THE Bond Film of a Generation | 'GOLDENEYE' An In-Depth Review
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I must say, GoldenEye has the some of the best casting ever for a Bond film. And it’s so rich with interesting characters and an awesome villain. It’s the closest to perfection as a Bond film.
For me its the second best Bond my Favourite is Goldfinger it gave us Pussy Galore 😂
Famke jansen provides a top drawer performance.
It is a testament to the movie that one of the best villains in the franchise is upstaged by the henchmen being even more memorable.
I would say it's more of a good, greatest hits package of a Bond film. Goldeneye doesn't approach the genius of the 60's classics.
Great Moneypenny too
Pierce Brosnan was the perfect mix of Connery and Moore. He could be intense, charming, a little glib at times. I wish we got one more movie out of him before Casino Royale
Absolutely; the perfect 007.
Craig was a shame.
We did. It's called Everything or Nothing.
@carlosborrasetaylor7630 Like Brosnan, Craig's best movie was his first, unlike Craig though Goldeneye was good because of Brosnan whereas Casino Royale was good inspite of Craig. At least that's my view
Tarantino said if he got the gig to direct Casino Royale he'd have kept Pierce Brosnan.
“Whether you enjoy a film or not is not an exercise in logic” is one of my favorite phrases I’ve heard from this channel.
Escapism, yes, so doesn't need to fit the logic of our reality. But the internal logic of the film has to be relatively sound, or this distracts from the fun (please see my comment above/below).
but this film does follow its own consistent logic. "Contrivance" is a thing that happens in rea life all the time; as long as cause and effect follows from it, then it works, which it does in GoldenEye
I'm from Saint-Petersburg myself, walk around these streets very often. The blending between SPB and Leavesden is done very nicely. A lot of this chase was filmed right next to the residence of Anatoly Sobchak, then Mayor of the city.
But originally much more action planned to film on location. In the midst of the production the Saint-Petersburg officials restricted further shooting as the multi-tonn tank could damage the city's sewer system.
Holding a soft-spot for GoldenEye myself. That's the first ever Bond film to be released in Russia OFFICIALLY.
You're doing a great work, Calvin. Keep it up!
During the cold War the CCCP derided Bond as a 'capitalist hyena'!
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Nice info!
My Dad worked in Saint- Petersberg during the early 90's and he always complained about the Tank chase.
The bit where he takes the Tank through that tight alley and crashes out by the river, he'd always go "You can't get to there from there by going through there!" 🤣
I'm surprised that Russia would allow a movie of Bond destroying a soviet facility, killing a bunch of Russian soldiers, and destroying st Petersburg.
I bet the officials were holding out for a bribe
@@Alex38369 Russia was actually super liberal between 1989-2000.
22:50 ish, I LOOOVE Brosnans face when he walks away from moneypenny. I always read it as 'all right, chit chats over, time to work'. Not him being pissed off with her.
I think one of the reasons i love Brosnan as Bond so much, are these choices he makes with his face and body movements. Like the way he tosses an empty gun, or how he pours the vodka in TND, his scared face when alec dies in the opening. Or the face he makes when he walks away from her in that scene 😍
All I can say about "GoldenEye" is to echo your statement that it's an absolutely beautiful, almost perfect film. Brosnan knocked it out of the park with his debut. Bean is the best "dark side of Bond" villain". The entire supporting cast of henchmen are so good they almost overshadow Trevelyan...and well...Xenia Onatopp...If had to choose how I go out of this world, I'm getting the Canadian Admiral treatment. No question!
Given that "No Time To Die" has severely affected my opinion of the Craig era as a whole and even Craig himself...I MAY have to dethrone "Casino Royale" and put "GoldenEye" back as my personal #1 Bond film.
Y'know, I'm kind of similar but with Skyfall. I still really love the film but I think Craig fatigue has set in and I just don't have the desire to watch it anymore where it used to be one I could stick on and enjoy any time. I think some distance from the Craig era will do me some good for a little while!
I think Never say Never again is my number 1 Bond movie :)
@@DafyddBrooks To each her/his own! 😉
(My #1: Thunderball)
@@bonghunezhou5051 haha , naah infact james bond jr is better ;)
interesting on thunderball. i do love it alot my self. though i would give the 'libary congress of the preservation of film' to goldfinger though. but still thunderbaal is wonderful, though Goldeneye like 'TSWLM' did for the 70's, GE did for the 90's :)
No time to die is a victim of this woke generation, a disaster! Goldeneye has all the ingredients to remain a great classic of the saga.
Glad to see Natalya getting praise! She's one of my favorite underrated Bond girls. The fact that we meet her long before she meets Bond gives us a chance to get to know her, and her grief over the senseless murder of her friends and co-workers gives her more depth and gives us a real feel for the tragedy...these people aren't just collateral damage to be forgotten about; they're real people who someone cared about. (They did touch on that kind of thing in A View To A Kill when Zorin murdered his workers, but it was kind of swallowed up in all the general ridiculousness.) I love that without being an over-the-top ass-kicker, she DOES kick ass...she's smart, capable, and quick-thinking. I could imagine Bond being happy with her if he'd decided to settle down with her...there is something very Tracy-like about her.
I agree but I do have to offer some criticism: she has the survival skills of a dodo in the game. Unforgivable.
@mutestingray yeah but that's just old ai plus she is actually able to fight back in the jungle level
Great movie, great video. Well done as always Calvin.
Thanks very much! Happy to hear you enjoyed it and much appreciate the comment 😁😁
I can’t believe _the_ Vincent Vinesauce is here. GoldenEye was truly the film of a generation.
Calvin, I hope its OK for me to say that not only is this THE review we've all been waiting for, I like to think its something you've been looking forward to do as well :)
Well done for your dedication and passion for doing all this work over the last 10 plus years, on behalf of all 90's kids and Brosnan fans..... THANK YOU! :) "BUT...... Calvin Dyson will return in.....Night Fire" ;)
Thank you so much, Dafydd! You're always very kind and I hope you enjoyed the video :D Thank YOU for watching and always bringing great points and conversation to these comment sections. You often point out things I never even noticed or considered before so I always look forward to seeing what you have to add! Thanks very much again :)
@@calvindyson cheers man, looking forward to night fire review :) !!!!
I thought actually you were gona do a joke about the way Pierce says "Muffy" with his slight american accents coming in there haha
Best ever review of Goldeneye. Keep the Brosnan love going. Im a 70s Bond fan but love Brosnan just as much as I loved Roger. He was perfect in the role and Goldeneye is a masterpiece!!
@@paulandrew6457 This!!!
I saw Goldeneye on the day I passed my driving test. I celebrated by taking myself off to see the film. I then spent the entire film worrying that I'd left my car's headlights on. And that was my experience of Goldeneye.
So... did you leave your car's headlights on?
@@LicencetoWho I didn't. But knowing me like I do, there was a high probability.
Passing your test and seeing Goldeneye on the same day is a massive win. If only all days could be like this!
I would be compelled to go check. I admire your resolve.
That shows how great this movie is. You were that worried but still you couldn't bring yourself to just run out and check your car in case you missed a few minutes of the greatest Bond movie ever made.
I love Gottfried John as Ourumov in this film. Such a great, slimy villain & his facial reaction to Xenia’s orgasm as she massacres the Severnaya employees kills me everytime 😂 - I just wish he had a better send-off on the train, but I suppose he had served his purpose at that point.
Agreed, for how big of a character he is, he gets a very unceremonious death. Bond kills him the same way he'd kill a nameless henchman.
yes , his expression says , "crikey i know i'm evil,, but Xenia's really gone over the top this time.."
@@androidemulator6952 yup. His reaction to Xenia enjoying herself a bit too much and him casually drinking out of a pocket bottle during the tank chase were great additions to an already well-written character.
@@spencerkindra8822 Yes, he isn't a nameless henchman in that we know his name…
@ No I'm saying he gets killed the same way a nameless henchman would. Not like Oddjob but Russian soldier #4.
I always thought Onatopp’s accomplice in Monaco was Ourumov in disguise - considering we see two people get in in Monaco and two people get out in Severnaya I guess I assumed they were the same two people. I suppose it makes more sense for it not to be Ourumov (he looks nothing like Admiral Chuck, and having a Russian general that someone might recognise could jeopardise the mission) but, as you say, the plot’s already a bit contrived so I guess I just rolled with it. Yeah, Ourumov was in Monaco and stole a helicopter, I mean why not? We’ve all done it.
I always thought that too but always found it weired why they didnt atleast give Orumov beard or something in that scene. Now Actually I kinda feel like now that maybe if it was just another guy, the best moment he could have come back in the movie would be in the henchman in the suana scene with Bond and Xenia
Yeah I've gone through phases of thinking it was Ourumov and even Alec to be honest and they certainly filmed it (or perhaps edited it) to obscure much of the guys face in those scenes so it at least leads you to think there must be some kind of reveal... I guess it could be either of those guys in a disguise but it's weird that it's never really addressed.
I never noticed it until watching this video. I completely forget about the quick scene where Onatopp and her accomplice have to show their credentials to the NATO commander. In my mind, Bond finds Farrel dead on the yacht, cut to Onatopp and Ourumov getting into the helicopter from a distance, and then Bond tries stop them but gets apprehended by the NATO guards. So I never even noticed that the guy with Onatopp looked a lot like Farrel. Not so much a plot hole but definitely an unanswered question. If they ever cover GoldenEye on The Rewatchables, that should be number one in the Probably Unanswerable Questions segment haha.
I think it is actually Alec. He's wearing the same watch as he does later on. She smiles at him the same as she does with Alec. And the guy always looked like Sean Bean to me
@@aaronkalms1674 MIND TOTALY BLOWN!!!!! i think your absolutely right there come to think of it. the watch and smile are great hints, well spotted man :) that must mean also that he knew Bond had been in contact with Xenia aswell maybe, though i think she thought he was someone at not someone from MI6 at first.cheers for sharing
I can't describe the experience of the N64 game. You lived it or you didn't. The video game that made a generation
Back in that era, the console players were having the time of their lives with Goldeneye. And the PC players were having the time of their life with Quake. What a time to be alive it was.
Slaps only and OddJob is banned
@@SportyMabamba I love the entire world had this rule without internet telling us😂 btw goldeneye gets re released on switch and Xbox on Friday
@@mullaoslo Thanks for the heads-up I’ll buy it on Switch for that sweet couch co-op action
@@SportyMabamba oh its on the switch online n64 app so just make sure you have a subscription to the top tier and you will have access to it..
Fun Facts:
• The blonde lady with the gold & black dress, next to Xenia, was a contest winner during *"Licence to Kill"* and
Eon promised her an appearance in
the next Bond film. Even after six years, Eon kept their promise and put her in *"GoldenEye".*
• In the film's novelization written by John Gardner (his final one), Xenia's Ferrari was yellow instead of red.
• Producer Michael G. Wilson not
only has his traditional cameo in Defense Minister Mishkin's meeting room, but it is his hand (posing as General Ouromov's) that picked
Admiral Russell's ID from his suit.
• Caroline Bliss (former Moneypenny)
& Samantha Bond (her replacement) were childhood friends and Caroline had no ill feelings with Samantha, stating that she's glad that the role went into someone she loved.
Holy smokes your about the lady in the gold dress!!!! well said man. I know the 'masters of the universe' movie had something similar with a kid in it haha.
yeah good point about caroline and samantha there man :)
that blonde lady could have been a contender for a Bond girl herself, she’s really hot
@@tlshortyshorty5810 good point :)
That is very in-teresting! Th-ank you for sh-aring that inf-ormation.
@@DeadPixel1105 dont be rude please!
GoldenEye was my first Bond film and might be my favorite. If there’s one thing I’d call it, it’s the “baseline” Bond-film. It’s so close perfecting EVERYTHING when it comes to the Bond formula, such as Bond’s characterization, the supporting cast, action scenes, Q Branch and M scenes. It just nails everything, in a movie that perfectly balances the tone from light hearted adventure to dark and dramatic. It’s a true masterpiece.
Well said. The movie oscillates from ridiculous jokes to pathos. It is NOT easy to do.
The only problem is the soundtrack of this bond film which ruin everything for me.
@@senecastoictruths sure, but the soundtrack is very “of its time” and the 1990s was a strange time for music.
I find the perfect Q is when he's excited about his gadgets but annoyed becuase he knows bond is gonna destroy them.. Like in this movie
@@senecastoictruths not once sinbe i saw the movie in cinema on release have i noticed the music as bad.. It's just goldeneye soundtrack to me
One of the best Q scenes? I think it's THE best, personally. It brings with it a sense of continuity and evolution--their exchange after testing the exploding pen suggests that Q has grown used-to and even enjoys Bond's witticisms. To think that these two seemingly used to hate each other in the early days and now they genuinely enjoy each others' company.
I genuinely laughed when Bond curiously picks up Q's sandwich and Q snatches it out of his hand and says "Don't touch that! That's my lunch!". Bond feels like a toddler in that scene
Oh hands down the best Q scene. I laugh every time.
My intro to the character as a kid. Pierce had and still has that swagger. The colorful villains, the classic big 90s action, it really delivered. There are three bond films that hit on everything so well that i always come back to them most frequently. From russia with love, casino royale, and goldeneye
Yes. Same. I would add Goldfinger, TND and Skyfall as well.
Completely agreed. It's not possible to separate your childhood introduction to a Bond actor and your "objective" evaluations of their performances compared others, but even when I try my hardest to do so, I don't know how Brosnan doesn't always come out on top for everyone (Except for Xenia, who is always Onatopp).
I'll at least note that in the majority of fans' Bond rankings, where Brosnan isn't #1, he's almost always #2, which tells me that if you could strip away that "imprinting" effect that one's childhood introduction to Bond has from the actor they first saw, Brosnan would almost always be #1 ;)
Even if we could somehow strip away Brosnan's performances entirely from his first three films, you still have some of the most well-written, interesting stories and characters/actors of just about any other Bond films. You also still have David Arnold who absolutely nailed John Barry without doing him a hint of disservice and still somehow added 200% more as he modernized it, so people new to Bond when seeing Brosnan films were getting the full John Barry, multi-dimensional, rich, suave brass experience from the scores but also modernized with some electronic undertones so they didn't notice the time differences as they would when starting with an older Barry-scored film, and that to me makes the Brosnan films objectively among the best overall Bond films. Every movie had amazing gadgets, compelling, relevant villains, and apart from "The World is Not Enough" (which ended on a submarine), awesome end-movie villain lair sets (so again, ticks the boxes for the best of Bond films too).
Inversely, if we stripped away everything from the Brosnan movies except for Brosnan himself, we all know they'd still be the best haha. Just Pierce standing there against a white backdrop in a tux, Walther PPK or PPQ in-hand, looking slightly to the side with a smile hidden behind his cool, calm, expression of seriousness on his face, ready to crack a pun amidst a dangerous situation, or man an aircraft and singlehandedly to destroy an entire air base full of terrorists and armaments and escape with naught but a face of focused determination, without so much as a single glance of wide-eyed fear.
Not that anyone asked or cares, but in my top 5 Bond film rankings, I've never been able to exclude any of Brosnan's first 3 films (and I honestly don't feel like I can consistently rank those three films alone without changing my mind every second because they're all so close), so it's a pretty boring list to most, though I'm still someone who ADORES the older films and watches them all over and over again. Brosnan just does it for me, every time, no matter the mood, and no, I'm not gay, but if I ever had such thing as a heterosexual man-crush, Pierce Brosnan would probably be it.
1) Tomorrow Never Dies
2) Goldeneye
3) The World is Not Enough
4) From Russia With Love
5) Casino Royale (Daniel Craig)
5) For Your Eyes Only
6) Thunderball
7) The Spy Who Loved Me
8) The Living Daylights
9) Goldfinger
10) Octopussy
I always took the evaluation Bond was undergoing was because of the new M, most of the agents and Mi6 personnel probably underwent some form of evaluation.
As for the contrivance about Bond finding Xenia; I've always assumed that Bond had been assigned Janus. He was probably running down leads about an operative, even if he didn't know exactly who he was looking for.
I also assumed the evaluation was because of the new M because when Caroline orders him to stop the car Bond says something like "I have no problem with female authority"
@@francispetercanavan6386 I find it hard to connect this to LTK as it must be set many years later [due to the collapse of the soviet union and LTK tied into 80's drug issues] and this is such a 'fresh start' but I suppose the Bond timeline was never linear in fairness.
My favorite line delivery in the movie happens on the train when Natalia asks Bond "what else do you call your bottom?" and Bond's response is "What?!". The way Brosnan says that always makes me laugh. They're in this life or death situation and Natalia is asking him about synonyms for ass haha. Even funnier when it turns out Boris was talking about a chair. Great review! GoldenEye is definitely one of the best Bond films. It's truly the only Bond film of it's kind. It set a somewhat dark yet witty tone for where we thought the franchise would go in the 90s but then the movies reverted to the lighthearted fun action of the Roger Moore era. Tomorrow Never Dies is the Octopussy to GoldenEye's For Your Eyes Only. I think they tried to make The World Is Not Enough more serious but that movie too kept it pretty light. Sean Bean did an excellent job in being the first MI6 agent turned villain which unless I'm forgetting someone hadn't happened in the movies yet. The way Bond kills him might be my favorite villain death in all 25 movies, it's just so fucking awesome. And of course Pierce Brosnan is outstanding in this movie. I've said this before but he had the most responsibility of all six actors who've played James Bond even more so than Sean Connery. Had Connery been bad in Dr. No and that movie failed and they never made a sequel it of course would've royally sucked and been a huge bummer for us fans but he wouldn't have been ruining an already beloved movie franchise that had been around for decades. And while George Lazenby certainly had big shoes to fill when he replaced Connery, YOLT had been a massive hit and had only come out two years prior to OHMSS. Brosnan inherited the character after the six year hiatus and after LTK hadn't been received well and underperformed at the box office. In addition to all that you also had the fact that GoldenEye was the first Bond movie released since the end of the Cold War and many critics thought the character of James Bond is intrinsically a Cold War character. M calling Bond a relic of the Cold War is a meta moment for how critics viewed James Bond in the early 90s. Had Brosnan fallen short in GoldenEye, this beloved stalwart franchise would've ended in failure, he would have become a poisoned actor, the fans would utterly hate him, and his career would've been over. Luckily for all of us he delivered a legendary performance and ensured that James Bond would continue to appear on screen for decades. In that way, GoldenEye is the second most important Bond movie after Dr. No, even more so than The Spy Who Loved Me and Casino Royale. And I agree about Natalia, she's a really good and unfairly forgotten Bond girl. She's one of the most proactive ones in all the movies which is especially impressive considering the most recent Bond girl, Pam Bouvier, was a kick ass CIA agent. My favorite Brosnan Bond movie is Tomorrow Never Dies but that's more about nostalgia since it was the first Bond movie I saw in theaters and possibly the first one I saw period. There's no question that GoldenEye was his best movie.
Goldeneye to me is the perfect starter bond film. It was for me, it was my first bond film. If you know someone that hasn’t seen a bond film and wouldnt know where to start this is the right film to start.
I disagree, Casino Royale is the best film to introduce new comers to James Bond. Especally, those people that are 25 years old or younger
@@greatwuta Casino Royale really only reflects Daniel Craig's Bond. Goldeneye is a better introduction to the the series as a whole.
Yes, a starter Bond film. A gateway to the better films in the series.
@@ricardocantoral7672 Here is why Casino Royale is a better film to introduce people that have never watched a James Bond film before. Especally if they are 23 and younger. Basically, it's a 007 origin story and believe me, Gen Z love origin stories and because Casino Royale came out in 2006 they can just enjoy the film and wont have to struggle with an older film or put themselves in a different time frame. That's another thing, Gen Z would rarely watch anything older than them. Also Casino Royale is a better film Goldeneye. I will also say this, if you show someone Casino Royale and he or she still don't like it, then don't waste your time showing that person anymore Bond films.
@@greatwuta You still didn't disprove what I stated. Casino Royale is only a reflection of the Craig era Bond films and nothing else before it. If someone didn't like it then maybe they should watch the older Bond films. Lastly, I don't give a flying f*** about Gen Z idiots who struggle who don't identify with films that are older than they are. Anyone who can't appreciate old films is a moron in my eyes.
No Bond film really hit me and made me so excited and energetic watching it for the first time than Goldeneye. One of the best films in the franchise , even as a Brosnan hater, this is such a great Bond film and hits the marks in almost every area. Wish the rest of Brosnan’s tenure lived up to this first outing. Still easily a top five Bond film for me, just above No Time to Die. Well done Calvin.
aw thats cool to hear man, especially since you dont seem keen on Brosnan. well heres to hoping you'll like TND and TWINE more in the future :)
The Experience of Love was originally meant to be played over the credits of Eric Serra's previous film, Leon the Professional. Instead Shape of My Heart by Sting was used. For Goldeneye, Serra agreed to compose the soundtrack on the condition that his song Experience of Love be used somewhere in the film.
Also, in Leon the Professional, you can hear parts of this song played during the last few scenes.
59:27 Cue Timothy Dalton on the coke conveyor in Licence to Kill:
“What about the Stingers?!!”
"What do you know about Stingers?"
@@DafyddBrooksIs what the filmmakers said to the audience to try making them forget about them.
This movie is the reason I’m a diehard bond fan, the reason Pierce Brosnan is my favorite actor, it is the reason for so much of who I am today including the reason I gained an interest in film making. This movie represents so many of the things I love about bond and the nostalgia I feel of watching this movie for the first time with my grandparents will continue to bring me back time and time again for the rest of my life❤😊
27 years later and it's STILL the blueprint of a great Bond film. Just perfect.
I believe Eric Serra's song The Experience of Love was originally going to be used over the end credits of Luc Besson's 1994 film - Leon: The Professional with Jean Reno and Natalie Portman. However, Sting's Shape of My Heart was chosen instead so Serra held onto it and then used it in GoldenEye.
I dunno why people give the score a bad rap. I absolutely loved it. I didn’t see the professional until a couple of years later and instantly recognized it.
Solid review as always and I REALLY loved the skits you did in this one. Laugh out loud funny!
Comedy gold!
2 facts I find interesting about GoldenEye.
When Bond and Xenia are in the Casino he holds on 7, she has 6.
This is the film where Bond kills the most people, thanks largely to all those scenes of him machine gunning Russian soldiers.
Like the game, he just mowed down soviet soldiers down for an hour and a half hahaha
He probably killed the most people in Octopussy, in the pre-title sequence
@@thebadfella5296 I didn't crunch the numbers myself but I did find a kill count in the 007 museum website. It has 47 kills for GoldenEye compared to 15 for Octopussy.
I’ve legitimately been waiting years for this review
i think we all have man :)
Bless you Calvin for your admiration for Natalya. Honestly, my favourite leading lady of the series to date. Also Scorupco is very much someone who shys away from the limelight, she could have been a trendsetter in Hollywood, but decided to as you say march to the beat of her own drum. Martin Campbell clearly liked her as he worked with her once more. Shame she doesn’t do more Hollywood films.
It's a meassure of how 'out of sight' she has been than I've seen lists of 'Bond Girls' with Xenia filling the Goldeneye slot! But it's nice Scorupco did what she wanted with her career.
Loved the Laurel and Hardy "sons of the desert" clip.
I NEVER noticed that Alec was holding his arm at the end of the fight with Bond. I always assumed he was just pointing it at him one-handed.
Great review, Calvin!
CALVIN! The use of "Halloween III" just makes me fall all sorts of in love, again, with your videos. Thank you for that fun little Easter Egg for all of us "Halloween" fans! Aside from that, thanks for a full and thorough review of one of the greatest 007 films of all time. Can't wait for "The World Is Not Enough" at some point, and I will send you some cash for the aspirin required for "Die Another Day".
Calvin. The cutaways and the comic timing are now pretty much sitcom worthy now. And the fact yer reviewing the best Bond film ever makes this a great evening for me.
All the best big man, love the channel 🖤
This is a really impressive video. The editing, commentary and comedy sketches must've taken ages to pull together but it's so worth it. Keep up the great work Calvin.
Ah, Goldeneye. One of my persnal favorite Bond films. Shares the number 1 spot with License to kill for me.
I've always considered myself a Bond fan but really, as time has gone on I've realised I'm really more of a GoldenEye fan. I like others in the series a lot, but this is just the perfect action film for me; it has everything I'm looking for entertainment wise. How it's paced, edited and shot so beautifully. The casting is perfect. You e summed up most of the things I love about it, including the casting which is just so spot on. My absolute favourite film of all time.
You nailed everything that worked for the film and your zingers are hilarious. " Do it for Yorkshire! "
When Xenia kills everyone is Severnaya, I love the cut to Ourumov looking at her like: “Jeez, lady.”
Opening night in a packed cinema, it was such a crowd pleaser. Everyone was on board from the moment in the opening when he falls next to the plane. It was exactly the right tone and hilarious
Perfect video! I could watch you talk about Goldeneye for hours lol. Well done dude!!!!
Thank you so much! Very happy you enjoyed it :D
Me too :)
Man this is so great! I really enjoyed your commentary and shot breakdowns of one of my favorite movies.
I never realised how much Natalia's opening scenes feel like she was pitched as "the Bond girl for the Sarah Connor age" A grown woman who suffers through fire and debris to become an action star in her own right.
7:32 really got me lol!
“James? DO IT FOR YORKSHIRE!!!”
“….for England, Alec”.
Great video as always, Calvin!
My all time favourite Bond film and Brosnan's best film. Rest in peace Robbie Coultrane as well, excellent as Valentin and the PERFECT Hagrid in Harry Potter.
Goldeneye is still my number 1 favorite Bond film and Pierce is still my Bond but Casino Royale is like 1B to Goldeneye’s 1A for me. God I love both of these films. And both happened to be directed by Martin Campbell. Gotta love that.
Thanks for the focus on Famke Janssen, i had forgotten how unbelievably attractive she is in this movie! She already steals every scene she's in as Onatopp, she didn't even need to be so mesmerisingly beautiful.
As for the movie - its easily a top 5 Bond and no exaggeration to say Brosnan saved the franchise with his performance
Just a day ago i scanned your channel for Goldeneye review and wondered where it was. And here it is! Cheers!
I have nothing much to add except that The Experience of Love is the best part of the Goldeneye soundtrack, as well as one of the best Bond songs ever released and one of the best songs in general.
Also the film's good too.
Don't know why this was recommended to me this week, but I am a big Goldeneye fan, and outside of a Karl Jobst video, I've had no Goldeneye videos in my history in the last many years, but glad I sat through all 69 minutes of the video. You have yourself a subscription, sir. And yes, Famke Janssen as Xenia... my god, a teenage wet dream for myself as a teenage boy.
I really enjoyed Goldeneye Brosnan was brilliant, keep up with what your doing Calvin you really deserve so much more subscribers
After playing Goldeneye on the N64 multiple times while never seeing the film. I was walking through the local car boot sale and saw a copy on VHS for sale, I begged my mum to buy it and immediately shoved it in the VCR. I was blown away and watched it over and over comparing the N64 scenes to the movie.
I've been waiting for this one. I swear, Goldeneye has to be one of the best films, let alone bond films. Just an incredible feat of action, romance and comedy. Yeah it has it's obvious flaws but in my mind it's vlassic espionage. Plus some of the best post Ken Adam sets to date in the series. Definitely in my top 5 bond films
I really didn't think that I would watch some guy talking about Goldeneye for more than an hour, but I did, and it was very entertaining.
Thank you. 😊
You mentioned that Bond stumbles into the theft of the Tiger helicopter by accident but I thought it was made clear in the MI6 conversations between Bond, Tanner and M that 007 was going to Monte Carlo because he had a suspicion that the Tiger might be targeted. M was unconvinced about Bond's concern and wouldn't authorize a full investigation. "Too bad the evil Queen of Numbers wouldn't let you play your hunch."
I have always thought this was a piece of creative storytelling which leaves the audience in the dark for dramatic purposes, but Bond knows what he’s doing there. Why else would he be there?
also, explaining some more of the things that calvin thinks are plot holes:
- Shooting Trevelyan: it's perfectly possible that the first round fed from the magazine/chambered into his gun was a blank, and all the rest were real; nothing says that a magazine has to contain all the same type of bullet, after all.
- How did Trevelyan afford the antenna base: He probably largely /didn't/; this film is based in huge part on the massive shitshow that was Soviet disarmament and reclaiming of now Russian military property, and that era was infamous for the MASSIVE amount of black market sales, embezzlement, and outright theft occurring among the soon-to-be unemployed Soviet commanders in military bases all over the now defunct USSR. We know from the intro that A: Ourumov was aware of/in charge of Goldeneye, and B: that Goldeneye was HIGHLY classified, so it could very well be the case that the USSR built the Goldeneye control center in Cuba, and once the USSR fell apart, Ourumov was in perfect position to claim ownership of the now forgotten secret military base on behalf of Janus. Keep in mind that Janus STOLE Goldeneye, all of the shit that he used to take control of it was NOT actually built by him or his organization.
- How did Trevelyan hire all of the staff: Almost none of the staff probably know who they're actually working for; after all, besides the EMP superweapon bit, Goldeneye is still technically just a normal satellite, and the vast majority of the staff are just going to be doing normal things related to satellite maintenance, with parts related to the actual weapon being kept secret to Boris and the higher-ups. Also, it's very possible that some part of the Cuban government is aware of and in cahoots with Janus, so they could be feeding him civilian contractors under guise of military contract work.
- Why did they make it so hard for Bond to escape: If only Ourumov and Trevelyan were involved in the plot, then that would mean he would have a VERY difficult time setting things up so that Bond could escape without tipping off his superiors or fellow officers, and as such, telling his guys to hold their fire when they had a clear shot inside the warehouse, and then when Bond was racing away on the motorcycle, were probably all he /could/ do to help Bond get out without raising suspicions. It's also probably the case that the goal of letting Bond escape was merely an optional goal that they would like to complete, rather than an absolute necessity; the ultimate goal is to make MI6 think that Trevelyan is actually dead, and while letting Bond get away as a witness to that fact would help, it probably wouldn't be difficult to sell based on the facility explosion and 006 not returning alone.
Just watched Goldeneye a few days ago and was gutted that you hadn't done a recent in depth review...until now!!
Hi, Calvin! Fantastic review as always! I must say though, being able to track M’s character journey is actually one of my favorite aspects of the Brosnan era.
The idea of acting analytically vs instinctually, as set up in GoldenEye, tracks pretty consistently (in my opinion anyway), through the Brosnan films, at least the first three. Tomorrow Never Dies extends upon GoldenEye by holding M to her analytical standards of refusing to act on a “whim,” in the face of Admiral Roebuck, choosing to instead investigate and gather further information. It’s in these scenes where she again associates impulsivity with maleness and more specifically, “having the balls” to act. Having these standards strictly established in GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies, to me is what makes her character journey in The World is Not Enough so believable and impactful. When she does for the first time decide to stop thinking analytically and instead act on instinct/emotion by going out to meet Elektra herself, it is because of the guilt felt from choosing to be her typically cold self in the original way she handled the kidnapping, choosing to again slow down and investigate instead of stepping in or negotiating with Renard. When she finally abandons her strict value set to act on emotion, Tanner and Bond are understandably taken aback, and she is ultimately punished for it, reaffirming the merit of these original values.
If you can’t already tell, I’m so excited to see you to cover the rest of Brosnan’s films!
Wow, you're right - I have never noticed this, but it totally tracks.
My thoughts exactly
You crazy son of a...you did it. You finally did it. I'll settle in for this one when I have an uncontested amount of time to do so. I've been waiting over two years for this!
Billy J. Mitchell played the Canadian admiral whose body was found with a smile on his face. He also played Val Kilmer's agent in "Top Secret!" where we learn he's died with the following quote:
"Apparently, he didn’t realize that in Germany, we use 220-volt currents. It took us 30 minutes just to get the smile off of his face."
That guy had some oddly specific typecasting going on, and it is amazing.
I have never laughed so hard a perfect edit of “DO IT FOR YORKSHIRE” - literally on floor
Goldeneye was first Bond film I saw in a cinema and it was a magical experience. I still cannot get over with the visuals of the Daniel Kleinman credits on a big screen.
I just recently found this channel and I am completely obsessed with it.
Actually, I quite like the end-credits song. It really is quite relaxing, and I argue that it actually suits the end credits excellently. It's a very satisfying ending, considering the fact the emotions Bond and Natalya walk away with at the end of the film; Bond having just killed a friend. It suits these emotions well. Plus, the instrumental is really quite beautiful. It reminds me a little of Peter Gabriel. I will very strongly argue this, having been a classical musician my whole life, I think this score gets treated undeservedly badly!
Great review, and loved the fact you matched each of the music tracks from the game's levels to the corresponding film scene.
We do need a henchman Hotline video from you. Every time you make this bit I'm on the floor. 😂 Thank you for your great work and enthusiasm. Always a pleasure to watch your videos.
I really love your videos, been watching for years. Even though you go over the same movies it’s always different and with new information ❤🎉❤😊
Fun fact, the silent helicopters at the end use the same stealth technology as Max Zorin’s blimp that snuck up on Stacy Sutton in A View to a Kill.
This is the movie that introduced me to James Bond. I saw it when I was only seven years old a mere two years after it came out. Still my favorite Bond movie and Brosnan is still my favorite Bond.
I really enjoy returning to Calvin's Bond film reviews. I love his sense of humour and passion for all things James Bond.
For spy they built a soundstage then for goldeneye they built a studio , Robert Bathurst of cold feet fame audition for James Bind
Read about that. Bathurst said once in an interview they got him in for an audition just to egg Dalton onto signing on for the role.
I love your videos so much, but this one is so spectacular, it's the first I've ever commented on. Watching it made me absolutely giddy, which for me is the essence of my Bond fandom - it doesn't matter how many times I've seen these movies, they never fail to give me that almost childlike sense of awe and excitement and fun. You've perfectly captured exactly what Goldeneye means to me. I remember that six-year period between Licence to Kill and Goldeneye and the impatience I felt waiting for the next movie. I remember how excited I got in 1986 when Brosnan was announced as the next Bond (Remington Steele is still my favorite TV show of all time), the disappointment I felt when his casting got scrubbed, and then my "it's about time" relief when he was finally announced for good. A close friend calls Brosnan too pretty to be Bond, and I remember a famous movie critic of the time comparing him to a TV weatherman - but I don't care because has there ever been a more beautiful man than Brosnan in his prime? I'd think so even if I wasn't gay!
One personal note/observation - I have always assumed the faux Canadian admiral - the one stealing the ID and then using it on the ship to infiltrate the party - was Trevelyan/006 in disguise and that the reason they play it so coy was to not give away the fact that he was still alive. They couldn't spoil the reveal in the statue graveyard (movie trailer be damned). I'm curious if anyone else made this assumption? Granted there is nothing else in the movie to reinforce this, so admittedly I leapt to this conclusion all on my own, but this has been my assumption from my very first viewing.
“Ebenezer Ratbag” made me laugh so hard.
I attended the NYC premiere of Goldeneye at Radio City. Desmond Llewelyn MC’d the pre-screening festivities. Amazing experience. A highlight of my college years, for sure! All the Bond women from the movie attended, and their outfits were over-the-top fabulous. I’m no fashion connoisseur, but it left an impression.
This Bond film really has it all IMO. Grand scale, Bond in a casino, a great villain and henchmen (or henchwoman in this case), a great title sequence, and awesome stunts. This and The Spy Who Loved Me are my go to Bond movies when I just want to jump back into the Bond universe. I’d also add that this might be the best first Bond film for any of the actors who played him, which is impressive considering how great Casino Royale and Live and let Die are.
So this film takes place nine years after pre title sequence, which would put that in the year 1986. I don't think that's coincidence since that's the year when Brosnan became Bond for the first time. Between Moore and Dalton.
I've always seen as the "admiral" who steals the helicopter with Xenia to be either Ourumov or Alec in disguise.
Thank you Calvin! I have wanted to see the Goldeneye video for a long time. One of my all time favorites and it's great to hear your full take! Keep up the great content
Calvin., i always thought that the man who stole the Admiral's ID card was Colonel Ourumov as he exits the helicopter with Xenia at Sevenaya. P.S. you know how much i love GoldenEye amd this re-review is outstanding.
See that’s funny becuase was convinced it was Trevelyn. The watch on the man’s wrist (who takes the ID card) looks almost the same his watch at the end of the film. And I just assumed that he used facial make up to make him look like the Admiral
@@Max-wl7jn it actually could be either of them. i don't think we'll ever know.
Dude, perfect review to a perfect film! That was highly entertaining. Thank you. Goldeneye was definitely the film/game that thrust me into Bondmania. The nostalgia is real.
For all the talk at the time of this being the first post-cold war Bond film, it's funny that their best idea was "but what if there were some people who wished really hard for the Cold War to not be over?"
The editing in this is brilliant! Amazing job.
I remember seeing an interview of Desmond Llewelyn, him talking about how he always had hard time remembering his lines so he had to read his lines from cue cards. That was the reason why he is not holding eye contact with Brosnan.
I think it also introduces an entire generation to James Bond. I am a little older so the Living Daylights was my introduction in theaters and the film has a special place for me.
One of the great films mixed in with the nostalgia of the Nintendo 64 game that really captured the late 90's for most of us.
Yes! The tense, futuristic music that plays on the train while Natalya tracks the Janus base is tremendous. I'm glad to see it getting some love.
Certainly, the vest best movie of the Brosnan era as with the game tie in being almost singlehandedly the best game (One of the best first person shooters ever made if not to a category by itself. Have so many great memories of the game engine's psychics as with so many nineties' kids) in James Bond lore. Although, dare I say Goldeneye would've been possibly better with Dalton cast as the lead? And don't get me wrong, I love Pierce Brosnan as the character as to this very day, he's still probably my second favorite iteration next to Timothy Dalton's and probably the bellwether for all of the glamorous traits to Bond while remaining consistent to the fidelity (Still like Dalton's the most because he seemed more like a real spy than merely some kind of palatable debonair. Dalton was so good at bringing the gritty depiction of the role onto screen) of the mythos, but some of the darker elements of the plotting for the script were originally intended with Dalton in mind aside from the rewrites with Pierce assuming it as the project was being reimagined and to me it partially bookends the premise that they're both rogue agents coming off the narrative's moving account for License to Kill. The only differences in motives are that James did it to avenge a friend's loss whereas Alec does it to smite the entire world out of pettiness. Operations were more personal for both of 'em. And it fits with how from what we're told James Bond is supposed to be the dichotomous confluences of both elegance and decadence. Love so much about the film ranging from Bond and Trevelyan's story arches to the Bond girls to even the ancillary characters as with even the henchmen very much having impactful presences.
Calvin. The guy who Bond randomly dispatchers in the Sauna scene looks like he could be the person who imitated Admiral Farell earlier. Mind blow!
I didn't really need to see another review of Goldeneye, but the charm, passion and enthusiasm that Mr. Dyson brings to these videos makes the journey entirely worthwhile.
The algorithm has blessed me with your channel! Thank you for creating content that I had no idea I was craving haha
Yeah, it's the best bond film, but does it have Sharky coming back as a ghost? No? Shaking my head Martin.
Very good appraisal of the film, and excellent points about how genuine and warm the relationship is between Natalya and Bond (an aspect that younger me had never really considered). To your point about Moneypenny and Bond and the look on Bond's face at the end, I have to say I really enjoy that aspect for a couple of reasons.
I think this film is the first in the franchise to plant its flag as the beginning of the end of the traditional gender roles and explore what that means in the Bond universe. I think the flirty but barbed back and forth between Moneypenny and Bond is a good exploration of that and the end reaction fits well with this. The subtle hint of bitterness Moneypenny communicates acknowledges the history of their dynamic and establishes her as having grown beyond it (no longer a 'fawning caricature' as you say). As a result, Moneypenny 'wins the scene', giving as good as she gets and we have to watch Bond swallow that bitter pill. I think Brosnan's reaction here is perfect. A little moment of surliness signifies that he's not the best loser, especially on the sexual battlefield. Little weaknesses like this are what build the character and round him out, especially in the new era where he has to come face to face with a now equal class of women telling him he's out of touch and not God's Gift. For just a moment, the mask slips. He will have other harsh truths to face as the film continues and I think this little exchange is a nicely packaged bit of character development.
Loved this review! Thanks!
There is so much I could say & riff on but will limit it to a few things.
1. This is the best of the Brosnan films in so many ways. No film is ever completely perfect. But this is as close as possible to that.
2. Of all the Brosnan/Craig era theme songs, GoldenEye is the best & harkens back to the best of the 60s era theme songs. & as pointed out, the soundtrack music (excluding The Experience of Love) works almost perfectly as well.
3. Xenia Onatopp is one of the best villianesses in the Eon series. & yes, she is their version of Fatima Blush from Never Say Never Again. They are equally sadistic, egotistic & fun to watch.
4. Finally, Boris Grishenko is probably my favorite secondary villian in any Bond movie. His death in the movie is an example of someone getting the karma payback he so richly deserves.
I was literally just looking for a Goldeneye review by Calvin, let’s gooooo
This is my number one favourite bond film 👌
Fantastic video as always! My husband had an idea for a video where you could review James Bond inspired episodes of kid shows, Backyardigans, Animaniacs, stuff like that. Thank you so much for your work, I adore your videos!
Bring on the Bronaissance
and the experience of love..................oh god what did i just say ??? :(
@@DafyddBrooks I would happily never hear that again haha
@@MrThehowlinator Its stuck in my head now haha
56:50 The Arecibo radio telescope that they used for Travelyan's base was often brought up in my astrophysics lectures, and I did you not the question was always asked "Does it really go underwater?"
The question should be why does a Bond villain need something as large as a radio telescope to communicate with a satellite?
In most cases the Soviets only had a marginal capability but still..
@@tumslucks9781 If I recall, the Soviets didn't build such powerful radio telescopes in the late 1960s. Sir Bernard Lovell claims that when the Soviets launched Luna 2 they had no way of tracking the probe all the way to the Moon and relied on Jodrell Bank observatory to do it for them.
I think you’ll actually enjoy the John Gardner novelization of this film. It does seem to be based on an earlier version of the script so there are some minor differences and in a shocking twist for Gardner he actually seems to attempt to make the material more grounded than the film.
obviously great content. OHMSS & Goldeneye are my favorite Bond films, because they both felt like ambitious steps forward, experimenting w/updating the realism (& fantasy) of the character while purposefully putting an emphasis on female leads who were more than just eye candy.
I never even noticed that aspect of Xenia getting onto the helicopter using a lookalike of the admiral. For some reason I just assumed it was Ourumov with her. But seeing as how the pilot getting the plastic surgery was one of the many plot threads of Thunderball that dragged that movie down for me, I'm glad that it was glossed over here.
Season of the Witch reference!!! 🫑💀🎃
I was hoping you’d watch and appreciate that little clip 😂
35:32 - the first bullet in the chamber could have been a blank, while the others were real, wouldn't surprise me if such a thing was planned.