GoldenEye (1995). On Golden Bond.

[@TheBeird]

Thing I really like about Goldeneye is that it feels a bit rough around the edges, more hand made with love than slickly produced to tick some boxes. And it accomplishes something very hard for franchise movies; it feels like an entity onto itself attached to a series rather than another product of one

[@alwaysOPEN4business]

I bet you couldn't actually elaborate how "it feels like an entity onto itself attached to a series rather than a product of one." Wtf does that even mean lol

[@problemdude390]

@@alwaysOPEN4business it's not OP's fault you're stupid

[@miikamessi]

@@alwaysOPEN4business yes agreed! :D one could say that about any movie in the series

[@DafyddBrooks]

1:56 "Unless your cauliflower, don't f**ck with Brocoli" hahaha genius, thanks for this Stam Fine :)

[@gregoryberrycone]

always has been my favorite bond film. its hard to explain but everything about it just feels classic to me

[@blackedd623]

Great video as always. Goldeneye is one of the best Bond movies, plausible enough plot devices and very well made. The impact of the N64 game Goldeneye cannot be understated it is a classic game and I think the high watermark for Rare, their own sequel Perfect Dark refined the game mechanics of Goldeneye but was otherwise disappointing I feel.

[@paulbrecken2136]

Thanks Stam Fine. Entertaining, well researched, and funny as always.

[@equusquaggaquagga536]

Rule of thumb: Sean Bean Always dies If Sean Bean is dead at the start then he is actually alive long enough to be killed again

[@spankyharland9845]

he would have made an excellent Terminator.

[@oliverholmes-gunning5372]

It literally got to the point where he now refuses to take on a role where he dies, in order to try and counteract the typecasting

[@inkermoy]

"If you're not cauliflower, don't fuck with Broccoli!" LOL! Yup, Goldeneye was Brosnan's best. Also a great theme song and IMO the sexiest Bond opening. A criticism though, if Bond's enemy was a former friend and colleague in 006, the last thing he should be doing is putting him into deathtraps then walking away. He'd know Bond's tricks and exploits.

[@ShamrockParticle]

Brosnan did a ton with often-mixed bag scripts... totally agreed with your comments. It's possible the "walk away like a Batman villain trope" was used since he was a double agent, but it's not likely. Also, when a new Bond is introduced, it can really set the stage. In this movie, it's is him popping down in a lavatory. His era was never better than Goldeneye, but props to Brosnan for the moments that go above and beyond the sub-Moore camp.

[@krauterz]

one of my favorites. i idolized this bond when i was a kid. from another Aussie thanks again Stam Fine for another great video with great production quality. I can see this channel taking off soon.

[@oliverholmes-gunning5372]

"A fan standing between Sean Connery and Roger Moore and trying to get an autograph from both at the same time without letting either know which is his favourite" is literally the best description of Brosnan's tenure as Bond I've ever heard.

[@AnthonyP73]

This'll be my favourite Bond film, just ahead of Goldfinger

[@vladpiranha]

Even in the 90s, there was something about Goldeneye that felt older and I've never been able to put my finger on exactly what that is. Maybe it was the grainy film stock or immediately dated score, but Tomorrow Never Dies felt really clean and slick by comparison only two years later and that's where I feel the 'modern' Bond films started.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

Serra's score, the heavy use of model work, many of the sets are drab computer rooms, it looks really dated today. Goldeneye's plot was pretty much a hangover from the vintage era of Bond. Tomorrow Never Dies went into a new territory of info tech, the then new world 24 hour news network and it's still relevant given the concern over fake news

[@youbandis]

I believe there is a story floating around somewhere on the choice of film stock used for Golden Eye wich made it a bit grainy, and many of the releases on DVD and even BluRay has had negative points for using heavy methods of sharpening and cleaning up the picture. I do believe they have made a real restauration on the most recent 4K versions though. But I dont want to make the impression I have it totally correct but I think you could google the answers you seek with this in mind.

[@Dohsoda]

The use of older sound effects (gun shots and explosions) are very present in the movie as well. But for all its visual and audio quirks, I think it adds to its charm.

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

@@ricardocantoral7672 okay cool story, Mister Movie Director. Just lemme get my Cousin who is a Movie Director himself

[@strikerbowls791]

Tomorrow Never Dies is a masterpiece

[@simongvs]

I'm pleased you mentioned Derek Meddings as I've been a fan of his work ever since he designed the model effects on the Sylvia & Gerry Anderson productions.

[@CaminoAir]

(I'm Irish btw). I think Brosnan still suffers from the usual first Bond film issues. It feels like the weight of the role is on his shoulders and he's searching for a way to make the part his own, but doesn't find it until his second. I thought from 'Tomorrow Never Dies' he was the first actor since Connery to be able to play both the serious and fun sides of the character. However, the scripts never gave him enough to work with and Brosnan himself said that he couldn't quite 'nail' the character.

[@RighteousBrother]

I think that's a good take. I read somewhere that Brosnan was the Tony Blair of Bond's trying to be all things to all people, which I tend to agree with. He could have been the best, if he'd had better material to work with. I do love Tomorrow Never Dies though!

[@ricardocantoral7672]

I agree. He was clearly intimidated by the role.

[@LacTheWatcher]

It's funny, I recently watched the Brosnan movies and he progressively gets better in the role even as the movies slowly decline (untill they fall off a cliff)

[@philfitnesspt6139]

Er except Roger Moore had already done this yes he had comedy but he also played serious side brilliantly quite a few cold kills by Moore annoys me people just think his were all comedy. Brosnan to me was just copy of Moore's prob equal amount of puns etc

[@alfredvalrie5541]

I think TND is his best film tbh, but GE gets all the accolades only bc it’s script is near-perfect.

[@fletcherhamilton3177]

I wouldn’t mind, after the Daniel Craig era, that any new Bond was a period-specific series set in the years 1950 ~ 1965 . . .

[@Dohsoda]

Brosnan is like a good combination of Connery and Moore, but shows more a bit more emotional humanity in the role. I do feel his performance for Bond got better every subsequent movie despite how scripts may have been mixed results. I still have a fond nostalgia for this era.

[@jambler15]

The second half of Die Another Day + Casino Royale = Really damaged Brosnans legacy.

[@l.a.gothro3999]

And now Mr. Brosnan is Doctor Fate; I think he's done pretty well for himself. And didn't Timothy Dalton end up getting impaled on a small steeple or something in "Hot Fuzz"?

[@mahatmarandy5977]

The thing I really liked about this one was that the Bond Girl gets a *lot* of development, a lot of scenes to herself, and just basically felt like a co-star instead of a typical bond girl. I'd hoped they'd do more of that in the future, but, eh. I also liked Boris as a 3rd string bad guy. Or a spare sidekick. Or a side-sidekick?

[@hgwells1899]

Remington Bond was not my cup of Earl Grey. I still rented the movies from Blockbuster, but no late return fees. You Only Watch Once

[@KarlSmith1]

Yep, he was always Remington Steele to me, when these movies were being made. It was distracting, in a way that Simon Templar and Brett Sinclair were not.

[@shinkicker404]

Loved Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies, they were my favourite of Brosnans Bond films.

[@oliverholmes-gunning5372]

TND is hugely underrated. I rewatched it recently and it really has all the elements of a classic Bond movie, I can't understand why it flies so low under the radar

[@alwaysOPEN4business]

I love both those films too, but that's not saying much considering how bad his last two films were.

[@Sometimes_I_YT]

Another slam dunk Stam. Goldeneye was, like many others, the Bond film I grew up with and was introduced to 007. Great job!

[@simoncolenutt5228]

MI5 had a female head in real life, not MI6

[@Terry.W]

Brosnan is a great Bond ... Goldeneye ..The Spy Who Loved Me and Goldfinger are my favourites..

[@johnashley327]

Moore is my favorite Bond but this is top 10 Bond movie.

[@bigginsd1]

So Roger Moore was the first choice of Ian Fleming when Sean Connery was cast. Then Pierce Brosnan was the first choice when Timothy Dalton was cast. This bodes well for our first Kiwi Bond when they circle back and cast Sam Neill for the next one. Now that would be choice!

[@leethomas2155]

Worst Bond IMO and they called Lazenby 'wooden'... plus the only truly decent film in his era was this one 'Goldeneye'

[@torferguson3866]

Brosnans second bond film was superb, not to be confused with Die Another Day!

[@jambler15]

Brosnans full post-GoldenEye run tends to get lumped in with the second half of Die Another. Underappreciated era.

[@andrewmurray1550]

that "what do you sit on but can't take with you" (a chair) doesn't hold up since you CAN take chairs with you such as camping chairs or stools.

[@jammin023]

14:42 You should know better than to list Auntie Beryl's character flaws to her face...

[@neesi1570]

Am I the only one who's not that crazy about Goldeneye? It's watchable, but it comes off as a warmup lap instead a full-bore Bond film. Natalia is dull, Xenia feels more like a Looney Tunes character than a real villain, Alex is...fine, and the whole notion of Bond as a relic faced with a new world is undercut by how Pierce Brosnan looks like a teenager in some shots. Timothy Dalton could've hit World Weary Bond After the Cold War out of the park, but Pierce wasn't quite there yet. However, since this (along with the game) is how '90s kids first discovered the character, it's now an unimpeachable classic. Sort of funny watching OK Boomer types insist that *their* nostalgia is all well and good, thank you very much...

[@ricardocantoral7672]

You're definitely not the only one. This film feels like a pastiche that appropriated from older, better Bond movies. I honestly think Tomorrow Never Dies is superior because of the then hot topic of 24 hour cable networks and it's still relevant today.

[@bonghunezhou5051]

@@ricardocantoral7672 24-hour basic cable news channels + misinformation/"fake news"~ If TND were made after the ascendancy of social media it would have been presented as a more sober - less farcical - story, in all likelihood.

[@bonghunezhou5051]

Judging by musical score (alone), GE is the weakest among the Brosnan Quartet - by a landslide. On the whole, I think this is a solid second (to TWINE), though by virtue of having been the very first film after the end of the Soviet Union era, breaks news ground, like directly addressing the question of relevance and so forth.

[@jambler15]

Agree. I like GoldenEye but not sure why its weak points are generally overlooked (while Tomorrow Never Dies has struggled to get fans).

[@tylerhartwell2810]

Didn’t know that was Minnie Driver, today I learned.

[@soremuss]

This movie is very similar to that N64 game... Super Mario.

[@ronankan007]

great but who were the other more preferred choices for 007 you mentioned - I never heard of anyone except Brosnan as being the actor for Goldeneye ?

[@MattMcIrvin]

The success of Goldeneye N64 is more impressive when you consider that it's rare for a video game that is a movie tie-in to even be good, let alone great.

[@Maddie-zv3gv77]

The best Pierce Brosnan James Bond 007 Movie.

[@Nato2303]

GoldenEye is Gold Bond. Don't. You know what i mean,

[@strikerbowls791]

Overrated. The Brosnan era really began with Tomorrow never dies

[@leonshackleford9585]

Goldeneye I like that wasn’t that good bad

[@CDubya.82]

Brosnan is Bond. Goldeneye is my fav 007 film. A product of my time that introduced me to my Bond fandom.

[@oliverholmes-gunning5372]

Definitely the most underrated Bond of all time, and my second favourite after Connery. For me my introduction to the franchise was The World Is Not Enough (objectively not one of the better entries, but goddammit if I don't have a deep personal nostalgia for it).

[@jambler15]

​@@oliverholmes-gunning5372 No, World is Not Enough is definitely better than its given credit for. Everyone rags on Denise Richards, but the film is actually a point-by-point warmup for all the best aspects of the Craig era (same writers). Ironic.

[@adamschaeffer3614]

Picture this: Its 1995, you're 14yo and staying over at you friends house. He's just got Goldeneye on N64 and had pizzas delivered. The soda is flowing, and you've just discovered the joy that is multiplayer in the Archives with proximity mines. Life is good.

[@goodwood-rc4nx]

should watch edge of darkness is excellent

[@creepyname]

Dont forget that giant satellite dish collapsed last year too.

[@EZEMEAT2000]

This was great stuff!

[@darcyj19]

Not entirely sold that this is the best film of the Brosnan Era - The World is Not Enough is surely a competitor for that title? (And has a better title song).

[@shawnvines2514]

Perfect coverage! Adam Sessler would have given it a 5 out of 5!

[@listerofsmeg884]

Probably the best of the Brosnan movies. Fairly realistic plot with intriguing villain. Great stunts and Brosnan really looked the part. Music was a bit odd though. Worked well for the eerie Soviet icon graveyard, but the romantic theme was totally out of place for the banter between Bond and Xenia .and the song over the closing credits was appalling. Main title is still a classic though

[@faktablad]

This is it. This is the best one.

[@davecrowson448]

Goldeneye was a really good Bond movie. And now that I think about it, I realize it was the last one I saw in the theater.

[@brianbauman938]

Good use of game reference

[@iLikeTheUDK]

Rest in peace Tina Turner

[@andrewblanchard2398]

the N64 game was great

[@ThomCurley]

Best Brosnan movie.

[@ZeusAmun-pt9dc]

That game is so good

[@rinpertin2076]

Goldeneye Was a Perfect Comeback Film for 007....And God BROSNAN solidified his Role as 007...But I Just Feel So Bad for him As He had The Potential/Good Looks/Charm and Humor & yet Didn't Recieve Darker And Better scripts after Goldeneye and Later In 2004 was kicked out of the Role....BUT He will always Be The Bond of my Choice..as a Kid Whenever I heard the Name JAMES BOND; Brosnan's image Sparked in my Mind....Thanks for This Well Researched Piece of Video💥

[@marianotorrespico2975]

TOO KIND to the VILLAINS. | Your diplomatic treading of the EON film producers' greed is genial. Logically, they spoiled Brosnan's tenure as James Bond, with progressively weak scripts about agent 007.

[@livingthedream0527]

THE MAMA MIA CINEMATIC UNIVERSE Ths scarier part about that is that it sounds like something some exec would mess with.

[@nicholashqar1654]

Best 007 of 90s

[@omegaaverenger112]

Ah, the most popular Brosnan film. Funnily, my favourite is Die Another Day. My personal list of Brosnan films goes DAD > The World is Not Enough > Tomorrow Never Dies > GoldenEye. I’m sure no one would be as boring as to call me contrarian. After all, no one’s willing to say they love Die Another Day unless they mean it.

[@kelvinp.coleman563]

Would you care to attempt to justify your position?

[@omegaaverenger112]

@@kelvinp.coleman563 I just love, love laugh-out fun. Die Another Day feels to me like a production crew drunk on their past successes, trying out their craziest ideas. Pierce Brosnan is utterly comfortable as a bit of a horny dad at this point, and Rosamund Pike hams it up to no end. Basically A View to a Kill, except actually great. The third and second Brosnan films are this to a consecutively lesser extent, and GoldenEye is just … there.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

Tomorrow Never Dies is waaaay better Die Another Day and The World is Not Enough.

[@Hague9975]

I love this film, definitely one of my favourite Bond films, with one of my favourite Bond's (it's a tie between Connery, Moore and Brosnan). I miss the days when Bond films were well written and fun.

[@pr-tj5by]

I totally agree, I've got Brosnan Moore Connery in that order but it's very close, I never saw Dalton and Craig as Bond

[@jeffnettleton3858]

Brosnan's only really good one. The scripts still suffered from writing by committee; but this one worked.

[@yesspazsmith9895]

Golden Eye is great (I refuse to put them together), but it's NOT the best Brosnan film. Tomorrow Never Dies is superior in every way.

[@bpe-music]

8:44 "Impressive, but can it run Crysis?" legitimately surprised me, and has had me laughing since!

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

Its funny I never seen the movies. Atleast not old enough to remember. But can remember tons of clips. Yet I know I loved the PS 1 gsmes. Which had tons of scenes. Thede old games were great

[@jamminjohn]

This would slowly be the beginning of the end for me and Bond films. Brosnan was fine but the movie scripts were less memorable as they went along. Hence by the time Craig took I had lost interest.

[@redringofdeathgamer]

Comment.

[@AdamAus85]

Heh, Eric Serra, never realised that part of this film. If you watch La Femme Nikita you'll be able to tell he did that film too.

[@pr-tj5by]

Best Bond Ever IMO Brosnan Moore Connery Dalton Craig/Lazenby

[@purefoldnz3070]

good timing with the re-release of Goldeneye the game very soon

[@wfoisy91]

6-year old me in 1997 used to call him "Seen Bean" as well. Feels good to be vindicated after 25 years.

[@DenkyManner]

Watched it again today inspired by this video. It's kind of shit. Bad dialogue, poor character motivations. Very good cast and decent action but overall not a good film.

[@organicketchup5171]

I’ve always liked Brosnan and thoroughly enjoy the 4 Bond movies he’s in.

[@CandyGirl44]

I don't think Brosnan can act for toffee, despite his charm and good looks. Yet Goldeneye is one of my favourite Bond films lol!

[@ravivaishster]

Sean Bean was once considered for the role of Bond - I think that he might have been a better choice, projecting a sexier hard edge and being a more accomplished actor than Brosnan, on the evidence of his subsequent performances.

[@Los90stv]

👍

[@joshgrumiaux6820]

These Brosnan 007 reviews have been a long time coming. Like that time I tried a ginsing and viagra milkshake before seeing my girlfriend after my 8 months incarceration.

[@thebaccathatchews]

The Bond of Theseus: If you change everything about Bond, is it still Bond?

[@83Roboto]

I have always enjoyed this Bond film like the others. On a side note the question is where are the Bond films headed now since the last film killed off the main character of the films.

[@jjrbarnett]

Wish I enjoyed it more. The series never was as much fun after Dalton.

[@fredrikcarlstedt393]

Bean is the Judas of Bond villains, while Brosnan is the Tankman of Bonds .

[@Hawkeye26]

Brosnan proves to be a superior Bond compared to Dalton and Goldeneye is a masterpiece worthy of the record selling video game adaptation. It really is the best of the Brosnan era, but if Die Another Day had a better ending or a better actress playing the main Bond Girl, it would've been a good contender for that spot.

[@Hawkeye26]

Are we sure that Xenia gets off on killing rather than merely violence or inflicting pain?

[@StruStru2k]

Always love it when Leavesden Studio gets a shout out!

[@A1ml33y]

Sean Bean was the Danny Trejo of movies Dies always in everything film

[@PeterParker-ff7ub]

Don't eff with broccoli if youre cauliflor either.

[@MegaStara]

You did good, a really good job and I like it a lot - Thank You!

[@shakthidhasan4544]

Kitesurfing a tsunami.....hilarious.

[@AshtonArcher]

Spot on. The word to sum this film up is fun.

[@damienkakoschke3099]

I agree, Brosnan manages to be the best of Connery & Moore.

[@seanhunt138]

Golden fry isn't that a brand of gravy

[@Alkeeros]

As someone who hasn't seen a James Bond movie, Goldeneye is definitely the title that comes to mind when I think of the movies (and maybe the Daniel Craig ones that came out when I was old enough to know who Bond is. I count that as recency bias) That theme really is iconic

[@andrewmurray1550]

essential bond is the Connery years

[@fmsyntheses]

Your channel is the best use of dad jokes of all time

[@akshaytrayner1960]

Great review

[@jondellar]

Five. Stella Rimington was head of MI5 not SIS.

[@StamFine]

yes. you are correct. first of two women to head that organisation while none have yet been head of SIS. Or Ci5.

[@sonder420]

Starts by jumping off a damn to enter a bathroom. Comes out on a mountain top somewhere else.

[@KarlSmith1]

Yes. At the start of the scene the nerve gas factory is at the bottom of the mountain, at the end of the scene it is on top of the mountain. Surely one of the worst writing errors in the history of cinema.

[@iLikeTheUDK]

If only David Arnold scored this one. Some electronics are fine, especially if you in what you're doing, but this one sounds ridiculous, extremely 90s in a bad way

[@dreadelectric7745]

Auntie Beryl again 😂

[@mahatmarandy5977]

I do wonder if Brosnan had gotten the role in 86, would this movie still have been as good? Probably not. Probably he would have been kicked to the curb in the studio politics. of course the two dalton films wouldn't have been helped by his presence.

[@bonghunezhou5051]

Brosnan would have waited (unlike Tim D). Indeed, he might even have acceded to the demand by "Cubby" that he make three _additional_ films (#15, #16, #17/GE, #18, #19), IMHO.

[@mahatmarandy5977]

@@bonghunezhou5051 Perhaps. I think the most likely positive "What if" scenario would have been that he would have made the two Dalton films (One of which was the one he was supposed to make anyway) and the four he actually made and one in the middle there during the hiatus. But I don't think the Dalton films would have been much more popular with him As Bond, they weren't particularly well written (meaning no offense to anyone who likes them) and it's entirely possible that he would have simply been fired while the series was being retooled for someone else. All just daydreaming, of course.

[@PeterParker-ff7ub]

he doesnt have big hair

[@jamesbond99]

can lightning strike three times i wonder :) PS take a guess at what this means

[@StamFine]

Martin Campbell directing again? Either that or when I play golf during a storm.

[@dogdrovenorth]

Eric Serra? Huh!

[@SJKPJR007]

Quality content as ever from Stam Fine. In my opinion, Mr Brosnan dealt with the light and the shade of the Bond cinematic character with equal aplomb. Although subsequent movies weren't quite as good. It was enough, for me, just to watch him being Bond. I still have flashbacks from Mamma Mia however. Where's my martini?