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
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
"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.
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
(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.
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!
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)
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
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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).
@@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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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💥
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"?
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
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.
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).
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!
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.
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?
I think Tomorrow Never Dies is actually my favourite Bond film from this era, but this one definitely makes it close. Think I've mentioned before that over the past year I've finally got the chance to catch up with almost all the films, and Goldeneye certainly stands out as one of the best.
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 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.
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
Ah Goldeneye. As a sad teenage Bond fan, starved of Bond for 7 years, I went ro the cinema to watch this 007 times (I did say sad) and could recitemost of the pre-credit sequence word for word by the last time (sad, remember?). Sadly, I now place Brosnan at the bottom of the list, and find 50% of his product placements....sorry 'films', a struggle - this and Tomorrow Never Dies still make the cut. Thanks for another great video.
@@TheToonMonkey at least he looked like he wanted to be on screen. Craig looked like he wanted to slit his wrists in every scene. In his last movie he just seemed to be relieved it was all over. Brosnan was brilliant he had the right balance of Connery and Moore he was just stuck was some bad scripts. He deserved another film after the disaster that was Die Another Day, which was though a terrible film but still better than the shite of Specter and (Plenty of)Time To Die.
@@purefoldnz3070 In the future, deep fake technology will allow us to superimpose the faces and voices of our favourite actors on any existing film. Quantum of Solace, with Dalton, Brosnan or Moore replacing Craig, will be recognised as a brilliant movie. No amount of CGI will save the other Craig films, they will always remain unwatchable tripe. (Perhaps people will deep fake Craig into Die Another Day, just to emphasize how bad it is, and it will take a place among the pantheon of "so bad they're funny" cult classics.)
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.
Pierce made a great Bond, sort of a combination of Sean Connery and a small bit of Roger Moore.... I liked all the series he was in....especially the one where he is windsurfing on the wave.
LALD remains my favourite Bond flick but damn; Goldeneye sure nibbles its ass for the top spot. And Dalton remains so underrated for his efforts - he's excellent.
Goldeneye is my favorite Bond movie, the perfect balance of action, grit, and fun. Plus Bronson is perfect in the role, my second favorite Bond behind Conroy
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.
Cheers Stam. A grand way to start the day, with a Goldeneye rib tickler. This film was great fun and promised so much more to come from Brosnan. More came from Brosnan. Less came to see Brosnan.
@@tomsenior7405 I thought it had a better villain, Carver, Brosnan looked and acted a lot better than he did in Goldeneye, and there is an element of satire regarding corporate media. The downsides would be the weak henchmen and too much of Michael Bay influence.
GoldenEye is the best Bond film ever made, just beside a classic like Goldfinger, and Pierce Brosnan is the best Bond ever, he managed to balance every aspect that 007 should have.
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...
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
In my opinion Goldeneye could and should have been the perfect conclusion to the Dalton films. It revisits the Cold War themes of The Living Daylights and the comrade at arms theme of Licence to Kill. This time, however, the Cold War is “over” and the injured friend is not what he seems. I miss Tim Dalton very much in this film. I enjoy Brosnan in other films but he is a contender for my least favorite Bond because he never really makes the character his own. These days I like him a bit more because he wasn’t integral to literally killing off the character as a salve to his ego.
I agree with you about Dalton and this script, but this was not the proposed story for Dalton's third appearance. And I assume John Glen and the usual production team would have been involved in Dalton's final contracted film. So I don't believe we would have seen this story with Dalton with the actual 'Goldeneye' production team. I also believe that once 'Goldeneye' was such a great financial success, the producers decided to play it safe and so Brosnan was never given a script that would have allowed him to really define himself properly as Bond. So.....that 6 year gap due to legal disputes effectively undermined two different Bond actors.
I think so too - Dalton should have had his trilogy 🙃 but again when money is involved with studios who cares about the themes of the movies especially for someone like James Bond. I love Pierce he’s a great actor. Although his last Bond film was so over the top lol but I still like it: I can’t wait to see how he handles Dr Fate in Black Adam movie.
@@CaminoAir Dalton was adamant about not working with Glen again after Licence to Kill. They had a falling out about something. The scripts I’ve seen for the unmade third Dalton venture didn’t impress me much. Some plot points were recycled in Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is Not Enough. I don’t know the chronology of the Goldeneye script but some parts seem to me to have been drafted with Dalton in mind. I think he made a mistake in not coming back, especially if this was the script. You are right about both Bonds being a bit scuttled by history, but Dalton is not the type to “play it safe”.
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.
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.
