James bond movie the best one is goldfinger 🤗

This is a good and fair video -- but the _worst_ James Bond movie must be the first ever done: the TV movie "Casino Royale" from 1954. But OK, that is barely not a movie at all.

I'm tempted to thumbsdown the video for the Diamonds are Forever hate. It's a fun movie, it's not the best in the series, but unlike Quantum of Solace, it's at least fun to watch. And unlike The Man with the Golden Gun and Never Say Never Again/Thunderball, it's at least memorable. I barely remember seeing any of those movies, even though I know perfectly well that I have.

You should definitely write a script based on Thunderball

Quantum of Solace is the result of the star and director (I may be wrong on who) having to write the script and story last minute and as they're filming because of a writer's strike, When you take that into account you can only say they did a great job considering the hand that fate dealt them. They DIDN'T quit or cancel or delay the film. Movies like Bond take months and years to plan and create. There's PLENTY of films that have the time, money and creative freedom that STILL turn out to be utter stinking turds. QS is between the 2 greatest Bond films ever. I saw it with my Mama and Brother, both who are now sadly passed. So, for me? It's special - how Good or bad doesn't matter. Sometimes the moment is worth more than any quality rating.

yes!

OMG yes, The Rock is the James Bond ending that no one asked for but everyone needed.

Bond would never have been captured and locked up in Alcatraz for decades

Alcatraz decommissioned in the '60s?

@@Musketeer3 And he never would've put up with Nic Cage's shit

It was awesome. I was there!! And NSNA is a fun movie. Connery is great in it.

@@pauljackson2473 I only watched it years ago,but it's so rare to see on TV and costs a fortune to buy a physical edition now because it's not part of the MGM collection. I would like to see it again soon though 😉

​@@pauljackson2473 That's the only Bond movie I ever liked due to Klaus

They should have held back NSNA until the following year.

Imagine if this happened with brosnan and dalton

Classic . I also love when Bond says “I’ll cut out the white bread” 😂😂

Connery's dry wit - no-one does the one liners like him. EG: Nurse: - "Can you do a urine specimen in here please?" (Holding a bekah across the room) Bond replies: "From here?"

@@MrDublin2 Lol!

Such a good comment.

Remember: McClory was highly restrained as he could only make Thunderball. More than anything, this film is a testament to McClory's Quixote-like desire to cash in and Connery's desire to give a hearty "f*ck you" to Cubby Broccoli (also his career was in the tank).

I wonder what direction the Bond films would have taken if Kevin McClory brought Harry Saltzman's rights of the Bond series. Sure you will get a lot of conflictive differences between McClory and Cubby Broccoli but wouldn't that of taken the series and Bond himself in new directions? After all Cubby Broccoli and the writers stuck to the guns, gadgets and girls formula laid down in Goldfinger. But taking 007 and the films down a fresh route could have been exciting. License To Kill did throw away the formula and replace it with a gritter tone which fans didn't like at the time.

The Sound Editor said he was told not too work to hard as the film was a spoof.

Connery wanted to screw EON because of their lousy treatment of him. That was a big motivator.

I wouldn't call it my fav, but I definitely prefer it to thunderball which feels like a slog.

I wouldnt put it very high on my bond list but I do enjoy it and also prefer it to thunderball.

@Green Sneakers & Hot Dogs love the movie great villain great Bond girl good and bad and it’s Sean connery please don’t assume I would say something for attention sounds like u might dr no golden eye never say never live and let die my 4 favorite I own all the bonds films pure enjoyment for me

how is that even possible? this movie is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bad.

@@crobeastness don’t feel that way Sean Connery bond goodbye absolutely relished his performance not asking u 2 like it thanks for the reply

This was actually one option they seriously considered. What ultimately scuppered it was the fact that the actual Bond franchise was still up and running and they weren't in a position to undermine it.

The main issue that I had with Never Say Never Again was that it was so unnecessary. They'd already done Thunderball and unlike the remakes of Casino Royale, this wasn't the first serious take on the source material. It's definitely better than Quantum of Solace, even if it's not a particularly great or memorable movie. A lot of that comes from the fact that it shares source material with Thunderball.

There is no chance that they would have killed off Bond. The biggest franchise ever. Conan Doyle killed off Sherlock Holmes and then had to bring him back.

@@SmallSpoonBrigade No movie is necessary.

@@trajan75 yeah no chance...

Lol, I thought for sure I'd include that somewhere, but realized I really had nothing to say about it other than "Uhhhh, Bond throws his pee at a guy"

Best scene of the film

Loved that scene

Could've been worse.... Could've been like Silence Of The Lambs...

Great fight scene... even with the comedy elements

Sure, it’s understandable that would result in a bad movie. But the result is still a bad movie.

Quantum works better if you watch it immediately after Casino, and treat it as all one big movie.

​@@mikenayers5981 It still sucks.

It's so slow paced. It's a good movie to watch if you have a bad case of Insomnia.

Yes, Klaus and the other nice looking people are the only reason I ever liked a Bond movie

I just looked up Siskel and Ebert’s review of it. They loved it. Both have it a thumbs up and mentioned how the Roger Moore movies were getting a bit silly up to that point and they appreciated Sean Connery.

isn't that just that first Casino Royale?

There is something unintentionally meta about Bond co-starring with Johnny English I guess.

First time seeing this movie many years ago, I thought it was self parody movie (like naked gun, airplane) which is not funny Learning about the story behind it is more entertaining

But “No time to die”, though it’s the last Craig bond film, it’s not the last Bond film ever, they’re just gonna reboot it over and over until the sun burns out of the sky.

​@@obiwankenobi9141 Hence the stupidity of killing the character.

I refuse to see that film. It, like Never Say Never Again, do not exist in the 007 film pantheon. See also: the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy and Indiana Jones 5.

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“1983”, in which country?

“Thunderball” is the real snooze-fest; talk about dated! It seems like a TV travelogue for the Bahamas. Even Connery is boring! The characters are poorly developed, several of them dubbed. At times it really drags - such as the bomb hijacking, the health spa, and the underwater battle. Terence Young, the director, didn’t look back fondly on it, feeling that the machinery took precedence over character and plot. He said that an MIT graduate could have handled it just as well. This is what made him turn down future Bond offers!

It was actually released in the UK in December 1983, purposefully delayed for months so it didn't collide with octopussy's release in June. Of all its stars, only Sean Connery, Barbara Carrera, Rowan Atkinson and Pamela Salem attended the premiere.

You make a fair point. Diamonds is indeed a low point that I do find hard to defend at all beyond a couple of highs, but those are certainly outliers.

Maybe rather than there being a continual shift of actress throughout the movie, maybe some segment where Bond is drugged or otherwise not quite mentally right and has some hallucinations of it being other women?

I just watched DAF and I actually liked it more than I remembered. there is no way I'd rather watch NSNA

Wasn't this movie effectively a sequel to Thunderball?

@@evertonporter7887 a remake. the guy had the rights of the Thunderball story and could only do a Bond movie with that story, basically

I can only enjoy Moonraker when I give up on the idea of it being at all good. And it's SO dumb that it manages to get that out of me. I can't bring myself to rate it over Thunderball, but I agree with that description of it. Thunderball is not only boring, but feels like a pointless re-tread of Dr. No. To me, laughing at the movie at least makes it enjoyable, but not better.

Moonraker is one of the best i feel, the one component in this film is bonds first time in space, plus non stop fun action and jaws, each bond film has a few things in them which makes them unique

To quote Dr. Evil "Oh hell, let's just do what we always do, hijack a couple nukes and hold the world hostage."

The same thing happened to me. I thought Moonraker was so stupid and goofy(for decades!) and then when they released those big mega Bond box sets in the early 00s, I bought them and watched Moonraker and I thought it was pretty good. There was literally nothing wrong with it. The bad guy acted like any other Bond bad guy. His plan of restarting civilization under his leadership was fine. It's as good an idea as any. The only goofy stuff was Jaws surviving the crash and having a girlfriend.

Great comment! I also watched Moonraker again for the first time in years this summer and thoroughly enjoyed it!! And the only thing great about this effing "review" leaves us talking about another movie. So kudos to you! But I gotta cut a strip off this pimple popping wannabe cuz I actually wasted my time watching the entire "review". As far as I can tell his biggest complaint is that it's not violent enough which is pretty typical from a person growing up with the over the top violence in so many of today's productions. Brandauer comes across crazy enough for me. Fantastic actually!! Whoever this reviewer is has no effing clue what was even going on in this movie. He attemps to tell us that it's not even a Bond movie over and over again. Who said a franchise has to be made by the same producer or anybody on the first movie or the next movie etc? The fact that Sean Connery is in it makes it a Bond movie or maybe the name Bond is enuf? The movie was made in the style of the time. It's reminiscent of Romancing the Stone and other 80's classics. The music is very reminiscent of the time and fits perfectly. The movie is made towards end of Aaron Spellings long long run and dominance of the be 80's and plays on that very familiar territory with the audience with remarkable success and more than "competes" with Broccolis Octopussy. I suppose it would completely elude someone who's never had sex that the opening scene is meant to be sultry and play off the sex appeal of Sean Connery. The scene ending with a woman stabbing him with the knife which alludes to the standard sexual interaction that people expect from a Bond movie and everyone's aware that there's more to come from the subsequent beautiful women in the film because yes he's still got it(he passed away in 2020 and the sheets are still on fire). Junior needs to take a break from reviewing movies cuz he's too young to even realize that you don't waste your time trying to review a movie from 20 years prior or the actor for that matter. But he goes on to tell us that the dance with Domino was meant to be funny. Say waht?! My biggest apprehension to attending this movie at the theatre was the possibility that Kim Basinger didn't have 'what it takes' to be a Bond girl. Boy was my fear put to rest. She added another accomplishment to her successful acting career with this venture. Beautifully played with enuf crazy too. The only thing we can agree upon is the standard Bond elements in this film such as location, beautiful women, action etc were all present. Yet somehow because they didn't appear exactly like in one of the previous Bond movies only makes it illegitimate in this reviewers mind. As far as I'm concerned the underwater scenes alone were fantastic and done at a level that probably hadn't been attempted previously. Those alone were worth the price of admission. The film was a refreshing departure from anything done with Bond to date mostly because of the missing standard trademarks which allowed a reimagining of the characters. And I can't even be bothered to comment on his take on Fatimas finale because where to begin. Sigh. Too bad this reviewer is sooooo focused on the film he would have made. Certainly took away from his enjoyment of the film that was made. Now then, I have to hit rewind on one of the best Bond movies of all time. So sad McClory wasn't able to come up with another feature.

same here!!!

There are other Bonds that deserve worse than this review.

I’m with you there, Bill! And George Lazenby is my favourite Bond!

I agree, when u strip that film down and analyse it ohmss is fantastic, the settings, camera use and lighting, its cosy winter feel, music and of course Lazenby and rigg its epic

The best example of a Bond film being cinema with a capital "C".

Hear, hear!

Spectre is another Bond film on the verge of un-watchability. Atrocious.

Bond generally follows such a rigorous formula that it's easy to see the parts, I think. Those highlights you bring up with NSNA are valid. I don't much like how Fatima Blush is written but Barbara Carrera gives a very fierce and memorable performance.

@@EyebrowCinema Bond does not follow a formula nearly as much as you allude to. Another tragic flaw w which your lense is locked

You make a good point: Sean Connery seems to be having fun with bond here, in a way I hadn't seen since goldfinger. By extension, I have fun watching this film along with him in the role.

Brandauer was a very charming guy as Rowan Atkinson said to Bond. He was seldom angry and creepy, but more playful and polite. A trait that Brandauer shares with Christoph Waltz (Hans Landa, Dr. Schulz). One typical example is how he deals with his defeat at the computer game. He smiles and admits his loss of game and money. A typical Bond villain would have destroyed of killed something with an grim face. But my favorite example is when Bond and his partner struggle to swim into Largo's yacht and get separated. Bond is on his own and makes his way to the deck. When he opens a hatch and carefully looks around there is already a steward waiting for him carrying a bathrobe. This is extremely cool and ironic as Largo seems to know exactly how Bond thinks and acts. But still he remains charming and polite. He invites Bond for lunch and a jouney, orders clothes for him. Then he let's Bond go around freely with the word's "Mister Bond, enjoy the ship."

@@varelion I've gotta disagree with both of you. He's not threatening looking or in his behavior and doesn't emote any emotion from me other than apathy. Emilio Largo, in Thunderball, was charming, as you describe of Klaus, even in defeat, but he had menace.

​​@@k2sworld I got a lot more than apathy. From Brandauer, he projected an easy charm, humour, vulnerability, and megalomania. Emilio Largo could be charismatic and ruthless but I think Adolpho Celi didn't reach very far in his performance. There's just no contest here, Max Largo was the more compelling villain. I would easily take him over many of the EON villains.

it was ripped directly from Austin Powers

The film Specter and the half brother BS ruining the previous movies plots for me. Silva a man making his own choices and seeking revenge? Na...Specter agent...give me a fuckin break. Id argue its the worst bond film ever.

You are correct. At least this film is fun.

At least Spectre had Blofeld do something in the film and doesn't look like ass. Also I've heard mostly very good things about NTTD so far.

@@expendableindigo9639No Time To Die subtly admits the "Bond and Blofeld are brothers" twist from Spectre was a silly and regretful mistake. Also No Time to Die's labyrinthine plot would be boring to write and even more boring to read if i bothered to explain it ... it is easier to say it was just a lame long winded drama. Never Say Never Again is vastly superior on every level and Maximillian Largo makes Lyutsifer Safin look like petty pathetic ass ....

Absolutely! I don't give a monkeys what anyone else thinks - I really enjoyed it, and find it better than any in the Moore era and better than Die Another day and Quantum of Solace.

It's one of the better Bond movies if you don't focus on how old Moore is.

Pretty sure it'd be Goldeneye, pistols only, License to Kill mode.

Go ahead!

Quantum of Solace is a remake of For Your Eyes Only.

Agreed! It's very rewatchable.

Underestimated, yes - but none of the Moore Bonds are better than Diamonds Are Forever! Live And Let Die and Golden Gun are the best Moore Bonds, but I still prefer Diamonds to either of them.

@@thetragicyouth It is not my agenda to participate in any consensus forming bullying/domination contest - especially in matters of taste. IMHO a room full Elvis fans must tolerate a Cliff Richard fan and vice versa. I just strongly disagree with you and prefer "The Man with the Golden Gun" to "Diamonds are Forever" - no matter the first is with Moore and the latter with Connery - any day of the week and twice on sundays.

The Man with the Golden Gun is terrible and I absolute love it.

@@garethdwright91 The only part - besides Bonds everlasting confidence in the villain need to boast about his achievements and thereby not getting killed off the moment that he enters the lions den - I really dislike is the flying car. No sane person would sacrifice both the resources and loss of efficiency in building a jet powered flying wing for a car. That Mr. Scaramanga must really have been attached to it for sentimental reasons.

You could say that. But like he says in the video: that one doesn't even attempt to be a true Bond movie. And I do think that movie is more memorable for several reasons. One of them being the fact that it features an Oscar winning song.

Oh I don't know. Die another day with invisible cars and basil fawlty as Q. Tomorrow never dies and the villans motive is increased newspaper circulation, etc.

@@forkinhell3545 I think all the Brosnan movies are more entertaining and rewatchable than the Sellers Bond movie.

@@porsche911sbs I wasn't saying they're not watchable or entertaining, I personally just find the two mentioned films weaker than goldeneye or the world is not enough. I pretty much enjoy all the bonds, but some films a lot more than others. That's what makes us all different !

probably because they only had the rights to the Thunderball story and could only do a Bond movie if it was exactly the same story-wise. But yea it would have been better had they done their own thing

@Sarcastic Dude LOL :)

I don't get the Dalton camp. His acting was atrocious. He looked trapped in a stage play persona doing Shakespeare. I thought he was going to wet his pants when he got rattled and intimidated by some lousy low-level punks in a bar. Embarrassing. Him bouncing around while driving that 18-wheeler is pure comedy. I thought Pee Wee Herman was driving. It didn't help that the production values in his films bottomed out along with very weak supporting actors.

Agreed!

You're having a laugh!

Yeah... I don't really think he gets her character. The "hatred of me" line was meant to push her buttons as she considers herself to be the female equivalent to Bond in that sense; a woman that no man can resist. I get some of the criticism, but I feel like it's more than a bit naive... especially the part about Casino Royal getting away with changing it up... McClory famously had his hands tied more than any preceeding rights issue. Also I could see EON having an attitude of never again after allowing Casio Royal to get away with it.

I think it's pretty damn good myself as well.

I don't get all the hate for this film. Although it drags toward the end, it was more fun than "No Time To Die" or "Quantum of Solace." At least it's fun.

Never say never( Sean Connery) the jame bond charm was not there,, Sean Connery looked too old: Roger Moore aged better

The hologram video scene still holds up and secretly has a gun barrel sequence in it as an Easter egg.

And lost opportunity ,no doubt. Given that they had 27 years time to tweek papers together and make "Logan" for James Bond , they come up with this straight to video ,TV movie

Agreed.

Nailed it. There is literally nothing else to say about NSNA.

Barbara Carrera was sweet in this movie.

Possibly due to the budget (some of it) was Connery's salary - $5,000,000 or £3,000,000 - For Your Eyes Only is far better.

At least Woody Allen is funny in it.

I've been rewatching the series and it's rubbed off on my work.

@@EyebrowCinema Adding Futurama in your videos is always a good thing

Or full Logan.

Thank you, Senator.

Agreed! That seems to be going around in YT these days.

Videos like this one are exactly why.

there is no other bond film as bad. you could say the other 2 fake Casino Royales, Diamonds are Forever, The Man With the Golden Gun, and Quantum of Solace are just as bad, that's about it and none of these are worse, just on the same level or a tad better.

Thanks, Matilda! I didn't realize you had a history with this series so that's cool to hear. Glad you liked the video :)

@@EyebrowCinema Thunderball movie is a great film 😊

Thanks, Randall! Feels like a step towards legtimacy.

@@EyebrowCinema A step? Lmao, man. In my eyes, you've been legit for a long time. You're going places, man. I'm proud of you.

Ha! Nice point. I love Siskel & Ebert but their Bond takes are buckwild.

@@EyebrowCinema Gene consistently calling this movie "a good film" was always one of the funniest things on their show too me, especially considering the fact that even sean connery said that never say never again was "the worst movie I've ever made". But then again gene also infamously doxxed betsy palmer and sean s cunningham in his print review of the first Friday The 13th movie because he was "outraged"over the content of the movie and wanted his readers too "express their own outrage" directly at them, and they both got a lot of hate mail after he did that.

Yeah, most of them.

Octopussy is a great movie (the entry-the score - the cast - the picture - the action scenes)

@ Xenodroid. Although, "Octopussy"(1983) is a pretty good Bond film with an excellent, underrated main title song, it contains one of the two lowest, "scrape-the-bottom-of-the-barrel" moments in the history of the Bond film francise which is when Moore as Bond swings on a vine across the screen like Tarzan and the famous Tarzan yell is played! That low moment is only exceeded by the arguably even worse moment in "AVTAK"(1985) when towards the end of that film, Bond is swung back-and-forth on a ladder on a hook-and-ladder fire truck which reduced Bond to being a Keystone cop!

All the Scaramanga - Nick Nack - Bond scenes are terrific, but everything else seems irrelevant and/or part of a different movie. And bringing back Sheriff Pepper was as big a self-indulgent mistake as bringing back Jaws in Moonraker.

@@thetragicyouth all the supporting characters carried the film, including the minor ones. Bond sounded more like a Southern stereotype than Pepper..... "You sir... do not qualify as a gentleman. Now let us enjoy this delicious lunch Nick Nack has prepared for us."

It's a good one, especially the ~ 45 minutes from when they go on the train until the bomb almost goes off. My personal favourites are Thunderball and The Spy Who Loved Me.

Is that sarcasm? The last four Moore Bonds are not only the worst 007 movies, but are strong contenders for the actual four worst movies *ever*!!

Thank you! I appreciate the kind words.

Lol. That's what I was thinking! And this film was the first Bond movie I thought about when I walked out of No Time to Die. For all its shortcomings, at leas this film was fun.

@@DUNGEONCRAFT1 I rather liked No Time to Die. It had some nice nods to the near-60 year (cinematic) history of the character, like the colorful Dr. No-like dots in the credits or the use of the OHMSS-theme throughout the film, with both films having Bond experience true love only to be tragically taken from him... which I think isn't really a spoiler for No Time to Die, btw. It happens in the first few minutes - or does it? ;-)

There are some shot-on-film movies that change aspect ratio mid-film. The Grand Budapest Hotel is an example. Without manual intervention on the projectionist's part, though, image sizes will be different (I remember so when I saw The Grand Budapest Hotel at the cinema, the segments with 1.33:1 screen ratio had a bigger screen size (equally wide but taller) than the 2.37:1 segments). I suppose that with an intermission projectionists could even change projectors mid-film, so you could have anamorphic and non-anamorphic film mixed. Christopher Nolan also likes to do this, and there is an (incomplete) list of films with mixed aspect ratios at m.imdb.com/list/ls072030807/

@@diecarro79 What kind of cinema was that. 35mm usually has only one heights and it's the width that changes from ratio to ratio. The only exception is hardmatted IMAX (what you referenced with Nolan) that has a changing height. But I remember watching Interstellar in a regular cinema and the aspect ratio did not change like it does on the Blu-ray.

@@timonsteup2877 Are you sure that with 35mm only width changes from ratio to ratio? That is true with anamorphic vs spherical, but masked widescreen is totally a thing, for the usual 1.66:1 and 1.85:1 aspect ratios, and with those the printed image is definitely less tall than a full frame (1.37:1) image (or it is printed full frame and the top and bottom matted out with the aperture gate when projecting). But as cinema screens are normally widescreen, the image is projected bigger with masked widescreen than with a squarer format. I suppose the projectionist needs to adjust the projector for these image adjustments between full frame and masked widescreen, and definitely the lens needs to be changed (or a different projector used) to change from anamorphic to spherical; so I suppose that with The Grand Budapest Hotel the print was simply hard matted for the various aspect ratios, and the full frame scenes were taller (that is a thing that I remember clearly, in the scenes set in the 30s the image was "bigger"). I don't know about Interstellar: perhaps only in IMAX cinemas would the film change aspect ratios? That would have been somewhat spectacular, to have a taller image on some sequences.

@@CCovers1 Yeah most definitely for me too. NSNA is worth watching just for Connery if nothing else. I wish I could say that DAD was worth watching for Brosnan but I just think that the material was so bad that it's a sad send off for him. I think that the only sequence that I thought was at all okay was the fencing/sword fight. Otherwise ... what a mess.

George Lazenby did wind up playing a Psuedo James Bond that year, in the Made For TV Movie-The Return of the Man From U.N.C.L.E.

@@loanaoftheshellpeople5627 Yes! Also, he was supposed to play a James Bond like character along side Bruce Lee in a never made movie in the early/mid 1970's. Mr. Lee was supposed to meet George Lazenby for dinner at a restaurant the night he passed away. George Lazenby and Bruce Lee together would have been awesome!!!