• defunct_punk@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
    97·
    3 months ago

    Austin Powers did nearly the same with Bond/spy flicks for a while. From Wikipedia:

    Daniel Craig, who portrayed James Bond on screen from 2006 to 2021, credited the Austin Powers franchise with the relatively serious tone of later Bond films. In a 2014 interview, Craig said, “We had to destroy the myth because Mike Myers fucked us”, making it “impossible” to do the gags of earlier Bond films which Austin Powers satirized.

    • toddestan@lemm.ee
      9·
      3 months ago

      That’s interesting. I always felt the newer Bond films were taking themselves a bit too seriously. I suppose this might be why.

      • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
        4·
        3 months ago

        And then they made Blofeld to be James Bond’s brother which was never a thing in any Bond movie before. That was just a thing they did in Austin Powers.