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I’m afraid so, I recently rewatched it and even though it ticks a lot of boxes it feels more like a colourless, generic 90’s action film to me.
As I alluded to earlier, it may know the forms but it lacks the flavor. It was my first Bond film and I had no desire to watch another because of it. Years later I’d catch GE, and that ignited my interest in seeing more Bond films.
Definitely this. LTK and QoS were a different sort of Bond film, but still Bondian in their way.
With SP something just feels off somehow. The film doesen't gel as a whole.
This film probably deserves a lot more credit than it already gets for saving the series.
It made Bond young and fresh again,made a brand new audience to add to the fans that were already there.
For one obvious unforgivable reason.
Speaking about the whole film, let's say QoS.
I was a Bond fan as a child in the 70s and 80s with Roger Moore but then I did lose interest. Goldeneye absolutely ‘reinvigorated’ my love of Bond - I was already a fan of Pierce from watching Remington Steele so his casting definitely was a big factor in watching GE and becoming a Bond fan all over again.
Meh!
Funnily, what made me want to check out that movie in the first place was after playing the Nintendo 64 game a lot with my cousin.
CR definitely had the same impact GE did, so you gotta give credit to Martin Campbell being there to reinvigorate Bond TWICE.
Always Python, Campbell has done so much for Bond under pressure, to save the series TWICE !!!
#Meh too.
GE is what made me a fan. The game, then the film. Then I watched the others when TBS used to run their 15 day Bond marathon.
Honestly,you two never cease to amaze me!! ;)
I like it but it's slowly gone down in my rankings over the years.
I can't say I feel nostalgic for it.
I found GE to be more safe than fresh.
It was always horribly dated to me, mate!
And it has too many annoying characters, Wade, Boris and I will also include Trevelyan, really hate that accent!
I find it terribly dull too, and let's not get into that awful score!!
Agreed on the annoying characters. Wade is an unfunny buffoon and Boris should have died with the satellite dish....
Not in the truest sense I would suggest. They were produced by others outside of Eon Productions and as such it would be like comparing apples with oranges. That's just my take on it anyway.
Already mentioned that Draggers, spot on...official only peeps !!!!
Sorry, old chap. I must've missed it. It's been a long few weeks! :)
1) QOS. As much as I love this film, I have to admit, it's very different. I just think of Slate's or Mathis' death. The humor and suaveness is there but is subdued (closer to early Connery). It takes the rawness introduced in CR and brings it to Borne level, which definitely pushes it away from mainstream film Bond. To me the film is making a statement, distancing the series from Austin Powers mockery, which I still feel was needed to be done.
2) SF. The story and ending. As someone else said, "it has the rhythm and feel of a drama, not of an action-adventure thriller." It's very cinematic, but not very Bond. A Dark Knight melodrama. I could be convinced to put this as my number 1.
3) LTK. For me, it's not just the story, but moreso how its filmed. Too much Miami Vice or something.
4) DAD. It's too artificial and goes too far in fantasyland. Feels more like a cheesy superhero film that's been overloaded with Bond film tropes and relics.
Honorable mentions:
CR. I'm surprised that I'm first to mention it. But I've added it for the obvious reasons. Young Bond in training who falls in love. There are moments like the shower scene, the cardiac arrest scene, or the ball scratching scene (and even the flash of the family picture) that are at a level of rawness/brutality we've not seen before in Bond. (QOS takes this and runs with it.) Then there's the B&W intro and the gunbarrel. Despite all these unorthodox elements, Campbell still makes it feel like a Bond film.
DN. It's here because it's the first. Kind of like CR or QOS, it's got the freshness to it and while it's clearly a Bond film, the pacing is incredibly relaxed compared to the films that follow.
TND. I wouldnt have normally picked it, but the comments here struck a tone. Yes it checks all the boxes, but it's too....American action flick. "Colorless 90's action film.
SP. I cant pinpoint it, but something about it just feels off.
LALD. It definitely has a different vibe about it. I think it's the locations. Typically I associate Bond films with beautiful vacation-setting locations, but that's not the case here.
QOS doesn’t feel Bondian because it’s not fantastical enough. But DAD doesn’t feel Bondian because it’s too fantastical. Somehow the film makers have to hit the sweet spot between the two positions.
But, reading other threads here, they also have to hit the sweet spot regarding the villain, the villain’s plot, the number of callbacks to earlier films (too many or not enough), the number of tropes, the music, the women, even the length of the film...
Thanks in part to the game, GoldenEye was somewhat of a cultural phenomenon for anybody who grew up in the nineties. Speaking for myself, I know many people from my generation (current late twenties/early thirties) who still reflect on GoldenEye (film and game) very fondly and many who became lifelong Bond fans as a result.
Absolutely. There is a "GoldenEye Generation" I talked about in The World of GoldenEye. The film is a new classic - for many of us 90s kids it has the effect of Goldfinger and Thunderball.
\m/ I'm a Goldeneye boomer myself.
Least Bondian film for me: LTK.