There was a tremendous amount of action, my greatest complaint was that the villain just wasn’t on a par with the best Bond villains… a guy named Mr. Greene trying to corner the Bolivian water supply just doesn’t quite meet the standard in my book.   This was the problem with Casino Royale as well, I guess I just prefer world domination.  I suppose that I should take up my argument with Ian Fleming, the author… (They are running out of Bond novels and shorts to turn into movies)…
 
Today, we watched the 1964 James Bond classic “Goldfinger” as a comparison… Sean Connery has always been my favorite Bond but I have to say that

With that said, here’s what I think they missed with the latest Bond:

1.      The opening Bond song stunk.  And the opening credit sequence that went with it was lame as well.

2.     They should have let Q and Miss Moneypenny have their token sequence, at least in passing.  This is one of the ways that we mark time in the Bond history.

3.     They should have let Bond introduce himself as “Bond, James Bond…” once and let him order a “Shaken not Stirred” Martini (as it was, it sounded like a Gordon’s product placement).

I just think it is better to have these throwbacks to the past, as a way to keep the Bond story fresh yet true to its roots.  When you realize that they have been making Bond movies since 1962 (the year I was born—Dr. No was released) it seems that it is a small price to pay to maintain this amount of consistency.  They can have their hard-to-believe chases, and incredible action-fight scenes, and the machine gun fire at point-blank range with Bond unscathed, but keep the old James Bond classic bits…

Rob Northrup…

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