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If you go back and watch the Sean Connery Bond films they were satirizing, Austin Powers was a much better person than James Bond. Better agent, too. Bond kinda sucked.
Also, those Bond films were thirty years before Austin Powers. If you wanted to make a similar movie today, you'd have to be satirizing Austin Powers. Maybe that could work, a meta-satiricial send-up of 90's and early 00's satirical movies. Maybe even the last third of the film gets ironically nostalgic for the first third of the same film. "Remember when we did that pre-opening action sequence?
It wouldn't be satirizing Austin Powers; it'd be satirizing Pierce Brosnan's Bond.
Also notable, the book are even worse. Bond is an absolute prick in those and was toned down for the movies, at least in the firdt one from what I remeber.
Ian Fleming was unrepentantly misogynistic and racist in his books. People want to give him a pass because it happened so long ago, and it was a reflection of the attitudes of the time. But it wasn't that long ago, and critics were pointing out how awful the books were when they were written.
I was gonna say I’d watch that movie but it wouldn’t compare to my imagination so I’m just gonna thank you for the movie I just imagined.
Absolute cimema