For me, the spy movie genre has two pots: The James Bond, xXx, pot where it's about the next gen toys that shouldn't even exist, the flashy megalomaniac bad guys,the government offices who can actually make a decision and complete a task (the least realistic of it all) and the hero who swims around in all of it…

Rachal Dolezal takes issue with your premise.

It's like the Hollywood action movie genre finally got around to watching Day of the Jackal and realized that there was a way to film Europe for Americans that could capture all of the romance, history and mystery of that different culture and put it into the forefront of the movie's setting.

It's all about the Pluckster.

This is a pop culture web site?

This is exactly what happens when you try to improve the King James Bible.

But, you're married…?

They could call it something like "The Searching People"

I would add "…to hide their numbers" but that assumes they can count that high.

Um, Brando.

Judging by his waste line, Val Kilmer has been biting lots of things in the interim years.

Top Gun 2: Won Them At Army

That was my first thought too.

Q!

Don't worry. During the forthcoming apocalypse the only accepted currency for fuel or slave labor will be pop culture trivia.

Thanks for the link!

Counter-point: Diamonds Are Forever: "I'm afraid you've caught me with more than my hands up."

It worked because, until Craig, Moore was the only Brit to play Bond. Connery was Scot (of course), Lazenby was Aussie, Dalton was Welsh and Brosnan was Irish.
Getting a dapper Londoner gave the series a wonderful opportunity to play off that image with Moore.

C'mon. Edmund Black Adder as Q. Kim Basinger in all her early hotness. A cool, shocky, electronic war game.

My first Bond movie was Moonraker. I was 3.