007 From Russia With Love (1963) MOVIE REACTION! FIRST TIME WATCHING!
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- Hello everyone and welcome to Cinema Rules! The second official 007 James Bond Movie ever made starring Sean Connery is From Russia With Love. This franchise didnt get off to a great start with Shaun who hasnt seen most of the films, but does this one improve upon his criticisms? Find Out!
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Shaun: "This intro credits is very sexual, isn't it?" You boys ain't seen nothin' yet.
@@qjinx1 yep absolutely fantastic to see those sexy beautiful women!
Trivia: The book is 315 pages long and the first 115 pages are spent exclusively on the villains planning the trap to kill James Bond. It's amazing that the filmmakers managed to summarize this long prologue in just 20 minutes.
Shaun: 'This film is so much hornier than the last one'
Multiple Bond films to come: 'Hold my Vodka Martini'
Interesting reaction - thanks. I don’t agree that there was no spectacle in Dr No: in an era before mass air travel, the exotic locations in the early Bond films were a major part of their appeal.
Yes, it's a good looking film, and the design of No's lair is excellent.
Lol it was the most spectacle you could get from British cinema. Ursula Andress in a bikini was worth the price of admission alone. No one had ever seen anything like that in a movie before.
I think the expansive exposition dumps are a product of a time when audiences had longer attention spans which made them better equipped to process and remember them. Also have to take into account that these first movies were introducing Bond to the movie going public so they had to be a bit more long winded in laying out exactly what and why things were happening as they were.
Also the movie was re-written in editing stage and the spectre exposition scene reworked with use of rear-projection covering up the old scenes.
also there is the genre defining tropes , one can not simply expect this to be an action movie , it is a spy thriller and as such needs it's intrigue, convoluted plots, subterfuge and unlike the past Sean Conery era starting with Roger Moore , not too relying on implausible gadgets. The suitcase , the explosive, the foldable rifle all were quite plausible and one could say existed since WW2 which also is the point since Ian Fleming who created James Bond served during WW2 as part of British secret service.Speaking of not be a one simple route to finish, try consider how much more realistic this feels if you place yourself in Bond's shoes and wouldn't expect to know what lies ahead or just do the pickup and deliver as ordered, would constantly expect trouble.
@@waltkafka7475 Agreed. Just had an MCU -marathon. Almost all of them had this but Black Panther was special case of tediousness with constant telling-not-showing.
This is why I am glad I mostly watch vintage films. I can take this stuff a lot easier. Everything moves too damn fast today. A cut every five seconds, the camera moving like it's on a damn rollercoaster, BLECH !
There was no good reason to bog down the movie so much. Just look at North By Northwest from four years earlier; the plot is as complex as FRWL but the film keeps things constantly moving and interesting.
The villain played by Robert Shaw was one of the great actors of the era. Have ya guys not seen "Jaws"? He plays Quint, one of the greatest film characters ever. Shaw was also great as the villains in other 70s classics like "The Sting" and "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three", both must-sees. He was also Oscar-nominated for playing Henry VIII in "A Man for All Seasons".
I always thought Robert Shaw was about the only bad guy who looked like he could actually hurt Connery.
Oddjob's actor actually did hurt Connery
Good thing Connery wasn't a great white shark...
Robert Shaw's Red Grant is one of the best bond villains, especially matching him physically and mentally... he's the anti 00 agent...and his performance is perfect. No doubt about it.
What about those two gay henchmen in Diamonds Are Forever?
@@SpaceCattttt When they serve the "bomba surpreez". 🤣
The fight scene in the train car between Connery and Shaw is one of the most underrated in cinema. It toes the line between choreographed and realistic perfectly, and for me it's the highlight of what is otherwise one of the weaker Connery Bond films.
“That sounded like fucking Harry Potter”
Cheers mate, I’ll never be able to un-hear that 😂😂
From Russia with Love is considered one of the best Bond films, in terms of realism and the seriousness of the challenges that Bond faces. Plus Robert Shaw is one of the best villains of the franchise. FRWL really broke the Bond franchise in popularity, only to increase greatly with Goldfinger (and the rest of the British Invasion of 1964/65). Great movie but it is very much of it's time in terms of Cold War intrigue.
Just said something similar. Should have read your post first. Totally agree with you.
Rosa Klebb is played by the Austrian/American singer and actress Lotte Lenya who was at one time married to composer Kurt Weill known mainly for his collaboration with German playwright and theatre director Bertolt Brecht. In their most famous work The Threepenny Opera she performed the song Mack the Knife - this time not in her shoe!She was also in the original production of Cabaret on Broadway in a part that was eventually cut from the film.
The scene of Bond discovering Romanova in his hotel room is used to this day to audition new Bond actors, due to so perfectly capturing the most important parts of the role. There's some pretty fun footage of the various auditions out there.
yep - and the audition from Jeremy Irons is so incredible that I cannot believe he wasn't selected for the role
Do you have any links to any??
@@jeremylarson6267 Doesn't seem to be on youtube.
@@Reuben_95 Sam Neill's screentest from 1987 using the Romanova scene: th-cam.com/video/5V15wNflslc/w-d-xo.html
James Brolin's screentest from 1983: th-cam.com/video/ksjXilVYIxw/w-d-xo.html
@@Danny_Dummy they all pale in comparison to Sean lol!
Thanks for sharing!
Pedro Armendáriz, the actor who played Kerim Bey was diagnosed with cancer, while they were filming. He was in immense pain throughout the filming and they hurried shooting his scenes, so that he could give the money from the film to his family. He ended up shooting himself in the hospital once his scenes were completed.
He was a real one
And somehow he gives a performance that's just bursting with life, making Kerim far more memorable than a character who's scripted as just a generic sidekick really should be.
@@Rmlohner Exactly!
I don't get what is the deal with caring about family so much. When you die it won't matter to you how your family is doing.
@@azazello1784 Aren't you a delight.
His son Pedro Armendariz jr. played president Lopez in License to Kill.
The best Bond film, period. The perfect villain ensemble, the best villain scheme, Bond reduced to being a pawn which adds to the tension to the story, and Connery at the peak of his looks and charisma. From Russia With Love will forever be the best Bond adventure.
Well said
Certainly one of the best. I think I prefer "Goldfinger" (1964) but this one has always been a favorite.
I know some people love it, but it still feels a bit creaky and naff to me. Goldfinger is peak 60s Bond for me: better pacing, more rousing score, more interesting female lead.
Auric Goldfinger is actually my favorite Bond villain because of the humanity he exhibited. He hates Bond because he makes him feel inferior and that jealously is apparent throughout the film. He also pathetically tries to over compensate by hiring beautiful women to be around him.
Absolutely the best Bond film ever. It's never been surpassed. "FRWL" succeeds on every level.
"Nursing his injuries and wounded pride after being defeated by 007, Grant retired to the quiet and uneventful life of a New England fisherman."
And got eaten by a Shark😎
Farewell and Adieu Fair Spanish ladies...
Not bad for a guy who started out as an Irish gang boss in New York.
Shaw really is the prototype for Craig's Bond isn't he. Cold, tough, deadly, blonde.
That's what I felt since Craig took over the role. I have always thought Daneil Craig would make a better Bond villian than a Bond. I guess it's a matter of opinion as he is popular, but he's not my favorite Bond.
Dalton becomes the full Craig prototype too, earlier than audiences were ready for it
Can't wait for No Time to Die.
Yeah he aged so badly by Jaws he barely looks like the same person.
@@frosksdeadteeth5163 So handsome here, though 😉
The character of Kerim Bey who is considered to be one of the best supporting characters in the whole franchise was played by Pedro Armendáriz who was severely ill while filming From Russia With Love and died shortly after production finished and before the film was released.
FRWL (the film adheres more closely to the Fleming novel) and a frequent aspect of most of the novels was the travelogue nature of the adventures. International travel was not as common back then, so the foreign locations and activities were a draw for the audience. Also, compared to Dr. No, where the villain really doesn't appear till half way through the film, FRWL has an espionage plot with multiple villains and moving parts, so there is more exposition needed.
This. 60s Istanbul is exotic. Gypsy camps are exotic.
When I first saw this one as a kid I wasn’t keen but watching it now it’s one of my favourites. It’s a film that ages like fine wine to me. And….Sean Connery is by far the best Bond for me. Can’t wait for the reactions to the Roger Moore films as they’re just ridiculous 😂
I hope you get to all of the different bond eras
I hope you give 'Never Say Never Again' a chance! Although it's not a Broccoli production, I actually rate it as one of the better Connery Bonds. Better than Thunderball, which told the same story 18 years earlier.
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It's pretty funny to see Robert Shaw's role in Jaws after watching this film, since A. that movie also has a scene where someone inappropriately has red wine with fish (though Shaw isn't in it), and B. he makes a big deal out of piano wire, like he's killed with here.
He's like Jaws in this movie, always on the hunt.
Spielberg was the original choice of director for The Spy Who Loved Me, which was made while Jaws was in post-production. Bond meets a new villain called, er, Jaws, and has another Shaw-style train fight with him. And since the character wasn't called Jaws in the book, I assume this is deliberate in some way, but not sure how or why, other than some kind of commercial consideration (which they wouldn't have known ahead of Jaws' release). 🤔
@@nevrogers8198 well they sent Bond into space because of Star Wars...
@@ChrisOliver4307 Agreed. I always thought it was ironic that the last words Bond says to him are "Shmile you shunnova bish."
@@chefskiss6179 "You're gonna need a bigger train."
The fight scene between Bond and Grant is brutal and back then it was one of the most violent ever made. Still holds up today IMO and Grant is often considered as one of the best villains in the Bond Universe. You know Grant (Robert Shaw) played Quint in Jaws, right?
This one takes a couple of viewings to understand all plot points. It's intricate as far as the villains plans are, but it's not convoluted once you get what everyone's plan is. This is a top 5 Bond film.
It's best to consider both 'Dr No' and 'From Russia With Love' as prototypes for the franchise, as both had different elements that the later films would re-use, but neither had all of them. It's the reason why people say 'Goldfinger' is the first REAL Bond film, it was the first to get the combination right, and established the formula that would be reused in every single film pretty much up to the Daniel Craig era.
Goldfinger is no doubt the definitive Bond.
But From Russia with Love is often considered the best of the entire series. Although is admittedly showing its age.
6.9 is scandalous Sean!!!!
@@blackholesupersloth3276 To be fair I'd rank it pretty similar. It's a good spy-thriller but it's painfully dated in a lot of parts, has really awkward pacing (dig that part where Bond roams his hotel room casually while the theme music is BLASTING at full volume) and doesn't really hold up in comparison to other Bond movies with the more familiar tropes
But as said, that's forgivable since it's more of a prototype for what came later, but still doesn't earn it any points in comparison
Well, I'd actually disagree with that. In terms of iconography Goldfinger is brilliant of course, but it has massive structural and plot problems imo. And for a film that "got the elements right", it certainly got the locations so very wrong. Most of that film feels like it was filmed on a set, because it was. Only the brief 5 minutes in Austria give you any feeling of globetrotting.
@@blackholesupersloth3276 That's a really low score and definitely scandalous! However his weird apprehension to the tame 60's styled sex scenes and flirty bits had me in stitches. Is he an asexual or something? Kind of came of like an 11 year old watching the film with his parents. Maybe it's some kind of modern male feminist thing I'm not privy to? In any case hilarious antics.
@@Fedorevsky These "sexy" scenes just look gratuitous and silly to someone not from the era.
I wonder how many babies out there have James as their daddy?
Pedro Amandaritz (Kerim Bey) let it be known he had terminal cancer during filming in Turkey and was in a lot of pain, hence his pronounced limp. They had to rush through his scenes and get him back to Pinewood to finish his part. When he returned to the U.S. he went to hospital and shot himself to finish it. The opening scenes with the exposition of the plot did not make a lot of sense when edited together. They moved the "death" of Bond to the opening, when it was to be shown a bit later and added a further scene with Klebb filmed against a blow up background (the set was taken down at this point) and a reverse shot of Klebb included. The boat scenes were filmed in Scotland as they could not get any fast boats in Turkey where it was supposed to happen. The helicopter pilot flew very low and close to Connery during those shots. The boats on fire did get out of control and the stunt guys were jumping off the boats for real. The action was nearly lost in the smoke. It is still in the top 10 of the Bonds. A solid spy story following Flemings story closely.
P.S. the "one of our aircraft is missing" line is a reference to a wartime film of the same name and so is now lost to modern viewing.
Get well soon boys.
They should've added a dedication after the end credits and you know what it should say?
@@StephenLuke Agree, but they did not do that back in the day.
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I got the bluray collection just recently, this one was great, loved the setting and it felt so unique with the train. Could be one of my favs.
Context again guys. Britain was in an economic recession, much of the South still had bomb damage after the war. Rationing had finished only 10 years before the film, no one went on holidays abroad, many films were still being made in black and white. At the start of 1964 the UK had 2 TV channels which only broadcast 7 or so hours a day. The spectacle was seeing foreign countries in colour. In addition the Bond films were action packed compared to other films of the day and based on a successful series of books that were getting more popular (think Harry Potter). You seem to be missing Connery's star power a bit too. All that being said you'll see a step up in quality in Goldfinger, and they continue getting bigger as they go for the next few.
"Step up in quality in _Goldfinger"?_ Ehh, this film's better. _Goldfinger_ really doesn't hold up apart from codifying the "Bond formula".
I hope Shaun and Tom are making a smooth recovery from their personal pandemic! 💉
You realize Red Grant the villain was Robert Shaw from Jaws. And the template of these movies are very much the description that Shaun gives at the end at least for the earlier ones. It was sort of a design in the beginning but as the movies progress it gets much better. And the stereotypes, chauvinism, and overly sexy plots were also part of the Bond recipe for success but also were much more present in the earlier ones. It's still there in the later ones but everything gets better as they go. I really think you'll like the Roger Moore movies better because they really get a good balance of it all.
Please get better soon lads 😢
One of the best Bond films . The train scene with Robert Shaw is my favorite Bond vs. Bad Guy scene. Rarely do you ever see a Bad Guy get the better of Bond, like he does when he savagely knocks him out.
I think you guys might be a little too young for these films in a way. Movies in the 60's weren't made for people with the short attention spans of today.
I don't think it's a matter of attention span, it's a matter of being used to a different formula. As for me, the whole movie, from start to finish, breathes a Cold War atmosphere that I draw in.
I'm 35 and this is my favorite bond movie...I don't think its an age thing, I think its about expectations... the older Bond films are just slower paced and when your used to like Skyfall, with its pacing its hard to go back and see how they were trying to figure out the bond formula in a lot of ways...because there wasn't 50 years of perfecting it. So its gonna be different. I think its a matter of expectations cuz they just watched the good the bad and ugly which can also be really slow and they kept with it , so I think its about these early films being just so different from the modern ones
I think it's just a problem with this film. They weren't complaining about the pacing of Psycho or The Seventh Seal.
I am 29. But this is my favorite Bond film. Its probably the acting style and performances. I didn't hear them mention once how great Kerim Bey is. Or any of the scenes with M and Moneypenny.
I really enjoy the flirting between Moneypenny and James. The office scenes with M are almost always funny. The little touches like Connery throwing the hat to the rack.
I am not sure that they have mentioned how effortless cool Sean Connery is as James Bond. For a long time the only Bonds i was familiar with were Brosnan and Craig. I used to think that Craig was great. A total bad*ss. But then Connery is not only bad*ss, he's also very charming and charismatic, like Brosnan. He's also funny sometimes. Neither Brosnan nor Craig have that. Maybe Craig has a bit.
I like all those little touches which makes every character feel distinct. And mostly fun. I never felt these were exposition scenes.
_Dr No_ was good but _From Russia with Love_ is already a big improvement. I just love the Cold War-thriller-atmosphere the entire thing has, how the opening scenes in Istanbul kinda built up this entire world of espionage. And the sequence onboard the Orient Express is just excellent. But it won't be until the next movie that they *really* nail the formula.
By the way, this was the first of eleven Bond-movies scored by the great John Barry. And it was the last movie of Actor Pedro Armendáriz who played Kerim Bey. He was terminally ill with cancer during filming and shot himself four months before the movie was released.
First things first, love your guys' channel. I am always happily anticipating your next reactions because I know you will both bring your own unique perspective to the film. However, I feel as if Shaun has a harder time dealing with older film's style, content, and pacing. I have always when I watched any older films tried to contextualize the film as much as possible and that helps me see what the audience would have been looking for in their time. So when Shaun says things like "this whole show is just sex and exposition" it's like yes! That's what the sexually oppressed audiences that grew up in a socially conservative England wanted! And Sean Connery was the personification of that sex crazed era in cinema.
@@waltkafka7475 compared to the 40's and 50's you aren't. But yeah, I know what you mean. Our country seems to be going backwards also. And I think Craig's Casino Royale is the closest we'll get to the novels. Bond the novels are also deeply rooted to it's cold war era. I think the film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is as close to the tone of the old James Bond novels as you'll get.
@@waltkafka7475 Even Le Carre, who wrote his original novels in the early 60s moved on and tried to write about a world in which traditional spies and espionage was no longer relevant.
@@dcallahan713 Compared to what you can see in movies from the 1920s and 1930s (and sometimes the 40s & 50s), most of the current population is a bunch of repressed bluenoses, and obsessed with sexual boundaries and "proper" behaviour. Neo-Victorian in so many ways. In fact I often feel this is a more conformist time than the 1950s. I even rather miss the 70s, when most of the women I knew weren't wearing bras and had more sense than to "express" themselves via some fad for permanent bodily mutilation. Sometimes one has to wonder if that sort of thing is both conformist behaviour and perhaps a reaction to a repressive environment.
The 2006 adaptation of Casino Royale only takes the broad strokes of Fleming's novel.
The pre-1960s was definitely not more sexually liberated. Have you never heard of the Breen Code?
Alright, this is my fave Bond, you want to hear from me. The "boring exposition dump" in this is arguably the closest you'll ever get in this franchise exploring life at the cold war frontline. Naturally, I totally disagree with you on this, except for the gypsy camp scene, perhaps. The whole Istanbul setup in addition also provides context for the entire adventure. Seriously, guys, two superpowers waging an underhanded war while a third party plays both, what's not to like?
As for the sexism, I don't need to condemn it, I just consider it a curious artifact of the time. A lead up to the porn explosion in the 70s.
I do have one question for you though: what would you have Tatiana rather do? She's a hapless secretary that was thrust into it. If all women are badass, none are. She's my favorite bond girl, she remains light-hearted and easy-going in spite off.
And it's not as though she's on the level of Tiffany Case or Mary Goodnight. She may be fairly useless in facing off against SPECTRE, but she's not outright incompetent.
I second everything said by you. And i am glad someone share's my opinion about Tatiana. She's my favorite along with Tracey. She's not iconic like Honey or Galore. She's not counted among the best by fans like Tracey or Vesper. But she's the most easy to like imo. There's actual chemistry between the leads. And i think the film works so much better with her as the backbone of the story. I was not sure whose side she was on till the very end.
@@soubhagyanayak3098 Yes, she's almost certainly my favorite Connery-Bond girl. (Aki comes close, but her needless--if cleverly done--death sours my feelings a bit.)
Honestly, that call out for Harry Potter ripping the James Bond Soundtrack was spot on. And I'm Canadian, we never say "Spot On". Clearly watched too many of your videos.
The greatest James Bond movie ...Goldfinger!
Goldfinger, From Russia with Love and Casino Royale are the contenders for the top spot
In 1963, people were pretty uptight about the portrayal of sex in cinema, so clever innuendos or suggestion produced both thrills and laughs at the time of "From Russia with Love". ...Also, it helped to make James Bond an aspirational character for men of that time. Somewhat different than the "nerd wizard" aspirational characters, that men of today have.
@@waltkafka7475 A good way to put it.
@@waltkafka7475 The guy who founded Playboy wasn't a Boomer either (Can't call his name at the moment?). He and Fleming led the way to the more open minded 1960's. Also, concerning the depiction of sex, men and society were pretty much the same before the Boomers, if not more so. People now don't see it, because most of those men are 80+ years old, if they're even still around.
@@sparky6086 Playboy founder Hugh Hefner published some of the Bond short stories in his magazine. Hefner was an advocate of living the good life, including enjoying sex. The Bond films seem to have a retrograde attitude toward sex, but in many supposedly mature movies of the time, conventional morality always had to be shown to triumph and sexually "immoral" women had to be punished or shown to regret their actions. The Bond films rejected all those conventions.
I am 34 years old and my screen idols are the vintage tough guys ! Connery, Marvin, Bronson, Eastwood, those are the men I want to be !
I hate when Quint dies.
LOL! That made me laugh out loud.
In Memory of
Pedro Armendáriz
(1912-1963)
Final Film of
Eunice Gayson
(1928-2018)
I wish you guys a quick recovery! You’re the best
The "Will you make love to me always..." was a vehicle to get the funny reaction out of Miss Moneypenny.
The popularity of James Bond really took off in the US when President John F Kennedy listed "From Russia With Love" as one of his favorite books.
Looked like Tom needed that cushion after watching the title sequence.
Lol yea since when has Tom been so uncomfortable with all the hornyness and sex in this movie...I don't remember him being that uncomfortable at all the sexual tension in the notebook.
Yes, a lot of it because of the locations. You need to remember that travelling back then was a bit more expensive and more rarely done. You also could not just go online and search for pictures of remote places. You couldn't just go on Google Maps, look at Paris, change to Streetview and look at the Eifel Tower as if you stood at the street below it as an example.
Another thing, the creators were still working out the basic formula for Bond at the time. The budget is something else that slowly rose as the movies drew in more and more people. Just wait until you reach 'You only live twice'. The one set there is incredible.
I don't think these two get that with older films!
One of the best Bond films, and probably my favorite of the Bond books I've read so far. Ironically the films were made out of order. The book is actually set before DR. NO.
A few points here from a geezer who grew up in the era. 1) FRWL and “Casino Royale” work well, both as novels and films, because they were based, though VERY loosely, on actual events from WW2 that occurred while Fleming was working for MI6. (He worked personally with Sir William Stephenson, who was the basis for M.) 2) The filmmakers, and Fleming, took the opportunity take cliches from previous spy thrillers and roll them up in one. The helicopter bit is from “North by Northwest,” the chase through the sewers is from “The Third Man,” and the Orient Express stuff is from Agatha Christie and “The Mask of Dimitrios,” by Eric Ambler, which was made into a film with Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. 3) When I saw the film, on first theatrical release, I sat bolt upright during the credits, because the script was credited to Len Deighton, one of my favorite novelists, but subsequent releases don’t show this, because Deighton only wrote the first draft. You should do “The Ipcress File,” based on Deighton’s novel. It was produced by the Salzman-Broccoli team that did the Bond franchise, and starred Michael Caine as the “anti-Bond.”
In any case, bond's best movie is "North by Northwest". Everything that came after were copies of that. And they never reached the fast-paced level of Hitch's.
Huh, I just mentioned North By Northwest in a different comment! That's a great example of a film that came before FRWL that managed to be an intricate thriller without bogging down in needless exposition. I guess we have it in mind because the helicopter scene in FRWL is obviously nicked from the crop-duster scene in NBNW.
I think, at the time, less people went abroad for their holidays. Part of the Bond formula was to show exotic locations to make the movie seem "larger".
Is there anything more James Bond than slyly enjoying a vicious catfight between two beautiful ladies?
One of my favorite scenes from the film. I’ll never forget seeing that catfight for the first time as a young man 😏
Interesting how modern audiences get angry about the sexism, but the violence is not offensive at all. Maybe values should be questioned, rather than waiting for the zeitgeist to assign your morality.
Sad Fact, the actor for Kerim Bey (Pedro Armendariz) worked on the set of The Conqueror (yes, the same one with John Wayne himself) and like many people on the set, he got cancer because they were downwind of a nuclear testing site after being told by the U.S. Government that it was safe for them to work there. He took his own life after learning the disease was terminal. He was known by his friends to be one of the most interesting men in the world.
Tatiana is NOT in love with Bond, although she seems to be enjoying the affair. She doesn't expect it to last. That's clear if you are paying attention to their dialogue towards the end. Remember that all the lovey talk earlier on that you guys mention is part of an act she is supposed to be putting on and is being recorded for people in England and/or Russia to hear.
All the intrigue, exposition, and secondary characters is what makes this a spy story and not just an actioner. Most people will tell you that FRWL is the closest to a traditional "espionage thriller" of all the Bond films. As spy flicks go however, the plot of FRWL isn't at all hard to follow.
Bloke on left gets it.
Bloke on right has recently learnt the expression 'exposition dump' and wants to use it as much as possible.
Seems the film uses exposition dump as much as possible too 👀 haha
Would love to see someone react to Sam peckinpah’s films. A total legend, who though a crazy person who was a full blown alcoholic made some legendary flicks. Try the wild bunch or cross of iron. His use of slow motion, ultra violence (for time), still look stunning. Can’t believe no one as far as I know has never reacted to him.
From Russia With Love is a step up from Dr No but never been a favourite. In the wider Bond community, it usually ranks within people’s top five Bond films. Goldfinger is historically the general audience’s choice for best Bond film (or Connery’s best) and it’s my favourite of his so it’ll be interesting to see what you think as it’s a different vibe from these first two.
It's the first one with a real rousing Bond theme song!
Why has it never been a favorite for you?
@@randywhite3947 Don’t get me wrong, it’s a wonderful film and I could watch it at almost any time but so many of the other Bond films have a lot more that I personally enjoy so that just puts From Russia With Love into the lower half of my list unfortunately.
FRWL is my fav of the Connery films but it isn't without issue. The gypsy camp scene is probably the most unnecessary sequence of the film.
That said, it's sort of a miracle that it works as it was massively changed in the editing. The spectre exposition scene was originally later in the film and was then moved earlier and refilmed to give a more followable sequence. There were various other issues such as a helicopter crash involving the director, and Kerim Bey's actor being ill with inoperable cancer.
Well, I don't agree with Shawn's review, I still feel the Connery Bonds are massively better than the Brosnan Bonds.
Glad to see this come up and hope you guys get better soon.
I’d say if Dr No was the bones, this was the blocks on top, and seems like the next film is where the formula really starts to get settled in and we see Bond really going bigger and bigger as far as the stakes.
You know why your channel is great? You actually call out what you think is shit in films. So many channels just pretend to like everything, don't mention any negatives, or sugar coat the negatives.
Remember: any flaws you find can be blamed on the producer, a man named Broccoli. You're welcome.
These films are of a different era, this one was based on a novel written 64 years ago, Russia was still the Soviet Union in an arms race & space race with the U.S. Men wanted to be Bond, women wanted to be with him, a real man instead of a desk worker or taxi driver or teacher. He was sophisticated but tough, he could be tender, funny, cruel, a hero. The '50s were dull, music artists no sooner came up with rock and roll then the U.S. government did their best to stamp it out. The we had crooners and girl groups for a few years until the British Invasion (thanks for that by the way). The swinging '60s were more wild with min-skirts, drugs and psychedelic music with anti-war protests and big music festivals and sit-ins.
This film came out in Oct. 1963, back in Feb. Beatlemania in the UK was already underway. 1 month after this their 2nd album would be out and in early '64 they'd conquer America and the U.S. was no longer king of pop music. Bond was part of that revolution, the franchise grew, 4 more Bond films would be released in the '60s.
first 2 bond movies were not great i think they were trying to find the right balance between action and humour ...but trust me the next 3 bond movies are even in todays terms at least 8 out of 10 movies
Disagree on Thunderball, it's so drawn out and slow. FRWL is the best Bond film.
@@StupidFaceRob I agree about Thunderball, a real bore. Never Say Never Again actually did it better.
@@ThreadBomb I disagree about NSNA. Connery was too old and some of the acting by supporting cast was so-so at best. I do still watch it from time to time as on the whole I enjoy 'Bond', but Thunderball will always be better IMO, great soundtrack too.
@@mandylorien314 I thought Connery was great in Never Say Never Again and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Largo was better than many of the "official" series villains.
Man. Some people seem to be really offended about Tom and Shaun’s opinions of this film. An opinion is a personal thing, it’s yours, that’s why it’s called an opinion. How do some people in this comment section not understand that. LOL 😂
But we can't give our opinions, I guess, lol.
@@brandonflorida1092 it’s not that we can’t give opinions it’s just that some people are to harsh about it if you get what I’m saying.
@@brandonflorida1092 well I’m going to leave it there any way. Its midnight over here in England so I shouldn’t really be on my phone.
"Why isn't this a televised sport today?"
Lol, the Chess World Cup just wrapped up today, was streamed on Twitch and TH-cam mainly.
The best Bond film made so far and very close to the book which was the best of the series. I guess you can't help being millennials but "in the olden days" people had more concentration for plots. When this was made, the world was not the world you were born into. People didn't travel overseas, Films were the closest people got. By the way...there were many, many blokes who lived like Bond, Ian Fleming (the writer) was one of them! Not all men followed rules in those days...
The next two, Goldfinger and Thunderball, are classics. Can't wait.
Goldfinger, yes. Not sure about the other one.
Anthony Dawson played Blofeld. Mr. Dawson played Professor Dent in Dr. No.
Fun fact: Actor who plays Blofeld's henchman returns in the Roger Moore era as recurring character General Gogol.
Walter Gotell that’s who he is, his character’s name is Morzeny.
Considered the best for many older Bond fans. Next is Goldfinger, the most famous of them all. The silliness starts.....
Thunderball and from Russia with love are the best
@@ryann5247 I never got into Thunderball although I love Fiona Volpe but for me Connery's best are From Russia and You Live Twice which I know the blonde guy would hate.
Thunderbore. I think it's Connery's worst.
@@ricardocantoral7672 Thurnderbore is crap but it's not as bad as Diamond Are Forever which is the worst Bond movie
@@ricardocantoral7672 obviously you haven't seen never say never again.
It's funny how some people react to the swarmy nature of old bond movies I see as tongue and cheek not to be taken seriously. I'm a lot more disgusted by the man child comedies of the 2000s personally.
great reaction guys love the banter your both awesome & ever I see you out about you'll have a pint on me, your video helped distract me through some dark times during the grieving from my dad's passing.
A bit slow in places but that's a sign of the times.
the fight between Bond & Red Grant is a classic.
Not sure, but I want to say I remember Sylvia Trench being the only Bond girl who appears in more than one Bond film (who isn’t Moneypenny) and isn’t like a flashback or memory or such, ie has her own lines.
Goldfinger is the one that sets the template for all modern bond films so it's start being more bond after Goldfinger but I don't know I just love the Sean Connery films lol
Looking forward to the camp being stepped up a bit with the Roger Moore films later on.
The blond guy.... Quint.
Rober Shaw is an excellent actor. You guys should consider seeing "A Reflection of Fear" and "The Caretaker". He is awe-inspiring in the latter.
Next up is Goldfinger..
I'm so glad you're reviewing all of Bond. The movies get better and better. I can't wait for Goldfinger! As always: finish Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy: 2) Prince of Darkness and 3) In the Mouths of Madness.
After you've seen all the films up to Diamonds Are Forever, you can watch Austin Powers and get all the references.
"Red" Grant's toast in Jaws: "Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women".
Daniela Bianchi, who plays Tatiana, is the reference Bond 'girl'. It's her performance that all Bond 'girls' compared to in auditions.
Have to appreciate that the bad pun became so common place in action movies but it all began with James Bond. "She's had her kicks" is actually one of the better ones.
Guys, the russian villain in this movie is Robert Shaw...Quint from Jaws.
Thank you for this one, I really appreciate the films that you review more than the tv series. I look forward to the James Bond franchise continuing. I would consider this film in the top 8 of my Bond favorites. I enjoy the Spector continuity, the clear opponent of a top notch villain. The exposition is fine with me, I enjoy lingering in James Bond's world and learning all the small details. The sexism is a product of its time, expected, and a large part of the success of the films, and deserves a pass because it is fiction. Women of that time period gave it a pass, so should we. Have you seen the Clint Eastwood character films of Dirty Harry? He plays Harry in several movies, and they are a lot of fun, with lots of 1970's grit.
Okay, you can stop using the word misogyny. Everything you say is correct, but please. Just because some people are mistreated to some degree or used for some underhanded purpose by someone else, as is done to many people in these stories, doesn't mean we are witnessing "misogyny." It may be mistreatment, but I can't see how someone using their sexual powers on others for some selfish purpose, as many many attractive people do, is to be defined as "hatred of all women." Of course this is a long standing feminist trick, to overstate, repeat endlessly, then reach the "it's settled" stage. I would add for comparison that there are many more cases of extremely attractive and thus sexually powerful women who use and mistreat men for their advantage. We all know this, we may dislike it, but we don't label it "hatred of all men" or misandry because that would be excessive, wouldn't it? It's just bad behavior, possibly. But the circumstances matter. Bond is Bond. He's a very bad dude.
@@light9999 I'll take your point, I should have chosen my word better, I was inaccurate .
2:39, weird thing Bond movies allowed themselves is using same actors in different roles. Walter Gottell came back as General Gogol from Spy Who Loved Me to Living Daylights.
Hope you two great guys have a speedy recovery. You guys rock.
Warmest and best wishes from the Great State of Alabama ! Love you guys and your work !!
The movie was 50% sex, 50% story, but your comments were 90% sex, 10% story.
For many years they usually cut out all the gypsy camp stuff when they aired this on TV. We'd go from the periscope scene straight to Bond meeting Romanova, if memory serves, and I had no idea anything was missing until I saw it years later on home video. Other Bond films they would cut bits from everywhere but this one lost that one big chunk from up front - which suggests, as the guys imply, that it wasn't 'needed.' But a sequence detailing Bond fucking a pair of hot chicks didn't 'need' to be a justified back then. ;)
Shaun rolling his eyes at Bond joking or fucking is hilarious! LMAO!!
This one has the most proper spy movie stuff in it, which puts it up near the top for me. And Daniela Bianchi's a very pretty girl. I'm sorry they killed off Rosa Klebb - if they were thinking beyond the one they were making, she had potential to be a neat recurring baddie. :).
An obvious step up from Dr No, but it would be fair criticism that it's very slow-moving, and the creators had yet to find the classic Bond formula. The good news is that there's a clear upward trajectory over the next batch of movies, up to OHMSS, so they only get better. Goldfinger, up next, is many people's favourite, but there are still some elements in it that are very much of it's time. Looking forward to it.
I never found it slow moving but people had better attention spans back then.
I'd say Thunderball was a bit of a dip in that trajectory.
@@ThreadBomb That's a fair comment. I personally found it better than Goldfinger, as it brought Spectre and Blofeld back onscreen, so it fits better into the Bond mythos of the time, but I won't argue with someone who thinks otherwise, and I will concede that the general consensus is that Goldfinger is better.
7:41 My favorite moment in this reaction was when you both started hissing immediately after mentioning the chamber of secrets! 😂
You can see where a lot of the parodies and characters from Austin Powers came from this film.
Another running theme in many Bonds, particularly in the 60s and 70s, is to use locations either exotic enough to excite a less travelled public, or to actually encourage tourism in these places, hence the apparently arbitrary nature of some plot points. Later many Bond movies would be utterly different from the corresponding books, and locations could be shoehorned in for those reasons. It's always been a commercial exercise, after all. The movie of The Spy Who Loved Me visits Austria, Egypt and Sardinia yet the book never leaves a Canadian caravan park.
I think the length is due to them being pretty faithful to the book. This has always been my favorite Bond movie. It does not rely on fanciful gadgets and over-the-top action scenes.
Yeah, this movie was definitely more interesting than Dr. No. And the main villains Ernst Blofeld, Rosa Klebb, and Donald Grant (all affiliated with SPECTRE) were all menacing and memorable bad guys. [Grant even had one of the most memorable lines in the movie: "My orders are to kill you and to deliver the Lektor. How I do it is my business."]
Robert Shaw is awesome... love him in Jaws.
From Russia with Love is the best Bond film. My favorite of them all.
And Thunderball
I used to love from russia with love, i still think it's a good movie, but like with dr.no it's not something i'm keen to watch when i'm in a mood for a bond film. Goldfinger is more in line with the pure tongue-in-cheek escapist entertainment that the majority of the bond series represents.
As for the women, there will be women characters who don't all for Bond's charms instantly coming up. Not to worry!
Looking forward to see more of your first watches on the later installments :) !
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