Well, I finally watched this today

There needs to be a new name for the "SJW set," because they have no idea what justice actually means. And yes, they are destroying the series. If they decide to make Bond a transgender, as a recent article suggested, that will bury the series for good. The object is not to "create new opportunities for previously marginalized voices" (or however the hell they'd state it), rather, it's to collapse the "dominant culture" so that everyone lives in misery. It's a bleak, bleak society we're headed toward. The social science fiction of the 20th century tried to nail down the level of misery the future held. They didn't come close...

Well good for you, Sparky!

Agreed. Casino Royale was a masterpiece. For those who found it "boring"......there's always Fast & Furious 12.

I guess it just comes down to which kind of Bond films you like most....the silly/fun kind, or the kind more geared toward plot/espionage. The Daniel Craig Bond films follow the Jason Bourne approach. Darker, more serious....and the plots follow an arc, from film to film. I love most every Bond film for different reasons. And even though I think Connery is the best Bond, ironically....it's a couple of his films as Bond that I like least. Those ones in the mid-70's where he was just phoning it in (and the plots were bad)....like Diamonds are Forever, and You Only Live Twice.

I thought Roger Moore's films were tremendously fun. And even Pierce Brosnan had a couple decent turns as Bond. However, by the time Die Another Day came around, it was quite clear they needed to reboot the franchise. Where do you go after invisible cars? The villain had diamonds in his face...and then, completely changed ethnicities? And I won't even start in on Bond....windsurfing on a tsunami with a parachute and a car door. The films just got way too....dumb, goofy and ridiculous. So when they rebooted and did Casino Royale, I thought it was brilliant--and one of the best of all the Bond films. And Craig was perfect.

He looked like a man who could kill someone with his bare hands. And he did. When he choked out that assassin in the stairwell in CR, that was brutally cool. Then, he goes up to his room, washes the blood off his face....slugs down a double Scotch, puts on a new shirt...and returns to the poker game. Just....cool. That is Flemming's Bond. How about in Q of S, when he fights hand to hand, close quarters...in that apartment. He stabs the guy in the neck with his own knife....then gets him a submission hold and calmly waits while the guy bleeds out. You never saw that kind of brutal efficiency with guys like Brosnan....prancing around in his tuxedos, worrying about how his martinis were prepared.

When Craig is asked in CS hiow he'd like his martini, he says: "Do I look like I give a damn?" Perfect line. Daniel Craig is definitely the best (most talented) actor to play Bond. And his portrayal (IMO) is awesome. Only Connery is better...and it's close. Moore is great for different reasons. Oh....and the fight scene in Spectre...on the train against Bautista? That alone was worth the price of admission. One of the best fight scenes ever put to film. (The opening scene during Day of the Dead was pretty damn good as well)