOW! It stays with you. Was that rotoscope animation? I was reminded of Bakshi’s work.

I kinda like the notion that the main timeline has enjoyed a sort of quantum immortality, wherein it just happens that sheer luck kept the universe balanced on the knife’s edge.

Brosnan was awesome, but he really made only one really good Bond flick. Maybe it is best to stretch them out some.

Not only did Covid artificially extend his Bond tenure, there was four years between Quantum and Skyfall, as well as four years between Spectre and the original release of No Time To Die.