Originally Posted by
achilles
I don't know, at this point I feel Bond is played out. He fit a certain zeitgeist that doesn't exist anymore, far too heavily dependent on the audience either being in the Cold War, or at least having some personal memory of it. Still, he was able to continue for a while after the end of the Cold War because he was still mostly the only game of that sort in town. But now....we've sort of limped to an ending of the Craig Bonds, we've seen it all a thousand times before, and have had a host of Bond stand-in movies, some of which were considerably better than the main Bond franchise has been.
Those are my thoughts on Bond these days, so naturally I feel sort of "meh" about anyone they cast because I'm sort of "meh" about the Bond franchise continuing at all. IMO, it's seen it's best days and should be allowed to lie fallow. Maybe some day, it's time will come again, but to my mind that day isn't today.