XPost: rec.arts.sf.movies, rec.arts.movies.current-films   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 16 Nov 2025 08:56:56 -0800, Dimensional Traveler   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 11/16/2025 8:32 AM, Paul S Person wrote:   
   >>    
   >> Although if they pushed on with the 007 in the last one /and/ returned   
   >> to actual James Bond films instead of technothrillers like any others   
   >> which happen to have James Bond in them, that might be interesting.   
   >>    
   >Considering that Dr. No was one of the earliest technothrillers filmed,    
   >I think you have that backward.  All the technothrillers are Bond movies    
   >without James Bond.   
      
   Sorry.   
      
   /Dr. No/ was a James Bond film. It is about James Bond from start to   
   finish. His mission is to find what happened to Strangways and rectify   
   the situation.    
      
   Even the nuclear reactor is only there so it will explode in the end.   
      
   BTW, the book didn't need a nuclear reactor for Bond to succeed. The   
   film had it only because they wanted Dr No to be more than just a   
   guano mine owner who doubles as the KGB Paymaster for the western   
   hemisphere (replacing Mr Big after /his/ encounter with James Bond).   
      
   The reboots are not James Bond films. They are far too serious. And   
   the buildings are far too modern. And the plots are ... the only one   
   that I found satisfying was /Quantum of Solace/, which is saying   
   something.   
      
   They do, however, make me appreciate the earlier films. Even the line   
   "We'll cut him off at the precipice" now seems like a welcome touch of   
   humor instead of an utter groaner.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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