I'm a fan of Connery's and Moore's Bond movies and happen to have all the Bond books written by Ian Fleming.

In the books it is stated that Bond served in the Royal Navy in the WWII ... which would make Bond around 100 years old now.

They should have called it a day after the last Moore Bond. Bond was in retirement age then.


It turned in to shit afterwards, the biggest mistake was to make it more serious, so they didn't have the innocent charm and humor anymore.

They criticize the old Bond being a male chauvinist, of course he was and that how it was supposed to be, the movies were fantasies catering to men or little boys inside men ... all the fancy cars, beautiful women and amazing gizmos ... every movie introduced some new thing like paragliders and water scooters ... Bond never needed to practice anyhting he handled every new device and vehicle perfectly first teime he did it ...

as the movies were cartoon like fantasies it was also easier to stomach the British delusion of grandeur in them, in the real world the British Empire was finished for good around the time Bond started his movie career.

Maybe it was partly a compensatory fantasy, portraying the UK still big and important, on equal footing with America operating all around the world.

Serious, politically correct Bond really is like the dumbest idea ever.