It’s understandably polarising but I just love the film. The music, the romance, both the opening and closing are incredibly heartbreaking. Saw it five times in the cinema. And I think with time, it will be appreciated more and more.
If you watch the end of the pre-title sequence carefully- when Bond puts Madeleine on the train, just before the doors close- she grabs her stomach ......When they first get in the car, she says to Bond "I have something to tell you" and Bond replies "I bet you have!"....obviously she wanted to tell him she was pregnant
The stomach just under her breast, below the first ribs ? Nope I think this shows how she really loves Bond and she is in emotionnal distress by the situation, difficulty in breathing. A foetus/baby is at the belly, the navel, not so hight.
Awesome reaction, as always!! I saw this in the theatre & bawled my eyes out 😭 I love the song on the closing credits, it's the last song Louis Armstrong ever sang & it was composed by John Barry who did the soundtracks for like a dozen James Bond movies.
This was a great way to wrap up the current series. There’s a great fan theory that these are the real Bond films and all the others are the Madeline tell Matilda stories about James Bond.
I saw this first showing, opening day and it was the first time I’d been to the pictures in 18 months. I could barely keep the grin off my face through the opening credits. Naturally by the end I was in floods of tears, when I went to see it again with my partner I think I cried even more than the first time. He did scoff with incredulity with the bit with the magnets (but he does have a PhD in Magnetic Materials).
Having watched every Bond on opening night since The Spy Who Loved Me (yes, I'm old!) this ending stunned me. I sat in silence in the cinema until somebody had to physically rouse me and ask me to leave.
@@Flix2Us Did you also notice the Timothy Dalton throwback at the end? Madeline was driving the 1987 Aston Martin V8 Vantage from The Living Daylights.
I loved this Bond film. It draws heavily on tropes from a number of Ian Fleming’s books, nods generously to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and You Only Live Twice in particular, and adds in an almost supernatural dimension. Villain named Lucifer after all - and fitting the classic tropes of the devil…empty figure, an influencer rather than active (following Aquinas’ definition of evil as absence rather than positive presence), seeking chaos and destruction, who corrupts and manipulates, but cannot harm those who renounce him (eg. Mathilde, whom he then has to let go). Some fans hated this film, but I think it took the character to a different daring place.
My issue with the film is that the henchmen were extremely weak (Logan Ash for e.g.), and I think it was somewhat hamstrung by tying up the loose ends of its predecessor, SPECTRE. The villain was underdeveloped too, and for a ~ 3 hour film, pacing felt off at times. I felt the pacing issues crept in after the Cuba sequence. I also had no issue with them killing off Bond. Those who might not be acquainted with the books won't necessarily recall that Bond almost meets death twice, at the end of both From Russia with Love and The Man with the Golden Gun. Perhaps because the stories were serialised in newspapers and so cliffhangers were part of the trade.
Me too (I saw it in cinema for 5 times actually, but that's another story). I usually leave cinema after 007 film with the glorious upbeat Bondesque film (except for QoS maybe, it was bit bland), this film was another story. Now I had some of those upbeat Bond feels, but mostly I was overwhelmed with other sort of emotions... I had to put Hanz Zimmer's soundtrack of NTTD to process it.
Oh and you have to remember that the Daniel Craig James Bond movies does not follow the same timeline as the previous 20 James Bond movies. Casino Royale was the reboot of the franchise.
Daniel Craig is my number one favorite James Bond behind Pierce Bronson and Sean Connery This is my list of Daniel Craig Bond movies from my favorite to least favorite in this particular order 1:Skyfall 2: Casino Royale 3:No Time to Die 4:Spectre 5:Quantum of Solace
I love how they actually had the balls to kill James Bond in a movie. It's such a bittersweet ending. Bond lived his life as a soldier, and he died like a soldier, keeping the world safe from harm. He was never destined to live his life as anything but a protector. Family life was something he wanted, but could never have. In the end, the only way he could protect those he loved was by sacrificing himself. Beautiful.
I thought about that ending like what now, but they kind rebooted the series with Daniel, they can do it again. They can allways play with the timelibe.The next Bond movie could open with Bonds funeral and then like 50 years ago and then we can keep going.
It’s a historic film in the sense that Bond is killed. The Daniel Craig era is a different time-line and has nothing to do with the rest of the films. Basically the next film will/might continue on the same road where Die Another Day left off with a new one off story for each film.
He was so close to love and contentment, and it was taken from him like the first movie. This time he was resigned to his conclusion vs being resigned to revenge in Casino Royale. Best Bond from my perspective.
And one more thing, I'm glad that y'all did the James Bond movies in order, from Dr. no to no time to die. I have came across other RU-vidrs that has been doing the James Bond movies and most of them started with the Daniel Craig James Bond movies instead of starting from the first James Bond movie. I enjoyed your reactions and kudos for doing all 25 James Bond movies.
I enjoyed no time to die. It wasn't the perfect James Bond movie but it was a pretty damn good James Bond movie. The ending was emotional and killing Bond was a very bold decision and a fitting end of the the Daniel Craig James Bond era. A few things here. No time to die was nominated for three Academy Awards for best original song, visual effects and sound with Billie eilish winning the Academy Award for best original song. Hans Zimmer was actually a last-minute replacement to do the music for no time to die and he did a great job. He even Incorporated multiple musical cues from On Her Majesty's Secret Service. An that music when Bond was killed is one of the most beautiful and tragic musical cues I have ever heard from a James Bond movie and in general. The Gun Barrel sequence was the first James Bond movie to not have blood dripping down and was done in a creative way with Bond disappearing and the Gunbarrel transitioning into the opening shot with the snow and I like the nod to the gun barrel sequence during the final act. Too bad it was not shown on this reaction. This was the first James Bond movie to have two different Aston Martin cars. The classic Aston Martin DB5 and the Aston Martin from The Living Daylights. There are plenty of references and Easter eggs from previous Bond movies including portraits of previous M's played by Robert Brown and Dame Judi Dench. The poison garden is a reference from the You Only Live Twice novel. No time to die is a pretty good movie and yes it does say James Bond will return at the end credits.
I sat in the cinema as gobsmacked as you two at the end of the movie...all through the last few minutes I muttered to myself "they can't do that, they can't do that, they DID!!!" I could hear a lot of sobbing around me as the credits finished and I waited like frozen for "JAMES BOND WILL RETURN" ...I definitely needed a stiff drink afterwards to process all this.
Great reaction. Even if it doesn't rank among the best finales of film franchises, I think it's a good movie. 🙂 I watched it 6 times in the theaters. It's like a "What if...? / Elseworld" story about James Bond being past his prime and living a last fantasy of true romance. I cried with the ending and that's something I gonna remember fondly as a James Bond fan. I was introduced to the 007 franchise thanks to Daniel Craig and I gonna miss him a lot as the character.
There's obviously a handful of other "connected" movies and documentaries other than the two you have targeted. One of which I'd recommend: Becoming Bond (2017) which is a highly entertaining docu-drama about George Lazenby's crazy story about blagging the role despite never having acted before, then throwing it away cos his ego got too big. There's another one called Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming where the title character is played by Jason Connery (Sean's son!), although that's more a low key BBC piece.
Yep, given the indication that he missed his Target, which explains why there was no blood dripping down. Bond disappearing was another clue, foreshadowing for what's to come. Yeah it's too bad they didn't have the Gunbarrel sequence or the gunbarrel nod during the final act on here.
I did suspect that they were going to kill him off. The line "We have all the time in the world", and the musical score as he said it, was the first of many callbacks to "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," which made me prepare for a tragic end. And they had made such a point about this definitely being Daniel Craig's last movie. The fact that Casino Royale was a complete reboot, and they had far more continuity between movies than they used to, made the Daniel Craig films stand as a complete self contained story, from his first mission to the end, and it seemed like with a guy like James Bond, living to old age in retirement just isn't the way to end it.
You should consider reacting to the mission impossible franchise if you've never seen them before. These movies are the closer you can get from James Bond (spy, espionnage, stunts, etc ...) And it's even better than 007 in my opinion ;)
This man gave James Bond a soul. He made this character human without changing the basicness of that character. And thats not Rihana, thats Billie eilish.
I was shattered when Bond died. 😭😭 Tell me just why are we looking for the next "Bond" when James Bond, the guy who had the whole Skyfall heritage, is pushing daisies??? Enjoyed the movie, though very bittersweet! 😎
Loved this one when first seeing it at the cinema. And yet, after multiple viewings I have two problems with it: 1. Why was Waltz so massively underused? 2. EMP: solves all your nano-bot issues. 😂
This film borrows a few ideas from the Fleming novel You Only Live Twice including the Garden of Death filled with poisonous plants and the line "Die! Blofeld die!" is verbatim what Bond says in the novel before killing Blofeld.
The James Bond codename theory is complete bs, both in the Craig timeline and in the classic timeline up to Brosnan. It's one of those things that massively annoys Bond nerds, such as myself. Because to newcomers to the series and casual fans it sounds so believable, but when you go into the details it doesn't hold up to scrutiny at all. Btw, this movie massively divided the fandom. A lot of older Bond fans in particular really hated how they killed him off.
Well remember Daniel Craig's Bond is the only career length version. Casino Royale was a literal reboot starting with his first kill. So in a way, Pierce Brosnan still holds the role of the original 20 film Bond correct? And since James Bond Will Return, not 007, they could simply continue in that timeline so to speak. With whatever actor they feel like.
@@mirekg5704 Which part is confusing to you? The first scene in Casino Royale is Bond's first kill, his 007 status promotion. It's a reboot, yea? In the end credits of No Time to Die, it still says JAMES BOND WILL RETURN which is strange since we just saw the man "die". I was expecting perhaps 007 WILL RETURN instead if anything at all.
To say, this series of Bond is a tough act to follow would be a severely major understatement. I feel bad for the next guy. Love you both from India. ❤🙏🏾🙂 I am sorry I am not that financially sound to be able to afford patreon. But 1 request. Would you and aunty please react to this character (I emphasize character because it's the alter ego created by a comedian) Uncle Roger please? 🙏🏾❤
Codename theory is fun to think of, but it's not true at all. It's the same Fleming's 007, it's the same person James Bond in all films. Codename theory was debunked by so many things, like Roger Moore's Bond visiting grave of Tracey Bond (George Lazenby's Bond late wife) as one of the most prominent. It's the same person just forever entrapped in 35-40 years old self despite whatever time change. Or Skyfall grave scene, his parents' name is straight from the books. You can argue that Craig's Bond have different continuity (despite all of the nods to previous films, including nods to all 24 previous ones in No Time to Die alone, lots of them, surprised you never mentioned that) and that with the next actor they'll have to invent something we're yet to expect, but... so far cinematic Bond is the same person too. James Bond will return.
I liked Casino Royale, but I just never ever really enjoyed the rest afterwards... they lost that 'suave spy' feel like the old movies, and with the overly modern tech, the movies also began losing the period-feel of the cold war and such.
The significance of this film saves it in parts from being Craig’s worst Bond. The film was shot great, along with locations but the characters were so weak. The villain was one of the weakest and that’s the villain that ends Craig? Just didn’t make sense. Logan Ash was another irrelevant character, and he’s the one that kills a legendary character in Felix Leiter. Then they just kill off Logan Ash like he was irrelevant, like he didn’t just kill Felix. It was completely rushed in parts. This was Craig’s final Bond, the characters should have been the strongest but they weren’t. They don’t come close to Casino Royale, Skyfall, Spectre and even characters like General Medrano in Quantum.
A point that often gets missed: it's not just that Bond cant touch Madeline and Mathilde. He can't touch ANYONE. Recall how the weapon harmlessly hopped from Madeline, through Bond, to kill Blofeld. This means that as soon as Bond made contact with any person - regardless of who it might be - the nanobots would then start invisibly moving from person to person until they eventually killed their targets. Perhaps Bond could hope against hope that he might be safely isolated until a solution was found, but given his need for immediate medical attention, that would be extremely risky. By trying to save himself, he would almost certainly end up killing those he loved. I whole-heartedly applaud the filmmakers for finally taking chances and stepping outside the established formula for the Daniel Craig films... and for the first time, we got an actor who absolutely nailed the original character created by Ian Fleming. I thoroughly enjoyed this journey, as dark as it sometimes got. Now, I think the time is right for a somewhat lighter tone. In the wake of the pandemic I think audiences want more light escapism from movies, and the Bond producers have another blank slate with which to make a new series appropriate for the coming decade. I have no idea who can fill Daniel Craig's shoes, or which direction they will take us, but I'm hopeful that it will be somewhere fun.
Taking out Daniel Craig’s Bond, the guy who was supposed to be about realism until he wasn’t, via sci fi virus is so stupid. It’s like License To Kill meets Moonraker.
@@christhornycroft3686 - I think the tone of the Daniel Craig films was more consistent than any other era, except perhaps Lazenby and Dalton - who didn't make enough films to establish this. Most of Craig's films contained some fantasy elements that were on the edge of reality: Embedded tracking device in Bond's wrist, pocket-sized defibrillator in a glove compartment, multi-touch conference table, and smart blood, which was introduced in Spectre and carried over into No Time to Die
With Bond´s death the producers totally screwed it up and made die hard Bond fans upset. For me this film doesn´t feel like a Bond film but rather a tearful drama and it never had to be done. Absolutely useless. Try to forget the whole Craig era and hope, the next Bond won´t be such a mess.
@@doughbafett I get that, but I'm a long time student of Bond movies. And if the first 24 films taught me anything, it's that, by no matter how preposterous the means, BOND ALWAYS SURVIVES. I remember walking out of this movie in silence, and I wasn't the only one. Just the occasional "Did they really do that???"
