10 Movies Ruined By Listening To The Fans

Despite being one of the most critically acclaimed Bond films of all time and by far the most commercially successful - it's the only one to date to crack $1 billion worldwide - some fans complained that Skyfall didn't really feel like a Bond film.

Director Sam Mendes has freely admitted that he styled Skyfall on Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, as the film's operatic presentation and twisty story made incredibly apparent throughout.

But in order to keep traditional Bond fans happy, Mendes designed Skyfall's follow-up Spectre as an act of compromise - a bridge between the kinetic invention of Skyfall and the campier tone of the Roger Moore era.

The result is a strangely stale film that charmlessly reintroduces a lot of the classic Bond tropes - more gadgets, passive female characters, a giant henchman villain (Dave Bautista's Mr. Hinx), and a new take on Blofeld (Christoph Waltz), who of course turns out to be the behind-it-all-along puppet master.

A wildly bloated 148-minute runtime certainly didn't help this messy concoction go down any better, and so hopefully the upcoming No Time to Die will manage a more harmonious balance of old and new elements, especially with its beefy 163-minute runtime.