There were guns in those movies? I guess Ursula Andress, Shirley Eaton, Brit Ekland, Honor Blackman, Halle Berry, etc. caused tunnel vision to blind me to caliber wars.
The Daniel Graig ones have revitalized the franchise, certainly. Before him, it was starting to descend into campiness.
Well...it already had before, during the Roger Moore years. He intentionally played it for laughs.
The Bourne movies are certainly "actioners"....but they have been called "James Bond for Liberals". An assessment I agree with. The "enemy" in the Bourne movies is always the CIA itself, driven by men willing to do anything to protect America. Men who probably have a picture of Bush or Cheney somewhere in their office. Bourne always brings these guys down, usually with the help of some tough, determined woman on the inside who pretty much seems to come across as a hold-over Clinton appointee who was overlooked when the administrations changed.
Bourne's female companions are usually cute girls with bangs. The kind of girls you could meet while buying Chardonnay at Trader Joe's.
James Bond is unabashedly conservative. The martinis, the tuxedos. His country is never "the bad guy", or even misguided. Britain knows what the hell it is doing. Bond girls typically look like Vegas showgirls. The kind of women you might see have a dozen times in your entire life.