Why Do Modern Movies Suck So Much? - Critical Drinker - #918

What is happening with James Bond? Give me the updates. It's a bit of a mess at the moment. In a nutshell, uh it has now been corporatized. Uh the um broccoli family who have been running James Bond on screen ever since the nineteen sixties. And I can't believe I'm saying the word broccoli in relation to James Bond, but there it is. Um They it was originally Albert Broccoli and then his daughter, uh, Barbara took over. Um and they have in a way safeguarded it to some degree. Um, it's debatable how good of a job they did in the Daniel Craig era, but you know, they kept it from becoming too exploited. Um

I think they got uh a little bit frustrated with dealing with Amazon, who had bought over MGM, which ultimately owns the rights to bond. Uh and so the most recent development is that they have tapped out, essentially, and now Amazon have got full creative control over the Bond franchise, and they are already talking about turning it into the next Marvel cinematic universe. Uh essentially you're gonna have the Bond cinematic universe. So what they want to do is spin-offs of money penny and you know, can she shuffle files quickly enough to meet her deadlines and, you know, bond the early years when he was a kid and uh you know, we're we're probably gonna have T V shows with all the other double O agents, you know, with all them getting like their own little spin offs and uh and then having big team up events. Uh that's what they want to do. It's about exploitation of the IP.

Uh, so that's where we're at now. And it's not a good place to be, sadly. There's a reason that Bond has endured uh as a franchise and as a character for the past what, sixty years now? Uh and it's not because he was milked dry. uh by a big money hundred m money hungry corporation. Well, they did step in and manage to turn around Lord of the Rings in a manner that I think was Actually impressive.

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