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... i always thought a Bond like franchise shoulda been built arround Buckaroo Banzai...
You're not the only one. Peter Weller, Earl Mac Rauch (writer, who also wrote the first Superman novel, which many feel should have been used as the template for the first film) and W.D. Richter (director) all feel the same way. But the story goes that the producer, or whoever holds the rights currently, doesn't feel the same way. Many people have wanted to make at least another BB film for a long time and the rights holder has blocked all of it. Which doesn't make any sense, but there you go...
As for the topic at hand, I agree with Bizunth about a couple of things. The immediate need the Bond franchise developed for topping itself every time is a self-defeating strategem, at least from the standpoint of trying to make a good movie, rather than trying to put asses in seats, for which bigger and better is clearly a workable tactic. And yes, it is a franchise - a cash cow and little more. But that means the films typically suck.
And I, too, find XXX somehow offensive, while Bond is just boring. I don't know what it is, and since I'm certainly not going to shell out for the film, I'm not likely to figure it out any time soon. Perhaps it's that Bond at least attempts to have a bit of style and class (even if it fails) while XXX, to me, looks very crass. That, and the "if we market it, you will come" attitude the film so glaringly proffers. And even the implied use of 'extreme' (i.e. Extreme Sports) just makes me want to hit things, but maybe that's just the fact that the word is inescapable in American advertising. |
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