Yeah, I have a relative who used to work in the CIA. He was never a field agent, but he worked with field agents. Of course, he's never told me anything about anything, really. But when we went to see Skyfall, he said, "Good movie, but Bond would be a terrible field agent in real life." Because like you said, "DOING A JOB QUIETLY." While, usually, Bond does do his job quietly, but he has a lot of action scenes where he leaves quite a trail of destruction in his wake. Would never happen in real life unless they're shitty at their job. They go out there and do their job with almost nobody the wiser and get out.
I'm upset with this bond series because they never quite achieved the high level of casino royale. I thought tying all the films together were a great idea but they never connected in a meaningful way
True. Casino Royale still is the best. Then Skyfall and well I even prefer Quantum Of Solace over Spectre, cause Spectre for me felt like any other dumbed down James Bond we have already seen. Plus it was overwhelmingly boring.
The classic Bond films were meant to be stand alone like Indiana Jones as back then there wasn't any home media to watch films. As there was usually a two year gap inbetween films it made sense to make each new one easy for newcomers to get into the series.
And unfortunately, Spectre turned out to be pretty shite...especially since it was overshadowed by MI Rogue Nation in the same year with such a similar plot.
Being a die hard Bond fan, I have been waiting for you to do this video and this is pretty fantastic and proves why I love Casino Royale and Skyfall. The only thing I don't quite agree with you on is Skyfall being better than Casino Royale because I think that film has more well rounded characters, faster pace and themes are more well realised. Don't get me wrong, Skyfall is awesome, I just prefer Casino Royale.
iamsuperbatman1993 I don't like what they did with this bond series. I felt tying the narratives together was a great idea but after casino royale, they never added much to bond's character and no other villains matched the impact and resonance of leshief
I disagree with you on Skyfall and to an lesser extent Spectre. For me, both Casino Royale and Skyfall are great, but for different reasons similar to how I love Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Casino Royale was a character study of the Bond character, while Skyfall was an event film with a lot of great character growth not just from Bond, but from side characters like Bond.
iamsuperbatman1993 Skyfall was borderline good to me. I thought M was great, she's always good. But it was basically the dark knight, bond edition. And that ending though. Home alone rises
I still like QoS about as much as Skyfall, even though the action borders on incomprehensible at times. It bugs me that QoS answered the question briefly posed by M in Casino Royale - namely "what purpose is a double-oh in a post-Cold-War world" - only to have people just keep asking the same question in Skyfall and Spectre. I'm also pissed that both Skyfall and Spectre have done their damnedest to pretend QoS never happened even though that movie provided a sleek, modern take on that most Bondian trope of the evil apocalyptic society - an organization that doesn't build death lasers or atom bombs, but just buys up essential resources to sell them back to the world's most vulnerable at unconscionable costs. It may seem boring but it's believable and a damn sight darker than whatever the Brosnan bad guys are doing half the time. That's what Bond needed most, but now the last two movies have fallen back on nostalgia, presenting the legend as straight as possible, even as it becomes more and more anachronistic. I also just like Craig's exposed-nerve performance where he scarcely bothers to conceal his self-destructive rage. I think it's a pretty good double feature with Casino, which is a no-brainer, considering that it starts about an hour after the first one.
A series doesn't last 50 years by simply being "sub-par". This is easily your most misinformed video. There are a handful of Bond films praised for their action: From Russia With Love, Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, License to Kill, Goldeneye...
I always enjoyed watching 007 films over the decades and the different actors but when Bond first started , these films were during a different era : the Cold war . Bond was a spy and an assassin that drove a cool car and got any woman he wanted. Over time times changed as Bond did . Craig did a great job in getting a new generation interested in the films , but times have changed so much and so PC , its difficult to create a bad guy . Poor Bronsnan's 007 had to fight a newspaper Owner or nutty spoiled rich bitch as bad guys . I would put my bet that Tom Hiddleson ( Loki ) will get the role as Bond if they decide to make any more films .
I've always loved how the older Bond films felt like parody action films that never tried to wink at the audience with a stupid "WOW, JUST LIEK A MOVIE RITE?!" Craigs movies took the opposite route and just made them into normal action movies. They dont jump the shark anymore, they try to make it look realistic, and they make everything dark and gritty just for the sake of having tension. In an older flick like goldeneye they'll have scenes where, say, bond finds the only tank in the world with the keys stil in the ignition, then proceeds to drive it into a stone statue so he can drop the statue on pursueing bad guys, so he can joust a train. You will never see Craig do something that stupidly over the top. The plane scene in spectre was a good start, but skiing a plane is still mundane compared to driving a motorcycle off a cliff to catch up with a plane in mid air while blowing communist(and a communist nazi) to kingdom come.
Bond films being sub par entertainment? That sounds harsh. Bond films are not supposed to be action movies, well most aren't. They are supposed to be spy thrillers and in that regard From Russia With Love and The Living Daylights succeed. Some are good action films like Tomorrow Never Dies and License to Kill but generally Bond fails when it tries to go too action heavy. Also this new use of CGI in the Craig movies is so annoying as real stunts was what made Bond so special in the past. I was surprised you liked the shadow fight in Skyfall as I had no idea which one 007 was during it.
You Cef lol I know. Wayyy to serious. I like how Sean Connery's bond was about having fun, laughing and smiling all the time, telling jokes, getting girls, drinking, etc. Pierce Brosnan wasn't as jovial but he didn't look sad lol
Yes it was over the top, crazy and fun. Pierce Brosnan was okay, fun and a bit stupid, like Bond. But now its super serious Bond, angry, confused and lonely, just like Jason Bourne.
The movie is okay as a movie, i like the new bond! But its just not the old bond, that made me happy. Maybe its me, maybe its the world, maybe its just sad bond ;-)
Skyfall is far too overrated in my view. Lots of good style, great villian, some good lines but I don't get why it's so highly praised. Casino was too slow and overdrawn. You're right about Die Another Die being a complete Turkey.
@@kasrakhatir the Activision ones were trash. I played Quantum Of Solace and Goldeneye Reloaded and those were bad. I never touched another one after that. They ceased being good after EA gave up the IP.
I remember when I first saw the Quantum and Solace opening car chase scene I found it extremely difficult to follow, thinking to myself, "this has waaaay too many cuts, what are they doing?".
Spectre is a bizarre film. It takes the worst aspects of both the realistic Bond from Casino Royale and the campy Bond from the 60's and throws them together with bland, forgettable action scenes and a laughably stupid script, which is way too similar to the far better Mission Impossible film that came out a few months before Spectre. Quantum of Solace is bad, yes, but Spectre is an abomination.
I loved that Bond magically resists brain damage at the end :p Bond should have shouted, "Haha! Your needles won't work on me, Blowfeld!" Before blowing up his console.
The Hylden Oh, dear God. I'd almost forgotten about that. And after he's somehow survived his lobotomy, he manages to gun down henchmen with pinpoint accuracy, not even stumbling a little due to the torture he's just endured. And then he's able to shoot down a moving helicopter, from a moving speed boat, with a small caliber pistol. Because apparently James Bond is Jesus.
Nice vids maaan. Bond doesn't work anymore because the writers seem confused as to what to make of him. The template is there, but they struggle to execute it. Which is: Bond, like his creator, is a sexist, racist, English imperialist. In the 60s and 70s this was the norm, and no bad was thought of it. These days however, and particularly since the Goldeneye film, they struggle with being forced to make the character PC. Terrible move! I'm all for PC personally, but not in a Bond movie. In the modern world, particularly as you highlight, the modern world of action movies, 007s unpleasantness is just about the only thing about him that stands out, or that is interesting. That's what Fleming wrote, and now they have rebooted with Casino Royale, they really should just go back, improve on the books a little bit - and make Commander Bond the anti-hero that the modern world would view him as. The Daniel Craig character, much as I like the performance, is a total mess of writing. For a start he's no more convincing as a spy than Arnold in True Lies but most of all is the struggle with making him sensitive - but only part of the time. One minute he's practically raping a vulnerable woman in her bathroom, the next he's crying 'cos his geriatric female boss has died - the penultimate scene in Skyfall was laughable, and you'll notice how they've had to make the stakes personal in all the Craig movies as they struggle to build any stakes within the story itself. Bond is NOT the story. He's the antagonist to the villain, or the Bond girl's protagonist. If they embrace this and his bigoted truth you'll start seeing some good action movies again I reckon. I think the British public is in denial about Bond. We pretend it's still good.
That's a load of bull and you know it. You can easily make him more PC. They've already pulled it off with Casino Royale and Skyfall. I've always wanted to see a more appropriate for the times version of Sean Connery. Just charming as hell and completely badass.
One thing that I have disagree with you on is the idea that _GoldenEye_ is the only good Bond video game. (Just in case anyone is misinterpreting what I just said, I'm not saying that _GoldenEye_ is bad, it's great; I'm saying that I like more Bond games than just _GoldenEye._ ) Unless, of course, you're only referring to Bond games based on specific theatrically-released films, then I understand (although I enjoyed _The World Is Not Enough_ ). Some pretty good Bond games that aren't based on films in the series are: _007: Agent Under Fire,_ _007: Nightfire,_ and _007: Everything or Nothing._ That being said, _GoldenEye_ is still my favorite.
each after connery was important to set the characters up the ian novels what happen in the late moore films cheese campy over the top but only moore could pull off dalton came to police man bond during the beefcake decade it didnt work especially with pierce on tv with miami vice sting ray knight rider.when golden eye and world is not enough i didnt like tomorrow never dies or die another day late 3rd act or too much american involvement but re starting the novels for danny brung the campy cheese to a end.where we go from here fassbender stop playing and join us as i play a odd job type villian in the 2005 script bondfire i wrote with will dafoe but now danial day lewis continueing yes spectre russian involement to take over International banking yeah i know
"Arguably serviceable action", I could not disagree more. The Bond films have some of the greatest action scenes ever put on film. Anyone who says otherwise never watched a Bond film for sure. And comparing the well filmed action of Bond to the sometimes irritatingly & badly filmed action of Bourne is just insulting.
Casino Royale is a masterpiece; it balances great action and great storytelling and it feels amazing. Quantum of Solace is not bad, but it's terribly filmed and edited action makes it a pain to watch. Skyfall is a very good film, with great action overall and a very good story. Spectre is just bad; over the top action that feels more like Moore or Brosnan than Craig, a bad story that kinda brings down the previous three, and lazy character development and acting.
It's really a shame, that the editing and cameraworkin Quantum of Solace is so frantic and confusing, because you can actually recognize somereally great choreography during a few of the steadier moments.
You have built and excellent channel and I agree with most of your insightful assessments, but hearing you think Skyfall was in ANY way better than Casino Royale is honestly cringe worthy and slightly disappointing. We're all entitled to our opinions don't get me wrong, but from a story perspective skyfall is one of the worst bond films if not one of the worst spy films ever made, where as Casino Royale triumphs in all aspects of spycraft, thriller, action and even love story script to screen. I can understand if you meant skyfall possibly Looked the best (it's got Deakins behind the camera after all), but even then I'd have to disagree. Skyfall focused on a broken old Bond in a bland boring setting with no gadgets, very little humor, a shockingly stupid MI6, a home alone end plot, and a hilariously brain dead villain (just try explaining his actual motive out loud, you'll see what I mean). Still, beyond this and a big mistep on Equilibrium, you've got a great batting average and a wonderful insight into cinema. Keep up the great work.
Also, he's totally right about Equilibrium, it's pretentious, dated trash, that was riding off the coattails of The Matrix and taking all the wrong lessions from it.
DC is not charming or fun like previous Bonds. DC is basically Jason Bourne, a stoic killer. I can't get excited for modern (Brosnon onward) Bond movies. The British charm is gone.
When talking about Casino Royal and Quantum of Solace, it just shows, what makes a good director. And Mark Forster was never a good director. His only good film is stranger than fiction. I don't understand how he got hired for the Craig Bond series.
I think it's fair to classify Bond action more as blockbuster set pieces rather than action scenes. The best scenes involving most classic Bond have more to do with vehicles, gadgets or stunts rather than Hand-to-hand or gunplay.
I have to disagree I think Golden Eye is generally considered a modern action classic.In the near future Skyfall will be considered a leap forward in the spy genre, whilst leaping backwards.
Old Bond was a monty python clown act...sure we all enjoyed them but...they were never more than a punchline. New Bond with Craig...unfukwithable. Best.Action.Spy.Films.Ever.
I really liked Skyfall, and I agree it is the most "bondy" of Craig's films, in a good way, but my favorite of his films is Casino Royale, although I get it was more "bourney" than "bondy" for it's own sake. But the story and the the characters (and even the acting), was amazing. Craig proved himself to be a great bond in every way and Eva Green is the best bond girl ever (besides Judy Dench's M, off course). Also, Skyfall ripped off a lot of the story elements of the Dark Knight. I think Martin Campbell deserves higher praise for his efforts, he has saved Bond twice with Goldeneye and then Casino Royale, besides doing some other entertaining films (I really liked the first Zorro movie). I know Green Lantern and the second Zorro sucked, but give him a pass.
Hmmmm, QoS's boat chase is a worse offender for the complaints about choppy, headache inducing editing, but I liked the opening car chase - it felt kinnetic and dangerous (and better than the chase scenes from SPECTRE). With Skyfall while the CGI lizards were a little cheesy, I thought the bike chase had green screen effects and digital head splicing that was quite seamless actually (and held up to recent re-watching; I didn't think about the tricks until you mentioned them).
Have to disagree on Goldeneye being the best Bond game. It's mainly known for being good for being the first popular realistic hitscan shooter. The actual game itself is just a typical movie tie in game minus the objective system. Nightfire is the best because the devs knew the shooting with realistic hitscan guns tend to be samey.
Rossatron, your action movie analysis is valuable. I'm not quick to dismiss Quantum of Solace's better points. A knife fight occurs about half way through the film, and it is one of the best I've ever seen. I think it's better than the knife fight from The Man From Nowhere, and it is saying a lot. It is up on youtube to watch. I consider Spectre to have a mixed action quality. I find the opening sequence with the Day of the Dead amazing. Later fights in the movie are boring. I actually prefer the car chase in Quantum of Solace to the car chase in Spectre because the bad guys are shooting at Bond. Unfortunately, I feel Quantum of Solace has a poor editing job of the car chase.
It's fascinating, I saw Quantum of Solace in the Cinema... Yet, whenever I see a clip from the film I am surprised, was THAT really in the film I saw? It seems like it's designed to be completely forgotten. Just flashes and noises. Nothing is left to stick in me as a moment. It just goes on in a flurry and finally it ended... I do not even regard it as a part of the Craig timeline. Because of how effectively it makes me forget its existance...
Completely disagree with your assessment that Bond films have subpar action scenes. The '60s Bonds pretty much set the template for modern action films. Beyond that, how could you ever consider Goldeneye a subpar action film? The opening sequence alone gave me my money's worth.
I really don't think that one-take scene is "fantastic". It's the kind of fight that turns me off most action movies, where they just slap at each other to no apparent effect for half a minute until the choreographer decides it's time for the hero to arbitrarily win. There's no build-up, no sense of threat, no emotional weight. There's nothing there at all except a dull pair-dancing exercise and the shattered remains of my once suspended disbelief. The fact that its a scuffle between the silhouettes of two near-identical men in near-identical suits also means that it's just hard to follow in addition to being boring and toothless. Contrast that with something like John Wick. It's not exactly what you'd call a slave to realism, but at least it manages to imbue its fight scenes with a modicum of gravity by subscribing to the crazy notion that people get hurt when you hurt them.
I actually had had to minimize the video there for a bit since the quantum solace scenes made me violently ill. Something I usually only get from really bad virtual reality applications. With Movie Scenes that's a first though. Did anyone else had that problem?
did anybody else think spectre was a slap in the face to casino royale and skyfall? all the little things that distinguished craig as his own bond were completely thrown out the window. maybe im being picky idk.
I hated quantum of solace the first time I saw it. It's grown on me since. It's not great. But it does contain pathos and adrenaline pumping moments. Its short too, so when I want a quick action fix I may pop it in.
I would say that Bond films are spy films not action films. They have action in them but the focus is more on the plot. But that chase scene from Casino Royale is one of my favourite action scenes
There's technically been 25 bond films I still count *Never say, never again* although everyone says is non cannon I take that movie over *Quantum of Solace.*
5:42 The CG here actually makes the shot very real. They build a replica front of the Aston, shot it on a range with real 5.56 ammunition (the kind of ammo the enemies' rifles are made to cycle), and added the footage of the front end being shot up onto the actual car (which they couldn't afford to even scratch).
Spectre's action scenes along with pretty much everything else about the film, sucked. It was dull and unimaginative. They were given an unheard of amount of resources and budget size to do anything and what we got were a by the numbers sequences that did nothing new or interesting.
Glad you showed the train scene from Skyfall. That little moment where he straightens his suit after making the jump, it goes for all of a second yet it is classic Bond. A perfect way to mix the old with the new.
I felt the tension and excitement in quantom of solace with the editing, I will agree that the editing was a lil bit much , but I was on the edge of my seat
As a guy who fell asleep while watching Quantum of Solace in cinema and haven't touched any new Bond's film after that, I'm now interested in seeing Skyfall. Gonna check that soon. Oh, and good Bond game other than Golden eye? PS2's Everything or Nothing.
I haven't seen all the original Bond films, so feel free to point out if I'm mistaken. But Skyfall was the first Bond film in which Bond has ever been shot, and personally, I loved that about the movie. He was a wreck afterward and didn't even pass the test to get back into MI-6. Such a strong, cool, and charismatic character brought finally through the arc of his own mortality. It added so much more depth to Craig's Bond and has firmly cemented him as my personal favorite.
I can't really remember them all, but that can't be the first time Bond has taken a bullet, can it? I at least remember it happening I think in Thunderball or one of the other Connery Bonds? I'd be shocked if that was the first time. It is rare though.
I have to agree. And I have to agree with what another user said in this comment, "just what the fuck was that?". There's nothing more empty than a uninspiring James Bond movie. I would rather watch a bad movie in general than be left thinking about the wasted potential of a bad Bond film.
0:00 holy shit where did you find Daniel's gun barrel sequence,i mean casino royale had one but not with walking,Quantum didn't have it,neither did Skyfall,i did that hear Spectre has it ,but its not even out yet in HD,anyways great episode as always,unexpected too, i for one definetely prefer the newer bond films,lot more emotion and heart to it ,better action and set-pieces but i guess that comes with the time,Keep up the good work.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................*Cough* is The Raid close ? *cough * cough *
final shot of Skyfall ,DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMN so it did have one :) that is so cool,another reason to watch it for 56th time thanks Rossatron,i will definetely hire someone to put in the special input AKA create another account :)
QoS and SF had the gun barrel at the end of the movie for stupid reasons. Spectre had it at the start but then had that stupid "The dead are walking" title card. Ugh.
I think he was saying that it wasn't really Daniel Craig doing that scene, but rather a stuntman with Daniel Craig's face CGI'd onto that actor's body.
Blitzkrieg With the CGI, I think he was referring to the green screen shots, which are used for the close-ups of Daniel Craig riding the bike. All the wide shot stuff was actually done for real, and is incredibly impressive.
Mark S : Stuntmen Robbie Maddison (007) and Lee Morrison (Patrice, also one of the Stunt Co Ordinators) - took part in the scene. Probably to remove "unnecessary wires" et cetera - thankfully nothing like Die Another Day!.
"but until the action is anything more than by-the-numbers, the films will always be considered ever so slightly sub-par entertainment" Um, what? You do realize that all these films have had major box office earnings and at least half of them were generally well-received by critics, right? You need to focus on more than simply action in your videos.
Alan Smithee But it is true. The first one was awesome and people mostly talk about casino royale and skyfall. It's a forgettable series with forgettable action scenes
bob polo But these films still garner massive box office earnings and at least half of the recent Craig ones were quite well-received. How does that make them considered "sub-par entertainment" in the eyes of regular audiences? Whether you like them or not is your thing, but this statement is objectively untrue.
Because it wasn't a Bond film, nor was it the first. There was a black and white Casino Royale TV special with an American Jimmy Bond but that wasn't a movie. Dr No was the first James Bond movie in 1962 whereas the 1967 Casino Royale you are thinking of was an awful parody made by completely different people.
