Sorry, Matt -- Bond is just more fun than Bourne.

Hollywood star Matt Damon has dismissed James Bond as being stuck in the past.

The actor, who appears in the Bourne thrillers, said: "The Bond character will always be anchored in the 1960s and in the values of the 1960s."

The suave spy was "so anachronistic when you put it in the world we live in today", he said, but added that Bourne was no better or worse than Bond.

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"Bond is an imperialist and a misogynist who kills people and laughs about it, and drinks Martinis and cracks jokes," Damon told reporters.

"Bourne is a serial monogamist whose girlfriend is dead and he does nothing but think about her."

He added that Bourne "doesn't have the support of gadgets, and he feels guilty for what he's done".

Well, Matt -- now you've identified why Bond has been a successful franchise since before I was born. He believes in what he is doing, he is unambiguously on the side of right, he's got cool stuff, and he gets the girl in the end (among other places). I'll take a weak James Bond film (such as Casino Royale, which I watched in Damon's honor last night) over Damon's Bourne flicks any day.

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