Sean Connery had humor, but Roger Moore brought cartoonish camp to the role (Jaws, Sheriff J.W. Pepper, etc.) If Daniel Craig wants to blame anyone for a ‘serious’ Bond, he can blame Mat Damon and his Bourne movies for raising the action bar.
Quite. The movies got too comedic, unto campy, heading straight into stupid. Austin Powers just took it to the logical conclusion.
Glad they did a “reboot”, taking it back to awesome-yet-believable, Bond having unbeatable skills but having to work & struggle mightily to achieve & win - and having barely-beatable villains to match.
” If Daniel Craig wants to blame anyone for a ‘serious’ Bond, he can blame Mat Damon and his Bourne movies for raising the action bar.”
I think it is a cross between Mike and Mat. It made Bond need to take its own route. I think it is a much better result now since the first bond movies weren’t really “by the book”.