The name is Bond. James Bond

I was never an ardent follower of the Bond movies. I liked Pierce Brosnan and found him immensely stylish. I liked the Bond girls better especially Sophie Marceu in ' The world is not enough' . Yet I never found the stories of the Pierce Brosnan Bond very interesting. You may argue that Bond-the movie has been always been style over substance. Point taken. Though this was not always the case. The old Bond movies did not have such wafer thin plots or such boring villians.
Speaking of villians. it is the villians that add color to the heroics of the villian.Every great hero needs an even greater villian and I cant really remember any notable nemesis of Bond in these movies. For example it did not have a Joker who is a criminal not for the money or power or any worldly pursuits. He is a great villian because he is simply evil in all his flesh and bone. Pierce Brosnan's fans were instead an oil tycoons who wants to rule a pipeline or a newspaper magnate who wants to increase his circulation. Half of us would probably shrug and say that is business not a crime enough to challenge the world number one super agent. Frankly after Die another Day I thought Bond was sadly over as an icon.
In came Daniel Craig and his Casino Royale. This was the first Bond movie that I watched twice and that too back to back in the theatre. The 2 B/W kills that he makes to attain Double 0 Status, the breath taking parkour chase, the hard hitting action and I was a fan of the blonde Bond. It was surprising to see Bond fall in love and even more to see him heart broken. Nothing matched the excitement on hearing the last line of the movie... a dialogue I have heard in countless bond movies and yet one which sounded refreshingly new...
The name is Bond, James Bond