One dumb moment is Bond and Blofeld being brothers in “Spectre.” It feels a little contrived that Bond’s foster brother was (indirectly) behind the events of the previous Craig-era films. That, and it uses the same twist as “Austin Powers in Goldmember,” so it’s a bit tough to take it seriously.
Absolutely, like an episode of Emmerdale. It really detracted from the Spectre arc of the story. It reduced something interesting to dreadful family politics.
Wholeheartedly agree with Number 1... Bond is the hero for a reason. NTTD's ending is uncalled for, soulcrushing, and criminal. Flemming and Cubby would be furious...
Cubby, yeah, but you know that Flemming did kill James Bond off in his book From Russia With Love. He wanted to write other things, but he got so much flak that he brought him back in Doctor No. I have a feeling he would have been furious about a lot of things they did in a lot of modern 007 movies . Besides, the Daniel Craig Bonds have really been unrealistically out of sequence with other Bond movies, especially the early Sean Connery era. Are you so sure they won't bring him back with another actor? Come on, if you are that much out of touch with the Bond movie canon, like the Craig movies, you could easily bring in another actor with out any explanation of how Bond survivied, modern audiences didn't even question why Judy Dench was still M in Casino Royal, supposedly, not in the Ian Flemming books, his first mission. And although Casino Royal both in the movie and in the Ian Flemming book that he first met Felix Leiter, but in the movie canon it was Doctor No. Now you could argue, yeah they were going by the book, but if you go by the book canon, then you would have to loose Judy Dench and put in a male M and not make it his first mission. I'm just saying just start from fresh, you don't have to expalin anything, they sure didn't explain a lot of holes in the Craig era, and audiences blindly excepted that with out any questions.
I think Cubby would have been upset; but I feel that Fleming would have probably approved. He killed off the character himself,once; and,by all accounts, felt little sympathy for him. On the other hand,I can envisage him absolutely hating Moonraker; and probably being none too partial toward DAD either.
@@wiseguymaybe By the Mid-2000's general audiences were used to reboots and we'd just had Batman Begins which had nothing to do with the 1989-1997 series. Casino makes it clear it's a fresh start with Bond earning his 00 status at the start. Keeping Judi on muddles the waters but it's also made clear she is not playing the same character as in the Brosnan films [Goldeneye-New Broom, eventually builds respect with Bond; Casino 'Christ I miss the cold war', Closest thing Bond has to a parental figure]. Going back to the Batman analogy, we've recently had another movie which had nothing to do with the Nolan films but audiences went with it. Now the Craig film is over they can reboot with a new Bond and supporting cast without having to worry about dealing with Craig era plots.
I never know how Wakabayashi Akiko was able to film that scene with Sean Connery without bursting into laughter. It reminded me of the "Teahouse of the August Moon."
@@anonymanynomsen6034 No that's definitely Octopussy. Roger Moore is the worst Bond and him arsing around in a clown suit is just embarrassing and tiresome.
It would be ok if they wanted to end the Bond franchise and never make another Bond movie again. Then Bond's death through self-sacrifice is a poignant and powerful moment, and a testement to the heroism of men who sacrifice their lives to save others. What more fitting way to end the Bond franchise than a poignant death scene of the main character, dying to save civilization? But to then just pretend this never happened and go back to another Bond movie with a new actor cheapens that death and renders it utterly meaningless. If Bond comes back in a new movie, that means his death in the last movie was just a cheap trick to temporarily wring some emotions from the audience. That is pathetic and inexcusable.
@@hv3115 It raises questions about who James Bond is right? Like does the character portrayed in No Time To Die have memories of the events of Goldfinger? There seem to be lots of continuity problems with it - like all the M portraits for example. Dame Judy Dench was M for both Brosnan and Craig - are they the same or different people? Is there continuity with the Blofeld character in the sense that is the character played by Donald Pleasance the half brother of the character played by Sean Connery?
I knew before you mentioned that the dishonorable would be the clown moment.. I never found that out of place.. the tone is serious.. and its an intense scene.
It may be trivial to some, but for me it's the impossible helicopter physics in _Tomorrow Never Dies._ In what is otherwise one of the more grounded Bond movies, arguably requiring less suspension of disbelief than most of the other entries, that almost vertically-tilted helicopter moving along the street at the speed of a half-charged Segway with its laundry-chopping rotors whirring away in violation of all the known laws of aerodynamics takes me out of the story every time. It's such a shame, because _TND_ would otherwise be a top contender for my favourite Bond movie. The plot is believable, the technology and vehicles are cutting edge (for 1997) without ever crossing the line into full-on science fiction, and from day one I've defended Elliot Carver as a plausible antagonist in the face of criticism that he was too "normal" to be a Bond villain. He is creepy because he is so mundane while wielding ridiculous power. And the last 25 years have demonstrated how prescient the movie was in depicting the dangerous influence of a corrupt and unfettered media. But that helicopter! Dear God, what were they thinking? It literally undoes everything good about the rest of the movie. I shudder just thinking about it.
I completely understand where you're coming from with killing Bond in No Time To Die, because it wasn't something I was asking for either. I remember watching the moment in the cinema with my father and I honestly had no idea how to feel, I did get very emotional because Daniel Craig was my childhood Bond but I still felt quite empty, and it took me some time to appreciate the ending a lot more. The reason why I personally think it works is because when Bond finds out that Blofeld was the one who destroyed Vesper's grave and framed Madeline to make it look like she turned against Bond, he realises in the moment that he wasted 5 years on his own and what his life could've been during that time and that Madeline still loved him and later finds out she had a daughter that whole time. So when Safin infects him in the final climax of the film, Bond finds out he now can't go anywhere near his own family because if he does he will kill them instantly, and after he kills Safin, you can tell he has so many different feelings when he's struggling to keep standing and get to the top of the island, he's thinking that if he lives, he'll just keep living the same life he had for the last 5 years, broken, sometimes drunk and just alone, knowing that he has a family out there he can never go near or even see. But if he dies, which he clearly didn't want to, it would be the right decision to help make everything better because it will give him and his wife and daughter peace because this is his life now and that's the last type of life anyone would want to have. This is why I think Bond's death works perfectly. But again, this is just my personal opinion and I completely understand and respect your opinion too.
Ironically, after the premiere Casino Royale in Berlin, in a car ride Daniel Craig was the one who came up to kill off HIS version of bond. He said Barbara, how many bond films do I have to make Barbara replied: “Four.” Daniel then said “Oh, okay. if I make four more, can I kill him off of the end?” Barbara immediately said: “ Yes.” And thus, Daniel’s wish was granted. I even may sound controversial in anyway. But I gotta say in my honest and most controversial opinion, this was actually a very fitting, powerful, emotional and suitable end to Craig’s tenure as Bond. And yes, of course James Bond is going to be rebooted with another actor. Of course There’s gonna be more bond films in the future. This means no offense to everyone who hated the ending in No Time To Die, but everybody has an opinion.
I was fortunate enough to go to the premiere in London and I genuinely walked out in disgust over the ending, no round of applause or anything. I’ve grown to accept it in recent viewings but my first time was just sheer disgust in what they did
When i left the cinema after viewing it, you could tell people in the cinema were fuming inside. I could literally see on their faces the utter disgust of what they had just witnessed. Never before have i left a cinema with people in such a mood, it was heartbreaking and soul-crushing to say the least. It was in that moment that i knew, wow, the producers have fcked up big time...
I agree man, No time to Die disappointed me terribly as a Bond fan. How could the series go from Casino Royale to this mediocrity? James Bond is my favourite character and seeing his legacy destroyed so unceremoniously hurts me
In a way, it's a shame that all the Bond movies always make money. It means that the producers don't have to tighten their game as much. Then we end up with this abomination.
@@lochnessmunster1189 That's exactly right. Why should they put a lot of effort into creating a good product when no matter what they do the film will make money? No Time To Die was a financial success - especially during those unstable times - so I suspect they are going to follow this path with the future releases. I'm afraid we can forget about returning to the pre-Craig era. Which is a big shame... The franchise is literally dead to me right now.
@@dominicsantiago8177 Me too. I didn't see NTTD after I heard about where it took the franchise. But I knew it'd make a lot of money. But the producers can afford to take it further and further from its roots, and never back to the pre-Craig era as you said. I suspect I'll never see a new Bond in the cinema again.
N 1 position could be perfect with Craig quipping the line " This never happened to the other fellaS? " just before he dies 😆 Anyway I love that line from OHMSS: the very first time I saw the movie in italian I thought "Yeah is a reference to Sean......this will be a very different Bond and He was" NON ERA MAI SUCCESSO A QUELLO DI PRIMA is even more specific because QUELLO DI PRIMA means THE ONE BEFORE
I have to admit, I don't quite understand why people had an issue with bond dying. I'm also kinda tired of people particularly over the last couple of years, reacting negatively to any minority casting in big budget films based on established franchises, just because they feel it's enforcing some kind of political agenda. It's just basic representation, it's not something that should be frowned upon. I thought Nomi gaining the 007 position instilled underlying tension and competition into her and bond's dynamic. After bond died I thought maybe they were establishing her as the new 007 moving forward to be the focus in future movies.
As a life-long Bond fan, your #1 pick was RIGHTEOUS! Just because one CAN do a thing, doesn't mean one SHOULD do a thing, and the producers/writers/power-people who made this film failed this principle in TWO ways: 1. CAN the studio kill Bond? YES. SHOULD they kill Bond? NO. No matter what they do going forward, they have broken an unbroken rule dating back to 1962's Dr. NO: The world might blow up, but Bond would still find a way to survive. There was no reason to kill Bond, and I left the theater feeling very sad and depressed about what I had just seen. WHY would the people who made this movie want their audience to leave a Bond film feeling sad and depressed? 2. CAN the studio change Bond/007's sex or ethnicity? YES. SHOULD they do so? NO. ALL things do not need to be "wokified". That the character of James Bond is that of a straight, early-to-middle aged, white, English male is part of his character. Bond doesn't need to be she, or LBGTQ, and he doesn't need to be black, asian, hispanic, albino or native-American. I would also say the same thing about 'Superman'. Now, if we're talking 008, ALL options are open and I'm open-minded. Thankfully, we have a treasure-trove of Bond films to treasure forever. Never say never, but depending on what Eon Productions does next, I may never watch a new Bond film again, and I NEVER thought I would say that.
Geweldige top 10 weer DutchBondFan! Ik ben het volledig met je eens en je vraagt je steeds af WAAROM de makers er toen zulke vreemde scenes in hebben gestopt of hebben gelaten. Het is vaak totaal niet grappig maar doet wel af aan de serieuze toon. Diamonds are Forever is het meest uitgesproken voorbeeld daarvan met de tsunami scene in DAD. Misschien hadden ze voor de release van elke film eerst 50 fans de film moeten beoordelen op stommiteiten. Ik had ook jou graag die taak toevertrouwd! Sinds ze zijn begonnen met Bond becomes Japanees voelde je al aankomen dat de serieuze toon luchtiger moest worden. Thunderball blijft voor mij dan ook de laatste echt serieuze toon met links en rechts uitstekende oneliners. Had die toon daarbij gelaten!
Referring to No. 8 "The Other Fellow", this was the last scene shot. It was Peter Hunt who suggested Lazenby say the line. The original script was different, and didn't refer so obviously to Connery, hence Lazenby looking down the lens.
NTTD was so terrible, and Craig's Bond so bad within it, that I felt by the end, the missiles raining down was quite welcome. You could have done a whole video on terrible Bond moments from that film alone. Like the fact he kills the henchman when he's already overpowered him and has him in a headlock - Bond is meant to kill the henchman creatively to save his own life, not just because he's being an arsehole. The terrible robot camera eye on a tray thing. Bond's God-awful milennial moccasins. The only sad thing about the end was Bond's co-stars not joining him.
No Bond fan likes the ending of "NO Time to Die". Some defend his death because they are defending a stupid movie that was so "Woke" with his number reassigned to a "woman of color" (who actually did nothing in the film that couldn't have been done by anyone else) and making "Q" into a gay man. The whole film was pitiful.
Agree with all except number 6. Bond films have always tried to be relevant and that's the way the world is now. When I saw the title my first thought was the slide whistle sound effect. Always hated the flute sound put over the corkscrew car jump stunt. It cheapens a spectacular stunt. Another I've never liked is the invisible car rubbish and the winterisation of the Aston Martin. Even as a kid I knew this was harder than just having 2 cars. My other pick would be having Jedi Dench as M for Daniel Craig. She was M for Brosnan so how is she M when Craig is not even 00 at the beginning of Casino Royal.
Can you people stop with this already?! He did not "blackmail" her, they were flirting the whole time, and he had clearly already banged her by this point. He was just being flirty flirty with her in a cheesy way
Ok on the tacky whistle in man with the golden gun ..its because of early 70s tacky culture from singing songs in disaster movies .to woody allens crazy sci fi flicks ,to cheesy music like tony orlando and have a nice day sticker !! It was meant to be a happy and feel good time !
Some of the decisions made for No Time To Die leave me concerned for the future of the franchise. I hate NTTD (as I do most of the Daniel Craig films) and I don't want the film series I have loved for a quarter of a century to be someone else's political mouthpiece. I want escapism and something a bit 'naughty', not a reminder of current day lunacy perpetuated by others.
Absolutely couldn´t agree more on your No.1 choice. Bond was never meant to die. My personal theory is that the producers and Craig know something we don´t. The way the world is going at the moment, I´m pretty convinced that we won´t see Bond again..........
Perfect list! I get what you mean about Bond dying. It was filmed perfectly and the acting was pure class, but Bond should not die, nor should anyone else be 007. They should have had Bond reappear at the end or something, or M should have retired the number. Just something to appreciate Bond instead of throwing him in the trash.
Exactly! You are right. People fail to realize the INTENSE disservice the entirety of NTTD was to the beloved character. The producers shat all over him... it was like they were trying to emancipate him in every possible way, to then kill him afterwards. It's not a James Bond movie in the technical definition of the term
I disagree. Mallory was only Bond's boss for a short time [given Spectre is set shortly after Skyfall] so he'd have no reason to retire it [and there is no indication in universe Bond is the first 00, in the book's he's not for example]. Nomi's arc is gaining respect for Bond and giving him his number back. Besides, I'm happy when Bond retired, someone not called James Bond got the 007 number to get away from the terrible 'code name theory'.
@@jamesatkinsonja it’s nothing to do with Mallory 😂Ian Fleming created Bond as 007 and that he should remain. He’s supposed to be the Goat, the number should have been retired.
@@samuelwade2029 I'm sure Fleming indicated that Bond wasn't the first person to have the 007 number in his books [as continuation books like Anthony Horowitz's 'Forever and a Day' has Bond being assigned it] and Bond was reassigned as 7777 in 'You only live twice' so I don't think MI6 retire the numbers no mater how legendary the agent was unlike a sports team.
Yes, you have a point about NTTD’s ending but I’m thinking realistically here and wondering how exactly would one survive fatally poisonous nanotech in their bloodstream, knowing that they can never get close to someone that they love anymore and there wasn’t any technology available to extract the nanotech from one’s body so that they could survive? Bond’s dilemma was a no-win situation. In my opinion, of course.
"Bond getting killed" is THE WORST MOMENT IN BOND FRANCHISE!!! Actually, both "Spectre" and "NTTD" are terrible-terrible movies!!! *** "The Tarzan Yell", "The other fellow", "Slide whistle" and "DAF's B-Movie special effects" are all very bad moments... Actually, the special effects of DAF are incredibly bad! I mean, look at DAF! Now, look at TSWLM and Moonraker... Only 6-8 years apart and we got the cutting-edge special effects! I don't know if this is true or not, but I have heard that especially at that time in 1971, the producers did not want to spend their money for quality and they hired the cheapest technical team to produce the effects for DAF....................
The thing with Lashana Lynch being 007 is that had there been no hype, no media attention, no pre-warning whatsoever, the moment of her saying she has the 007 designation would have been seen as a brief cool, funny, sarcastic moment that added some great tension between the characters and then put aside for the rest of the film. It was a very minor point in the context of the story. The only people who made it a big deal was the entertainment media who hyped up so much that it became an annoyance. Within the context of the story it was a good moment but not a big deal. And that's what the filmmakers actually intended. The media made the problem, not the fans and not the filmmakers.
While I agree the media and hype around it was the major problem. I still disagree that this is minor. Back in the day, all the branding would say: "LOOK OUT! LOOK UP! ITS 007: it spells BOND. 007 and Bond are connected. Some may easily be able to see James Bond 007 as seperate from each other. For me its a package deal. You cant have one or the other. Its so ingrained in all that represents Bond. So, even had this been kept under wraps and no media outfit would have touched it. I still would have problems with it
I agree Alex, plus this whole issue probably got exaggerated as it was filmed pre George Floyd but came out after it, right? So lots of people on the look out for different tokenistic reactions to BLM etc would see this as part of it, when it was all written and shot beforehand. I thought it was an amusing bit about the world moving on without him and I enjoyed how it was handled between two likable characters
I think the death of Craig's Bond will feel different in retrospect after three more movies come out. Craig's era always felt like a different universe. If the next Bond brings the continuity back into what it was from 1962 to 2002, it will feel like the movies from Casino Royale to No Time To Die were their own thing, only part of the continuity because Barbara Broccoli says so, but we, the audience, will feel like a five movies long spin-off series. At least if the next Bond won't have his own separate story with a beginning and an end.
It kinda fit the times though. When Moore came in, they started taking the piss off the franchise, so they really pushed "the more ludicrous the better" mentality into it. Agree that from today's perspective it looks absolutely bonkers, but back then it was just funny
"This never happened to the other fellow" is great and I'm willing to die on that hill, haha. But yeah, good choices here, you pretty much hit all the worst moments that I can remember.
I'm on the same hill, I loved that line. The slide whistle doesn't really bother me either, given the choice I wouldn't have it but it doesn't bother me greatly. The beach boys however was awful.
I saw the movie at the theater in December 1969, the whole audience was trying to adjust to the new James Bond, and this line got a very good laugh and kinda broke the ice.
"This never happened to the other fellow" got a genuine laugh out of me when I first watched through the Bond films in release order. It immediately endeared me to Lazenby's Bond. I've never once seen that line as damaging to the film.
Lazenby had HUGE shoes to fill... i think that line was a Nod to the Elephant in the room. OHMSS turned out to be a pretty solid film. i had *NO PROBLEMS* with the line. ❤❤
@@HughJass-jv2lt That was what I was thinking. The fact that now another actor was playing that roll was just too big to ignore. That was his first line, and then we get the credits and we move on. I kind of liked that. I wish he had made more than just the one film. Once he replaced Connery, that took a lot pressure off any actor who would later play the roll.
I also liked the line. I think there needed to be some acknowledgment to the audience that this was the first time someone else was playing the iconic character.
I actually liked the "Other fellow"-scene. It's right at the beginning of the movie - which was the very first without Connery. So it doesn't really take you out of the film, because it just begun and it makes clear from the beginning: I'm not Connery. So don't expect me to be like him.
Your No.1 pick is so spot on ! My father is a life-long 007 fan. When we saw Bond death scene in the theatre last year, he was so furious that he couldn’t even drive us home. So I took the wheel while he was laying in the backseat criticizing the whole scene🤣
Bingo ! I'm now a "Bond father" (age 58) - I saw OHMSS in the theatres at age 5 with my dad and have taken my own two boys since they were also about 5 to see every Bond film. I was as livid as your father was and left immediately before the credits, which I have never done before. I couldn't believe they did that. Definitely the worst moment ever for me.
I’m sorry, being so angry at a movie that one could not drive is just sad and pathetic. I’ve been emotionally moved by many movies and never to the point where I could not perform activities of daily living.
I agree with almost all of the commentators comments except the " other fellow" quip . Let us not lose sight of the fact that Lazenby had massive shoes to fill and the Bond world eagerly awaited how he would break the ice. The quip was disarming. It made us laugh. We relaxed and allowed Lazenby prove his mettle (which he did in that film, conquering the challenge). It is so tongue in cheek that I hoped that the writer went one step further and would have had Lazenby say:" Gee. I wonder what Sean would have done".
It's clear in the context of the time that the filmmakers were very nervous about whether someone else would be accepted in the role at all, and this moment is like "Yeah, we get it, but we'll still have fun with the new guy, promise."
100%. the line was a Nod to the Elephant in the Room. by the end of the film... *OHMSS* turned out to be a pretty solid. i had NO PROBLEMS with the line. ❤
I always considered everything after the opening in Die Another Day to be a fever dream Bond is having after the prisoner exchange. It explains a lot of the ridiculous stuff that happens in that film.
5. Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist 4. The plastic surgery villain switch in Die Another Day 3. Casting Connery in Diamonds Are Forever 2. Blofeld being chucked down a chimney to his death in a pre-title sequence 1. Turning Jaws into a comedy turn in Moonraker when he was just plain terrifying in The Spy Who Loved Me
I agree with your Number One. The same happened later to Arnold Schwarzenegger between T1 and T2. A wisecracking Terminator, oh my! A teen hero! A franchise was detroyed there at step 2.
I think No. 5 should have included the Louisiana sheriff from "Live and Let Die" being brought back for this film. Totally unbelievable that a sheriff from Louisiana would go on a vacation in Thailand, and stop by an AMC dealership, and run into Bond. Totally unbelievable. At least the car stunt was not CGI-generated; it was real.
Mine: 1. The "Yo Momma" line in Die Another Day. 2. Bond and Blofeld being brothers in Spectre. 3. CGI Wavesurfing. 4. Jaws falling in love in Moonraker. 5. Lady Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever. 6. Bond "getting revenge" on the man who murdered his wife in Diamonds Are Forever by swinging him around in a bathtub. 7. 58 year old Roger Moore fucking 28 year old Tanya Roberts in the shower in A View to a Kill. 8. Japanese Connery. Need I say more? 9. The "Die Blofeld Die!!!!!!" moment in No Time to Die. 10. Denise Richards as a "believable" nuclear physicist in The World is Not Enough. Honorable/Dishonorable mentions: The Experience of Love being played over the Goldeneye credits. Licence to Kill's rushed ending. Blofeld being behind everything bad in Bond's life in Spectre. The underwater battles in Thunderball. Bond shoving a bomb up Mr Wint's butt in Diamonds Are Forever.
Ah yes. . . Jaws falling in love with the Norwegian (???) girl. One of those "Mandella effect" moments, as so many people remember her having braces when she first smiled at Jaws, matching his metallic smile. I kinda remembered it that way myself, actually. . .
2:06 i always quite liked the clown/bomb sequence in octopussy. The "ticking bomb" plot has been done to death but i really feel the tension in this one. Especially the last few seconds when theyre restraining bond as he's trying to get to the bomb. Really well done I thought. Plus the alfa romeo car chase was great too
Severine’s death scene from Skyfall. That scene is infuriating. The at film also had one of the most mean-spirited and tone deaf treatments of any character I’ve seen in film. Severine was sex-trafficked as a child and enslaved for most of her life. Only to get a false sense of hope before getting tortured, brutalised and then brutally killed as the person who promised to save her just looks on disinterested. A lot of people say the film humanises Bond. I’m not sure how. I don’t think exploiting and placing false hope in someone who was enslaved and lived in fear for most of their life, only to let them down when it mattered the most and show disinterest in their death- humanises Bond? | I feel really bad for Berenice Marlohe. She was able to land the enormous honour of being a Bond girl without an agent, in a foreign country. That is not an easy feat. In interviews and articles I’ve seen she took pride in her character. Unfortunately, the filmmakers didn’t. They were looking for “new talent”- or an actress no one would care about to play a character they didn’t care about. And as a result, Skyfall has one of the, if not the, most mean-spirited and tone deaf character treatments in the franchise. | And then Barbara Broccoli and her people behind NTTD would go on to virtue signal how great and progressive they are. And trash Connery’s Bond for how he treated woman. | Those who preach the loudest always have the most to hide. | Also, what made Bond such a cool action hero was his resourcefulness. And it’s completely absent from that scene and pretty much that film. | The mean-spirited and tone deaf treatment of the Bond Girl and the incompetence of Bond are just two of the many many problems with Skyfall. It’s a pretentious, bitter and mean-spirited movie which rips of GoldenEye. | The later Mission: Impossible films, Fallout especially, completely obliterated Bond.
To be fair, the way Connery's Bond treated women was pretty crap and would be a bit of an elephant in the room these days if it went without being addressed.
@@MrPoeGhost They made a movie with the most abhorrent mean-spirited and tone deaf treatment of a Bond girl, or just any character in the franchise... and then the virtue signaled how progressive they were and deflected.
@@StandTheOffensive True, the way that character was handled was definitely crap as well, but I can't say I mind them coming out against the outdated writing of the earlier movies either.
Yeah, as much as I love and adore Skyfall overall (although I agree with you, it can get pretentious at times), the treatment of that character really bugs me (and I'm no raging feminist or SJW, trust me). Even the very similar Andrea Anders was at least given a chilling death scene, i.e. the film-makers didn't play it for laugh with a cheap quip. Bond has been pretty casual about the female body count he left behind him in the past (Paula from Thunderball and Corinne from Moonraker spring to mind) but Craig's was portrayed as made from a different material. Craig's acting was very subdued when Solange Dimitrios and Strawberry Fields were killed, but he was clearly upset and both films acknowledged his part in these two women's death. I could accept the excuse of "it's the third film, Bond is colder and more ruthless now, see his reaction when his family home gets blown up" but Spectre and No Time to Die totally invalidated that take.
I actually liked Bond's death scene. In the end he survived everything thrown at him until he decided it was time to go. His battles had been fought, his war had been won, and it was time for him to rest. If he couldn't rest with those he loved most then he would rest in whatever lies beyond.
But James Bond is not supposed to die (I get that this is pretty good ending for Graigs last movie) but I'm bit confused what the point of killing him was. So in the next movie will they just ignore it and say this is a different James Bond, or make it that he didn't actually die or will another character rather than James Bond take over 007. Which imo would be an absolute crime, these movies are about James Bond who is a person and not about a number.
@@teijaflink2226 Its probably going to be another reboot like Craig's first movie was. The big question is will they make each new actor from here on another reboot, or will they go back to future actors after then next continuing a single character like how it was until Craig?
Bond dying will always be the worst moment ever for me too. Like you said, no Bond fan ever goes into the movie wanting to see our hero, the embodiment of survivability, to die. Especially after getting a wonderful adventure that cleaned up a lot of the mess Spectre left.
I couldn't believe they killed Bond. I yelled out in the theater "YOU DON'T DO THAT!!" I had to wait through the credits to see if they would say "James Bond will return." Man, that sucked.
I wished they hadn't done that too, as it casts a shadow over whatever they do with the franchise post Craig. However it might enhance the big ending in subsequent films, introducing a real sense of danger that Bond could die here. Do we think Bond would ever retire, and go filming Grand Designs as he rebuilds Skyfall?
I’m a Bond fan and found Bond’s death a memorable and dramatic way to end Craig’s storyline. Worked for me. I’m of the opinion that since it’s all make believe we can and should expect anything creative. It’s not like it really matters at all.
I loved it. It felt like a logical conclusion for Craigs Bond and wont have any ramifications for the franchise as each actors Bond is unrelated to 1 another.
I actually don't mind the idea of Bond dying. Nor do I find it sacrilege like most do. It's more how it's executed is what I take issue with. I don't really get how Q is like "nanobots are eternal!!!!!!" Really? You give up that easily?
I fully get the clown sequence... it's not played for laughs it was a necessary and quick to hand disguise to infiltrate the circus ring... makes perfect sense!
I always thought the clown make up highlighted the wrinkles on Roger Moore’s face, though, and therefore called attention to the fact that Moore was getting too old to stay in the role
The “Prince Charming” theory is even more stupid when you realize that was EXACTLY what happened to him. Cinderella leaves her shoes behind, he meets up with her later, and they get married.
The thing I hate about invisible car isn't the implausibility - the technical explanation of how it works does make sense in a sort of sci-fi way. What annoys me is the fact that Bond hides behind it at one point. Given the principle of how it is supposed to work, it would be impossible to hide behind it.
Nomi as 007; did it serve any purpose? Why don’t we ask the question whether Nomi served any purpose to NTTD? Seriously, what was she doing in the film? As for Bond’s death… NTTD is IMO the most disappointing and slow paced films of the series. Not only did I not care about the film, but I did not care about the characters. I was just happy the film ended
@@spaceodds1985 Agreed, NTTD disappointed on so many levels, i was actually surprised in retrospect how many things were so terrible. The only good thing about the movie was Ana de Armas and the few scenes she was in, but even Ana de Armas can't save the movie
"what was she doing in the film", well, you can ask the same question for many Bond Girls you know, many of them serve no purposes... except... But you surely know that already.
they needed to kill him off. It was the only way they can put whatever woke agenda they want into it. The old bond is gone, and the new one is coming in. I hate to sound a bigot, but when his wake / memorial was attended by a gay Q, black 007, and black Moneypenny, I felt the character died in more ways than one. He died at the hands of a new era, heralded by the most glum and miserable Bond actor of the lot.
No mention of Dr. Kananga in Live And Let Die? Who was forced to Swallow an Air Capsule That Inflated His Body And Forced Him To Explode Like A Loony Toons Cartoon?
Lmao "why does a hollowed-out volcano even have lava?!" The green screen work in the finale of Thunderball has always bothered me. It looks like the speed boat is doing about 200mkph into the rocks! I bet it even looked bad to 1965 audiences.
I sat through the credits all the way to the end just to make sure we got the all important “JAMES BOND WILL RETURN”. If they had left it out I really would have cried.
this is a great list. I think number 5 was a reaction to all of the car movies in the 70s like Smokey and the Bandit. Also agree 100% on Diamonds are Forever. OHMSS was filmed earlier but has aged so much better and actually looks timeless.
But Smokey and the Bandit came after the Man with the Golden Gun (1974). Maybe this movie was an inspiration to others that came aferwards including TV series (i.e. Dukes of Hazzard).
It's funny though, I used to really hate Craig when he started as Bond because they went a totally different direction than the Brosnan movies had done. Then Skyfall came about and his movies slowly started to grow on me and I started to respect his performance as Bond just for the many new nuances that he brought to the series. Then he does this stunt, and i am sitting here thinking what was the point of your take on the character then, Craig, if you just wanted to kill him after all this? Why "reboot" the character just to kill him? For me it is completely unforgivable and i can never forgive the bond producers nor Craig for having taken this decision
The same. Casino Royal was a good action intrigue film like many others, e.g. Bourne, but didn't feel like a Bond Film, but Craig slowly won me over as easily competing for best Bond, and almost by association CR became a Bond film in my eyes.
@@davidtrim6093 Agreed! I didn't like CR very much when it came out (it doesn't feel very much like a bond film), but it has since grown on me a lot, and i consider it to be Craig's second best after Skyfall
“What’s the point of your take on the character…”? You are seriously asking that question. Actors always want to do something different with an established character, something that has never been done before. This was the ultimate “never been done before” for Bond. Your question / questioning of Craig is just plain stupid.
Nice list. I knew I'd see TMWTGG slide whistle effect here. I was hoping to see Jaws meeting his girlfriend in "Moonraker" as a horribly cringe moment, lol.
About number 1: For starters, that was a request by Daniel Craig himself and was decided since Casino Royale. Craigs era is the only Bond that's a separate timeline/canon, with that in mind i'm happy for it. They didn't "kill" Bond.. they killed Daniel Craig's Bond era, which without Felix, with a daughter, "without" M, without Blofeld, without Blofeld being a "brother" and without Spectre, is literally the best thing that could have happened. With this we have the opportunity to go back to the original timeline or make a new one, be honest, with all this really unique/bad stuff of Craig's era, do you really think it would be better for him to survive at the end and then we just get a new movie with someone else as Bond together with his daughter and Madeline, with Spectre, Blofeld and Felix gone? Again, i'm very glad Craig is done, a couple good movies but honestly always been the last on my list, especially with the whole continuous story in all his movies.
The "tacky elephant in a circus casino" was a real thing, back then. An elephant named Tanya roamed Circus Circus. She was trained to pull slot machine handles and toss dice with her trunk. It was, perhaps, one of the most honest moments in the picture.
We would have included also the explosion of the tomb in "No Time to Die," but the number one in your list is actually pretty darn fitting. Excellent job!!
In the book he seems to almost certainly die at the end of From Russia with Love. Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty seemed to have fallen into the Reichenbach Falls, but there is still the uncertainty that the author is able to use later. -But being exploded as in No Time to whatever makes it slightly unlikely there is a comeback.
Totally agree on the Nr. 1. Also for me, I think the choice to kill off Bond is bad writing. Like the first thing writing classes will teach you about killing characters is that a death always has to have an impact on the plot or wrap a story arc up (in a way where death really is the only way for it to end). I don't see how a death scene would conclude Bond's arc, he could have lived and his character would still have made sense.
Totally disagree with no.1. I think it was superbly done, totally heroic, emotional and a great way for that era to end. Not to mention that because when you know what's coming it makes the whole second half of the film poignant, beautiful and all the more powerful!
Nomi is the absolute worst character in the entire Bond series. She beats even JW pepper and Blofeld in drag from DAF. She adds NOTHING of value to neither the movie nor the series other than being shoehorned in just to serve the PC crowd and Woke police. The entire movie would have actually benefited if she had never been present. Luckily, she will become an irrelevant blimp in the bond canon with the passage of times. And i agree with your point number 1! In time NTTD will be viewed as the worst bond movie ever made, i already felt that as soon as i left the cinema
The term cougar was not a sexual term in 1969. The worst moment OHMSS was the stereotyping of the girls in the Blofeld allergy clinic, especially the African girl eating a banana.
Undoubtedly killing off Bond is going to be very polarising to many fans for many years to come. Yet I can forgive it for having the guts to even attempt it. The DAD paragliding CGI scene is just plain dreadful and embarrassing. I would also include the cringing knock off Beach Boys tribute song in AVTAK. And even though I enjoy Octopussy, that entire India middle section needs a good edit to remove too many cringing moments like playing the Bond theme on the musical instrument, Bond zooming in and out with the camera on the pair of breasts, telling a tiger to sit, and of course worse of all the horrid Tarzan yell. Another top notch video DutchBondFan.
Octopussy is such a mixed bag. The Soviet scenes are epic - Orlov in the Politburo, and being shot on the border, both great. As for the Indian scenes, the saw yo-yos are great too.
Playing the James Bond theme on the musical instrument when Bond arrives in India ("Catchy tune") really makes my eyes roll. That is taking breaking the fourth wall too far. As if James Bond has his own theme tune in the real world. Really should have been the 007 theme or better yet Nobody Does it Better played on the instrument. I could live with that.
I agree with some of these points, but the fourth-wall break in OHMSS is one of my favorite Bond moments, and the death of James Bond in NTTD is only bad in execution, not in concept. Daniel Craig's take on the character is not an escapist fantasy most of the time, so it's only appropriate that he would prove quite mortal. (I could see the same thing happening to Dalton's Bond, albeit without the silly "genetically-specific nanobot plague" idea.)
Really want to run down a rabbit hole? Go look up what the vaccines are doing to people... talk about a nanobot plague... it's like getting a disease, once you get it, you've got it for the rest of your life. Like herpes, it's the gift that keeps on giving.
I was hesitating watching your video because I still feel disenchanted after NTTD. I fully agree with your #1. That was so unnecessary. I think it will be almost impossible to reanimate the franchise after this. There will always be that one movie where Bond dies.
I am honestly baffled when people say 'impossible to reanimate the franchise'...just reboot it as so many franchises have done in the past 20 years [the Batman earlier this year has nothing to do with Nolan's series for example]. They don't have to follow any Craig plots or even the tone, Bond 26 can do it's own thing tailored to the new actor. And technically Goldeneye was a 'soft reboot' [with virtually a whole new cast] which was 11 years before the hard reboot of Casino. By the time Bond 26 comes out , 20 years will have passed since Casino so the right time for a fresh start.
I always thought the Daniel Craig era was a mixed bag started out super strong with Casino but as they tried to link the following movies together the writing really took a downturn and the ending well it will be interesting to see where they go from there.
:D :D :D To be fair, I think Michael Wilson has come up with some neat ideas; but I feel that it's basically Barbara who's calling the shots now. I don't particularly mind the directions she's taken the series - it's her inability to get a new Bond movie released in anything less than four years which is hurting it,imo.
For me the worst moment is ̶G̶u̶s̶t̶a̶v̶ ̶G̶r̶a̶v̶e̶s̶ Colonel Moon telling his dad that he is really his son on the plane in the robocop suit and speaking Korean. Absolutely hate that unscientific race changing in DAD. It's the coup de grace of that whole over the top far fetched cringe inducing plot. Even worse than the invisibile car or windsuring a tsunami rubbish. Surprise more people shred those two things over it.
Absolutely agree. They have a North Korea story with a villain of Korean descent who is good and then they give him "gene therapy" and he hecomes this over the top posh English aristocrat. Horrible. The whole way it's explained in the story ia the worst part of DAD. Embarrassing poison that should not be in a Bond film.
Not only that but the text in the movie very specifically says 14 months have pass between Bond's capture and him getting exchanged for Zhao. That means that Moon got the gene therapy in Cuba, moved to England, struck it rich in the diamond industry, built a massive business empire, built his ice hotel, became a world famous celebrity, and developed and then built the Icarus satellite, all in just over a year. No chance.
I KNOW!!!!!! It's ludicrous!!! Absolutely worst thing about the film, more than the surfing scene or the dialogue and so on. I would like to know if broccoli and Wilson lost control of the film or what went on when they were making it.
My wife and I bawled our eyes out when Bond (Craig) died @ the end of No Time To Die; For her, it was more personal because Daniel's a blood-related cousin to her family while for me, it made me feel empty and not knowing who's going to take up the James Bond character with their next film. 😢♠🎥
One dumb moment is Bond and Blofeld being brothers in “Spectre.” It feels a little contrived that Bond’s foster brother was (indirectly) behind the events of the previous Craig-era films. That, and it uses the same twist as “Austin Powers in Goldmember,” so it’s a bit tough to take it seriously.
He didn't spend 8 yrs in evil medical school to be called "Mister", thankyouverymuch!! LOL
Yep, good call.
Yea no kidding 😂
Absolutely, like an episode of Emmerdale. It really detracted from the Spectre arc of the story. It reduced something interesting to dreadful family politics.
Spectre feels like Casablanca compared to NTTD
I 100% agree with Dutch Bond Fan on his number one worst Bond movement. It is my pick for all-time worst moment in any Bond movie as well.
Should be anyone's pick for all-time worst Bond moment really.. People who defend it are incomprehensible to me
Possibly my favourite thumbnail ever for one of your videos 😂Great video!
Wholeheartedly agree with Number 1... Bond is the hero for a reason. NTTD's ending is uncalled for, soulcrushing, and criminal. Flemming and Cubby would be furious...
Cubby, yeah, but you know that Flemming did kill James Bond off in his book From Russia With Love. He wanted to write other things, but he got so much flak that he brought him back in Doctor No. I have a feeling he would have been furious about a lot of things they did in a lot of modern 007 movies . Besides, the Daniel Craig Bonds have really been unrealistically out of sequence with other Bond movies, especially the early Sean Connery era. Are you so sure they won't bring him back with another actor? Come on, if you are that much out of touch with the Bond movie canon, like the Craig movies, you could easily bring in another actor with out any explanation of how Bond survivied, modern audiences didn't even question why Judy Dench was still M in Casino Royal, supposedly, not in the Ian Flemming books, his first mission. And although Casino Royal both in the movie and in the Ian Flemming book that he first met Felix Leiter, but in the movie canon it was Doctor No. Now you could argue, yeah they were going by the book, but if you go by the book canon, then you would have to loose Judy Dench and put in a male M and not make it his first mission.
I'm just saying just start from fresh, you don't have to expalin anything, they sure didn't explain a lot of holes in the Craig era, and audiences blindly excepted that with out any questions.
I think Cubby would have been upset;
but I feel that Fleming would have probably approved. He killed off the character himself,once; and,by all accounts, felt little sympathy for him. On the other hand,I can envisage him absolutely hating Moonraker; and probably being none too partial toward DAD either.
Fleming did try and kill Bond off in the novels at least twice.
Worst ending of entire series!
@@wiseguymaybe By the Mid-2000's general audiences were used to reboots and we'd just had Batman Begins which had nothing to do with the 1989-1997 series. Casino makes it clear it's a fresh start with Bond earning his 00 status at the start.
Keeping Judi on muddles the waters but it's also made clear she is not playing the same character as in the Brosnan films [Goldeneye-New Broom, eventually builds respect with Bond; Casino 'Christ I miss the cold war', Closest thing Bond has to a parental figure].
Going back to the Batman analogy, we've recently had another movie which had nothing to do with the Nolan films but audiences went with it. Now the Craig film is over they can reboot with a new Bond and supporting cast without having to worry about dealing with Craig era plots.
I never know how Wakabayashi Akiko was able to film that scene with Sean Connery without bursting into laughter. It reminded me of the "Teahouse of the August Moon."
I'm with you about the ending. I wish I didn't feel empty too but that's all I felt walking out of the cinema and how I still feel. I can't shake it.
Honestly I didn’t care because NTTD was so boring and slow for me, that I was just happy the film ended.
@@spaceodds1985 NTTD is hands down the worst bond movie ever made
@@anonymanynomsen6034 No that's definitely Octopussy. Roger Moore is the worst Bond and him arsing around in a clown suit is just embarrassing and tiresome.
It would be ok if they wanted to end the Bond franchise and never make another Bond movie again. Then Bond's death through self-sacrifice is a poignant and powerful moment, and a testement to the heroism of men who sacrifice their lives to save others. What more fitting way to end the Bond franchise than a poignant death scene of the main character, dying to save civilization?
But to then just pretend this never happened and go back to another Bond movie with a new actor cheapens that death and renders it utterly meaningless. If Bond comes back in a new movie, that means his death in the last movie was just a cheap trick to temporarily wring some emotions from the audience. That is pathetic and inexcusable.
@@hv3115 It raises questions about who James Bond is right? Like does the character portrayed in No Time To Die have memories of the events of Goldfinger? There seem to be lots of continuity problems with it - like all the M portraits for example. Dame Judy Dench was M for both Brosnan and Craig - are they the same or different people? Is there continuity with the Blofeld character in the sense that is the character played by Donald Pleasance the half brother of the character played by Sean Connery?
I knew before you mentioned that the dishonorable would be the clown moment.. I never found that out of place.. the tone is serious.. and its an intense scene.
It may be trivial to some, but for me it's the impossible helicopter physics in _Tomorrow Never Dies._ In what is otherwise one of the more grounded Bond movies, arguably requiring less suspension of disbelief than most of the other entries, that almost vertically-tilted helicopter moving along the street at the speed of a half-charged Segway with its laundry-chopping rotors whirring away in violation of all the known laws of aerodynamics takes me out of the story every time.
It's such a shame, because _TND_ would otherwise be a top contender for my favourite Bond movie. The plot is believable, the technology and vehicles are cutting edge (for 1997) without ever crossing the line into full-on science fiction, and from day one I've defended Elliot Carver as a plausible antagonist in the face of criticism that he was too "normal" to be a Bond villain. He is creepy because he is so mundane while wielding ridiculous power. And the last 25 years have demonstrated how prescient the movie was in depicting the dangerous influence of a corrupt and unfettered media.
But that helicopter! Dear God, what were they thinking? It literally undoes everything good about the rest of the movie. I shudder just thinking about it.
I completely understand where you're coming from with killing Bond in No Time To Die, because it wasn't something I was asking for either. I remember watching the moment in the cinema with my father and I honestly had no idea how to feel, I did get very emotional because Daniel Craig was my childhood Bond but I still felt quite empty, and it took me some time to appreciate the ending a lot more.
The reason why I personally think it works is because when Bond finds out that Blofeld was the one who destroyed Vesper's grave and framed Madeline to make it look like she turned against Bond, he realises in the moment that he wasted 5 years on his own and what his life could've been during that time and that Madeline still loved him and later finds out she had a daughter that whole time. So when Safin infects him in the final climax of the film, Bond finds out he now can't go anywhere near his own family because if he does he will kill them instantly, and after he kills Safin, you can tell he has so many different feelings when he's struggling to keep standing and get to the top of the island, he's thinking that if he lives, he'll just keep living the same life he had for the last 5 years, broken, sometimes drunk and just alone, knowing that he has a family out there he can never go near or even see. But if he dies, which he clearly didn't want to, it would be the right decision to help make everything better because it will give him and his wife and daughter peace because this is his life now and that's the last type of life anyone would want to have.
This is why I think Bond's death works perfectly. But again, this is just my personal opinion and I completely understand and respect your opinion too.
I agree killing Bond was unforgivable. Cubby will be turning over in his grave.
This never happened to the other fellas
Ironically, after the premiere Casino Royale in Berlin, in a car ride Daniel Craig was the one who came up to kill off HIS version of bond. He said Barbara, how many bond films do I have to make Barbara replied: “Four.” Daniel then said “Oh, okay. if I make four more, can I kill him off of the end?” Barbara immediately said: “ Yes.” And thus, Daniel’s wish was granted. I even may sound controversial in anyway. But I gotta say in my honest and most controversial opinion, this was actually a very fitting, powerful, emotional and suitable end to Craig’s tenure as Bond. And yes, of course James Bond is going to be rebooted with another actor. Of course There’s gonna be more bond films in the future. This means no offense to everyone who hated the ending in No Time To Die, but everybody has an opinion.
I absolutely agree with everything in this video! He nails exactly the worst moments and why.
I was fortunate enough to go to the premiere in London and I genuinely walked out in disgust over the ending, no round of applause or anything. I’ve grown to accept it in recent viewings but my first time was just sheer disgust in what they did
When i left the cinema after viewing it, you could tell people in the cinema were fuming inside. I could literally see on their faces the utter disgust of what they had just witnessed. Never before have i left a cinema with people in such a mood, it was heartbreaking and soul-crushing to say the least. It was in that moment that i knew, wow, the producers have fcked up big time...
I agree man, No time to Die disappointed me terribly as a Bond fan. How could the series go from Casino Royale to this mediocrity? James Bond is my favourite character and seeing his legacy destroyed so unceremoniously hurts me
Wonderful video my friend. Thank you for acknowledging this abomination on the number 1. Michael and Barbara should be ashamed of this decision.
In a way, it's a shame that all the Bond movies always make money. It means that the producers don't have to tighten their game as much. Then we end up with this abomination.
@@lochnessmunster1189 That's exactly right. Why should they put a lot of effort into creating a good product when no matter what they do the film will make money? No Time To Die was a financial success - especially during those unstable times - so I suspect they are going to follow this path with the future releases. I'm afraid we can forget about returning to the pre-Craig era. Which is a big shame... The franchise is literally dead to me right now.
@@dominicsantiago8177 Me too. I didn't see NTTD after I heard about where it took the franchise. But I knew it'd make a lot of money. But the producers can afford to take it further and further from its roots, and never back to the pre-Craig era as you said. I suspect I'll never see a new Bond in the cinema again.
The double-taking pigeon is hilarious and I will not hear a word against it.
I could not agree more with your number 1, well done
The entire Iceland sequence from Die Another Day should be on this list, especially if you've ever been there.
The filmmakers are on record saying they regretted the slide whistle
N 1 position could be perfect with Craig quipping the line " This never happened to the other fellaS? " just before he dies 😆 Anyway I love that line from OHMSS: the very first time I saw the movie in italian I thought "Yeah is a reference to Sean......this will be a very different Bond and He was" NON ERA MAI SUCCESSO A QUELLO DI PRIMA is even more specific because QUELLO DI PRIMA means THE ONE BEFORE
I grew up watching the films in Italian when staying with my grandfather in Rome, so my mental Bond still says: "Mi chiamo Bond....".
I have to admit, I don't quite understand why people had an issue with bond dying. I'm also kinda tired of people particularly over the last couple of years, reacting negatively to any minority casting in big budget films based on established franchises, just because they feel it's enforcing some kind of political agenda. It's just basic representation, it's not something that should be frowned upon. I thought Nomi gaining the 007 position instilled underlying tension and competition into her and bond's dynamic. After bond died I thought maybe they were establishing her as the new 007 moving forward to be the focus in future movies.
totally agree with that, although apparently the future casting is still wide open
As a life-long Bond fan, your #1 pick was RIGHTEOUS! Just because one CAN do a thing, doesn't mean one SHOULD do a thing, and the producers/writers/power-people who made this film failed this principle in TWO ways:
1. CAN the studio kill Bond? YES. SHOULD they kill Bond? NO.
No matter what they do going forward, they have broken an unbroken rule dating back to 1962's Dr. NO:
The world might blow up, but Bond would still find a way to survive.
There was no reason to kill Bond, and I left the theater feeling very sad and depressed about what I had just seen.
WHY would the people who made this movie want their audience to leave a Bond film feeling sad and depressed?
2. CAN the studio change Bond/007's sex or ethnicity? YES. SHOULD they do so? NO.
ALL things do not need to be "wokified". That the character of James Bond is that of a straight, early-to-middle aged,
white, English male is part of his character. Bond doesn't need to be she, or LBGTQ, and he doesn't need to be black,
asian, hispanic, albino or native-American. I would also say the same thing about 'Superman'.
Now, if we're talking 008, ALL options are open and I'm open-minded.
Thankfully, we have a treasure-trove of Bond films to treasure forever. Never say never, but depending on what Eon Productions does next, I may never watch a new Bond film again, and I NEVER thought I would say that.
Geweldige top 10 weer DutchBondFan! Ik ben het volledig met je eens en je vraagt je steeds af WAAROM de makers er toen zulke vreemde scenes in hebben gestopt of hebben gelaten. Het is vaak totaal niet grappig maar doet wel af aan de serieuze toon. Diamonds are Forever is het meest uitgesproken voorbeeld daarvan met de tsunami scene in DAD. Misschien hadden ze voor de release van elke film eerst 50 fans de film moeten beoordelen op stommiteiten. Ik had ook jou graag die taak toevertrouwd! Sinds ze zijn begonnen met Bond becomes Japanees voelde je al aankomen dat de serieuze toon luchtiger moest worden. Thunderball blijft voor mij dan ook de laatste echt serieuze toon met links en rechts uitstekende oneliners. Had die toon daarbij gelaten!
I just want to add that when blofeld fires the laser on the chinese rockets, all the rockets remain in place after the explosion 😂
i *LITERALLY* did NOT know Bond got Killed in that last film...
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That kitesurfing one reminds me of fricking spy kids more than James bond
You're right about Diamonds are Forever. The whole film could've been put on this list.
A view to kill movie
Referring to No. 8 "The Other Fellow", this was the last scene shot. It was Peter Hunt who suggested Lazenby say the line. The original script was different, and didn't refer so obviously to Connery, hence Lazenby looking down the lens.
NTTD was so terrible, and Craig's Bond so bad within it, that I felt by the end, the missiles raining down was quite welcome. You could have done a whole video on terrible Bond moments from that film alone. Like the fact he kills the henchman when he's already overpowered him and has him in a headlock - Bond is meant to kill the henchman creatively to save his own life, not just because he's being an arsehole. The terrible robot camera eye on a tray thing. Bond's God-awful milennial moccasins. The only sad thing about the end was Bond's co-stars not joining him.
No Bond fan likes the ending of "NO Time to Die". Some defend his death because they are defending a stupid movie that was so "Woke" with his number reassigned to a "woman of color" (who actually did nothing in the film that couldn't have been done by anyone else) and making "Q" into a gay man. The whole film was pitiful.
One can argue with which are the 10 worst, but you are absolutely right that these are all among the worst, and for all the reasons you say.
Agree with all except number 6. Bond films have always tried to be relevant and that's the way the world is now.
When I saw the title my first thought was the slide whistle sound effect.
Always hated the flute sound put over the corkscrew car jump stunt. It cheapens a spectacular stunt.
Another I've never liked is the invisible car rubbish and the winterisation of the Aston Martin. Even as a kid I knew this was harder than just having 2 cars.
My other pick would be having Jedi Dench as M for Daniel Craig. She was M for Brosnan so how is she M when Craig is not even 00 at the beginning of Casino Royal.
Bond blackmailing the nurse into sex in Thunderball was a really bad one.
Can you people stop with this already?! He did not "blackmail" her, they were flirting the whole time, and he had clearly already banged her by this point. He was just being flirty flirty with her in a cheesy way
Ok on the tacky whistle in man with the golden gun ..its because of early 70s tacky culture from singing songs in disaster movies .to woody allens crazy sci fi flicks ,to cheesy music like tony orlando and have a nice day sticker !! It was meant to be a happy and feel good time !
Some of the decisions made for No Time To Die leave me concerned for the future of the franchise. I hate NTTD (as I do most of the Daniel Craig films) and I don't want the film series I have loved for a quarter of a century to be someone else's political mouthpiece. I want escapism and something a bit 'naughty', not a reminder of current day lunacy perpetuated by others.
the 8th moment for me its brilliant. I have zero problems with breaking the 4th wall with a great joke!
Absolutely couldn´t agree more on your No.1 choice. Bond was never meant to die. My personal theory is that the producers and Craig know something we don´t. The way the world is going at the moment, I´m pretty convinced that we won´t see Bond again..........
Diamonds Are Forever spent most of their budget on getting Sir Sean back and the special effects took a big hit.
I have no problem with 10 - 7 (inclusive), but 6 onwards.... Yes, yes, YES!
Any moment, when Bond uses an Americanism for example 'elevator' instead of 'lift', 'zero to sixty' instead of 'nought to sixty' etc.
Perfect list! I get what you mean about Bond dying. It was filmed perfectly and the acting was pure class, but Bond should not die, nor should anyone else be 007. They should have had Bond reappear at the end or something, or M should have retired the number. Just something to appreciate Bond instead of throwing him in the trash.
Exactly! You are right. People fail to realize the INTENSE disservice the entirety of NTTD was to the beloved character. The producers shat all over him... it was like they were trying to emancipate him in every possible way, to then kill him afterwards. It's not a James Bond movie in the technical definition of the term
I disagree. Mallory was only Bond's boss for a short time [given Spectre is set shortly after Skyfall] so he'd have no reason to retire it [and there is no indication in universe Bond is the first 00, in the book's he's not for example]. Nomi's arc is gaining respect for Bond and giving him his number back.
Besides, I'm happy when Bond retired, someone not called James Bond got the 007 number to get away from the terrible 'code name theory'.
@@jamesatkinsonja it’s nothing to do with Mallory 😂Ian Fleming created Bond as 007 and that he should remain. He’s supposed to be the Goat, the number should have been retired.
@@samuelwade2029 I'm sure Fleming indicated that Bond wasn't the first person to have the 007 number in his books [as continuation books like Anthony Horowitz's 'Forever and a Day' has Bond being assigned it] and Bond was reassigned as 7777 in 'You only live twice' so I don't think MI6 retire the numbers no mater how legendary the agent was unlike a sports team.
They should’ve learned from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 😂
You have to view "Diamonds are Forever" as pure camp and not a serious movie.
#7 Turning Bond Japanese - you cracked me up throughout this one. Not to mention the (later) song “Turning Japanese” and its meaning.
# ‘I really think so!’
Yes, you have a point about NTTD’s ending but I’m thinking realistically here and wondering how exactly would one survive fatally poisonous nanotech in their bloodstream, knowing that they can never get close to someone that they love anymore and there wasn’t any technology available to extract the nanotech from one’s body so that they could survive? Bond’s dilemma was a no-win situation. In my opinion, of course.
"Bond getting killed" is THE WORST MOMENT IN BOND FRANCHISE!!! Actually, both "Spectre" and "NTTD" are terrible-terrible movies!!! *** "The Tarzan Yell", "The other fellow", "Slide whistle" and "DAF's B-Movie special effects" are all very bad moments... Actually, the special effects of DAF are incredibly bad! I mean, look at DAF! Now, look at TSWLM and Moonraker... Only 6-8 years apart and we got the cutting-edge special effects! I don't know if this is true or not, but I have heard that especially at that time in 1971, the producers did not want to spend their money for quality and they hired the cheapest technical team to produce the effects for DAF....................
Good number 1 cause that is the worst moment in the series even almost a year later and I still hate it
The thing with Lashana Lynch being 007 is that had there been no hype, no media attention, no pre-warning whatsoever, the moment of her saying she has the 007 designation would have been seen as a brief cool, funny, sarcastic moment that added some great tension between the characters and then put aside for the rest of the film. It was a very minor point in the context of the story. The only people who made it a big deal was the entertainment media who hyped up so much that it became an annoyance. Within the context of the story it was a good moment but not a big deal. And that's what the filmmakers actually intended. The media made the problem, not the fans and not the filmmakers.
While I agree the media and hype around it was the major problem. I still disagree that this is minor. Back in the day, all the branding would say: "LOOK OUT! LOOK UP! ITS 007: it spells BOND. 007 and Bond are connected. Some may easily be able to see James Bond 007 as seperate from each other. For me its a package deal. You cant have one or the other. Its so ingrained in all that represents Bond. So, even had this been kept under wraps and no media outfit would have touched it. I still would have problems with it
I agree Alex, plus this whole issue probably got exaggerated as it was filmed pre George Floyd but came out after it, right? So lots of people on the look out for different tokenistic reactions to BLM etc would see this as part of it, when it was all written and shot beforehand. I thought it was an amusing bit about the world moving on without him and I enjoyed how it was handled between two likable characters
Agree with all your choices!
I think the death of Craig's Bond will feel different in retrospect after three more movies come out. Craig's era always felt like a different universe. If the next Bond brings the continuity back into what it was from 1962 to 2002, it will feel like the movies from Casino Royale to No Time To Die were their own thing, only part of the continuity because Barbara Broccoli says so, but we, the audience, will feel like a five movies long spin-off series. At least if the next Bond won't have his own separate story with a beginning and an end.
You can include Stacey Sutton screaming James every 10 seconds in A View To A Kill
James !!!!!
Can't agree more!!
@@docsavage-8616 JAMES!!!!!!!!!!
Imagine if Sissy Spacek was Stacey Sutton, her screams would have been 3x times louder
Honestly, I'm surprised you didn't mention Kananga's death - using a ridiculous blow-up doll to inflate and explode his body.
1 of my favs tho, cracks me up every time
It kinda fit the times though. When Moore came in, they started taking the piss off the franchise, so they really pushed "the more ludicrous the better" mentality into it. Agree that from today's perspective it looks absolutely bonkers, but back then it was just funny
I agree that moment is ridiculous. And it isn't even well staged. Why is there no blood when he blows up? Is he made of latex?
Worst Bond ever...no script ... Just a Matt Helm movie. Live and let die ... Died.
@@chrischeshire6528 i don’t agree. Live and Let Die, while not a classic, definitely has merit in its own right as a terrific bond flick
"This never happened to the other fellow" is great and I'm willing to die on that hill, haha. But yeah, good choices here, you pretty much hit all the worst moments that I can remember.
That was quite a funny line.
I'm on the same hill, I loved that line. The slide whistle doesn't really bother me either, given the choice I wouldn't have it but it doesn't bother me greatly. The beach boys however was awful.
Love that line too. Seemed perfectly apt in my opinion.
Lazenby was awesome! That was a great one liner fsure
I saw the movie at the theater in December 1969, the whole audience was trying to adjust to the new James Bond, and this line got a very good laugh and kinda broke the ice.
"This never happened to the other fellow" got a genuine laugh out of me when I first watched through the Bond films in release order. It immediately endeared me to Lazenby's Bond. I've never once seen that line as damaging to the film.
Lazenby had HUGE shoes to fill...
i think that line was a Nod to the Elephant in the room.
OHMSS turned out to be a pretty solid film.
i had *NO PROBLEMS* with the line.
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I agree
@@HughJass-jv2lt That was what I was thinking. The fact that now another actor was playing that roll was just too big to ignore. That was his first line, and then we get the credits and we move on. I kind of liked that. I wish he had made more than just the one film. Once he replaced Connery, that took a lot pressure off any actor who would later play the roll.
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I also liked the line. I think there needed to be some acknowledgment to the audience that this was the first time someone else was playing the iconic character.
I actually liked the "Other fellow"-scene. It's right at the beginning of the movie - which was the very first without Connery. So it doesn't really take you out of the film, because it just begun and it makes clear from the beginning: I'm not Connery. So don't expect me to be like him.
Your No.1 pick is so spot on ! My father is a life-long 007 fan. When we saw Bond death scene in the theatre last year, he was so furious that he couldn’t even drive us home. So I took the wheel while he was laying in the backseat criticizing the whole scene🤣
What a great guy your father is!
Bingo ! I'm now a "Bond father" (age 58) - I saw OHMSS in the theatres at age 5 with my dad and have taken my own two boys since they were also about 5 to see every Bond film. I was as livid as your father was and left immediately before the credits, which I have never done before. I couldn't believe they did that. Definitely the worst moment ever for me.
I’m sorry, being so angry at a movie that one could not drive is just sad and pathetic. I’ve been emotionally moved by many movies and never to the point where I could not perform activities of daily living.
Lol, that’s hilarious, but, yeah, I was furious too.
I'm imagining this angry old man lying on the back seat muttering about a movie. I'm laughing my ass off.
I agree with almost all of the commentators comments except the " other fellow" quip . Let us not lose sight of the fact that Lazenby had massive shoes to fill and the Bond world eagerly awaited how he would break the ice. The quip was disarming. It made us laugh. We relaxed and allowed Lazenby prove his mettle (which he did in that film, conquering the challenge). It is so tongue in cheek that I hoped that the writer went one step further and would have had Lazenby say:" Gee. I wonder what Sean would have done".
In the Czech version he says "This would never happen to Connery"
Best Bond Movie until Casino Royale
It's clear in the context of the time that the filmmakers were very nervous about whether someone else would be accepted in the role at all, and this moment is like "Yeah, we get it, but we'll still have fun with the new guy, promise."
100%.
the line was a Nod to the Elephant in the Room.
by the end of the film... *OHMSS* turned out to be a pretty solid.
i had NO PROBLEMS with the line.
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I always considered everything after the opening in Die Another Day to be a fever dream Bond is having after the prisoner exchange. It explains a lot of the ridiculous stuff that happens in that film.
And in their place, NightFire and Everything or Nothing happened instead. At least to me.
5. Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist
4. The plastic surgery villain switch in Die Another Day
3. Casting Connery in Diamonds Are Forever
2. Blofeld being chucked down a chimney to his death in a pre-title sequence
1. Turning Jaws into a comedy turn in Moonraker when he was just plain terrifying in The Spy Who Loved Me
So... you don't want a delicatessen?
@@timriss530 In stainless steel
I agree with your Number One. The same happened later to Arnold Schwarzenegger between T1 and T2. A wisecracking Terminator, oh my! A teen hero! A franchise was detroyed there at step 2.
Blofeld down the chimney was OK. There was a reason for it.
You're number 1 is spot-on.
I think No. 5 should have included the Louisiana sheriff from "Live and Let Die" being brought back for this film. Totally unbelievable that a sheriff from Louisiana would go on a vacation in Thailand, and stop by an AMC dealership, and run into Bond. Totally unbelievable. At least the car stunt was not CGI-generated; it was real.
I thought the character was funny though.
It was funny in Live and Let Die and very realistic.@@teijaflink2226
Mine:
1. The "Yo Momma" line in Die Another Day.
2. Bond and Blofeld being brothers in Spectre.
3. CGI Wavesurfing.
4. Jaws falling in love in Moonraker.
5. Lady Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever.
6. Bond "getting revenge" on the man who murdered his wife in Diamonds Are Forever by swinging him around in a bathtub.
7. 58 year old Roger Moore fucking 28 year old Tanya Roberts in the shower in A View to a Kill.
8. Japanese Connery. Need I say more?
9. The "Die Blofeld Die!!!!!!" moment in No Time to Die.
10. Denise Richards as a "believable" nuclear physicist in The World is Not Enough.
Honorable/Dishonorable mentions:
The Experience of Love being played over the Goldeneye credits.
Licence to Kill's rushed ending.
Blofeld being behind everything bad in Bond's life in Spectre.
The underwater battles in Thunderball.
Bond shoving a bomb up Mr Wint's butt in Diamonds Are Forever.
Ah yes. . . Jaws falling in love with the Norwegian (???) girl. One of those "Mandella effect" moments, as so many people remember her having braces when she first smiled at Jaws, matching his metallic smile. I kinda remembered it that way myself, actually. . .
The "Die Blofeld Die" line was an actual line in one of the James Bond books and was actually quite badass in my opinion
@@wallyman292 I had no idea that Dolly had braces until I watched Calvin's Bond myth video about it.
@@MorganTC Don't get me wrong. It definetly is a line that works quite well on page but when you are executing it to screen well....
@@Paul91- You've got it backwards. She doesn't have braces. Everyone remembers it (incorrectly) that she did. Me included.
2:06 i always quite liked the clown/bomb sequence in octopussy. The "ticking bomb" plot has been done to death but i really feel the tension in this one. Especially the last few seconds when theyre restraining bond as he's trying to get to the bomb. Really well done I thought. Plus the alfa romeo car chase was great too
Never mind the Clown, what about Bond dressed as an ape?
In that Marcel Marceau face, they could have had a gag where the bomb was sensitive to sound and he had to mime each tool he needs to be handed.
Severine’s death scene from Skyfall.
That scene is infuriating. The at film also had one of the most mean-spirited and tone deaf treatments of any character I’ve seen in film.
Severine was sex-trafficked as a child and enslaved for most of her life. Only to get a false sense of hope before getting tortured, brutalised and then brutally killed as the person who promised to save her just looks on disinterested. A lot of people say the film humanises Bond. I’m not sure how. I don’t think exploiting and placing false hope in someone who was enslaved and lived in fear for most of their life, only to let them down when it mattered the most and show disinterest in their death- humanises Bond?
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I feel really bad for Berenice Marlohe. She was able to land the enormous honour of being a Bond girl without an agent, in a foreign country. That is not an easy feat. In interviews and articles I’ve seen she took pride in her character. Unfortunately, the filmmakers didn’t. They were looking for “new talent”- or an actress no one would care about to play a character they didn’t care about. And as a result, Skyfall has one of the, if not the, most mean-spirited and tone deaf character treatments in the franchise.
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And then Barbara Broccoli and her people behind NTTD would go on to virtue signal how great and progressive they are. And trash Connery’s Bond for how he treated woman.
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Those who preach the loudest always have the most to hide.
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Also, what made Bond such a cool action hero was his resourcefulness. And it’s completely absent from that scene and pretty much that film.
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The mean-spirited and tone deaf treatment of the Bond Girl and the incompetence of Bond are just two of the many many problems with Skyfall. It’s a pretentious, bitter and mean-spirited movie which rips of GoldenEye.
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The later Mission: Impossible films, Fallout especially, completely obliterated Bond.
To be fair, the way Connery's Bond treated women was pretty crap and would be a bit of an elephant in the room these days if it went without being addressed.
@@MrPoeGhost They made a movie with the most abhorrent mean-spirited and tone deaf treatment of a Bond girl, or just any character in the franchise... and then the virtue signaled how progressive they were and deflected.
@@StandTheOffensive True, the way that character was handled was definitely crap as well, but I can't say I mind them coming out against the outdated writing of the earlier movies either.
Yeah, as much as I love and adore Skyfall overall (although I agree with you, it can get pretentious at times), the treatment of that character really bugs me (and I'm no raging feminist or SJW, trust me). Even the very similar Andrea Anders was at least given a chilling death scene, i.e. the film-makers didn't play it for laugh with a cheap quip. Bond has been pretty casual about the female body count he left behind him in the past (Paula from Thunderball and Corinne from Moonraker spring to mind) but Craig's was portrayed as made from a different material. Craig's acting was very subdued when Solange Dimitrios and Strawberry Fields were killed, but he was clearly upset and both films acknowledged his part in these two women's death. I could accept the excuse of "it's the third film, Bond is colder and more ruthless now, see his reaction when his family home gets blown up" but Spectre and No Time to Die totally invalidated that take.
I actually liked Bond's death scene. In the end he survived everything thrown at him until he decided it was time to go. His battles had been fought, his war had been won, and it was time for him to rest. If he couldn't rest with those he loved most then he would rest in whatever lies beyond.
Agreed!
But James Bond is not supposed to die (I get that this is pretty good ending for Graigs last movie) but I'm bit confused what the point of killing him was. So in the next movie will they just ignore it and say this is a different James Bond, or make it that he didn't actually die or will another character rather than James Bond take over 007. Which imo would be an absolute crime, these movies are about James Bond who is a person and not about a number.
@@teijaflink2226 Its probably going to be another reboot like Craig's first movie was. The big question is will they make each new actor from here on another reboot, or will they go back to future actors after then next continuing a single character like how it was until Craig?
Bond dying will always be the worst moment ever for me too. Like you said, no Bond fan ever goes into the movie wanting to see our hero, the embodiment of survivability, to die. Especially after getting a wonderful adventure that cleaned up a lot of the mess Spectre left.
I couldn't believe they killed Bond. I yelled out in the theater "YOU DON'T DO THAT!!"
I had to wait through the credits to see if they would say "James Bond will return." Man, that sucked.
I wished they hadn't done that too, as it casts a shadow over whatever they do with the franchise post Craig. However it might enhance the big ending in subsequent films, introducing a real sense of danger that Bond could die here.
Do we think Bond would ever retire, and go filming Grand Designs as he rebuilds Skyfall?
I’m a Bond fan and found Bond’s death a memorable and dramatic way to end Craig’s storyline. Worked for me. I’m of the opinion that since it’s all make believe we can and should expect anything creative. It’s not like it really matters at all.
I loved it. It felt like a logical conclusion for Craigs Bond and wont have any ramifications for the franchise as each actors Bond is unrelated to 1 another.
I actually don't mind the idea of Bond dying. Nor do I find it sacrilege like most do. It's more how it's executed is what I take issue with. I don't really get how Q is like "nanobots are eternal!!!!!!" Really? You give up that easily?
Bambi and Thumper immediately come to mind as one of the dumbest moments in the entire series.
Me too! I agree with you!
Damn yeah i forgot that one. And the elephant playing the slot machine. Such a bad movie
Ah, my favourite two lesbian assassins
Bond getting owned by a Couple of Gymnasts? Ridiculous !
@@docsavage-8616 a couple of _hot_ gymnasts.
I fully get the clown sequence... it's not played for laughs it was a necessary and quick to hand disguise to infiltrate the circus ring... makes perfect sense!
I always thought the clown make up highlighted the wrinkles on Roger Moore’s face, though, and therefore called attention to the fact that Moore was getting too old to stay in the role
There's so many other things wrong with Octopussy, I had no idea the clown scene was so hated. It's not even in my top 30 worst Bond scenes.
The “Prince Charming” theory is even more stupid when you realize that was EXACTLY what happened to him. Cinderella leaves her shoes behind, he meets up with her later, and they get married.
More stupid and more genius at the same time
That's true, but Prince Charming didn't get in a fistfight
And then, she died. They didn't do that in Cinderella.
The thing I hate about invisible car isn't the implausibility - the technical explanation of how it works does make sense in a sort of sci-fi way.
What annoys me is the fact that Bond hides behind it at one point. Given the principle of how it is supposed to work, it would be impossible to hide behind it.
Good point. I never realized it.😮
#7 had me laughing on the floor😂
“Japanese Bond”
It’s like a robot chicken skit🤣
bronson interview had me laughing
Dr Kananga/ Mr Big blowing up and the seemingly never ending boat scene in Thunderball always makes me cringe
The whole "No Time To Die" movie was the worst moment in the Bond franchise, honestly.
Yes it was! The absolute shit-bag of the entire series hands down. I cannot fathom people who defend it, it's incomprehensible to me
I puchase the no time to dies movies dvd , it worst than, A view to kill , james bonds movies "
Nomi as 007; did it serve any purpose? Why don’t we ask the question whether Nomi served any purpose to NTTD? Seriously, what was she doing in the film? As for Bond’s death… NTTD is IMO the most disappointing and slow paced films of the series. Not only did I not care about the film, but I did not care about the characters. I was just happy the film ended
I think it's very front loaded. The Italian scenes were good.
@@thursoberwick1948 I agree, the Cuba scenes were great also. But after that, it went downhill for me.
@@spaceodds1985 Agreed, NTTD disappointed on so many levels, i was actually surprised in retrospect how many things were so terrible. The only good thing about the movie was Ana de Armas and the few scenes she was in, but even Ana de Armas can't save the movie
Sooo... You liked the ending? :D
"what was she doing in the film", well, you can ask the same question for many Bond Girls you know, many of them serve no purposes... except... But you surely know that already.
Totally agree with no 1.
No-one wanted it. In the future it's going to be remembered as a major blunder for the franchise
I loved it.
Oh it already is! Many people in the Bond Fandom have already disowned that film
@@anonymanynomsen6034 So?
I wanted it, and I got it. No more Craig, hurray!
they needed to kill him off. It was the only way they can put whatever woke agenda they want into it. The old bond is gone, and the new one is coming in. I hate to sound a bigot, but when his wake / memorial was attended by a gay Q, black 007, and black Moneypenny, I felt the character died in more ways than one. He died at the hands of a new era, heralded by the most glum and miserable Bond actor of the lot.
No mention of Dr. Kananga in Live And Let Die? Who was forced to Swallow an Air Capsule That Inflated His Body And Forced Him To Explode Like A Loony Toons Cartoon?
Yeah that was one of the worst big climax moments in an otherwise pretty tight movie
@@christophertaylor9100 other than running over alligators in a Pitfall Harry Activision video game escape...
@@kleetus92 Yeah there were other silly moments, for some reason the Broccolis filled Moore's films with bits like that even in his better ones.
There has got to be a Lyrith countdown of her worst moments of the series when she has seen them all! Can't wait for that!
Moonraker - When Jaws falls in love HAS to be on this list. Easily number 1 for me.
Lmao "why does a hollowed-out volcano even have lava?!"
The green screen work in the finale of Thunderball has always bothered me. It looks like the speed boat is doing about 200mkph into the rocks! I bet it even looked bad to 1965 audiences.
I sat through the credits all the way to the end just to make sure we got the all important “JAMES BOND WILL RETURN”. If they had left it out I really would have cried.
this is a great list. I think number 5 was a reaction to all of the car movies in the 70s like Smokey and the Bandit. Also agree 100% on Diamonds are Forever. OHMSS was filmed earlier but has aged so much better and actually looks timeless.
But Smokey and the Bandit came after the Man with the Golden Gun (1974). Maybe this movie was an inspiration to others that came aferwards including TV series (i.e. Dukes of Hazzard).
@@bjpsw1970 yep you’re totally right. All the 70s seems to blur into one big episode of brownness when you get to my age!
It's funny though, I used to really hate Craig when he started as Bond because they went a totally different direction than the Brosnan movies had done. Then Skyfall came about and his movies slowly started to grow on me and I started to respect his performance as Bond just for the many new nuances that he brought to the series. Then he does this stunt, and i am sitting here thinking what was the point of your take on the character then, Craig, if you just wanted to kill him after all this? Why "reboot" the character just to kill him? For me it is completely unforgivable and i can never forgive the bond producers nor Craig for having taken this decision
I was the opposite. Loved Craig in the beginning, then was glad to see the back of him after NTTD.
The same. Casino Royal was a good action intrigue film like many others, e.g. Bourne, but didn't feel like a Bond Film, but Craig slowly won me over as easily competing for best Bond, and almost by association CR became a Bond film in my eyes.
@@davidtrim6093 Agreed! I didn't like CR very much when it came out (it doesn't feel very much like a bond film), but it has since grown on me a lot, and i consider it to be Craig's second best after Skyfall
“What’s the point of your take on the character…”? You are seriously asking that question. Actors always want to do something different with an established character, something that has never been done before. This was the ultimate “never been done before” for Bond. Your question / questioning of Craig is just plain stupid.
Nice list. I knew I'd see TMWTGG slide whistle effect here. I was hoping to see Jaws meeting his girlfriend in "Moonraker" as a horribly cringe moment, lol.
About number 1:
For starters, that was a request by Daniel Craig himself and was decided since Casino Royale.
Craigs era is the only Bond that's a separate timeline/canon, with that in mind i'm happy for it. They didn't "kill" Bond.. they killed Daniel Craig's Bond era, which without Felix, with a daughter, "without" M, without Blofeld, without Blofeld being a "brother" and without Spectre, is literally the best thing that could have happened.
With this we have the opportunity to go back to the original timeline or make a new one, be honest, with all this really unique/bad stuff of Craig's era, do you really think it would be better for him to survive at the end and then we just get a new movie with someone else as Bond together with his daughter and Madeline, with Spectre, Blofeld and Felix gone? Again, i'm very glad Craig is done, a couple good movies but honestly always been the last on my list, especially with the whole continuous story in all his movies.
The "tacky elephant in a circus casino" was a real thing, back then. An elephant named Tanya roamed Circus Circus. She was trained to pull slot machine handles and toss dice with her trunk. It was, perhaps, one of the most honest moments in the picture.
We would have included also the explosion of the tomb in "No Time to Die," but the number one in your list is actually pretty darn fitting. Excellent job!!
Good choices especially.NTTD. Another honorable mention goes to the dreadful scene with Jinx and Bond when they joke about oral sex.
What about Dr. Christmas Jones' entire name being the set up for a cheap joke at the end?
In the book he seems to almost certainly die at the end of From Russia with Love. Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty seemed to have fallen into the Reichenbach Falls, but there is still the uncertainty that the author is able to use later. -But being exploded as in No Time to whatever makes it slightly unlikely there is a comeback.
Totally agree on the Nr. 1. Also for me, I think the choice to kill off Bond is bad writing. Like the first thing writing classes will teach you about killing characters is that a death always has to have an impact on the plot or wrap a story arc up (in a way where death really is the only way for it to end). I don't see how a death scene would conclude Bond's arc, he could have lived and his character would still have made sense.
Apparently, that was Craig's suggestion. One more reason he was never Bond to me.
Totally disagree with no.1. I think it was superbly done, totally heroic, emotional and a great way for that era to end. Not to mention that because when you know what's coming it makes the whole second half of the film poignant, beautiful and all the more powerful!
Nomi is the absolute worst character in the entire Bond series. She beats even JW pepper and Blofeld in drag from DAF. She adds NOTHING of value to neither the movie nor the series other than being shoehorned in just to serve the PC crowd and Woke police. The entire movie would have actually benefited if she had never been present. Luckily, she will become an irrelevant blimp in the bond canon with the passage of times. And i agree with your point number 1! In time NTTD will be viewed as the worst bond movie ever made, i already felt that as soon as i left the cinema
"Now thats a cougar i would drive" lmao even tho OHMSS is literally my favourite movie of all the 007 movies that line would work so well.
we definitely should replace Phoebe Waller-Bitch with Jeroen!
That's not what "cougar" meant in 1969, though.
The term cougar was not a sexual term in 1969. The worst moment OHMSS was the stereotyping of the girls in the Blofeld allergy clinic, especially the African girl eating a banana.
@@kenchristie9214 Ugh 😫😫😫😫 I don't remember that scene, but you're absolutely right.
Undoubtedly killing off Bond is going to be very polarising to many fans for many years to come.
Yet I can forgive it for having the guts to even attempt it.
The DAD paragliding CGI scene is just plain dreadful and embarrassing.
I would also include the cringing knock off Beach Boys tribute song in AVTAK.
And even though I enjoy Octopussy, that entire India middle section needs a good edit to remove too many cringing moments like playing the Bond theme on the musical instrument, Bond zooming in and out with the camera on the pair of breasts, telling a tiger to sit, and of course worse of all the horrid Tarzan yell.
Another top notch video DutchBondFan.
Octopussy is such a mixed bag. The Soviet scenes are epic - Orlov in the Politburo, and being shot on the border, both great. As for the Indian scenes, the saw yo-yos are great too.
To add to your point about Octopussy, the plot involving the faberge eggs is insanely convoluted and doesn't really pay off.
Playing the James Bond theme on the musical instrument when Bond arrives in India ("Catchy tune") really makes my eyes roll.
That is taking breaking the fourth wall too far. As if James Bond has his own theme tune in the real world.
Really should have been the 007 theme or better yet Nobody Does it Better played on the instrument. I could live with that.
@@spencerkindra8822 It’s more of a MacGuffin, to drive the story.
@@ghostviggen I guess but that entire storyline just gets abandoned so quickly.
No time to die is the biggest Bond mistake.
So glad I torrented that Film Online.
The Producers of that Garbage Don't Deserve My Money.
@@docsavage-8616 - same with me. I didn’t want to pay to watch that woke rubbish.
I agree with some of these points, but the fourth-wall break in OHMSS is one of my favorite Bond moments, and the death of James Bond in NTTD is only bad in execution, not in concept. Daniel Craig's take on the character is not an escapist fantasy most of the time, so it's only appropriate that he would prove quite mortal. (I could see the same thing happening to Dalton's Bond, albeit without the silly "genetically-specific nanobot plague" idea.)
I could not agree more with this entire statement!
I liked the comment in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, it was fun.
Really want to run down a rabbit hole? Go look up what the vaccines are doing to people... talk about a nanobot plague... it's like getting a disease, once you get it, you've got it for the rest of your life. Like herpes, it's the gift that keeps on giving.
I was hesitating watching your video because I still feel disenchanted after NTTD. I fully agree with your #1. That was so unnecessary. I think it will be almost impossible to reanimate the franchise after this. There will always be that one movie where Bond dies.
I am honestly baffled when people say 'impossible to reanimate the franchise'...just reboot it as so many franchises have done in the past 20 years [the Batman earlier this year has nothing to do with Nolan's series for example]. They don't have to follow any Craig plots or even the tone, Bond 26 can do it's own thing tailored to the new actor.
And technically Goldeneye was a 'soft reboot' [with virtually a whole new cast] which was 11 years before the hard reboot of Casino. By the time Bond 26 comes out , 20 years will have passed since Casino so the right time for a fresh start.
The entire Die Another Day film should be #1 haha
I always thought the Daniel Craig era was a mixed bag started out super strong with Casino but as they tried to link the following movies together the writing really took a downturn and the ending well it will be interesting to see where they go from there.
Great list. I'll add the space battle in Moonraker. Is really, really bad. And I hated the death of Bond, too.
Cubby's kids are the worst thing to happen to Bond.
:D :D :D
To be fair, I think Michael Wilson has come up with some neat ideas;
but I feel that it's basically Barbara who's calling the shots now. I don't particularly mind the directions she's taken the series -
it's her inability to get a new Bond movie released in anything less than four years which is hurting it,imo.
For me the worst moment is ̶G̶u̶s̶t̶a̶v̶ ̶G̶r̶a̶v̶e̶s̶ Colonel Moon telling his dad that he is really his son on the plane in the robocop suit and speaking Korean. Absolutely hate that unscientific race changing in DAD. It's the coup de grace of that whole over the top far fetched cringe inducing plot. Even worse than the invisibile car or windsuring a tsunami rubbish. Surprise more people shred those two things over it.
The Will Yun Lee performance of that villain was way better imo.
Absolutely agree. They have a North Korea story with a villain of Korean descent who is good and then they give him "gene therapy" and he hecomes this over the top posh English aristocrat. Horrible.
The whole way it's explained in the story ia the worst part of DAD. Embarrassing poison that should not be in a Bond film.
Not only that but the text in the movie very specifically says 14 months have pass between Bond's capture and him getting exchanged for Zhao. That means that Moon got the gene therapy in Cuba, moved to England, struck it rich in the diamond industry, built a massive business empire, built his ice hotel, became a world famous celebrity, and developed and then built the Icarus satellite, all in just over a year. No chance.
I KNOW!!!!!!
It's ludicrous!!!
Absolutely worst thing about the film, more than the surfing scene or the dialogue and so on.
I would like to know if broccoli and Wilson lost control of the film or what went on when they were making it.
My wife and I bawled our eyes out when Bond (Craig) died @ the end of No Time To Die; For her, it was more personal because Daniel's a blood-related cousin to her family while for me, it made me feel empty and not knowing who's going to take up the James Bond character with their next film. 😢♠🎥