It's not even a new direction. It's an old direction. They try this all the time. The Bond series is a constant dance between serious dark gritty Bond and witty charming one-liner Bond. The best movies use both styles at once very effectively. It seems most people prefer one Bond style or the other. They either love the dark "new" emotional direction, or they miss their wit, charm, and one-liners and think this is becoming a Bourne Identity clone. In License to Kill, Bond actually quit his job (and gave up his license to kill) because he was so hell-bent on revenge. In Diamonds Are Forever he's hell-bent on revenge for what happened with Blofeld in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (but that's Connery, so he's got more of the wit/charm/zings as well, making it a great combo).
Anyway, I gotta stop hanging out in this thread until I see the movie.
And I understand why you guys hate on Moore. But... come on. Those movies had Jaws (in 2 badass films), lazer guns, space battles, Christopher Walken, Grace Jones, and a theme song by Duran Duran. The Moore years weren't as bad as you guys make them out to be. The Man With the Golden Gun had jokes about 3rd nipples AND it had Hervé Villechaize (the king of the 6th dimension). And that movie has extra sentimental value because it inspired years of my life playing GoldenEye with the golden gun weapon on multiplayer.
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