Awesome video. Keep up the great work. A favourite reference from Casino Royale. Vesper, "I'm the money." Bond, "And worth every penny." Bathing suit; who wore it best? Daniel Craig!!
The filmmakers needed Spielberg's permission, which he granted. Then when he wanted the Bond theme in Goonies the Bond producer said no. It was finally sorted out.
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I never thought of that reference to the gun barrel opening from Daniel Craig's Casino Royale being a "pre-reference." The idea of all subsequent openings being a callback to his first kill IS very clever, and I don't believe I will ever see the gun barrel as anything else. Bravo, Robin, as always. Even though it's so very obvious and does undermine George Lazenby's performance even more than his presence already did, I always loved his "This never happened to the other fellow," despite decades of the ridiculous Bond Code Name Theory that it spawned. I like callbacks and injokes that don't call attention to themselves. Kinda like episodes of St. Elsewhere: slip in a silly reference, move on, and if the audience gets it, fine. If not, it doesn't interrupt the story. That's what I disliked about the cross-references in the later Brosnan era - THEY called attention to it, hovered over it, and it always stops the film cold. Admittedly, I didn't notice the images of former Bond girls scene until you mentioned it, precisely for the right reason - they didn't dwell on the images, they were just there - but the Brosnan references always came with a smirk, and sometimes a musical motif, which I disliked since it took us away from the story. Subtlety, people, is important sometimes, even if that's more of a foreign concept in Bond films than sexual fidelity.....
You dug up a couple I never noticed, like the Bernard Lee painting on the wall. Even on the ones I knew, you gave me a fresh appreciation for them because of your ability to impart your perspective to the viewer of your videos.
I loved the one at the beginning of Casino Royale, where he hasn't attained 007 status yet. We see the floor numbers as the elevator is going up, then cuts away as if to say "not yet 7". Nice. And maybe some credit to Dame Judi Dench's opening remark to Bond: "...I think you're a sexist, misogynist dinosaur. A relic of the Cold War..." Such a blatant callout to his 60's origins.
Egad Madonna's contribution to the theme songs. The one she did for the Austin Powers film was better. Still think they should have gotten Sade or Anita Baker when they were in their prime. Sade's "Killer Blow" could have been Bond-ish.
Speaking of Austin Powers, have you heard the Doctor Evil theme song that somehow didn't get used in the movie? Very Bond-esque. th-cam.com/video/RkB-hDXqffI/w-d-xo.html The Bond theme by Garbage was a real missed opportunity. I assumed they got the gig because of their song "Milk", but they failed to replicate the quality of that song.
@@ThreadBomb Especially since the KD Lang theme played over the closing credits felt more like a Bond theme. Which is sad because Garbage *is* good enough to make a Bond theme, they just didn't quite make it good enough. But then, I feel they should have given the theme for Spectre to Muse instead...
I did like the Stan Lee cameo in Captain Marvel with him reading the Mallrats script. Was such a geek heavy cameo when he did it, but turned out to be a start for the highest grossing actor in history
Apparently it was the line that convinced Daniel Craig to take the role on. Though "damn" was originally "fuck" in the script, which would have made Craig technically the second Bond ever to drop an f-bomb (Dalton mouths it in TLD) and the first person in a Bond movie to say it out loud (an honour that eventually went to Judi Dench in Skyfall).
My favourite Easter Egg would be the communication tune used in Close encounters of the third kind as the code to a door keypad in Moonraker. And as Robin says, the reason is that it shows us the people making the movie are fans of the things we like, also outside of James Bond. Ursula Andress wore it best, I'd say. The gun barrel scene in Casino Royale being Bond's first kill, before he got his double-O status would make that an unlicensed kill, as Bond's license to kill comes with the double-O status. Though not his only unlicensed kills, since he does a number of kills while his double-O status has been rewoked in the movie "Licence to kill" While not a movie, I think the whole music video of Duran Duran's "A view to a kill" made clever use of a mix of images from the movie and other Bond references.
You missed a really good one. In Octopussy, after the auction when everyone is walking onto the street. Cubby Broccoli’s brand new Cadillac Seville, complete with California plates is parked right in front of Sotheby’s, intentionally in the shot. It appears again in Germany at the Circus, during the long, high shot. And it’s not the first time, in Thunderball, at the clinic, his Rolls is visible, parked out front. Other interesting vehicle references throughout the series, placing American cars in European settings when sales of American cars in Europe were rare, examples…….#1’s 1964 Ford Thunderbird in London (Thunderball), Ford Mustang in Goldfinger (Switzerland) , Mercury Cougar in OHMSS.
In regards to Lazenby's "this never happened to the other fellow' line from OHMSS wasn't a reference to Sean Connery but to the Prince from "Cinderella"! A beautiful girl runs off and all that's left are her shoes. Bond picks up Tracy's shoes as he says the line!
In one of the Friday The 13th films, there is a scene where we see Jason walking into the center of a circle which was the moon and he turns with machete in hand and slashes at the screen. I remember that a lot of the Bond films were remakes(or referring to previous films). Like You Only Live Twice’s SPECTRE volcano, which was altered for the super tanker Liparus in The Spy Who Loved Me. The Willard Whyte satellite taken over by Blofeld was altered to be Gustav Graves’ laser satellite in Die Another Day(which borrowed from Diamonds Are Forever). Thunderball’s storyline was used in Never Say Never Again. Drugs and diamonds were a red herring in The Living Daylights (which used Live And Let Die and Diamonds Are Forever). Death by shark; Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me and Licensed To Kill( well, Felix Leiter’s leg is bitten off) Girl fights; From Russia With Love and Die Another Day. Trains; From Russia With Love, Live And Let Die, The Spy Who Loved Me, Goldeneye. The list goes on…
Branson got himself a cameo (his son also appears in the film, allegedly) in exchange for lending the crew a free plane for the airport scene. Bonus trivia: in a surprisingly petty move, Virgin competitor British Airways removed the cameo scene (and the plane itself) from the version of Casino Royale they showed as an in-flight movie. I often wonder if Virgin did the same to BA if they ever showed Die Another Day themselves, since the film features Bond flying with that airline (in the scene where a stewardess played by Roger Moore's daughter serves Bond a martini).
I've seen a lot of Bond, and I only noticed the most obvious of these references. For years I was sure that the "guy staring at his bottle of alcohol" from Spy Who Loved Me and some others, was Douglas Adams. It never made any sense that it would be, he just sort of looked like Douglas Adams. It wasn't until the Internet that I found I was not the only person to think that. Turns out it's just some crew member, a sound guy or similar.
Yep, yep, yep ... good one...luv the movie titles too!!! Good one, Oh, I already said that ...THX *Robin w/ Dark Corners Reviews* btw I have watched ALL the movies multiple times *Ian Fleming 1908~1964* 👍👍👍👍👍🎬🎞🎞🎞
When john cleese played q I was hoping for a gun disguised as a banana and bond to say "how do I defend myself against a man armed with a banana? ( Monty python reference)
Favorite In-Jokes: (1) The Pevsner Inn from Spectre (named after a Bond associate producer from the '80s); (2) "License to kill… or be killed" from For Your Eyes Only; (3) Bond acknowledging he was married in The Spy Who Loved Me; (4) The backstory of Octopussy's father being the gist of the actual story "Octopussy"; (5) The use of John Barry'a "007" chord in David Arnold's "Death of an Aston-Martin" in Casino Royale.
George Lazenby has a documentary on him and he said on set he would always say this never happened to the other fella like fight scenes and certain scenes he had to do so they put it in the movie it was about Sean Connery
I noticed a few comments saying that the Lazenby opener was a reference to Cinderella, not Connery, because Lazenby is holding a shoe. No, that makes no sense. "This never happened to the other fella?" What, Prince Charming? Prince Charming had to find a girl using her slipper, so as a reference it makes no sense because it DID happen to the other fella. And I don't care if Lazenby or some producer or director said that - they lie all the time about what they intended in scenes (go listen to Ridley Scott or Chris Nolan). At the start of the film it is a very obvious reference to Connery. Even if it wasn't, don't you think at least one person on set would have said, "Hey, people are going to think that's a reference to Connery." So if nothing else they wanted people to at least mistakenly think it was a reference to Connery.
How about Brosnan Bond in Die Another Day, busting the mirror behind which he's secretly being filmed? A reference to him being secretly filmed in the sack with a gal in From Russia With Love, obviously
Well done; caught the good ones, plenty of the less obvious, all with plenty of respect and admiration (you were kinder to Madonna than I might've been). Still love this channel, and so far this series is among your best.
Sad to hear the recent news of the passing of Monty Norman. I'd hate to have to choose between the James Bond theme and Star Wars by John Williams as the greatest movie theme of all time, so I'm calling it a draw!
For my taste, the series' past had become a little too much focus in the last movies. Craig was more often in the Aston Martin's seat than Connery, that has really lost novelity. I'm looking forward to No Time To Die (despite the lame title ) but I'm more curious about what they'll do next.
As gorgeous and iconic as the DB5 is as an automotive and cinematic work of art, I now can't stop thinking about how Top Gear exposed it as a dud in terms of performance. (Even back in the day, Aston-Martin lied outrageously about its performance, and today it's outperformed, easily, by a Honda Accord.)
The 'poison pen' from Octopussy also appears (with some other past gadgets) in a scene deleted from A View to A Kill (where M goes to get Bond released from the French police station after the Paris chase).
Always wondered if the downer ending of On Her Majesty's Secret Service doomed Lazenby. Did the powers that be think that he"d always be associated with that tragedy and therefore couldn't pull off the devil may care womanizer?
No, Lazenby just quit. He's talked about it openly. In a nutshell, he came down with a bad case of counter-culture and received some extraordinarily bad advice from his guru that James Bond was an archaic character who nobody would go to see anymore.
Incidentally, although there are several nods to Tracey's death throughout the series, the one at the start of FYEO is the only one where she is named. In particular, that comment by Elektra in TND could just as easily be a reference to Paris's death in the previous film.
@@RJSRdg I'm not sure how that's possible. He didn't know he wasn't going to make any more when filming on OHMSS finished- it was only after the premiere that he announced his decision. Also, Tracy's death is in the Fleming novel as well.
Some fans give On Her Majesty's Secret Service the raspberries but I like that film. It didn't need a ton of half ass gadgets from Q or invisible cars.
I think OHMSS is actually _over_ rated among Bond fans. The music is excellent, but Lazenby isn't, and I found the romance aspect too manipulative. Edit: Just my opinion!
5:55 "...referencing Ursula Andress, memorable entrance..." Well, I never "knew" the lady well enough to venture an opinion; but I'll take your word on it, old bean. Though, a gentleman really shouldn't... ah-hem... kiss and tell.
That's not even Sean Connery in the first 3 films. The hat thing is weird because right through to the Moore film he still walks into the office wearing a hat, but you very very rarely see Bond actually wearing said hat.
Very true- it was stuntman Bob Simmons, Bond franchise regular notable for playing numerous henchmen (most notably Colonel Bouvar in Thunderball) and also the answer to my favourite devious Bond quiz question: who was the first person to play James Bond in the official Eon series? I believe they switched to Connery in Thunderball when the scene needed reshooting due to them using a different aspect ratio or something.
Madonnas Song was the worst of all... until "Another way to die" came along. To think they chose this atrocity over "No good about goodbye" sung by Bassey makes me puke.
I always think it's funny how the themes reflect the quality of the movies with Craig's Bond. Casino Royale had the Chris Cornell one which was a completely new direction but absolutely brilliant, just like the movie. Then with Another Way To Die, just like QoS itself, you're like "what the fuck? Yeah, you've gone too far guys, dial it back a bit. Don't think I'll bother with that one again". Then Skyfall is a return to form and a nice take on classic Bond tropes, with an old-school brass band Bassey-esque theme to match, before the Sam Smith one which is sort of Bondesque but at the same time just dull, forgettable and more than a little grating- the movie in a nutshell.
@@oliverholmes-gunning5372 There are several things I like about Quantum of Solace, but, admittedly, the shortest Bond movie ever being a direct sequel to the theretofore longest Bond movie ever almost makes it seem like an epilogue to Casino Royale. Plus, it was put together during the writers strike, so that probably didn't help. The script could have used some tweeks. But I like that it still didn't have a lot of the Bond tropes, which Skyfall and Spectre seemed to feel the need to bring back.
@@VonWenk yeah, the writer's strike was a major issue. Craig himself had to finish the script in part. Personally I felt the opening scene (the car chase) was absolutely fantastic, and then the film just became a mess from there. They were trying too hard to be Jason Bourne instead of James Bond, and falling short of both. Personally as a huge Bond fan I really like it when they start putting in all the classic tropes and references (as long as it's done subtly and not gratuitously like in Die Another Day). To be honest I thought that adding in all the little tropes and returning to the more classic imagery (Bond always in a suit, the old M's office, the DB5, etc) was one of the best things about Skyfall, which for my money will always be Daniel Craig's best BOND film (as opposed to his best Bond FILM which is Casino Royale- ie, the latter is the better overall movie, the former is the better Bond movie). It was the perfect way to marry Craig's grittier, Bourne-inspired take on the role that had gone too far off the rails after QoS with the classic Connery era that true fans love. Btw I don't know if you're familiar with Screen Rant's Pitch Meeting series, but I highly recommend the one for Quantum of Solace- it's hysterically funny m.th-cam.com/video/50oPydjXe-Y/w-d-xo.html
Awesome video. Keep up the great work.
A favourite reference from Casino Royale.
Vesper, "I'm the money."
Bond, "And worth every penny."
Bathing suit; who wore it best?
Daniel Craig!!
Not an 'in' reference, but the keypad that played the close encounters theme in Moonraker made me smile when I saw it in the cinema
The filmmakers needed Spielberg's permission, which he granted. Then when he wanted the Bond theme in Goonies the Bond producer said no. It was finally sorted out.
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@@Gappasaurus Thanks. We spotted it, reported all the comments, blocked him from the channel and reported his account.
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I never thought of that reference to the gun barrel opening from Daniel Craig's Casino Royale being a "pre-reference." The idea of all subsequent openings being a callback to his first kill IS very clever, and I don't believe I will ever see the gun barrel as anything else. Bravo, Robin, as always.
Even though it's so very obvious and does undermine George Lazenby's performance even more than his presence already did, I always loved his "This never happened to the other fellow," despite decades of the ridiculous Bond Code Name Theory that it spawned.
I like callbacks and injokes that don't call attention to themselves. Kinda like episodes of St. Elsewhere: slip in a silly reference, move on, and if the audience gets it, fine. If not, it doesn't interrupt the story. That's what I disliked about the cross-references in the later Brosnan era - THEY called attention to it, hovered over it, and it always stops the film cold. Admittedly, I didn't notice the images of former Bond girls scene until you mentioned it, precisely for the right reason - they didn't dwell on the images, they were just there - but the Brosnan references always came with a smirk, and sometimes a musical motif, which I disliked since it took us away from the story.
Subtlety, people, is important sometimes, even if that's more of a foreign concept in Bond films than sexual fidelity.....
You dug up a couple I never noticed, like the Bernard Lee painting on the wall. Even on the ones I knew, you gave me a fresh appreciation for them because of your ability to impart your perspective to the viewer of your videos.
We included a few more in the images, but are not in the voice over.
I loved the one at the beginning of Casino Royale, where he hasn't attained 007 status yet. We see the floor numbers as the elevator is going up, then cuts away as if to say "not yet 7". Nice.
And maybe some credit to Dame Judi Dench's opening remark to Bond: "...I think you're a sexist, misogynist dinosaur. A relic of the Cold War..." Such a blatant callout to his 60's origins.
I thought I was a "real" Bond fan until your excellent presentation wherein you showed me how much I never noticed in prior viewings of the films.
We have included a few more Easter Eggs in the images, but not explained them in the VO. Happy hunting.
Egad Madonna's contribution to the theme songs. The one she did for the Austin Powers film was better.
Still think they should have gotten Sade or Anita Baker when they were in their prime. Sade's "Killer Blow" could have been Bond-ish.
Speaking of Austin Powers, have you heard the Doctor Evil theme song that somehow didn't get used in the movie? Very Bond-esque. th-cam.com/video/RkB-hDXqffI/w-d-xo.html
The Bond theme by Garbage was a real missed opportunity. I assumed they got the gig because of their song "Milk", but they failed to replicate the quality of that song.
@@ThreadBomb Especially since the KD Lang theme played over the closing credits felt more like a Bond theme. Which is sad because Garbage *is* good enough to make a Bond theme, they just didn't quite make it good enough. But then, I feel they should have given the theme for Spectre to Muse instead...
Great stuff. And I'm not even that much of a Bond fan. Keep those coming!
This was fun, thanks for all the research to find these.
I did like the Stan Lee cameo in Captain Marvel with him reading the Mallrats script. Was such a geek heavy cameo when he did it, but turned out to be a start for the highest grossing actor in history
"Do I look like I give a damn" is my favorite callback of the series.
Apparently it was the line that convinced Daniel Craig to take the role on. Though "damn" was originally "fuck" in the script, which would have made Craig technically the second Bond ever to drop an f-bomb (Dalton mouths it in TLD) and the first person in a Bond movie to say it out loud (an honour that eventually went to Judi Dench in Skyfall).
Great pick for number 1. I did not see that coming and it is such a great observation that seems blatant, but still clever, now
Great video! I've seen the Bond movies tons of times but had only caught some of these references!
A Goldeneye is also a freshwater bird- getting us back to the ornithology angle.
Great stuff! Thanks!
James Bond is a Timelord.
My favourite Easter Egg would be the communication tune used in Close encounters of the third kind as the code to a door keypad in Moonraker. And as Robin says, the reason is that it shows us the people making the movie are fans of the things we like, also outside of James Bond. Ursula Andress wore it best, I'd say. The gun barrel scene in Casino Royale being Bond's first kill, before he got his double-O status would make that an unlicensed kill, as Bond's license to kill comes with the double-O status. Though not his only unlicensed kills, since he does a number of kills while his double-O status has been rewoked in the movie "Licence to kill" While not a movie, I think the whole music video of Duran Duran's "A view to a kill" made clever use of a mix of images from the movie and other Bond references.
You missed a really good one. In Octopussy, after the auction when everyone is walking onto the street. Cubby Broccoli’s brand new Cadillac Seville, complete with California plates is parked right in front of Sotheby’s, intentionally in the shot. It appears again in Germany at the Circus, during the long, high shot. And it’s not the first time, in Thunderball, at the clinic, his Rolls is visible, parked out front. Other interesting vehicle references throughout the series, placing American cars in European settings when sales of American cars in Europe were rare, examples…….#1’s 1964 Ford Thunderbird in London (Thunderball), Ford Mustang in Goldfinger (Switzerland) , Mercury Cougar in OHMSS.
Never been the biggest Bond fan, but i do appreciate a good legacy in-reference, and these are some deep cuts! Bravo!
In regards to Lazenby's "this never happened to the other fellow' line from OHMSS wasn't a reference to Sean Connery but to the Prince from "Cinderella"! A beautiful girl runs off and all that's left are her shoes. Bond picks up Tracy's shoes as he says the line!
But then he should have said "this is exactly what happened to the other fella"
@@14AspenDrive but in the original story Cinderella left only behind one shoe- 007 got BOTH of Tracy’s shoes!
@@Avatar610 all right
I like the call backs in OHMSS to the earlier Connery films. It ties the actor to the character and lets the audience know were moving forward.
In one of the Friday The 13th films, there is a scene where we see Jason walking into the center of a circle which was the moon and he turns with machete in hand and slashes at the screen.
I remember that a lot of the Bond films were remakes(or referring to previous films).
Like You Only Live Twice’s SPECTRE volcano, which was altered for the super tanker Liparus in The Spy Who Loved Me.
The Willard Whyte satellite taken over by Blofeld was altered to be Gustav Graves’ laser satellite in Die Another Day(which borrowed from Diamonds Are Forever).
Thunderball’s storyline was used in Never Say Never Again.
Drugs and diamonds were a red herring in The Living Daylights (which used Live And Let Die and Diamonds Are Forever).
Death by shark; Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me and Licensed To Kill( well, Felix Leiter’s leg is bitten off)
Girl fights; From Russia With Love and Die Another Day.
Trains; From Russia With Love, Live And Let Die, The Spy Who Loved Me, Goldeneye.
The list goes on…
8:41 Wait, is that Richard Branson? I've seen that film so many times and only noticed him now n
Yep. We snuck a bunch of Easter Eggs from the films into this video with saying what they are in the VO.
@@DarkCornersReviews Sneaky of you.
@@DarkCornersReviews In that series of "subtle" references, I think Branson is the only one I picked up on!
Branson got himself a cameo (his son also appears in the film, allegedly) in exchange for lending the crew a free plane for the airport scene.
Bonus trivia: in a surprisingly petty move, Virgin competitor British Airways removed the cameo scene (and the plane itself) from the version of Casino Royale they showed as an in-flight movie. I often wonder if Virgin did the same to BA if they ever showed Die Another Day themselves, since the film features Bond flying with that airline (in the scene where a stewardess played by Roger Moore's daughter serves Bond a martini).
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I've seen a lot of Bond, and I only noticed the most obvious of these references. For years I was sure that the "guy staring at his bottle of alcohol" from Spy Who Loved Me and some others, was Douglas Adams. It never made any sense that it would be, he just sort of looked like Douglas Adams. It wasn't until the Internet that I found I was not the only person to think that. Turns out it's just some crew member, a sound guy or similar.
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Yep, yep, yep ... good one...luv the movie titles too!!! Good one, Oh, I already said that ...THX *Robin w/ Dark Corners Reviews* btw I have watched ALL the movies multiple times *Ian Fleming 1908~1964* 👍👍👍👍👍🎬🎞🎞🎞
When john cleese played q I was hoping for a gun disguised as a banana and bond to say "how do I defend myself against a man armed with a banana? ( Monty python reference)
R could have at least said "How not to be seen" with the invisible car.
Favorite In-Jokes: (1) The Pevsner Inn from Spectre (named after a Bond associate producer from the '80s); (2) "License to kill… or be killed" from For Your Eyes Only; (3) Bond acknowledging he was married in The Spy Who Loved Me; (4) The backstory of Octopussy's father being the gist of the actual story "Octopussy"; (5) The use of John Barry'a "007" chord in David Arnold's "Death of an Aston-Martin" in Casino Royale.
George Lazenby has a documentary on him and he said on set he would always say this never happened to the other fella like fight scenes and certain scenes he had to do so they put it in the movie it was about Sean Connery
I genuinely can't believe I never caught the attaché case reference in Goldfinger! I remember the line well, I just never associated it with FRWL...
I have a copy of Birds of the West Indies by James Bond. Always had a good chuckle over it.
There was also an agent called James Bond who worked for Fleming in WW2.
I noticed a few comments saying that the Lazenby opener was a reference to Cinderella, not Connery, because Lazenby is holding a shoe. No, that makes no sense. "This never happened to the other fella?" What, Prince Charming? Prince Charming had to find a girl using her slipper, so as a reference it makes no sense because it DID happen to the other fella. And I don't care if Lazenby or some producer or director said that - they lie all the time about what they intended in scenes (go listen to Ridley Scott or Chris Nolan). At the start of the film it is a very obvious reference to Connery. Even if it wasn't, don't you think at least one person on set would have said, "Hey, people are going to think that's a reference to Connery." So if nothing else they wanted people to at least mistakenly think it was a reference to Connery.
How about Brosnan Bond in Die Another Day, busting the mirror behind which he's secretly being filmed? A reference to him being secretly filmed in the sack with a gal in From Russia With Love, obviously
Well done; caught the good ones, plenty of the less obvious, all with plenty of respect and admiration (you were kinder to Madonna than I might've been). Still love this channel, and so far this series is among your best.
Sad to hear the recent news of the passing of Monty Norman. I'd hate to have to choose between the James Bond theme and Star Wars by John Williams as the greatest movie theme of all time, so I'm calling it a draw!
And in fact, it was not his first line in the movie. Regarding the Lazenby thing in the start of this video.
Is that Richard Branson being patted down in the airport at 8:40? It sure looks like him!
Yes it is.
5:15 umm actually that’s skyfall 🤓☝️
Must make generic comment about being first forget what the video is about, must point out being first!
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It does.
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For my taste, the series' past had become a little too much focus in the last movies. Craig was more often in the Aston Martin's seat than Connery, that has really lost novelity. I'm looking forward to No Time To Die (despite the lame title ) but I'm more curious about what they'll do next.
007 is going to be replaced with a Black woman. Really.
@@SSN515 Not really.
@@ThreadBomb Yep. Look it up.
I want them to go back to the 60s. I was just a classic spy film.
As gorgeous and iconic as the DB5 is as an automotive and cinematic work of art, I now can't stop thinking about how Top Gear exposed it as a dud in terms of performance. (Even back in the day, Aston-Martin lied outrageously about its performance, and today it's outperformed, easily, by a Honda Accord.)
The 'poison pen' from Octopussy also appears (with some other past gadgets) in a scene deleted from A View to A Kill (where M goes to get Bond released from the French police station after the Paris chase).
Incidentally the 'poison pen' joke was first used in the 1967 non-EON version of Casino Royale.
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Always wondered if the downer ending of On Her Majesty's Secret Service doomed Lazenby. Did the powers that be think that he"d always be associated with that tragedy and therefore couldn't pull off the devil may care womanizer?
No, Lazenby just quit. He's talked about it openly. In a nutshell, he came down with a bad case of counter-culture and received some extraordinarily bad advice from his guru that James Bond was an archaic character who nobody would go to see anymore.
On that note I highly recommend the Lazenby documentary/biopic Becoming Bond to anyone who hasn't seen it
I have heard that Tracey's death was originally going to be in the next film but when George decided to leave the role, it was added to OHMSS instead.
Incidentally, although there are several nods to Tracey's death throughout the series, the one at the start of FYEO is the only one where she is named.
In particular, that comment by Elektra in TND could just as easily be a reference to Paris's death in the previous film.
@@RJSRdg I'm not sure how that's possible. He didn't know he wasn't going to make any more when filming on OHMSS finished- it was only after the premiere that he announced his decision. Also, Tracy's death is in the Fleming novel as well.
If you didn’t know these Easter eggs already… you ain’t a fan.
'"' fans like us'"' thats IT
Daniel Craig wore it best.😉
''never happened to the other fellow'' was a play to a fairy tail. Not to connery
Some fans give On Her Majesty's Secret Service the raspberries but I like that film. It didn't need a ton of half ass gadgets from Q or invisible cars.
I think OHMSS is actually _over_ rated among Bond fans. The music is excellent, but Lazenby isn't, and I found the romance aspect too manipulative. Edit: Just my opinion!
OHMSS has some of the best cinematography in a Bond film.
5:55 "...referencing Ursula Andress, memorable entrance..." Well, I never "knew" the lady well enough to venture an opinion; but I'll take your word on it, old bean. Though, a gentleman really shouldn't... ah-hem... kiss and tell.
Guess I'm not a true fan, since I never noticed before that Bond sometimes wears a hat for that gun barrel shot, and how silly it looks.
That's not even Sean Connery in the first 3 films. The hat thing is weird because right through to the Moore film he still walks into the office wearing a hat, but you very very rarely see Bond actually wearing said hat.
Very true- it was stuntman Bob Simmons, Bond franchise regular notable for playing numerous henchmen (most notably Colonel Bouvar in Thunderball) and also the answer to my favourite devious Bond quiz question: who was the first person to play James Bond in the official Eon series?
I believe they switched to Connery in Thunderball when the scene needed reshooting due to them using a different aspect ratio or something.
@@oliverholmes-gunning5372 Correct. Bob can also be seen in For Your Eyes Only. He is the stuntman who hits the Lamborghini causing it to explode.
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@@oliverholmes-gunning5372 D'OH!
The only James Bond in films was Sean Connery. Rodger Moore defined wooden actor after John Wayne.
There are actors plenty more wooden than either Moore or Wayne, as any frequent viewer of this channel's bad movie reviews can attest.
@@ThreadBomb Yeah, I should have added Kevin Costner.
Madonnas Song was the worst of all... until "Another way to die" came along. To think they chose this atrocity over "No good about goodbye" sung by Bassey makes me puke.
"Another Way to Die" is probably my favorite of the Daniel Craig themes.
I always think it's funny how the themes reflect the quality of the movies with Craig's Bond. Casino Royale had the Chris Cornell one which was a completely new direction but absolutely brilliant, just like the movie. Then with Another Way To Die, just like QoS itself, you're like "what the fuck? Yeah, you've gone too far guys, dial it back a bit. Don't think I'll bother with that one again". Then Skyfall is a return to form and a nice take on classic Bond tropes, with an old-school brass band Bassey-esque theme to match, before the Sam Smith one which is sort of Bondesque but at the same time just dull, forgettable and more than a little grating- the movie in a nutshell.
@@oliverholmes-gunning5372 There are several things I like about Quantum of Solace, but, admittedly, the shortest Bond movie ever being a direct sequel to the theretofore longest Bond movie ever almost makes it seem like an epilogue to Casino Royale. Plus, it was put together during the writers strike, so that probably didn't help. The script could have used some tweeks. But I like that it still didn't have a lot of the Bond tropes, which Skyfall and Spectre seemed to feel the need to bring back.
@@VonWenk yeah, the writer's strike was a major issue. Craig himself had to finish the script in part. Personally I felt the opening scene (the car chase) was absolutely fantastic, and then the film just became a mess from there. They were trying too hard to be Jason Bourne instead of James Bond, and falling short of both. Personally as a huge Bond fan I really like it when they start putting in all the classic tropes and references (as long as it's done subtly and not gratuitously like in Die Another Day). To be honest I thought that adding in all the little tropes and returning to the more classic imagery (Bond always in a suit, the old M's office, the DB5, etc) was one of the best things about Skyfall, which for my money will always be Daniel Craig's best BOND film (as opposed to his best Bond FILM which is Casino Royale- ie, the latter is the better overall movie, the former is the better Bond movie). It was the perfect way to marry Craig's grittier, Bourne-inspired take on the role that had gone too far off the rails after QoS with the classic Connery era that true fans love.
Btw I don't know if you're familiar with Screen Rant's Pitch Meeting series, but I highly recommend the one for Quantum of Solace- it's hysterically funny
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