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Darmik posted...

I don't get it. Do you want these movies to be 'cartoon-show-for-grown-ups' or not?

Maybe not invariably, but it is the first thing I think of when it comes to Bond. The character is rather flexible. The constant factors though should be in his suave nature and his affinity for women, gambling, and martinis.

How is Quantum of Solace more inspired than Casino Royale or Skyfall? Hell wasn't Die Another Day the one that began with James Bond being tortured by North Koreans for a year?

I never said Quantum of Solace was more inspired than Casino Royale. I said its exploration of political and moral themes was more inspired than the formulaic action and Bond tropes from the two Brosnan Bond films he had written.

There's a difference between doing something you like doing and doing something simply because you're paid to do it. Bond fighting a villain who never sleeps and one who cannot feel anything was him doing his job. Bond being a ruthless individual and having a bone to pick on the political front was more driven.

As for the scene of torture in question, I think that was his attempt to inject a bit of darkness into the Bond series. It's undercut by all of the silliness which followed, but I do think that stems from his apparent preference for darkness.