I did, but it still felt a little weird. Part of my brain kept saying things like, “This character has been in movies since before you were born. Sean Connery, who’s 76 years old, played him numerous times when he was young. So how can he be young and hot and checking out Victoria’s Secret models at this fancy hotel, which he used GPS to find?”
This is the first Bond I’ve wanted to see since “Diamonds are Forever,” and that was mostly for Jill St John’s ass cleavage. I think I’ll rent it tonight.
If that’s bugging you, for God’s sake I hope you didn’t see Batman Begins. 
Aren’t all of the Bond films set in the present day?
Or Sum of All Fears!
Correct.
I recall Le Chiffre’s last words to Bond as “Say goodbye to it, Bond”. The Smersh agent tells Bond that he has no orders to kill anyone but Le Chiffre. He then carves a sign of some kind on Bond’s hand so that he is identifiable as a potential enemy to Smersh agents in the future.
I enjoyed this Bond more than any I’ve seen in the last 40 years. To me, Connery shooting the guy with the spear gun in Thunderball and saying “I think he got he point,” marks the beginning of the decline and fall of the series. So to finally have a Bond that was truer to the earlier books is refreshing.
I calmed myself thinking of Christian Bale in black spandex Bat-Underoos, zooming around Gotham with “Hip to Be Square” thumping the Batmobile speakers.
Goldfinger isn’t. I saw it recently and it very clearly takes place sometime in the 1960’s.
Thanks, Stranger and Miller, for the exposition on Vesper’s suicide.
Is this a whoosh? Because I meant that I think the Bond films take place in or about the year they are released (but I’d like to know if I’m incorrect). Goldfinger is from 1964, so I’d expect it to take place in the 1960s.
Yes, it was a joke, sorry. 
I thought about putting in a winking smilie, but I thought it was funnier played straight faced.
I would be neat if movies continually updated themselves, though…no, I guess that’s what George Lucas does. Scratch that.
It’s very cool how they went for the retro look, even digging up a venerable Aston Martin DB5. And they did an amazing job at making Connery look 33.
Stranger
Add my vote as one who loved it. I have only seen one Moore movie, and no Dalton or Brosnan movies. Reboot, indeed.
Anybody memorize the martini formula?
Actually, there’s a Straight Dope staff report on the topic of the James Bond martini. From the book:
[sub]Edited to add: Gordon’s is gin, Kina Lillet is a brand of vermouth.[/sub]
“How was the lamb?”
“Skewered. One sympathizes.”
Add me to the list of ones who loved it. I place it 3rd, behind Goldfinger and From Russia With Love.
My only complaint is one that happens in most movies - why does the winning hand always come down to the fact that they have the nuts? It would have been better if Bond had bluffed him with a worse hand than have them both have ridiculously great cards.
Perhaps, but then he’d still have a bit further to go to pass George Lazenby.
Craig made a tough, human, 3-Dimensional Bond, and that has been lacking somewhat for a while. It’s good they tried to get back to basics, but they didn’t quite make it, IMO. The De-Fib re-animation scene was awfully silly. And I know that 007 is a clever fellow, but I find it hard to believe that M’s home defenses would be defeated so easily. There were a few other things that didn’t quite follow… I am sorry I don’t recall them as the movie didn’t really stick with me that much.
…Except for the opening action sequence–bouncing up and down crane platforms. I realize the bad-guy actor in those scenes can really run around like that but the whole thing looked like a big advertisement for “Casino Royale:007 For Wii”. Actually, rather more like “Donkey Kong” than a 21st century video game.
Pretty lame.
Good try overall, though… and an effort to move a tired franchise in the right direction.
Blood in the shape of an inverted “M”…I’m pretty certain they are the Russian letter for SH…SMYERT SHPIONAM-death to spies-and he thinks he’s labelled me as a SHPION.
Some later books make reference to the minor plastic surgery Bond had on the back of his hand to cover the mark.
Aaah, Patrick Batman. >_>