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In Reply to: Re: Well, I dunno... I have never finished ANY of Bond's movies, they are beyond boring to me posted by patrickU on November 28, 2006 at 07:22:29:
I got them back in Russia as I was about to leave - I wanted to read the "real" spy story based on what I knew about them... to say I was disappointed would be an understatement... I kept thinking - this could not possibly be what the world is talking about! And when I saw a Bond movie for the first time my reaction was of the "You are kidding... right?" kind.Who knows... maybe if I saw my first one at the tender age of 12 when it came out - perhaps my reaction would have been different (Heck, I enjoyed the Fantomas!) but to be exposed to such "marvels" at mature age simply did not cut it.
Follow Ups:
...I was as easily bored as you. Then I could walk down the street tapping my gold-capped cane on the sidewalk and think how boring the world was, after all...I'm virtually never bored and really feel quite guilty about it.
eb
The morale is: Everyone is entitle to enjoy some kind of trash.
Each his very own...
Perhaps there IS a handicap in me, as I grew up not seeing idiotic films - all you could get in Russia were serious films, so you kind of accepted the notion that films had to be somewhat related to life, unless they were comedies. Bond movies sort of fall in between, so my mind was not ready to accept them. Typically the spy movies released there were all straight face, very serious with no liberties. And it is not like spoofs would not be accepted - the most memorable one perhaps being The Lemonade Joe, but that one also was overtly a comedy.
We all have some kind of handicaps, it vary from culture to culture, to habits to habits and from seed to seed, and from soil to soil, and a given seed won´t do on the wrong soil.
But a good film remain a good film, universally recognized as such, and a good director is as rare as a jewel.
It is easier to find a good book, no wonder we are writing thme since centuries..But spy films when well done are like others " best of ".
Look at the Le Carre´s films.
Intelligent and challenging as much as any others.
Look at Poe at Simenon and so on.
Without them, life would be even more boring.
That is why we invent them in copying the real life around us.
Me, I will take the Airplane and Naked Gun ANY DAY over that Bond boredom! Spoofs at their finest are absolutely great, when they are not trying to be something else.
Poor guy.Yes Simenon is that far away but it was in another context. The one who make criminal story not a minor art.
That was all about.
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