Veronica wrote:Ah,yes,Barbara's bloody feminism! Another laughable thing is that she constantly rants about how women in Craig movies are so much stronger as characters like all the other Bond girls were dumb models! But the crack is-aside Vesper(talking about the one in the book,the less I say about the movie!Vesper the better) which female from other Craig movies is notable?
Quantum of Solace girls are in the who-cares basket just like that movie. Severine who? Oh,yeah I guess now we have black Moneypenny to show us what strong female character is all about! Read actual Fleming novels Barbara!
Monica Bellucci is stuffed in a thankless cameo that consinsts from the most akward hook up I have ever seen. I guess strong woman would sleep with another man(the one who looks lile Craig no less!) right after her husband's funeral!
And of course much was made of Seydoux's character since it was said she is a "strong,independent" woman(how many times have we heard those words?) but simply ends up as a tag-along Bond girl.
Like I said-all barking and no biting.
To piggy back off your point V, lets say for the sake of argument all the previous Bond girls were empty headed bimbo models, what about Babz' incarnations are any different? They're useless tag-a-longs who don't add much to the plot, and are far from fleshed out characters in their own right.
Well said Kris, giving MP that silly back story of former field agent just cheapens the character. I was fully expecting her to become a sort of Robin to Craig's Batman this time around, in fact that's the whole reason I started the "predictions" tread in the Spectre discussion. (not that I was hoping for that mind you) Instead she's fielding midnight phone calls and feeding him info.
To get off on a tangent here, I'm glad MP and Q have been resurrected (not in this incarnation, but non the less) but why must they be in every bloody scene, we don't need "The MI6 Avengers" traipsing around on Bond's back as he fights world domination, what are we doing here selling action figures? This is not a case of more the merrier!