• vunderba 2 hours ago
    As much as I can't stand censorship / Amazon / etc., has anyone actually taken the time to vet this story before voicing their outrage?

    A cursory search online reveals only a single source [1]. Additionally searching on Amazon Prime for Bond movies shows PLENTY of poster/cover art with Bond holding his quintessential Walther PPK including Dr. No [2] which was mentioned in the article.

    So unless this was leaked by an intern or maybe its being AB tested in various regions, this seems like a big fat nothing. I mean why single out James Bond? Why not Terminator, Predator... basically every Schwarzenegger movie in existence with the exception of Jingle All the Way.

    [1] https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/amazon-prime-2025-r...

    [2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009GEPRZE

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    • gruez 2 hours ago
      The new posters look oddly consistent with each other, but don't look any way close to the ones I could turn up on google images, so my guess is that they used AI to generate them, but for whatever reason the AI refuses to generate guns, hence lack of guns.
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      • vunderba 2 hours ago
        Yeah I did the same thing - running a reverse-image search for similar images with a date filter to find older ones and nothing came up.

        Most GenAI models can do weapons without any complaints. For fun I recreated that same set of posters with Bond holding absurdly huge weapons.

        https://imgur.com/a/JcAbtmk

  • delichon 4 hours ago
    In the new UK double oh agents are no longer licensed to kill, but they can post whatever they want on social media after a committee approves it.
  • squidbeak 5 hours ago
    The source is nested through a couple of links.

    https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/amazon-prime-2025-r...

  • Molitor5901 3 hours ago
    Perhaps I just feel old.. but I really, really wish they'd go back to making Bond films like Moonraker, Diamonds are Forever, and the Man with the Golden Gun. No big explosions, just nice cars, suave hero, good stories, and all the spy gadgets and things many of us love.

    Albert Broccoli had the formula right and IMHO we should go back.

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    • vunderba 2 hours ago
      It feels like with the meteoric success of Christopher Nolan's "Batman Begins" in 2005, every studio felt like they had to follow suit and make their movies "dark and edgy".

      Personally, I wasn't a huge fan of the Daniel Craig reboot either. We already had a thousand overly serious spy thriller series at that point (Bourne Identity, Mission Impossible, etc.). Give me the almost cartoonishly villainous enemies, the outlandish technological gadgetry, and the punchy one-liners of the original James Bond movies any day.

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      • jinushaun 39 minutes ago
        Hopefully the pendulum swings back. Reminds me of the pure evil vs relatable villain meme.

        https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/evil

        I used to be tired of simple villains, but now I’m tired of complex relatable ones.

  • jsheard 5 hours ago
    They forgot the gun in the 007 logo. Rookie mistake!
  • wpm 2 hours ago
    How utterly fucking pathetic.
  • onetokeoverthe 5 hours ago
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  • PedroBatista 5 hours ago
    I would be OK if they swapped it with a cucumber or a banana.

    Why even get mad at this point? It's an "asset" like any other product. They bought the rights. I feel people in general are becoming "rational" actors too, by just ignoring the product if they don't like it.

    At the end of the day, yes it's funny and stupid. Who cares? ignore them.

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    • techjamie 5 hours ago
      It's moreso about the general trend that's happening where everything must be sanitized and advertiser-friendly. Like, is it really that far-fetched for an action thriller movie, that contains guns and people using them, to also have a gun on the poster? Do we really need to protect society from that?

      Plus, movie posters are art to a number of people. Someone very specifically chose the lighting, the expression, pose, and background to convey a message about the movie. But now it's being censored because "gun scary."

      I, for one, don't welcome the bland, homogenized world that corporations are trying to turn everything into.

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      • GWBullshit 3 hours ago
        Nah, it has nothing to do with what you think.

        Here's the real reason: https://hard-drive.net/hd/entertainment/luigi-departs-from-m...

        Look at that picture, look at the date of the article, then consider "that thing that happened".

      • add-sub-mul-div 4 hours ago
        There's something to be said about the culture of needing to find outrage or offense in every little thing, too.

        The next movie will have guns. Wake me if the next movie doesn't have guns.