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Why It’s Time to Retire James Bond (As We Know Him)

LICENSE TO KILL

The 24th Bond film, ‘Spectre,’ is in theaters this Friday. And it’s very, very lame.

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In 1964’s Goldfinger, nefarious Auric Goldfinger famously tells Sean Connery’s British secret agent James Bond—who’s strapped to a table, a laser beam slowly encroaching upon his crotch—that the purpose of this torture isn’t to make him talk.

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