The worst thing to happen to Bond in recent years wasn't the invisible car, or the inexorable ageing of Pierce Brosnan, or the wet-lipped Jonathan Price hammery as Eliot Carver.
It was the Austin Powers series.
They just couldn't do "frikkin laser beams" any more. It would've been silly - it's always been silly - but increasingly the audience becomes aware of it and they'd get laughed out of cinemas.
They were trapped between grittier action films and a funnier spoof and were, simply, tired.
I prefered the Burton Batmans too. But Batman Begins didn't reboot from Burton's Batman, it rebooted from Batman and Robin. And it was Burton who introduced the trend of having extra characters in each successive movie (just Batman and the Joker in Batman, Batman and Penguin and Catwoman [and Christopher Walken too] in Batman Returns, Batman and Robin and Riddler and Two Face in Batman Forever, Batman and Robin and Batgirl and Poison Ivy and Mr Freeze and Bane in Batman and Robin... the series *needed* a goddamn reboot.)
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It was the Austin Powers series.
They just couldn't do "frikkin laser beams" any more. It would've been silly - it's always been silly - but increasingly the audience becomes aware of it and they'd get laughed out of cinemas.
They were trapped between grittier action films and a funnier spoof and were, simply, tired.
I prefered the Burton Batmans too. But Batman Begins didn't reboot from Burton's Batman, it rebooted from Batman and Robin. And it was Burton who introduced the trend of having extra characters in each successive movie (just Batman and the Joker in Batman, Batman and Penguin and Catwoman [and Christopher Walken too] in Batman Returns, Batman and Robin and Riddler and Two Face in Batman Forever, Batman and Robin and Batgirl and Poison Ivy and Mr Freeze and Bane in Batman and Robin... the series *needed* a goddamn reboot.)