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                                              February 2, 2005
Is it at all interesting
to think about how *low*
the standards get for
something like a James
Bond film?

It would be easy to spend pages
complaining about impossibilities
and absurdities, but it seems
inane and besides the point.

It's a Bond flick.
What do you expect?         SUNDAY_CONVENTION


                                              (January 30, 2005)
It would be an interesting project to
track the New York Times reviews
of James Bond films over the years.

Without looking, I guarantee that the
early ones will be negative, full
of snooty complaints about trash and
the imminent end of western civilization.

And the later reviews will praise them
with a warm glow of nostaligia, embracing
the trash, sucking up to the popular...
and perhaps proving the original point.

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