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I like the Brosnan movies... I like some of the Craig movies... the last one was weak and way too long, and didn't like the ending...Sceptre seemed a repeat of past formula. Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, and Skyfall are all quite good, IMO. I never really liked Craig in that role, rather taciturn and no wit or bit of humor that past Bond incarnations had. For a modern Bond, I'd rather have seen Clive Owen, maybe James Purefoy or Dougray Scott (a Scotsman like Connery) in the role.. For modern Bond-ish films, I've really liked Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible films (even w/ their BMWs). I liked the first Timothy Dalton Bond movie over the 2nd one. George Lazenby was very wooden as a Bond (his first acting role, he had been a hand model in Australia), but his one outing was a fun movie w/ great Swiss Alps scenery, a gorgeous '69 Cougar convertible and Diana Rigg..I grew up on the Sean Connery and Roger Moore films, so love most of them (though Moonraker was too absurd). As far as CGI, CGI can't make up for a weak story..which seems to happen all too often today. Terminator 2 holds up really well, IMO..it had a good story and great pacing, suspense and cinematography...still remember enjoying in the theatre back in the day. For good recent movies w/ little or no CGI, I watched a drama the other evening I hadn't heard of called 'City of Lies'... Johnny Depp and Laurence Fishburne were excellent, a drama about the aftermath of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur's murders and the LAPD investigation and Death Row records... interesting reality-based story..

Last thing for today. A feel good video.

What Mark says about wanting to buy a product JUST to see that company succeed JUST to see what they could do next is how I felt about Tesla. I had much much faith in Elon Musk about 8-9 years ago. That faith lasted for about 2-3 years. Today I just wish he go away. I still like Tesla cars. The engineering and manufacturing is just held back by Elon Musk in my opnion. Its too bad. I now have faith in Lucid and in General Motors and possibly Rivian and Ford for advancing American EVs and to be global leaders. Tesla at the hands of Musk is a dead duck.

The way the Lucid engineers explain the Air and the Sapphire trim. The way the talk about the engineering, it seems that Tesla is the one that is behind in EV tech. The Geese guys ironically talk about how some 1st gen EV vehicles from legacy OEMs engineered compliance cars, they didnt talk about Tesla and how Tesla had a decade advance in engineering thought and tech. They just wax poetic about Lucid. But truth be told that when Lucid was just a seed in the dirt, and some of the engineers were still employed by Tesla, Tesla was not JUST a decade in front of everybody, but 2 decades and had the WHOLE EV market to themselves. Tesla did NOT advance the tech in that timeframe. Ive said that plenty of times. Elon Musk ALLOWED every OEM to catch up to Tesla in LESS than a decade and in some instances such as Lucid, it seems, to have surpassed Tesla and it seems that Tesla is playing catch-up. Maybe not in sales...but THAT scenario will surely change. Tesla better have secrets in their 2nd gen Model S and Model 3/Y to unveil because if Tesla's tech hasnt advanced with those 2nd gens, it will seem like they have stagnated and THAT will spell disaster for their EV manufacturing. They will survive with supplying electricity via recharging everybody else's EVs and perhaps sell EV motors to others, but as far as the S-3-X-Y vehicles they offer today, will not make it to see a 3rd gen...

I prefer Daniel Craig as James Bond. I prefer his movies over the others too. Timothy Dalton comes in at #2 as James Bond, but his movies are just as corny as the Sean Connery and Roger Moore movies but the Connery and Moore Bond movies ARE fantastically fabulously great. Love them. Just prefer the Daniel Craig era of James Bond movie telling. Dalton Bond movies are #3 position. Sean Connery as James Bond is #3 and Moore #4. Never liked Pierce Brosnan as James Bond nor the movies. I like Pierce Brosnan as an actor but at least for me, I dont view him as a suave spy guy. He doesnt sell it well enough. I like Dalton because as I sees it, Timothy Daton's Bond was at the start of trying to get the character as close to the novels as possible. The precursor to the eventual Daniel Craig Bond. But then again, it was probably the director's fault for misdirecting Brosnan and Dalton to look and act so wooden. I guess they wanted to evetually go the Daniel Craig way but didnt know how to ease into it. As far as CGI goes. It depends how one uses CGI. Jurassic Park from the 1990s was greatly done. Heck, Terminator 2 looks fantastic today as well. Still hold ups. But over the top scenes with over the top CGI to go with it with all things living or non-living being CGI other than an actor or two in front of a green screen does suck big time. Without professing my love for Pontiac, let me remind people yet again that I HATE BMW. More NOW than ever because now, they produce CUVs. TONS of them. Makes me miss the shytty econobox E30. Makes me want to create a shrine for said E30. Which would be the last phoquing thing I ever want to do.

Its just as bad as VW with their diesel scandal. What makes the VW thing a tad less sinful is that several automakers cheated with clean diesel. Doesnt make VW or any other less culpable, its just that it was a wde spread cheating scandal amongst many. And everybody knew that diesels would NEVER EVER pass those emissions ratings unless software tweaking was involved. Tesla may be the only one to cheat with this in the EV world. Not more culpable, but if Tesla is the only one, this scandal adds to desperation as well... As in when VW was passing emissions tests when they were not supposed to, Mercedes and others knew EXACTLY the reasons why these tests were in the clear as they were doing the same type of cheating... In Tesla's case, especially when all other OEM EVs dont match Tesla's ratings, it seems to me that they are legit readings. Tesla cheated to oversell their technology and are probably a but frazzled right now when GM's and Hyundai''s current tech and Lucid and Rivian are actually legit and perhaps surpassing their numbers...

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Bad luck... Thoughtful video on dating single moms...could I be any more random today?