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Friday Fun Thread for June 5, 2026

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Does anyone else watch The Rock and feel some grief that Connery didn’t keep making Bond films up into the 1990s?

I appreciate the fan theory that Connery's character in The Rock is fully intended to be "what if Connery Bond, but captured by the US for 30 years?".

I don't feel the same amount of grief, though, since the series is hit or miss- for each Bond that actually got 4-5 movies, 2-3 of them are good, and the others are a bit more forgettable.

I think the casting decisions made for each Bond were on their own pretty good. I can't actually picture Connery in Moonraker or Man with the Golden Gun, for instance; Brosnan belongs in the Brosnan movies, and so on. This applies especially to the Craig movies; he's just not the man the others are, so it wouldn't make sense for any of the others to portray him (except Dalton, I guess, since the cutting edge being 'a more vulnerable Bond' popped up in the 80s too).

The total and utter crap that were the Craig era movies after casino royale (which I think is the best bond movie post Connery), showed that the Casino turned out that way by accident. Afterwards was - we found what works and now it is time to excise it with great precision.

I think Quantum of Solace can be blamed on the writer's strike. Skyfall wasn't bad. The Christoph Waltz movies were ruined by spending too much time caught up in the canon of Bond, much like Tom Cruise climbed up his own ass in the last couple of Mission films trying to weld it into a coherent arc that no one asked for.

Which I think is just a general industry trend now.

Can someone explain why an American strike could so affect a British franchise produced by a British company, filmed in Europe and Mexico, directed by a Swiss-German director and where two thirds of the writers were Brits?

The writers were probably still WGA members, and even if not, Hollywood is enough of a union industry that publicly crossing the picket line would do a lot of damage to your career

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