I gave him a fair shot breh. I own all of the movies, and I've watched them several times, over and over and over but he doesn't do it for me. And I just don't like that tone. I don't like when Bond becomes a parody of itself because there's something so awesome about the character as is, he doesn't need to be a joke. Which is why I love the spy who loved me because it balanced out his humor and tendency to be campy with a seriousness and a straightforward story that didn't allow for a lot of silliness. And I love for your eyes only because it's a straight spy story and he plays Bond perfectly in that movie. And I even love live and let die but I feel like from a film making standpoint, skyfall is above the ones of his I DO love and its above the ones I don't love. There's stuff like J.W. Pepper that I can't ignore, along with the silly shyt in moonraker, and the fact that he was clearly too old to be doing what he was doing in a view to a kill, another movie that just lacked and it was clear it was time for him to hang it up. But that campiness and that tone are the same reasons I don't like Diamonds are Forever. Once the character starts poking fun at himself and, to quote Timothy Dalton, becomes a caricature, it loses all depth and texture and truth. Does that mean I don't have fun with those movies? Of course not. Anytime they're on, I will watch them, but I also realize that there's a difference between enjoying something for the fun of it and that thing also being a good movie. Street Fighter is fun as hell but it's not a good movie by any means.
I appreciate Skyfall more than those movies because of how it was a nice balance of humor with seriousness while also exploring the psyche of this character I love, putting a lot of things back in place in a very organic way and of course the relevancy to headline news. And it was the first really really good Bond villain in a long time, although I do love Le Chiffre. I don't mind the 3rd act stuff you mentioned because one, Home Alone wasn't the first movie to have booby traps and two it was a nice inversion of the typical 3rd act where Bond goes to the villain's lair to get them. And the emotional resonance of him being reborn in a place where he became who he became along with losing his surrogate mother in the place where his parents are, it all worked for me and don't see it as problems. Especially if we want to talk about the Roger Moore flicks which all, save for two movies, have third act problems out the ass.
I said I'd take him over Roger Moore and I know @IllustratorMike bigged him up
he gave birth to Daniel Craig's shyt and he was able to do it while having chemistry with his leading lady. He just needed better movies and for em to have been made in a different decade or 2
