Originally Posted by
thwhtGuardian
And as I said, it's perfectly cool to personally not dig Bond any more...but your post went beyond expressing that.
You specifically said, "we've sort of limped" and "we've seen it all before" and "far too heavily dependent on the audience either being in the Cold War, or at least having some personal memory of it." Those are your own personal feelings that you are attempting to attribute to the general audience which goes beyond a simple personal preference and to top it off it was objectively and very obviously untrue.
Again, that you personally don't care for something isn't an issue, but pretending that said preference is shared by the audience as a whole is an issue. And why do it? There's nothing wrong with disliking something that is popular or vice versa; I'm not a fan of the Walking Dead but I'm not going to try and say that my opinion is shared by more than just myself and likewise Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is one of my favorite films but you're not going to see me say that it was a huge success. I just own that sometimes my opinions don't line up with the general audience and I have no problem with that.