Posted by
GeorgeBruno on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:57:08 PM
Huge fan of James Bond flicks.
Call me a 47 year old geezer...but Sean Connery IS James Bond.
C'mon you can't beat this Sean Connery dialogue:
James Bond: Do you expect me to talk Goldfinger? (as he is tied up and a laser aimed at his crotch)
Goldfinger: ...No Mr. Bond...I expect you to die.
Probably in the top ten movie lines of all time.
Roger Moore came close.
Pierce Brosnan was pretty good.
Everyone else was forgettable as far as I am concerned.
But...something has been happening to my James Bond. I noticed it over the years.
His manhood constantly gets challenged.
Back to the one where he is tied to a table and a laser is coming up the table right towards his crotch. All men squirmed a little while watching that one. His "manhood" was challenged, but he resisted and overcame.
I like my heroes to be almost superhuman. I dig the last minute escapes of being tied up and being lowered into a shark tank and things like that.
The Pierce Brosnan Bond became a longhaired, crazy, reclusive nut in a jail. That was the Hallie Berry one. (You either remember the Bond or the Bond girl)
He was weak, famished, looked like hell, and eventually escaped his hell but he was certainly not my Bond.
Then comes Daniel Craig in Casino Royale, who is giving me Sean Connery vibes again.....until he is tied up and has his genitals beat with a sock with rocks in it. Talk about assaulting one's manhood. Literally and figuratively.
Just so typical of the Hollywood garbage. You can't tell me that wasn't symbolic.
Are they going to castrate him in the upcoming Quantum of Solace?
In the trailer, he is a hurt man who wants revenge for the death of someone he loved.
Come on now!
Will he be in therapy too?
Will he talk about how he was a little too tough on Goldfinger and the evil Dr. Zinn?
Maybe he should've had a sitdown with Goldfinger without any pre-existing conditions?
Should he be concerned about "winning the hearts and minds" of the evil people?
Now, don't get me wrong. I will probably be there on opening day. Movies are one of my last guilty pleasures.
But don't mess with my heroes....my Bond. My James Bond.
Do we really need a gentler, kinder, more sensitive Bond?
He's the last bastion of unashamed manhood coming out of Hollywood.
If he goes, what do we have left to hang on to?