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Bond, James Bond

OK, may be off topic for those who don't look for new gizmos in bond movies,
or who don't care if they waste some time and money at this movie.

[Moderator: Well, I'm more willing to let posts like this through
 when the list is relatively quiet, as it is now.  Has Bond ever been
 depicted using any sort of ebook-related gizmo, I wonder? - JMO]
 

Bond, James Bond


If you were/are expecting lots of new gizmos with the new James Bond
you will very likely be hugely disappointed.

None of the kinds of gadgets we have been used to for so long, no Q,
either, not even R, John cleese, or any reference to either one.

No Sony Playstation-like controls for cars or other vehicles, though
plenty of Sony gizmos splashed around with Sony's name a prominently
displayed and in focus attribute.

Just cell phones, cameras, VAIO's, and the like, but nothing techy--
no Internet worms or "spikes" a la Goldeneye, or a remote controlled
Beamer of any kind, laser or car, not anything really higher tech in
any way than has been the standard stock in trade for Hollwood, even
no mention of any specific kinds of weapons.

However, the new Bond, himself, is actually good, believable, even a
bit likeable, and will hopefully survive this descent into mundanity
that the Sony studios seems to find they needed to try out.

OK, you tried it, it wasn't nearly as much fun without the gizmos.

Not even any new features on PDA's, PPC's, laptops, etc. that we are
not all already pretty aware of.

The plot, well, I don't want to give anything away, so I won't say a
lot about the plot, other than that there doesn't seem to be on of a
nature worthy of a Bond film:  no oil pipeline that could be quite a
hot property if another one were suddenly radioactively hot; nothing
even in the way of making all the gold in Fort Knox hot, and making,
thus, a fortune on gold speculation; nothing in the way of revenge--
or even vendetta; no one trying to take over the world with some hot
new technology; no one going even to high altitudes or latitudes; no
nothing of the kind that has lured us to Bond films all these years,
other than a quick look at the 1964 Aston Martin DB5, and the in the
2007 version, obviously another product placement of the hame, right
behind Bond's head when he is in the car. . .duh!

A slight refrain about Bond's days at Oxford, but it made Oxford due
to file a lawsuit for defamation, if they have the oxnards for it.

The Bond girls, well, it all depends on your taste, but somewhere in
the shuffle after the big card game the most interesting one gets to
be mislaid somehow, and there is no pun intended.  I don't want this
to spoil anything, so I won't say anything more about her other than
that I hope they are smart enought to bring her back next time along
with Q Branch and all their gizmos.