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We're in a bit of a sticky situation. Nationalism is very unpopular now, and people have a general distrust of our government and its institutions. That is reflected in these movies, where the enemy is actually their own organization, where it would have been a foreign enemy in the past, like an actual enemy of our country. But then the depiction of the government institutions as untrustworthy in so many movies fuels people's distrust of the government to the point where now the only stories that people will believe are where the hero is fighting internal powers. It's a bit of circular reinforcement.
Well it's nice to see Russia doing their part to make foreign superpowers unpopular again.
I'm itching for a James Bond where he's up against the KGB again, and has his full kit of ultra-modern make-believe toys!
The first Kingsman movie was one of the best new Bond film, even if it had some tongue-in-cheek parody elements and openly acknowledged it. Over the top bad guy, fun gadgets, saving the world. Definitely scratches the itch for a Bond film pretty well.
And the KGB is on a rusty bicycle from 1929.