I never actually liked James Bond movies for their stories, but I always did like everything else - the stylish aesthetics, villain designs and general tropes.

Like the whole idea of a secret volcano HQ or evil moon base with weird gimmick henchmen and a faceless supervillain petting a cat, that's great stuff and it definitely informed the design of bigger than life villains in media for years to come.

Also the music is great and it got a stuffy yet quirky British inventor who's probably really named Q but is pretending that its his code name (that's my head canon).

It's funny how the only thing I'm not a big fan of is James Bond himself :blobcatshrug: But these movies created a winning set of tropes that can be ported to other stories that can take their own stab at it, so in the end we all benefit from these movies existing.