I think the answer is that different audiences enjoy them now. The usual darker/grittier redux. - Edit 1
Before modification by Zalis at 15/03/2013 07:58:48 PM
It's another in the series of darker, grittier, post-modern-er, whatever-er remakes we've seen done in the last decade.
I think there's room for someone to like both Bond styles, but we have to be very up-front about which is a cheesy spy movie and which is trying to be James Bourne.