Comments on: Bond, Deconstructed

By: msherm007

msherm007 — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:35:24 +0000

Not really a disrupted timeline, more of a rebooted timeline… ala Batman begins. The flexibility is thus implied to remake any Bond title.

By: timelord

timelord — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:49:23 +0000

CHRONOLOGICAL CONTINUITY. Although I desperately miss Q and the famous 007 gadgets, what bothers me most is the disrupted timeline. I can buy the premise of going back to Bond’s origin and roots, but since he’s been around for half a century, especially during the Cold War, why do we have the contemporary M in modern era with an adolescent 007? Would it not have made chronological sense to set the origins BEFORE the Cold War, say immediately after WWII? These last two movies make it seem as if there were no Bond before this one whereas the previous ones had some sort of continuity.

By: butterfly

butterfly — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:03:06 +0000

When I saw the music video before QoS was released, the song did not connect on all cylinders for me. I kept waiting for it to “release”, which it never did. However, over the credits in the movie, I totally get it, and in fact love it. I like the pastiche of riffs and discordant elements–they fit well with the credits. I know Mk12 is getting flack on the internet, but I think it all comes together nicely. Incidentially, I saw QoS a second time, and my appreciation increased dramatically.