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Amazon-produced 007 movie pits Bond against fulfillment center workers who want to unionize
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Think about this; "Thunderball" and "Goldfinger" where Bond assaults women with impunity were considered fine for kids to watch, and even generated children's toys.
https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/1966-gilbert-toys-catalog-james-bond-man-from-u-n-c-l-e-honey-west/
Heck, there was a toy Xenomorph for 1979's Alien too! And that was even weirder because Alien was R rated and theoretically no children should have been allowed to watch it.
We had that toy as kids. We never saw the movie (still haven't to this day), we just thought it was cool.
This is a good story.
Back when it first came out, "Steve" was at a party and heard some people talking about the movie. He hadn't seen it, and politely listened. He heard the entire plot, including all the twists and a dozen spoilers. Later that week he was with another group and they decided they wanted to see the movie. Steve didn't want to spoil everyone's fun, so he went, even though he thought he'd be bored.
Later, he wrote about how, even knowing the plot and the surprises, he was still on the edge of his seat for the whole movie.
There's a reason people are still talking about this decades old movie.
Funny enough I haven't actually heard a single spoiler for it. I only vaguely know about it, and it's been on my "maybe watch if I have nothing else one day" list for at least a few years. I haven't actively avoided it, but I haven't actively tried to seek it out either. I'll get to it one day, spoiled or not.
Good story in any case.
If and when, you'll probably realize that you've been watching spoilers for years and didn't get the connection.
References that people who have seen it know but people that haven't don't are references done right. They're not a spoiler at that point.
But yes I've had the same experience with many of the TV shows that are popular on places like here and reddit, the office, sunny, parks etc. You start seeing how many comments are just people referrencing stuff.