The Bond franchise is an interesting one because they’ve essentially been remaking the exact same movie since Doctor No, and although there are definitely ups and downs, on balance it’s still a good franchise! Virtually no continuity. Only occasional meta nods. In essence, every single Bond movie consists of…
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Bond goes to exotic location
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Bond engages in romantic shenanigans with one or more partners
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Bond faces a threat ranging from personal to world-ending
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Bond is menaced by a villain with some personal quirk
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Bond engages in a popular extreme sport
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Bond deals with a number of nameless goons plus at least one ascended chief goon, probably named, with their own particular quirk
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Bond foils the plans of the bad guy and has an epilogue with a romantic partner
Change some variables, rearrange the furniture a little, but this is basically every single James Bond movie for the last sixty two years, and we still love them! It makes me think that originality is overrated.
Emperor@feddit.uk 2 months ago
The film does a lot of things I liked but those call-outs are often so clunky it spoiled what could have been one of the great Alien films (it’s still better than most).
echutaaa@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Are we reading the same article? The text was bashing anything that has a scary alien in a rust bucket spaceship killing ppl. The callbacks are corny sure but not the point. To say no one should make a film that puts a xeno in a space ship and have it hunt down ppl anymore because they did that 50 years ago is insane.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, it wasn’t bashing anything that has a scary alien in a rust bucket spaceship… It merely says, “we already have that movie and it’s great”. It literally praises the original…
echutaaa@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The article is literally saying we should not be making alien movies if there’s already a good one. It’s saying they should have never even attempted to make Romulus because alien exists. If that not bashing it idk what is.
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 2 months ago
It also said every movie in the franchise is just a remake of the first…