In From Russia with Love, SMERSH wants to kill James Bond "with ignominy" to send a message to other intelligence agencies that SMERSH rules and MI6 drools.
I don't know about you, but I found SMERSH's motivation for spending a good deal of money to bump off and humiliate one lousy MI-6 agent for the sake of propaganda rather lame and stupid. The motivation behind SPECTRE's plot against Bond in the 1963 movie made a lot more sense to me.
It's worth watching the second film in the franchise just because at this point they had not yet perfected the Bond movie formula, and so the movie was a little bit less formulaic.
Which is a good thing in my book. The Bond movie formula, created by "GOLDFINGER" strikes me as infantile.
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I don't know about you, but I found SMERSH's motivation for spending a good deal of money to bump off and humiliate one lousy MI-6 agent for the sake of propaganda rather lame and stupid. The motivation behind SPECTRE's plot against Bond in the 1963 movie made a lot more sense to me.
It's worth watching the second film in the franchise just because at this point they had not yet perfected the Bond movie formula, and so the movie was a little bit less formulaic.
Which is a good thing in my book. The Bond movie formula, created by "GOLDFINGER" strikes me as infantile.
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