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Yes, because young women never go for older, tough, in shape, well dressed,rich, outspoken, charismatic world travelers with a hint of danger and mystery. That never happens. 😕
These are the guys, that never need to settle down. And most likely will never settle down. They can have basically a harem. But they need to be over 6 foot tall, too.
@@RobertLutece909 You kidding? I've worked with guys in their 50's who pull of the right amount of character and mystique and were constantly hooking up with 20 year old girls..
@yes it was a good day do you people get paid to spam the same links in the comments to almost *every* Drinker vid, or do you just have nothing else going on in your lives?
Bond is an international British spy. I think outside of him being British why does it matter if he’s not white after being played by white actors for the past 60 years?
2 year after this movie and I have to say, the ending kinda caught me off guard. I was in sort of denial, still wanting to believe in that "he's fine, he's 007 he never dies" type of mentality from my childhood and seeing him *really* go hit me in the feels. It felt like Daniel was now off and gone along with the rest of the Bond franchise and possibly never to return. It felt like saying goodbye to all the other Bonds and their stories, I never realized how many memories I have growing up with the many bond movies.
I was relieved the humiliation was finally over. As long as he's alive he'll remain a straw man for insecure pop-culture contrarians. By the time they actually killed him off he wasn't Bond any more, he's a walking husk. The writers had contrived for him to fail everywhere, to built nothing, he had no life to go back to, nothing to live for, they took everything from him before they took his life.
I suppose, but Bond had terminal cancer with corresponding stades of severity with each movie with Craig, ending with stage 4 cancer with this last film and now he's dead. As cringe as the last two Brosnan movies were, that wasn't a reason to ditch all the good aspects that that era and all eras before brought. Goldeneye and Tomorrow were both excellent bonds, a lot of fun. Masterpieces of cinematography? Heck no, but neither were any of Craig's, though Casino was the tighestest in a long time. For me, Craig wasn't Bond, he was a man who called himself bond, played in a movie that might have been mistaken for a bond movie, but none of the core elements where there to enjoy them as a Bond movie. This post modern nihilism is really getting old.
The bit where Paloma starts kicking ass after saying she only had 3 weeks training actually is acknowledged in the script. Bond says "only 3 weeks training?" and she replies "more or less" and winks, implying the newbie thing was an act.
@@dasik84 I actually thought it was great characterisation and was a detail I really liked. It showed us she's not just good at kicking ass but also at being a spy and carrying a persona/narrative which is really driven home by the fact she fooled us as the audience as well as Bond. Slick.
Yeah I agree, surprised that point was completely missed. The quirky girl stereotype has grown old for most people, but having someone with a bit of personality who chugs down a drink immediately and then actually holds her own is just plain fun subversion. Regardless of gender or whatever.
Yeah I’m gonna go ahead and disagree, that is very lazy characterization. Literally only one line to try and save that dumb explanation, no spy agency would send someone by themselves who is unconfident within 3 weeks.
@@arnoldmunez5057 I think you may have missed my point. The film heavily implies she has actually had alot more than three weeks training and that she was pretending to lack confidence. The whole "green" thing was an act.
I've always said that the "problematic" aspects of Bond are the things that make him so bloody good at his job. He is a sociopathic cold blooded killer and doesn't really care who he fucks or fucks over to get the job done. He just does it with a fuck ton of style....
@john smith Let’s break down that comment: Bond is a womanizer who also is completely un-empathetic to a lot of people. Kind of a loner in some respects. Definition of anti-social behavior.
Because we're supposed to say that Tinder is for women to hook up, not guys. Remember: it's empowering for women to sleep around, not men, according to the PC police.
@@KRYMauL Because prostitution is illegal in most parts of the U.S. and none of these cowards have the stones to actually do something about that. Modern faux-gressivism is all about expecting someone else to solve the problem. That's why I scoffed when all the ree-rees on Twitter talked about killing Trump after his election in 2016: I knew they all expected someone else to do it. Addendum: I'm not endorsing prostitution, I'm saying the people who talk about how empowering it is for women to sleep around (no comment on if it is) never publicly endorse legalizing prostitution, despite it being an empowering thing, according to their rationale.
What I find amusing and comically ironic is that the people that says Bond is a relic from the past for seducing women is coming from the generation that created hook up culture and uses Tinder to meet people.
A female (and preferrably lesbian or at least bi) Bond could seduce people all over the place and no one would complain. At least that's what Legends of Tomorrow taught me.
One thing modern movie industry tends to forget that often the best Bond girls were much more than just sexualized prize objects. Resourceful and smart, they often brought to the table skills that allowed Bond to complete his mission (Holly Goodhead flying the shuttle, Ana Amasova being familiar with the Esprit submarine, Natalya - ha, ha - being tech savvy or Wai Lin being pretty much as capable as Bond himself). If you look in depth, you'll realize that the series isn't as misogynistic as it is often being portrayed to be.
People are crying wokeness so much over every film it makes me wonder if they want to go back to women in film being rape objects and very low on character.. They seem to never acknowledge older films being 'woke' by their own supposed standards.
I really enjoyed Craig's tenure as Bond, I like the cold nastiness he had about him. For me Casino Royale was brilliant and the best one he did. The only movie I didn't take to was Quantum of Solace. I was disappointed when Sam Mendes left the franchise because I felt he had a real feel for what Bond was. Pretty good review.
Honestly, I kind of enjoyed Quantum for that very same reason. It's not even really a Bond film, and having seen it a few times now, I don't expect it to be. And for me, at least, I think the forgettable villain thing is a bit overblown - it didn't help that the film was effectively two revenge plots slamming together, and as a result, both the A and B villain ended up getting roughly equivalent screen time. I think Greene could have been much more threatening had he been given more screen time, or at least a more direct connection to the scene of the agent being drowned in crude oil (assuming you could do that in the same breath as him using it to lead MI6 away from the real plot). For me, the real draw in Quantum is seeing Bond as what amounts to a state-sponsored serial killer, out for revenge against anyone and everyone with any connection to Vesper. It's not so much a spy film as it is an exercise in catharsis. I can understand the frustration of not getting a spy flick when you go to see a Bond film, but if you watch it the way you might watch a Korean revenge drama, I think it's quite compelling, actually.
I thought it was more bond like, a one off adventure trying to take down a guy doing evil shit, I think things really fell off a cliff in spectre.@@tripleoo0
Casino Royale is an amazing film. I say film, because it really is more of a character driven film than a blockbuster movie. I think it’s highly underrated.
Within like 10 years maximum some people try to revert or eliminate acquaintance behavior of a whole species. Nice try. Sane people will still meet normally, despite what some "diverse" (not really diverse) people with certain frustrations want to make us believe. It's good to stay away from people with an unhealthy mindset.
I love it in Goldeneye when M tells Bond "I think you're a sexist, misogynist dinosaur. A relic of the Cold War, whose boyish charms, though wasted on me, obviously appealed to that young woman I sent out to evaluate you." She doesn't like him at all but there's an acceptance that he's the best man for the job. He's flawed, and probably not the most likeable guy, certainly not when it comes to civilian life, but when the chips are down he's gonna kill a load of bad guys, save the world and get the girl, because that's what James f***ing Bond does. And that's the way we like him.
@@billr3053 That was in the 90s, though, plus Judy's M had some really good scenes one in which she reminisces about Bond and the scene always came as a slightly romantic. Watch Brosnan's Bond movies again. EDIT: Noice.
I thought the Paloma character was a much needed breath of fresh air, when the movie was taking itself too seriously and becoming dreary and confrontational. Plus she was a real 'Bond Girl' type, well worth looking at! Apparently we have Phoebe Waller-Bridge to thank for that, otherwise Paloma would have been a one-line wonder.
My dad and I have watched the Bond movies together since I was a child. I remember going to watch Casino Royale in the theatres and my dad (who has watched every JB in theatres since Dr. No in '63) came out grinning. He said Craig was the best Bond since Connery and that he hasn't experienced Bond in that way since he was a child. As we both left the theatre after No Time To Die the first thing my dad said was, "well I'm pretty sure that's the last good Bond movie I'm ever going to see in my life."
@@leogavitt5419 I think the movie was bad because the villain was extremely weak. It wasn't really a good movie it was also extremely long and drawn out
I just finished watching the movie and as I was leaving the theater there were two elderly men who watched it also were standing outside. One of these elderly gentlemen said to the other “So- we have no more heroes”. I found that statement to be really sad.
Yes all tough masculine male heroes... especially white men are being erased, replaced or having their personalities modified due to WOKE agendas. Also combine the unrealistic movie scenes where they show women being equally as strong or stronger than men... it's like watching a scene where they try making you believe a house cat can run at the same speeds of a cheetah. Just be glad (this time) Hollywood didn't turn Bond into some gay or transgender person.
Just like Hercule Poirot, James Bond is that type of character you don't need to retire, because you can write an endless amount of advantures for him. I don't know why they had to come up with this idea that he's suddenly old and it's over.
The ending was so sad :'{ i am a teen who grwo up on bond series, thanks to my dad but This is the first movie I cried a tand I was certainly not the only one
I thought Daniel Craig did a decent job as Bond, mostly in “Casino Royale” and “Skyfall.” The gritty seriousness he brings to the role works but isn’t well-rounded because he doesn’t pull off seduction and banter well, which is a core aspect of the Bond character. Connery and Moore were actually a good deal smoother with the ladies.
There's a bit in Futurama where a new 'edgy' character takes Calculon's place after his death. The thing is, Calculon and the new actor are bad in opposite ways, but they were both praised heavily during their time in the spotlight. The new 'edgy' guy isn't even trying to act, barely showing any emotion at all. But, he's praised as being edgy and deep because the super-smart modern viewers see apathy as a virtue. But, the 'stupid' people like Fry absolutely adore Calculon and want him back. More importantly, they hate the new guy who doesn't understand the appeal of the cheesy All My Circuits soap opera. They basically traded their old fans for the 'smart' new fans who never cared about the show. Problem is... Calculon becomes an apathetic actor just like the new guy and gets praised for it. So, the themes of the episode are a bit muddy. Still, great metaphor for Daniel Craig-era vs. Sean Connery-era.
Connery was, imho, the only Bond who felt like a charming gentleman who happened to also be a ruthless, cold-hearted killer when neccessary. You could really feel the danger that he could exude when he had a "friendly" chat with a villain. Dalton and Craig certainly felt just as dangerous, but didn't have the charm, Brosnan and Moore were just as charming, but didn't feel dangerous at all. That's not to say that I disliked any of those actors' performances as Bond, they all brought something unique to the table. It's just very difficult to hit all of those notes at once, it seems.
Bond was killed with Daniel Craig, not now. He was a charismatic, insolent womanizer and with Daniel Craig they turned him into a pre-amnesia Jason Bourne. Pierce Brosnan was by far the best Bond.
Crazy idea here: instead of trying to "modernize" the James Bond franchise, just set the next film in 1960 at the height of the Cold War. All the "problematic" aspects of the character wouldn't be; people love Mad Men, right? Go back to the roots of the franchise.
I'd do it as a show set late 50s at the start, expand on the spy aspect, the travel aspect, casinos, cars, drinking, fighting etc. just the bond doing bond. amazon series, going through each novel plot. Mad Men, I can't remember the last time anyone talked about that, ended 6 years ago.
That's exactly the route Guy Ritchie went when he resurrected THE MAN FROM UNCLE in 2015 - rather than try to retrofit it into the 21s century, he set the movie in the early 60s, when it was conceived. And it worked, too, even if indifferent marketing and release timing kept it from making back its marketing budget.
In short: the bar was so damm low, we were so afraid that it was gonna be another last Jedi, that for the single fact that it was tolerable it was good
Interesting that you say that. It has a proper term I can’t remember and it’s even used in politics. The bar is set so low from absurdly controversial decisions that the public will be more willing to accept crap. It’s like being offered a rotten apple. Nobody wants it and there’ll be outrage over it. So they end up offering an apple that’s only slightly rotten and the public are more likely to settle. The original intention was never to force the public to eat the rotten apple. It was to ‘prepare’ and make them ‘more willing’ to accept something bad, but not quite as horrible.
@allgangstalkerswillburninhell MW3 was the game that finally killed my interest in the series. It feels like the industry committed to making lazy broken games to lower the bar so they can restart with lower expectations
Totally agree with you when you say it feels like an end of an era. It’s a shame because I don’t know if we will see another Bond like this again. Daniel Craig has been a great Bond over the past 15 years or so. The old king is dead . Long live the king🤺
Bond's womanising is problematic? How many world saving missions did he complete EXACTLY BECAUSE he womanised the women he should?? I'll tell you: in ALL of the movies
I heard people want Bond to be replace by a gay guy, so instead of Bond trying to seduced women he going to seduced men. Like how many percent of the world is gay? like a very small percent. So he going to fail alot more often then successed, so it won't make sense.
No G-Man ever retires, they get kidnapped and wake up in "The Village" and given a new number. Oh Bloody Hell, another number, why not just call me Jim!
7:58 "And there's absolutely nothing in the script to reconcile these two events" Demonstrably untrue. When Paloma said she'd only trained for 3 weeks, and then suddenly was kicking ass, I took issue with that immediately. I said to myself "They better acknowledge that in some way". They did, moments later when Bond sees her skills he says "Three weeks training? Really?" She responds "More or less", which I interpreted as that she lied, and had a lot more training and experience than stated.
Honestly, I don't want any more Bond movies. The whole Seductive Spy thing was just one part of what made James Bond fun. Bond could blend into a crowd, pick up a quick disguise to infiltrate wherever he needed to be, and smoothtalk his way into groups. He wasn't just a stuntman with a penis he liked to use. He was a SPY in a mildly fantastical world. And people nowadays have no idea what that entails.
You know what, Casino Royale retained that "SPY" essence in it, hence it was so well received, but then me too happened, and punted the character to oblivion.
Yes I guess I'll go to cinema because the drinker said film is ok - I'm not kidding. I don't trust other reviewers anymore, and if the stuff from trailers would be in movie I would not give them my money and that is is. Still trailers leave bad taste in mouth.... so I'm struggling.
Agreed. At this point the people that make content based around these woke movies are way more entertaining than the movies themselves, and that's a FACT!
Same. I forgot this movie even existed let alone officially dropped in theaters. Was too busy waiting to be disappointed by how they pozzed Many Saints of Newark instead
I am always amazed at how much is being communicated when the Drinker utters, “go away now.” Same words every time but a massive spectrum of different meanings.
This time, he sounded sad. Like Bond will never be able to rise even close to its classic heights because of agenda-focused writing over character or plot driven writing. We long for those, but they're becoming a rarity anymore. Every fucking film has to "make a statement" or "send a message." No. No it doesn't. Some should, Bond shouldn't.
Many plot holes and red herrings, but tonally, I think it was near perfect for Daniel Craig’s Bond. Very emotionally vulnerable as always but it was done convincingly and they also brought more levity than we’re used to seeing from him. And they wrapped it up great. Action sequences at beginning and end flawless. I enjoyed the whole film despite having trouble suspending disbelief about why the villain wanted to kill the world, etc. We got a modern James Bond Movie, but it was a REAL James Bond Movie. It’s the end of an era. Will we see good James Bond content again?
I wonder if the WOKESHITE-CUT will ever be 'leaked" so we can see just what a croc of shite they were trying to turn the franchise into. I'm sure you'd hear the fans shrieking globally.
The funny part is that anyone thinks the Hollywood decision makers and "me too creators" have any real agenda aside from pushing their own success. The money -men- ,ah, _persons_ just want money and invest in whoever seems to know what they're talking about how to milk it from the public. And being the hopelessly out of touch vampires the they are just back the latest fad linked to whatever is trending. KK over at Lucasfilm has only ever been as liberal as helped her get what she wants. As a narcissist she may not be able to tell the difference but actual liberals over the age of 13 always could.
@CEO of Secularism This. Was going to say that the ending of the movie doesn't even make that much sense... just lazy way of ending it... Couldv'e been an ongoing thing with the new Bond over the next few movies... similar to Bond and Blofield back in the day. What a shame...
Western society has become like that A+ student who was doing well who suddenly and for no inexplicable reason is now wasted on drugs and the student insists it's not drugs.
@@JD-lp5rw I wouldn't blame Gen Z. Most of the crazier stuff has come from academia, Hollywood, politicians, and activists from any of the above, so Gen Z isn't really influencing anything; most of them are high schoolers or younger.
I think that was back in '05 or later. Whenever Daniel Craig's first movie was. Same thing went for a link with brown hair. Crazy how nuts everything got in 6 or so years. More change in 6 years than about 30 years before it.
Bit of a correction: the CIA didn't betray bond. The one CIA agent - the one who betrays Bond - is bad. This shouldn't be much of a spoiler, as you mention the betrayal, anyway, and the second that it occurs, it's obvious that he's a bad/rogue agent. Anyway, great review as always.
The moment I saw Daniel heavily advocating for a female James Bond and saying James Bond is a thing of the past because of how he sees women, knew James Bond was pretty much dead.
I watched Casino Royale in 2006 with someone very dear to me. We hadn’t spoken to each other in 10 years. She passed away at the end of last year. The part where he visits Vespers grave to mourn her and to finally let her go was probably one of the most difficult scenes I’ve ever experienced in film.
Stay strong man. I haven’t been in your exact situation before but I’ve felt a little bit of that pain. We’re all gonna take that step eventually. For all we know, you might even look back on this one day and even I might already be gone. I know it hurts losing somebody close to you but there is no gift more valuable that anybody in the world could ever give to you than to carry on your memory even when your gone. I always think about that. What would have to happen for me to truly be able to pass away happily? And the only answer I can really think of is the knowledge that I at least touched somebody’s life in the world in such a way that there is at least one person still somewhere out there learning from and maybe even celebrating the unique lessons and personality that I brought into the world for however long I was here. So carry her memory with you, in your words and in your actions. We can all only hope to be so lucky to be missed in such a way.
@@WhirlingMusic Yeah well It was a traumatic experience out of our control that doomed the 5 yr relationship. Hearing out of the blue 10 yrs later she took her own life opened up a few things. I wouldn’t have expected her to think of me, we had our own lives and families.
To be honest, considering how “problematic” a character like Bond is to current Hollywood thinking, a mixed bag was probably the best we could have hoped for. It’s a really sad state of affairs that, these days, we walk out of a film from a long-standing franchise and are relieved that it wasn’t a _complete_ dumpster fire.
One can only imagine what the original version was like before the reshoots - I'm guessing Bond spent the whole movie being 'humbled' by diverse women and then killed. Hollywood being subtle as usual
It's pretty ridiculous and hypocritical. If you have a man-eater female character being flirty with all the men, it's okay. But James Bond in the modern era? Oh no can't have that. But Hollywood has always been full of shit. They froth at the mouth over Trump while shrugging/ignoring the pervs and pedos in their own ranks. Besides, sometimes Bond's womanizing was a bit too ridiculous. Sometimes felt like a Western harem-anime lol.
Sturgeon's Law overrides this. Movies have been shuyte long before this pandering and they'll be shuyte not much longer after (until theaters consolidate and shut down due to streaming). Diversity is just this generation's version of shakycam.
I think that if they really had made an "oldschool" Bond movie with all the problematic elements left in, it would've been even more of a dumpster fire than you would expect. There's a reason why the earlier movies in the series are pretty unwatchable and cringey these days. It's a bit like watching someone make out with the skeletons in their closet. There are just too many things about Bond movies that should not be glorified. Heck, even the damn cocktail he drinks should never have been glorified. Vodka martinis are stirred cocktail. Shaking it makes the ice melt into the drink faster, watering it down and making it flavorless. And because of the shaken cocktail trend, people responded by making martinis drier and drier until they were something like 8:1 ratios of vodka/gin to vermouth when they used to be a sensible 1:1 ratio. But flavorless, watered-down cocktails didn't matter to drinkers of that era, because the marketing campaigns sought to portray vodka as the sleek, "sophisticated" liquor for day-drinkers that supposedly didn't leave the smell of alcohol on your breath. This marketing campaign did so much damage to the cocktail and liquor industry that it actually ruined the whiskey industry for DECADES. Most of the whiskey distillery closures in the past century happened in the 70s and 80s due to this. That goes for Scotland as well. The blending trends of whiskey around that era were also borderline criminal. Most people alive today don't remember the days of "light whiskey, the whiskey that drinks like a vodka" but it happened and it was terrible. Thanks, James Bond. You managed to ruin masculinity, consent, AND alcohol.
Fukanaga's comments on classic Bond disappointed me a fair bit. I appreciate he's not a realistic role model for young men, but he was never fking meant to be. It's like calling superman's x-ray vision problematic, it's rediculous.
@kevin barker By realistic role model, I mean someone who models a life achievable in reality for at least one other person. Fantastical or not, a role model needn't _literally_ model someone's ideal life, anway, just their ideal ethos.
@@Hoganply You can bet your ass there have been some incredible secret agents, and most likely still exist. Though the cold war era was the pinnacle of that. Bond was also great role model as he was heroic, saved the humanity for god knows how many times. And it's not like he was violent if he didn't have to. Thus he tried to achieve things without violence. That is perfect archetype masculine hero in my books. But even if the wasn't, that shouldn't matter one bit. Bond certainly isn't corrupting the youth and I would much rather have my children watch all the bond films than 90% of the current pop and hip hop stars for example.
I would disagree 100% with your assertion that Bond wasn't a realistic role model for young men. When you really look at Bond, what were his basic characteristics? He was strong, capable, educated, well-spoken, well-dressed, polite, refined, and yet still able to fight when fighting was called for. He used his brain as much as, or more than, his brawn. And because of all that, he rose to the top of his profession. What part of that isn't a good role-model for young men? Sure, if you only take a surface glance, someone could argue that young men can't become super-spies or there's no such thing as "her majesty's secret service", but that's just the fancy paint job and ignores the real nuts and bolts. Any guy, young or old, who trains as James trains will become a much better version of themselves. If they study etiquette, for example, and learn to dress themselves in fitted suits, they'll be able to accomplish far more than if they go around town in ripped up jeans and t-shirts, farting at every turn. They might never get into a car chase through an old Italian village, but learning how to drive defensively certainly will pay dividends as they navigate life in general.
@Raylan Givens What was Atticus Finch if not educated, refined, well-dressed, capable and every bit as much of a Bond as 007 himself? Slight differences, sure, but both are fictional characters who are fighting for truth and justice in their own ways, against their own particular set of enemies. And I would also point out that your post exemplifies exactly the lack of education that we spoke of above. You've come up with an either-or argument that puts all the blame on anyone who doesn't agree with you and doubled down on that by suggesting that the Bond stories can only be one very particular thing.
Rami was also hardly not in the film at all, he could have literally been in the last 10 minutes of the film and had the same impact. It’s so sad because he’s such an amazing actor. I wonder if he did have more of a role but it was cut?
I was actually looking forward to him as the villian because of how good he is.. then i started seeing reviews calling the villian lackluster. So disappointed.
I think he was being planned to be the quiet, reserved but threatening villain, except he's just not. Like, he still had many scenes like in the garden with Matilde or when he comes face to face with Bond, even his death epilogue was flat so it's not really the editor's fault. To me, he's a very expressive actor and does it very very well, but he's not Mads Mikkelsen or Tony Leung who can act with their eyes alone. I'd say it's either him not "owning" the character or the director's forcing it on him.
after seeing a few seconds of his performance i thought it was cartoonish, i don’t know if it’s his fault or just the script and production, but something was off, thinking about it, all bond villains somewhat suck, i’ve yet to see a bond villain like homelander from the boys, which is actually intimidating and scary, a real threat.
I just watched GoldenEye a month ago. It's like having a spoonful of Honey after starving for 5 months. It's just so sweet and you appreciate it so much.
Goldeneye was pretty amazing. The other Pierce Bond movies were hit or miss, sadly. And other than the facial scar and the constant chain-smoking he actually looked a lot more like James Bond than other men who played the role.
Yeah, personally I hate how Craig has portrayed Bond. Probably due to the management to 'make it China friendly'. He actually plays a far better James Bond co-starring in Tombraider as the rival raider to Lara Croft. There he played the personality of James Bond far better with jokes and fun. In the real James Bond he's.... dumb. The last JB I've seen is Skyfall and I remember the reveal of Silva as the double 0 before Bond. The vacant expression of Craig as if there was no light burning upstairs made him look dumb and stupid; no where near the James Bond of earlier actors with their glib and witty British jokes. While it was a fun movie; that's when I stopped watching JB, even though I was a huge fan until Pierce Brosnan hung up the license to kill.
I was expecting the worst when I saw this movie, but it ended up being a good film for me. Rather than getting walked all over by a new 'modern audiences' character I think they actually end up having a good deal of respect for each other, and she does the right thing and an unusually respectful and honourable thing (for a female character) in asking Bond to be reinstated as the Legendary 007.
Ironic with the title, all this time waiting…just to see 007 get the royal-less treatment. Glad Ian Flemming did not have to witness this butchery. Manly tears have been shed
Haven't seen this movie yet, so this is a general comment. Do you honestly believe that if Ian Fleming was alive and writing Bond now, in the 2020s as opposed to the 1950s that he would write the character exactly the same? Really.
My favorite part of the movie was when the credits were done, they did indeed include the classic "James Bond will return." I was scared shitless that It was going to say "007 will return." I'm probably reading too much into it, but it gave me some hope.
@@fonkyman SPOILERS.......,....... I still don't get this film at all!!! It's called James Bond.lol Why without a bond, a strong, intelligent BRITISH MALE who is loyal to queen and country the franchise is worthless to me. The lack of imagination is what gets me..There are many OOs do a spin-off if you must ..to keep the idiot feminists happy but why kill all the male characters?????I had my doubts about Q because he was so young but making him gay was a deliberate choice.ridiculous.
What is even is a "lane" for an international government-backed spy with a license to kill. He just does whatever mission is assigned to him, even when he gets kicked out of MI-6. You literally fire the guy and he keeps coming back, blowing up everything along the way.
It's such absurd dialogue from a British character as well. Stay in your lane is something that a middle-aged Floridian on a gun forum would say trying to sound tough and it was petulant when even they said it. It's a term from American Football. Such mediocre writing.
I read that when he said he'd rather slit his wrists, he'd literally just finished filming Spectre and was quite frankly, knackered. He later apologised and said that it was a bad choice of words as that particular movie was very demanding.
@@dpesposito 🤣 his career would have been fine and after 4 Bond films and other successful ones, he has plenty of millions of pounds (not dollars he’s english duh)
@@HUDSON7 Saying the things he did would lower his chances of being considered for other films. Retracting those statements simply shows he's predictable and can be the cog in the machine they need him to be. And, no one cares about the english thing. sorry mate
I'm sure Daniel Craig didn't need the money. He is getting paid over 100 million to do the next Knives Out trilogy for Netflix. He is not required to do any crazy stunt and he said he had so much fun doing the last Knives out and Logan Lucky. He probably enjoys doing those comedic films.
My idea for all it’s worth, is to cast Henry Cavill and set it back in the 1960’s during the Cold War. Have him do actual spy s**t, and have the main villain be Red Grant. Where he is a mirror opposite of bond, but a version of himself that’s become more violent and ruthless.
James Bond has the unique privilege of being able to switch actors just like that without having to provide any explanation, it's the holly grail of franchises. Why making it expirable like that? Makes no sense, it's killing the golden eggs goose.
In 60 years no other writers felt the need to kill Bond however tired the films became. These writers could not miss their chance to kill him because they hate him and all he stands for.
There is a time and place for music, movies, etc, then it gets old and fades away. I grew up in the 80s and loved the music and movies of that era, but time goes on and things change. Bond has just aged out, as did SW, ST, Indy, etc.
Sometimes I wish too ask those writers why they hate it so much.. hmm I think know a little about it I remember reading a book where the main character works for a magazine where he writes about food and his colleagues is a music writer who is the kind in his 30/40 still dress like a angry teenager with long black hair and leather jacket.. anyway in this novel Leonard Cohen comes to Denmark Copenhagen “ it’s danish and also danish “ and there is a female journalist who writes those kind of Sex and The City columns one of them is how embarrassing it is to have lipstick on your cheek before a date.. so yeah that’s kind of thing but anyway she gonna interview Mr Cohen instead of the music journalist he gets mad and the main character trying to talks her from it but because the music journalist is a old school kind person who still think Ramones was saver of rock n roll and have being out acting like immature teenager late at night she happily see him destroy his own career and after the interview she said that Leonard Cohen is such a man thing.. and I think that’s the view of today’s media.. there is a lot of people who either hate or are tired of the old school or just entertainment and want to change it without sympathy for what gets lost..
@@bacht4799 No. It's because pretty much the entirety of Western moviemakers are owned by """certain individuals""" who spouts the same agenda. Now, the various media outlets, which are run by idiots, agree mostly with this crap to varying degrees. They do however also do an unholy amount of shilling for these movies, since if they dont, they're gonna be out of a job. Now you may wonder, why are these companies trying to destroy the stories we value? Some say it's Marxism and some says it's a whole other beast entirely. Either way, we can't know for sure and we probably never will. But what can we know for sure? We can know who owns said companies, who're the producers, who owns the media outlets etc. and for some obtuse reason, the vast, vast majority of them are in the same tribe, as people with the surname Cohen.
Yeah, I was distracted trying to do the math on that. During the current timeline of the film he looked like he was in his mid-30's at worst, which meant he would have been a teenager during the opening scene.
Something I really don’t understand, why not just make a traditional Bond movie, something the fans would want, then let capitalism do its thing. If people like it, they pay to watch it, if they don’t, well they don’t. Very simple.
That's assuming their goal was to make a good product in the end. Instead they have to worm in their personal vindications into everything to validate their sad and pathetic delusions even though no one but an extreme minority want it.
It wasn’t perfect, and there were issues you could clearly point out during the movie, but when it all wrapped up it made sense to me. The dynamic between the “old” and the “new” 007 seemed realistic, where there would be a power struggle between a seasoned veteran and a spry, talented, but inexperienced agent. Both trying to prove themselves but ultimately giving proper respects to the OG. It was long-winded, but there was a lot to unpack from the last movie, and also a lot to tie up from this movie. I think it was great at trying to tell us that change is coming, but the OGs will still be respected. I think the movie was damn good, and the ending kinda killed me in a pretty heartfelt way.
If the kind of changes that I expect are coming, then I don't want to watch another bond movie ever! Roll on James bond the black disabled transgender guy!
I think Kingsman is doing a good job of carrying on the legacy so much so that I'd rather order, "A martini with Gin not Vodka, and for you to stir it while looking over at an unopened bottle of Vermouth."
I wasn't a fan of him instantly seducing a widow after killing her husband, that shit was creepy as fuck, i think it would be better if he had to work for it or got rejected sometimes
The cynical side of me believes this Bond’s death is a symbolic killing of the “toxic male” traits that made the character so iconic. If there’s ever another James Bond, rest assured he’ll be the a PC version. Bond’s sleeping around days are done.
@@Scripture-Man How are you a "servant of Jesus Christ", holding what appears to be a Bible, with an Israeli flag as your background?! That's hilarious.... You do realize the Jews killed Jesus, right?
So is me buying a movie ticket, Only reason I liked the Bond films was the womanising, sexist jokes, flirting, Because it's the complete opposite of real life for me, It's an escape from reality to get a good laugh which is why I watch movies. Prefer all the Bond films from before mid 1990's, Started getting a little too serious and PC after then.
My favourite Bond is Pierce Brosnan. If the special effects and technology of today existed at Sean Connery’s time, he would be unbeatable, but unfortunately they didn’t and that takes a bit of the fun out - although my favourite Bond movie is "You only live twice". The first one from Pierce wasn’t good, then he found his way. And the combination with the effects was great. Pity he didn’t last long.
Also, if you’re referring to the clip in the video, he’s doing it correctly: rounding a corner in close quarters, you want to have it over or under your shoulder so you can compress the weapon as much as possible, so you don’t have the muzzle sticking out as you punch out from corners. People new to clearing buildings often times have the barrel stick out way before they themselves cross the threshold of a doorway or corner, and the best place to be is right on the other side of the wall to grab the barrel. In all the other clips, they’re using stocks just fine. If you’ll notice, bond pushes out and shoulders it once he rounds the corner, which is exactly what you want to do to gain stability once you cross the most dangerous part of the room or hallway. I haven’t seen the full movie, but for the most part, they’re doing a decent job in clips.
@@Savnoc Exactly. IRL 007 wouldn't even be British. The "agent" would most likely be a foreign national working somewhere like a belligerent nations embassy, military establishment or corporation. Bond would actually be the Covert Human Intelligence recruiter/handler, and would never even have completed an advanced driving course, let alone weapons handling etc. A lot of the military and security carers depicted by Hollywood are usually far more mundane and low risk IRL.
Bond became an iconic alpha male character, because Connery was an alpha male. All he had to do was walk into a room to instantly command the entire space, and he never lost that charisma even in his last years. I've loved him in every role he's played because he always comes of as tough, capable, reliable and manly.
Taking out the womanizing also undoes a core concept of the Bond character; that he's unable to form a meaningful relationship with anybody. The whole point is that the guy lives on a razor's edge and death is always around the corner. Bond's lifestyle never gave him the opportunity, and hence he doesn't have the ability, to connect with anyone. With women, sex is all that he has. Which is great on a surface-level, but since "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", it's always been an underlying notion that at the end of the day, Bond is going to be alone. (The books actually address this by sometimes telling the reader what happens to the Bond Girls in-between the stories; Bond finds them all too clingy and finds someone better-suited for them. Which, in turn, makes Bond sound pathetic as opposed to badass). People who watch Bond movies and want to be everything like him miss the reality that James Bond is a broken, empty man who only has his work. The expensive suits, fast cars, and one-liners are just the facade--because there IS no actual "James Bond" under there anymore.
FINALLY saw this tonight. When it hit theaters I was too busy. Caught a VERY subtle nod to Casino Royale. When Rami Malek first visits Madeline in her office, he points out a Foxglove in her office. Kind of pinkish, purplish flower, very common in Europe, and invasive in parts of the US. Foxglove is of the genus Digitalis, which is the poison that Le Chiffre tried to kill Bond with at Casino Royale. Neither film ties Digitalis and Foxglove together. Tough one to catch, but for Botany/Flower nerds.
They also copped the mobile team of agents coordinating their actions in the field from Mission Impossible. I like Bourne, and I like the Mission Impossible series (much better than this iteration of Bond in fact), but I don't want Bond to be either of those. I want Bond to be Bond.
Casino Royale was the last great Bond movie (and arguably one of the best). After that it became a crap fest and went to generic action movie status. Even skyfall fell underneath many cliches and didn’t really feel like a bond movie. They really took themselves too seriously on this one.
Yeah, but it wasn't just Bourne. As Craig himself said at the time, the Austin Powers movies had completed the devolution of Bond into a caricature. There was a general feeling after the over-the-top DIE ANOTHER DAY (invisible car!) that the franchise had to shift gears to something grittier if it was going to be viable in the 21st century. Of course, we can debate whether the Craig films chose the right way to go about that.
After seeing this, I'm definitely not watching the film. James Bond just isn't the same anymore. As much as I think Henry Cavill would make a great James Bond, I don't care. Hollywood will destroy him. I'll always cherish what Sean, George, Roger, Timothy and Pierse did to help James Bond become THE quintessential spy in cinema. I'll always watch the classics and play the old EA James Bond games. Old Bond will live on forever.
Exactly Henry cavill would be perfect for the role sadly I believe they want to go the more diverse route and even if by some miracle cavill became bond like you said today's Hollywood would destroy him and probably make an example out of him for their girl power movement or something like it so yeah sticking to the classics is where it's at
I agree mate, and hopefully (a small sliver of hope, at least) we get Cavill as Bond, a real true Bond that we can connect with the Bonds of old. Cavill would really rock the role, and I hope some day we get such a film but I am not watching this either. Sad to see another franchise be dusted
Get Cavill as new 007, hire either Gareth Evans (The Raid 1 & 2) or Stahelski & Leitch (John Wick franchise, Atomic Blonde) as director, go back to the oldschool Bond formula, where Bond was still Bond & not a lame Jason Bourne rip-off in a designer suit. Then, I may watch it again.
That’s not how he dies? The virus is also not unspecified (explained in great detail even) or from an unnamed origin. You very very obviously didn’t watch the movie because this is just blatantly wrong
It's the first bond film where I actually left the theatre depressed. How can a franchise go from a thrilling rollercoaster like Casino Royale to a dreary 3 hour marathon?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought so too. I didn't see it till now for my own reason but almost feels hollow. I really liked the first 10 minutes, a good strong opening that felt like a good continuation from Spectre. But the music choice of 'We Have All the Time in the World' and then Felix Leiter's arc made it clear what was going to happen later in the film and it was just like dominoes from then on. I'm an outlier in that I really enjoy all the other Craig films (including QoS) but something was just off here. There's some good moments and it's well shot but it's not enough to save it for me.
The goal is to demoralize. That's why modern "architecture" exists, why woke exists, why mass migration of blacks and muslims into white countries exists, why affirmative action and quotas exist, why weak justice systems exist. The goal of leftist politics is to drive the human spirit out of white people and make everyone dependent on politics/big government. It sounds crazy, but look around and tell me it's not true.
I felt the same and sadly it was the first time my daughter was old enough to go to the cinema to see a Bond film with me, thinking this would be a new tradition. I nearly walked out. It was so far removed in its tone for Bond film, dour, boring, woke, derivative, you name it. The fate of Felix Leiter, the fumbling around of Bonds replacement and the dour and unnecessary ending, it was all just insulting as a Bond fan.
This is weird because my wife actually likes James Bond more than I do. She's enamored with his style. She's read all of the books multiple times. On the other hand, she's an empowered independent woman who is a physician for professional (male) sports teams - definitely not a "barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen" type woman. If Bond's "proclivities" were so "problematic" then why does he appeal to women like my wife so much as a character? BTW Eva Greene for best Bond Girl.
I bet your wife’s kinda hot. These woke fun-nuggets remind me of the Viz character Millie Tant and her “Equal Rights for Fat Ugly Women mantra”. I didn’t create it, I’m just quoting facts.
My girlfriend isn't as big a fan of James Bond as I am but she loves men of Bond's caliber like Gabe Logan from Syphon Filter, Cobra from Space Adventure Cobra, or Inspector Harry Callahan/Dirty Harry. She also happens to be a God-fearing person, my training partner in Martial Arts, and is an honest to goodness worker in my country's government sector. I thank God I have a decent person like her in my life. 🙏🥋❤
@@yousuckatcod by today's standards..yes 100 mil is kind of meh for big IPs like this. If it was a smaller or lesser known flick sure but 100 mil is chump change to things like disney movies or even other grossing movies of the 21st century
I don’t get feminists weird obsession with showing off periods and tampons. No one wants to see used tampons, not even women like me. Glad they decided to leave that scene out in the new James Bond. Yes, it’s a natural and normal part of a woman’s life, but it’s still gross. Like snot, vomit, fecal matter, ejaculation, etc is natural but likewise pretty gross and nothing people want to watch in a movie.
@@godzillavkk I’m sorry, I’m not following what you are trying to say. Are you arguing men don’t use tampons? That I agree with. But are you suggesting men don’t vomit, have snot, etc? Just want some clarification.
I found this channel recently and very much enjoy the reviews! I wish RT certified critics were more like you and RedLettermedia as opposed to the people who give terrible films like Captain Marvel, Terminator: Dark Fate, Wonder Woman 1984, Birds of Prey, The Old Guard, Gunpowder Milkshake, Charlie's Angels (2019), and Ghostbusters (2016) positive reviews.
I’m also new to this channel, and I think it’s great! I completely agree with you too about Rotten Tomatoes and critics in general. However I do think that The Old Guard was pretty solid in my opinion! Birds of Prey was also not that bad either.
If Hollywood and the media stopped reinforcing wokeness as something to be celebrated, then wokeness would be cast back into the dark, dank pits from whence it came.
Its chock full of contradictions. Weird mix of puritanism, but desire for sexual expression. Fighting against objectification but at the same time demanding sexual freedoms. No idea how all of this works, and I am not willing to understand this modern gobbledygook.
Took a while to sink in for me too, but then I realised I just took it for granted it would just keep on like it had before, forgetting that there’s a reason we break history up into eras. The era of Hollywood is over - they had a good run.
@@suzygirl1843 HA, political correctness is a problem since the 90s, maybe even further into the past, it just became worst after 2012 with the assumed success of the intersectional coalition, into re-electing Obama despite him alienating a good portion of his previous voters by betraying his core "decrease racial tensions" mandate.
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I definitely agree with what you're saying, but honestly Nomi 007 could have been so much worse! Yeah she was very cocky and arrogant, but unlike most other movies with her kind of character, it came back to bite her in the arse with Bond throwing smarter insults back at her. Also she was a very good team player as well and they made a decent duo in the climax
@@DHynes5 I think it simply comes down to Ana De Armas being a better actress than Lashana Lynch. To Lynch's credit though, I never felt like she was phoning it in because there was clearly some effort put into giving her a bit of depth.
I liked Craig as Bond but other than his first appearance as Bond, none of the movies that followed were any good. It's time they let the Bond franchise die, but they will not and will grind it into the ground for what ever $ they can get from it. No Time To Die was the best Bond since Casino Royale, but still not a great Bond movie. I really thought Casino Royale indicated a new direction for Bond, more gritty and realistic, but it was not to be.
Yeah, except "bots" on that level are biological/chemical "machines" that work like cells and enzymes. Electronic robots require far too many moving parts to function on that small of a level. Although realistically, the nanobots won't be able to last in your body indefinitely and will eventually denature. So it's 100% possible to simply wait it out, but that's not cool.
@@Burner.Account.. A secret agent of her majesty's secret service consumed nanobots, this is what happened to his organs. JB, 🖕 presenting to the emergency room 🖕 with iminent death appears to suffer from Hyperartificialisemia, hyper meaning high, artificialis meaning artificial and emia meaning presence in blood, high presence of artificial in blood.
We've gotten to the point where Austin Powers is almost more recognizable as a Bond film than the modern Bond films. Daniel Craig does a good job I think, but the material being worked with takes itself far too seriously and suffers for it. Bond was at its best when filled with Cold War hijinks and almost-but-not-quite cartoon villains.
The idea that Austin Powers being more recognisable as a bond film is honestly why I think that the majority of things pre Daniel Craig was really crap. You had the odd film like Goldeneye, sure, but mostly they were cookie cutter films that were overly campy .. I mainly just associated the bond film franchise with bad films.
SJW writters: We need more strong female bond characters that can lead the franchise like Nomi. Honey Ryder: Carried a knife to defend herself, swore vengeance apon anyone who wronged her, and always kept her femininity and sexiness. Anya Amasova: Was assertive and tough, yet feminine and sexy. She was also familiar with The Espirit, Pointed a gun at Bond, defended herself, and was her closet to fight Drax. Holly Goodhead: Kicks 3 men's ass, was very smart and resourceful, was good with shuttles and spaceships, drove The Moonraker, and always kept her femininity and sexiness. Natalya Simonova: Kicked the shit outta Boris, was tech-savy, and was close to killing Xenia. Let's not forget Jinx, Xenia, Mary, Melina, Tracy, Pussy, Octopussy, Pam, and much more.
People tend to gloss over that; I love Casino Royale, but it has Bond QUITTING THE SERVICE straight after earning his 00 stripes, cos he FELL IN LOVE. FUCK RIGHT OFF. As much as people complain about other Craig films, CR is far from perfect. Could you Imagine Connery's Bond QUITTING Mi6 over some bird? Nah, me neither.
My reasons why only Connery Moore and Brosnan portrayed James Bond..... If I watch an action movie I'll switch on the tv and see where it takes me with no expectations If I watch a Bourne movie I want to see top notch fighting scenes, a driven and ultra serious character with no time for women in his life doing all he can to put the pieces together in the puzzle If I watch a Bond movie (the iconic gentleman spy) I want to see all the CORE ELEMENTS that made him ICONIC, a playboy spy with lots of women, outrageous villains, charisma, charm, suave sophistication, fun with cheese and 1 liners, getting the girls and saving the world, ESCAPISM Only the 3 above had all those core elements All I want is for Bond to be Bond, just like I want characters like Bourne to be their character
For me the oddest plot hole in the entire film is why Safin waited so long for revenge. I mean, the dude kills Mr White’s wife and saves his daughter. A “daughter of SPECTRE” and rather than make Madeline a weapon to destroy SPECTRE from the inside out he just… does nothing with her… for years?!! And Mr. White just didn’t know anything about this despite him being such a pivotal character in Casino Royale, Quantum and Spectre? The more I think about that the more it bugs me…
Yeah, it bugged me that when Safin first rescued Madeleine he didn't keep her with him to essentially lure Mr. White into a trap and get his revenge without waiting 20+ years.
@@clumsyentropy Not sure about that, Brosnan was an absolutely fabulous Bond but he had a couple of poor directors, also the actor does have input in the direction of the Bond character
Gone are the days of John Berry writing all the music for Bond and only hiring top 40 pop stars to sing them. Now they have the top 40 pop stars writing the songs.
Adele - Skyfall (2012), Madonna - Die Another Day (2002), Garbage - The World Is Not Enough (1999), Sheryl Crow - Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), all light weights compared to Shirley Bassey.
The one that got me misty eyed was in the World is not Enough and the original Q, Desmond Lllewelyn, has his last scene with Pierce Brosnan's Bond. He introduces John Cleese's character (Dubbed "R" by Bond) and then goes down in that lift. I think Llewelyn has passed away in real life by the time I saw that scene and THAT felt like the end of an era to me. Skyfall was a problematic film that created a heap of continuity issues by somehow trying to shoehorn all of Bond's previous screen outings into the history of a new version of the character who was too young to have any adult connection with the moments (Bond always had futuristic tech that looked contemporary to it's era and all of the previous gadgets were outdated by the time DC was in the role), he was also clearly not of Scottish heritage unlike Connery. The reveal of Skyfall being a physical place in Scotland that JB had history with made zero sense for DC's version of the character or any other since Connery. Skyfall also acknowledged that 'M' was a codename and clearly showed the person occupying that position being replaced (like you mentioned with Judy Dench's character's demise). It would have been the perfect opportunity to reveal that Daniel Craig was not the first person to take on the name of James Bond whilst still honouring all of the previous films. In fact, that acknowledgement could have allowed the film to go a step further and actually show the previous actors on screen and as the film was an anniversary of the character in films it would have been perfectly in keeping with that celebration. They're continuing the mistake in the new film by the look of it, having DC's Bond yet again drive the DB5 which was released 5 years before he was even born. EDIT: Also, on the subject of Skyfall, DC's incarnation of the role was supposed to be a full reboot since Casino Royale so his version of the character should have had no connection at all to the previous incarnations' gadgets as the entire story was being retold! I need a lie down with all this Skyfall rage! That's all I've got. I'll go away now...
@@swettyspaghtti honestly she always came off as tough motherly love to me, it was over used, but time and again Bond was not trusted and she gave him the longest leash. One of the interesting "flaws" her and Bond have, is that both know Bond is expendable, but she never follows through with that (until it's good for a trailer ) she can't bring herself to actaully risk his death, and he would kill just about anyone to protect her. Wish they played that weakness more but oh well
RIP James Bond! Bad way to go out but what a legacy to leave behind. There were a lot of good movies over the years that will live on infamy. What a legend!
Agreed. The whole plot of Skyfall was about Bond being too old and worn out to remain an agent. They can't do that plot then make two more movies. Plus, Craig obviously hates the role and Spectre was the most boring Bond movie ever so it would have been much better had they just rebooted the series after Skyfall and started fresh with another actor.
[Spoilers] I just watched the movie a few hours ago. All in all I liked it and think it's a passable ending to this 5 movie arc. I honestly agree with everything you said in your review drinker, although I'd like to add some praise for Ana de Armas for the few minutes she's in. I wish she were the new agent taking the 007 title instead of Lashana Lynch. Nothing against Lynch, but de Armas is just more enjoyable to watch, both in dialogue and action scenes. Also I'm pretty sure I've spotted every single line written by Waller-Bridge. It would almost be comical how jarring they feel if they weren't so pathatic. And finally: R.I.P. Felix Leiter and James Bond, brothers in espionage
Ana De Armas was without a doubt the best part of the movie. She seriously deserves to be the main Bond girl in the next movie. I hope her career really takes off from this.
glad you liked de Armas but I thought the only thing she had going for her was being quirky, and it was fine but it wasn't that deep and that funny either, she was alright but it could have been played by any actress tbh
This isn't even the first movie where Felix has died before. He was also killed in License to Kill. If that doesn't help set the idea each actor's set of bonds is their own contained thread with a few repeat actors brought in for a blurred sense of continuity, then there's no helping it.
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The film should be retitled: -No Time- *Time* to Die!
Yes, because young women never go for older, tough, in shape, well dressed,rich, outspoken, charismatic world travelers with a hint of danger and mystery.
That never happens. 😕
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These are the guys, that never need to settle down. And most likely will never settle down. They can have basically a harem. But they need to be over 6 foot tall, too.
Nope. Never.
@@RobertLutece909 You kidding? I've worked with guys in their 50's who pull of the right amount of character and mystique and were constantly hooking up with 20 year old girls..
Uhh that's literally what women go for. Especially the rich part.
“This is not a passing of the torch, but torching away the past.” -The Longman
Longman bad
Mauler... The best UA-camr so far to me..
@yes it was a good day do you people get paid to spam the same links in the comments to almost *every* Drinker vid, or do you just have nothing else going on in your lives?
@@screamybingus707 its bots bro just report them
Didn't he get that comment from the chat on a stream though?
Remember when Craig was first cast as Bond and everyone was talking about how odd it was to have a man with blond hair play 007? I miss those days.
how times have changed huh
Thats about as far as diversity should go with Bond.
Devonian It’d be so cool if we got an Asian James Bond.
“What about Idris Elba?”
“Too blond! You can’t have a blond Bond.”
“But…”
“I said… *too blond”*
- apologies to “Pitch Meeting”
Bond is an international British spy. I think outside of him being British why does it matter if he’s not white after being played by white actors for the past 60 years?
2 year after this movie and I have to say, the ending kinda caught me off guard. I was in sort of denial, still wanting to believe in that "he's fine, he's 007 he never dies" type of mentality from my childhood and seeing him *really* go hit me in the feels. It felt like Daniel was now off and gone along with the rest of the Bond franchise and possibly never to return. It felt like saying goodbye to all the other Bonds and their stories, I never realized how many memories I have growing up with the many bond movies.
It was a dumb ending. Bond crying into a phone to the GF. It was a chick flick ending. Not a Bond ending.
Glad I didn’t watch it. I’ll just pretend he retired after he stopped the Korean sun beam.
I was relieved the humiliation was finally over. As long as he's alive he'll remain a straw man for insecure pop-culture contrarians. By the time they actually killed him off he wasn't Bond any more, he's a walking husk. The writers had contrived for him to fail everywhere, to built nothing, he had no life to go back to, nothing to live for, they took everything from him before they took his life.
I suppose, but Bond had terminal cancer with corresponding stades of severity with each movie with Craig, ending with stage 4 cancer with this last film and now he's dead. As cringe as the last two Brosnan movies were, that wasn't a reason to ditch all the good aspects that that era and all eras before brought. Goldeneye and Tomorrow were both excellent bonds, a lot of fun. Masterpieces of cinematography? Heck no, but neither were any of Craig's, though Casino was the tighestest in a long time.
For me, Craig wasn't Bond, he was a man who called himself bond, played in a movie that might have been mistaken for a bond movie, but none of the core elements where there to enjoy them as a Bond movie. This post modern nihilism is really getting old.
@@xr6ladVery Well Said !
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You can’t spring comedy on me without warning 😄
@@henrickspuitz8081 But that's part of comedy!
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The bit where Paloma starts kicking ass after saying she only had 3 weeks training actually is acknowledged in the script. Bond says "only 3 weeks training?" and she replies "more or less" and winks, implying the newbie thing was an act.
Exactly!
Thank you!
@@dasik84 I actually thought it was great characterisation and was a detail I really liked. It showed us she's not just good at kicking ass but also at being a spy and carrying a persona/narrative which is really driven home by the fact she fooled us as the audience as well as Bond. Slick.
Yeah I agree, surprised that point was completely missed.
The quirky girl stereotype has grown old for most people, but having someone with a bit of personality who chugs down a drink immediately and then actually holds her own is just plain fun subversion. Regardless of gender or whatever.
Yeah I’m gonna go ahead and disagree, that is very lazy characterization. Literally only one line to try and save that dumb explanation, no spy agency would send someone by themselves who is unconfident within 3 weeks.
@@arnoldmunez5057 I think you may have missed my point. The film heavily implies she has actually had alot more than three weeks training and that she was pretending to lack confidence. The whole "green" thing was an act.
I've always said that the "problematic" aspects of Bond are the things that make him so bloody good at his job. He is a sociopathic cold blooded killer and doesn't really care who he fucks or fucks over to get the job done. He just does it with a fuck ton of style....
Why is this my favourite interpretation of Bond??
I've always said that it doesn't count as offensive if the number of people who have a problem can be counted on one hand.
@john smith Let’s break down that comment: Bond is a womanizer who also is completely un-empathetic to a lot of people. Kind of a loner in some respects. Definition of anti-social behavior.
Yeah, they find his womanising problematic, but they are OK with him being a cold blooded killing machine.
@kevin barker And not to kill
I always expected Bond to meet a brutal, heroic death. I just never thought we'd see it.
and so we didnt because he just gave up and stood there. not trying. wtf. bUt Q sAiD ThE nAnO bOtS ... fuck off.
It's very confusing to me that Bond's womanizing can be problematic in the age of Tinder, an app which only exists for hook-ups.
The most underrated comment I’ve read in a while.
Because we're supposed to say that Tinder is for women to hook up, not guys. Remember: it's empowering for women to sleep around, not men, according to the PC police.
We don't talk about the elephants in the room in [CURRENT YEAR] bigot!
@@1krani Why they don't they just open a whore house then?
@@KRYMauL
Because prostitution is illegal in most parts of the U.S. and none of these cowards have the stones to actually do something about that. Modern faux-gressivism is all about expecting someone else to solve the problem. That's why I scoffed when all the ree-rees on Twitter talked about killing Trump after his election in 2016: I knew they all expected someone else to do it.
Addendum: I'm not endorsing prostitution, I'm saying the people who talk about how empowering it is for women to sleep around (no comment on if it is) never publicly endorse legalizing prostitution, despite it being an empowering thing, according to their rationale.
What I find amusing and comically ironic is that the people that says Bond is a relic from the past for seducing women is coming from the generation that created hook up culture and uses Tinder to meet people.
You must have missed the clause that says rules are only for thee
Based comment.
A female (and preferrably lesbian or at least bi) Bond could seduce people all over the place and no one would complain.
At least that's what Legends of Tomorrow taught me.
Ray, shhhh. Never point out the Elephant in the room............
Spot on with this comment, Mr. Smith
One thing modern movie industry tends to forget that often the best Bond girls were much more than just sexualized prize objects. Resourceful and smart, they often brought to the table skills that allowed Bond to complete his mission (Holly Goodhead flying the shuttle, Ana Amasova being familiar with the Esprit submarine, Natalya - ha, ha - being tech savvy or Wai Lin being pretty much as capable as Bond himself). If you look in depth, you'll realize that the series isn't as misogynistic as it is often being portrayed to be.
Very true.
People are crying wokeness so much over every film it makes me wonder if they want to go back to women in film being rape objects and very low on character..
They seem to never acknowledge older films being 'woke' by their own supposed standards.
Yes! Love this comment so much. The people that claim that women don’t get a look in in old Bond movies clearly have never really watched any!
They were plot devices is what you're saying
@@logicius The name's Pobjects... Ray Pobjects
I really enjoyed Craig's tenure as Bond, I like the cold nastiness he had about him. For me Casino Royale was brilliant and the best one he did. The only movie I didn't take to was Quantum of Solace. I was disappointed when Sam Mendes left the franchise because I felt he had a real feel for what Bond was. Pretty good review.
Honestly, I kind of enjoyed Quantum for that very same reason. It's not even really a Bond film, and having seen it a few times now, I don't expect it to be. And for me, at least, I think the forgettable villain thing is a bit overblown - it didn't help that the film was effectively two revenge plots slamming together, and as a result, both the A and B villain ended up getting roughly equivalent screen time. I think Greene could have been much more threatening had he been given more screen time, or at least a more direct connection to the scene of the agent being drowned in crude oil (assuming you could do that in the same breath as him using it to lead MI6 away from the real plot).
For me, the real draw in Quantum is seeing Bond as what amounts to a state-sponsored serial killer, out for revenge against anyone and everyone with any connection to Vesper. It's not so much a spy film as it is an exercise in catharsis. I can understand the frustration of not getting a spy flick when you go to see a Bond film, but if you watch it the way you might watch a Korean revenge drama, I think it's quite compelling, actually.
I thought it was more bond like, a one off adventure trying to take down a guy doing evil shit, I think things really fell off a cliff in spectre.@@tripleoo0
Casino Royale is an amazing film. I say film, because it really is more of a character driven film than a blockbuster movie. I think it’s highly underrated.
It’s not like 99% of the women in the films denied Bond of his womanising. They were all over him as much as he was all over them
And women in films these days are better than men because they are “strong girls they are awesome because they’re girls”
I think it's not the character so much as the writing of the character that they have a problem with.
Even the roasties.
Bond is pretty much the ultimate alpha male
The simp director of No Time to Die disagrees, no wonder he killed Bond.
Saying Bond's womanizing is 'problematic' is essentially saying "women can't be trusted to own their sexuality or pick their own sexual partners."
Yes, it`s funny, isn`t it. And dead obvious for anyone who knows that only women are able to choose their partners ...
And what's the problem with saying that?
@@aahzmandiaz2767 Men can choose too.
Within like 10 years maximum some people try to revert or eliminate acquaintance behavior of a whole species. Nice try. Sane people will still meet normally, despite what some "diverse" (not really diverse) people with certain frustrations want to make us believe. It's good to stay away from people with an unhealthy mindset.
@@Robert-mp6lv These days, prostitutes are a far better choice.....
I love it in Goldeneye when M tells Bond "I think you're a sexist, misogynist dinosaur. A relic of the Cold War, whose boyish charms, though wasted on me, obviously appealed to that young woman I sent out to evaluate you."
She doesn't like him at all but there's an acceptance that he's the best man for the job. He's flawed, and probably not the most likeable guy, certainly not when it comes to civilian life, but when the chips are down he's gonna kill a load of bad guys, save the world and get the girl, because that's what James f***ing Bond does. And that's the way we like him.
The direction of Bond should have been obvious when "M" was made a woman. And immediately a man-hater one.
Well said 🍻
Easily the best Bond film of the post-Moore era
She said, “fuck this guy, but at least he’s the best for the job”
@@billr3053 That was in the 90s, though, plus Judy's M had some really good scenes one in which she reminisces about Bond and the scene always came as a slightly romantic. Watch Brosnan's Bond movies again.
EDIT: Noice.
I thought the Paloma character was a much needed breath of fresh air, when the movie was taking itself too seriously and becoming dreary and confrontational. Plus she was a real 'Bond Girl' type, well worth looking at! Apparently we have Phoebe Waller-Bridge to thank for that, otherwise Paloma would have been a one-line wonder.
If he didn't bang her I'm disappointed
@@darthbigred22 he didn't bang her :(
Worse looking female cast ever for a Bond film.
Typical woke move, they totally fu@ked it up.
It was not breath of fresh air. It was a nauseating stink of woke cancel culture crap
My dad and I have watched the Bond movies together since I was a child. I remember going to watch Casino Royale in the theatres and my dad (who has watched every JB in theatres since Dr. No in '63) came out grinning. He said Craig was the best Bond since Connery and that he hasn't experienced Bond in that way since he was a child. As we both left the theatre after No Time To Die the first thing my dad said was, "well I'm pretty sure that's the last good Bond movie I'm ever going to see in my life."
lol
It wasn't a good Bond movie though, it was fkin dreadful and disgusting.
how? it was good.
@@fontainejohn You only think it’s disgusting because you haven’t seen it and you think that having a minority do anything ruins everything.
@@leogavitt5419 I think the movie was bad because the villain was extremely weak. It wasn't really a good movie it was also extremely long and drawn out
I just finished watching the movie and as I was leaving the theater there were two elderly men who watched it also were standing outside. One of these elderly gentlemen said to the other “So- we have no more heroes”.
I found that statement to be really sad.
It is by design now.
This week on this didn't happen...
Boo hoo 😂
@@thomsboys77 trolling?
Yes all tough masculine male heroes... especially white men are being erased, replaced or having their personalities modified due to WOKE agendas. Also combine the unrealistic movie scenes where they show women being equally as strong or stronger than men... it's like watching a scene where they try making you believe a house cat can run at the same speeds of a cheetah. Just be glad (this time) Hollywood didn't turn Bond into some gay or transgender person.
Just like Hercule Poirot, James Bond is that type of character you don't need to retire, because you can write an endless amount of advantures for him. I don't know why they had to come up with this idea that he's suddenly old and it's over.
Because they hate a certain group of people and want them dead.
Because of “ThE MeSsAgE”
Roger Moore was a bit long in the tooth (58) by the end of his tenure. Craig is 53 now.
Cancel culture got the best of Bond. Very sad.
Because people in Hollywood hate the character and wanted him dead. That should be obvious.
The ending was so sad :'{ i am a teen who grwo up on bond series, thanks to my dad but This is the first movie I cried a tand I was certainly not the only one
I thought Daniel Craig did a decent job as Bond, mostly in “Casino Royale” and “Skyfall.” The gritty seriousness he brings to the role works but isn’t well-rounded because he doesn’t pull off seduction and banter well, which is a core aspect of the Bond character. Connery and Moore were actually a good deal smoother with the ladies.
There's a bit in Futurama where a new 'edgy' character takes Calculon's place after his death. The thing is, Calculon and the new actor are bad in opposite ways, but they were both praised heavily during their time in the spotlight.
The new 'edgy' guy isn't even trying to act, barely showing any emotion at all. But, he's praised as being edgy and deep because the super-smart modern viewers see apathy as a virtue.
But, the 'stupid' people like Fry absolutely adore Calculon and want him back. More importantly, they hate the new guy who doesn't understand the appeal of the cheesy All My Circuits soap opera. They basically traded their old fans for the 'smart' new fans who never cared about the show.
Problem is... Calculon becomes an apathetic actor just like the new guy and gets praised for it. So, the themes of the episode are a bit muddy. Still, great metaphor for Daniel Craig-era vs. Sean Connery-era.
Connery was, imho, the only Bond who felt like a charming gentleman who happened to also be a ruthless, cold-hearted killer when neccessary. You could really feel the danger that he could exude when he had a "friendly" chat with a villain. Dalton and Craig certainly felt just as dangerous, but didn't have the charm, Brosnan and Moore were just as charming, but didn't feel dangerous at all. That's not to say that I disliked any of those actors' performances as Bond, they all brought something unique to the table. It's just very difficult to hit all of those notes at once, it seems.
@@Nr4747 and Lazenby? 😂
@@garymac5571 I actually didn't mind the more goofy approach of Moore and Lazenby, it was really entertaining camp :-)
Bond was killed with Daniel Craig, not now. He was a charismatic, insolent womanizer and with Daniel Craig they turned him into a pre-amnesia Jason Bourne.
Pierce Brosnan was by far the best Bond.
Crazy idea here: instead of trying to "modernize" the James Bond franchise, just set the next film in 1960 at the height of the Cold War. All the "problematic" aspects of the character wouldn't be; people love Mad Men, right? Go back to the roots of the franchise.
I guarantee that's where it's heading. Hence them wrapping up Craig's Bond in the manner they did.
I'd do it as a show set late 50s at the start, expand on the spy aspect, the travel aspect, casinos, cars, drinking, fighting etc. just the bond doing bond. amazon series, going through each novel plot. Mad Men, I can't remember the last time anyone talked about that, ended 6 years ago.
this is what Quentin Tarantino would have liked to do with the casino royale's script, but with Pierce Brosnan
if only i had a time machine id escape this hell hole for cold war era in a heart beat.
That's exactly the route Guy Ritchie went when he resurrected THE MAN FROM UNCLE in 2015 - rather than try to retrofit it into the 21s century, he set the movie in the early 60s, when it was conceived. And it worked, too, even if indifferent marketing and release timing kept it from making back its marketing budget.
In short: the bar was so damm low, we were so afraid that it was gonna be another last Jedi, that for the single fact that it was tolerable it was good
Interesting that you say that. It has a proper term I can’t remember and it’s even used in politics. The bar is set so low from absurdly controversial decisions that the public will be more willing to accept crap.
It’s like being offered a rotten apple. Nobody wants it and there’ll be outrage over it. So they end up offering an apple that’s only slightly rotten and the public are more likely to settle.
The original intention was never to force the public to eat the rotten apple. It was to ‘prepare’ and make them ‘more willing’ to accept something bad, but not quite as horrible.
@Someguy136 manipulation on a grand scale
@allgangstalkerswillburninhell hmm I’m intrigued. Like what?
@allgangstalkerswillburninhell MW3 was the game that finally killed my interest in the series. It feels like the industry committed to making lazy broken games to lower the bar so they can restart with lower expectations
Totally agree with you when you say it feels like an end of an era. It’s a shame because I don’t know if we will see another Bond like this again. Daniel Craig has been a great Bond over the past 15 years or so. The old king is dead . Long live the king🤺
I see what you did there, mr xxxx
Henry Cavill could be good
@Bessie Hillum Without.
Where do they go from here though? Weaponized Nanobots? Yikes, you can't top that.😂
Bond's womanising is problematic? How many world saving missions did he complete EXACTLY BECAUSE he womanised the women he should?? I'll tell you: in ALL of the movies
James Bond is the human embodiment of the honeypot tactic. Though I do like it when it doesn't work like in Thunderball with that italian girl.
I heard people want Bond to be replace by a gay guy, so instead of Bond trying to seduced women he going to seduced men. Like how many percent of the world is gay? like a very small percent. So he going to fail alot more often then successed, so it won't make sense.
@@Underworlddream Sense very rarely has anything to do with things these days
@@fattiger6957 What's the honeypot tactic?
@@viljamtheninja seduction
"So the spy was in retirement then someone called him out of retirement"
- Original starting point.
No G-Man ever retires, they get kidnapped and wake up in "The Village" and given a new number. Oh Bloody Hell, another number, why not just call me Jim!
literally the premise of skyfall, spectre, and now this
Diversity: The thing I totally care about the most when I watch a movie. Why would I care about the movie being enjoyable?
The worst part? Bond has plenty of lore and focusing on another 00 agent would be nice but that would require imagination
Absolutely, if movies didn't tell me the correct politics to believe, how would I know?
Diversity is the place where once functioning societies go to die.
Mark Steyn
AND inclusion!!
When it's forced diversity, for obvious virtue signaling, it should be relentlessly mocked every time. Otherwise, it will never stop.
7:58 "And there's absolutely nothing in the script to reconcile these two events"
Demonstrably untrue.
When Paloma said she'd only trained for 3 weeks, and then suddenly was kicking ass, I took issue with that immediately.
I said to myself "They better acknowledge that in some way".
They did, moments later when Bond sees her skills he says "Three weeks training? Really?"
She responds "More or less", which I interpreted as that she lied, and had a lot more training and experience than stated.
Honestly, I don't want any more Bond movies. The whole Seductive Spy thing was just one part of what made James Bond fun. Bond could blend into a crowd, pick up a quick disguise to infiltrate wherever he needed to be, and smoothtalk his way into groups. He wasn't just a stuntman with a penis he liked to use. He was a SPY in a mildly fantastical world. And people nowadays have no idea what that entails.
Yeah that's the way I am!!!
@@kevinrice4909
What... A stuntman with a penis?!
Nice!!
Mission Impossible does it better now anyways
@@bnmbg731 LMAO na it really dosen't,the Daniel Craig movies are the best spy movies
You know what, Casino Royale retained that "SPY" essence in it, hence it was so well received, but then me too happened, and punted the character to oblivion.
This has been more anticipated than the film👏
Agreed
You nailed it on the head......well played.
Yes I guess I'll go to cinema because the drinker said film is ok - I'm not kidding. I don't trust other reviewers anymore, and if the stuff from trailers would be in movie I would not give them my money and that is is.
Still trailers leave bad taste in mouth.... so I'm struggling.
Agreed. At this point the people that make content based around these woke movies are way more entertaining than the movies themselves, and that's a FACT!
Same. I forgot this movie even existed let alone officially dropped in theaters. Was too busy waiting to be disappointed by how they pozzed Many Saints of Newark instead
I am always amazed at how much is being communicated when the Drinker utters, “go away now.”
Same words every time but a massive spectrum of different meanings.
Also when he cuts to the scene with the people covered in shit then letting out an unsettling fart. That one always gets my brain cells jumping.
it's on par with "I am Groot"
This time, he sounded sad. Like Bond will never be able to rise even close to its classic heights because of agenda-focused writing over character or plot driven writing. We long for those, but they're becoming a rarity anymore. Every fucking film has to "make a statement" or "send a message." No. No it doesn't. Some should, Bond shouldn't.
He sounded sad, for a Scotsman. You can hear it quite clearly.
"Go away now" is the Drinker's version of "I am Groot."
Many plot holes and red herrings, but tonally, I think it was near perfect for Daniel Craig’s Bond. Very emotionally vulnerable as always but it was done convincingly and they also brought more levity than we’re used to seeing from him. And they wrapped it up great. Action sequences at beginning and end flawless. I enjoyed the whole film despite having trouble suspending disbelief about why the villain wanted to kill the world, etc. We got a modern James Bond Movie, but it was a REAL James Bond Movie. It’s the end of an era. Will we see good James Bond content again?
- Perfect Bond
- very emotionally vulnerable
Pick one.
They had 2 years to edit it so not surprised the wokeness isn't there. The backlash was real.
I wonder if the WOKESHITE-CUT will ever be 'leaked" so we can see just what a croc of shite they were trying to turn the franchise into. I'm sure you'd hear the fans shrieking globally.
The funny part is that anyone thinks the Hollywood decision makers and "me too creators" have any real agenda aside from pushing their own success. The money -men- ,ah, _persons_ just want money and invest in whoever seems to know what they're talking about how to milk it from the public. And being the hopelessly out of touch vampires the they are just back the latest fad linked to whatever is trending. KK over at Lucasfilm has only ever been as liberal as helped her get what she wants. As a narcissist she may not be able to tell the difference but actual liberals over the age of 13 always could.
I still think this is Bond: the swan song.
Yeah I'm glad the wokeness isn't there it kills fun
@CEO of Secularism This.
Was going to say that the ending of the movie doesn't even make that much sense... just lazy way of ending it...
Couldv'e been an ongoing thing with the new Bond over the next few movies... similar to Bond and Blofield back in the day.
What a shame...
There was a time when the most controversial thing about casting an actor as Bond was the color of his hair.
That wasn't too long ago.
Post 2015 ish the world turned nuts. Gen z having their impact on things.
Western society has become like that A+ student who was doing well who suddenly and for no inexplicable reason is now wasted on drugs and the student insists it's not drugs.
@@JD-lp5rw I wouldn't blame Gen Z. Most of the crazier stuff has come from academia, Hollywood, politicians, and activists from any of the above, so Gen Z isn't really influencing anything; most of them are high schoolers or younger.
I think that was back in '05 or later. Whenever Daniel Craig's first movie was. Same thing went for a link with brown hair. Crazy how nuts everything got in 6 or so years. More change in 6 years than about 30 years before it.
"Does Bond have a future?"
"No, time to die."
"Wanna go see the new Bond?"
"No time to. Die."
This is peak comedy, well done mate
No money down.
No, money down!
lol Clever
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Bit of a correction: the CIA didn't betray bond. The one CIA agent - the one who betrays Bond - is bad. This shouldn't be much of a spoiler, as you mention the betrayal, anyway, and the second that it occurs, it's obvious that he's a bad/rogue agent. Anyway, great review as always.
The moment I saw Daniel heavily advocating for a female James Bond and saying James Bond is a thing of the past because of how he sees women, knew James Bond was pretty much dead.
He isn’t advocating for a female James Bond though? He literally went out of his way to say that a woman shouldn’t play James Bond lmao
@@finleyholm5221 He did in an interview last year.
I watched Casino Royale in 2006 with someone very dear to me. We hadn’t spoken to each other in 10 years. She passed away at the end of last year. The part where he visits Vespers grave to mourn her and to finally let her go was probably one of the most difficult scenes I’ve ever experienced in film.
Damn... I'm so sorry bro, I can't even imagine the pain and guilt you must have felt...
Stay strong man. I haven’t been in your exact situation before but I’ve felt a little bit of that pain. We’re all gonna take that step eventually. For all we know, you might even look back on this one day and even I might already be gone. I know it hurts losing somebody close to you but there is no gift more valuable that anybody in the world could ever give to you than to carry on your memory even when your gone. I always think about that. What would have to happen for me to truly be able to pass away happily? And the only answer I can really think of is the knowledge that I at least touched somebody’s life in the world in such a way that there is at least one person still somewhere out there learning from and maybe even celebrating the unique lessons and personality that I brought into the world for however long I was here. So carry her memory with you, in your words and in your actions. We can all only hope to be so lucky to be missed in such a way.
Not to be negative Nancy but if you never talked in 10 years, then she probably thought of you at most 2 times.
@@WhirlingMusic Yeah well It was a traumatic experience out of our control that doomed the 5 yr relationship. Hearing out of the blue 10 yrs later she took her own life opened up a few things. I wouldn’t have expected her to think of me, we had our own lives and families.
@@aaronflentge9505 that's tough shit. Sorry.
To be honest, considering how “problematic” a character like Bond is to current Hollywood thinking, a mixed bag was probably the best we could have hoped for.
It’s a really sad state of affairs that, these days, we walk out of a film from a long-standing franchise and are relieved that it wasn’t a _complete_ dumpster fire.
One can only imagine what the original version was like before the reshoots - I'm guessing Bond spent the whole movie being 'humbled' by diverse women and then killed. Hollywood being subtle as usual
The ending put a damper on whatever small amount of relief viewers gained from that mixed bag.
It's pretty ridiculous and hypocritical. If you have a man-eater female character being flirty with all the men, it's okay. But James Bond in the modern era? Oh no can't have that. But Hollywood has always been full of shit. They froth at the mouth over Trump while shrugging/ignoring the pervs and pedos in their own ranks.
Besides, sometimes Bond's womanizing was a bit too ridiculous. Sometimes felt like a Western harem-anime lol.
Sturgeon's Law overrides this. Movies have been shuyte long before this pandering and they'll be shuyte not much longer after (until theaters consolidate and shut down due to streaming). Diversity is just this generation's version of shakycam.
I think that if they really had made an "oldschool" Bond movie with all the problematic elements left in, it would've been even more of a dumpster fire than you would expect. There's a reason why the earlier movies in the series are pretty unwatchable and cringey these days. It's a bit like watching someone make out with the skeletons in their closet. There are just too many things about Bond movies that should not be glorified. Heck, even the damn cocktail he drinks should never have been glorified. Vodka martinis are stirred cocktail. Shaking it makes the ice melt into the drink faster, watering it down and making it flavorless. And because of the shaken cocktail trend, people responded by making martinis drier and drier until they were something like 8:1 ratios of vodka/gin to vermouth when they used to be a sensible 1:1 ratio. But flavorless, watered-down cocktails didn't matter to drinkers of that era, because the marketing campaigns sought to portray vodka as the sleek, "sophisticated" liquor for day-drinkers that supposedly didn't leave the smell of alcohol on your breath. This marketing campaign did so much damage to the cocktail and liquor industry that it actually ruined the whiskey industry for DECADES. Most of the whiskey distillery closures in the past century happened in the 70s and 80s due to this. That goes for Scotland as well. The blending trends of whiskey around that era were also borderline criminal. Most people alive today don't remember the days of "light whiskey, the whiskey that drinks like a vodka" but it happened and it was terrible. Thanks, James Bond. You managed to ruin masculinity, consent, AND alcohol.
I really miss the old style Bond movies they didn't take themselves too seriously like the more recent efforts.
Fukanaga's comments on classic Bond disappointed me a fair bit. I appreciate he's not a realistic role model for young men, but he was never fking meant to be. It's like calling superman's x-ray vision problematic, it's rediculous.
@kevin barker By realistic role model, I mean someone who models a life achievable in reality for at least one other person. Fantastical or not, a role model needn't _literally_ model someone's ideal life, anway, just their ideal ethos.
@@Hoganply You can bet your ass there have been some incredible secret agents, and most likely still exist. Though the cold war era was the pinnacle of that.
Bond was also great role model as he was heroic, saved the humanity for god knows how many times. And it's not like he was violent if he didn't have to. Thus he tried to achieve things without violence. That is perfect archetype masculine hero in my books.
But even if the wasn't, that shouldn't matter one bit. Bond certainly isn't corrupting the youth and I would much rather have my children watch all the bond films than 90% of the current pop and hip hop stars for example.
Pretty much anyone who just uses the word 'problematic' is guaranteed to be a brainless NPC robot.
I would disagree 100% with your assertion that Bond wasn't a realistic role model for young men. When you really look at Bond, what were his basic characteristics? He was strong, capable, educated, well-spoken, well-dressed, polite, refined, and yet still able to fight when fighting was called for. He used his brain as much as, or more than, his brawn. And because of all that, he rose to the top of his profession. What part of that isn't a good role-model for young men? Sure, if you only take a surface glance, someone could argue that young men can't become super-spies or there's no such thing as "her majesty's secret service", but that's just the fancy paint job and ignores the real nuts and bolts. Any guy, young or old, who trains as James trains will become a much better version of themselves. If they study etiquette, for example, and learn to dress themselves in fitted suits, they'll be able to accomplish far more than if they go around town in ripped up jeans and t-shirts, farting at every turn. They might never get into a car chase through an old Italian village, but learning how to drive defensively certainly will pay dividends as they navigate life in general.
@Raylan Givens What was Atticus Finch if not educated, refined, well-dressed, capable and every bit as much of a Bond as 007 himself? Slight differences, sure, but both are fictional characters who are fighting for truth and justice in their own ways, against their own particular set of enemies. And I would also point out that your post exemplifies exactly the lack of education that we spoke of above. You've come up with an either-or argument that puts all the blame on anyone who doesn't agree with you and doubled down on that by suggesting that the Bond stories can only be one very particular thing.
Rami was also hardly not in the film at all, he could have literally been in the last 10 minutes of the film and had the same impact. It’s so sad because he’s such an amazing actor. I wonder if he did have more of a role but it was cut?
I was actually looking forward to him as the villian because of how good he is.. then i started seeing reviews calling the villian lackluster. So disappointed.
I think he was being planned to be the quiet, reserved but threatening villain, except he's just not. Like, he still had many scenes like in the garden with Matilde or when he comes face to face with Bond, even his death epilogue was flat so it's not really the editor's fault. To me, he's a very expressive actor and does it very very well, but he's not Mads Mikkelsen or Tony Leung who can act with their eyes alone. I'd say it's either him not "owning" the character or the director's forcing it on him.
@@Burner.Account.. just a random post to say how much I loved Mad's Le Chiffre. One of my fave Bond villains.
after seeing a few seconds of his performance i thought it was cartoonish, i don’t know if it’s his fault or just the script and production, but something was off, thinking about it, all bond villains somewhat suck, i’ve yet to see a bond villain like homelander from the boys, which is actually intimidating and scary, a real threat.
@@Archonsx if you think mad millkeson was a terrible villain then you are blind
I just watched GoldenEye a month ago. It's like having a spoonful of Honey after starving for 5 months. It's just so sweet and you appreciate it so much.
Goldeneye was pretty amazing. The other Pierce Bond movies were hit or miss, sadly. And other than the facial scar and the constant chain-smoking he actually looked a lot more like James Bond than other men who played the role.
The last good bond movie
@@krald8421 casino royale is better
Maybe the last time I really loved a Bond movie
Yeah, personally I hate how Craig has portrayed Bond. Probably due to the management to 'make it China friendly'. He actually plays a far better James Bond co-starring in Tombraider as the rival raider to Lara Croft. There he played the personality of James Bond far better with jokes and fun. In the real James Bond he's.... dumb. The last JB I've seen is Skyfall and I remember the reveal of Silva as the double 0 before Bond. The vacant expression of Craig as if there was no light burning upstairs made him look dumb and stupid; no where near the James Bond of earlier actors with their glib and witty British jokes. While it was a fun movie; that's when I stopped watching JB, even though I was a huge fan until Pierce Brosnan hung up the license to kill.
I was expecting the worst when I saw this movie, but it ended up being a good film for me. Rather than getting walked all over by a new 'modern audiences' character I think they actually end up having a good deal of respect for each other, and she does the right thing and an unusually respectful and honourable thing (for a female character) in asking Bond to be reinstated as the Legendary 007.
I just watched it, felt the same way. At first I really disliked Nomis arrogance, so that she got to respect Bond properly caught me off guard.
Ironic with the title, all this time waiting…just to see 007 get the royal-less treatment.
Glad Ian Flemming did not have to witness this butchery. Manly tears have been shed
Yeah Sean Connery too this would have been painful for him to watch
If Fleming were around he probably would've cut ties long ago.
@@luckyj.ferguson6308 His daughter was at least able to correct some of the stuff.
The ending of this movie was brilliant. I totally disagree with you. It was very respectful to the Character and makes sense given his age.
Haven't seen this movie yet, so this is a general comment. Do you honestly believe that if Ian Fleming was alive and writing Bond now, in the 2020s as opposed to the 1950s that he would write the character exactly the same? Really.
My favorite part of the movie was when the credits were done, they did indeed include the classic "James Bond will return." I was scared shitless that It was going to say "007 will return." I'm probably reading too much into it, but it gave me some hope.
@Someguy136 k well it was never going to matter wha you thought of it, cause he can do whatever he wants and your opinion on it doesnt matter
lol he will return as s womans sub im sure
@@fonkyman SPOILERS.......,....... I still don't get this film at all!!! It's called James Bond.lol Why without a bond, a strong, intelligent BRITISH MALE who is loyal to queen and country the franchise is worthless to me.
The lack of imagination is what gets me..There are many OOs do a spin-off if you must ..to keep the idiot feminists happy but why kill all the male characters?????I had my doubts about Q because he was so young but making him gay was a deliberate choice.ridiculous.
James Bond can be the name of a car, dog, or office secretary. Even a ship.
@@O1OO1O1 lol don't scare me..they will probably turn him into KIT from knight rider...lol
"I've shit out things more memorable than that guy"-Critical Drinker, 2021
@You have to know stop
Prove it,or shut ya Gob
Yeah like his shit novels Lmao
@@johndoe8442 oh thanks
I mean everyone has had a least a couple shits gruesome enough to be memorable
If a woman ever threatened me with “stay in your lane”, I think I’d burst into laughter before she even finished her sentence.
Thank you, that is the exact reponse a man should have, I'm waiting for men to finally tell women today to shut up.
What is even is a "lane" for an international government-backed spy with a license to kill. He just does whatever mission is assigned to him, even when he gets kicked out of MI-6. You literally fire the guy and he keeps coming back, blowing up everything along the way.
It's such absurd dialogue from a British character as well. Stay in your lane is something that a middle-aged Floridian on a gun forum would say trying to sound tough and it was petulant when even they said it. It's a term from American Football. Such mediocre writing.
@@Treblaine what’s worse is that bond were say to the exact same line to a black woman. There would be outrage from all of these hypocrites.
@@TreblaineSomeone said that Craig's Bond films are more American than they are British and its why his films are popular with Americans
I read that when he said he'd rather slit his wrists, he'd literally just finished filming Spectre and was quite frankly, knackered. He later apologised and said that it was a bad choice of words as that particular movie was very demanding.
IOW, you read that he was back pedaling after realizing he had his "career" and 100's of millions of dollars on the line..
@@dpesposito 🤣 his career would have been fine and after 4 Bond films and other successful ones, he has plenty of millions of pounds (not dollars he’s english duh)
@@dpesposito Haha! yeah, probably closer to the truth...
@@HUDSON7 Saying the things he did would lower his chances of being considered for other films. Retracting those statements simply shows he's predictable and can be the cog in the machine they need him to be. And, no one cares about the english thing. sorry mate
I'm sure Daniel Craig didn't need the money. He is getting paid over 100 million to do the next Knives Out trilogy for Netflix. He is not required to do any crazy stunt and he said he had so much fun doing the last Knives out and Logan Lucky. He probably enjoys doing those comedic films.
My idea for all it’s worth, is to cast Henry Cavill and set it back in the 1960’s during the Cold War. Have him do actual spy s**t, and have the main villain be Red Grant. Where he is a mirror opposite of bond, but a version of himself that’s become more violent and ruthless.
I feel like he may work in the better JB movie, The Kingsman Series.
Didn't they do that in Superman III?
@@ngultrum1 You mean Jack Bauer?
@@KRYMauL
Yes.
@@ngultrum1 True enough. Kingsman is spritual succesor to Bond and it should stay that way.
James Bond has the unique privilege of being able to switch actors just like that without having to provide any explanation, it's the holly grail of franchises. Why making it expirable like that? Makes no sense, it's killing the golden eggs goose.
404 LOGIC NOT FOUND
golden eggs' *goose**
Not chicken.
@@prot07ype87 Thanks, in Spanish we call it chicken so I used the same literal expression.
Killing the golden goose is all they do nowadays though.
James Bond will return (probably sold to Disney)
Such a long film and yet there was still "no time to" explain why Safin's face is fucked and how he didn't age in 20 years
In 60 years no other writers felt the need to kill Bond however tired the films became. These writers could not miss their chance to kill him because they hate him and all he stands for.
There is a time and place for music, movies, etc, then it gets old and fades away. I grew up in the 80s and loved the music and movies of that era, but time goes on and things change. Bond has just aged out, as did SW, ST, Indy, etc.
Sometimes I wish too ask those writers why they hate it so much.. hmm I think know a little about it I remember reading a book where the main character works for a magazine where he writes about food and his colleagues is a music writer who is the kind in his 30/40 still dress like a angry teenager with long black hair and leather jacket.. anyway in this novel Leonard Cohen comes to Denmark Copenhagen “ it’s danish and also danish “ and there is a female journalist who writes those kind of Sex and The City columns one of them is how embarrassing it is to have lipstick on your cheek before a date.. so yeah that’s kind of thing but anyway she gonna interview Mr Cohen instead of the music journalist he gets mad and the main character trying to talks her from it but because the music journalist is a old school kind person who still think Ramones was saver of rock n roll and have being out acting like immature teenager late at night she happily see him destroy his own career and after the interview she said that Leonard Cohen is such a man thing.. and I think that’s the view of today’s media.. there is a lot of people who either hate or are tired of the old school or just entertainment and want to change it without sympathy for what gets lost..
The writers, Purvis and Wade, are from the Brosnan era.
@@bacht4799 No. It's because pretty much the entirety of Western moviemakers are owned by """certain individuals""" who spouts the same agenda. Now, the various media outlets, which are run by idiots, agree mostly with this crap to varying degrees. They do however also do an unholy amount of shilling for these movies, since if they dont, they're gonna be out of a job.
Now you may wonder, why are these companies trying to destroy the stories we value? Some say it's Marxism and some says it's a whole other beast entirely. Either way, we can't know for sure and we probably never will. But what can we know for sure? We can know who owns said companies, who're the producers, who owns the media outlets etc. and for some obtuse reason, the vast, vast majority of them are in the same tribe, as people with the surname Cohen.
@@robertbruce7772 Bond is a male archetype, as old as our species. he never gets old. only feministic misandry can bring him down.
Safin felt too young. He was a grownup when he killed Madeleine's mom, and Madeleine is what, 30? Yet still Safin looks the same
Yeah, I was distracted trying to do the math on that. During the current timeline of the film he looked like he was in his mid-30's at worst, which meant he would have been a teenager during the opening scene.
That bamboozled me too. I was expecting them to reveal that he had cosmetic surgery or something, but no.
I think they kept his mask on in the beginning scene to hide his age
They don't make movies now that are designed to appeal to intellect.
I think he had chemicals to help him not age. Remember he took like 4-5 9mm rounds to the chest and them stood up.
Something I really don’t understand, why not just make a traditional Bond movie, something the fans would want, then let capitalism do its thing. If people like it, they pay to watch it, if they don’t, well they don’t. Very simple.
The new paradigm is stakeholder capitalism, everything is for the good of the community and such traditions would be problematic
The 'Bond community' is the only one that matters otherwise it's not Bond it's a shove it down their throat UN diversity project..
Common sense and WOKE Hollywood don’t mix.
That's assuming their goal was to make a good product in the end. Instead they have to worm in their personal vindications into everything to validate their sad and pathetic delusions even though no one but an extreme minority want it.
But...but WHAT ABOUT TICKING THE RIGHT BOXES
It wasn’t perfect, and there were issues you could clearly point out during the movie, but when it all wrapped up it made sense to me. The dynamic between the “old” and the “new” 007 seemed realistic, where there would be a power struggle between a seasoned veteran and a spry, talented, but inexperienced agent. Both trying to prove themselves but ultimately giving proper respects to the OG. It was long-winded, but there was a lot to unpack from the last movie, and also a lot to tie up from this movie. I think it was great at trying to tell us that change is coming, but the OGs will still be respected. I think the movie was damn good, and the ending kinda killed me in a pretty heartfelt way.
If the kind of changes that I expect are coming, then I don't want to watch another bond movie ever! Roll on James bond the black disabled transgender guy!
No real James Bond fan cries over bond being a ladies man, we cheer him on like a son who won the football game.
I think Kingsman is doing a good job of carrying on the legacy so much so that I'd rather order, "A martini with Gin not Vodka, and for you to stir it while looking over at an unopened bottle of Vermouth."
I wasn't a fan of him instantly seducing a widow after killing her husband, that shit was creepy as fuck, i think it would be better if he had to work for it or got rejected sometimes
@@KRYMauL
DID a good job, with the first one. The second one...good God was it terrible.
@@KRYMauL Yeah, fucking a PRINCESS! That was awesome! Kingsman is the new james bond.
"Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and f*** the prom queen" : Sean Connery
I can only imagine how many reshoots this movie had.
Look at the budget estimates…
Killed MGM, didn’t it? Sold off to Amazon
The consensus seems to be that they quietly Sonic-the-Hedgehogged it after the reaction to the trailers.
All of them. It will never make it's money back.
I read the movie hadn't been touched since Feb 2020 so anything reshot would have had to be between the original release date (Oct 2019) to then
The cynical side of me believes this Bond’s death is a symbolic killing of the “toxic male” traits that made the character so iconic. If there’s ever another James Bond, rest assured he’ll be the a PC version. Bond’s sleeping around days are done.
Bond's death?
@@Scripture-Man How are you a "servant of Jesus Christ", holding what appears to be a Bible, with an Israeli flag as your background?! That's hilarious.... You do realize the Jews killed Jesus, right?
And yet the crazed feminazis are just fine being worshipped and sleeping with tens of Beta males.
@@Scripture-Man yeah he blows up on an island from an air strike.
So is me buying a movie ticket, Only reason I liked the Bond films was the womanising, sexist jokes, flirting, Because it's the complete opposite of real life for me, It's an escape from reality to get a good laugh which is why I watch movies.
Prefer all the Bond films from before mid 1990's, Started getting a little too serious and PC after then.
My favourite Bond is Pierce Brosnan. If the special effects and technology of today existed at Sean Connery’s time, he would be unbeatable, but unfortunately they didn’t and that takes a bit of the fun out - although my favourite Bond movie is "You only live twice".
The first one from Pierce wasn’t good, then he found his way. And the combination with the effects was great. Pity he didn’t last long.
All these characters are supposed to be professionally trained agents, yet most of them don't know what a stock is for. So insulting!
No Time to use Stocks
To be fair, a lot of real espionage doesn't involve firearm training in any capacity.
Also, if you’re referring to the clip in the video, he’s doing it correctly: rounding a corner in close quarters, you want to have it over or under your shoulder so you can compress the weapon as much as possible, so you don’t have the muzzle sticking out as you punch out from corners. People new to clearing buildings often times have the barrel stick out way before they themselves cross the threshold of a doorway or corner, and the best place to be is right on the other side of the wall to grab the barrel. In all the other clips, they’re using stocks just fine. If you’ll notice, bond pushes out and shoulders it once he rounds the corner, which is exactly what you want to do to gain stability once you cross the most dangerous part of the room or hallway.
I haven’t seen the full movie, but for the most part, they’re doing a decent job in clips.
@@matthewcha9062 gotta slice that pie!
@@Savnoc
Exactly.
IRL 007 wouldn't even be British. The "agent" would most likely be a foreign national working somewhere like a belligerent nations embassy, military establishment or corporation.
Bond would actually be the Covert Human Intelligence recruiter/handler, and would never even have completed an advanced driving course, let alone weapons handling etc.
A lot of the military and security carers depicted by Hollywood are usually far more mundane and low risk IRL.
Connery got it with his 1st try, that's why everyone loved him.
Bond became an iconic alpha male character, because Connery was an alpha male. All he had to do was walk into a room to instantly command the entire space, and he never lost that charisma even in his last years.
I've loved him in every role he's played because he always comes of as tough, capable, reliable and manly.
So did Craig. Casino royale is better than goldeneye
@@carljohan9265 agreed.
@@Godzilla370 yeah, no.
@@Mythos1981 Most people think it is.. has higher scores from audiences and critics. Casino royale is universally beloved
Taking the womanizing out of James Bond is like taking the gunfights out of John Wick.
There is a way to do and that's to make it like Kingsman i.e. he has a wife, but can get away with it by reconciling with her.
Well put. John Wick, the real 007 replacement!
Taking out the womanizing also undoes a core concept of the Bond character; that he's unable to form a meaningful relationship with anybody. The whole point is that the guy lives on a razor's edge and death is always around the corner. Bond's lifestyle never gave him the opportunity, and hence he doesn't have the ability, to connect with anyone. With women, sex is all that he has. Which is great on a surface-level, but since "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", it's always been an underlying notion that at the end of the day, Bond is going to be alone. (The books actually address this by sometimes telling the reader what happens to the Bond Girls in-between the stories; Bond finds them all too clingy and finds someone better-suited for them. Which, in turn, makes Bond sound pathetic as opposed to badass).
People who watch Bond movies and want to be everything like him miss the reality that James Bond is a broken, empty man who only has his work. The expensive suits, fast cars, and one-liners are just the facade--because there IS no actual "James Bond" under there anymore.
@@gundammon For teenage boys and many grown men, what you describe is normal, so they see Bond as "me, but better at it".
@@gundammon craig's bond explores that so much, with vesper and madeleine telling him to get a life, also moneypenny and even M
FINALLY saw this tonight. When it hit theaters I was too busy. Caught a VERY subtle nod to Casino Royale. When Rami Malek first visits Madeline in her office, he points out a Foxglove in her office. Kind of pinkish, purplish flower, very common in Europe, and invasive in parts of the US. Foxglove is of the genus Digitalis, which is the poison that Le Chiffre tried to kill Bond with at Casino Royale. Neither film ties Digitalis and Foxglove together. Tough one to catch, but for Botany/Flower nerds.
Wow 😯
Looking back at the Craig run, I'd say Bond as we loved him died the moment the producers gazed upon Jason Bourne with envy in their hearts.
The Bond I loved died in Casino Royale when he was asked if he wanted his vodka martini shaken or stirred and replied "Do I look like I give a damn?"
They also copped the mobile team of agents coordinating their actions in the field from Mission Impossible. I like Bourne, and I like the Mission Impossible series (much better than this iteration of Bond in fact), but I don't want Bond to be either of those. I want Bond to be Bond.
Casino Royale was the last great Bond movie (and arguably one of the best). After that it became a crap fest and went to generic action movie status. Even skyfall fell underneath many cliches and didn’t really feel like a bond movie. They really took themselves too seriously on this one.
@kevin barker the bourne movies suck ass
Yeah, but it wasn't just Bourne. As Craig himself said at the time, the Austin Powers movies had completed the devolution of Bond into a caricature. There was a general feeling after the over-the-top DIE ANOTHER DAY (invisible car!) that the franchise had to shift gears to something grittier if it was going to be viable in the 21st century. Of course, we can debate whether the Craig films chose the right way to go about that.
After seeing this, I'm definitely not watching the film. James Bond just isn't the same anymore. As much as I think Henry Cavill would make a great James Bond, I don't care. Hollywood will destroy him. I'll always cherish what Sean, George, Roger, Timothy and Pierse did to help James Bond become THE quintessential spy in cinema. I'll always watch the classics and play the old EA James Bond games. Old Bond will live on forever.
The kind of movie i love to torrent in order to watch how a franchise can turn to disaster.
Yeah i am thinking about you Star Wars 😏
Exactly Henry cavill would be perfect for the role sadly I believe they want to go the more diverse route and even if by some miracle cavill became bond like you said today's Hollywood would destroy him and probably make an example out of him for their girl power movement or something like it so yeah sticking to the classics is where it's at
I agree mate, and hopefully (a small sliver of hope, at least) we get Cavill as Bond, a real true Bond that we can connect with the Bonds of old. Cavill would really rock the role, and I hope some day we get such a film but I am not watching this either. Sad to see another franchise be dusted
I'm still going to join watch it, but I think Kingsman is a better example of a modern Bond film.
Get Cavill as new 007, hire either Gareth Evans (The Raid 1 & 2) or Stahelski & Leitch (John Wick franchise, Atomic Blonde) as director, go back to the oldschool Bond formula, where Bond was still Bond & not a lame Jason Bourne rip-off in a designer suit.
Then, I may watch it again.
What worse way to kill off the Legendary Bond than by giving him “AN UNSPECIFIED VIRUS OF UNNAMED ORIGN” 🤦🏼♂️
That’s not how he dies? The virus is also not unspecified (explained in great detail even) or from an unnamed origin. You very very obviously didn’t watch the movie because this is just blatantly wrong
@@w3ghe711 You sir/ma'am, have zero sense of humor
@@w3ghe711 First Drinker video?
@@johnnyfroggo7361 yes
@@opinionatortv6457 was just reacting to the comment, didn’t watch the full video yet
It's the first bond film where I actually left the theatre depressed. How can a franchise go from a thrilling rollercoaster like Casino Royale to a dreary 3 hour marathon?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought so too. I didn't see it till now for my own reason but almost feels hollow.
I really liked the first 10 minutes, a good strong opening that felt like a good continuation from Spectre. But the music choice of 'We Have All the Time in the World' and then Felix Leiter's arc made it clear what was going to happen later in the film and it was just like dominoes from then on.
I'm an outlier in that I really enjoy all the other Craig films (including QoS) but something was just off here. There's some good moments and it's well shot but it's not enough to save it for me.
The goal is to demoralize.
That's why modern "architecture" exists, why woke exists, why mass migration of blacks and muslims into white countries exists, why affirmative action and quotas exist, why weak justice systems exist.
The goal of leftist politics is to drive the human spirit out of white people and make everyone dependent on politics/big government.
It sounds crazy, but look around and tell me it's not true.
I felt the same and sadly it was the first time my daughter was old enough to go to the cinema to see a Bond film with me, thinking this would be a new tradition. I nearly walked out. It was so far removed in its tone for Bond film, dour, boring, woke, derivative, you name it. The fate of Felix Leiter, the fumbling around of Bonds replacement and the dour and unnecessary ending, it was all just insulting as a Bond fan.
That Cyclops line was funny. "I was showing someone my watch. It blew his mind." Haha!!!
"it was an eye opening experience" when he beat him in Italy
D.C. finally popped out a snarky quip!
"That last hand, it nearly killed me" - James Bond, 007 in Casino Royale
@@LordofMovies91 yeah, that was one of the best one liners as well
this tragedy of a film is not funny
This is weird because my wife actually likes James Bond more than I do. She's enamored with his style. She's read all of the books multiple times. On the other hand, she's an empowered independent woman who is a physician for professional (male) sports teams - definitely not a "barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen" type woman. If Bond's "proclivities" were so "problematic" then why does he appeal to women like my wife so much as a character?
BTW Eva Greene for best Bond Girl.
I bet your wife’s kinda hot. These woke fun-nuggets remind me of the Viz character Millie Tant and her “Equal Rights for Fat Ugly Women mantra”. I didn’t create it, I’m just quoting facts.
Mr bond is flattered...
Why? Because she screwed Bond over?
My girlfriend isn't as big a fan of James Bond as I am but she loves men of Bond's caliber like Gabe Logan from Syphon Filter, Cobra from Space Adventure Cobra, or Inspector Harry Callahan/Dirty Harry.
She also happens to be a God-fearing person, my training partner in Martial Arts, and is an honest to goodness worker in my country's government sector.
I thank God I have a decent person like her in my life. 🙏🥋❤
I think it means she's secure as a woman. As a woman, I love James Bond too - especially Connery. Hubba hubba.
Sean and Pierce are still the best Bonds. They're suave and charming but they dont mind getting nasty
Dude have you seen the two Timothy Dalton films!! He's the boss...
Ha, that's incredibly well put! :D
@@thejamesbondshow9754 indeed. I always found Timothy Dalton the best 007 and those movies were the best 007 movies imho
DC is far better
Daniel Craig and Connery are the best
Since I don't have much time to watch movies anymore because of my kids, it's nice to watch hilarious reviews about them.
A man once said: " Everything that is woke turns into shit." How right he is.
I wonder who that wise man was
Didn't know a 100 million dollar box office prediction makes it a shit movie?
@@yousuckatcod by today's standards..yes 100 mil is kind of meh for big IPs like this. If it was a smaller or lesser known flick sure but 100 mil is chump change to things like disney movies or even other grossing movies of the 21st century
That's because no one wants woke, that's why they fail, the consumers simply don't want trash modern politics splattered into their face
@@07_danishwistara29 lol, incorporating real world issues is not a new concept to film. would you prefer Bond to beat and berate women for two hours?
It's really depressing how the Craig Era of Bond turned out after how strong it started with Casino Royale.
It should have ended at Skyfall.
I think it’s a spot on if they ended it at Spectre. It’s a happy ending and honorable exit for Craig’s Bond, leaving room for audience’s imagination.
@@Touyoujin I actually hated Spectre and think it really fucked the previous films.
No. Craig was never bond material. 1st : ugliest est est af
@@EdB-qh4up he's prolly better looking than you tbh dude
I don’t get feminists weird obsession with showing off periods and tampons. No one wants to see used tampons, not even women like me. Glad they decided to leave that scene out in the new James Bond.
Yes, it’s a natural and normal part of a woman’s life, but it’s still gross. Like snot, vomit, fecal matter, ejaculation, etc is natural but likewise pretty gross and nothing people want to watch in a movie.
You just described my favourite Belgian Adult movie with your last sentence.
Spot on.
@@pjagger69 lol to each their own. My point was in average media, excluding pornography, most people don’t want to see that stuff and find it gross.
Nothing men do.
@@godzillavkk I’m sorry, I’m not following what you are trying to say. Are you arguing men don’t use tampons? That I agree with.
But are you suggesting men don’t vomit, have snot, etc? Just want some clarification.
I found this channel recently and very much enjoy the reviews! I wish RT certified critics were more like you and RedLettermedia as opposed to the people who give terrible films like Captain Marvel, Terminator: Dark Fate, Wonder Woman 1984, Birds of Prey, The Old Guard, Gunpowder Milkshake, Charlie's Angels (2019), and Ghostbusters (2016) positive reviews.
I’m also new to this channel, and I think it’s great!
I completely agree with you too about Rotten Tomatoes and critics in general.
However I do think that The Old Guard was pretty solid in my opinion!
Birds of Prey was also not that bad either.
WOKENESS is really assassinating our beloved franchises. Can't believe I'd actually live through an era where entertainment loses its charm.
@Cyril based
If Hollywood and the media stopped reinforcing wokeness as something to be celebrated, then wokeness would be cast back into the dark, dank pits from whence it came.
Its chock full of contradictions. Weird mix of puritanism, but desire for sexual expression. Fighting against objectification but at the same time demanding sexual freedoms. No idea how all of this works, and I am not willing to understand this modern gobbledygook.
Took a while to sink in for me too, but then I realised I just took it for granted it would just keep on like it had before, forgetting that there’s a reason we break history up into eras. The era of Hollywood is over - they had a good run.
I don't even bother with modern films at this point it's gotten so bad.
Woke media has hated Bond for years. Any man that stands for what Bond does has to die, both metaphorically and quite literally.
@@suzygirl1843 HA, political correctness is a problem since the 90s, maybe even further into the past, it just became worst after 2012 with the assumed success of the intersectional coalition, into re-electing Obama despite him alienating a good portion of his previous voters by betraying his core "decrease racial tensions" mandate.
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Frankly......John wick replaced James Bond ages ago lol
@@ROSE-nr1ln
Buzz off
This was a pretty fair review. Although personally I liked Ana De Armas's spy a lot more than Lynch's 007; one was fun, the other was kinda dull.
I definitely agree with what you're saying, but honestly Nomi 007 could have been so much worse!
Yeah she was very cocky and arrogant, but unlike most other movies with her kind of character, it came back to bite her in the arse with Bond throwing smarter insults back at her.
Also she was a very good team player as well and they made a decent duo in the climax
One was a fun character. The other was a strong, black, female, undoubtedly lesbian character.
Lol
I would watch a movie with Ana de Arma in that role. I would be disinterested in watching one with the "new" 007. I don't know how else to put it
Exactly. She reminded me of Licence to Kill Bond girl, kinda.
@@DHynes5 I think it simply comes down to Ana De Armas being a better actress than Lashana Lynch. To Lynch's credit though, I never felt like she was phoning it in because there was clearly some effort put into giving her a bit of depth.
I liked Craig as Bond but other than his first appearance as Bond, none of the movies that followed were any good. It's time they let the Bond franchise die, but they will not and will grind it into the ground for what ever $ they can get from it. No Time To Die was the best Bond since Casino Royale, but still not a great Bond movie. I really thought Casino Royale indicated a new direction for Bond, more gritty and realistic, but it was not to be.
Q: "here's your emp watch bond".
Bond: "emp??".
Q: "it destroys electrical devices".
Nanobots: "are we electrical devices".
Q:"yes, yes you are".
Funnily enough I'd say an EMP would've been the easier way to destroy the world
Yeah pretty annoying it was never brought up.
Q should have been able to deduce that in one second flat.
@@EvilDoresh pretty much the plot of goldeneye.
Yeah, except "bots" on that level are biological/chemical "machines" that work like cells and enzymes. Electronic robots require far too many moving parts to function on that small of a level. Although realistically, the nanobots won't be able to last in your body indefinitely and will eventually denature. So it's 100% possible to simply wait it out, but that's not cool.
@@Burner.Account.. A secret agent of her majesty's secret service consumed nanobots, this is what happened to his organs. JB, 🖕 presenting to the emergency room 🖕 with iminent death appears to suffer from Hyperartificialisemia, hyper meaning high, artificialis meaning artificial and emia meaning presence in blood, high presence of artificial in blood.
We've gotten to the point where Austin Powers is almost more recognizable as a Bond film than the modern Bond films. Daniel Craig does a good job I think, but the material being worked with takes itself far too seriously and suffers for it. Bond was at its best when filled with Cold War hijinks and almost-but-not-quite cartoon villains.
Watch Kingsman as it exemplifies the true "modern" Bond. The literally has a wife just so he can sleep with whomever he wants to get the mission done.
Jesus this makes me want to watch the Austin Powers films again.
The idea that Austin Powers being more recognisable as a bond film is honestly why I think that the majority of things pre Daniel Craig was really crap. You had the odd film like Goldeneye, sure, but mostly they were cookie cutter films that were overly campy .. I mainly just associated the bond film franchise with bad films.
Agreed
Well, Bond is pretty much absurd character on his own. He is a best spy in the world, but everyone knows him? Come on...
Sean Connery: The definitive Bond. Timothy Dalton: The underrated Bond.
Timothy Dalton was excellent as Bond.
Dalton really was a great Bond.
Personally my favourite was Brosnan.
@@choughed3072 Brosnan and Connery are the best and it's not even close
@@recline69 yeah that is why all the ladies like Craig isn't it Craig is the best bond and that is a fact
SJW writters: We need more strong female bond characters that can lead the franchise like Nomi.
Honey Ryder: Carried a knife to defend herself, swore vengeance apon anyone who wronged her, and always kept her femininity and sexiness.
Anya Amasova: Was assertive and tough, yet feminine and sexy. She was also familiar with The Espirit, Pointed a gun at Bond, defended herself, and was her closet to fight Drax.
Holly Goodhead: Kicks 3 men's ass, was very smart and resourceful, was good with shuttles and spaceships, drove The Moonraker, and always kept her femininity and sexiness.
Natalya Simonova: Kicked the shit outta Boris, was tech-savy, and was close to killing Xenia.
Let's not forget Jinx, Xenia, Mary, Melina, Tracy, Pussy, Octopussy, Pam, and much more.
Wait until the next film, where they introduce a strong female character for the first time ever yet again.
Regardless of how this movie ends Danial Craig’s run as Bond, Casino Royale will be my favorite Bond film of all time.
Casino Royale is great.
Lol
The one where he gets pussy whipped and quits the service just after getting his 00 status.
Ok.
@@danjonmills Less experience = less chance to win?
Skyfall is my favorite personally. Even though I think Royale is a better movie
People tend to gloss over that; I love Casino Royale, but it has Bond QUITTING THE SERVICE straight after earning his 00 stripes, cos he FELL IN LOVE. FUCK RIGHT OFF.
As much as people complain about other Craig films, CR is far from perfect.
Could you Imagine Connery's Bond QUITTING Mi6 over some bird?
Nah, me neither.
"Take care of Mr. Bond. See that some harm comes to him."
- MeToo
Bond: "do you expect me to talk?"
MeToo: "no Mr Bond, I expect you to die!"
Sean Connery will always be James Bond to me.
Connery's intro in Dr. No had more cool than all the Craig's outings combined.
Dalton for me ;)
Brosnan to me
It’ll be Sir Roger for me
Damn, even Connery knew when enough was enough after 1971.
My reasons why only Connery Moore and Brosnan portrayed James Bond.....
If I watch an action movie I'll switch on the tv and see where it takes me with no expectations
If I watch a Bourne movie I want to see top notch fighting scenes, a driven and ultra serious character with no time for women in his life doing all he can to put the pieces together in the puzzle
If I watch a Bond movie (the iconic gentleman spy) I want to see all the CORE ELEMENTS that made him ICONIC, a playboy spy with lots of women, outrageous villains, charisma, charm, suave sophistication, fun with cheese and 1 liners, getting the girls and saving the world, ESCAPISM
Only the 3 above had all those core elements
All I want is for Bond to be Bond, just like I want characters like Bourne to be their character
I always thought the Craig films came off as James Bourne to me
For me the oddest plot hole in the entire film is why Safin waited so long for revenge.
I mean, the dude kills Mr White’s wife and saves his daughter. A “daughter of SPECTRE” and rather than make Madeline a weapon to destroy SPECTRE from the inside out he just… does nothing with her… for years?!!
And Mr. White just didn’t know anything about this despite him being such a pivotal character in Casino Royale, Quantum and Spectre?
The more I think about that the more it bugs me…
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Yeah, it bugged me that when Safin first rescued Madeleine he didn't keep her with him to essentially lure Mr. White into a trap and get his revenge without waiting 20+ years.
my thoughts exactly... also, he didnt go after mr white
The Daniel Craig era is the the most rogue/retired bond of all time. I miss the days where 007 was working for her majesty’s secret service lol
He goes rogue in the Timothy Dalton movies too, those ones were ahead of their time though.
@@Y00bi And that's why Dalton and Craig were dreadful Bonds unlike Connery Moore and Brosnan!
@@pr-tj5by no thts down to writing not the actors
@@clumsyentropy Not sure about that, Brosnan was an absolutely fabulous Bond but he had a couple of poor directors, also the actor does have input in the direction of the Bond character
@@pr-tj5by how the hell were Dalton and Craig bad bonds?
"These movies are just Jason Bourne forced into a tuxedo." YES! I'VE ONLY BEEN SAYING THIS FOR 14 YEARS
That's like saying your dad looks like you. Makes no sense considering your dad had the looks first.
Isn't Jason Bourne Bond forced out of a tuxedo?
Maybe so but Daniel Craig > than Matt Damon
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When they announced Billie Elish would be composing the song i already knew what time it was
Gone are the days of John Berry writing all the music for Bond and only hiring top 40 pop stars to sing them. Now they have the top 40 pop stars writing the songs.
Adele - Skyfall (2012), Madonna - Die Another Day (2002), Garbage - The World Is Not Enough (1999), Sheryl Crow - Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), all light weights compared to Shirley Bassey.
Poop o’clock
Time to die?
She doesn't sing, she whines.
Skyfall was the perfect way to end it, I actually got misty eyed when M died, then....they kept making them
Yes. That movie was awesome.
i hated that old bag. it was the start of the woke " a woman is your boss " BS
The one that got me misty eyed was in the World is not Enough and the original Q, Desmond Lllewelyn, has his last scene with Pierce Brosnan's Bond. He introduces John Cleese's character (Dubbed "R" by Bond) and then goes down in that lift. I think Llewelyn has passed away in real life by the time I saw that scene and THAT felt like the end of an era to me.
Skyfall was a problematic film that created a heap of continuity issues by somehow trying to shoehorn all of Bond's previous screen outings into the history of a new version of the character who was too young to have any adult connection with the moments (Bond always had futuristic tech that looked contemporary to it's era and all of the previous gadgets were outdated by the time DC was in the role), he was also clearly not of Scottish heritage unlike Connery. The reveal of Skyfall being a physical place in Scotland that JB had history with made zero sense for DC's version of the character or any other since Connery.
Skyfall also acknowledged that 'M' was a codename and clearly showed the person occupying that position being replaced (like you mentioned with Judy Dench's character's demise). It would have been the perfect opportunity to reveal that Daniel Craig was not the first person to take on the name of James Bond whilst still honouring all of the previous films. In fact, that acknowledgement could have allowed the film to go a step further and actually show the previous actors on screen and as the film was an anniversary of the character in films it would have been perfectly in keeping with that celebration.
They're continuing the mistake in the new film by the look of it, having DC's Bond yet again drive the DB5 which was released 5 years before he was even born.
EDIT: Also, on the subject of Skyfall, DC's incarnation of the role was supposed to be a full reboot since Casino Royale so his version of the character should have had no connection at all to the previous incarnations' gadgets as the entire story was being retold!
I need a lie down with all this Skyfall rage! That's all I've got. I'll go away now...
@@swettyspaghtti honestly she always came off as tough motherly love to me, it was over used, but time and again Bond was not trusted and she gave him the longest leash. One of the interesting "flaws" her and Bond have, is that both know Bond is expendable, but she never follows through with that (until it's good for a trailer ) she can't bring herself to actaully risk his death, and he would kill just about anyone to protect her. Wish they played that weakness more but oh well
@@swettyspaghtti You’ve clearly hated 007 since the Pierce Brosnan days then, because Goldeneye was when Judi Dench turns up.
Sounds like James Bond got the Doctor Who teddy bear treatment.
(Sam Neill Event Horizon scream)
RIP James Bond! Bad way to go out but what a legacy to leave behind. There were a lot of good movies over the years that will live on infamy. What a legend!
The Daniel Craig Bond era should've ended after Skyfall. And I fucking called it that they would kill Bond.
Should have ended before skyfall. Quantum was god awful and skyfall was nothing but nostalgia bait.
@@herrikudo "The ability to speak does not make you intelligent"
- Qui Gon Jinn
@@herrikudo good point. Skyfall was pretty much the British version of the Dark Knight
Agreed. The whole plot of Skyfall was about Bond being too old and worn out to remain an agent. They can't do that plot then make two more movies. Plus, Craig obviously hates the role and Spectre was the most boring Bond movie ever so it would have been much better had they just rebooted the series after Skyfall and started fresh with another actor.
the daniel craig bonds had a pattern of good-bad-good-bad basically
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I just watched the movie a few hours ago. All in all I liked it and think it's a passable ending to this 5 movie arc. I honestly agree with everything you said in your review drinker, although I'd like to add some praise for Ana de Armas for the few minutes she's in. I wish she were the new agent taking the 007 title instead of Lashana Lynch. Nothing against Lynch, but de Armas is just more enjoyable to watch, both in dialogue and action scenes.
Also I'm pretty sure I've spotted every single line written by Waller-Bridge. It would almost be comical how jarring they feel if they weren't so pathatic.
And finally: R.I.P. Felix Leiter and James Bond, brothers in espionage
Ana De Armas was without a doubt the best part of the movie. She seriously deserves to be the main Bond girl in the next movie. I hope her career really takes off from this.
That's what I want in the next bond movie a strong , independent woman ,that don't need a man
glad you liked de Armas but I thought the only thing she had going for her was being quirky, and it was fine but it wasn't that deep and that funny either, she was alright but it could have been played by any actress tbh
@@anuph.3806 I mean she was better with her 10 mins of screen time than Lashana and Léa were all movie
This isn't even the first movie where Felix has died before. He was also killed in License to Kill.
If that doesn't help set the idea each actor's set of bonds is their own contained thread with a few repeat actors brought in for a blurred sense of continuity, then there's no helping it.
Love Craig as bond. Haven't had the courage to watch this after seeing the trailer.
Thanks for this critique,. Best I've watched.