While Disney’s decision on this is certainly commendable, there are a few other factors in play here, chief among them Steven Spielberg. Disney is clearly weighing the cost of pissing him off against the money they stand to lose from those countries - money they reckoned they could probably make back out of a…

I think there’s actually 2 kinds of self-indulgent fantasies: the “you’re awesome in every way” power fantasy, and the “poor little ‘ol you” self-pitying fantasy.

That’s only been true in the Craig era. In the 20 movies prior, Bond was perhaps the most aspirational figure in movie history. He is the purest distillation of every lizard-brain male fantasy, from the sexual promiscuity to the 5-star luxury to the one-liners after killing a bad guy. To this day, people drag the…

“There should be other, better roles for women” is the only good argument for why Bond should be a man.

You got Jeremy Irons to do a Random Roles and you didn’t ask him about Dungeons & Dragons?

Make it with FemShep, you cowards.

Would be nice if it followed up on 2049's plot threads about a replicant rebellion.

Lim Kay Siu’s surname is Lim. He’s Singaporean Chinese.

the difference between scenes directed by the project’s eventual helmer, Cate Shortland, and those handled by second-unit crews is obvious.

At 49, John Cho is too old to play Spike, but since Asian don’t raisin, he can pass for a good 10-15 years younger. Which is still older than the character’s canonical 27, but that’s just anime’s obsession with youth. I think Spike is better played by someone who can do grizzled and world-weary.

John Cena was not “forced to speed-learn Mandarin.” He’s been learning it since 2016.

I think the unnecessity of Nomi was more egregious, especially given her screentime and the fact that she was so publicized beforehand.

I’ve said this many times, but each of Brosnan’s films had a central idea at its core that tried to do something new and cool within the Bond formula:

I think the villain was fine. He was nicely slimy, which is all a good movie villain needs to be. And “performative do-gooder billionaire villain” is positively timely, these days.

It still boggles me that CR is the movie everyone loved and immediately wanted something completely tonally opposite to follow it.

I mean, Bond has done fine battling white male villains who are either generic megalomaniacs with rule/destroy-the-world motivations or “terrorists” of indeterminate national/political affiliation. Not like he’s ever tried to annex the Falkland Islands or anything.

I feel like this “Bond is suddenly too old now” criticism is overblown. It’s more like Bond is still the depressed and broken man he was at the end of CR, the need for revenge that drove him in QoS has burnt out, his less-than-100% physical skills are a symptom of that, and the movie is about him finding a new…

Agreed that criticisms of QoS’s plot are overblown. It’s mostly logical, complicated only by the fact that Bond makes some wildly reckless decisions. (This girl just tried to kill me! Clearly she’s connected to the villain somehow. Wait, the villain’s trying to kill her now? Alright, I’ll just go rescue her then.)

I stand corrected. Beyond the limits of American/UK films, there are plenty of longer-running and more prolific film series than Bond. Kwan Tak-Hing was the original Wong Fei-Hung in 77 movies since 1949.

As the single longest-running film series in history, I think it’s important to acknowledge that it’s also the one with the least critical consensus. You’ll hear From Russia with Love and Goldfinger widely cited as the best, but one has that awful gypsy camp scene and one has an infamously nonsensical plot (as well as…