GoldenEye | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Review | Movie Commentary 

Simone being impressed by the bungee jump is actually the correct reaction as that stunt was literally a world record when it was done.

Fun fact, I'm from the same town as Pierce Brosnan and he went to school with my dad. He comes back every so often to visit cousins and the like. He was back one Christmas and on Christmas Eve I seen him in a pub with some cousins, as he walked by I said "Buy me a pint" in reference to Goldeneye and he laughed and bought a round for the whole pub. Super nice genuine down to earth guy

RIP Arecibo Observatory, where the ending of the film was shot. It fell apart from neglect a few years ago.

A funny trope is that Sean Bean dies in every movie to make up for how many times he survived as Richard Sharpe.

*Guy getting squeezed to death by Xenia* "Oh, he's Canadian!" lol.

"This is where Simone confuses me." George, that should be the channel's tag line.

I think you'll find that the majority of the Bond films before Daniel Craig's tenure were like this, with signature one-liners, humor, gadgetry, and a lighthearted adventure-type feel. You should just start at the beginning and see them all. They're all worth it.

The subsequent film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) was Michelle Yeoh's big screen debut in the west as well as composer David Arnold's (Stargate & Independence Day) entry in the franchise. Please check it out.

Fun Fact: So far, there has always been at least one supporting cast member maintained between Bonds. Connery, Lazenby and Moore shared M, Moneypenny and Q. Moore and Dalton shared M and Q. Dalton and Brosnan shared Q. Brosnan and Craig shared M.

Tank chase is one the best moments in entire Franchise. Over the top, practical amazingness with Bond theme on background.

Fun fact: the actor playing Q very obviously was reading cue cards off screen while he was showing off all the cool gadgets, something of a running joke

One thing to keep in mind about the Russian portrayal (piles of statues, etc.) is that this was the first Bond movie released after the end of the Cold War. At the time, some people wondered if the franchise could even work without a Cold War paradigm.

"But we want it to be a sexy sledgehammer"...Peter Gabriel?

Not only is it a thing that Sean Bean dies, but this particular death is actually considered a signature Sean Bean death

"Such a young little Bean!" Yes, he's a real Beanie Baby! I'll see myself out. 🙃

I got my N64 and Goldeneye package the same year I watched this film in the 90s. Absolute peak cheesy childhood nostalgia!

**stealth is optional for this mission** James Bond: “Oh look! A tank!”

The bit where Boris kept clicking the pen and repeatedly arming and disarming it is phenomenal. Oh, and I still remember the big laugh in the cinema at Q's line "Don't touch that! That's my lunch!"

OnaTOPP trivia: The director said working with real Marines was great, they turn up with all their own wardrobe and make up, they do exactly what you tell them to do, exactly when you say it. Apparently when filming that final scene the Marines were lying down hidden and there was a break for lunch. The director told the Marines’ commanding officer that they were welcome to come have lunch with the cast and crew. To which he replied “no they are fine where they are”. So they just lay there in silence, in the baking sunshine (shot in Puerto Rico), whilst everyone else had lunch.

"I'm an exceptional thief, mr Bond! And considering I'm moving into kidnapping you should be more polite"

Onatopp had gloves on when she checked the coffee.

Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, Boromir and Hagrid - the Avengers team up you didn't know you needed

The director of this Bond, Martin Campbell, also did Casino Royale. Two of the best movies of the whole franchise, and two times he "righted the ship" after it floundered with some pretty hacky stuff.

If George didn't like how gritty and serious CASINO ROYALE felt, I have a feeling he's really not gonna like the entire rest of the Daniel Craig era.

I AM INVINCIBLE!!!!

My favorite Bond girl is Honor Blackman, who played the part of Pussy Galore in 1964s Goldfinger. One of the greatest Bond films of all time.

Yes Sean Bean does die a lot however I believe this is because he played the unkillable soldier known as Sharpe for so long that he had to balance it out

"Every woman is sexy, every guy looks drunk" that's not a stereotype, that's true at least 90% of the time in Russia

Does anybody remember playing GoldenEye 007 on Nintendo 64? Also, GoldeneEye still is one of the best James Bond movies and the tank chase is just epic.

18:18 Simone, actually the James Bond car is whichever car company had the highest bid. In years past in was Aston Martin. ✌️😸

By far the best of the Brosnan 007 films. Also, I love the homage to DIE HARD when James calls out Alex for unleashing all this death and violence and in the end he's just a 'common thief' like Holly to Hans Gruber.😂

By far my favourite line hahahaha: "Use the bumper, that's what it's for!"

Goldeneye was the name of the Jamaican estate of Ian Fleming whose cousin was Christopher Lee, and so far all Bonds served under one Queen

Fun fact (another one): Xenia's signature leg squeeze that she uses to kill is based on an exercise fighter pilots use to squeeze blood from their legs back to their brain during high intensity maneuvers

Thanks to Rob Paulsen (the voice of Pinky in Animaniacs) at a Comic-Con, I always think of this with these films: "Are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "I think so Brain, but why would anybody want to Pierce Brosnan?" To which the obvious answer is: "Who wouldn't?"

I honestly find all the Pierce Brosnan ones to be pretty underrated. As someone who grew up playing Goldeneye with family and friends, this movie hits such a nostalgic feel and is so cool to watch. The World is Not Enough is pretty great too.

there is the Sean Connery theory of ageing where as men age they get more distinguished, like Sean Connery, where as when women age they look like Sean Connery.

"for me, it was Tuesday" - M.Bison Edit: the actor that played borris also played Night crawler in X-Men 2 😆

James Bond is the characters actual name. There's a few hints throughout the series, such as his wife's gravestone says "Tracy Bond" in For Your Eyes Only, and I think the Craig movies reference it being his family name. Also the Connery movies make a point that he was a Naval Commander Bond before joining the Secret Service. in terms of ACTUAL spy stuff...he's terrible at it because in the movies where he uses an alias, he always gets found out, or he just tells people his name...so the bad guys know who he is. It seems almost like he's trying to get captured so the villain can reveal their evil plan....

Famke Janssen's character is my Favorite Female "James Bond" villain.

One does not simply survive being crushed by falling debris

I think this is the first movie with Judy as M.

Brosnan does this weird thing when he is in Bond mode and once you see it you’ll always spot it. Whenever he opens a door he stands silhouetted in the door before going in.

"Someone actually did this" is like the slogan of the James Bond stunt department since 1964.

That movie was a huge boost for Famke Janssen's career and helped her get the role of Jean Grey, where she re-united with Patrick Stewart (her first acting job ever was a guest role on Star Trek: The Next Generation). For added hilarity, watch her appearance on Conan O'Brien from that time, where she demonstrats on Conan how she crushes a man's ripcage with her thighs.

15:18: "I think it's every time she kills someone she moans." "Oh... yeah.... yikes." ROLF, the 'yikes' and Simone's delivery of it killed me.

GoldenEye was the first Bond film I was able to go watch in theaters, and I kept that chain running until I no longer cared to watch the last Craig film.

Bernard Lee, who played the original M, was in it for the first 11 movies. No one to date has done as many in the role. Desmond Llwellyn holds the record at 17 Bond films in the role of "Q" or Quatermaster Major Boothroyd.

Ha! George's sneering about the bungee jumping backfired! Lol

If memory serves, this movie was right after the cold war essentially ended, and it caused Russia to get very upset seeing imitations of their landmarks and such destroyed by the tank scene.

Fun fact: GoldenEye and Casino Royale both had the same director, Martin Campbell.

The BMW is a product placement, BMW paid $3 million for the placement - but then made $240 million in advance sales alone.

I was 17 when this came out. When I heard Pierce Brosnan was going to be Bond, my first thought was "Remington Steele is going to be 007? SWEET!" He made a great Bond. I give props to Sean Connery for being the OG James Bond, but the acting, fight scenes, and plots to most of his movies are pretty corny. The Dr. Evil type bad guy kinda died with Roger Moore's Bond in the 80s. The Timothy Dalton Bond movies of the late 80s brough the action and plots back toward reality and "License to Kill" is one of the best Bond movies ever, IMO. I highly recommend it. The feel of those movies was carried over when Pierce Brosnan became 007.

*jaw hits the floor* You're doing Goldeneye! I was 10 when I saw it with my parents in the theatre, was already a huge Bond fan and the movie blew me away. With the Nintendo game following years later, I can say that this movie dominated my childhood between age 10-16..... I'm going to subscribe (again) on Patreon immediately even if it is only for just this movie. Best surprise of 2024 so far, thank you so much and keep it up, love the channel.

"Did he die happy?" He came and then he went... 😅

The Aston Martin was the car he drove in the start. If you read the books he starts with a Bentley, only shown in From Russia with Love. He first gets the Aston Martin in Goldfinger.

Pierce era, have the best bondgirls or femme fatalle. Natalya, Wai Li, Elekta, Xenia and Miranda were amazing... Paris and Christmas not so much... a fun fact, the scene between Xenia and James in the sauna, was so intense that Famke got one of the rib broken...

The Goldeneye theme song is sung by the legendary *TINA TURNER* ✌

24:19 "Please tell me they're getting a tank" They're getting a tank.

Crazy thing is, that ball smashing scene in the chair from Casino Royale was actually in the book, so that is OG James Bond. There are a few reasons why the Daniel Craig bonds took a much darker and serious tone. You’ll understand one of them if you watch all of the Brosnan films. The absurdity and lack of realism was never what Bond was supposed to be. Also, surprisingly enough, Austin Powers’ success was another reason why the reboot of Bond with Craig was more serious. The production company realized how nuts things had become, and how not far off the Austin Powers movies actually were. Lastly, the success of the Jason Borne movies also steered Craig Bond in a darker direction.

Was really hoping Simone would start with "slappers only" or "no Oddjob".

2 things. That was actually the first Bond movie where they switched to BMW..you cannot imagine the shockwaves that did and second M is played by Judie Dench..the greatest living Shakespeare actress.which in itself is nuts

The Defense Minister killed by Ouromov also played the French officer in "The Patriot" "If I die, I will die well dressed."

James Bond is basically his real name, but he is also the last of his family. No attachments - as with all 00-Agents (the 00 also stands for 2 successful MI6-contracted kills required to get the license to kill - which gives permission to sanctioned kills as deemed necessary by the agent). Regarding Xenia tasting the coffee: She wore gloves and coffee spilled on the cold floor will get cold almost immediately. For it to be warm the cup must have fallen mere seconds ago

I thought the whole point of Simone's intros was to confuse George, she does an excellent job 😆

The Marines just sitting there was funny part of the movie

It's funny, because back in the day people were dying for Brosnan to play Bond. People knew him from the popular 1980's TV show, "Remington Steele".

Fun fact: During the tank chase scene, they actually were tokyo drifting that tank. They covered the roads in dish soap and the old Soviet tanks have primarily metal treads (instead of rubber like US tanks) so they just went "fuck it, we ball" and pitched that thing around the corners.

One of the best title songs of the Bond series with Tina Turner singing, always love it. By the way, there is an impressive video of when the observatory got destroyed by collapse in real life that you should really watch!

18:30 The James Bond car is provided by whoever is prepared to pay for the product placement and in this era that's BMW, The DB5 is a continuity nod to establish that the new guy is Bond

Man, that GoldenEye game was great as a kid and was responsible for the creation of one of the greatest videos ever, the 1:12 baby! If you know, you're a legend.

I just realized, Boris looks like Harry Potter could have looked like. Even the broken glasses. From a cinematic point the "taste if the coffee is still hot" is genius. It moves the attention from the coffee to the lips of Famke Janssen and gives this scene a sensual, almost sexual, level. And Famke's character is all about that.

Yes, Minnie Driver can sing. She portrayed Carlotta in "The Phantom of the Opera" (2004). And while most of her singing was admittedly dubbed--she wasn't exactly trained for opera, and opera is very hard to fake--the end title theme, "Learn To Be Lonely," is all hers.

As a Gen Xer who grew up with Roger Moore Bond, which was nearly a Saturday morning cartoon, the reboot of Bond into the Craig era was VERY welcome. That said, Brosnan was born for this role, he just didn't get any really good scripts, and by the time the Halle Berry one, the Bond movies were like 85% product placement.

George and Simone - the Russian guy called Valentin Zukovsky who said to Bond "My knee aches every single day, twice as bad when it is cold. Have you any idea how long the winter lasts in this country?" was played by Hagrid actor Robbie Coltrane

Goldeneye is universally rated as one of the best Bond films.

Favourite Bond girl? So very many... Carole Bouquet, Teri Hatcher, Jane Seymour, Eva Green, Talisa Soto, Famke Janssen. But the only real answer is Diana Rigg.

As a borderline Millennial/Gen Zer I never got to play the GoldenEye 64 game, so for me the best James Bond game hands down is and will always be, Everything or Nothing. Still holds up to this day and how can you not love it when Willem Dafoe is the main villain.

Noticed the 'Nuke the Whales' poster. Cute. Lots of decades-old memories with that one.

Hilarious George’s reaction to every one of Simone’s opening one-liners

Worth pointing out that the stunt where Bond catches up to the falling plane was done for real. It’s weird how it’s cut in the film as it looks fake when it was actually done.

George, the thing about the lighthearted Bond is that it was lighthearted for half a century - and Daniel Craig’s version is the first one that really decided to address all of the consequences of Bond; he’s a sexist womanizer, he’s an alcoholic, he’s a murderer, and he’s psychologically damaged. Which, in all actuality, is MUCH closer to its source material in the books that Ian Fleming wrote before the movies were made. The gadgets and the quirky jokes didn’t really fit in the time that Casino Royale was made - we had to reckon with the War On Terror in a real way, we couldn’t treat it with kid gloves.

Fun facts about the movie, and certain moments that were mentioned: - The plane stunt at the beginning, it was a real thing, although part of the shot was ruined. In fact, like many Bond movies, it was inspired by the stunt sports that were going strong at the time they were made. For example, the plane's free-fall scene is about the paratroopers jumping out of the plane, then the plane starts a nosedive and the paratroopers jump back into the plane. And this is possible thanks to the aircraft model they use, which makes it much lighter in relation to size, weight and wind resistance, which also facilitates takeoffs on short runways. This detail is very popular in irrigation aircraft, or firefighting aircraft. Here in my city, a couple of these airplanes were purchased as the ones seen in the movie, a pair of Pilatus PC-7. - The scene of the historical monuments, is a real place. It is the Moscow park Muzeon, also known as the cemetery of the cursed statues. It is not as exaggerated and large as it is seen in the movie, but much more terrifying in real life, as it has been given paranormal rumors. - The name James Bond, and the fallacy of the worst secret agent. This is close to my heart as a 007 fan, not only of the movies, but also of the novels. I have come across too many times the phrase "everyone knows James Bond and that's why he is the worst secret agent in the world". This is false, because these people forget that one thing is his popularity in real life, and quite another in fiction. There is also the other point that although it is a name and surname not so common these days, it was when Ian Flemming launched his novels. When he chose it, he got it from the author of a book by an ornithologist at the time, Dr. James Bond. Besides, at the end of the day, it is just a name and a surname, of which there are several James Bond in the real world. Samantha Bond, the actress who in these films plays Miss Moneypenny, has a son named James (Thomas James Hanson), although this is more of a coincidence, and not something on purpose (if I remember correctly, the boy is named James by a relative of Alexander Hanson, Samantha's husband). (Don't ask me how I remember these useless facts, I just know them, hahaha). - The atmosphere and rhythm of the Bond movies: James Bond in the novels, is colder, more similar to Daniel Craig, or more specifically Timothy Dalton. He is a cold and calculating guy, with a warm and friendly exterior, but not remarkable. I mean, he's a character you don't dislike, he has a charisma that allows him to get close to people if necessary, but at the same time he's forgettable as someone who's more of the same. Brosnan is too handsome and charismatic to be a spy, haha... - At last, Halle Berry's is Brosnan's last film as Bond: Die Another Day. If you are going to continue watching Bond movies, but don't want to go for the classics, I recommend the two Timothy Dalton movies, you can't miss them.

The simplest explanation for James Bond's transformations: Bond is a Time Lord. Think about it.

It wasn't that dumb of a question. There have been many movies based off video games before.

Not only has Pierce aged amazingly, he is also a lovely person by all accounts. I love how genuinely moved he is at the start of this interview: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hubZUDcbKl8.html Oh, and Timothy Dalton is another former Bond who turned into a silver fox. If you guys haven't watched Penny Dreadful, I would love to see you react to it!

Loved Pierce ever since I first watched him in Remington Steele. This was a terrific change of pace for Bond films from Timothy Dalton's portrayal.

"refried Bean" **chefs kiss**

Belly button and a diamond is a perfect description of "Die Another Day", which is my favorite Bond movie. 100% a guilty pleasure.

10:15 There was a fan theory for years that the "James Bond" monicker like the "007" is handed down from agent to agent, thus explaining the multiple actors and his carelessness with people knowing his name. Skyfall put an end to that theory by diving into his past and showing us it is indeed his real name.

Goldeneye is the quintessential bond movie, it has EVERYTHING great from every other bond before it.

In the end, Sean was a real..... Has-Bean. 😂

I could totally imagine Dame Judy Dench nailing Bison’s it was Tuesday line. 😂

Random hand trivia from another franchise - the old “Mission: Impossible” TV show had as part of the regular cast a character called Barney who did all the technical stuff. He’d be the one crawling through air vents or disarming alarms or inventing awesome electronic stuff as needed. Barney was played by an African American actor called Greg Morris and, like Nichelle Nichols playing Uhura on “Star Trek” around the same time, seeing a black man as the key, brilliant, technical genius every week on the show had a significant impact on young people watching the show at the time. Morris said he was approached numerous times in the wake of the show by engineers and accomplished young people of color who told him they never would have thought such a career was even possible for them if they hadn’t watched Barney doing stuff every week on “Mission: Impossible.” Anyway, the weekly production of “Mission: Impossible” called for a significant number of hours shooting Greg Morris’ hands doing intricate technical stuff. Not necessarily a problem, but the show always overshot its schedule due to the unusually complicated nature of the stories being told. Morris would do the hand inserts when he could but some weeks the main unit couldn’t spare him so the second unit director, who was responsible for getting all those insert shots in the can, would often put black makeup on his own hands and do the things himself for the camera. Morris thought that stuff was kind of boring to shoot so he didn’t necessarily mind and neither did anyone else in those perhaps unenlightened days. Maybe the production would be obliged to hire a pair of black hands to do the work now, but not then. The second unit guy stepping up got the show on the air so everyone was happy, but if you look carefully - especially on home video - “Barney’s” black hands have blonde hairs growing out of them ‘cuz the second unit guy was fair complexioned. Most of the time the show is gripping enough that you don’t notice but every once in a while the ‘stunt hands’ become apparent, which is a bit gigglesome. 😊 In any case, insert shots of hands doing stuff are often farmed out to a second unit and another performer especially if you can’t see the actor’s face in the shot. It’s not usually the star’s son, but Pierce clearly wanted to give his kid a gig, which is fine.

Before Pierce appeared as Bond, back in the early 80's he was in a series called Remmington Steele, which was a character somewhere in tone between Bond and Tony Stark. When I used to watch this as a kid (Bond was Roger Moore at the time) I always thought he'd make a great Bond and was pleasantly surprised not only to find that he did becomes Bond after I'd thought this, but also that the producers had sought to have him cast as Bond at the time of Remmington Steele, but owing to contractual timing he was unable to take the part on at that point.

26:34 Ourumov: "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking."

Simone: Remembers Halle Berry's belly button... then diamonds. Also Simone: I was distracted by the silhouettes of the naked dancing women. Watch out George, she's gunning for your role.

Franke Janssen and Eva Green are the best Bond girls, IMO. And they had great post-Bond careers.

Boris was also in X-Men 2, as Nightcrawler.

As a 48 year old it makes me SOOO happy that you guys know what a N64 is AND know GoldenEye. Had weeks worth of time in 4 player mode on a single screen. ❤️