The net into which Bond and Madeline fell was announced early and is not as pointless there as you think. Such nets are stretched in buildings that are dilapidated. These nets are designed to catch falling stones from crumbling walls. This building was dilapidated, finally it was blown up in the last movie. So no random use of a net. Now you have learned something, I hope.

The net was established earlier in the scene (Bond looks up at it, noting its presence) and its purpose is to catch the debris of the building as it is imploded to prevent it from falling into the Thames. As for where Madeline was hidden, you may not have caught the significance of it, but she was in the closet of what had been M (Dame Judy)'s office when MI6 was located in that building, so Blofeld put her there on purpose knowing Bond's relationship with the prior M would have made him head there - perhaps unconsciously. Looking forward to your reaction to "No Time to Die."

The Day of the Dead parade didn't look like this and was done entirely by the production team. The city enjoyed it so much that they set to do it the following year. Some helicopters can do loops, rolls, and other aerobatics.

Helicopters can glide, it is called autorotation...if the engine stops, the rotor is seperated and turns by it´s own for a litte time.This is often enough to land for the pilot. And yes, some helicopters can even fly loopings like in this movie.

Fun fact: The intro song for this movie, Skyfall, and No Time To Die all won best original song at the Oscars

Glad you mentioned Chris Cornell! Really underrated Bond theme, it's really "GRRR! Bond is cool and stuff" and his voice was crazy good of course. Best Bond theme EVUR. 😁

Fun fact! Radiohead was originally supposed to do the opening for this movie. It turns out however, that the song they made (Spectre) was TOO good, and too emotional for them to use. Go listen to it! It really is incredible, but the song was rejected, and Sam Smith was up in their stead.

The net Bond and Madeline fell into in the end is a safety net to catch falling debris in an unstable building. It's mostly to protect the people below the net from chunks of rock that may fall from above.

Id live for you guys to go through all the old bond movies at least once a month, seeing on how they all hold up to the modern look of bond movies

Ernst Stavro Blofeld is the arch enemy of James Bond

For one of these episodes, you should intro “Hardman, Holden Hardmen” love these movies and can’t wait for you guys to watch No Time to Die

Great to rewatch this with you both, James Bond films try to do as many stunts for real as possible. The helicopter was the Red Bull stunt chopper flown by their pilot, while not actually over the people below, the barrel role and chopper maneuvers were really performed by the pilot. The net is used where a building like that has become structurally unsound, the net catches debris from the building and protects the demolition crew on lower floors. As to Madeline, she was hidden next to M's former office, arguably for maximum emotional impact but yes coincidence is undeniable :p

I love the editor solving production questions within the video, v high tier

I can’t wait for Holden and Jen to watch how everything culminates in NTTD. James and Madeleine’s relationship in this one was really the driving force of it and was just the heart and soul of the entire film (way better than in Spectre by an infinite amount). This one also goes all out on the action but also goes all out on the focus between characters and the emotional/pure aspects of it all (something that some blockbusters today lack imo). It’s great and it’s always about “the world is at risk”, but for NTTD it’s the emotional stakes that make it hit home and much more intimate. That's what makes it differ from the previous ones to an extent. A very impactful end to Craig’s phenomenal run as Bond. Hope you guys enjoy it!

I would love to see you guys do BBC's Sherlock. Some of the best tv ever produced.

I'd like to see more of the numbered agents in a Bond film because the only other one I remember seeing was Sean Bean as 006 in Goldeneye.

Helicopter stunt in the beginning was actually real the helicopter itself was a red bull stunt copter that was repainted. Super crazy!

*YES* Sherlock and Doctor Who Holden. Do it

The next one u guys will enjoy more than this, and the relationship of James and Ernst Blofeld still kind of goes on with the next one and the villain in next one is by far the most amazaing villain i've seen throughout the bond saga's and also the involvement of madelaine as a love interest i thought is quite good, it comes full circle being in the final of the saga.

Yea those nets are a real thing btw. In dilapidated buildings they put these nets up for falling stones and walls. But also if the buildings are quite tall they save any workers that may fall while working

I love how innocently you chuckled at your own “eye to eye” joke

Jen’s right. Even with the engine stalled you can “glide” a helicopter to a “safe” landing using autorotation. The freewheeling unit automatically disengages the engine from the main rotor so it can rotate freely.

I’m glad you guys seemed to really like Chris Cornell’s song the most. I feel like his song is the most underrated of Craig’s Bond Themes. That said, “Skyfall’s” theme song by Adele is the one that I think is the best one. Do you think you two can rank all the Bond songs after you watch “No Time To Die?”

this is the movie in craig's run where the plot starts to get sloppy, they try to retroactively tie everything together into a larger over arching story that they clearly didnt have in mind at any point prior to the making of spectre

The organization Spectre, is a huge part of the Bond movies, going back to the James Bond novel Thunderball from 1961. So for the movies, it makes perfectly sense, that Spectre controlled Silva in Skyfall.

the scene where Daniel Craig and Bautista are fighting on the train, theres a part where Daniel actually broke Bautistas nose lol

I keep thinking Blofeld’s reference to meeting her as a young girl is a reference to the two of them in Inglorious Bastards

I just watched Spectre yesterday at the Royal Albert Hall with a live orchestra. It was amazing. They were celebrating 60 years of Bond. I think Spectre is my fave Craig Bond film.

Can we all say it together one time? Raif! His name is Raif. Spelled Ralph, pronounced Raif. Ralph Fiennes

4:49 Holden you are wrong there.... this is the Bölkow BO-105, a german helicopter and is one of the few helicopters that is able to do loopings and barrel rolls. The other helicopters which can this too are Apache. The Bölkow BO-105 is used as german police and military helicopter. This model which is used in the movie owns Red Bull or more specifically, The Flying Bulls. Chuck Aron is the pilot

The MBB 105 is actually capable of doing a full loop. It's one of the only helicopters that can do it actually. There is a Red Bull acrobatic team that uses them to do all kinds of crazy flying maneuvers.

Fun fact: The speech Blofeld gives to Bond during the torture scene was lifted almost 100% verbatim from the first non-Fleming Bond novel, Colonel Sun, written by Kingsley Amis.

I read the original script for this movie like a year or two before it officially came out. There were several drafts and each draft's third/forth act (The Spectre HQ and London Sequences were all different.) For starters, in prevous drafts Blofeld was a much better developed character and wasn't Bond's official step-brother. In the draft I read, when Bond and Mandeline get to Blofeld's lair, after the whole computer control room sequence it leads to them playing a card game with Nuts that Bond and Blofeld played as kids with their step-father. There was no torture sequence originally. Blofeld explains that if Bond wins the game he'll let only Mandeline live but if he loses then both of them will die. During the game we get a lot of insight into their upbringing and how Blofeld watched Bond play this card game with his Dad Oberhauser. Blofeld was jealous and wanted to prove he coulld be just as good as a player so he practices it until he eventually takes on Bond with his Dad watching but Bond still wins and humilates Blofeld in his mind. He makes that the excuse for why he killed his own parents. BUT Bond then drops a bomb-shell and reveals that Oberhauser and his wife were simply people who looked after Orphans and that Blofeld wasn't his real son but that his parents were romanian spies who were killed by their own government when they were found out and Blofeld watched their executions as a child and Bond calls him a "Cuckoo". Blofeld wins the game in present time but Bond uses the explosive watch to escape. When they return to London there's no Bond teaming up with MI6 and friends. It just starts with C trying to activate nine eyes and Bond already waiting Casino Royale Intro style in his office. He kills him and then Blofeld revealed to be alive after the watch/base explosive causes a black-out in London with only the MI6 building still alit. Bond heads there where he has to rescue Mandeline just like in the finished film except when the helicopter crashes on the bridge, Blofeld walks out with a limb and kills several police officers who come to investigate the crash. Bond chases him up to the bridge and both have a shoot-out with Bond wounding him and walking away after he lets him live. M, Moneypenny and Q meanwhile just gather a bunch of veterns for a showdown with Spectre that never happens. In other drafts after Bond escapes from Blofeld in the base, he and Mandeline use the control room to contact Q who with Bond there uses him as a link to hack into Spectre's HQ systems and cause a self-destruct from all the way at home using only his laptop which would have been a reference to something he said back in Skyfall. The whole link with the other villains was also explained better with it being revealed that Le-Chiffre from Royale was Spectre's Money-Handler, White/Greene/Quantum being the Second In Command and Silva from Skyfall being Spectre's IT Specialist. The rings they all wore/wear is made from the material that comes from the Meteor located in the Spectre base. The original Spectre Meeting also had Blofeld speak entirely in German before switching to English to address James personally. When Bond confronted Mr. White there was extended dialogue revealing how White meat Blofeld back during a war and how Blofeld was a ruthless killer. Other drafts had Q captured by Spectre at the HQ with Bond, Q and Mandeline escaping together. At one point Monica's character was going to be revealed as a villain too but that got cut/changed in rewrites including M originally being revealed as a badguy working for Blofeld. He was going to play the role C ended up playing but Ralph Fiennes is it? made it clear when signing up for the role that he did not want to play a villain in the future so those plans got dashed and C was invented for that role. Overall, there was alot of changed things from the final draft to the final screenplay that they used with the only real improvement being M and Crew confronting and stopping C. Every other change was a huge wasted miss. The original Card game and previous villain roles and original Blofeld backstory should have been kept. Instead the fillm just fills so meh after what we got with Spectre. The action sequences feel tame, lifeless and very low stakes with the Opening being the only real crowd pleaser. Monica is wasted. Mr. Hinx is a fun henchman and the Train fight is cool but his character is wasted too and should have made a Jaws style return at the end. And the love story between Bond and Mandeline felt so forced. When people compare Spectre or Quantum together, I always go for Quantum because at least that has high fast paced action, a good soundtrack and a fun female lead and it doesnt' feel boring. Spectre feels like a movie that someone didn't want to make and it shows. I have no problem with it connecting to past films but the way its done just felt choppy as hell. Its a film that could have been more but for whatever reason it got butchered in the writing and its not like the writing is even that bad. Its just the last third of the film doesn't hold up at all and instead of trying to be a action movie comes across as a poor man's love story scaled down version for On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Fun fact: The day of the dead parade at the beginning of the movie was not a real celebration & invented by movie writers imagination. That was not how Mexicans celebrate Dia De Muertes. But the prologue scene was so popular that starting 2016 Mexico has been celebrating the holiday this way.(except in 2020 was cancelled for obvious reasons.) So yeah this movie literally added a new lore to a Holiday IRL.

Fun fact, The plot of Bond’s brother being Blofeld was the same as Austin Powers and Dr. Evil being related…🤣🤣🤣

"I wish they made cars look like this still" (1948 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith). Closest we got is Chrysler PT Cruiser😭

Yea, the Bond/Blofeld brother thing doesn't really work. I hate it personally because it makes the most significant story (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) between them impossible. That novel/film depends upon them never meeting, face to face, prior to that story. So, they opted to ignore the source material here and make them adopted brothers for no good reason. Thankfully, I loved No Time to Die and can move beyond my issues with this one, now that it's no longer Craig's final film.

Hi holden and Jen. I treated a friend of mine to this movie for her birthday one time, and she covered her face on one of the scenes. The song they play at the beginning of spectre is one of my favorite bond songs. Spectre is one of my favorite bond movies. You and Jen are awesome and amazing. Love your videos and channel.

Completely different from these but linked by Q the actor . You would really like the Paddington films, they are family films but exceptionally well made.

Fun fact... the DB10 was developed by Aston Martin specifically for this movie. There were only 10 made. 8 of them were used as stunt vehicles. Two were kept as show cars. One of the show cars sold at auction for 3.5 million dollars.

@ 4:45 There are some helicopters that are agile enough to pull off loops and rolls like that. Not many, but its for sure realistic.

sherlock is 100% a must only problem is it requires a lot of attention to appreciate why its a 9/10 show with some episodes being 10/10

The net at the end (i know, plenty of responses in regards already) has a similar use over here in the states (everywhere as well I presume) to keep hills and cliff ways from tumbling across the roads.

Yes Sherlock is a must! love to see Jen react to the series and specials. Plus Black Sails would be a great reaction for both of you... after the first season of world-building, it gets really really good.

Fun fact: the main actress in this film (I forget her name) was actually in Mission Impossible Rogue Nation a few years before this movie was released. From one undercover action hero franchise to another

@Holden Hardman I bet Black Mirror would be an excellent series for you guys to watch. The discussions after each episode would be pretty epic, as well as the fun you would have with the interactive movie.

Never heard of Blofeld!?!?!? He’s Bond’s arch villain. Check out the earlier Bond movies with Conery. ‘You Only Live Twice’ was the first movie he was in, I believe.

Cant wait to see the reaction to No time to Die. Its a great conclusion to the Craig bond era.

Fun fact about the Helicopter… they did actually barrel roll the helicopter

20:00 Wtf I wasn’t expecting that 😭

The line to bond at the end of "choose to save yourself or die trying to save her"- is A Huge 4SHADOW N 2 next film no time 2 die..they definitely kept it connected

During the chase scene in Rome, Bond briefly crosses countries when he passes St. Peter's Square as Vatican City is not only its own state but the smallest state on Earth.

The actor who played C played the part of Private Hall in the D-Day episode of Band Of Brothers.

I think that was the largest explosion caught on film , they had to do it in one take . ( without cgi )

helicopters can do auto rotation and land even if their engine completely fail. so they can technically glide

That's funny, I very recently started to rewatch Sherlock. Very good, highly recommend.

Agreed with Chris Cornell statement. My all time favorite Bond intro song.

Blofeld was Bond’s arch-nemesis in the later novels and the 60’s era Bond movies. This film invented them having a prior connection, which a lot of fans had problems with. In the context of the Craig series, it works for me.

"You think he's going to work his whole career just to be taken out by gonorrhea?" Al Capone, one of America's top gangsters, & crime boss of Chicago for over a decade. Sentenced to 11 years. Couldn't do the 11. Got out early so he could go home to die. Syphilis was killing him.

This is incredible!

I worked at a movie theatre when Star Wars Episode 1 came out. The number of times I have seen the parade at the end of that movie...

"Doesn't time fly..." Good lord I love the one line zingers

Me: Clicks on the video The comments: Everyone blasting Holden on the net being realistic

14:43 I am surprised that Jen didn’t say the line Holden Thomas Hartman

29:17 As you were asking about the net, I thought I'd share... It's a preventive measure against "unaliving" ones self. It's commonly seen in prisons and those types of buildings. You can even see Bond notice it on the way into the building as a possible escape route at 28:39!

I will sometimes pop in my DVD of this movie simply to watch that brilliant 'one shot' in the beginning.

Fun fact about the day of the dead parade in the intro. Contrary to popular belief before the film it wasn't even a thing. It wasn't until after this movie came out that Mexico actually had a day of the dead parade of that magnitude. The film inspired it.

16:25 It was in that moment Holden was about to be sleeping on the couch, hahahaha.

Andrew Scott is amazing in Sherlock! so yes pls do see that series, also since the seasons only consist of 3-4 episodes.

Jen!!! Get Holden a pair of color blind glasses as a gift please! I would love a reaction video of Holden truly seeing all colors

They definitely did the barrel rolls and loop in the helicopter. There's some great bts online 😀

I'm never a fan of the "It was me all along" sequel retcon trope but Christopher Waltz being the "me" in this case makes me forgive it completely, lol. Such a great actor and he's amazing at playing this type of role.

yeah, I really loved Spectre when I first saw it, thought it perfectley tied in previous movie villains

while some didn't enjoy this film as much as Skyfall (understandable) but I really liked it. I guarantee you will be crying during the next Bond film, and Craig's final performance as Bond. No Time To Die is amazing

I agree..Chris Cornell (RIP) my fav Bond theme from "Casino Royale".

Something went wrong with the audio this time. A slight buzzing sound through the whole video.

Helicopters can "glide" too btw its called Autorotation. Even with a full enginefailure a emergency landing is posible.

true love there. Holden praising Jens terrible British accent XD

Onward to No Time To Die! Can’t wait to see your reaction!

Not that I know how helicopters work, but can you change the angle of the blades so it doesn't push down when inverted?

I am actually living 40 min away that lake in Austria, it’s one hell of a beautiful place

YES please do a series on Sherlock!

This is one of my personal favorite James Bond movies because I find it underrated!

Great reaction, as always. Yes, BBC Sherlock. YES. Please. PLEASE.

Yes, PLEASE watch BBC Sherlock. Absolutely great series.

I'm excited to see how you react to No Time To Die. No Time To Die is my favourite but I've heard a lot of people saying they were disappointed with it, so I am a bit curious. Also - not a spoiler but there is a specific part of this film that made me think of Nolan's Batman, I hope you'll catch it. You have caught similar things before, so we'll see.

25:25 I wish you guys saw the movies from 1962 to now to understand what the name Ernst Stavro Bloefeld is to the Bond series.

If you were intrigued by surveillance as a weapon you should see Capture, amazing british show

The net was there because of MI6 is a construction zone. James had an idea of where Madeline would be, as in basically as far away from where he was. Mr White was in Casino and Quantum, he was the one who set up and killed Le Chiffre and Bond captured him at the end of Casino into the beginning of Quantum

Blofeld and Spectre were villains from the later Bond novels by Ian Fleming (and all of the Sean Connery Bond movies). Blofeld was NOT related to Bond in either of those (I agree that by claiming Javier Bardem was under SPECTRE, it sort of weakens him as a villain and would have preferred not having that linkage). If you haven’t seen the Connery Bond films you might give them a try, classic Bond, and a more unforced revealing of SPECTRE and its scope.

I agree about that plot-armour net catching them, in films as realistic as these, its the little things that can really take you out

This bond is really tough to get through, you can tell that Daniel wasn't in it because of his leg injury and the script is way too focused on connecting the films which feels so forced, easily my least favourite of the Craig era.

2:23 Well, that's what the Day of the Dead is about: death isn't seen as the end but as a cycle and on the Day of the Dead the ancestors come back to connect with their living descendents. That's actually not an uncommon belief in non-European cultures and possibly also excisted in prehistoric Europe that also includes some form of belief in reincarnation. Because the idea of linear history that also includes the time after death was a slow developing one that gradually changed around the time of antiquity. For example, in ancient China, it was the belief that the dead still resided on Earth as spirits sharing the dining table with the rest of the family. Then, as the concept of history emerged, it was also the concept of Heaven and Earth (tiāndì 天地) separating the world of the living and the world of the dead.

The net is there as a safety precaution for the construction workers who were working and rigging the M16 building for demolition.

I love the bee that is stuck inside my headphones.

Anyone notice that Madeline is the same actress in Inglorious Bastards....she was the oldest daughter of La Padite

Id love to see you guys watch BBC Sherlock

Andrew Scott has a small part in 1917 also by Sam Mendes.

I've been re-watching the films and then watching your reactions right after. Leading up to No Time To Die which I still haven't seen. I REALLY enjoyed this film more than Skyfall. It gave me flashbacks to some of the Roger Moore Bond movies. The funny and comical bits in this film are just right, and by that I mean not over the top silly.

"Is that a child?" Jen that is so mean!