# If you saw Bond...was Halle Berry as horrible as I expect she was?

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**Created:** [November 23, 2002, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-saw-bond-was-halle-berry-as-horrible-as-i-expect-she-was/138305 "2002-11-23T03:38:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![sirtonyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-saw-bond-was-halle-berry-as-horrible-as-i-expect-she-was/138305/41 "2002-11-26T16:07:28Z")

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\*\* SPOILERS \*\* written here 'cause I don’t know how to do the color thingy lots of other people do 😉

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> \*Originally posted by El\_Kabong \*  
> **Secondly, and this charge can be leveled at any number of recent action films, the CGI effects, instead of wowing us as presumably intended, demolish any tension or sense of peril concerning the characters involved. When are filmmakers going to learn that photo-realistic does not equal realistic?**

Gotta agree with you there. Did they get the original Star Trek effects crew involved with this movie?

The second surfing sequence has to have the most truly awful, pathetic and unrealistic CGI effects ever released in a big budget movie. I laughed at that sequence when I was supposed to be in awe of it.

As for the story; incomprehensible drivel (nothing new for a Bond movie there and didn’t bother me too much). Liked the villain with the diamonds. WTF is up with that car; invisible? Puhlease.  
Quite liked Halle Berry as Jinx and Brosnan as Bond.

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**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-saw-bond-was-halle-berry-as-horrible-as-i-expect-she-was/138305/42 "2002-11-26T19:17:06Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Blackeyes \*  
> \*\*I think it is bad enouugh her name is _not_ Wai Lyn, Octupussy, or Pussy Galore but Jinx. You’re screwing up a perfectly good system with that. It’s a tradition.
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> But Halle Berry saying Jinx is feisty and independent, an equal of Bond, and implying that the next Bond should be a woman? Blashpemy! :mad: :mad: :mad: \*\*

I have heard (rumors) that she’s possibly a spinoff character, they were leaving the possibility of having a string of “Jinx” movies.

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-saw-bond-was-halle-berry-as-horrible-as-i-expect-she-was/138305/43 "2002-11-26T21:01:54Z")

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What I couldn’t figure out is why Zao’s doctor didn’t start out by saying, “Okay, ten minutes, a pair of tweezers, and some betadine ointment and you will not only be able to get through customs easier, you’ll be able to pay for the rest of your treatments!”

As for Halle, she was pretty darn good-lookin’, and demonstrating the value of the miracle which is the WonderBra Bikini. W00t.

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