• AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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      It’s a 2-hour long dialogue between Bond (played by Wallace Shawn) and a villainous billionaire media mogul Fryston Gallibre (played by Peter Capaldi) who is trying to collapse western democracy through ever more bland homogenized remakes of beloved franchises.

      In the end, Fryston realizes that Bond has never seen any of these movies or shows and isn’t really a fanboy of anything so he is immune to this assault on culture. Bond actually leaves confused and when trying to explain the whole thing back at the office he stops mid-sentence and asks the widowed Mrs. Money Penny (Judi Dench) If she’d like to go see a movie together, “apparently they’re quite popular!”

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      I was gonna say same. Give him all kinds of crazy gadgets but make him super serious.

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      “But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the martini in front of me.”

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    You know this is an Onion article because the real frontrunner for the role of James Bond is going to be, like every other role, esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie.

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    After seeing his performance in My Dinner with Andre (1981), casting director Janet Hirshenson was so fond of his delivery of the word “inconceivable” that she cast him as Vizzini in The Princess Bride (1987).

    dude got the job because of that line. no wonder its iconic

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      That movie is also why she cast André the Giant as his sidekick after falling victim to one of the classic blunders.

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    Ok but can he play Bond AND Batman? If not I’d rather he take Batman because the franchise needs to finally be perfected.

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    I would so watch a good parody bond film but Hollywood would never make this.

    A creative casting for a roll of a traditionally beautiful person.

    Do you know how many watch ads and car commercials they would miss out on.

    No, the next bond will be filmed like the latest marvel garbage. So evenly lit that you’d think it was a commercial with how clean it looks.

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        Oh gosh. Freaking classics.

        Imagine if they made those today. Like not another remake or sequel but like actually made them nowadays. Or Wayne’s World?

        I just don’t see it happening without it falling completely flat due to executives being tone deaf shills.

        That whole part about mocking the paid ads would just be a paid advertising segment.

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        Austin Powers was such a successful parody it’s the REASON they rebooted the Bondiverse with Daniel Craig as a more grounded Bond, and IMO <insert Professor Hulk absolute win gif here>.

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      I would so watch a good parody bond film but Hollywood would never make this.

      You mean like Get Smart, or Johnny English, or Top Secret, or the David Niven Casino Royale, or Spy, or Spy Hard, or The Man Who Knew Too Little, or True Lies, or Leonard Part 6, or I Spy, or Spies Like Us, or Spy Dad, or The Spy Next Door, or The Spy Who Dumped Me, or The Brothers Grimsby, or S*P*Y*S, or Code Name: The Cleaner, or Austin Powers?

      Hollywood fucking loves making parody James Bond films, and some of them are occasionally good.