Amazon Strikes Again

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4.9 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Having thoroughly eviscerated the Lord of the Rings franchise with mutton-faced girl bosses and buzzcut black elves, Amazon now turns its sights on another once-beloved part of our cultural heritage: Bond. James Bond.

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0:00.0	Just in time for James Bond's 63rd anniversary on film of the 1962 release of Dr. Doe comes his latest adventure exclusively on Amazon Prime.
0:10.6	The Man Without a Gun, Golden or Otherwise.
0:13.7	Good title.
0:14.6	Hey, everybody.
0:15.0	I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott.
0:16.9	This is Right Angle.
0:17.8	Bride you by the members of Bill Whittle.com.
0:20.8	Gentlemen and really everybody, I mean, this is an old franchise.
0:24.5	When you think of James Bond, you think of the gadgets, you think of the martinis,
0:28.5	the world's most beautiful women, of course, and you think of his gun, the famous Walther PPP.
0:33.7	That's right.
0:34.9	Sexy little pistol.
0:36.7	It's all now gone from Amazon Prime's cover art.
0:41.8	I don't know if you know this, but when Amazon bought...
0:44.5	Yeah, did you see up?
0:45.7	Yeah.
0:46.1	When Amazon bought MGM a couple of years ago, all 25 official bond movies, I think it's 25.
0:51.7	That was part of the deal.
0:53.1	And they're now streaming on Amazon Prime, of course. And those Prime posters, I don't know if you've seen this, it's 25. That was part of the deal. And they're now streaming on Amazon Prime,
0:54.8	of course. And those Prime posters, I don't know if you've seen this. It's just sad. I've got this.
0:59.7	You can take a look at some of the worst examples here. I don't know how many of those classic
1:04.2	posters, probably all of them have Bond holding that Walter. But Amazon Prime's key art has
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