13 hours ago, Hummin said:

No Time to Die was okay, much like the rest of the Bond films. Some good stunts, but nothing truly spectacular.

I stopped watching those films a long time ago.

They're all the same.

How many sequels can you watch?

Watch something else.

It is Time to Die, for this franchise to die.

5 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

Excellent actress she may be, but as the boss of Bond she was about as convincing as a Nigerian Prince asking for your bank account number. Or a Bond with a Nokia.

Yes, clearly it is fiction, but there has to be some believability, and the novels clearly were well written and believable to the extent that generations of men did model themselves on Bond. To this day parts of the manosphere tell you to act like Bond. When he's now as believable as Peter Rabbit.

Judi Dench is one of the better actresses of our time. If you look at the leaders before her, they weren't calling Bond out, which should have been a no brainer for his actions, but before, Bond was supposed to be a player, which was what they had in mind before, a hero to some , jerk to others.

Only a misogynist would model themselves after Bond, as he's the worse type of "man" we have. This is why they wrote a stronger actress in with Dench. Manosphere aren't men but little boys who were never taught respect for women, and see them as objects.

2 hours ago, Wingate said:

The Bond franchise happens to be fiction, right from the start. Get it? Fiction, not reality.

Yes, dear, we all get that Bond is fiction, however, fiction, at least good fiction, has to be believable. Unfortunately, Bond now has become as a believable as your posts, ie not very much. A Nokia phone. I mean really.

2 hours ago, Wingate said:

but it broadened the films' appeal to a wider audience, especially women

Well, Thunderball still made more money when adjusted for inflation, but clearly women were short-changed with Daniel Craig. As stated, his looks and cold fish persona, hardly made for good sex scenes.

In the final analysis the makers of Bond have sold out Bond to Nokia, Vaio, BMW and all the other companies they beg product placement money from. And of course literally as Bond was actually sold to Amazon. They have pandered to the woke, PC brigade, like yourself, and yes, that has put that crowd on the seats in the short term, but it will surely spell the end of Bond, as a believable character in the long term. He's become ludicrous now.

Edited July 29Jul 29 by Cameroni

3 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

I stopped watching those films a long time ago.

They're all the same.

How many sequels can you watch?

Watch something else.

It is Time to Die, for this franchise to die.

There is that of course, it's a stale formula done to death. Hard to flog that same dead horse over and over again and still come out tops. They give it a good go, but clearly the edges are fraying.

2 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Only the Craig Bond movies were interesting. The earlier ones were really too silly to take seriously, especially after Goldfinger. Hard to believe the franchise lasted as long as it did.

I find Goldfinger much more believable than Skyfall. Judi Dench as Bond's boss? A Nokia phone? A guy hacking into MI6 whilst imprisoned? I mean Skyfall is ludicrous.

3 hours ago, JonnyF said:

No Time To Die was OK.

The Woke nonsense has even infected the game now though. 007 First Light has a rude/bossy Asian woman as M, a rude/bossy black woman as Moneypenny and Bond's Drill instructor is rude, patronizing and black. In the cut scenes they all sneer at Bond like he is some type of retard. All the old silly stuffy characters are white. Obviously.

Hardly a white face in the Q-lab. Maybe 90% non white at a guess.

It's worse than the adverts on ITV. 😄

I thought there was supposed to be equal representation of races? Not almost complete erasure of white people. 😄

Looking forward to a black Lesbian Bond and her furry trans partner to finish off the franchise for good. 😄

The films are passable light entertainment, but really the PC thuggery rammed down your throat, the product placement shamelessness, it's all a bit much. They try too hard.

What is odd, is all the black people in Bond, when the UK has far more Indians and Pakistanis and East Europeans? Where are the Indians and East Europeans in Bond? Looking at the films they don't exist. Clearly, putting in black people is a much surer bet to assuage your PC cravings.

4 hours ago, JonnyF said:

The Woke nonsense has even infected the game now though. 007 First Light has a rude/bossy Asian woman as M, a rude/bossy black woman as Moneypenny and Bond's Drill instructor is rude, patronizing and black. In the cut scenes they all sneer at Bond like he is some type of retard. All the old silly stuffy characters are white. Obviously.

Who cares what all these fictional human beings are doing?

I always found most of these background characters annoying and these silly subplots just distracting from the main action.

Was a perfect time to go take a dump when these useless characters were on screen.

Don't let them brainwash you.

Just enjoy the action.

3 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

Who cares what all these fictional human beings are doing?

I always found most of these background characters annoying and these silly subplots just distracting from the main action.

Was a perfect time to go take a dump when these useless characters were on screen.

Don't let them brainwash you.

Just enjoy the action.

True. It's like looking up to a real character like the Kardashians and seeing them as heroes also.

Edited July 29Jul 29 by fredwiggy

4 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

Manosphere aren't men but little boys who were never taught respect for women, and see them as objects.

Have you been binge watching chick flicks again?

3 minutes ago, impulse said:

Have you been binge watching chick flicks again?

I watch all good movies. Having respect for women is what a man's supposed to have ingrained since birth.

47 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

I watch all good movies. Having respect for women is what a man's supposed to have ingrained since birth.

Since birth? Then he sees Bonnie Blue I guess.

The main point is who will they take as the new Bond and will he be shown as a gay,woke, cofunder environmentalist ?

33 minutes ago, SingAPorn said:

The main point is who will they take as the new Bond and will he be shown as a gay,woke, cofunder environmentalist ?

Looks like Callum Turner, an adolescent looking Boy Wonder is the front runner. If he does get the Bond gig, it will be like a 15 year old playing Bond.

Cameroni thinks everything is real including his P2P relationships

Edited July 29Jul 29 by Celsius

1 minute ago, Celsius said:

Cameroni thinks everything is real including his P2P relationships

I have my doubts about your missus' hair.

7 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

I have my doubts about your missus' hair.

18 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

I have my doubts about your missus' hair.

As long as main bush is intact

Hi

33 minutes ago, Celsius said:

As long as main bush is intact

Ah, a hirsute lover. Never got that fetish, I like it smooth.

2 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

Ah, a hirsute lover. Never got that fetish, I like it smooth.

My wife did this to me when I met her. Apparently all the girls at work were raving about it. I told her I'm not touching it until you grow it back. She was begging me because she stacked up months of coupons from GoWabi.

Ridiculous habit.

15 minutes ago, Celsius said:

My wife did this to me when I met her. Apparently all the girls at work were raving about it. I told her I'm not touching it until you grow it back. She was begging me because she stacked up months of coupons from GoWabi.

Ridiculous habit.

I'm looking for a good laser place. To reduce the rash incidences.

15 hours ago, save the frogs said:

I stopped watching those films a long time ago.

They're all the same.

How many sequels can you watch?

Watch something else.

It is Time to Die, for this franchise to die.

The Bourne movies were better.

So, this time you got hooked on a Nokia phone! Unbelievable! What´s next? Tom Hanks using Borax at the laundromat, in episode 6 of next TV show?

Edited July 30Jul 30 by Gottfrid

On 7/28/2026 at 9:38 PM, Cameroni said:

I mean, that was just cynical, wasn't it, make James Bond carry a Nokia phone. No matter how hard up the UK, is we all know never in a million years would the UK stoop so low and issue its secret agents with Nokia phones. It ruins the whole illusion, and you realize James Bond is not real, nothing in it is real. Even in these hard times the UK would at least spring for a Samsung A54 for Bond. Even a used one would be better than a Nokia.

Did they even have Samsung A54's when that movie was made?

It all depends on which phone company offers to pay the most to feature their product in the movie.

I remember one where an Ericsson was used.

34 minutes ago, phetphet said:

Did they even have Samsung A54's when that movie was made?

It all depends on which phone company offers to pay the most to feature their product in the movie.

I remember one where an Ericsson was used.

Exactly, like ads during the Superbowl and other major events. Some items are blocked out for the same reasons. You feature things, it's advertisement and more profits for them. Movies are another huge modem for advertisement. TV you can skip the ads, but going to movies you sit and watch, or hear the ads used.

On 7/28/2026 at 9:41 PM, blaze master said:

Ahhhh but that Nokia phone has a built in laser and bunker busters.

They also came up with the most money for the advertising.

On 7/28/2026 at 7:53 PM, Cameroni said:

So, as you no doubt know, Netflix has released a slew of the Daniel Craig Bond movies. Obviously I could tell immediately back when Craig first came out that he'd be the worst Bond there ever was, so I gave his films a miss at the time. Quite a mistake as some of the films are not bad. But I noticed one shocking detail, James Bond is now issued with a Nokia phone. A Nokia phone! I mean, clearly Britain has hit hard times, but issuing their top secret agent a Nokia phone? I started feeling sorry for poor James. Then I noticed his boss was a rather unattractive woman, Judi Dench, his stand-in, 007 part deux so to speak, was a black woman. As was Moneypenny. The question is really, if Daniel Craig feels sorry for himself, for starring in the most pc-infested, product placement cursed Bond films ever? Poor James Bond.

A Nokia phone! I mean, clearly Britain has hit hard times, but issuing their top secret agent a Nokia phone? I started feeling sorry for poor James.

TBH I would have felt sorry, very sorry for James Bond, if they had issued an iPhone!

On 7/28/2026 at 9:23 PM, Cameroni said:

So, as you no doubt know, Netflix has released a slew of the Daniel Craig Bond movies. Obviously I could tell immediately back when Craig first came out that he'd be the worst Bond there ever was, so I gave his films a miss at the time. Quite a mistake as some of the films are not bad. But I noticed one shocking detail, James Bond is now issued with a Nokia phone. A Nokia phone! I mean, clearly Britain has hit hard times, but issuing their top secret agent a Nokia phone? I started feeling sorry for poor James. Then I noticed his boss was a rather unattractive woman, Judi Dench, his stand-in, 007 part deux so to speak, was a black woman. As was Moneypenny. The question is really, if Daniel Craig feels sorry for himself, for starring in the most pc-infested, product placement cursed Bond films ever? Poor James Bond.

Product placement is always a thing in movies, but who really pays attention? I know I didn't. Nokia phone? Who is paying attention to the phone when the movies usually have cute girls?

22 minutes ago, jas007 said:

Product placement is always a thing in movies, but who really pays attention? I know I didn't. Nokia phone? Who is paying attention to the phone when the movies usually have cute girls?

22 minutes ago, jas007 said:

Product placement is always a thing in movies, but who really pays attention? I know I didn't. Nokia phone? Who is paying attention to the phone when the movies usually have cute girls?

If it slips by unnoticed it's no big deal, but in Skyfall it is so obvious and in your face, it's hard to miss. Plus a Nokia phone is just taking the p%^&. Or MI6 using Vaio computers. And now the Bond movies don't have "cute girls" anymore, the girls are all "strong wimmin" and greater killing machines than Bond. Equality see? Simples.

14 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

If it slips by unnoticed it's no big deal, but in Skyfall it is so obvious and in your face, it's hard to miss. Plus a Nokia phone is just taking the p%^&. Or MI6 using Vaio computers. And now the Bond movies don't have "cute girls" anymore, the girls are all "strong wimmin" and greater killing machines than Bond. Equality see? Simples.

I may be missing one or two of the latest Bond movies. Casino Royale was good, I thought. They went downhill from there.

Just now, jas007 said:

I may be missing one or two of the latest Bond movies. Casino Royale was good, I thought. They went downhill from there.

It's really a bizarre and strange experience watching these Bond movies. The action scenes are excellent. The plot lines are intricate and elaborate. The acting is not bad. And yet, and yet...you simply can't enjoy these movies. As someone said above the age old formula is same same, and then there's the PC cudgel being swung relentlessly, the shameless product placement. You just feel like you're being manipulated watching these films. Even the best stunts and great acting can't paper past that. Having the Bond girls supposedly now become killer machines and beat up and kill men non-stop doesn't help believability.

I just can't take Bond seriously anymore.