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Bond is still culturally relevant and I'm really happy about it

21 yo, grew up watching Bond movies and, after NOTD, I was afraid that 007 would just fade away and become less of the cultural giant it always has been and, with all the years that went by with no news on Bond 26, that feeling kept growing but, in the last year or so, this has completely changed.

The game 007 First Light seems to be highly antecipated and all the trailers and gameplay footage gets a lot of traction and talking points, and I'm really happy to get to play now a new Bond game which seems to do justice to the epic scale of Bond stories. But with Bond 26, from the announcement that Vileneuve will direct it(high-profile and aclaimed filmmaker) and the repercussion of the announcement and, recently, with the news that casting had begun for the new actor, I've seen so many posts, comments about it that it does make me smile that Bond is still relevant.

I can't wait to play the game, go through my first new casting announcement and to watch the new movie. It's just because Bond is so important to me, glad to see that the world still cars about the most well-knowned spy there is.

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u/Beneficial-Hotel-232 — 5 days ago
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"Rocky" was released in 76. My dad went to watch it way back in 1976 and, a couple of days ago, I was talking to him and he told me something curious: In the movie, Rocky is just an ordinary man, who has a normal job, who goes through your usual underdog story and the movie is well written to the point where you can relate to him and, by the end, you're rooting for him against Apollo Creed. The fact that he is not a superchampion, a famous fighter and all, just a guy who trained really hard and has his own personal struggles help on this.

But funny enough, when the movie was released in Brazil( where i'm from), the Movie got a subtitle added to it: Rocky - Um Lutador, which translates to Rocky - A Fighter. My dad told me that, when they saw the trailers and the title, that " A fighter" implied exactly what the movie tells you: He ain't THE fighter, he's just a normal mundane worker, you can relate to him just by the title of the movie. Sure, "Rocky - The Fighter" can sound more cinematic and epic, but "A Fighter" captures the spirit of the movie

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u/Beneficial-Hotel-232 — 19 days ago