15 Crazy Facts You Just Have To Accept To Enjoy The James Bond Franchise

10. Poor Effects Are Surprisingly Common

Despite the majority of the Bond films being high-budget, lavish Hollywood blockbusters, the incidence of absolutely pap visual effects is surprisingly common. Some of the more egregious examples include awful sped-up boat footage in Thunderball, Dr. Kananga getting blown up like a balloon by a shark gun pellet in A View to a Kill, the CGI scenes of Jinx (Halle Berry) taking a cliff-dive and Bond surfing a tidal wave in Die Another Day, and the poor green screen when Bond is riding a motorbike at the start of Skyfall. Thankfully the Craig movies employ CGI much more sparingly than the Brosnan movies that preceded them, helping to make Bond's world infinitely more grounded even if they're not completely guilt-free either. Still, nothing dates a movie faster than "cutting edge" effects that in reality aren't so fancy.