AxiaEuxine said:I for one think theyve ruined the Bond franchise with the last two movies. Are they decent spy movies? Sure but they arent Bond movies. I still enjoy the movies that came before though. Im not going to let the fact that holloywood needed to gut the franchise of any Bond like things to make ordinary spy movies that appealed to a wider audience stop me from enjoying Goldeneye and any other Bond movie.
As silly as the older films were sometimes, I have always loved them. A few stinkers, but most of them were a lot of fun. Didn't care a whole lot for the latest movie (it felt on par with the Die Another Day IMHO, which is not a good thing), but the latest adaption of Casino Royale is by far the Bond film that remains truest to its source material. I just always find it funny when people talk about it being de-Bond-ified in order to appeal to the masses, when in actuality it took a huge step back toward its roots.
But you are exactly right, it is silly to let bad sequels, prequels, and reboots to ruin the enjoyment of previous material that you already found enjoyable