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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 492891" data-attributes="member: 505">I have mixed feelings about seeing this film.  I absolutely hated the last one, too.  OTOH, the first two were excellent.I was hoping that this one would make up for The World Is Not Enough, but then I discovered that the same writers worked on Die Another Day. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />I still may go see it next week (optimist that I am).  I haven't seen Moonraker in years, but that was the "Bond in space, fighting with lasers" movie.  I think that one takes the cake in terms of sci-fi gadgets.Actually, I think it started heading down the "stupid equipment" road again with the X-ray specs in the last film.That brings me to a disturbing observation about the new writers: They're fans of the Roger Moore years.   Just looking at the last film, we had more outrageous gadgets, comedy (John Cleese), the infra-red viewing of Bond in bed with the woman at the end (I think every Moore film ended with a variation of that), and an unbelievably bad actress in a horribly miscast role (Denise Richards as a nuclear phycisist).  Now I hear Bond surfs in this one (please tell me that the music doesn't change to California Girls by the Beach Boys in the middle of the scene).What's worse is the apparent trend in breaking away from what makes Bond, well, Bond.  The last film had a "love story" wrapped up in it (which wasn't remotely believable to me), brought back a supporting character (the Russian from Golden Eye), had a more graphic love scene, and bland villains.   I sense the dreaded "reinventing for a new generation". <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  Beyond that, all the injokes I hear that are supposedly in Die Another Day makes me think that they've fallen into the trap of hiring fanboys to write for them.  That can be a good thing if they understand the property and want to put a new spin on it (Jason X), but disasterous if they don't have a clue as to what makes it work (The Simpsons).  And, from what I saw in The World Is Not Enough, they don't.Still...I dreaded seeing Attack Of The Clones, and that was better than I though (like it could have been worse! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />).Argh!  I'm still on the fence.  I may just go with my fingers crossed.</blockquote>

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