Reviewing 'Goldeneye' - The Countdown to Bond 25
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- CINEMATIC 007 -- "Oh, please James, spare me the Freud. I might as well ask you for the vodka martinis that have silenced the screams of all the men you've killed... or if you find forgiveness in the arms of all those willing women, for all the dead ones you failed to protect." The Countdown to 'No Time To Die' continues with a review of 'Goldeneye.'
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My first Bond film seen in the theaters. I was 15. Perfect film for my generation. Perfect film for the 1990s, the holiday from history.
I was 25 and yet it was my first Bond film in the cinema either. It was the first in Russia, in fact - except for Never Say Never Again, which was shown some five years earlier.
Goldeneye looked fantastic! There were some scenes when we were laughing out loudly - all those funny 'russian' connotations like "Misha & Petya", "Natalya Fyodorovna Semyonova", "General Oroumov", "Boris Grischenko", "paskuda!", "blyach!" and such 🤣🤣🤣 But visually this movie was unforgettable. If only not the poor soundtrack by Eric Serra, Goldeneye could be perfect.
The 90s wasn't exactly free of 'history' the fall of the soviet union and the end of the Cold War
Brosnan was rough and tumble. He looked equally great in a Tux or a commando outfit. Perfect Bond!
I think the only problem with Goldeneye, is that it doesn't age that well. That is because of all the modelwork that is very visible in the action-sequences. I wish they had more explotions on real buldings like they had in Tomorrow never dies. Despite that, Goldeneye is one of the best Bondfilms for me, but that is primarily because the villains are very good, and Pierce Brosnan is really good as JB.
I’d rather have model work than bad CG. This film has a bit of it, but nothing compared to future films. Casino Royale was great because the CG was very limited. It was all shot for real. Some of my biggest criticisms of the Craig era besides the writing were the moments where they used CGI. I’ll never be a Brosnan fan, but the CG and bad pacing in his films didn’t help, especially after Goldeneye.
I was 5 when Goldeneye came out - it was the first one I saw (at no doubt way too young an age), and I’ve been pretty much Bond obsessed ever since. So, Goldeneye holds a special place for me. I’m also a twin and I feel like part of Goldeneye’s appeal to us was the 007-006 “sibling-ish” rivalry feel. But I think it really excels at updating some probably outdated Bond tropes successfully: the femme fatale is a character, but not obnoxious. I think the stuff between Bond and the allies - Valentine and Wade - is really great, and Natalya is a well-enough explored character (for a Bond girl) that actually is functional to the plot. The MI6 crew have great little quips and (obviously) M is a really welcomed change up. Goldeneye has one of my all time favorite Q-branch visits - you can sort of tell that Llewelyn and Brosnan really got along well. I also like that the gadgets are mostly practical and they feel somewhat less reverse engineered when compared to previous films. (Ehhh, maybe I take that back).
I don’t feel like the Janus syndicate is fully fleshed out. I actually don’t mind a lot of score (except that ridiculous DB5 race in Monaco). 006’s motive isn’t really relayed to the viewer enough and I think if you weren’t paying close attention you would totally miss that he was robbing/destroying the bank of London at the end of the film.
But, all in all, this movie is fundamental to my childhood. My brother ran around my house with finger guns for hours on end pretending were Bond and Alec. And, hot damn, I love everything that happens in St. Petersburg - the highlight of Brosnan’s tenure, no doubt.
9:38 It was Perfect Dark not GoldenEye, lol. It was the Laptop Gun ;-)
Great review! Goldeneye was my introduction to the franchise; 12 yrs old...in Ann Arbor...nothing better to do on a Saturday afternoon in '95....and it literally blew me away with the sophtication, and charm of Brosnan. This film brought me into the world of James Bond, and while I later watched better Bond films and better Bond actors, there's an old saying; "never forget who brought you to the dance".
Famke Janssen is Dutch, guys! 🤣
Lol. So is Jeroen Krabbe from 'Living Daylights'. They said he was French!?
they are out of touch old guys
Am I the only one who actually loves the score for this movie? Ladies First is a bit of a misfire but the rest fits the film perfectly.
Been looking forward to this one guys!! If only John Barry or David Arnold had scored this.
I personally love Eric serra's score here, it makes the movie unique and adds to the atmosphere
No thanks. Eric serra did a great job. This score is awesome.
@Tim Hands I can't hear you over the awesomeness of the Eric Serra soundtrack. o/
Michael G. Wilson told John Altman that he would have had him rescore the entire film if given the chance. That should have been the case. Serra's score had it's strong points but it often worked against the film.
I think the thing you’re missing is honestly a good score. The music of a film can change so much and I feel the movie would feel and come off much differently with a better score
I believe Famke Janssen is Dutch
That she is.
To everyone who made this observation, I believe he was making a point (which he didn't finish) about American actresses (like Barbara Bach) being cast as Russians etc. and how it never worked- same with a Dutch actress.
During the long gap between Licence to Kill and Goldeneye James Cameron directed True Lies which was hailed by the critics at the time as 'The greatest James Bond film NEVER made.' Then shortly after, EON presented the world with Goldeneye and promptly shut the critics up by completely hitting it out of the park. I remember seeing this for the first time in theatres and thinking that this feels like an instant classic. Unfortunately because this one defied expectations and set such a high standard for Bond's return, Brosnan's other Bond movies were left with the problem of trying to eclipse this very strong opening for a new Bond but never quite reaching the same heights.
For me, this was one of the last Bond films to feature original and jaw-dropping set pieces. After this, they seemed to struggle with coming up with ideas for spectacular and original real stunts. That tank chase was another show-stopper, up there with the ski stunt from The Spy Who Loved Me and that fight, hanging out of the back of the plane, clinging to the bags of opium from The Living Daylights.
I'm really surprised that you're a little lukewarm to this one. I thought it would be high up on your favourites list. I know it takes many elements from past entries in the series but you can say that of all four of Brosnan's Bond movies. With this one you tend not to question it so much as the presentation of those same familiar elements is so well packaged and pleasing. There's also a lot more to like here than in Brosnan's other Bond movies. It's his first but he seems to hit the ground running. I think a lot of people would put this one up there with Goldfinger, The Spy Who Loved Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Casino Royale and Skyfall.
Not me, I share Joe´s opinion. Its good but not great.
Goldeneye is the best Brosnan bond film of his era. period.
that is not a great competition is it?
Nobody would stand up and say "NO SIR! IT's clearly Die another day!"
That's like saying Octopussy was the best Bond film of 1983.
I just re-watched Goldeneye again and somehow seemed to recognize the great acting of Gottfried John (Gen Orumov) in a way I never appreciated in previous viewings. His physical acting, facial expressions, and hitting his marks - are spot-on. Helped me enjoy a new dimension of the film, I didn’t appreciate before - because I agree with you guys on most points.
If there's anything that's underestimated in that overrated film, it's John as Orumov.
This was an odd episode, where it seemed like both of you had plenty of things you liked about the movie, but filled in the time with an endless list of vague complaints that you have with other Brosnan movies but not really this one. It also seems like you paid lip service, or even ignored, a lot of other great things in this movie: how great Judy Dench is in the briefing room, the last classic Q scene in the series, Bond casually turning his head away from a bullet ricochet, Natalya's "shoot him, he means nothing to me" line, Bond and Trevelyan's excellent fight in the climax (one of the best fist fights in the series)... It's obviously fine to not like a movie, but it's weird to hear all the complaints about a Bond flick with so many great moments; you both seem to be perfectly happy to ignore much more glaring flaws in other Bond movies so you can focus on the same sort of golden nuggets that you seem to gloss over in this film.
All that said, I've been loving this series, can't wait to hear both of your thoughts on TND.
Gotta agree with you. This was strange kinda like this is a great Bond movie, so let's nitpick it.
I agree this is hard to watch for me because GoldenEye is my second favorite Bond film. The stuff they complained about they loved in the earlier films. Octopussy had 5 villains yet that movie was great. This movie has some of the best action i've ever seen in a bond film.
@@gnb_2476 it's not a "great" Bond film. it's decent... but it pales next to Connery/Moore era classics...
I don't understand the complaints in this video either. Been watching every review up to this one, and now they got strangely vague with their complaints. I think Goldeneye is a perfect Bond movie. The only legit complaint was the music, which I think is easy to get past. The majority of the music is good anyway.
Yes, Brosnan was a good Bond. He had the right attitude and swagger and could have been a great Bond had he had the right material to work with. Unfortunately his whole run as Bond did not have the right scripts to propel him to the next tier as Bond. On the positive side, I ended up buying a BMW Z8 and a convertible Jag XKR thanks to TWINE and DAD.
Boy I still remember the excitement when this came out after that long gap from License to kill!
There was a Creation 007 convention here in NY as well as a Radio City music hall premiere ...both of which I went to-it was like a glorious rebirth of James Bond for a new generation.
Everyone was anxious to finally see Pierce as Bond,who we had always thought would be perfect.
And at that moment...at that time....he sort of was!
I still love this movie although as you said, you do see some weak points on rewatch-especially that too long beginning with Natalia.
It still has a very good script,terrific villains,some great action...to me,it just felt like a return to classic elements of the early days of the series.
Great review as always!
I played the game then... I saw the movie in 2007 on VHS, liked the movie then, love the movie now. Also, Eric Serra's music (aside from The Experience Of Love and Ladies First) has great tracks like "The Golden Eye Overture", "We Share The Same Passions" and that Awesome epic track "Run, Shoot & Jump".
Ah I've been looking forward to this one! Goldeneye is one of my favourites. Many wondered if Bond could survive in the post Cold War world and the answer was a definite yes. At the time there was also fear mongering over political correctness 'ruining' Bond and we're seeing the same nonsense now leading into No Time to Die. It didn't ruin anything back then and I don't believe anything will get ruined now.
Brosnan is spot on and as an irishman myself it was great to see him in the part. Trevelyan is a fantastic villain and a proper threat to Bond. Famke Jansen is up there with the best and the action is great fun. My only real gripe is the score but even that's grown on me over the years. Can't wait to watch the review guys and hear your thoughts on it!
The difference in the whole "woke" argument is that with modern woke culture it seems to be a case of empowering women (which I'm all for) but at the expense of the man, in Goldeneye it's just a strong independent woman. And it certainly wasn't part of a movement like it is now. Take all other modern woke-ness in cinema and they all do the bigging up the woman at the expense of men, or male characters (looking at you Holdo). Here it was just a strongly written character that is feisty as part of her own personality, not part of any message.
PS: Famke Jannsen isn't American btw :)
Goldeneye is in my top 3 all-time Bond films, and I really enjoy and look forward to your reviews).
Really the only part of the PC-ness that I didn't care for is how on the nose some of the dialogue is to which it makes thematic issues that I have with the film that comes off as a bit undercooked to me somewhat more noticable on repeat viewings,. But other than that, I completely agree with you on this comment.
People criticize MEN for Sean Connery choking a woman with her bra in Diamonds, but it’s just Connery being Connery and not men being disrespectful. I hope I caught what you meant?
I respectfully fundamentally disagree that empowering women has to be at the expense of men. It's not a zero sum game and it's largely been tabloids and trolls who've been insisting otherwise. From Bond's perspective, nothing that Phoebe Waller Bridge, Barbara Broccoli, Lashanna Lynch or anyone else has said about the new film implies that Bond is in any way emasculated by the fact that the film is 'influenced by the post me-too era' and the trailer (spoiler alert) shows him emerging from self imposed retirement and engaging in some very Bond like activities. So I see no cost to men or the character of Bond. Also, though I disagree with your comment, that in no way suggests that it was comparable to the diatribe put out by the trolls or tabloids.
Yep. With regards to Moneypenny, she literally says "you'll have to make good on your innuendo". She's pulling his leg, he knows it, and goes along with it. Not different to any of their past exchanges except perhaps better than the 70s and 80s.
The anti sexism aspect goes out the window in TND when Bond is briefed in the car where both M and MP imply sexual innuendo towards him reg to pumping Paris for info. Somewhat hypocritical after being scorned in Goldeneye for his perceived sexist behavior.
i love what you said about 'low attention span'...i remember seeing star wars:a new hope when it originally came out in theatres and the crowd loved it...when it was re-released in the 90's, i went again and young people were booing, yelling at the screen that it was boring....now we're in 2021...God save us all....peace guys.....rocky
it depend on the crowd i guess. i saw SW too back in the day, (77-83) and recall many was bored doing curtain parts and some laughed at the movie(s) too
It's kind of ironic that you should say that it's a "shame" that Izabella Scorupco didn't have a meatier role, because for a brief moment in the early 90's,
she was a pop star in Sweden, where her biggest hit was called "Shame, Shame, Shame"...
If GoldenEye had failed, the Bond franchise would have ended. Let that sink in, people. Thankfully, it was a huge success.
Great analysis! Thanks guys!
Just wanted to say your videos are the best produced out of all the Bond community!
Loving these reviews with Scott, can't wait for the next one...
Goodnight Joe. I trust you'll stay Onnatop of things! 😁
I agree with you guys about Martin Campbell. I feel like they should call him in again to reboot the series after Craig leaves. He's clearly just so good at that!
This is where I came in...
Summer 1994: I'm an 11 year old in the process of a move from northern Scotland to the suburbs of London and I hear they're making a new Bond film. Hang on...a NEW Bond film? I mean I very much liked what I'd seen of Bond so far on TV but I'd thought it was a 60s/70s/80s thing. Had never heard of Brosnan before, no idea what to expect...
Fastforward to the tail-end of '95...I'd settled into the suburbs of London, made a new best mate...and off we went to watch a Bond film in the cinema for the first time. And well...this film just took my Bond fandom up a level. Brosnan pretty much became Bond(although I've gone on to enjoy some of his non-Bond work). I remember a snarky remark from someone in the cinema about the plane jump in the pre-credits but other than that...centering the plot around then-modern tech and politics...cool. Tank scene. Glorious! Boris? THe guys who had already seen the film had already been taking the mickey out of him.
Rewatched it when it came out as a VHS rental. Rewatched it a load of times on TV during the 90s and 00s. Then you guys come along and I realise it's been an age since I last saw any of the Brosnan Bonds.
Thoughts on looking at it through 2020 eyes...yes...by 90s standards, that was very woke/SJW/whatever at times but M had a point "relic of the Cold War". Bringing Bond into the 90s was a gamble - arguably the biggest in franchise history. Brosnan does feel like a slightly more refined version of Dalton-Bond who of course WAS Cold War era...Brosnan was originally meant to have done TLD after all! Opening car chase feels a bit cheesier than it used to once you realise how bad the soundtrack is for that scene. Yet like a lot of my old favourite 90s action films...this still very much works...the tank chase is still glorious!
90s tech always makes stuff it's in look dated...it's the same with a UK TV show from the era called Bugs which had the use of technology as its selling point. Yet even with Bugs, rewatching the show in the 2010s was still fun. .
Mission accomplished certainly. 8 or 9? Nah...will stick with the 9/10. :)
The only complaint I have about this movie is the music. If David Arnold scored this, it would be flawless
I used to hold Goldeneye on a pedestal but after getting older and rewatching it now I feel the same way as these guys. I think it’s a good movie but I just nitpick it down several notches now. The plane scene always bothers me as well as explosions from an EMP blast. The most confusing part though is trying to figure out when Alec turned. Were he and Ouromov in cahoots the whole time? If so, Alecs actions and dialog don’t hold up. If they weren’t working together then how did he survive the gunshot? I wish someone could explain that part. It was also years later when I realized how beautiful the woman that played Natalia was and I could not believe it was the same woman!
Obviously,that was not a bullet. That was a blank.
Ricardo Cantoral so if he was using blanks then they were already teamed up. I could buy that but not sure all the dialog makes sense to support that. But It’s been a few months since I saw it and can’t remember exactly what I thought he said that didn’t match up.
@@ricardocantoral7672 The blank dosen't hold up as he shoots one of his own people with it shortly after, or its just a movie/script mistake
You guys almost put all the pieces together of why Brosnan doesn't work, but I will outline the connections. We are told by exposition that Bond and Trevelyan have a history, but Brosnan is wooden in his execution for it to be believable. And had he been in the character for more movies (like Timothy Dalton) this would have been an Earth shattering reveal for Bond. This script was basically written Timothy Dalton but since Brosnan had to fill in his shoes it doesn't quite work. And Yet, THIS IS BROSNAN'S BEST BOND MOVIE! BAR NONE!
The 90's was not my favourite decade for Bond but this film (and the game) brought a huge new fan generation to Bond so it wins on that score. For me, the positives are Sean Bean v Pierce Brosnan, I like their tension. Famke Janssen is fun and so are Robbie Coltrane and Alan Cumming. I also clearly remember the feeling of a re-set of the franchise after LTK and the fall of the Berlin Wall and the huge change in geopolitical climate that brought. They all raised questions around Bond's place in the world and this film deftly quashed the doubters and asserted Bond as a hero for the 90's. Bringing in Judi Dench helped that too. Those factors may be somewhat overlooked now but they were huge at the time. I like Bono & Edge's song and Tina delivers it well too. And the 3rd act is great. Things I don't like - the whimpering twit in the DB5, the beginning of an endless stream of witless, innuendo laden one-liners which I find boring and they eventually blew their smarmy load 7 years later in DAD. The plane dive in the PTS and cheesy ending where he carries Natalia off in his arms with the marines behind him. I found Pierce hard to relate to but that's my problem, many loved him and he served the series well. This for me is his best outing by a country mile. Thank you both for another great review - I enjoyed watching the film again this week too
I really enjoy GoldenEye. It's really the beginning of a new era for the character. The action sequences a all excellent and the characters are all interesting. Honestly, I love the score to the film. Is it dated? Yes, but so are all pretty much the non John Barry scores. Like The Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only, the musical score is unique and of it's time. Nearly everything works in the movie for me. It's very much the old plot template, but updated for the 1990's. However, I do agree with the criticism that there is something off about it and you never really feel involved in it. Everything works on a technical level, but you feel as you are an outsider watching somthing well done. I'd go with Scott's rating, 8/10 for sure, it's a near great Bond movie.
Joseph well said
i think the pace of cinema conversation is 100% on point. Many things get sacrificed at the alter of low attentions spans. For me, I think the travelogue element becomes almost non-existent after the 80s and I love seeing the exotic and far-flung places that Bond gets to. A scene like the Sumo wrestling match would never exist today, at least not like the one we have in YOLT.
Did you know John woo the director of face/off and broken arrow was offered to direct this film but turned it down
And with this review, you guys have become my favourite online Bond reviewers. I agree with pretty much everything you say here. I appreciate Goldeneye's importance to the Bond,, it totally invigorated the series, but it's very much a mixed bag for me, for all the reasons you point out in your review. I'm very much a Tomorrow Never Dies fan, I wonder if you'll think the same way! If not, your reign as my my favourite Bond reviewers will be short lived! 😛
Famke Janssen is Dutch, not American. Her accent is supposed to be Georgian which has that American style tone to it, similar to Bulgarian.
that is why they are called q cards
Goldeneye was the first James Bond film I watched by myself and one of my favorite Bond films and I have been watching your channel since 2019 to now and I love the reviews
I think you two guys are absolutely terrific I await every review you make from over here in England. Feels like I am sitting alongside you! Like I said in a previous comment I first saw Dr No in 1962 when it came out and here we still are😄Just really hoping the gun barrel is good and at the beginning 👍
There was a casino scene in skyfall
but Bond wasn't sitting down and playing
True...
Welcome to the Pierce Brosnan era!
Playing catch-up? Great review as always!
Agree to disagree as Goldeneye is one of the coolest ones for me but still it's a personal opinion & love watching you & Scott reviewing these films, you guys definitely rock.
WOW you guys are hard on Goldeneye. It is my favorite of the Pierce movies. IMO Best writing, best overall acting, and great locations. World is not enough is close but sheesh. I think you guys went from License to Kill to Golden eye too fast and haven't recovered from the overly critical reaction. lol
i think its one of the best in complete package: Memorable villain, great soundtrack, great lines... not THE BEST in all those categories, but in all high on the Bond-List
Mine too . Only Connery , Moore Brosnan were born to play bond
What about Dalton he practically looks like the character?
@@randywhite3947 I loved Dalton as I thought he was the perfect mix of gentleman spy. It's just unfortunate timing and some shady writing.
@@DasKame The soundtrack is bad.
Not sure if this was the first Bond film I saw, but being only 8 years old at the time, it made an incredible impression. It remains one of my favourites of the series.
I was 8 too. I distinctly recall seeing Goldfinger and parts of Dr. No and Thunderball a few years prior. But I thought those were boring as a kid. This was the one that grabbed me. Now I think *this* movie would be perceived as boring by 8 year olds today!
Anyone wanting to hear more of that funky car music should look up the Porsche Unleashed game soundtrack.
I was born in 89 so obviously this is a big deal for me but when you look at all the best bond films they each still have a quality or a part that either stands out and makes the good parts go ew get away from our movie or quietly bleeds the enjoyment...but in goldeneye you are certainty supposed to come in expecting to have fun and feel tension and your doing it right when you let go and let the movie run around like a happy dog that just wants to see you happy lol
Just watched Goldeneye for the first time ever-I lost "interest" in Bond movies back in 1987, but catching up now. In a nutshell- the movie just isn't that "clever" for Bond standards. They needed to try harder, which I believe they did with some success in later movies.
This one hasn't quite aged well for me as a film.
Don't get me wrong, I like it, but that doesn't mean I quite hold it to the same regards as some of the films in the series that I would call "god-tier" like "Casino Royale", "Skyfall", "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", "From Russia with Love", "Licence to Kill", "The Spy Who Loved Me" and even to a lesser extent "Goldfinger" and "The Living Daylights".
My main issue with "GoldenEye" is how a few of themes it presents are a bit undercooked as well as how "Casino Royale" has similar themes, but does them a thousand times better.
"Casino Royale" really is the film "GoldenEye" wishes it could be, simultaneously reinventing the formula while also remaining true to it. What struck me most about "Casino Royale" is how it's pretty much the closest thing to the Fleming novels than most of the other films ever were, and yet it deconstructs the character by observing the flaws inherent to Fleming's male fantasy and finding conflict that challenges it without changing it. These are things "GoldenEye" only wanted to talk about without ever doing anything beyond continuing to glamorise Bond, which isn't inherently a bad thing per say just don't set up your film as something and then go back on it especially with how on the nose the film can be with how PC it can be. It kind of just introduces the ideas, has one or two characters give a short speech on it, and that's the end of it. It's just gone almost right after it's introduced and never really touched upon in the rest of the film again. The only real idea that the film really develops i the concept of betrayal and how people handle it through Bond, the Bond girl and the villain, although the only part of that idea that kind of felt a tad bit undercooked (but not exactly underdeveloped) is the Bond side of it because I wished the pre-credit sequence was a bit longer and gave us a bit more on the friendship between Bond and Alec.
interesting, i like Goldeneye much more than Skyfall and Casino Royale, everyone has different taste :)
@@petesampras3188 Fair enough, although I prefer Casino Royale and Skyfall over GoldenEye because that film feels a bit too much like a checklist regardless of how counter-intuitive it comes off in places to the point in which it makes the film a little thematically incoherent to rather than a film that naturally let's its tropes. The thing that I like about Casino Royale and Skyfall is how they loosen up and sometimes subvert old clichés and tropes and in my opinion comes off as films with more heart and soul to them as the less ridged formula allows filmmakers like Martin Campbell and Sam Mendes back bit more leeway to practice their art.
i really like Casino royale, and i like Skyfall, but omg the plotholes in it...i cant look away from them, and i like Daniel Craig, but he has unfortunately always that grumpy face Expression, its time for a new Bond Actor, im sure ur favourite bond Actor is Daniel Craig?
@@petesampras3188 Actually my favourite is Timothy Dalton, but I really feel like the whole "Craig is always grumpy" makes me wonder if these people have watched the same film as me because when the script calls for it, like after Vesper dies in Casino Royale, you can see the pain, the frustration and heartbreak her death has on him. Or some of his playful moments with her like the cheek he always gives her during their earlier scenes, you can see plenty of pleasure behind the smirk and eyes.
Bond is a character that represents masculinity in some shape or form. Connery was machoism, Moore was the English gentlemen, Dalton was the dangerous bad boy and Craig is stoicism.
@@callummoore6962 i agree in Casino royale and Qos, but after that Always grumpy with the duckface...
I think you guys went a bit too overboard with some of the things you did not like about Brosnan's movies in general rather than talking about GoldenEye itself. Sure there are problems with the movie like the score and the entire geographical mishap of the pre title but all in all it keeps you hooked. Izzabella Scurrupco as Natalya is probably the best Bond girl since Tracy DiVicenzo from OHMSS
Really been enjoying this series but disappointed at how much focus has been placed on nit-picking in this review.
A fairer review would have paid respect to the many great moments and cast additions. The tank scene, M, Brosnan's brilliant take on Bond, the combat, the memorable villains.
Dude y’all should totally do some kind of video on the Bond games, like, if they fit the continuity or not? Lol
For me, the distracting part is that Brosnan still has Remington Steel's hair, so your watching Remington Steel trying to play Bond. I'm not sure Brosnan had found his footing on the delivery as Bond until later films.
For me its the other way 'round ....I have alywas thought there was a bit of Bond in him when watching R.S ; - )
You guys are the best Bond critics on youtube. Great job on all of these!
Thank you sir!
This was the first Bond film that I got to see in the cinema. I think it's Pierce's best film as Bond. It perhaps does go back to a more traditional formula for the storyline, but I think the addition of Sean Bean's character as a former friend turned baddie really makes the story. It's also interesting with it being post Cold War as well. There's a good selection of supporting characters : Onatop, Boris, Jack Slade, Natalaya, etc. Also some impressive action scenes(dam jump and the tank chase). Good direction from Martin Campbell(who would later on direct "Casino Royale" with similar gutso).
Yeah, it's sadly obvious that Q is reading off cue cards in this scene.
If only dalton was bond in this...
i think that would be a weird contrast, Dalton-Bond was WAY more brutal and violent... Brosnan would be first so dark in "The World is not enough"
I really like this review series. Thanks for it! Dalton is my favourite Bond and I really wish he could have had the possibility to make the third one. I'm sure it would have made his Bond more popular. I would have liked to see Dalton in Goldeneye as it was the plan in the very beginning...Anyway Goldeneye is definitely Brosnan's best and I think that the style of these movies really changed after Dalton but even more after Brosnan. Craig's movies are good but doesn't have that "bondish" feeling anymore...that class...
Yes!! I’ve been waiting for this one! And the Brosnan era in general.
I love this film, it’s my all time favorite Bond movie by far. For me Brosnan has it all, especially here. Certainly has some flaws, some logistical things that don’t really work. But all in all it’s amazing.
Yes the infinite mountain cliff scene is kinda weird and obviously wouldn’t ever work. But it’s Bond.
Thanks guys for a great review! Can’t wait for more!
Favorite scene is the 006 007 fight scene. Amazing.
@@TravisTLCdrumming i dont know how you liked this review
The Living Daylights
Licence To Kill
GoldenEye.
Three of the Best Bond movies ever. Three greats in a row. I tend to call it the Dalton-trilogy because obviously the early drafts for GoldenEye were written with Dalton in mind.
Love the score for GoldenEye. People tend to hate on Eric Serra but It seems to me like people only dislike the track Ladies First.
Nothing is missing and No the pre title sequence isn't a mixed bag. Its just awesome.
Not saying the chase music was good. But if you've played any arcade racing game from that Era, the music makes more sense.
famke is dutch, not american....and goldeneye is the movie i would show anyone to introduce them to bond, not casino royale.....scott we miss you.....peace...
Good film, Pierce was a fabulous Bond. The geopolitics (and office politics) were interesting, the action was on point. Only thing I didn’t like was the score.
Goldeneye, great bond movie
This movie is massively overrated and was pretty endemic of Brosnan's era: all surface and no depth. People that love this movie seem to have more affection for the game than the actual movie itself.
Favourite scene: The Yanus HQ - Loved the whole concept of the underground base, design etc. Plus the antenna dish concealed beneath the water. Based in Puerto Rico!
Least Favorite - Yes definitely the annoying discoish funky crappy score with the car chase, although the chase scene and location is excellent!
Every time I watch this I can imagine Dalton in every scene.
Hands down the best Brosnsan Bond film. Goldeneye brought Bond into a new era! The plot was believable, beautiful women, had the gadgets, had the cars, and as a kid what captured it for me was 006 vs 007. I actually liked the dark musical score for the film because most of the film is dark and I think the score and the movie captured the Cold War better than any other Bond movie. Ironic being that the Cold War was over by 1995. One of the underrated parts of the film is the Beach scene. This is one of the few times in any movie where Bond is in touch with his emotions and you can see him trying his best to surpress those emotions of a lost friend. I think the missing piece of the film is comedic relief from Bond! I feel thats Why Dalton got criticized and why they ratcheted it up in the following Brosnsan films.
A fair and honest review.
It's a good movie but far from being one of the series' best.
I will ALWAYS have a biased view of Goldeneye. It wasn't the first Bond film I ever saw, but it was the first Bond film I ever loved. I was 12 when Goldeneye 007 on the N64 was released and that really got me into the Bond films in a huge way. I watched Goldeneye on Sky Movies in October of 1997 and from that day I became obsessed with the films. Objectively it's not a Top 5 Bond film, but it will always be in my own personal Top 5 (after The Living Daylights, OHMSS, Casino Royale and Goldfinger).
Ιso much enjoy your series
With Brosnan, the franchise went right back to the days of Roger Moore and had Bond been animated, you would have lost nothing.
GE is my number one regardless what anyone says. GE, Skyfall, and Live and Let Die are my top favorites.
Stop saying the score is bad. The score for GoldenEye is better than Leon. People Always mention Ladies First why don't you talk about the GoldenEye Overture or Run Shoot and Jump?
The score is junk.
Its in my top 3.
Yea, I agree with everything said. The two ladies actresses are my favorites. 😏😎🌴 but as far as rating the film, I’m going to give it a “007” 😄😎🌴🎥
That opening motorcycle jump onto the plane is now tainted, going forward I'm always going to be wondering just how far above sea level is this Russian base lol. Late to the party but loving this channel.
Pierce Brosnan in the thumbnail makes me think of one thing: Blue Steel.
I love this one
Great show, love your reviews, Fanke Jassen is Dutch.
Brosnan was a very good Bond, Goldeneye was a good movie after a long break. He later movies weren't as good - although Halle Berry rescues DAD for me.
As the Goldeneye theme song was written by Bono ant the Edge, they could not use any themes from the song in the soundtrack. Thus the score suffers for it.
Ah Goldeneye. The Bond film that defined my childhood. I was only 4 when this film came out so I didn't get to see it until a few years later when I eventually got around to seeing the Bond films. Weirdly enough it was actually the N64 videogame that got me into James Bond. I actually played the videogame at my cousin's house when it came out and I was 6 and it got me hooked on James Bond ever since. Goldeneye will always be a special place in the hearts of all 90s kids like me. No doubt. It was indeed a very special part of our innocent childhood nostalgia. Reminding us all of an innocent time.
So putting all of my childhood nostalgia aside, what do I actually think about Goldeneye as a film today? Does it still hold up after all of these years. And I have to be honest and say yes. Yes it still does. Goldeneye is still a great film and I still love it today just as much as I loved it when I was a kid. It was even my favourite James Bond film for a long time. Not without its flaws obviously but GE was a Bond film that had such a great debut by a Bond actor, a great storyline, a more grounded and more believable Bond villain, a more grounded and believable Bond girl, some outstanding acting and some great action set pieces. Goldeneye has definitely become one of my all time favourite James Bond films along with the likes of From Russia With Love, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Spy Who Loved Me, Licence to Kill, Casino Royale and Skyfall. Martin Campbell did an absolutely terrific job of resurrecting the James Bond series with this Bond film and he really did show us that James Bond could still be relevant in this modern day world with all of our modern day technology and with the belief that spies are a thing of the past in this post Cold War world. GE really is such a terrific Bond film and it is a damn shame that none of the Pierce Brosnan Bond films after Goldeneye matched the same level of quality that this film had with each Brosnan Bond sequel getting progressively worse than the last but for what it is. Goldeneye is still a great and outstanding Bond film.
Negatives? Goldeneye has such an incredibly dated score by Eric Serra that is so 90s that it hurts and I just hate the godawful The Experience of Love song that is played over the film's end credits. Seriously. Why the fuck didn't either John Barry or David Arnold score this film? Or even Michael Kamen for that matter seeing as how he did such a terrific job scoring Licence to Kill?
Pierce Brosnan does make a great debut as James Bond in this film and he really does bring a lot of quality to his interpretation and take on the character of 007 here. But you can tell that Brosnan was still trying to find his feet as Bond in GE and it would be a while until he finally got comfortable as Bond in his later films like Sean Connery and Roger Moore did in their Bond films. Which is ironic seeing as how his Bond films got progressively worse yet his Bond got progressively better acting wise.
I also hate how they wasted the BMW Z8. Like they set this car up for an exciting action packed car chase during its introduction in this film's Q Branch scene yet they do absolutely nothing with it. Like WTF?
I also don't get how 006 and Bond are the same age if Alec Trevelyan was a Lienz Cossack that was around during WW2. Wouldn't he be way older than Bond with that logic?
I also don't get the whole Infinite Mountains logic during the film's pre title sequence but that is just a personal nitpick of mine.
GoldenEye looked good. As you fellas have said it is a kind of 'greatest hits' of Bond. In that sense it plays safe. In the 6 years that had elapsed since Licence to Kill however movies had begun to look different and the bar had been set higher by 'True Lies' released a year earlier. GoldenEye in that sense failed to deliver to bring much new to the table (not even a tank chase was enough to answer that call). We were now entering the world of style over substance and product placement. And we were also entering a truly post Fleming world having exhausted the quota of novels and short stories. Brosnan on the other hand certainly delivered as Bond and was (for me at least) a much needed improvement on Dalton - the look, the delivery, the way he handled himself. And we get the return of the DB5. And great locations (Monte Carlo and the Cote d'Azur - a nod maybe to The Persuaders?) to show it off. But you fellas are right on there being something missing which is difficult to put your finger on. It's not the first time the essential ingredient that was John Barry was missing so I wouldn't point the finger of blame at the score. I wasn't keen on the ,villains (the Boris character particularly irritated me bringing senseless humour to a movie which had otherwise struck the right tone by sticking to verbal one-liners from the Connery/Moore school). The second half of the pre-title was a mistake - the first time in the franchise a Bond sequence was so patently unreal/implausible (Jaws aside). The movie otherwise is solid and merits a 7 from me.
Have either of you played the Bond game Everything or Nothing?
I like Goldeneye. But my biggest thing about the movie is that the story feels outdated. By the time this movie came out the Cold War was over. Soviet Russia was no more. The story of Goldeneye feels like it would have been more appropriate for the Cold War Era. It feels like the story was thought of, and maybe written, for that time period. 006 betraying Britain, and the commie Russians weaponizing space age technology just felt a little out of place for a movie made in the mid 90s.
I could be way off base. But just like you two were saying how there is something with this movie that you just can't put your finger on, and for me it is the story. To me it just feels like it was written with a different era in mind.
Scorupco frumpy?? You must be joking; she's gorgeous even if not glamorous.
I actually love Eric Serra’s Music for this movie. I’ll always love goldeneye because it was my first bond (I was 7 when it came out) and I fell in live with the franchise instantly and thanks to Famke Jansen I have a huge thing for female domination lol
"No big action scenes"
"Man these movies are just explosions and action"
SCO-RUP-CO
Jon Doe Baker. hahaha. Speaking of the video game, supposedly it is getting a HD remake.
I agree with James. It's an enjoyable and solid film that doesn't feel substantial or special. Great cast though. The budget does show at times. Derek Meddings' team appear to have been asked to do miniature work that was too ambitious and wasn't sufficiently financed to look as polished as his previous Bond work. And the frequent dialogue directly addressed to the audience (Dench's "....dinosaur" rebuke, Bean's "Her Majesty's loyal terrier", etc.) feels like the makers weren't sure if a straightforward Bond story would be accepted in the mid-90's. And both Martin Campbell films (at least to me) have a confused sense of what time period the film is set in. Visually they seem to blend past and present eras. Campbell had several surrealist ideas for the TV 'Edge of Darkness', so I'm assuming that time period issue may be a result of his sensibilities.
DutchBondFan made this joke, but the Monte Carlo street racing segment really reminds me of music from a MarioKart game. Serra's score is very hit and miss. I do give it credit for inspiring the sound and feel of the game soundtrack however!
Famke Jansen is Dutch guys
You guys are way too generous here. The whole Brosnan era is like a vogue cover shoot of what a Bond film should look like, this one gets worse every time you watch it.
Solid review. Has a lot to like but definitely has cartoony characters. Huge Martin Campbell fan however.
I find it interesting that you have more criticism of this one; at least it seems that way. Generally, it's held up as one of the greats. And I believe it to be. It was hard for me to accept Brosnan at first as I really liked Dalton and feared that Pierce would be lightweight. He surprised me, keeping some of the harder edges that Dalton brought back. It's a fun film with some plot issues, but the stunts were great. Sean Bean is a great villain. Natalya is one of my favorites. I can even stand the Boris character. Zenia is quite the memorable henchwoman. It's not a perfect film, but it's definitely one that I can watch over and over again.
36:32 “I am Russian and I will **** like this” 😂 Onatopp of your game there Joe!
Nice.
Famke is Dutch, playing a Russian