Licence to Kill probably came closest to earning an R rating, with its shark feedings and several surprisingly brutal deaths pushing the boundaries of what audiences expected from a Bond movie at the time. And really, keeping the series PG-13 has always made sense from a box office perspective.

That said, I’d still love to see one R-rated Bond movie just to see what the filmmakers could do with the extra creative freedom. Nothing excessive or gratuitous, of course. Just a slightly harder edge with stronger language, tasteful nudity, and non-gratuitous violence that serves the story. Think Deadpool & Wolverine or a Tarantino movie, but unmistakably James Bond. Sign me up!