It was a woman who did the stunt for golden eye her name was EUNICE LOCKHART she won the British gladiators then became a stuntman and her career has been amazing TITANIC, FIFTH ELEMENT ELEMENT, TOMB RAIDER, SALT she's even godmother to Angelina and brads kid Shiloh
Not really neglect. It was just old age that caught up with it. That and the fact that there was no safe way to fix the corrosion issues in the cables that supported the central receiver structure.
Fun fact, I'm from the same town as Pierce Brosnan and he went to school with my dad. He comes back every so often to visit cousins and the like. He was back one Christmas and on Christmas Eve I seen him in a pub with some cousins, as he walked by I said "Buy me a pint" in reference to Goldeneye and he laughed and bought a round for the whole pub. Super nice genuine down to earth guy
There was a semi-viral clip from the Black Adam press tour where one of the journalists is from there and he gets a little choked up as they chat about it.
This doesn't surprise me at all, in interviews and people's stories he is always described as a genuine and relaxed person and I love hearing all of the accounts people share about him.
I absolutely adore that moment where an interviewer reveals he's also from Navan and Pierce's voice quivers and he really opens up, he's such a nice guy.
I would be wary about accepting a pint from Pierce Brosnan in a pub. Next thing you know you are a Blank and trying to overthrow humanity for the benefit of the greater galactic community.
LOTR spoiler in this post. I never paid much attention to his "score", so when I watched LOTR I was really excited with his character and he was easily my favorite. Having never read the books, I had no idea he was going to die. I was sooooo pissed off for a long time. A few years later when I realized what was going on, I find it funny. Though still annoyed about Boromir, no matter how important his ending was.
I think you'll find that the majority of the Bond films before Daniel Craig's tenure were like this, with signature one-liners, humor, gadgetry, and a lighthearted adventure-type feel. You should just start at the beginning and see them all. They're all worth it.
@@StarkRG Skyfall is great, until the second half when they actually go to Skyfall and it turns into "Bond: Home Alone" and I can't take it seriously anymore.
@@bb.buchanan The whole movie is silly, but tries to take itself seriously. There's one part of the villain's getaway plan that hinges entirely on a subway train arriving at exactly the right second and the entire plan is predicated on MI-5 moving to one, specific disused bunker. It's ridiculous, which is fine because James Bond movies _are_ ridiculous, but it seems like it's trying to be a serious, dramatic movie. It's like if you got Kubrick to direct Dumb and Dumber in his style but kept the script exactly the same. Austin Powers was a parody of James Bond, but it's like the Daniel Craig era took it further in the opposite direction.
@@StarkRG Lol okay, yeah forgot about that bit. In fact now that I think about it a bit more than half a second, most of Skyfall is pretty shit (especially Home Alone 5: Scotland edition); What I did like was the scorpion scene at the bar because it humanised Bond and the half Asian babe and the scene between the two in the casino bar when Bond sees through her charade as they talk about fear.
@@StarkRG I love Casino Royale, but I still agree that Craig's run was a drag. His run of movies are somehow excessively serious while also being goofy in a really bad, cringey way because of how serious they take themselves. And the interconnected plot threads they forced into every film after Casino Royale just bogged everything down further. And they were also constantly doing what the Mission Impossible films have done since 2, where the plot involved some internal crisis at MI6. "We need to take the James Bond formula and turn it on its head!" Yeah, I've had about enough of that. I really hope that somehow we can get back to solid plots executed within the traditional Bond formula without attempting to reinvent the wheel every film.
Saw an interview with the stunt driver of the tank how he couldn't be seen, how he had todriver the tank by only using the drivers periscopes and hiden cameras, while Brosnan was on the other side of the tank.
@@jameshenner5831 in part, butapparently they built a replica set to destroy but residents of the city watching it actually got anxiety because it was so well done spliced in with the location footage.
@@jameshenner5831 If I recall correctly they filmed some of it onsite, but once the local bureaucrats got wind of the scale of the production they corruptly tried to blackmail them into paying more than was agreed to use the locations. The studio then packed up and filmed the rest in a studio lot instead.
The subsequent film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) was Michelle Yeoh's big screen debut in the west as well as composer David Arnold's (Stargate & Independence Day) entry in the franchise. Please check it out.
MI6 training: We spent millions to get you false papers, a complete backstory, disguise, foreign language and customs training. James Bond: F*CK IT WE'LL DO IT LIVE
That movie was a huge boost for Famke Janssen's career and helped her get the role of Jean Grey, where she re-united with Patrick Stewart (her first acting job ever was a guest role on Star Trek: The Next Generation). For added hilarity, watch her appearance on Conan O'Brien from that time, where she demonstrats on Conan how she crushes a man's ripcage with her thighs.
in all fainess @@pete_lind we only see him enter the facility through the bottom of the dam. we never see the route he takes after that, perhaps he had to go all the way back up to the top where he ends up on the runway.
Fun Fact: So far, there has always been at least one supporting cast member maintained between Bonds. Connery, Lazenby and Moore shared M, Moneypenny and Q. Moore and Dalton shared M and Q. Dalton and Brosnan shared Q. Brosnan and Craig shared M.
@@KyleBaran90 That's mostly not true, with some exceptions or gray areas. It's mostly a theory people use to try and impose a stronger continuity over the whole series It's really not meant to have. 1. It's true for Q. Think it stood for Quartermaster. The 1st couple Qs were named Boothroyd. 2. For M it's bit more up in the air, as 3 of the 4 Ms have been confirmed to have the initial M, so it's more like different characters who coincidentally have the same initial so they get the same moniker. 3. For Bond and Moneypenny it's demonstrably not true. In the Craig movies it's been shown that those are both their actual names and there was never any evidence to the contrary in the previous eras, beyond the recastings. Lazenby and Brosnan even have the same family motto.
One thing to keep in mind about the Russian portrayal (piles of statues, etc.) is that this was the first Bond movie released after the end of the Cold War. At the time, some people wondered if the franchise could even work without a Cold War paradigm.
The bit where Boris kept clicking the pen and repeatedly arming and disarming it is phenomenal. Oh, and I still remember the big laugh in the cinema at Q's line "Don't touch that! That's my lunch!"
@@Johnny_Socko “BMW and Bond bonded in 1995's GoldenEye. To get into that film, BMW agreed to pay $75 million (sponsorship?) in marketing costs for GoldenEye and the two Bond films that followed, according to insiders. For MGM, at the time a woebegone studio that was lurching from one financial crisis to another, BMW's $75 million was found money.” The Aston Martin was included for nostalgia to show the audience the new James Bond.
Fun fact: the actor playing Q very obviously was reading cue cards off screen while he was showing off all the cool gadgets, something of a running joke
The director of this Bond, Martin Campbell, also did Casino Royale. Two of the best movies of the whole franchise, and two times he "righted the ship" after it floundered with some pretty hacky stuff.
Personally don't agree this film is one of best but casino is just average they turned bond into just a copy of jason borne and took all fun out of bond films.
I disagree. License to Kill was a really good Bond movie. While it didn't do well in the box office, it wasn't the reason why the franchise floundered in the early 90's. There was a lot of legal issues between License to Kill and GoldenEye's release.
@@philfitnesspt6139 I disagree. There is alot less silly in Casino Royale, but there definitely is humor and fun. Craig's Bond quips, he gets amused by himself, he messes with people to get reactions. All undeniably Bond and not Borne
I never really saw the comparisons with Bourne. CR has more in common with Batman Begins in that it wanted to be more realistic and grounded as a reboot. It's also followed the novel quite well.
James Bond is the characters actual name. There's a few hints throughout the series, such as his wife's gravestone says "Tracy Bond" in For Your Eyes Only, and I think the Craig movies reference it being his family name. Also the Connery movies make a point that he was a Naval Commander Bond before joining the Secret Service. in terms of ACTUAL spy stuff...he's terrible at it because in the movies where he uses an alias, he always gets found out, or he just tells people his name...so the bad guys know who he is. It seems almost like he's trying to get captured so the villain can reveal their evil plan....
Depending on what version of the character and story you look at, Bond isn't really a "spy". He's a government sanctioned hitman for a spy organisation who gets sent to investigate and deal with threats that the actual spies have already noticed.
OnaTOPP trivia: The director said working with real Marines was great, they turn up with all their own wardrobe and make up, they do exactly what you tell them to do, exactly when you say it. Apparently when filming that final scene the Marines were lying down hidden and there was a break for lunch. The director told the Marines’ commanding officer that they were welcome to come have lunch with the cast and crew. To which he replied “no they are fine where they are”. So they just lay there in silence, in the baking sunshine (shot in Puerto Rico), whilst everyone else had lunch.
Thanks to Rob Paulsen (the voice of Pinky in Animaniacs) at a Comic-Con, I always think of this with these films: "Are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "I think so Brain, but why would anybody want to Pierce Brosnan?" To which the obvious answer is: "Who wouldn't?"
Does anybody remember playing GoldenEye 007 on Nintendo 64? Also, GoldeneEye still is one of the best James Bond movies and the tank chase is just epic.
10:10 Yes, James Bond is his real name. It's best to not take these movies too seriously. It's absurd that a spy broadcasts who he is so often that everyone knows his favorite drink.
I honestly find all the Pierce Brosnan ones to be pretty underrated. As someone who grew up playing Goldeneye with family and friends, this movie hits such a nostalgic feel and is so cool to watch. The World is Not Enough is pretty great too.
The World is Not Enough was probably the BEST Brosnan Bond film overall, even though its not as iconic as Goldeneye. Interestingly, the N64 rendition of that film was actually pretty damned good as well
Yes Sean Bean does die a lot however I believe this is because he played the unkillable soldier known as Sharpe for so long that he had to balance it out
i agree however i liked every james bond some are better than others even my least favorite one has grown on me a little stil hoping for the next one to come out soon- ps my least favorite one is quantum of solace
Fun fact (another one): Xenia's signature leg squeeze that she uses to kill is based on an exercise fighter pilots use to squeeze blood from their legs back to their brain during high intensity maneuvers
I don’t know where you getting that from mate what she’s doing is basically just a scissor choke which is used in jujitsu. You compress the floating ribs so the person can’t breathe effectively choking them out.
Pierce era, have the best bondgirls or femme fatalle. Natalya, Wai Li, Elekta, Xenia and Miranda were amazing... Paris and Christmas not so much... a fun fact, the scene between Xenia and James in the sauna, was so intense that Famke got one of the rib broken...
By far the best of the Brosnan 007 films. Also, I love the homage to DIE HARD when James calls out Alex for unleashing all this death and violence and in the end he's just a 'common thief' like Holly to Hans Gruber.😂
Man, that GoldenEye game was great as a kid and was responsible for the creation of one of the greatest videos ever, the 1:12 baby! If you know, you're a legend.
GoldenEye was the first Bond film I was able to go watch in theaters, and I kept that chain running until I no longer cared to watch the last Craig film.
Same here, although the first 007 film I saw at the cinema was the final Roger Moore film A View To A Kill. I went to see every film from Goldeneye onwards on the big screen with my sister, but we both lost interest after Skyfall. The only truly great Daniel Craig Bond movie is Casino Royale. The franchise is basically dead to me at this point.
Before Pierce appeared as Bond, back in the early 80's he was in a series called Remmington Steele, which was a character somewhere in tone between Bond and Tony Stark. When I used to watch this as a kid (Bond was Roger Moore at the time) I always thought he'd make a great Bond and was pleasantly surprised not only to find that he did becomes Bond after I'd thought this, but also that the producers had sought to have him cast as Bond at the time of Remmington Steele, but owing to contractual timing he was unable to take the part on at that point.
Brosnan's Bond Era followed closely from the Roger Moore style of - Act of violence : Quippy remark. While Timothy Dalton did attempt the quips, his take on Bond was a little more realistic and a call-back to the original Sean Connery films. They attempted to keep the action/humor mix as best they could through the Brosnan era but it went totally off the rails by the time "Die Another Day" (the Brosnan Bond film SImone has already seen) which derailed the Bond films for four years. (They generally came out every two years except for the six year gap between Dalton ("License to Kill") and Brosnan ("Goldeneye"). When the series was retro-booted with Daniel Craig, the producers decided to go with a more gritty, realistic depiction of the character as he was originally portrayed in the Ian Fleming books - more hired killer than gentleman spy. That was the reason the Craig era took a harsher tone than what had proceeded it. Fun fact - Goldeneye was actually the name of Ian Fleming's estate in Jamaica where he wrote the majority of Bond novels and short stories. The film "Goldeneye" was the first written completely from scratch not based on any existing Fleming novel or story elements.
That's crazy about the Queen. They should squeeze in a quick worst Bond movie ever just to stick it to King Charles before he croaks. "Lmao, suck it, Charles, your only 007 was James Corden and it went straight to VHS for some reason."
Brosnan does this weird thing when he is in Bond mode and once you see it you’ll always spot it. Whenever he opens a door he stands silhouetted in the door before going in.
George and Simone - the Russian guy called Valentin Zukovsky who said to Bond "My knee aches every single day, twice as bad when it is cold. Have you any idea how long the winter lasts in this country?" was played by Hagrid actor Robbie Coltrane
It is indeed. The older guy who used to play "M" up through the Roger Moore era passed away sometime around the filming of "For Your Eyes Only". I don't recall if there was an "M" scene in that film or not. So it's either Moonraker that had the last of the old "M" scenes - or it was in "For Your Eyes Only". After that, there were two more Roger Moore Bond films that side-stepped the classic "M" Briefing entirely and had the briefing done by someone else in the MI:6 or Military Hierarchy. I forget at present if there was an "M" in the two Timothy Dalton films. But I wouldn't be surprised if they kept side-stepping it - particular in the 2nd film which had James Bond go completely unsanctioned and without the support of MI:6 except for "Q" who came to help him on his own. So Judi Densh as M is actually FAR more of an icon for the later series of Bond films. Now - as to her actually staying on past the Pierce Brosnan films and well into the Daniel Craig films - yes. It's a bit of a continuity tangle. Since the Daniel Craig films were a REBOOT and why would you have the "M" from the previous series continue in the role? And the only answer I - or likely anyone else - can give you is: Because Judi Densh is just THAT AWESOME. No other reason needed, really. 😅
@@logandarklighter no it's only your eyes only where there's no m he is said to be on leave m returns in octopussy it's never clear if he's meant be same m but recast or someone else robert brown i think plays him from there until licence to kill.
@@philfitnesspt6139 You're correct. I checked between my last post and now and found the same thing. I was just on my phone "out in the wild" when I posted that last and didn't feel like doing a search until I got back to the house.
Bernard Lee, who played the original M, was in it for the first 11 movies. No one to date has done as many in the role. Desmond Llwellyn holds the record at 17 Bond films in the role of "Q" or Quatermaster Major Boothroyd.
there is the Sean Connery theory of ageing where as men age they get more distinguished, like Sean Connery, where as when women age they look like Sean Connery.
*jaw hits the floor* You're doing Goldeneye! I was 10 when I saw it with my parents in the theatre, was already a huge Bond fan and the movie blew me away. With the Nintendo game following years later, I can say that this movie dominated my childhood between age 10-16..... I'm going to subscribe (again) on Patreon immediately even if it is only for just this movie. Best surprise of 2024 so far, thank you so much and keep it up, love the channel.
I was 17 when this came out. When I heard Pierce Brosnan was going to be Bond, my first thought was "Remington Steele is going to be 007? SWEET!" He made a great Bond. I give props to Sean Connery for being the OG James Bond, but the acting, fight scenes, and plots to most of his movies are pretty corny. The Dr. Evil type bad guy kinda died with Roger Moore's Bond in the 80s. The Timothy Dalton Bond movies of the late 80s brough the action and plots back toward reality and "License to Kill" is one of the best Bond movies ever, IMO. I highly recommend it. The feel of those movies was carried over when Pierce Brosnan became 007.
The Aston Martin was the car he drove in the start. If you read the books he starts with a Bentley, only shown in From Russia with Love. He first gets the Aston Martin in Goldfinger.
10:15 Last year I started watching all the 007 movies and I was hoping to have the answer to this exact same question. This Christmas I finally finished watching all official 25 and I still not sure.
If memory serves, this movie was right after the cold war essentially ended, and it caused Russia to get very upset seeing imitations of their landmarks and such destroyed by the tank scene.
I just realized, Boris looks like Harry Potter could have looked like. Even the broken glasses. From a cinematic point the "taste if the coffee is still hot" is genius. It moves the attention from the coffee to the lips of Famke Janssen and gives this scene a sensual, almost sexual, level. And Famke's character is all about that.
Crazy thing is, that ball smashing scene in the chair from Casino Royale was actually in the book, so that is OG James Bond. There are a few reasons why the Daniel Craig bonds took a much darker and serious tone. You’ll understand one of them if you watch all of the Brosnan films. The absurdity and lack of realism was never what Bond was supposed to be. Also, surprisingly enough, Austin Powers’ success was another reason why the reboot of Bond with Craig was more serious. The production company realized how nuts things had become, and how not far off the Austin Powers movies actually were. Lastly, the success of the Jason Borne movies also steered Craig Bond in a darker direction.
22:17 You literally asked the question at the beginning of the movie? When does this film take place? Before the fall of the wall or after. He goes to a graveyard of the Soviet Union.
18:30 The James Bond car is provided by whoever is prepared to pay for the product placement and in this era that's BMW, The DB5 is a continuity nod to establish that the new guy is Bond
One of the best title songs of the Bond series with Tina Turner singing, always love it. By the way, there is an impressive video of when the observatory got destroyed by collapse in real life that you should really watch!
My favorite Bond girls are the ones in this movie. Xenia is so evil and beautiful and Natalia is so real and kind. It could be nostalgia since this was my first Bond movie as a kid, but them forever.
James Bond is basically his real name, but he is also the last of his family. No attachments - as with all 00-Agents (the 00 also stands for 2 successful MI6-contracted kills required to get the license to kill - which gives permission to sanctioned kills as deemed necessary by the agent). Regarding Xenia tasting the coffee: She wore gloves and coffee spilled on the cold floor will get cold almost immediately. For it to be warm the cup must have fallen mere seconds ago
Favourite Bond girl? So very many... Carole Bouquet, Teri Hatcher, Jane Seymour, Eva Green, Talisa Soto, Famke Janssen. But the only real answer is Diana Rigg.
1:02: what’s even stranger to figure out is that the Daniel Craig Bond films are prequels to the rest of the series, yet Judi Dench is M in the first 3 (Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, and Skyfall), but becomes M in Goldeneye. BTW, the one you’re thinking about with Halle Berry and diamonds is Brosnan’s last Bond film, and I think the 20th or 25th anniversary film, Die Another Day. 9:58: Yeah, that tends to happen. There’ve been girls in this franchise named Pussy Galore, Plenty O’Toole and Holly Goodhead, just to name a few 😂 10:12: There’s a fan theory, to reconcile all the different actors who’ve played Bond in different time periods, that it’s a code name and that the real Bond is Sean Connery’s character in The Rock.
Through the early films it is fairly explicit that Bond is a singular actual person with a very dead wife. There is actually a cool fan theory that orders the films into a single fairly cohesive whole with Craig at both ends.
Craig's Bond movies are NOT prequels..... I hate the word "Reboot" but essentially Daniel Craig's Bond is like a reboot or an "alternative universe" version of the character. The only reason they kept Judi Dench as M was that she was so good in the role but in actual fact, they are different Ms. Dench plays the character very differently in the Craig Bond movies....Also in the Brosnan Bond movies, M's real name was "Barbara Mawdsley" whereas in the Daniel Craig Bond movies, her real name is "Olivia Mansfield"- At the end of "Skyfall" when Moneypenny gives Bond the porcelain Union Jack Bulldog left to him by M after she died, it has M's real name on the box
Yes, Minnie Driver can sing. She portrayed Carlotta in "The Phantom of the Opera" (2004). And while most of her singing was admittedly dubbed--she wasn't exactly trained for opera, and opera is very hard to fake--the end title theme, "Learn To Be Lonely," is all hers.
Pierce Brosnan followed this up with Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day. Other actors to play James Bond are Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig. Another Spy action/thriller starring Pierce Brosnan is The November Man
Simone: Remembers Halle Berry's belly button... then diamonds. Also Simone: I was distracted by the silhouettes of the naked dancing women. Watch out George, she's gunning for your role.
Fun facts about the movie, and certain moments that were mentioned: - The plane stunt at the beginning, it was a real thing, although part of the shot was ruined. In fact, like many Bond movies, it was inspired by the stunt sports that were going strong at the time they were made. For example, the plane's free-fall scene is about the paratroopers jumping out of the plane, then the plane starts a nosedive and the paratroopers jump back into the plane. And this is possible thanks to the aircraft model they use, which makes it much lighter in relation to size, weight and wind resistance, which also facilitates takeoffs on short runways. This detail is very popular in irrigation aircraft, or firefighting aircraft. Here in my city, a couple of these airplanes were purchased as the ones seen in the movie, a pair of Pilatus PC-7. - The scene of the historical monuments, is a real place. It is the Moscow park Muzeon, also known as the cemetery of the cursed statues. It is not as exaggerated and large as it is seen in the movie, but much more terrifying in real life, as it has been given paranormal rumors. - The name James Bond, and the fallacy of the worst secret agent. This is close to my heart as a 007 fan, not only of the movies, but also of the novels. I have come across too many times the phrase "everyone knows James Bond and that's why he is the worst secret agent in the world". This is false, because these people forget that one thing is his popularity in real life, and quite another in fiction. There is also the other point that although it is a name and surname not so common these days, it was when Ian Flemming launched his novels. When he chose it, he got it from the author of a book by an ornithologist at the time, Dr. James Bond. Besides, at the end of the day, it is just a name and a surname, of which there are several James Bond in the real world. Samantha Bond, the actress who in these films plays Miss Moneypenny, has a son named James (Thomas James Hanson), although this is more of a coincidence, and not something on purpose (if I remember correctly, the boy is named James by a relative of Alexander Hanson, Samantha's husband). (Don't ask me how I remember these useless facts, I just know them, hahaha). - The atmosphere and rhythm of the Bond movies: James Bond in the novels, is colder, more similar to Daniel Craig, or more specifically Timothy Dalton. He is a cold and calculating guy, with a warm and friendly exterior, but not remarkable. I mean, he's a character you don't dislike, he has a charisma that allows him to get close to people if necessary, but at the same time he's forgettable as someone who's more of the same. Brosnan is too handsome and charismatic to be a spy, haha... - At last, Halle Berry's is Brosnan's last film as Bond: Die Another Day. If you are going to continue watching Bond movies, but don't want to go for the classics, I recommend the two Timothy Dalton movies, you can't miss them.
Simone being impressed by the bungee jump is actually the correct reaction as that stunt was literally a world record when it was done.
Good to know.
Tom Cruise would have done this stunt on his own
And now available to the public... At least, it was in 2004 when I did it - Versazca dam in Switzerland. Bought a tuxedo specially...!
It was a woman who did the stunt for golden eye her name was EUNICE LOCKHART she won the British gladiators then became a stuntman and her career has been amazing TITANIC, FIFTH ELEMENT ELEMENT, TOMB RAIDER, SALT she's even godmother to Angelina and brads
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A one shot take type of deal with multiple camera angles too.
RIP Arecibo Observatory, where the ending of the film was shot. It fell apart from neglect a few years ago.
Huge loss to science
SETI :(
Not really neglect. It was just old age that caught up with it.
That and the fact that there was no safe way to fix the corrosion issues in the cables that supported the central receiver structure.
@@nigeldepledge3790 Not providing a budget for renovation is neglect.
Fun fact, I'm from the same town as Pierce Brosnan and he went to school with my dad. He comes back every so often to visit cousins and the like. He was back one Christmas and on Christmas Eve I seen him in a pub with some cousins, as he walked by I said "Buy me a pint" in reference to Goldeneye and he laughed and bought a round for the whole pub. Super nice genuine down to earth guy
There was a semi-viral clip from the Black Adam press tour where one of the journalists is from there and he gets a little choked up as they chat about it.
@@gaz-l621 I've seen it, I know the journalist, he lived around the corner from me growing up and works in local radio
This doesn't surprise me at all, in interviews and people's stories he is always described as a genuine and relaxed person and I love hearing all of the accounts people share about him.
I absolutely adore that moment where an interviewer reveals he's also from Navan and Pierce's voice quivers and he really opens up, he's such a nice guy.
I would be wary about accepting a pint from Pierce Brosnan in a pub. Next thing you know you are a Blank and trying to overthrow humanity for the benefit of the greater galactic community.
*Guy getting squeezed to death by Xenia*
"Oh, he's Canadian!" lol.
#priorities
Represent!!!
Represent!!!
I mean, if you HAVE to go, 90's-era Famke Janssen is a GOOD choice of method.
A funny trope is that Sean Bean dies in every movie to make up for how many times he survived as Richard Sharpe.
Imagine if they'd adapted all the books, he wouldn't even survive the O2 ads after that.
LOTR spoiler in this post.
I never paid much attention to his "score", so when I watched LOTR I was really excited with his character and he was easily my favorite. Having never read the books, I had no idea he was going to die. I was sooooo pissed off for a long time.
A few years later when I realized what was going on, I find it funny. Though still annoyed about Boromir, no matter how important his ending was.
Sigh
The only good one from this era.
It's the Universe's revenge for his name. Is it pronounced Shon Bon, or Sheen Bean? His name has fundamentally reshaped spacetime!
Yeah but I mean that arc with the girl who takes all his stuff is basically spiritual death.
I think you'll find that the majority of the Bond films before Daniel Craig's tenure were like this, with signature one-liners, humor, gadgetry, and a lighthearted adventure-type feel. You should just start at the beginning and see them all. They're all worth it.
While I do love Skyfall, Daniel Craig's Bond movies are my least favourite of the bunch. This one's pretty close to the top.
@@StarkRG Skyfall is great, until the second half when they actually go to Skyfall and it turns into "Bond: Home Alone" and I can't take it seriously anymore.
@@bb.buchanan The whole movie is silly, but tries to take itself seriously. There's one part of the villain's getaway plan that hinges entirely on a subway train arriving at exactly the right second and the entire plan is predicated on MI-5 moving to one, specific disused bunker. It's ridiculous, which is fine because James Bond movies _are_ ridiculous, but it seems like it's trying to be a serious, dramatic movie. It's like if you got Kubrick to direct Dumb and Dumber in his style but kept the script exactly the same.
Austin Powers was a parody of James Bond, but it's like the Daniel Craig era took it further in the opposite direction.
@@StarkRG Lol okay, yeah forgot about that bit. In fact now that I think about it a bit more than half a second, most of Skyfall is pretty shit (especially Home Alone 5: Scotland edition); What I did like was the scorpion scene at the bar because it humanised Bond and the half Asian babe and the scene between the two in the casino bar when Bond sees through her charade as they talk about fear.
@@StarkRG I love Casino Royale, but I still agree that Craig's run was a drag. His run of movies are somehow excessively serious while also being goofy in a really bad, cringey way because of how serious they take themselves. And the interconnected plot threads they forced into every film after Casino Royale just bogged everything down further.
And they were also constantly doing what the Mission Impossible films have done since 2, where the plot involved some internal crisis at MI6. "We need to take the James Bond formula and turn it on its head!" Yeah, I've had about enough of that. I really hope that somehow we can get back to solid plots executed within the traditional Bond formula without attempting to reinvent the wheel every film.
Tank chase is one the best moments in entire Franchise. Over the top, practical amazingness with Bond theme on background.
Saw an interview with the stunt driver of the tank how he couldn't be seen, how he had todriver the tank by only using the drivers periscopes and hiden cameras, while Brosnan was on the other side of the tank.
Bond fixing his tie after plowing through a wall with a tank is peak 007.
Did they film any of that at St Petersburg Russia?
@@jameshenner5831 in part, butapparently they built a replica set to destroy but residents of the city watching it actually got anxiety because it was so well done spliced in with the location footage.
@@jameshenner5831 If I recall correctly they filmed some of it onsite, but once the local bureaucrats got wind of the scale of the production they corruptly tried to blackmail them into paying more than was agreed to use the locations. The studio then packed up and filmed the rest in a studio lot instead.
The subsequent film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) was Michelle Yeoh's big screen debut in the west as well as composer David Arnold's (Stargate & Independence Day) entry in the franchise. Please check it out.
"This is where Simone confuses me."
George, that should be the channel's tag line.
They should also do something with George's other line, "Sean survived the fire, so that makes him a refried Bean."
God. I cringed so hard with that line lol. Even Simone was like “ugh 🙄 moving on…”
@@te1013 not gonna lie, but I would've said the same thing lol
"Someone actually did this" is like the slogan of the James Bond stunt department since 1964.
**stealth is optional for this mission**
James Bond: “Oh look! A tank!”
MI6 training: We spent millions to get you false papers, a complete backstory, disguise, foreign language and customs training.
James Bond: F*CK IT WE'LL DO IT LIVE
That movie was a huge boost for Famke Janssen's career and helped her get the role of Jean Grey, where she re-united with Patrick Stewart (her first acting job ever was a guest role on Star Trek: The Next Generation).
For added hilarity, watch her appearance on Conan O'Brien from that time, where she demonstrats on Conan how she crushes a man's ripcage with her thighs.
You forgot Alan Cumming being in X2 along with Famke.
Not only is it a thing that Sean Bean dies, but this particular death is actually considered a signature Sean Bean death
Brosnan = metrosexual Bond
In this movie, he dies twice!
Still funny how high in mountains that dam is , he jump off it , goes down tens of floors and end on a runway that still high up.
The man himself even ranked them, and this was number 1. Over Ned Stark being beheaded.
in all fainess @@pete_lind we only see him enter the facility through the bottom of the dam. we never see the route he takes after that, perhaps he had to go all the way back up to the top where he ends up on the runway.
"Such a young little Bean!"
Yes, he's a real Beanie Baby!
I'll see myself out. 🙃
"But we want it to be a sexy sledgehammer"...Peter Gabriel?
no .. Benny Benassi
Peter Gabriel was where I went to lol
🎵 I'm gonna be - the sledgehammer
This can be my testimony
I'm your sledgehammer
Let there be no doubt about it 🎵
Miss on sexhammer
I got my N64 and Goldeneye package the same year I watched this film in the 90s. Absolute peak cheesy childhood nostalgia!
Xbox released Goldeneye last year.
Hope you seen the video "Real Life Gameplay - Goldeneye 64" XD
Fun Fact: So far, there has always been at least one supporting cast member maintained between Bonds.
Connery, Lazenby and Moore shared M, Moneypenny and Q.
Moore and Dalton shared M and Q.
Dalton and Brosnan shared Q.
Brosnan and Craig shared M.
I hope that Ben Whishaw stays as Q-he’s terrific!
@@kathyastrom1315 Yeah. He makes that computer stuff in Skyfall sound almost coherent. (Spoilers: it is not.)
Ye it's almost like it's a continuing universe story
I thought Q, M, Moneypenny, and James Bond were all designations within the organization, so it doesn't matter "who" it is
@@KyleBaran90 That's mostly not true, with some exceptions or gray areas. It's mostly a theory people use to try and impose a stronger continuity over the whole series It's really not meant to have.
1. It's true for Q. Think it stood for Quartermaster. The 1st couple Qs were named Boothroyd.
2. For M it's bit more up in the air, as 3 of the 4 Ms have been confirmed to have the initial M, so it's more like different characters who coincidentally have the same initial so they get the same moniker.
3. For Bond and Moneypenny it's demonstrably not true. In the Craig movies it's been shown that those are both their actual names and there was never any evidence to the contrary in the previous eras, beyond the recastings. Lazenby and Brosnan even have the same family motto.
One thing to keep in mind about the Russian portrayal (piles of statues, etc.) is that this was the first Bond movie released after the end of the Cold War. At the time, some people wondered if the franchise could even work without a Cold War paradigm.
Oh. I think we are quite alright for Russian tropes for a while. They never seem to be out of character...
Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, Boromir and Hagrid - the Avengers team up you didn't know you needed
...and Doctor Fate. Remember?
...
Nobody remembers?
@steve716 who the hell is Doctor Fate?!
@@motorcycleboy9000
Pierce Brosnan's character in Black Adam.
@@steve716 Barely anyone bothered to watch Black Adam.
@@MichaelEvans-i2r It made $400 million, someone watched it.
The bit where Boris kept clicking the pen and repeatedly arming and disarming it is phenomenal.
Oh, and I still remember the big laugh in the cinema at Q's line "Don't touch that! That's my lunch!"
18:18 Simone, actually the James Bond car is whichever car company had the highest bid. In years past in was Aston Martin. ✌️😸
Fun fact: BMW had a three film contract with the Bond franchise. Enjoy 😊
Yup, Moore was in a Lotus for a while as well
@@shawnmiller4781 The Lotus Espirit might be my favourite. Even more so than the iconic DB5
Also, he *did* drive an Aston Martin (or rather, THE Aston Martin) in this movie, they just weren't the sponsor.
@@Johnny_Socko “BMW and Bond bonded in 1995's GoldenEye. To get into that film, BMW agreed to pay $75 million (sponsorship?) in marketing costs for GoldenEye and the two Bond films that followed, according to insiders. For MGM, at the time a woebegone studio that was lurching from one financial crisis to another, BMW's $75 million was found money.”
The Aston Martin was included for nostalgia to show the audience the new James Bond.
Fun fact: the actor playing Q very obviously was reading cue cards off screen while he was showing off all the cool gadgets, something of a running joke
The director of this Bond, Martin Campbell, also did Casino Royale. Two of the best movies of the whole franchise, and two times he "righted the ship" after it floundered with some pretty hacky stuff.
Personally don't agree this film is one of best but casino is just average they turned bond into just a copy of jason borne and took all fun out of bond films.
I disagree. License to Kill was a really good Bond movie. While it didn't do well in the box office, it wasn't the reason why the franchise floundered in the early 90's. There was a lot of legal issues between License to Kill and GoldenEye's release.
@@philfitnesspt6139 I disagree. There is alot less silly in Casino Royale, but there definitely is humor and fun. Craig's Bond quips, he gets amused by himself, he messes with people to get reactions. All undeniably Bond and not Borne
I never really saw the comparisons with Bourne. CR has more in common with Batman Begins in that it wanted to be more realistic and grounded as a reboot. It's also followed the novel quite well.
I would say that Martin Campbell did a great job of kicking off both James Bond "reboots". He set the tone for each of the last two new Bonds.
James Bond is the characters actual name. There's a few hints throughout the series, such as his wife's gravestone says "Tracy Bond" in For Your Eyes Only, and I think the Craig movies reference it being his family name. Also the Connery movies make a point that he was a Naval Commander Bond before joining the Secret Service.
in terms of ACTUAL spy stuff...he's terrible at it because in the movies where he uses an alias, he always gets found out, or he just tells people his name...so the bad guys know who he is. It seems almost like he's trying to get captured so the villain can reveal their evil plan....
Depending on what version of the character and story you look at, Bond isn't really a "spy". He's a government sanctioned hitman for a spy organisation who gets sent to investigate and deal with threats that the actual spies have already noticed.
My favorite Bond girl is Honor Blackman, who played the part of Pussy Galore in 1964s Goldfinger. One of the greatest Bond films of all time.
"Do you expect me to talk?"
"No, Mr Bond...I expect you to...Die"
OnaTOPP trivia:
The director said working with real Marines was great, they turn up with all their own wardrobe and make up, they do exactly what you tell them to do, exactly when you say it.
Apparently when filming that final scene the Marines were lying down hidden and there was a break for lunch. The director told the Marines’ commanding officer that they were welcome to come have lunch with the cast and crew. To which he replied “no they are fine where they are”. So they just lay there in silence, in the baking sunshine (shot in Puerto Rico), whilst everyone else had lunch.
I'm sure they were fine, long as they had their bottle of dip spit handy.
@@jaredragland4707 The production generously supplied them with crayons.
@@Johnny_Socko So that was lunch covered, too. Well done, arts and crafts service.
Onatopp had gloves on when she checked the coffee.
Thanks to Rob Paulsen (the voice of Pinky in Animaniacs) at a Comic-Con, I always think of this with these films:
"Are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so Brain, but why would anybody want to Pierce Brosnan?"
To which the obvious answer is: "Who wouldn't?"
Zoiks!!!
Does anybody remember playing GoldenEye 007 on Nintendo 64?
Also, GoldeneEye still is one of the best James Bond movies and the tank chase is just epic.
That game was a huge part of my childhood! Playing slaps only with your friends was the funniest shit ever 🤚
GoldenEye slappers only i remember.
Just don’t pick Oddjob or we are done.
Anyone else tape a divider to the tv and sit real close because you couldn't trust your friends not to look at your side of the screen?
Best thing about the Switch is the remastered N64 games, including Goldeneye 007
10:10 Yes, James Bond is his real name. It's best to not take these movies too seriously. It's absurd that a spy broadcasts who he is so often that everyone knows his favorite drink.
I honestly find all the Pierce Brosnan ones to be pretty underrated. As someone who grew up playing Goldeneye with family and friends, this movie hits such a nostalgic feel and is so cool to watch.
The World is Not Enough is pretty great too.
No man the last one with him was terrible.
The World is Not Enough was probably the BEST Brosnan Bond film overall, even though its not as iconic as Goldeneye.
Interestingly, the N64 rendition of that film was actually pretty damned good as well
@@razorfett147 Hell yeah. I played that one almost as much as Goldeneye.
@@Hauns91 same here
The devs really elevated the spy shooter concept very well with that one. Even the multiplayer was fun
Yes Sean Bean does die a lot however I believe this is because he played the unkillable soldier known as Sharpe for so long that he had to balance it out
If George didn't like how gritty and serious CASINO ROYALE felt, I have a feeling he's really not gonna like the entire rest of the Daniel Craig era.
Yeah, I would recommend he just watch the older Bonds. I think he would enjoy them more.
i agree however i liked every james bond some are better than others even my least favorite one has grown on me a little stil hoping for the next one to come out soon- ps my least favorite one is quantum of solace
'oh, he's Canadian' in the middle of the screaming murder scene - and the reaction it got - made me laugh a lot
I AM INVINCIBLE!!!!
🥶
Omni man would like to have a word with you :)
@@saarangsahasrabudhe8634 Daddy?!
❄️❄️❄️❄️ 🥶
This is still part of my lexicon after all this time.
26:34
Ourumov: "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking."
Fun fact (another one): Xenia's signature leg squeeze that she uses to kill is based on an exercise fighter pilots use to squeeze blood from their legs back to their brain during high intensity maneuvers
They said she was a former pilot so that makes sense in how she learned it.
Thank you for sharing this.
I don’t know where you getting that from mate what she’s doing is basically just a scissor choke which is used in jujitsu. You compress the floating ribs so the person can’t breathe effectively choking them out.
@@GealaicheRight? That comment is complete horseshit 😂 pilots don't do that, they use a valsalva procedure. This was literally a BJJ technique.
@@joeberger3441right! She always did enjoy a good squeeze 😂
The BMW is a product placement, BMW paid $3 million for the placement - but then made $240 million in advance sales alone.
Pierce era, have the best bondgirls or femme fatalle. Natalya, Wai Li, Elekta, Xenia and Miranda were amazing... Paris and Christmas not so much...
a fun fact, the scene between Xenia and James in the sauna, was so intense that Famke got one of the rib broken...
By far the best of the Brosnan 007 films. Also, I love the homage to DIE HARD when James calls out Alex for unleashing all this death and violence and in the end he's just a 'common thief' like Holly to Hans Gruber.😂
Man, that GoldenEye game was great as a kid and was responsible for the creation of one of the greatest videos ever, the 1:12 baby! If you know, you're a legend.
GoldenEye was the first Bond film I was able to go watch in theaters, and I kept that chain running until I no longer cared to watch the last Craig film.
Same here, although the first 007 film I saw at the cinema was the final Roger Moore film A View To A Kill. I went to see every film from Goldeneye onwards on the big screen with my sister, but we both lost interest after Skyfall. The only truly great Daniel Craig Bond movie is Casino Royale. The franchise is basically dead to me at this point.
@@Rocket1377 Agreed. Of the Bond actors with at least 4 movies, I'd say Craig has the weakest set.
"Every woman is sexy, every guy looks drunk" that's not a stereotype, that's true at least 90% of the time in Russia
Seems like BS to me)
Women are either a 10 or a 1.
Before Pierce appeared as Bond, back in the early 80's he was in a series called Remmington Steele, which was a character somewhere in tone between Bond and Tony Stark. When I used to watch this as a kid (Bond was Roger Moore at the time) I always thought he'd make a great Bond and was pleasantly surprised not only to find that he did becomes Bond after I'd thought this, but also that the producers had sought to have him cast as Bond at the time of Remmington Steele, but owing to contractual timing he was unable to take the part on at that point.
Brosnan's Bond Era followed closely from the Roger Moore style of - Act of violence : Quippy remark. While Timothy Dalton did attempt the quips, his take on Bond was a little more realistic and a call-back to the original Sean Connery films. They attempted to keep the action/humor mix as best they could through the Brosnan era but it went totally off the rails by the time "Die Another Day" (the Brosnan Bond film SImone has already seen) which derailed the Bond films for four years. (They generally came out every two years except for the six year gap between Dalton ("License to Kill") and Brosnan ("Goldeneye").
When the series was retro-booted with Daniel Craig, the producers decided to go with a more gritty, realistic depiction of the character as he was originally portrayed in the Ian Fleming books - more hired killer than gentleman spy. That was the reason the Craig era took a harsher tone than what had proceeded it.
Fun fact - Goldeneye was actually the name of Ian Fleming's estate in Jamaica where he wrote the majority of Bond novels and short stories. The film "Goldeneye" was the first written completely from scratch not based on any existing Fleming novel or story elements.
"I'm an exceptional thief, mr Bond! And considering I'm moving into kidnapping you should be more polite"
"Today, the British Empire will learn the real use of power. You will be witnesses."
Goldeneye was the name of the Jamaican estate of Ian Fleming whose cousin was Christopher Lee, and so far all Bonds served under one Queen
And he named it after a covert operation during world war 2 to monitor any activity coming out of neutral Spain.
That's crazy about the Queen. They should squeeze in a quick worst Bond movie ever just to stick it to King Charles before he croaks.
"Lmao, suck it, Charles, your only 007 was James Corden and it went straight to VHS for some reason."
Quite true.
@@tremorsfantechnically both are named after a bird in Jamaica
And Christopher Lee was a bad ass
Brosnan does this weird thing when he is in Bond mode and once you see it you’ll always spot it.
Whenever he opens a door he stands silhouetted in the door before going in.
That's not weird it looks cool.
24:19 "Please tell me they're getting a tank"
They're getting a tank.
George and Simone - the Russian guy called Valentin Zukovsky who said to Bond "My knee aches every single day, twice as bad when it is cold. Have you any idea how long the winter lasts in this country?" was played by Hagrid actor Robbie Coltrane
I think this is the first movie with Judy as M.
Valentine: “and I hear the new M is a lady???”
It is indeed. The older guy who used to play "M" up through the Roger Moore era passed away sometime around the filming of "For Your Eyes Only". I don't recall if there was an "M" scene in that film or not. So it's either Moonraker that had the last of the old "M" scenes - or it was in "For Your Eyes Only".
After that, there were two more Roger Moore Bond films that side-stepped the classic "M" Briefing entirely and had the briefing done by someone else in the MI:6 or Military Hierarchy. I forget at present if there was an "M" in the two Timothy Dalton films. But I wouldn't be surprised if they kept side-stepping it - particular in the 2nd film which had James Bond go completely unsanctioned and without the support of MI:6 except for "Q" who came to help him on his own.
So Judi Densh as M is actually FAR more of an icon for the later series of Bond films.
Now - as to her actually staying on past the Pierce Brosnan films and well into the Daniel Craig films - yes. It's a bit of a continuity tangle. Since the Daniel Craig films were a REBOOT and why would you have the "M" from the previous series continue in the role?
And the only answer I - or likely anyone else - can give you is:
Because Judi Densh is just THAT AWESOME. No other reason needed, really. 😅
@@logandarklighter no it's only your eyes only where there's no m he is said to be on leave m returns in octopussy it's never clear if he's meant be same m but recast or someone else robert brown i think plays him from there until licence to kill.
Also in her office james says" your predecessor " kept cognac...
@@philfitnesspt6139 You're correct. I checked between my last post and now and found the same thing. I was just on my phone "out in the wild" when I posted that last and didn't feel like doing a search until I got back to the house.
Bernard Lee, who played the original M, was in it for the first 11 movies. No one to date has done as many in the role.
Desmond Llwellyn holds the record at 17 Bond films in the role of "Q" or Quatermaster Major Boothroyd.
They definitely showed their lack of the history of James Bond.
Fun fact: GoldenEye and Casino Royale both had the same director, Martin Campbell.
It's funny, because back in the day people were dying for Brosnan to play Bond. People knew him from the popular 1980's TV show, "Remington Steele".
Ha! George's sneering about the bungee jumping backfired! Lol
OK, that refried-Bean joke? Top marks.
there is the Sean Connery theory of ageing where as men age they get more distinguished, like Sean Connery, where as when women age they look like Sean Connery.
yesh, maybe.
Some men get more attractive with age, like Paul Newman. But some men's faces slowly start to resemble a bag of hammers, like Robert Redford.
By far my favourite line hahahaha: "Use the bumper, that's what it's for!"
*jaw hits the floor* You're doing Goldeneye! I was 10 when I saw it with my parents in the theatre, was already a huge Bond fan and the movie blew me away. With the Nintendo game following years later, I can say that this movie dominated my childhood between age 10-16..... I'm going to subscribe (again) on Patreon immediately even if it is only for just this movie. Best surprise of 2024 so far, thank you so much and keep it up, love the channel.
Fun fact: The director of Goldeneye, Martin Campbell, has successfully rebooted the Bond franchise twice, as he also directed Casino Royale.
15:18: "I think it's every time she kills someone she moans."
"Oh... yeah.... yikes."
ROLF, the 'yikes' and Simone's delivery of it killed me.
Noticed the 'Nuke the Whales' poster. Cute. Lots of decades-old memories with that one.
"for me, it was Tuesday" - M.Bison
Edit: the actor that played borris also played Night crawler in X-Men 2 😆
simone with her cat in her lap, stroking it, while saying "that's evil".
Goldeneye is the quintessential bond movie, it has EVERYTHING great from every other bond before it.
Memories of Remington Steele days, when Brosnan was heralded as the 'Next 007'
I was 17 when this came out. When I heard Pierce Brosnan was going to be Bond, my first thought was "Remington Steele is going to be 007? SWEET!" He made a great Bond. I give props to Sean Connery for being the OG James Bond, but the acting, fight scenes, and plots to most of his movies are pretty corny. The Dr. Evil type bad guy kinda died with Roger Moore's Bond in the 80s. The Timothy Dalton Bond movies of the late 80s brough the action and plots back toward reality and "License to Kill" is one of the best Bond movies ever, IMO. I highly recommend it. The feel of those movies was carried over when Pierce Brosnan became 007.
Are you saying that GoldenEye isn't corny?
"License to Kill" is complete garbage.
But then Die Another Day came out and undid all the good work that came before it.
X-MEN: "Boris" was played by Alan Cummings who was also "Nightcrawler" in X-men 2.
One does not simply survive being crushed by falling debris
The Aston Martin was the car he drove in the start. If you read the books he starts with a Bentley, only shown in From Russia with Love. He first gets the Aston Martin in Goldfinger.
Famke Janssen's character is my Favorite Female "James Bond" villain.
right on, bro. murdergasms!
10:15 Last year I started watching all the 007 movies and I was hoping to have the answer to this exact same question. This Christmas I finally finished watching all official 25 and I still not sure.
If memory serves, this movie was right after the cold war essentially ended, and it caused Russia to get very upset seeing imitations of their landmarks and such destroyed by the tank scene.
Simone, Famke Janssen (Jean Grey) was also in the Star Trek TNG season 5 episode "The Perfect Mate"
The Goldeneye theme song is sung by the legendary *TINA TURNER* ✌
In the end, Sean was a real..... Has-Bean. 😂
Goldeneye is universally rated as one of the best Bond films.
I just realized, Boris looks like Harry Potter could have looked like. Even the broken glasses.
From a cinematic point the "taste if the coffee is still hot" is genius. It moves the attention from the coffee to the lips of Famke Janssen and gives this scene a sensual, almost sexual, level. And Famke's character is all about that.
Crazy thing is, that ball smashing scene in the chair from Casino Royale was actually in the book, so that is OG James Bond. There are a few reasons why the Daniel Craig bonds took a much darker and serious tone. You’ll understand one of them if you watch all of the Brosnan films. The absurdity and lack of realism was never what Bond was supposed to be. Also, surprisingly enough, Austin Powers’ success was another reason why the reboot of Bond with Craig was more serious. The production company realized how nuts things had become, and how not far off the Austin Powers movies actually were. Lastly, the success of the Jason Borne movies also steered Craig Bond in a darker direction.
22:17 You literally asked the question at the beginning of the movie?
When does this film take place? Before the fall of the wall or after. He goes to a graveyard of the Soviet Union.
18:30 The James Bond car is provided by whoever is prepared to pay for the product placement and in this era that's BMW, The DB5 is a continuity nod to establish that the new guy is Bond
Loved Pierce ever since I first watched him in Remington Steele. This was a terrific change of pace for Bond films from Timothy Dalton's portrayal.
Was really hoping Simone would start with "slappers only" or "no Oddjob".
George I literally spat at my coffee to ‘refried bean’ 😂😂
I thought the whole point of Simone's intros was to confuse George, she does an excellent job 😆
Hilarious George’s reaction to every one of Simone’s opening one-liners
"Did he die happy?" He came and then he went... 😅
The simplest explanation for James Bond's transformations: Bond is a Time Lord. Think about it.
One of the best title songs of the Bond series with Tina Turner singing, always love it. By the way, there is an impressive video of when the observatory got destroyed by collapse in real life that you should really watch!
My favorite Bond girls are the ones in this movie. Xenia is so evil and beautiful and Natalia is so real and kind. It could be nostalgia since this was my first Bond movie as a kid, but them forever.
The Marines just sitting there was funny part of the movie
James Bond is basically his real name, but he is also the last of his family. No attachments - as with all 00-Agents (the 00 also stands for 2 successful MI6-contracted kills required to get the license to kill - which gives permission to sanctioned kills as deemed necessary by the agent).
Regarding Xenia tasting the coffee: She wore gloves and coffee spilled on the cold floor will get cold almost immediately. For it to be warm the cup must have fallen mere seconds ago
Favourite Bond girl?
So very many... Carole Bouquet, Teri Hatcher, Jane Seymour, Eva Green, Talisa Soto, Famke Janssen.
But the only real answer is Diana Rigg.
I like the idea that Bond is a really bad agent but keeps passing his evaluations by banging his assessor
1:02: what’s even stranger to figure out is that the Daniel Craig Bond films are prequels to the rest of the series, yet Judi Dench is M in the first 3 (Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, and Skyfall), but becomes M in Goldeneye.
BTW, the one you’re thinking about with Halle Berry and diamonds is Brosnan’s last Bond film, and I think the 20th or 25th anniversary film, Die Another Day.
9:58: Yeah, that tends to happen. There’ve been girls in this franchise named Pussy Galore, Plenty O’Toole and Holly Goodhead, just to name a few 😂
10:12: There’s a fan theory, to reconcile all the different actors who’ve played Bond in different time periods, that it’s a code name and that the real Bond is Sean Connery’s character in The Rock.
DAD was the 20th film, released on the 40th anniversary.
Through the early films it is fairly explicit that Bond is a singular actual person with a very dead wife. There is actually a cool fan theory that orders the films into a single fairly cohesive whole with Craig at both ends.
Craig's Bond movies are NOT prequels..... I hate the word "Reboot" but essentially Daniel Craig's Bond is like a reboot or an "alternative universe" version of the character. The only reason they kept Judi Dench as M was that she was so good in the role but in actual fact, they are different Ms. Dench plays the character very differently in the Craig Bond movies....Also in the Brosnan Bond movies, M's real name was "Barbara Mawdsley" whereas in the Daniel Craig Bond movies, her real name is "Olivia Mansfield"- At the end of "Skyfall" when Moneypenny gives Bond the porcelain Union Jack Bulldog left to him by M after she died, it has M's real name on the box
That comment about driving the tank of a cliff reminds me of the A team movie when they tried to fly a tank
Yes, Minnie Driver can sing. She portrayed Carlotta in "The Phantom of the Opera" (2004).
And while most of her singing was admittedly dubbed--she wasn't exactly trained for opera, and opera is very hard to fake--the end title theme, "Learn To Be Lonely," is all hers.
Pierce Brosnan followed this up with Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day. Other actors to play James Bond are Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig. Another Spy action/thriller starring Pierce Brosnan is The November Man
Simone: Remembers Halle Berry's belly button... then diamonds.
Also Simone: I was distracted by the silhouettes of the naked dancing women.
Watch out George, she's gunning for your role.
Simone and George both appreciate male and female attractiveness in their own ways.
Fun facts about the movie, and certain moments that were mentioned:
- The plane stunt at the beginning, it was a real thing, although part of the shot was ruined.
In fact, like many Bond movies, it was inspired by the stunt sports that were going strong at the time they were made.
For example, the plane's free-fall scene is about the paratroopers jumping out of the plane, then the plane starts a nosedive and the paratroopers jump back into the plane.
And this is possible thanks to the aircraft model they use, which makes it much lighter in relation to size, weight and wind resistance, which also facilitates takeoffs on short runways.
This detail is very popular in irrigation aircraft, or firefighting aircraft.
Here in my city, a couple of these airplanes were purchased as the ones seen in the movie, a pair of Pilatus PC-7.
- The scene of the historical monuments, is a real place.
It is the Moscow park Muzeon, also known as the cemetery of the cursed statues.
It is not as exaggerated and large as it is seen in the movie, but much more terrifying in real life, as it has been given paranormal rumors.
- The name James Bond, and the fallacy of the worst secret agent.
This is close to my heart as a 007 fan, not only of the movies, but also of the novels.
I have come across too many times the phrase "everyone knows James Bond and that's why he is the worst secret agent in the world".
This is false, because these people forget that one thing is his popularity in real life, and quite another in fiction.
There is also the other point that although it is a name and surname not so common these days, it was when Ian Flemming launched his novels.
When he chose it, he got it from the author of a book by an ornithologist at the time, Dr. James Bond.
Besides, at the end of the day, it is just a name and a surname, of which there are several James Bond in the real world.
Samantha Bond, the actress who in these films plays Miss Moneypenny, has a son named James (Thomas James Hanson), although this is more of a coincidence, and not something on purpose (if I remember correctly, the boy is named James by a relative of Alexander Hanson, Samantha's husband).
(Don't ask me how I remember these useless facts, I just know them, hahaha).
- The atmosphere and rhythm of the Bond movies:
James Bond in the novels, is colder, more similar to Daniel Craig, or more specifically Timothy Dalton. He is a cold and calculating guy, with a warm and friendly exterior, but not remarkable.
I mean, he's a character you don't dislike, he has a charisma that allows him to get close to people if necessary, but at the same time he's forgettable as someone who's more of the same.
Brosnan is too handsome and charismatic to be a spy, haha...
- At last, Halle Berry's is Brosnan's last film as Bond: Die Another Day.
If you are going to continue watching Bond movies, but don't want to go for the classics, I recommend the two Timothy Dalton movies, you can't miss them.