Don't even talk to me unless you bring this energy

Lots of young writers think, I can do this, I have spite, every day I think of the high school English teacher who said YuYu Hakusho was "jejune," but that's got you looking up; you also need scorn for looking down. On that fool. That swine, who thinks his ideas are good and worth reading.

I once derailed a work party like 20 years ago by putting Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie VHS on in the meeting room TV, and like half the guys there just went in there with their drinks and stayed to watch it.

Lmfao I'm a day late but I found the PERFECT meme for this 😆

but seriously, the direction then is the radical political action thriller in the style of One Battle After Another. Bond in a moral/political quagmire as the imperial boomerang triggers chaos at home and abroad is not a bad setup. It'd be badly handled, of course, but it always is!

Yeah, I think the way Daniel Craig's Bond turned into a turgid Lord of the Rings-scale epic about family trauma has confused a lot of people. You can just introduce James Bond by showing him killing a guy.

Now that I think about it, the energy from early Bond movies comes from the mix of post-War British anxiety and post-war Italian zootiness; '60s/'70s Bond has Diabolik/fumetti energy through its Italian connection, and losing that has left the franchise rudderless as much as the end of the Cold War

The bigger problem with James Bond is it's been a franchise in search of a point for decades. Questions about what to do with James Bond elide how we don't need to do anything with him, we don't need him, an Italian family needs him to make money.

As a Godzilla fan, I think James Bond should just emerge from the sea when he's needed without any explanation of what he's been up to.

My default understanding is that "James Bond" is a fairy summoned by Doctor John Dee and bound to serve England since Elizabethan times through his trap-name ("Bond") but in general no you can't assume he's always the same guy

It's especially funny when it's in a complicated but generally familiar and easy-to-navigate space; my favorite are grown men who can't order at a restaurant without zoning out halfway through.

Best part of any complicated and unpredictable space (airport, hotel, train, amusement park) is watching the hypercompetent woman/deadeyed lummox man dynamic play out.