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The song had better be fucking epic because it always sets the tone for the movie. 

 

Adelle, Shirley Bassey, Carly Simon, Duran Duran, and A-ha have set a high bar.

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I'm really disappointed that the women don't have sexual double entendre names but that's what you get with Serious and Grim Bond.

 

I think it is simpler than that.  Bond villains are comic book villains so even the semi-serious stuff is still tongue-in-cheek.

 

I just think that the double entendre for female character names just isn't as acceptable as it used to be.  Part of me thinks that is a good thing even if it used to be tradition.

 

Also, blame the success of the Borne movies.

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I hope Waltz has another trick in his book other than playing Hans Landa again. It was great the first time I saw it, but the magic has faded quickly. . . 

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Hail Hydra... i mean Hail SPECTRE

 

Hopefully this won't devolve into a OMG MARVEL RIPPED OFF JAMES BOND, because Lee has already admitted in several interviews that HYDRA was patterned after SPECTRE.

 

I don't even think you can count the number of Bond references in the classic Jim Steranko art run of Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD.  Valentina de la Fontaine was every Bond girl of the time rolled up into one with a little badassery thrown in for good measure.

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There was an urban legend that COBRA stood for COnversion by Blackmail, Revolution and Anarchy, but that was proved false by Larry Hama, GI Joe comics co-creator. 

 

The organization got its name for Cobra Commander's creed that the organization would one day entwine the world in its coils like a cobra swallowing its prey..

 

The movie version of "Gi Joe" is supposed to be an acronym (Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity) but it is never presented that way in the film title.  The comics and cartoon series say that Gi Joe is a code name.

 

SMERSH is also a villainous, fictional espionage organization where the name isn't an acronym.  It is a portmanteau of the Russian phrase, "Death to Spies." (Smert shpionam.)

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As successful as Craig movies have been, i would love to see retro Bond movies set in early 60s.

 

Skyfall and the Bourne movies pretty much guaranteed that will never happen.  If the new devs were smart, they'd have set Casino Royale in the 60's.  The retro time dilution has actually helped the new X-Men franchise rather than hindered it. 

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The Bourne movies fucked nobody except people wiling to accept film editing by mentally ill people as professional work.

 

Which, I guess, explains Quantum of Solace.

 

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