It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to suggest that Austin Powers almost ruined the spy genre, with all of the tropes associated with cinematic espionage being so mercilessly pilloried and mocked by the shagadelic secret agent that the James Bond franchise was forced to rebuild from the ground up after Pierce Brosnan’s Die Another Day.

In the meantime, two other J.B.’s took 007’s place at the forefront of the conversation, with Jack Bauer and Jason Bourne dragging the standard formula into the modern day by gifting audiences with rough and ready action heroes that kicked ass, and sometimes didn’t even bother taking names because their opponents were already dead.

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By: Scott Campbell
Title: 3 great spy movies have infiltrated the Netflix most-watched list
Sourced From: wegotthiscovered.com/movies/3-great-spy-movies-have-infiltrated-the-netflix-most-watched-list/
Published Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 10:01:51 +0000

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