James Bond... [spoilers]

... does NOT play Texas Fucking Hold 'Em!

He shags a couple of birds and everything blows up at the end. :D

can play anything he wants to.

So why the hell should he settle for a kid's game? The man's a Bacharat expert, for Cthulhu's sake. At least let him play seven-card stud or something.

But no, the filmmakers decided they couldn't afford to ever go over the head of anyone who might ever watch this movie. So not only did they pick a game that everyone in America already understands because celebrities get to play it on national TV (which brings us back to the "kid's game" argument), but they have the dealer slowly and patiently show everyone at the table how the hands add up, like they were teenagers learning this game for the first time instead of high-rollers who'd been gambling since before the dealer learned how to make his weewee go pop.

I understand that Bond films are supposed to appeal to the lowest intellectual denominator, but that's what the chase scenes and cheesy pickup lines are for.