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Roger Moore is back as 007, James Bond, in this taut, fast-paced thriller as the secret agent infiltrates the Greek underworld to prevent a system capable of controlling a fleet of nuclear submarines from falling into the hands of the Russians.
Actors: Carole Bouquet, Desmond Llewelyn, Julian Glover, Lois Maxwell, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Roger Moore, Topol
Director: John Glen
Genres: Action & adventure, Thriller, Mystery & suspense, Drama
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@christhornycroft3686 7 месяцев назад

I would have started with a Sean Connery film to get a sense of what Bond films are about, since Roger Moore films, even the good ones like this one, are very much of their time. If you're not into bellbottoms, you're kind of out of luck. This is probably Roger Moore's best Bond film, though. If you really want to see what James Bond is all about, watch the original Connery films and go from there. Those give you a sense of who the character is and is supposed to be. The Moore era is more of an acquired taste. You don't have to love all of them to be a Bond fan, but the Connery ones are kind of mandatory. But as a movie, this one works - until the cowbell kicks in.

@melchiorvonsternberg844 7 месяцев назад

As a European, I cannot share this point of view! As much as I appreciate the Scot as a great actor, he was always as James Bond, a little too un-English for me. In some moments he seemed a little too brutal and overly harsh. That may also have something to do with the 60s. Personally, I think Roger Moore is the best Bond. And by the way... Roger Moore's time as Commander Bond didn't end until 1985. So nothing with bell-bottoms... He also wonderfully worked up his "German" experience in "Octopussy". As a very young man, Sir Roger was in the British armed forces in Germany and spoke German properly. This again fits the film character perfectly. James Bond was born 1920 in Wattenscheid/Germany...

@007Marke 7 месяцев назад

@@melchiorvonsternberg844 absolutely agree here, plus the by far highest rated Bond movie with Sir Roger, and my favourite, too, is "The Spy who loved me"

@porflepopnecker4376 7 месяцев назад

Watching this one first is like walking in right in the middle of the Bond experience.

@oaf-77 7 месяцев назад

To be fair I think most people start in the middle anyway, how many people actually watched Dr No as their first bond film?

@Sal-gh1se 7 месяцев назад

@@oaf-77 Good point! The first one I saw was Moonraker in the theater as a kid, and caught up with the rest over the years as they’d play them on TV. But, that was the only option back then.

@porflepopnecker4376 7 месяцев назад

@@oaf-77 Still, the Bond films have their own kind of stylistic and character-related continuity that makes it a better experience to watch them in order.

@pmaximus5659 Месяц назад

Roger Moore, my favorite Bond character! This is a classic!!!

@philmakris8507 7 месяцев назад

Regarding the length James one thing you need to understand is that James Bond films were a global phenomenon at the just about yearly release of the films were a huge huge deal. They were epics that appeared on the big screen in theaters. They were so action packed one never noticed the time watching them They cooked right along. Again it's important to consider the experience and context of how movies were viewed back in the day.

@StephenLuke 7 месяцев назад

This is my all-time favorite James Bond film ever made. 😊❤️

@LordVolkov 7 месяцев назад

Every Bond title song is written for the movie, and often a credit track too (so even if it doesn't make the YT edit, do yourself a favor and listen through the credits of Bonds). The music is almost always a highlight of a Bond movie 👍 The 90's Bonds (with Pierce Brosnan) have singers you may know, like Sheryl Crow, Tina Turner, and Madonna, while older Bonds have bands like A-Ha, Wings, and Duran Duran, or singers like Tom Jones and dame Shirley Bassey.

@oaf-77 7 месяцев назад

The Moore era had some of the best movie title tracks

@mattschliemann9683 7 месяцев назад

The older ones you mentioned I think he'd prolly know. That was the 80s

@user-mg5mv2tn8q 7 месяцев назад

Moore's very first outing as Bond featured one of the biggest hit songs of the whole series, Live and Let Die, by Paul McCartney and Wings.

@EricAKATheBelgianGuy 7 месяцев назад

Trivia for "For Your Eyes Only" - for James and anybody else interested in knowing. 1. Released in 1981; directed by John Glen; written by Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson, based on the stories "For Your Eyes Only" and "Risico" by Ian Fleming. 2. Reportedly, Ian Fleming used singer Hoagy Carmichael as his physical basis for what he wanted James Bond to look like. 3. Lynn-Holly Johnson (Bibi Dahl) was a legitimate figure skater in real life, and was a member of the Ice Capades for a while. 4. Cassandra Harris, who played the Countess Von Schlaf, was married to Pierce Brosnan at the time of filming. Brosnan would play James Bond in four films from 1995-2002. 5. This was John Glen's first film as a director. He directed all five James Bond films released in the 1980s, the most of any director in the Bond franchise. 6. There is some debate over how many "official" Bond films there are. Eon Productions is the studio that had the rights, so most of the films released by that studio are considered the "official" ones. If you go by those titles, there are twenty-five Bond movies in total. Two other "non-Eon" James Bond movies have been made. 7. "For Your Eyes Only" received one Oscar nomination, for Best Song. It didn't win in its category. 8. Roger Moore is the actor who has played James Bond the most times. He did seven films in the role (this was his fifth chronologically). Sean Connery did six, the most recent actor Daniel Craig did five, Pierce Brosnan did four, Timothy Dalton did two, and George Lazenby did only one.

@oaf-77 7 месяцев назад

Connery did 7 of you count Never Say Never Again, which I do

@user-mg5mv2tn8q 7 месяцев назад

2. Hoagy Carmichael was not just reportedly, but definitely, Fleming's visual model for James Bond. In his novels he has a number of other characters comment on the resemblance. 4. No coincidence that Pierce Brosnan was hired to play James Bond sometime after his wife appeared in this movie. Cassandra Harris was quite well liked on set, and cultivated whatever influence she had in the production company to campaign for her husband to get the role after Roger Moore. Brosnan was contractually bound to his TV show Remington Steele at the time, but the show was on its last legs and about to be canceled. Then the ratings were goosed by rumors that the star was about to become the next James Bond, prompting the network to renew Remington Steele for one more season, and that meant Brosnan wouldn't be available for the Bond movies after all. Two movies were made with Timothy Dalton instead, and only after that did Pierce Brosnan finally get his chance. Unfortunately, by that time Cassandra Harris had died of cancer.

@davidclough3951 7 месяцев назад

Never Say Never Again was technically a remake of one of Connery's earlier films though.

@oaf-77 7 месяцев назад

@@davidclough3951 it was a reinterpretation of Thunderball, there was a whole decades long legal fight over the rights to it and who the real authors of it were

@EricAKATheBelgianGuy 5 месяцев назад

@@user-mg5mv2tn8qFun! Hoagy Carmichael was from my hometown.

@donkarnage6032 7 месяцев назад

Inspector Gadget is more directly based on the TV show 'Get Smart' than the Bond but there are definitely some Bond influences in the show.

@vincegamer 7 месяцев назад

I came to point this out, but to add also that get smart is a spoof of James Bond and the spy genre in general

@rx7dude2006 7 месяцев назад

The best opening bond song of all of them.

@oaf-77 7 месяцев назад

I liked the theme from Octopussy.

@k1productions87 7 месяцев назад

The Duran Duran fan in me says otherwise, but I am admittedly biased :P

@cruelangel8689 7 месяцев назад

#2 for me, behind Nobody Does It Better

@k1productions87 7 месяцев назад

I would also make a case for the theme to You Only Live Twice

@oaf-77 7 месяцев назад

Interesting choice for a first Bond movie, but it is one of the best of the Roger Moore movies.

@thesaltnation5570 7 месяцев назад

Roger moore is underrated i love his 70’s style and humor yet serious at times

@AndrewDixonMusic 7 месяцев назад

Great to see you cover a Bond movie, this is my favourite of the 7 that Roger Moore made. I hope you get good viewing figures for this, but if not please don't let it put you off, For Your Eyes Only isn't one of the "big hitters" but I think if you were to cover the best Sean Connery films, at least 1 from each of the other actors, and ideally all of Daniel Craig's (in order, as they are the only ones designed to be a continuous story) then I think you'll be glad you did.

@Tilion462 7 месяцев назад

"He's european or someting like that..." - I almost left right then.

@jarnopylkkanen5453 4 месяца назад

Patience,patience...

@user-ix3sh2qc9z 7 месяцев назад

...that was entertaining as all hell! Continue with the bond reactions. It should be a lot of fun. Entertaining reaction.

@pmarcus0007 7 месяцев назад

I have been a lifelong James Bond fan since1977. You should start with Sean Connery in Dr. no 1962 and watch them all in order. Some are better than others, but all are very enjoyable!

@3DJapan 7 месяцев назад

I'm a 3D artist. All last year my job was modeling people and vehicles from these old movies. The last model I made was 10:24 , the guy blowing up the car.

@gregorygant4242 7 месяцев назад

Great opening scene song by Sheena Easton great singer !

@jowbloe3673 7 месяцев назад

Best Bond theme song!

@gregorygant4242 7 месяцев назад

@@jowbloe3673 Yep ,it is !

@blinkybill2198 7 месяцев назад

When they reference a call through to Number 10. I think that is a reference to Number 10 Downing St where the Priminister of England lives.

@jillfromatlanta427 7 месяцев назад

Carole Bouquet - my favorite Bond girl- does indeed have beautiful eyes.

@claire-mariefromfrance5712 4 месяца назад

True, and she's still beautiful at 66

@philmakris8507 7 месяцев назад

The card game they were playing was baccarat.

@k1productions87 7 месяцев назад

This is definitely the most grounded of all the James Bond movies. Much of the reason for that was that the previous two movies were BEYOND over the top. One even going to SPACE for crying out loud (but it was during the post-Star Wars craze), so it only made sense to bring Bond (quite literally) back to Earth. This film therefore became more about actual espionage and averting potential national conflict, rather than some megalomaniacal eccentric bent on world conquest. For many though, the definitive James Bond experience would be Goldfinger (for Sean Connery), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (closest adaptation from the book, of the same title), The Spy Who Loved Me (for Roger Moore), and Goldeneye (for Pierce Brosnan). And if you go modern, Skyfall (for Daniel Craig)

@Lenkic13 7 месяцев назад

What an interesting first James Bond film to watch! It would not have been one I would have said to watch first, but you know what? I love For Your Eyes Only. I feel that it is one of Roger Moore's most "serious" film of his Bond era, and that's not a bad thing.

@hinesmaster99 7 месяцев назад

My favorite is A View To A Kill

@oaf-77 7 месяцев назад

You and me are in the minority, but that doesn’t mean we’re wrong, it’s a great film

@tgriffin3059 Месяц назад

@@oaf-77 I think the finale on the Golden Gate looked MUCH more impressive on the big screen. No question this one is underrated.

@Itwasalwaysme_Noone 7 месяцев назад

My name is Bond.. European Bond. European economic bond trying to help.. (ok, I'm stopping just because some people may start hating if I name a couple of countries)

@lindataggart9076 7 месяцев назад

Hey James,, you didnt know.. but Sean Connery is the best to start Bond.

@user-tv2bz2ci6b 3 месяца назад

No 10 is 10 Downing Street. The Prime Minister's name was Margaret Thatcher. This film was made in 1981. The producers tried to dial down the sex scenes and gadgets after Moonraker (1979). "TOFANA IOAM" means "meet me at Tofana at 10am"

@davidlloyd1526 7 месяцев назад

Love some Roger Moore. Worth checking out a movie from each actor.

@oaf-77 7 месяцев назад

Connery- Goldfinger Dalton- Living Daylights Brosnan-Tomorrow Never Dies

@user-mg5mv2tn8q 7 месяцев назад

Craig - A lot of people would say Skyfall, but personally, I think Casino Royale can't be beat.

@chefskiss6179 7 месяцев назад

MASSIVE thanks to your 'private' Patreon member that sanctioned this hit(!). If it means it put you on the road to start the Bond franchise then I am grateful for that. And no disrespect to TBBT, but it's best if you go in with a clean slate/fresh outlook, and not base it off something you may have got from The Big Bang Theory, lol. - Because the gals kept requesting it for slow dances, I kid you not, that main theme song was played at my junior high grad more than a half a dozen times, lol. - here's to more James and James! 😂

@fenrir6721 7 месяцев назад

This is my all time favorite Bond movie 👍

@bjgandalf69 7 месяцев назад

I, for one, am glad he is watching this film as I think it is the best of the Roger Moore era with TSWLM a close second. When Popcorn in Bed choose to watch 2 films from each actor (only the 1 of Lazenby, of course), they watched Live and Let Die with The Spy Who Loved Me, which I thought was a disservice to Moore and begged them to add this film but was ignored. They watched all of the Craig era (supposedly because it was a continuing story but I suspect instead because it is modern) and watched other IMHO worse films than this as I think this film is easily Top 5 of the franchise. Btw, James, this film came out in 1981.

@Mediawatcher2023 2 месяца назад

The singer you see in the opening credits her name is Sheena Easton she is best remembered with 9 to 5 (Morning Train) the same year

@blakerh 7 месяцев назад

When we first got HBO in the early 80s this movie was on all the time. I must have watched it 50 times. I think the woman with the dark hair is the best looking Bond girl!

@LordVolkov 7 месяцев назад

Your patron did you dirty James, tossing you into the middle of a huge series and the middle of the goofiest Bond actor's arc 😅 Roger Moore's first Bond is Live And Let Die, but most people start with Sean Connery's Dr No (because it's the first), or Daniel Craig's Casino Royale (because he has a somewhat cohesive story arc). If you ever make it to Timothy Dalton (the Bond after Moore), his second movie - License To Kill - is my fave of the series.

@jimglenn6972 7 месяцев назад

Yes, he’s right. I do love this movie and especially the female lead but you should start at the beginning with Sean Connery. The movies follow each other until you get to Daniel Craig where it starts anew. If you like Bond, please go back to the beginning!

@dabe1971 7 месяцев назад

Yep. Awful, awful move. And Inspector Gadget ??! 🙈

@oaf-77 7 месяцев назад

I usually start people with Goldfinger, because it's the one thats most iconic and best encapsulates the Bond Movie Formula.

@PeterMBracke 7 месяцев назад

There’s been, I think, six different actors who’ve played James Bond over 50 years and 20-plus films (excluding parody films and non-canon entries). It’d be cool if you could check out the top film or two of each of the actors who’ve played the character. Now that you’ve been introduced to the series via Roger Moore, good picks to try are Goldfinger with Sean Connery, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service with George Lazenby (my fave of the movies), GoldenEye with Pierce Brosnan and Casino Royale with Daniel Craig. And love the channel!

@LordVolkov 7 месяцев назад

And License To Kill for Dalton 👍

@oaf-77 7 месяцев назад

@@LordVolkovI thought living daylights was better

@LordVolkov 7 месяцев назад

@@oaf-77 I like how ruthless Dalton is in LtK. But LD does have a vastly superior theme.

@oaf-77 7 месяцев назад

@@LordVolkov Licence to Kill was certainly a departure and has excellent performances, but as a pure bond film I think Living Daylights is more fun

@sergiodavila5269 6 месяцев назад

Sheena Easton’s title song is one of the best James Bond theme songs EVER 💓💓💓💓💓

@bcsr4ever 7 месяцев назад

One of my favourite ones as well... and one with few gadgets. Lol

@5hanesBoard 7 месяцев назад

Cool, your finally reacting to another British film. I can't wait to see you react to the best Bond film: The Living Daylights.

@vincentsaia6545 7 месяцев назад

The "Countess" was played by Cassandra Harris who was married to Pierce Brosnan, who would also play James Bond.

@michaelanderson5301 7 месяцев назад

This is my favorite Bond song. Close second would be Skyfall. Not a fan of Moore's last Bond movie, but love the drum beat in the Duran Duran song.

@LordVolkov 7 месяцев назад

But View To A Kill has crazy Christopher Walken! How can you not love it? 😉

@Billis75 7 месяцев назад

@@LordVolkov and Grace Jones 100% steals that film. I can't be objective about it since it was the first Bond I saw in theaters so it has a hold on me.

@LordVolkov 7 месяцев назад

@@Billis75 Mayday is easily top 5 Henchfolk. Grace Jones elevates any movie with her particular brand of ferocity 😅 Also, small Dolph Lundgren appearance as a goon because they were dating at the time.

@EricAKATheBelgianGuy 7 месяцев назад

Also, you can add a name to the actor catalogue, James: Julian Glover, who was Kristatos in this film, also played the villainous Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (the one who "chose...poorly"). Interestingly, Julian Glover was on the shortlist of actors considered for Bond in the 1970s along with Roger Moore.

@tranya327 7 месяцев назад

Julian Glover also had a small role in, "The Empire Strikes Back." He was the lead Imperial in the ground invasion on Hoth, who tells Vader, "Yes, Lord Vader - I've reached the main power generators. The shield will be down in moments; you may start your landing."

@EricAKATheBelgianGuy 7 месяцев назад

@@tranya327 I didn't know that! Then again, it's been so long since I've seen Empire Strikes Back.

@mattschliemann9683 7 месяцев назад

Wasn't he also in Game of Thrones?

@user-mg5mv2tn8q 7 месяцев назад

He was in a couple good Doctor Who serials during the Tom Baker era.

@lennyvalentin6485 7 месяцев назад

@@mattschliemann9683 Yes, Glover played Grand Maester Pycelle in GoT - personally I watched the entire series and never realized it was him - the role and the way he played it was that convincing. Masterful acting, there's no other way to describe it. Sadly, Glover is now deceased as I recall. RIP! :(

@craigoconnor6662 7 месяцев назад

I've seen this film many times but only just noticed reknowned actor Charles Dance as a henchman.

@oaf-77 7 месяцев назад

He was also in Golden Child and Last Action Hero

@Rallarbusen 7 месяцев назад

The combination-sport of cross-country skiing and target shooting is called Biathlon. A really tough Olympic event; do you slow down coming into the shootingrange to get your pulse rate down or do you fight on to gain time? The competitors shoot high-end .22s but this bad guy had a full-powered rifle.

@SuperTyrannical1 3 месяца назад

As a bookworm then maybe you should read the Bond novels that inspired the movies. Ian Fleming the creator of Bond was actually head of British naval intelligence during WW2 and Bond was thought to be an amalgamation of various agents he knew. In fact the new movie "The Ministry For Ungentlemanly Warfare" even features Ian Fleming as a character as it's based on the real worlds 1st special forces mission by British intelligence. The title of that movie was one of many nicknames for the secretive group the SOE which would become the foundation for Mi5 and Mi6. The latter being the very intelligence agency that Bond works for himself.

@willcool713 7 месяцев назад

This was the first Bond film I saw in theaters. I really loved these movies when I was young, really whetted my palette for Tom Clancy's best sellers later in life. (I miss those.) This is probably the best of the Roger Moore Bond films, imo. I may be biased. Spy fantasy is less fun to me than a good espianage action thriller. In order of my opinion: Sean Connory, Pierce Brosnan, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, George Lazenby, and then Daniel Craig is in a class by himself with a different style of Bond. Imo, Roger Moore's other plots get bogged down with pop trends and tricky gadgets. When even James Bond went to space, I knew we'd hit peak Star Wars mania, for instance.

@peterlenham3180 6 месяцев назад

For Your Eyes Only is a classic Bond film. The film was released in 1981, not the 70s.

@dabe1971 7 месяцев назад

Madness to start a franchise midway ! You'll miss out on so much !

@donkarnage6032 7 месяцев назад

Not really. There isn't that much continuity between the movies. There are some references sprinkled here and there but each of them is kind of its own story. The only Bond movies that had any type of direct continuity were the Daniel Craig Bonds.

@paulstewart6203 7 месяцев назад

Rodger moore, definitely a classic James Bond. Personally I think the Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig Bond movies are the most exciting and action-packed.

@3DJapan 7 месяцев назад

Every Bond movie gets a theme song written for it. Madonna did one of them.

@ShuffleUpandDeal32 7 месяцев назад

Every Bond movie has a different song made specifically for it aside from the main theme used in every movie.

@alphawave5603 7 месяцев назад

My favorite Bond movie 🍿 although I know not as popular amongst the Bond fans.

@sansabark 7 месяцев назад

I like it too. At the time it came out, it was refreshing to not have Bond saving the universe.

@jamesdamiano8894 7 месяцев назад

The Bond series are a lot of fun. You can't take them too seriously, just watch and have some fun. Some are way better than others. Although I always Liked Roger Moore as Bond. Quite a few of his run were pure campiness. Each actor who has played Bond put their own spin on the character. There was one actor named George Lazenby only portrayed him once and he was the one who got married, hence the beginning of this one where you see her grave. The most recent portrayal of Bond played by Daniel Craig are more serious. The series was always known for the stunt work.

@Billis75 7 месяцев назад

Just to avoid spoilers, I will give a high level explanation. The first part of the film involving the man with the cat is an in-joke. It involved the copyright of a character from the early films (the Sean Connery/George Lazenby films), and not being able to use him for decades, so they "killed" him off to give the finger to the man holding the rights to the character. If you get around to the film Thunderball, that's where the story begins regarding the rights to use the character.

@bjgandalf69 7 месяцев назад

Excellent non-spoiling explanation of the wheelchair guy.

@AwesomeUSMovies 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for the non-spoilers, it's appreciated

@thegladve 7 месяцев назад

@@AwesomeUSMovies 22:50, you wouldn't believe how lucrative the trail mixing business can be, well at least in my country, in fact the prices are ridiculously high you could swear that the people selling it are really trying to sell you gold.

@vincentsaia6545 7 месяцев назад

The (first time) director, John Glen, started out as a second unit director, who is in charge of the action sequences, hence the elaborate stunts.

@biggienorm420 7 месяцев назад

I love all the Bond films!!! You should definitely react to a bunch of them. I think you would very much enjoy a lot of them.

@skiking226USA 7 месяцев назад

You should watch The Spy Who Loved Me, that’s one of best from the 70’s, and this movie came out in 1981

@7thsealord888 7 месяцев назад

'For Your Eyes Only' has a few callbacks to previous Bond movies but, honestly, is one of the weaker ones otherwise. Matter of taste, though, because it is still very very good entertainment. Opinions on the "Best Bond" have always varied hugely. I like Roger Moore's take, but he played the part light, with plenty of quips and one-liners. All of the actors brought something to the role, and Sean Connery is widely regarded as THE Bond (to be fair, most others lean on his portrayal to some extent). My own personal favorite is Timothy Dalton, who seemed to amalgamate both Connery and Moore in certain respects, but he only did two Bonds.

@bjgandalf69 7 месяцев назад

I get why James made sure not to record the music with the clips (ie. to block against a copyright strike) but it's really weird to watch clips from a Bond film without the awesome music from John Barry.

@bjgandalf69 7 месяцев назад

Whoops...correction to my post. I had trouble verifying the composer of the music of this film as I am a little high on my data used on my mobile this month. While John Barry has scored several James Bond films, this one was done by Bill Conti, the man most known for scoring the Rocky franchise. I thought maybe I may have remembered the composer wrong. I stand corrected.

@sharpgirl72 7 месяцев назад

Great info!!!

@timroebuck3458 7 месяцев назад

This movie was actually released in 1981.

@gy7694 7 месяцев назад

The Ministery of Defence in the UK is the equivalent of the Department of Defense in the US.

@MAMoreno 7 месяцев назад

I really like this film, but it's a bit of a weird place to start. The pre-credits scene is a coda for the recurring storyline from the 1960s Bond films, and the head of the KGB at the end of the film had previously interacted with Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). While continuity was not the highest priority after the first decade of Bond films, For Your Eyes Only consciously tries to call back to some of the popular 007 films from years past. This particular film is based primarily on two of Ian Fleming's short stories, though it also draws upon material from the novels that had been omitted from earlier adaptations of those novels. This was the first film in the series to take its name and plot from the short stories, as they had run out of novels with the previous film, Moonraker (1979). The rest of the 1980s Bond films draw upon these short stories for their plots, and it's not until the 1990s that the film series had to start coming up with completely new stories with no connection to the original author.

@julipan2001 7 месяцев назад

You can't have your first introduction to the bond world starting with For your eyes only.

@FrancisXLord 7 месяцев назад

'Number 10' refers to 10 Downing Street, which is the equivalent of your White House, where our Prime Minister lives. Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister when this film was released, hence the actress is made to resemble her.

@markharris1125 7 месяцев назад

Certainly an odd place to start but this one of my favourite Bond films. I love Topol and his pistachios, Julian Glover just always reminds me of Pycelle these days but he's always a good watch; I like that Bond turns down the teenage temptress, and I love the Citroen chase. It also has, in my opinion, the third best Bond theme song. The Thatcher routine at the end is actually quite funny now, though it was cringey at the time. And the parrot throws the watch into the sea, so that's all fine. So - odd, but good. Oh, all right. #1. The Living Daylights #2. The Spy Who Loved Me ('Nobody Does It Better') #3. For Your Eyes Only #4. Live And Let Die #5. Die Another Day Yes, I'm the only person who likes #5, and I'm proud of it! Just following off your last thoughts, it's such a long time ago that I drove, I have never had a car with one of those remote control things. Still seems like magic to me when people walk away from their car and lock it as they go. Coming up on 28 years, I think. And you'd never get nudity in a Bond film, God forbid. He did get off with two women, which is possibly a bit tame for him but it was (like turning down Bibi) a reflection that Roger was getting older and certain things would be creepy. If you're jumping around the franchise, try 'The Living Daylights' next, a different Bond, a more serious Bond, and a genuine love story. It not only has my favourite theme song but it's my favourite Bond film, even after all these years.

@bradpriebe9218 7 месяцев назад

Great reaction. Being a bookworm, I'm kinda surprised you havent read any Ian Fleming books. The whole idea of the spy gadgets may have originated with Bond (especially this generation of Bond) but to be honest, Inspector Gadget is very much modelled on the American tv show Get Smart (which is a spoof of spy movies/tv shows of the 60s). If I remember Don Adams, the actor who played the lead character Maxwell Smart was also the voice of Inspector Gadget. The different "generations" of Bond are all very different from each other, while still having a common idea behind them. Myself, I prefer the last version of him played by Daniel Craig. He feels the most "human" of the Bonds imo.

@user-mg5mv2tn8q 7 месяцев назад

Everybody's entitled to their own critical opinion, but personally, I think Fleming's Bond stories are not very good. The movie character is, infamously, a sexist womanizer, but all in all at least the writers and producers put some effort into making him likeable and fun. The literary Bond, on the other hand, is a dreary, self-absorbed, pissy-pants drunk who not only uses women, but goes out of his way to make it crystal clear that he hates women. And then there's Fleming's racism, which is pretty extreme, almost obsessive at times, and quite repellent. I mean, even racists reading Live and Let Die or Goldfinger would say, "Whoa, Ian, tone it down. You have some issues."

@bjgandalf69 7 месяцев назад

Fun fact: The Countess was played by Cassandra Harris, an Australian actress that was Pierce Bronson's first wife. James, Pierce was Bond for 4 films from 1995-2003. She passed away in 1991 while still married to Bronson with whom she had 2 sons and a daughter.

@satyadasgumbyji8956 7 месяцев назад

Will have to save it for when i get there myself, friend! See ya! ✌️🌎❤️

@Farmer_Dave 7 месяцев назад

The little yellow car is a french Citroën 2CV it still has one of the most advanced suspension systems ever designed. The commercial showed that you could drive across a freshly plowed field with a large basket of eggs in the passenger seat and not break a single egg. And the the guys from The Grand Tour auto show proved it true. It had 9 hp in 1948 and was upgraded all the way up to a massive 29 hp. It had a 4 speed manual.

@AwesomeUSMovies 7 месяцев назад

Love it, I'll have to look up that commercial

@Farmer_Dave 7 месяцев назад

@@AwesomeUSMovies if you like history "Big Car" channel has a 26min video called "The Citroën 2CV Story" being sold from 1950 to 1990 to rural French Farmers post WWII.

@claire-mariefromfrance5712 4 месяца назад

@@AwesomeUSMovies I'm glad the James Bond movies paid tribute to the 2CV; it's well-deserved! 🙂 I've had a 1973 model for 31 years (I'm a 49-year-old French woman). This car appeared in so many French movies from the early 60s to the 80s, but had no international recognition until it appeared in "For your eyes only". The Late Brake Show RU-vid channel uploaded a video about the two-engined 4x4 Sahara Citroën 2CV a month ago; definitely worth watching! My parents had a Citroën Méhari for 20 years; that car is just as iconic as the 2CV; go and read the Wikipedia page about Citroën Méhari in English: It's a fantastic little car as well 🙂 Last but not least, I subscribed to your channel right after watching your reaction to "My cousin Vinny". I appreciate your feedback and genuine laughter.

@aredub1847 2 месяца назад

this is how you fly a heli in grand theft auto.

@whisperienced 7 месяцев назад

Wait you're doing James Bond out of order?

@h91rex100 7 месяцев назад

Yeah im scratching my head at that also.

@sharpgirl72 7 месяцев назад

Yeah, the travesty. I should be struck by lightning. ⚡

@oaf-77 7 месяцев назад

It doesn't really have an order, though there's a little recurring story arc from Her Majesty secret service

@chrislaustin 6 месяцев назад

A little late to the discussion but it's all good, and this is probably my favorite Bond film(Moore was my fav Bond as well), at least out of the ones I've seen, which is up to the 1st or 2nd Craig film. My first one was Moonraker the one before this, so you can for sure watch them out of order, as it's not the end of the world. Yes, you have some recurring characters and plot points from time to time, but I feel each movie can be enjoyed on its own. My mom grew up with the Connery Bond so of course he was her favorite, but when I saw this one she gave me a history lesson and we started renting all the movies. This movie was also a return to basics in regards to gadgets, technology etc., as I guess they felt Moonraker was to expensive and to over the top. So this was more character and story driven without all the normal bells and whistles and I believe it was a better movie for it. Melina was also my favorite Bond girl from the series as well, as she was so totally different than what most Bond girls had been before or since this film.

@Muck006 7 месяцев назад

33:50 "Number ten" is a reference to *Number 10, Downing Street* ... the residence of the british Prime Minister.

@craigoxford5611 7 месяцев назад

This movie was released in 1981, the James Bond movie after this one is the movie Octopussy starring Roger Moore as James Bond.

@oaf-77 7 месяцев назад

You’re not counting Never Say Never Again?

@couch.patati-patata 7 месяцев назад

Should have started with Spy Who Loved Me. The best Bond movie. Lots of beauteous babes.

@rickardroach9075 7 месяцев назад

Best car and best villain.

@victorcowboywest 7 месяцев назад

This was an interesting take on "James Bond" number #10, these, are good spy/ dramas there's 26 movie in this series. If you do more start with number #1 "Dr. No".This a very enthusiastic reaction, I hope you do more. For a comic take on the "Bond" character Check out "CASINO ROYALE" from 1967 starting David Niven or the TV drama ( Climax") "CASINO ROYALE" staring Berry Sullivan.

@mattschliemann9683 7 месяцев назад

Agreed about Casino Royale. BUT! Just want to clarify to James, that that Casino Royale and Craig's Casino Royale aren't the same movie and to be sure to watch them both if he does check out the comedy. Craig's isn't a remake or anything, though the plot might be kinda the same idea. It's been forever since I've seen the comedy version, I don't really remember the plot completely.

@user-mg5mv2tn8q 7 месяцев назад

The 60s version of Casino Royal is a truly horrible mess, full of weird, "so bad it's good" (?) campiness. Infamously, there were seven different directors, one after another, each one hired after the previous one was fired or quit. And Peter Sellers is in the movie, then suddenly isn't -- he was off his meds, threw a bipolar temper tantrum, and just walked away without finishing.

@user-mg5mv2tn8q 7 месяцев назад

The 60s Casino Royale does have one redeeming feature, the soundtrack. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass really deliver an incredible and highly memorable main theme as well as some decent side tunes, and Dusty Springfield sings a very good love theme.

@couch.patati-patata 7 месяцев назад

Give us a kiss. Give us a kiss. Oh Mr. Bond. Behave.

@sasamichan 7 месяцев назад

this is the 2n major Bond Actor sol he's right in the middle . In fact at the start was the end of a previous ongoing story

@willcool713 7 месяцев назад

Fyi, Bond theme songs are commissioned by request, which is considered an honor and a mark of notoiety and acclaim. The playlist is pretty great, actually, popular at ballroom dance venues, too. Live and Let Die is a classic.

@ianhill8345 7 месяцев назад

Great reaction James to a classic James bond movie so many bond movies out there to do

@visionaryventures12 7 месяцев назад

Until recently, the movies were loosely based on the titles of the original novels by Ian Fleming. After a while, they were just matching in title only. Only about 17 or so original Fleming novels, beginning with Casino Royale and ending with The Man With the Golden Gun. Movie order wildly differs from that of the novels. The movies can be sequenced by whoever is portraying Bond… Sean Connery, then George Lazenby for a single movie, then Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton for two movies, then Pierce Brosnan. After a hiatus, there was Daniel Craig. The opening music for each movie was performed as a prestige by a famous singer.

@3DJapan 7 месяцев назад

Rather than Bond, Inspector Gadget is more based on the old TV series Get Smart (both starring Don Adams) and Inspector Clouseau from the Pink Panther movies.

@vincentsaia6545 7 месяцев назад

Although several actors have played him, there is only one James Bond 007.

@mindcrome 7 месяцев назад

Goldfinger is kinda the template. Bond movies are just fun

@dalee72 3 месяца назад

You should start from the beginning with the first Bond film. For Your Eyes Only was released in 81.

@stevenmoules4955 7 месяцев назад

This film came out in 1981 james...The first film came out in 1962...there is 25 films in total plus an unofficial bond movie "never say never again" which they don't count as a proper bond film because it was produced by a different film company

@darnellrobinson1333 7 месяцев назад

This movie was released in 1981

@jescis0 7 месяцев назад

I have the Japanese version of GoldenEye 007 on the N64, which was based on the Bond movie of the same name 😉😉 But I found a list of Bond movies… Dr. No (1962) From Russia with Love (1963) Goldfinger (1964) Thunderball (1965) You Only Live Twice (1967) On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) Diamonds Are Forever (1971) Live and Let Die (1973) The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) Moonraker (1979) For Your Eyes Only (1981) Octopussy (1983) A View to a Kill (1985) The Living Daylights (1987) License to Kill (1989) GoldenEye (1995) Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) The World Is Not Enough (1999) Die Another Day (2002) Casino Royale (2006) Quantum of Solace (2008) Skyfall (2012) Spectre (2015) No Time to Die (2021)

@RedmoonIndustries 7 месяцев назад

In my experience, movies went from two hours and thirty minutes long and eventually shortened to about ninety minutes and now we are back to three hours for a good one. The difference is back in the day the movies had a lot of "filler" parts. Like you were referencing parts that seemed slow, or had no dialog. I'd also like to point out, the early movie trailers were like five minutes long, and even some times were recorded to be the actual movie trailer, which meant you had no spoilers in the trailer itself.

@frogofbrass382 7 месяцев назад

For Your Eyes Only is a great movie, but I'm hoping you go back to start with Dr. No and watch the movies in release order.

@yournamehere6002 7 месяцев назад

This is a bad one to start with. THE SPY WHO LOVED ME is the best Moore Bond, and one of the best Bond movies ever.

@Sal-gh1se 7 месяцев назад

Well, if you started with the best one, then it would just be downhill no matter what you watched next.

@rickardroach9075 7 месяцев назад

With the best car and best villain.

@yournamehere6002 7 месяцев назад

@@rickardroach9075 And one of the sexiest Bond girls.

@rickardroach9075 7 месяцев назад

@@yournamehere6002 Lucky Ringo Starr.

@yournamehere6002 7 месяцев назад

@@rickardroach9075 He's led a charmed life for sure!

@gallendugall8913 7 месяцев назад

"it was a bit long" Yes! But don't blame the '70s. They could have cut thirty minutes out of this film easily. The better Bond films have better pacing.

@SirHilaryManfat 5 месяцев назад

Interesting choice for a first Bond movie, but not the best for beginners. It's a bit clanky in places, and Roger Moore was starting to get old. The general rule for anyone interested in getting on the Bond franchise, is to start with the recognised essential four Bond movies. Sean Connery's Goldfinger, Roger Moore's The Spy Who Loved Me, Pierce Brosnan's Goldeneye and Daniel Craig's Casino Royale. Great follow up movies are Sean Connery's From Russia With Love, Timothy Dalton's Licence to Kill, George Lazenby's one Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Daniel Craig's Skyfall.

@txheadshots 7 месяцев назад

Theme song trivia: This was the first time that the singer of the theme song (Sheena Easton in this case) was shown on screen during the credits. Easton was a huge rising star and at the time, it was a huge honor to be asked to perform the theme song for a James Bond movie

@vincentsaia6545 7 месяцев назад

If you enjoyed this movie you might want to watch all the Bond movies in order, starting with DR. NO (1962) with Sean Connery as Bond.

@kellyadams79 6 месяцев назад

I like this one and the other older ones with Sean Connery. I didn't like the ones started in 2006 with Daniel Craig. I liked Pierce Brosnan's starting in 1995- 2002 and Timothy Dalton's A Liscense to Kill. Grew up watching these with my Dad.

@waxmania9868 7 месяцев назад

Shout out Inspector Gadget

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@AwesomeUSMovies 7 месяцев назад

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@cvdm9663 7 месяцев назад

Please watch Goldfinger

@tommiller4895 7 месяцев назад

Goldfinger introduces the iconic tricked out DB5 Aston Martin. It has machine guns, a tire slasher, changing licence plates, an oil slick, a smoke screen, rear bullet proof sheld and an ejector seat (to get rid of uninvited passengers).

@oaf-77 7 месяцев назад

Goldfinger is the Bondiest of the early Bond films

@Muck006 7 месяцев назад

a) Bond movies ALWAYS have specially written songs and they are a big deal b) GENERAL ADVICE: whenever you start a series ... START AT THE BEGINNING!

@LordVolkov 7 месяцев назад

"Bibi was naked in his bed and he was like 'Put your clothes on!' " Roger Moore was very aware of his age difference from the young co-stars they paired him with, and made sure he wasn't portrayed doing anything too inappropriate 😅 There is a lot of implied hanky-panky though, but Bond tries to keep everything tasteful (most of the time). Bond in the books is very much a womanizer & misogynist (for that Bond, go to Connery), but they lighten him up thankfully after Connery.

@3DJapan 7 месяцев назад

I personally find the more recent films better, like the Pierce Brosnan era.