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- Richard W
Well, I started watching Bond films when I was very young. The first six films were re-released as double-features in 1970 and in 1971, and again in the late summer of 1972. In those days I enjoyed the harmless fun but I was not blind to the dramatic discipline at work in the films, as in all films. I followed the series on the big screen throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The harmless fun continued up until the mid-1990s, when the series changed. CASINO ROYALE is not meaningless, however; it puts across a subtext of sexual politics that is unprecedented in the series, inappropriate, and at odds with what James Bond has always been about.