It's not that I don't like them, or even like them any less in general; I just have a hard time considering them to be Bond movies at all. They're so serious, even when being sarcastic and dry. They're not fun, and not something I probably would have been excited to binge watch as a kid, as the other ones are/were. I try hard to convince myself this is just temporal bias, but I'm less convinced the more I think about it.
And I still can't wrap my head around the fact that Goldeneye and Casino were directed by the same person.
I say this as someone who has 4 different actors in my top 5 Bond movie list, and none are Craig. So probably not a popular opinion- but also as someone who's never read any of the books, but seen every movie multiple times.
Then again, I also consider Brave Little Toaster to be a better version of Toy Story 3, for almost opposite reasons, while I still consider TS3 to be objectively the best Pixar-formula movie made. (Unless counting the first 10 mins of Up as it's own entity.)
I think that's basically an admission to packaging and marketing a new franchise under the Bond brand.
Anyway, all the Bond movies were campy or felt B-movie-ish to some extent. Each actor did it in a different way, but they all did it. And don't forget that Moonraker exists. Which I love, but come on.
The self-parody wasn't always explicit or obvious, but it was always blatantly there. Running on alligators, breaking the 4th wall, an eyebrow wax as a (racist by today's standards) disguise.
It was always there.
yes, they seem to borrow heavily from the Bourne movies instead of from past Bond movies. Still enjoyable.
In my mind it ends up being like the Jordan-Lebron or the Ronaldo/Messi-Maradona debate. There are just too many intrinsic differences between the two eras that it makes a real comparisons basically impossible.
It may still be a great movie. The Bourne triology works great as a movie but it wouldn't, and isn't a James Bond movie.
I just wish the movie producers would create new franchises rather than reboot the others.
Skyfall is still alarmingly good, i.e. it's a bond film with explosions and car chases that also has real thematic depth and absolutely beautiful cinematography.