I wish they'd let the series die when they ran into legal problems in the late eighties as it had clearly run its course. For me James Bond really doesn't work in the modern world. Fleming's 007 was very much a product of the fifties and sixties, the jet set glamour and exotic locations of those original tales (both books and films) has now been rendered dull by mass tourism in the 21st Century. Clearly Daniel Craig has his fans, but he just seems like an anonymous thug in a tuxedo in a series of bland films that all blur into each other. Those early movies made in the sixties and seventies had a distinct identity and sense of atmosphere that seems unattainable in today's relentless (and tiresome) action cinema. Perhaps if they made them as "period films" set in the late fifties, early sixties, they might capture some of the flavor and excitement of those early films, but that seems unlikely. Still, as many have pointed out, as long as they make money, the studio will keep churning 'em out.
