Woolygimp
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Something that I really find irksome, and Bond movies aren't alone in this regard, are the super genius villains who want to nuke New York City (or destroy the eastern seaboard/half of the globe) in exchange for United States dollars. If something that catastrophic happened, markets would tank, and fiat money would probably lose a lot of value very quickly. Transfer me $10 billion electronically, and then I'll wipe out the NY Stock Exchange and financial markets. Makes a ton of fucking sense.Woolygimp is spot on. Everything after Goldeneye (yes it has flaws) was really really really bad.
The problem was not about US bond girls (just refered why didn't work), the problem was the (lack of) script.
Tomorrow was about a guy who wanted Earth to be nuked so he could sell newspapers.
World is not enough was about a psycopath who wanted to blow a submarine in Istanbul (revenge or some shit, i think) with the help of Sophie Marceau.
Die another day a north Korean with british accent wanted diamonds to build a weapon (how original) to blow the DMZ for....some reason.
Daniel Craig movies, for me , don't use the JB formula like the previous ones.
Casino Royale was good.
QoS is the worst bond movie ever imo.
Skyfall was disappointing to say the least.
Spectre was just a rushed shit show.
All in all, since Goldeneye, I didn't enjoy any Bond movie (except Casino Royale).
At least the older bond movies were a little more comical in that regard. In the Daniel Craig movies they were actually trying to be serious. Casino Royale worked because it showed Bond as a human; after that he just became the Terminator. Bond showed weakness in Goldeneye, because Alec (Sean Bean) was a genuine friend to him, and you could tell he was conflicted until the end. That's what for good character development, heroes who aren't flawless like Superman. If you started with QoS, there's really no character to develop. Daniel Craig doesn't need to say a single word in the last three movies, because he's an expressionless drone. Move from point A to point B and kill everything in between.