That's my headcanon. I haven't seen No Time to Die but I want to believe that Judi Dench M is just chilling in the Bahamas in a James Bond-Style retirement
@@LuisSierra42 they've been preparing to cast Bond before this. No one recasts AFTER a character dies. They are product tie ins, endorsements, Bond is a BRAND. they'll recast other ancillary characters Sam Heughan, Henry Cavil, Idris Elba
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The most unrealistic part of this entire franchise is when Bond and Silva slide down the side of the London tube station escalator. I can tell you that anyone who’s ever lived in London and used public transport has imagined doing it, but those killjoys at tfl put little road blocks every couple of metres so you can’t go hurtling down 20 to 30 metres worth of escalator that hundreds of people are using. It’s just unfair.
Firstly. Why not just put up a fence instead of barricades that literally try to break your legs?? Secondly. If they really wanna hurt people why not just get straight to the point and put blades every two metres. It's like totally half arsed.
Fun fact: In Skyfall (2012), the opening sequence shot in Adana and Istanbul (Turkey) took around two months to film, three months of rehearsals, four months of preparation, 200 crew members from England, and another 200 local crew, in order to produce around twelve to fourteen minutes of screentime.
It’s all Tom Cruise’s fault. If Jack Reacher 2 hadn’t been called “Never Go Back”, then Caravan of Garbage would still be called “Never Go Back”, and then James would’ve never had to have gone back to this sadly awful game.
I remember seeing Daniel Craig as James Bond escorting Queen Elizabeth from Buckingham Palace to the helicopter, boarding it, and them jump off the helicopter with a British parachute into the 2012 London Olympics was awesome to see.
I like how this movie just definitively lays to rest the whole "James Bond is a Codename" thing. Just shows that he really is the worst secret spy ever and going around telling his full birth name to literally everyone.
He may be programmed to do so. He's the patsy. The other better spies are the 01-09 the double 00_ code is for the suckers. If you make it through like 3 or 4 major missions you get to retire.
@@mssonoma1 it kind of does considering people in that universe know about James Bond and that he’s a British Spy, it’s like he goes around, “hello, I’m a spy.”
A slight correction to your Trivia about the "PUFFY HANDS" so the scene in which the gloves had to be replaced is actually the scene where he fights the assassin in the high-rise tower. If you watch the earlier part of the scene before he jumps on the elevator, he puts on his lovely gloves in the car. Then he proceeds to enter the high-rise and suddenly he is no longer wearing gloves as he holds on to the elevator, then as he steps through the glass doors holding his palm recognition gun. This is where his whole hand has been replaced due to the gloves. It gives a nice close up of his CG hand! This can be confirmed by the end of the same scene where he is holding the assassin out the window, suddenly he is wearing gloves out of no where again, and they even cut to a close up showing the gloves.
I figured this must have been the case. I couldn't imagine anyone thinking wearing the gloves with his suit at the casino would look good, regardless of the palm-print gun.
Tom Ford suits are actually pretty well known for being slim in the body. The style of the suits in Skyfall are kinda different in style to the typical Tom Ford suit, but not in the fit. Look at anything Tom wears himself, they're just as tight in the waist as the skyfall and spectre suits. Suits Suits.
I think this film allows Daniel Craig to play his best Bond. An extensive look into the characters psyche, getting into the past of a somewhat mysterious character, telling an intimate and emotional story. I love this movie and you can see what they were going for with Spectre but without M or some other form of emotional weight and relevance for the audience, the story falls flat. Shoutout Sam Mendes, you made a good one!
I loved this movie. I felt it was perfect Bond movie for the time. I had high hopes for SPECTRE and it sucked and the high hopes I had for most recent one are gone I agree that bond in 1960's was basically a rapist. But it was a movie and it was 55 yrs ago. No need to overcompensate now. Bond should not go woke
@@burtan2000 the fact that you put the second half of your comment on a thread that has nothing to do with that topic is making me look at you like a guy at a dinner party who proclaims to have never fucked a goat. Despite no one at the party mentioning anything close to that subject.
@@fictionarchth-cam.com/video/HNMq8XS4LhE/w-d-xo.html Joking aside, It was the topic of the video i watch prior to this. It is a prominent topic about the new film, which is at best an implied indirect relevance. Your analogy is humorous but is about as relevant as my statement was. I was never a movie 55 yrs ago. Am i going woke? It's be more like, "oh Padraig O'Shenneshey? I for one believe he DID shag that goat back 20 yrs a'fore me momma whelped me! "
@@orinanime I wouldn't agree with that. There's nothing wrong with a movie that exists only for the viewing experience. I'm genuinely curious here, you say: "I enjoy it less and less the more I think about it." But how do you feel when you watch it? I watch Bond to not think, it's not conducive to thinking, and never has been.
The only thing I got from this entire video is that James absolutely LOVES 007 Legends. It’s his favorite game of all time and he is so happy he got another opportunity to spend $50 on it. Money well spent.
I just love the fact that the entire convoluted plan leads up to "just walk into a building with the person in it disguised as cops and indiscriminately shoot". It's like the entirety of the plan leading up to that point tuckered Silva out and he just half assed the ending.
Sorta reminds me of: fantastic beasts THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE LOOK EVERYONE IT'S DUMBLEDORE HE'S HERE AND THE MOVIE IS ABOUT HIS SECRETS DUMBLEDORE'S SECRETS
James made a universal screw-up in his trivia, In the Shanghai sequence Bond has a pair of gloves on but was photographed holding the palm reader PPK so they reshot the scene with the gloves off, not the casino scene. And the Heineken ad was on a Train, the boat ad was for Spectre.
Wasn't Moneypenny's fault she shot Bond, since they equipped her with a 5" barrelled AR to hit a moving target hundreds of yards away without hitting the person standing in front of it. Sounds like a logistics failure to me...
The only thing I remember about Skyfall is when watching it in the theater, at the part where Silver is "interrogating" Bond, some frat bro in the audience yelled, "GAAAAAAAY!" I think he was expecting some scattered chuckles of agreement, but instead the theater remained dead quiet. Which was both wildly uncomfortable, but also comforting that no one else thought it was funny either.
Was halfway through typing 'The "James Bond is a codename" theory could be debunked all the way back to Roger Moore visiting...' and then Mason came in to save me the trouble.
Fun?? The only fun thing about Skyfall is watching Bond fail at everything he tries to do like some sort of anti-Bond. Acts like motherfucking Johnny English in this one.
As a UK citizen, your comments at 16:46 couldn’t resonate more. A subscriber and massive fan of all your content (MCU, Bond, Garbage and other) but that made me laugh out loud. You guys are the best!!!
Quick FYI for what it matters: Heineken is a Dutch beer. I recall hearing once that they have a major American brewing company brew in North America, but I couldn't find anything about that on the Internet, so it might have just been an exchange student trying to justify why the German beer out here is better.
Rewatching this one the weekend Queen Elizabeth passed away hits different in a why would you say something so controversial yet so brave type of energy... 😅😅😅 Love these boys!!
I definitely want to see the James Bond movie where he pivots his career because his body's wrecked and becomes a professional TH-camr. What would he put on his channel? Extreme stunts? How to put on a Savile Row suit and tie a tie correctly? Analysis of guns in movies? Drinks mixing?
The Dynamite comics do interesting things with MoneyPenny. She’s basically M’s last line of defence if MI6 gets taken over, so she has to be a great assassin etc
This opening sequence with the motor bikes and going over the tiled roofs and through the market always reminded me of the classic hand-drawn anime film *Spriggan* - which often gets described as _Raiders of The Lost Ark_ meets _Akira_
It’s absolutely fucking pissing it down outside and this ain’t available on the podcast app yet, but I’m gonna listen to it all the way home. Thanks for getting me home lads.
@@amarisfrede2 haha thanks mate!! I’m based in the uk so it was the end of the night when I actually caught this, but rest assured - I made it home ok safe and sound :) thank you
Definitely a major improvement over Quantum of Solace. However I feel like they should have left the storyline of an aging Bond who's lost a step and needs to push himself to get back in action for the final Craig film not the third one in.
@CEO of Secularism I think that's more how they made him up in that film he was only 43 or 44 (depending on when filming took place) but you'd swear he was 50 or 55 in that film but he appears younger and more spry in spectre 3 years later. I still really enjoy skyfall but even when I first saw it I thought to myself "we're already doing this after only 6 years?"
It was still up in the air whether Craig would return for another film. So MGM probably percieved it as a send-off of sorts for Craig Bond in case he didn't come back.
@@NathanDrakeTheGreat You're probably right but even with that uncertainty I think it was just too soon to do that storyline. But yeah that probably is why they did it.
It was similar to how in the Dark Knight rises which ironically came out the same year that Bruce Wayne was retired to start the film then he ended up retired again at the end, so we only got one full movie where Bruce was Batman
I fucking love this movie. Look, I know it's just the Bond version of the Dark Knight, but... well, what can I say. I like Bond, I like the Dark Knight. I like strange facially scarred villains portrayed by great actors. What's not to like here?
Loving these, definitely making me like these movies a bit better than I initially did. Disappointed you guys didn’t mention the part where Bond uses a Komodo dragon as a springboard.
Skyfall is my favorite Bond behind Goldeneye and Maso breaking down Silva’s revenge plot has really exposed me to have been nothing but an ill fitted Tom Ford suit these past 9 years.
Honestly I watch these things for the long tangents about things that James just can't stand more so than anything. They're the best. The souvlaki commercial video is art.
I think it’s really popular amongst fans and casual audiences because it’s SUPER British and it was a massive milestone for bond, marking the 50th anniversary. One thing I hate is that they really push the idea that Bond is old in this film (old dog, new tricks blah blah). 2 films ago he was a fresh faced brash newly promoted 00 agent, quantum was a direct continuation, and suddenly he’s old and past his best??
5:30 *I’ve said this before and I’ll always say it again, they should’ve gone with Supremacy by Muse as the song for Skyfall. Which was a close 2nd to being picked*
17:29 Funny thing about agents featured in movies (FBI, MI6, CIA). The slim fitted suits would be a hinderance to their job. The FBI handbook specifically advises to have suits that are sizes larger, so the loose fit can help in concealing your weapon and more easily access it. And of course, having a fuller range of motion, unrestricted.
21:17 "people complained that it isnt very bond like he'd drink such American swill". The Netherlands will never forgive you for this transgression James. Although i have never met a soul in my 20 years of living in Amsterdam who likes Heineken. Most compare it to the canals which are infamous for being filled with about every bodily-fluid a drunk/high tourist can excrete.
It just struck me how gorgeous the film looked from minute 1. Then I saw "Directed by Sam Mendes" and it made sense. Then an hour in, I looked up the cinematographer and it was Roger Deakins and it made even more sense
@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep really? I’ve seen it many times and never saw anything to think that. To me, they set off on their journey and she assumes he’s not coming - you see that there is disappointment in her face when the henchman says they are leaving. The idea to me was that he manages to get on undetected after they cast off. Anyway, as you say, weird. And doesn’t change the point for me.
@@ferretchief It felt like a subversion to me. Her look of disappointment but when it cuts to her in the shower, that's later when he already showed up and she invited him in.
The Dark Knight influencing Skyfall.. it came full circle really, because the opening sequence of The Dark Knight Rises is straight out of a Bond opener
Not gonna lie, It would be pretty funny British military goof that a new man becomes Bond, and for a while, he's sent to the old Bond's wife's grave. Just to really mess with the enemy's intelligence. "We are pretty sure the old one died, I mean we killed him... but a Bond just visited the grave of Maggy Muff. It's a different guy, but it's Bond..."
To expand on James Bond as a codename, I always wanted to see Sean Connery come back as a villain against a modern Bond as the original James Bond, like a version of his Allan Quartermain role, and I get the feeling Skyfall is about as close as we'll ever get to that ever being a movie.
Funny though but Silva's plan was simpler than that. It was just stealing the list of agents and literally wait for him to get captured. He knew Bond was going to eventually do it.
Yeah, it's not nearly as complicated as their explanation. All he did was go along with what he was doing until they caught up with him, he never actually intended to leave specific clues so bond could track him the way he did
@Vipère Diabète and he did it all just to show up at a highly protected government building all so he can attempt to shoot M with a pistol. Truly a mastermind.
@@PatheticApathetic why not skip all that and just do the gun bit? if he wanted to talk to her first, why not do that and then gun her down? Better yet, focus on the actual culmination of his plan with enough detail to make it fail proof, and then scribble in the extra bullshit with outsmarting the MI6 once he knows the core of his plan will work
@@Mr47steam so, write the character so that his plan works? Because, based on what actually happened in the movie, the only way it could have been better is if he’d actually killed M
Skyfall is the only James Bond movie I've watched, therefore this is the only James Bond centred Caravan Of Garbage I can watch. Good job, best video ever.
I think it's a testimony to "Casino Royal" that people suddenly think "Skyfall" might not be a great Bond-movie, because the story and the villain's plan makes no sense. It's a Bond-movie. The villain's plans never made sense. These movies have always been silly. However, after "Casino Royal" people forgot how silly and frankly stupid this franchise usually is. If the Craig-movies had not changed the tone so much in their first movie, nobody would have complained about "Skyfall"'s plot being too stupid and not making sense.
I wish they'd stuck with the more grounded and realistic tone of Casino Royale though. I wanted more Craig Bond movies that were actually smart and well written.
My favorite of the Craig Bobd films. It's good, man. Like, there's a little camp and corniness in it with things like the train falling through the ceiling, or the helicopter blaring out music as it descends on Scotland, but those feel true to this series of films (as opposed to Spectre's camp and corniness). It doesn't feel out of place or anything. I think I remember at the time people complained there wasn't enough of Bond being "dead"/in retirement (or maybe it was just me who thought that, idk), but I think once you look past that aspect of the film, and see it as more of an M film, it totally works. Also, never knew about Kincaid originally being played by Sean Connery, which makes a lot of sense in hindsight. But I think it's good they didn't do that, because it'd be too on the nose and too distracting.
I know M dies, but I really wish there was an after credits scene of Judi Dench in a bar balancing a scorpion on her hand while chugging whiskey.
That's my headcanon. I haven't seen No Time to Die but I want to believe that Judi Dench M is just chilling in the Bahamas in a James Bond-Style retirement
I didn't know I needed this...
*spoiler alert*. Caravan of Dead Bond now, unfortunately .. whole franchise gone to sh*T .. .Judi Dench was great, as was John Cleese.
@@SuperOmnicronsj44 They are going to start re casting next year
@@LuisSierra42 they've been preparing to cast Bond before this. No one recasts AFTER a character dies. They are product tie ins, endorsements, Bond is a BRAND. they'll recast other ancillary characters Sam Heughan, Henry Cavil, Idris Elba
Mason isn't really Mason's real name, it was given to him as a codename when he became a pig rolling down a hill...
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Mason is a cop?!
@@blyzer7373 no, he's an avenger
James's son is legend for this joke
Thank you for writing this so much
The most unrealistic part of this entire franchise is when Bond and Silva slide down the side of the London tube station escalator. I can tell you that anyone who’s ever lived in London and used public transport has imagined doing it, but those killjoys at tfl put little road blocks every couple of metres so you can’t go hurtling down 20 to 30 metres worth of escalator that hundreds of people are using. It’s just unfair.
They do that here in the states too and it’s just like “party-pooper…”
@@elenaa8436 BE GONE, BOT!
Still it was a fun moment, just the hero and villain acting like kids on a slide. Real Batman and Joker surf energy. More franchises should do that.
i can suspend disbelief for all the crazy action stunts, but when i saw them slide down the centre, that's what made me think "that's impossible"
Firstly. Why not just put up a fence instead of barricades that literally try to break your legs?? Secondly. If they really wanna hurt people why not just get straight to the point and put blades every two metres. It's like totally half arsed.
Fun fact: In Skyfall (2012), the opening sequence shot in Adana and Istanbul (Turkey) took around two months to film, three months of rehearsals, four months of preparation, 200 crew members from England, and another 200 local crew, in order to produce around twelve to fourteen minutes of screentime.
No wonder Craig said these movies made him want to slash his own wrists 😂
This is why Daniel Craig hates playing Bond.
But what a 14 minutes
I thought you were going to say something like 3-5 minutes, but 12-14 mins makes it sound pretty reasonable to me.
Were you on-site?
James laying into the royals is bloody brilliant, really love him absolutely dragging Prince Andrew for being just an absolute dog of a bloke
I think he goes beyond just "a dog of a bloke".
@@blyzer7373 think you underestimate how damning of an insult that is
@@jjbrinkman6500 Probably.
@ You mean like his close relationship with convicted child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein?
@ You mean like multiple pictures of him with the 17 year old girl in Jeffrey Epstein's house?
I would love nothing more than to see Brendan Gleeson as Bond’s exasperated lawyer in one of these films
From the film In Bruges.
That but got me rolling
Eh, he's transphobic. Put him in the bloody bin, mate
Edit: I was thinking of Robbie Coltrane. I was half asleep at the time
Honestly he would have been great as the caretaker of Skyfall mznor
@@ROSE-nr1ln 9am
After the 5th time they tell bond he’s getting old I just wanna be like, “he got shot off a train guys give him a sec!”
And that fall probably should have killed him too.
@@kdrecords4562 That sky fall (2012)?
@@The_Viktor_Reznovgoddamnit…. Your two year old dad joke is making me laugh so hard it’s embarrassing
@@drown_n Thank you man, I really appreciate it
It’s all Tom Cruise’s fault. If Jack Reacher 2 hadn’t been called “Never Go Back”, then Caravan of Garbage would still be called “Never Go Back”, and then James would’ve never had to have gone back to this sadly awful game.
what?
What? Never Go Back is based on the Lee Child novel of the same name
@@jimjimjim6841 Caravan of Garbage was initially called "Never Go Back"
@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep No it wasn't?
James' rant about the Royal Family is so much better right now.
I remember seeing Daniel Craig as James Bond escorting Queen Elizabeth from Buckingham Palace to the helicopter, boarding it, and them jump off the helicopter with a British parachute into the 2012 London Olympics was awesome to see.
A good example of the British sense of humour.
That video was a lot of fun, but the part with Churchill's statue waving at the helicopter was pretty weird.
@@i_am_tomatosoup😂
I like how this movie just definitively lays to rest the whole "James Bond is a Codename" thing.
Just shows that he really is the worst secret spy ever and going around telling his full birth name to literally everyone.
He may be programmed to do so. He's the patsy. The other better spies are the 01-09 the double 00_ code is for the suckers. If you make it through like 3 or 4 major missions you get to retire.
Well he is a lunatic so he probably just doesn't give a shit
Since he has no family/real connections I guess it doesn't matter lol
@@mssonoma1 it kind of does considering people in that universe know about James Bond and that he’s a British Spy, it’s like he goes around, “hello, I’m a spy.”
Well, that theory was laid to rest before the theory existed tbh
A slight correction to your Trivia about the "PUFFY HANDS" so the scene in which the gloves had to be replaced is actually the scene where he fights the assassin in the high-rise tower.
If you watch the earlier part of the scene before he jumps on the elevator, he puts on his lovely gloves in the car. Then he proceeds to enter the high-rise and suddenly he is no longer wearing gloves as he holds on to the elevator, then as he steps through the glass doors holding his palm recognition gun. This is where his whole hand has been replaced due to the gloves. It gives a nice close up of his CG hand! This can be confirmed by the end of the same scene where he is holding the assassin out the window, suddenly he is wearing gloves out of no where again, and they even cut to a close up showing the gloves.
Thank you for pointing this out!
I figured this must have been the case. I couldn't imagine anyone thinking wearing the gloves with his suit at the casino would look good, regardless of the palm-print gun.
Just when you thought Raoul Silva couldn't be more evil, he has his henchmen shoot up Bond's Astin Martin.
The fiend
He can't keep getting away with this.
Mason's knowledge of fashion blows my mind and I'm here for it. Do Devil Wears Prada so we can watch him shine.
Yessss do it Mason!
Tom Ford suits are actually pretty well known for being slim in the body. The style of the suits in Skyfall are kinda different in style to the typical Tom Ford suit, but not in the fit. Look at anything Tom wears himself, they're just as tight in the waist as the skyfall and spectre suits. Suits
Suits.
Expecting aussies to understand class and style and a well-made suit. Is asking too much.
@@ferociousmullet9287 yeah they only use suitaridoos there anyway
suits.
@@RicardoMoralesMassin agreed
@@RicardoMoralesMassin True, but consider this: suits.
I think this film allows Daniel Craig to play his best Bond. An extensive look into the characters psyche, getting into the past of a somewhat mysterious character, telling an intimate and emotional story. I love this movie and you can see what they were going for with Spectre but without M or some other form of emotional weight and relevance for the audience, the story falls flat.
Shoutout Sam Mendes, you made a good one!
That's exactly how I feel.
I completely agree, this movie has got me more emotionally invested on its climax than any other Bond movie has done.
I loved this movie. I felt it was perfect Bond movie for the time. I had high hopes for SPECTRE and it sucked and the high hopes I had for most recent one are gone
I agree that bond in 1960's was basically a rapist. But it was a movie and it was 55 yrs ago. No need to overcompensate now. Bond should not go woke
@@burtan2000 the fact that you put the second half of your comment on a thread that has nothing to do with that topic is making me look at you like a guy at a dinner party who proclaims to have never fucked a goat. Despite no one at the party mentioning anything close to that subject.
@@fictionarchth-cam.com/video/HNMq8XS4LhE/w-d-xo.html
Joking aside, It was the topic of the video i watch prior to this. It is a prominent topic about the new film, which is at best an implied indirect relevance.
Your analogy is humorous but is about as relevant as my statement was. I was never a movie 55 yrs ago. Am i going woke?
It's be more like, "oh Padraig O'Shenneshey? I for one believe he DID shag that goat back 20 yrs a'fore me momma whelped me! "
“The pedophile one doesn’t sweat” hmm yes what an excellent quote from my favourite TH-cam channel
ALLEGEDLY, doesn't sweat.
Its something hes very well KNOWN for, hes known as man who doesn't sweat 🤣
Whether this is regarded as a decent Bond film or not, I think “Skyfall” is one of the best Bond movie names.
Do people think this is a bad movie?
@@PayondeAwsome hipsters insist on it 🙄
@@PayondeAwsome I don’t know what the general consensus is honestly. I’ve seen people love it and seen people hate it.
A better name than Octopussy? I don't think so
@@Mark-co8gt "Hipsters" = people with opinions different from your own?
Ahh, the most infallible villain plot of them all - a police uniform and a pistol. Diabolical!
It worked for Joker too. Skyfall is such an uninspired movie. I enjoy it less and less the more I think about it.
@@orinanime don’t think about it then
@@maismade6013 a movie not worth thinking about is not worth watching
I read this in Adam West's voice.
@@orinanime I wouldn't agree with that. There's nothing wrong with a movie that exists only for the viewing experience.
I'm genuinely curious here, you say: "I enjoy it less and less the more I think about it." But how do you feel when you watch it?
I watch Bond to not think, it's not conducive to thinking, and never has been.
The only thing I got from this entire video is that James absolutely LOVES 007 Legends. It’s his favorite game of all time and he is so happy he got another opportunity to spend $50 on it.
Money well spent.
This needs more likes.
I just love the fact that the entire convoluted plan leads up to "just walk into a building with the person in it disguised as cops and indiscriminately shoot". It's like the entirety of the plan leading up to that point tuckered Silva out and he just half assed the ending.
Did you see Teresa's grave stone "Beloved wife of James Bond" And his name was in larger font HAHA
Sorta reminds me of:
fantastic beasts THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE LOOK EVERYONE IT'S DUMBLEDORE HE'S HERE AND THE MOVIE IS ABOUT HIS SECRETS DUMBLEDORE'S SECRETS
James made a universal screw-up in his trivia, In the Shanghai sequence Bond has a pair of gloves on but was photographed holding the palm reader PPK so they reshot the scene with the gloves off, not the casino scene. And the Heineken ad was on a Train, the boat ad was for Spectre.
Somebody had to have said it!
in the BTS shown in this video when they're talking about the glove fiasco, he is not wearing gloves either, supporting your point
Wasn't Moneypenny's fault she shot Bond, since they equipped her with a 5" barrelled AR to hit a moving target hundreds of yards away without hitting the person standing in front of it. Sounds like a logistics failure to me...
Bond could have done it with a 9mm pen blind folded
Look, it’s neat that you know a lot about guns, but there was no way for MI6 to know she would ever be in that situation.
@@PatheticApathetic M still shouldn't have expected her to make the shot. Granted M probably didn't know what gun she had.
Can't get enough of the piece of Bond trivia that "the royal family sucks and is bad"
James Bond: A gun and a radio. It's not exactly Christmas, is it?
Q: Were you expecting an exploding pen? We don't really go in for that anymore.”
He should have said "I thought Christmas only comes once a year"
And then Spectre happened.
@@AnnDVine And then give Q a lil smooch
Puffy hand CGI is absolutely true. My friend is a visual effects artist who has to do all the changes to the hands. 3 months of solid work there
The only thing I remember about Skyfall is when watching it in the theater, at the part where Silver is "interrogating" Bond, some frat bro in the audience yelled, "GAAAAAAAY!"
I think he was expecting some scattered chuckles of agreement, but instead the theater remained dead quiet. Which was both wildly uncomfortable, but also comforting that no one else thought it was funny either.
Some guy did that during the scene in the Batman with Alfred and Bruce and same there
Was halfway through typing 'The "James Bond is a codename" theory could be debunked all the way back to Roger Moore visiting...' and then Mason came in to save me the trouble.
I reckon there should've been a scene where a villain directly attacks M's office, and Moneypenny defends with her badassery
This movie successfully did what Spectre could not, namely combining the grit of the Craig era with the goofy fun of previous eras.
Yet they're both made by Sam Mendes
Creativity is a strange beast
Meh, everyone I know thought both of them sucked.
Fun?? The only fun thing about Skyfall is watching Bond fail at everything he tries to do like some sort of anti-Bond. Acts like motherfucking Johnny English in this one.
@@Avenging_Archer Isn't that the entire point? Personally I think it's fun looking at Bond claw his way up after losing his way.
I won’t lie, I was really hoping James would break the game disk again
As a UK citizen, your comments at 16:46 couldn’t resonate more. A subscriber and massive fan of all your content (MCU, Bond, Garbage and other) but that made me laugh out loud. You guys are the best!!!
The Dude improvising the "Rat Story" was pretty epic. Killer theme song/credit roll as well.
Javier Bardem can do wrong imo, honestly Blofeld felt like a step down compared to him.
Hearing James rant about the royals gives me, an englishman who shares his opinion, great pleasure
Quick FYI for what it matters: Heineken is a Dutch beer. I recall hearing once that they have a major American brewing company brew in North America, but I couldn't find anything about that on the Internet, so it might have just been an exchange student trying to justify why the German beer out here is better.
Yeah the bottled Heineken actually brewed by THEM in Holland is half decent. Its the Brewed Under Licence stuff that is awful.
Heineken may be Dutch, but it tastes like macro-American swill.
There needs to be a new podcast but it's just James ranting about bad bloke Brando and the royals. I'd pay for an extra subscription just for that.
Wouldn't even have to change the name for it! lol
@@MTdaBlacking Or: Another Caravan, Different Garbage?
@@Tymbus Palace of Garbage
Deadly dose of garbage
As a Scottish man, I fully agree with everything James said about the monarchy 😂
As an English man (ugh), I second (or third) these sentiments entirely
As another Englishman, I also agree with James. And that’s why I bugger a swan to death every Sunday morning.
@@tomralfe5428 I thought Englishmen buggered swans just because they're Englishmen
@@playman350 …That’s true. 😕 But this is how I justify it to myself…
Welshman, that’s when I was reminded to drop a like 👍🏻😂
I think Skyfall is the best Bond film for Heath Ledger’s performance as the Joker alone.
Rewatching this one the weekend Queen Elizabeth passed away hits different in a why would you say something so controversial yet so brave type of energy... 😅😅😅
Love these boys!!
I definitely want to see the James Bond movie where he pivots his career because his body's wrecked and becomes a professional TH-camr. What would he put on his channel? Extreme stunts? How to put on a Savile Row suit and tie a tie correctly? Analysis of guns in movies? Drinks mixing?
That could actually be entertaining. Maybe they'll do something like that to promote a movie where he retires. Or for the one after that...
REAL SECRET AGENT EXPLAINS PARACHUTING ON AN ICEBERG (2002)
@@10msplits REAL SECRET AGENT REACTS TO BLACK WIDOW ACTION SCENES
The Dynamite comics do interesting things with MoneyPenny. She’s basically M’s last line of defence if MI6 gets taken over, so she has to be a great assassin etc
I always did like a badass Moneypenny
This opening sequence with the motor bikes and going over the tiled roofs and through the market always reminded me of the classic hand-drawn anime film *Spriggan* - which often gets described as _Raiders of The Lost Ark_ meets _Akira_
i completely forgot about that!
now i need to rewatch spriggan lol
Funny you should say it reminds you of Akira! Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira creator) was involved in the production of the Spriggan Anime movie.
Not sure why you are telling Mr Sunday Movies about this as he would obviously know about it already. He’s the guy that knows everything about anime.
@@matthewshaw3747 You and the guy who replied thinking I said _Spriggan_ reminds me of _Akira_ both have horrible reading comprehension lol 😂
@@FordFourD-aka-Ford4D I was making a joke about James on the podcast saying that he knows everything about anime every time anime is mentioned.
Hearing him rip into the Royal family was so weirdly pleasant, fully agree with him
Wow, James really operating at 40% in that intro there. Probably was down to 15-20% when he said Heineken is an American beer XD
British person here, fully agreeing with James about the royal family
You're not British
@@highlandus I have a birth certificate, ID and passport that beg to differ 🙃
@@tyrxian6452 still not British
@@KingRogue explain to me how not then
@@tyrxian6452 don't need to it's obvious
As an Irishman, hearing your take on the Brit Monarchs had me in stitches
As I brit I agree lol
It’s absolutely fucking pissing it down outside and this ain’t available on the podcast app yet, but I’m gonna listen to it all the way home. Thanks for getting me home lads.
Hope your day got better then!
@@amarisfrede2 haha thanks mate!! I’m based in the uk so it was the end of the night when I actually caught this, but rest assured - I made it home ok safe and sound :) thank you
Definitely a major improvement over Quantum of Solace. However I feel like they should have left the storyline of an aging Bond who's lost a step and needs to push himself to get back in action for the final Craig film not the third one in.
@CEO of Secularism
I think that's more how they made him up in that film he was only 43 or 44 (depending on when filming took place) but you'd swear he was 50 or 55 in that film but he appears younger and more spry in spectre 3 years later. I still really enjoy skyfall but even when I first saw it I thought to myself "we're already doing this after only 6 years?"
It was still up in the air whether Craig would return for another film. So MGM probably percieved it as a send-off of sorts for Craig Bond in case he didn't come back.
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You're probably right but even with that uncertainty I think it was just too soon to do that storyline. But yeah that probably is why they did it.
@CEO of Secularism true.
It was similar to how in the Dark Knight rises which ironically came out the same year that Bruce Wayne was retired to start the film then he ended up retired again at the end, so we only got one full movie where Bruce was Batman
James your lil rant about the royals was absolutely MWAH 🤌
Say what you want about Silva's big stupid Joker plan, but he achieved exactly what he set out to 🤷🏻♂️
I have just opened the video and am unsure if this comes up but fun fact... Naomie Harris spent six weeks training as a barber for the shaving scene
This and Casino Royale are tied for being my favorite Bond movies, GoldenEye comes in 3rd place. Really hope No Time to Die can be a top 4 for me
It’s up there thanks to the ending.
27:56 I'm excited because I know you guys are referring to Blood Stone, a really underrated Bond game. Can't wait to see you guys cover it!
The prince Andrew bit, bloody got him!
the Prince andrew bit was... chefs kiss!
I fucking love this movie.
Look, I know it's just the Bond version of the Dark Knight, but... well, what can I say. I like Bond, I like the Dark Knight. I like strange facially scarred villains portrayed by great actors. What's not to like here?
Loving these, definitely making me like these movies a bit better than I initially did. Disappointed you guys didn’t mention the part where Bond uses a Komodo dragon as a springboard.
The 2020 Olympics were a sight to behold, for sure.
@gatmnear yeah he’s riffing off the mistake James made
@gatmnear I was making a joke about Mr Scumbag Movie's completely unforgivable mistake.
Can't blame him considering it was the most forgettable olympics since 1996.
Finding out James hates the royals was a delightful surprise!!
As an Englishman, I got overly teary at you shitting on our Royals. Meant a lot, thank you
He just mad he couldn get his ancestry visa lol
You two are amazing together, should do a TH-cam series as a pair!
Skyfall is my favorite Bond behind Goldeneye and Maso breaking down Silva’s revenge plot has really exposed me to have been nothing but an ill fitted Tom Ford suit these past 9 years.
My top 5 favourite are:
Dr No
Goldeneye
Skyfall
Casino Royale
The Living Daylights
Goldeneye is still the best balance between fun, stunts, and plot of the series
I love how off the rails these videos get. I truly think this is one of the best TH-cam channels
The uranium bullet stuck in his shoulder until returning to London was ridiculous.
Honestly I watch these things for the long tangents about things that James just can't stand more so than anything. They're the best. The souvlaki commercial video is art.
I think it’s really popular amongst fans and casual audiences because it’s SUPER British and it was a massive milestone for bond, marking the 50th anniversary. One thing I hate is that they really push the idea that Bond is old in this film (old dog, new tricks blah blah). 2 films ago he was a fresh faced brash newly promoted 00 agent, quantum was a direct continuation, and suddenly he’s old and past his best??
Yes it is very British, you just feel UK vibes the whole movie
8:56 in Mister Silva's defence, a rogue MI6 operative would know what the Standard Subway Procedure is.
The most interesting thing about this story is that Bond fails his mission. Silva got everything he wanted.
Yeah but Sliva died not knowing he’d won, so Bond can have that small w.
Kevin Spacey is the next Bond villain. Not him playing a character. Just him. As himself.
*No Time To Die premiers in London today.
Anyone outside of Europe: “Wanna talk about Skyfall?”
Came for the title, stayed for the royals rant.
His eyes are getting impossibly blue as the series progresses.
These videos are the only reason I look forward to Tuesdays
Prince Andrew should be the villain of the next bond film.
Global pedo trafficking ring would be interesting you're right
@@deriksandoval5263 in the next film, the organization is involved in human trafficking so Prince Andrew is a canon member of Spectre
As an Irishman, I agree wholeheartedly agree with james here about the royals
+1
As an Englishman, I also agree
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*I’ve said this before and I’ll always say it again, they should’ve gone with Supremacy by Muse as the song for Skyfall. Which was a close 2nd to being picked*
17:29 Funny thing about agents featured in movies (FBI, MI6, CIA). The slim fitted suits would be a hinderance to their job.
The FBI handbook specifically advises to have suits that are sizes larger, so the loose fit can help in concealing your weapon and more easily access it. And of course, having a fuller range of motion, unrestricted.
It's a movie bro. The actors are supposed to look cool, not be practical.
A lot of these agents actually are plainclothed much of the time.
21:17 "people complained that it isnt very bond like he'd drink such American swill". The Netherlands will never forgive you for this transgression James.
Although i have never met a soul in my 20 years of living in Amsterdam who likes Heineken. Most compare it to the canals which are infamous for being filled with about every bodily-fluid a drunk/high tourist can excrete.
14:00 would just turn into your Indiana Jones vs bond skit: "all the old bonds drink and take bets while Craig drowns everyone in a bathroom sink"
You forgot step 21 in Silva's master plan, hire a guy who puts gigantic balls on his little auto pistol
not sweating sounds like a rejected characteristic for le chriffre before they went with a bleeding eye
It just struck me how gorgeous the film looked from minute 1. Then I saw "Directed by Sam Mendes" and it made sense. Then an hour in, I looked up the cinematographer and it was Roger Deakins and it made even more sense
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Since she’s capable as a combatant, isnt sitting outside the boss’s door setting her up as M’s bodyguard?
I like this movie. It's fun. That shower scene though... very weird to me, especially after what we learn of Sévérine's past in the previous scene.
I think the implication is that he was already there.
Still. Very weird to put that in there.
@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep really? I’ve seen it many times and never saw anything to think that. To me, they set off on their journey and she assumes he’s not coming - you see that there is disappointment in her face when the henchman says they are leaving. The idea to me was that he manages to get on undetected after they cast off.
Anyway, as you say, weird. And doesn’t change the point for me.
@@ferretchief It felt like a subversion to me. Her look of disappointment but when it cuts to her in the shower, that's later when he already showed up and she invited him in.
What shower scene are yall talking about? I literally cant remember lol
The Dark Knight influencing Skyfall.. it came full circle really, because the opening sequence of The Dark Knight Rises is straight out of a Bond opener
In the buildup to season 2 of Star Trek: Picard, you should do the remaining TNG films. First Contact, in particular, seems like it will be relevant.
First Contact while flawed (especially the stuff set on past Earth and weird sexual borg Queen) is easily the best TNG movie.
Gawd dammit, they're gonna try to ruin First contact with s2 of Shitcard ?!? 😭 wasn't enough to drag Q in this season eh?
I still love first contact and will rewatch that, undiscovered country, and voyage home anytime.
@@Davidsworldtravels Agreed ^^ 👍 now *that's* real star trek
@@claudegrenier3180 you need a good combination of geopolitics, Shakespeare, hope, and charm. The new shows/films don't have any of these.
Not gonna lie, It would be pretty funny British military goof that a new man becomes Bond, and for a while, he's sent to the old Bond's wife's grave. Just to really mess with the enemy's intelligence. "We are pretty sure the old one died, I mean we killed him... but a Bond just visited the grave of Maggy Muff. It's a different guy, but it's Bond..."
To expand on James Bond as a codename, I always wanted to see Sean Connery come back as a villain against a modern Bond as the original James Bond, like a version of his Allan Quartermain role, and I get the feeling Skyfall is about as close as we'll ever get to that ever being a movie.
This might be the most unhinged Caravan of Garbage episode yet... I love it
Lol Heineken an American Brand?? It’s literally the most Dutch thing ever
I love the royals rant in the middle there
Funny though but Silva's plan was simpler than that. It was just stealing the list of agents and literally wait for him to get captured. He knew Bond was going to eventually do it.
Yeah, it's not nearly as complicated as their explanation. All he did was go along with what he was doing until they caught up with him, he never actually intended to leave specific clues so bond could track him the way he did
@Vipère Diabète and he did it all just to show up at a highly protected government building all so he can attempt to shoot M with a pistol. Truly a mastermind.
@@Mr47steam which nearly worked, so..?
@@PatheticApathetic why not skip all that and just do the gun bit? if he wanted to talk to her first, why not do that and then gun her down? Better yet, focus on the actual culmination of his plan with enough detail to make it fail proof, and then scribble in the extra bullshit with outsmarting the MI6 once he knows the core of his plan will work
@@Mr47steam so, write the character so that his plan works? Because, based on what actually happened in the movie, the only way it could have been better is if he’d actually killed M
Skyfall is the only James Bond movie I've watched, therefore this is the only James Bond centred Caravan Of Garbage I can watch.
Good job, best video ever.
I think it's a testimony to "Casino Royal" that people suddenly think "Skyfall" might not be a great Bond-movie, because the story and the villain's plan makes no sense.
It's a Bond-movie. The villain's plans never made sense. These movies have always been silly. However, after "Casino Royal" people forgot how silly and frankly stupid this franchise usually is. If the Craig-movies had not changed the tone so much in their first movie, nobody would have complained about "Skyfall"'s plot being too stupid and not making sense.
I wish they'd stuck with the more grounded and realistic tone of Casino Royale though. I wanted more Craig Bond movies that were actually smart and well written.
31:11 Ngl, my ears perked up when I heard "And around the riverbend???", and I started singing Pocahontas' 'Just Around the Riverbend' in my head.
A big thing to remember: it takes two films for a Bond to be established. It’s his first confident film!
Poor Dalton
@@jamstonjulian6947 yep. It’s why his bond is so generic. The most anyone can remember about him is that ‘he’s a bit dark.’
My favorite of the Craig Bobd films. It's good, man. Like, there's a little camp and corniness in it with things like the train falling through the ceiling, or the helicopter blaring out music as it descends on Scotland, but those feel true to this series of films (as opposed to Spectre's camp and corniness). It doesn't feel out of place or anything.
I think I remember at the time people complained there wasn't enough of Bond being "dead"/in retirement (or maybe it was just me who thought that, idk), but I think once you look past that aspect of the film, and see it as more of an M film, it totally works.
Also, never knew about Kincaid originally being played by Sean Connery, which makes a lot of sense in hindsight. But I think it's good they didn't do that, because it'd be too on the nose and too distracting.
You forgot the "make a perfectly timed train fall through the ceiling" part of Silva's plan.
Skyfall is iconic at this point, but I honestly like the Casino Royale and Spectre themes over it.