GoldenEye (1995). On Golden Bond.
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Stam Fine Reviews looks at Director Martin Campbell's 1995 film, GoldenEye, starring Pierce Brosnan as James Bond 007. Bond had been away for a while and this film updated the character for the 1990s. GoldenEye is easily the best Bond film of the 1990s and probably Brosnan's best. Also stars Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Famke Janssen, Judi Dench, Joe Don Baker, Robbie Coltrane, and Alan Cumming.
Oh, and a popular videogame for the Nintendo 64- Goldeneye 007- was based on this film. Just sayin.' - Zábava
Thing I really like about Goldeneye is that it feels a bit rough around the edges, more hand made with love than slickly produced to tick some boxes. And it accomplishes something very hard for franchise movies; it feels like an entity onto itself attached to a series rather than another product of one
I bet you couldn't actually elaborate how "it feels like an entity onto itself attached to a series rather than a product of one."
Wtf does that even mean lol
@@alwaysOPEN4business it's not OP's fault you're stupid
@@alwaysOPEN4business yes agreed! :D one could say that about any movie in the series
1:56 "Unless your cauliflower, don't f**ck with Brocoli" hahaha genius, thanks for this Stam Fine :)
"A fan standing between Sean Connery and Roger Moore and trying to get an autograph from both at the same time without letting either know which is his favourite" is literally the best description of Brosnan's tenure as Bond I've ever heard.
always has been my favorite bond film. its hard to explain but everything about it just feels classic to me
Loved Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies, they were my favourite of Brosnans Bond films.
TND is hugely underrated. I rewatched it recently and it really has all the elements of a classic Bond movie, I can't understand why it flies so low under the radar
I love both those films too, but that's not saying much considering how bad his last two films were.
"If you're not cauliflower, don't fuck with Broccoli!" LOL!
Yup, Goldeneye was Brosnan's best. Also a great theme song and IMO the sexiest Bond opening.
A criticism though, if Bond's enemy was a former friend and colleague in 006, the last thing he should be doing is putting him into deathtraps then walking away. He'd know Bond's tricks and exploits.
Brosnan did a ton with often-mixed bag scripts... totally agreed with your comments.
It's possible the "walk away like a Batman villain trope" was used since he was a double agent, but it's not likely.
Also, when a new Bond is introduced, it can really set the stage. In this movie, it's is him popping down in a lavatory. His era was never better than Goldeneye, but props to Brosnan for the moments that go above and beyond the sub-Moore camp.
Brosnan is like a good combination of Connery and Moore, but shows more a bit more emotional humanity in the role. I do feel his performance for Bond got better every subsequent movie despite how scripts may have been mixed results. I still have a fond nostalgia for this era.
The second half of Die Another Day + Casino Royale = Really damaged Brosnans legacy.
Great video as always. Goldeneye is one of the best Bond movies, plausible enough plot devices and very well made. The impact of the N64 game Goldeneye cannot be understated it is a classic game and I think the high watermark for Rare, their own sequel Perfect Dark refined the game mechanics of Goldeneye but was otherwise disappointing I feel.
I'm pleased you mentioned Derek Meddings as I've been a fan of his work ever since he designed the model effects on the Sylvia & Gerry Anderson productions.
(I'm Irish btw). I think Brosnan still suffers from the usual first Bond film issues. It feels like the weight of the role is on his shoulders and he's searching for a way to make the part his own, but doesn't find it until his second. I thought from 'Tomorrow Never Dies' he was the first actor since Connery to be able to play both the serious and fun sides of the character. However, the scripts never gave him enough to work with and Brosnan himself said that he couldn't quite 'nail' the character.
I think that's a good take. I read somewhere that Brosnan was the Tony Blair of Bond's trying to be all things to all people, which I tend to agree with. He could have been the best, if he'd had better material to work with. I do love Tomorrow Never Dies though!
I agree. He was clearly intimidated by the role.
It's funny, I recently watched the Brosnan movies and he progressively gets better in the role even as the movies slowly decline (untill they fall off a cliff)
Er except Roger Moore had already done this yes he had comedy but he also played serious side brilliantly quite a few cold kills by Moore annoys me people just think his were all comedy. Brosnan to me was just copy of Moore's prob equal amount of puns etc
I think TND is his best film tbh, but GE gets all the accolades only bc it’s script is near-perfect.
Brosnan is Bond. Goldeneye is my fav 007 film. A product of my time that introduced me to my Bond fandom.
Definitely the most underrated Bond of all time, and my second favourite after Connery. For me my introduction to the franchise was The World Is Not Enough (objectively not one of the better entries, but goddammit if I don't have a deep personal nostalgia for it).
@@oliverholmes-gunning5372 No, World is Not Enough is definitely better than its given credit for. Everyone rags on Denise Richards, but the film is actually a point-by-point warmup for all the best aspects of the Craig era (same writers). Ironic.
Thanks Stam Fine. Entertaining, well researched, and funny as always.
Even in the 90s, there was something about Goldeneye that felt older and I've never been able to put my finger on exactly what that is. Maybe it was the grainy film stock or immediately dated score, but Tomorrow Never Dies felt really clean and slick by comparison only two years later and that's where I feel the 'modern' Bond films started.
Serra's score, the heavy use of model work, many of the sets are drab computer rooms, it looks really dated today. Goldeneye's plot was pretty much a hangover from the vintage era of Bond. Tomorrow Never Dies went into a new territory of info tech, the then new world 24 hour news network and it's still relevant given the concern over fake news
I believe there is a story floating around somewhere on the choice of film stock used for Golden Eye wich made it a bit grainy, and many of the releases on DVD and even BluRay has had negative points for using heavy methods of sharpening and cleaning up the picture. I do believe they have made a real restauration on the most recent 4K versions though. But I dont want to make the impression I have it totally correct but I think you could google the answers you seek with this in mind.
The use of older sound effects (gun shots and explosions) are very present in the movie as well. But for all its visual and audio quirks, I think it adds to its charm.
@@ricardocantoral7672 okay cool story, Mister Movie Director. Just lemme get my Cousin who is a Movie Director himself
Tomorrow Never Dies is a masterpiece
This'll be my favourite Bond film, just ahead of Goldfinger
I’ve always liked Brosnan and thoroughly enjoy the 4 Bond movies he’s in.
The thing I really liked about this one was that the Bond Girl gets a *lot* of development, a lot of scenes to herself, and just basically felt like a co-star instead of a typical bond girl. I'd hoped they'd do more of that in the future, but, eh. I also liked Boris as a 3rd string bad guy. Or a spare sidekick. Or a side-sidekick?
one of my favorites. i idolized this bond when i was a kid.
from another Aussie thanks again Stam Fine for another great video with great production quality. I can see this channel taking off soon.
Brosnan is a great Bond ... Goldeneye ..The Spy Who Loved Me and Goldfinger are my favourites..
Goldeneye was a really good Bond movie. And now that I think about it, I realize it was the last one I saw in the theater.
8:44 "Impressive, but can it run Crysis?" legitimately surprised me, and has had me laughing since!
Brosnans second bond film was superb, not to be confused with Die Another Day!
Brosnans full post-GoldenEye run tends to get lumped in with the second half of Die Another. Underappreciated era.
Always love it when Leavesden Studio gets a shout out!
Great movie. It was amazing seeing this on the big screen when it first came out.
I wouldn’t mind, after the Daniel Craig era, that any new Bond was a period-specific series set in the years 1950 ~ 1965 . . .
Another slam dunk Stam. Goldeneye was, like many others, the Bond film I grew up with and was introduced to 007. Great job!
Rule of thumb: Sean Bean Always dies
If Sean Bean is dead at the start then he is actually alive long enough to be killed again
he would have made an excellent Terminator.
It literally got to the point where he now refuses to take on a role where he dies, in order to try and counteract the typecasting
I love this film, definitely one of my favourite Bond films, with one of my favourite Bond's (it's a tie between Connery, Moore and Brosnan). I miss the days when Bond films were well written and fun.
I totally agree, I've got Brosnan Moore Connery in that order but it's very close, I never saw Dalton and Craig as Bond
Moore is my favorite Bond but this is top 10 Bond movie.
This is it. This is the best one.
The success of Goldeneye N64 is more impressive when you consider that it's rare for a video game that is a movie tie-in to even be good, let alone great.
Best 007 of 90s
Didn’t know that was Minnie Driver, today I learned.
Goldeneye Was a Perfect Comeback Film for 007....And God BROSNAN solidified his Role as 007...But I Just Feel So Bad for him As He had The Potential/Good Looks/Charm and Humor & yet Didn't Recieve Darker And Better scripts after Goldeneye and Later In 2004 was kicked out of the Role....BUT He will always Be The Bond of my Choice..as a Kid Whenever I heard the Name JAMES BOND; Brosnan's image Sparked in my Mind....Thanks for This Well Researched Piece of Video💥
As someone who hasn't seen a James Bond movie, Goldeneye is definitely the title that comes to mind when I think of the movies (and maybe the Daniel Craig ones that came out when I was old enough to know who Bond is. I count that as recency bias)
That theme really is iconic
essential bond is the Connery years
This was the first Bond I’d ever watched all the way through. Might have liked the game better than the movie.
Picture this: Its 1995, you're 14yo and staying over at you friends house. He's just got Goldeneye on N64 and had pizzas delivered. The soda is flowing, and you've just discovered the joy that is multiplayer in the Archives with proximity mines. Life is good.
This was great stuff!
That game is so good
You did good, a really good job and I like it a lot - Thank You!
Spot on. The word to sum this film up is fun.
Good use of game reference
Perfect coverage! Adam Sessler would have given it a 5 out of 5!
Your channel is the best use of dad jokes of all time
Remington Bond was not my cup of Earl Grey. I still rented the movies from Blockbuster, but no late return fees. You Only Watch Once
Yep, he was always Remington Steele to me, when these movies were being made. It was distracting, in a way that Simon Templar and Brett Sinclair were not.
Quality content as ever from Stam Fine.
In my opinion, Mr Brosnan dealt with the light and the shade of the Bond cinematic character with equal aplomb. Although subsequent movies weren't quite as good. It was enough, for me, just to watch him being Bond.
I still have flashbacks from Mamma Mia however. Where's my martini?
Probably the best of the Brosnan movies. Fairly realistic plot with intriguing villain. Great stunts and Brosnan really looked the part. Music was a bit odd though. Worked well for the eerie Soviet icon graveyard, but the romantic theme was totally out of place for the banter between Bond and Xenia .and the song over the closing credits was appalling.
Main title is still a classic though
And now Mr. Brosnan is Doctor Fate; I think he's done pretty well for himself. And didn't Timothy Dalton end up getting impaled on a small steeple or something in "Hot Fuzz"?
good timing with the re-release of Goldeneye the game very soon
The best Pierce Brosnan James Bond 007 Movie.
Great review
that "what do you sit on but can't take with you" (a chair) doesn't hold up since you CAN take chairs with you such as camping chairs or stools.
Not entirely sold that this is the best film of the Brosnan Era - The World is Not Enough is surely a competitor for that title? (And has a better title song).
6-year old me in 1997 used to call him "Seen Bean" as well. Feels good to be vindicated after 25 years.
So Roger Moore was the first choice of Ian Fleming when Sean Connery was cast. Then Pierce Brosnan was the first choice when Timothy Dalton was cast. This bodes well for our first Kiwi Bond when they circle back and cast Sam Neill for the next one. Now that would be choice!
I think Tomorrow Never Dies is actually my favourite Bond film from this era, but this one definitely makes it close.
Think I've mentioned before that over the past year I've finally got the chance to catch up with almost all the films, and Goldeneye certainly stands out as one of the best.
Best Brosnan movie.
Brosnan proves to be a superior Bond compared to Dalton and Goldeneye is a masterpiece worthy of the record selling video game adaptation. It really is the best of the Brosnan era, but if Die Another Day had a better ending or a better actress playing the main Bond Girl, it would've been a good contender for that spot.
Its funny I never seen the movies. Atleast not old enough to remember. But can remember tons of clips. Yet I know I loved the PS 1 gsmes. Which had tons of scenes. Thede old games were great
Best Bond Ever IMO
Brosnan
Moore
Connery
Dalton
Craig/Lazenby
Ah Goldeneye. As a sad teenage Bond fan, starved of Bond for 7 years, I went ro the cinema to watch this 007 times (I did say sad) and could recitemost of the pre-credit sequence word for word by the last time (sad, remember?).
Sadly, I now place Brosnan at the bottom of the list, and find 50% of his product placements....sorry 'films', a struggle - this and Tomorrow Never Dies still make the cut.
Thanks for another great video.
Brosnan is still the best Bond.
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I think Tomorrow Never Dies is better.
@@TheToonMonkey at least he looked like he wanted to be on screen. Craig looked like he wanted to slit his wrists in every scene. In his last movie he just seemed to be relieved it was all over. Brosnan was brilliant he had the right balance of Connery and Moore he was just stuck was some bad scripts. He deserved another film after the disaster that was Die Another Day, which was though a terrible film but still better than the shite of Specter and (Plenty of)Time To Die.
@@purefoldnz3070 In the future, deep fake technology will allow us to superimpose the faces and voices of our favourite actors on any existing film. Quantum of Solace, with Dalton, Brosnan or Moore replacing Craig, will be recognised as a brilliant movie. No amount of CGI will save the other Craig films, they will always remain unwatchable tripe. (Perhaps people will deep fake Craig into Die Another Day, just to emphasize how bad it is, and it will take a place among the pantheon of "so bad they're funny" cult classics.)
Wish I enjoyed it more. The series never was as much fun after Dalton.
Ah, the most popular Brosnan film. Funnily, my favourite is Die Another Day. My personal list of Brosnan films goes DAD > The World is Not Enough > Tomorrow Never Dies > GoldenEye.
I’m sure no one would be as boring as to call me contrarian. After all, no one’s willing to say they love Die Another Day unless they mean it.
Would you care to attempt to justify your position?
@@kelvinp.coleman563 I just love, love laugh-out fun. Die Another Day feels to me like a production crew drunk on their past successes, trying out their craziest ideas. Pierce Brosnan is utterly comfortable as a bit of a horny dad at this point, and Rosamund Pike hams it up to no end. Basically A View to a Kill, except actually great.
The third and second Brosnan films are this to a consecutively lesser extent, and GoldenEye is just … there.
Tomorrow Never Dies is waaaay better Die Another Day and The World is Not Enough.
I have always enjoyed this Bond film like the others. On a side note the question is where are the Bond films headed now since the last film killed off the main character of the films.
Pierce made a great Bond, sort of a combination of Sean Connery and a small bit of Roger Moore.... I liked all the series he was in....especially the one where he is windsurfing on the wave.
The game is iconic!!!!
Sean Bean was the Danny Trejo of movies
Dies always in everything film
the N64 game
was great
“Can it run Crysis?” 🤣
Goldeneye is my favorite Bond movie, the perfect balance of action, grit, and fun. Plus Bronson is perfect in the role, my second favorite Bond behind Conroy
I disagree about Brosnan - I would put him as one of the worst Bonds
Heh, Eric Serra, never realised that part of this film. If you watch La Femme Nikita you'll be able to tell he did that film too.
Cheers Stam. A grand way to start the day, with a Goldeneye rib tickler. This film was great fun and promised so much more to come from Brosnan. More came from Brosnan. Less came to see Brosnan.
Brosnan is the best bond in the worst films
I honestly think the follow-up was better.
@@SommersetStriker He was certainly the prettiest. He did give us two good Films before things went South.
@@ricardocantoral7672 I may well agree with you. I did enjoy Tomorrow Never Dies. Such a shame that the next two were not so good.
@@tomsenior7405 I thought it had a better villain, Carver, Brosnan looked and acted a lot better than he did in Goldeneye, and there is an element of satire regarding corporate media. The downsides would be the weak henchmen and too much of Michael Bay influence.
best Bond ever!
LALD remains my favourite Bond flick but damn; Goldeneye sure nibbles its ass for the top spot. And Dalton remains so underrated for his efforts - he's excellent.
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GoldenEye is the best Bond film ever made, just beside a classic like Goldfinger, and Pierce Brosnan is the best Bond ever, he managed to balance every aspect that 007 should have.
I disagree - give me Dalton over Brosnan anyday!
great but who were the other more preferred choices for 007 you mentioned - I never heard of anyone except Brosnan as being the actor for Goldeneye ?
should watch edge of darkness is excellent
This movie is very similar to that N64 game... Super Mario.
I agree, Brosnan manages to be the best of Connery & Moore.
Dont forget that giant satellite dish collapsed last year too.
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Ths scarier part about that is that it sounds like something some exec would mess with.
Bean is the Judas of Bond villains, while Brosnan is the Tankman of Bonds .
People always joke about Sean Bean dying but I grew up on Sharpe where he's always the one to survive and everyone around him dies.
Rest in peace Tina Turner
Sean Bean was once considered for the role of Bond - I think that he might have been a better choice, projecting a sexier hard edge and being a more accomplished actor than Brosnan, on the evidence of his subsequent performances.
In my opinion Goldeneye could and should have been the perfect conclusion to the Dalton films. It revisits the Cold War themes of The Living Daylights and the comrade at arms theme of Licence to Kill. This time, however, the Cold War is “over” and the injured friend is not what he seems. I miss Tim Dalton very much in this film.
I enjoy Brosnan in other films but he is a contender for my least favorite Bond because he never really makes the character his own. These days I like him a bit more because he wasn’t integral to literally killing off the character as a salve to his ego.
I agree with you about Dalton and this script, but this was not the proposed story for Dalton's third appearance. And I assume John Glen and the usual production team would have been involved in Dalton's final contracted film. So I don't believe we would have seen this story with Dalton with the actual 'Goldeneye' production team. I also believe that once 'Goldeneye' was such a great financial success, the producers decided to play it safe and so Brosnan was never given a script that would have allowed him to really define himself properly as Bond. So.....that 6 year gap due to legal disputes effectively undermined two different Bond actors.
I think so too - Dalton should have had his trilogy 🙃 but again when money is involved with studios who cares about the themes of the movies especially for someone like James Bond.
I love Pierce he’s a great actor. Although his last Bond film was so over the top lol but I still like it: I can’t wait to see how he handles Dr Fate in Black Adam movie.
@@CaminoAir Dalton was adamant about not working with Glen again after Licence to Kill. They had a falling out about something. The scripts I’ve seen for the unmade third Dalton venture didn’t impress me much. Some plot points were recycled in Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is Not Enough. I don’t know the chronology of the Goldeneye script but some parts seem to me to have been drafted with Dalton in mind. I think he made a mistake in not coming back, especially if this was the script.
You are right about both Bonds being a bit scuttled by history, but Dalton is not the type to “play it safe”.
I don't think Brosnan can act for toffee, despite his charm and good looks. Yet Goldeneye is one of my favourite Bond films lol!
I adore this film. LTK too. It’s just a shame about the gap and lawsuits
Best part of the film: his hair
These Brosnan 007 reviews have been a long time coming.
Like that time I tried a ginsing and viagra milkshake before seeing my girlfriend after my 8 months incarceration.
Auntie Beryl again 😂
I'm not a foley artist but the sound effects you added from 4:20 to 4:25 had me in stiches!
Kitesurfing a tsunami.....hilarious.
Am I the only one who's not that crazy about Goldeneye? It's watchable, but it comes off as a warmup lap instead a full-bore Bond film. Natalia is dull, Xenia feels more like a Looney Tunes character than a real villain, Alex is...fine, and the whole notion of Bond as a relic faced with a new world is undercut by how Pierce Brosnan looks like a teenager in some shots. Timothy Dalton could've hit World Weary Bond After the Cold War out of the park, but Pierce wasn't quite there yet. However, since this (along with the game) is how '90s kids first discovered the character, it's now an unimpeachable classic. Sort of funny watching OK Boomer types insist that *their* nostalgia is all well and good, thank you very much...
You're definitely not the only one. This film feels like a pastiche that appropriated from older, better Bond movies. I honestly think Tomorrow Never Dies is superior because of the then hot topic of 24 hour cable networks and it's still relevant today.
@@ricardocantoral7672 24-hour basic cable news channels + misinformation/"fake news"~
If TND were made after the ascendancy of social media it would have been presented as a more sober - less farcical - story, in all likelihood.
Judging by musical score (alone), GE is the weakest among the Brosnan Quartet - by a landslide. On the whole, I think this is a solid second (to TWINE), though by virtue of having been the very first film after the end of the Soviet Union era, breaks news ground, like directly addressing the question of relevance and so forth.
Agree. I like GoldenEye but not sure why its weak points are generally overlooked (while Tomorrow Never Dies has struggled to get fans).
Hey, my go to remark about specs is "But can it run Crysis?".
Starts by jumping off a damn to enter a bathroom. Comes out on a mountain top somewhere else.
Yes. At the start of the scene the nerve gas factory is at the bottom of the mountain, at the end of the scene it is on top of the mountain. Surely one of the worst writing errors in the history of cinema.
This would slowly be the beginning of the end for me and Bond films. Brosnan was fine but the movie scripts were less memorable as they went along. Hence by the time Craig took I had lost interest.
Are we sure that Xenia gets off on killing rather than merely violence or inflicting pain?
Hey!
Eric Serra? Huh!