Anyone else confused

Rating: 10/10 (22 November 2006)

I don't get it. Bond gets his double 00 status for the first time in this film, and is a rookie and blah blah all that... yet the movie takes place in 2006... are we as the audience supposed to do away altogether with the fact that there were James Bond movies before all of this and he was a double 00 in them? Or am I missing some kind of connection. I am fully aware that this is an adaptation of the first James Bond novel ever written, but the movie in no way was a prequel to the past James Bond films. Perhaps this is sort of like Batman Begins? Either way I liked the movie, and I wanted to dislike Craig but since seeing the movie I really have no reason to. Can't wait till the next one.