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I saw it at the Odeon Leicester Sq 4 TIMES!!! and spent a small fortune on merchandise and magazines etc.
I was so excited as it was my first Bond film. I was born in 79 and wasn't until 92 that i became REALLY sad and got into Bond. However GE has become dated so quickly compared to the other Bonds.
Also GE suffers the same fate as all the other Brosnan films and that is the ending. It has NO tension whatsoever. GE for example, as soon as Natalaya had gave to return to earth signal to the Satellite it was GAME over.. Once a satellite is on a return to earth flightpath there is sod all you can do about it. So the final 20 minutes was pretty pointless and Boris just plain annoying.
It still stands up as Brosnan's best film but alas all that promise was p****d away with TND and the others.
Alright, alright, I will agree with the fact that Brosnan is upstaged by just about everyone ESPECIALLY Sean Bean, who I think would have made a better Bond in the first place....
HOWEVER
GoldenEye is Brosnan's best film by a good amount and is a superior Bond film. The girls are great, the villains are great (minus Boris), and Campbell's direction is spot on.
8/10 from me, GoldenEye sits in my top 10 at number 8.
7. The Living Daylights (1987) - 8.5/10
8. GoldenEye (1995) - 8/10
9. You Only Live Twice (1967) - 7.5/10
Indeed this script helps anchor GoldenEye’s more fantastical elements, allowing for some rare moments of introspection. The script also cleverly asks Bond to validate himself in the post cold war era, something he achieves with aplomb.
There are a few quibbles; some of the action scenes need trimming, while Boris gets far too much screentime, especially for such an annoying and superfluous character. Also it looks an eighties film.
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Brosnan remains for me an excellent 007, too bad he didn't get his fifth movie that was toned down not unlike FYEO.
Of course there were momets in the movies that failed to impress me, but the Craig era suffers much more from failing directors and bad endings.
Exactly. Brad Whitaker is one of the lowest villains in the series, because #1, he isn't threatening enough, and #2, he doesn't get enough screentime to even be important. For me, the main villain of TLD is Necros, the one worthy villain in the whole movie, whereas Koskov and Whitaker are jokes.
And by the way, I'll say it again, GoldenEye is Number 1 all the way!!!
And are you saying they aren't fine Bond films? I think they are quite good, and they are both good enough to be in my top ten Bond films list, which is more than I can say for GoldenEye. GoldenEye never wanted to be anything more than a middle of the road, "safe", generic action film for the whole family to enjoy. At least TMWTGG and DAF tried to be something other than just a film. GE is extremely overrated, don't think it's really that great, it was the end of real Bond as we knew it. Seems most people like it on nostalgia and nothing more, which isn't really a good reason to like it. It would have probably been better with Dalton, considering he is a much finer actor than Brosnan.
Wow, a stinging blow Dr_Metz! Just kidding, whatever you think is fine with me. I just can't bear to hear criticism for GoldenEye! I don't really think it was the end of Bond, since Casino Royale turned the series around after the terrible mess that Die Another Day left us in.
Yeah, a 360° turn. It's not really that down to earth if you pay attention, nor is the writing really that much better. It's also extremely boring. Not an improvement in my eyes. It wasn't worth rebooting a 40 year-old series for a pretty bad attempt at a Bond film.
In the hundreds and hundreds of times I've seen GE over the years I have NEVER found it boring. If anything I've felt that with "Dulmonds are Forever" (a few witty lines doesn't cut it in an underwelming film either) and The Man With The Golden Gun (ok Lee's good but Hamilton's direction is sluggish).
I like it for more than nostalga. I like the characters, the direction and yes Serra's music.
I like Casino Royale, especially since Martin Campbell is the director. His work on GE and CR is noticable when comparing the two. While I don't think that CR is the best, it is still in my Top Ten. The locations are awesome, the action sequences are big and epic, but not too far out, and the dialogue is very quote-worthy and memorable, and not for the wrong reasons.
It's never really occured to me that GE might have been written with Dalton in mind. Since he is eminently more watchable than Brozza and has a substantial screen presence where Brozza has none, it could only have made for a 'better' movie. The confrontation between Dalton and Bean might actually have had a bit of genuine tension. As it is you know Sean Bean would beat the living daylights out of of Brozza any day of the week, so the whole scenario feels unbelieveable. However, for various reasons, most of which have been outlined above, GE is a fundamentally flawed film. The preposterous blue-screen 'stunt' with the plane ruined it from the start for me. What a let-down from the franchise that has always delivered fine stunts. Any one who brings up the bungee jump should consider how 'cool' it is for Bond to be seen engaging in an activity most often associated with gap year students and corporate bonding weekends.
Imo Dench was never that great in the first place. Although briefly amusing and the novelty of a female M wore off long ago. The rest of the cast I can take or leave without too much concern. Jack Wade is awful - almost a return to the tobacco-chewing cop character in the early Rog outings. Scoro-whatshername (whatever happened to her?) is bland and dull. Famke, although a fine actress and not unattractive, is unfortunately cast as Cruella DeVille in GE and cannot for one moment be taken seriously either as a temptress or a villain.
A further concern I have with GE is the way in which it uses this 'personal' dimension between Bond and Trevelyan. Obviously, the stories have had personal motivations/aspects previously, not least in OHMSS and LTK. However, since LTK and encompassing almost all the subsequent movies, there seems to have developed an obsession with the idea that Bond must have some personal reason for pursuing the villain. In TND it's the murder of the emminently deserving Teri Hatcher character. In TWINE, there's some twaddle about M's past (sound familiar to any one working on Skyfall?) and, I seem to remember, a yawn-inducing 'history' with Sophie Morceau's character. In DUD, Bond is implausibly imprissoned by and unable to escape from a tin-pot Communist dictatorship (this wouldn't happen to the Bond character we know and love), where he grows his hair long and seems to go through some kind of psychological crisis. It continues in a similar vein with CR (here the personal story is based on the novel, so I can stomach it) and more pointlessly with QoS. Now it seems we're going to be fed more of this pseudo-psychological guff with Skyfall.
When is Bond just going to get a proper mission from a proper ex-military M, bed the girl/s, bosh the baddies and sail away in an escape pod? Ah... those were the days.
I didn't mind Serra's score; one of the better things about the film actually.
My mistake :)
Another controversial thing is its use of model work. Yes its pretty bad at times but I think there's a poignancy when you consider Derek Meddings was responsible. I'm sure quite a few people know Meddings did quite a bit of the model work on earlier films as well as some of the Gerry Anderson shows (I was re-watching Captain Scarlet the other day - the BEST Anderson show - and his name popped up) so what better way to end his career than working on a film that (albeit temporily) rebooted the series.
Last great Bond? How about FYEO, OP, AVTAK, TLD, LTK, GE, TND, TWINE, CR, or QoS? Just asking, not trying to be mean here, but why don't you think of the others as great?
The point here is that Baker should never have been allowed near a Bond set, regardless of which witless moron he was portraying.
No real reason. Didn't mind him that much though, I really dislike Harold Wilson however.
TSWLM is IMO the last truly great Bond film. I'm interested in the production design and appearance of the films as much as anything, and Ken Adam's sets are fantastic. Rog has by this film fully hit his stride and I've always been a bit of a sucker for Barbara Bach in a clingy evening gown. That said, the later Roger movies certainly have their moments and I am a huge fan of TLD. Although an admirer of Dalton, LTK has never quite done it for me. I'll skip over the Brozza films for politeness sake and jump to CR, which was okay but too long and humourless. QoS I quite liked, but hardly classic Bond.