• tryitout@infosec.pub
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    5 months ago

    James Bond and Ethan Hunt are always just getting framed and running from their own organizations nowadays instead of doing cool missions.

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        5 months ago

        Nice to have a balance though. Some of the Moore and Connery era movies were basically Austin Powers.

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          We’re in a bit of a sticky situation. Nationalism is very unpopular now, and people have a general distrust of our government and its institutions. That is reflected in these movies, where the enemy is actually their own organization, where it would have been a foreign enemy in the past, like an actual enemy of our country. But then the depiction of the government institutions as untrustworthy in so many movies fuels people’s distrust of the government to the point where now the only stories that people will believe are where the hero is fighting internal powers. It’s a bit of circular reinforcement.

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            5 months ago

            Well it’s nice to see Russia doing their part to make foreign superpowers unpopular again.

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                5 months ago

                The first Kingsman movie was one of the best new Bond film, even if it had some tongue-in-cheek parody elements and openly acknowledged it. Over the top bad guy, fun gadgets, saving the world. Definitely scratches the itch for a Bond film pretty well.

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          austin powers did to spy movies what blazing saddles did to western/cowboy movies

          they had to be grittier or darker to get away from the parodies