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.
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.
The next movie will have guns. Wake me if the next movie doesn't have guns.
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".
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/amazon-prime-2025-r...
Albert Broccoli had the formula right and IMHO we should go back.
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.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/evil
I used to be tired of simple villains, but now I’m tired of complex relatable ones.
For those of us who have invested in a chain or series for a long time, it may feel comfortable, predictable, and so when something changes it can burst the magical bubble of cinema. Perhaps that's the danger of film series that are basically the same, just a different story, whereas short periods before change conditions the audience to let go of a nostalgia, and keep plowing ahead because it's just enough of a change not to disrupt that comfort - yet modernizes etc.
too modern. As with a lot of series modernized, it may have the effect of taking something familiar, changing something that disrupts the.. nostalgia?
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...
Most GenAI models can do weapons without any complaints. For fun I recreated that same set of posters with Bond holding absurdly huge weapons.
Reloaded: Amazon Prime has ditched the gun-less AI artwork after fan backlash (October 4th)
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/amazon-prime-2025-d...
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