How This James Bond Film Saved Daniel Craig's Legacy
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
- Daniel Craigs tenure as James Bond has had it's ups and downs. Not too similar to even the most popular iterations of 007. But after Quantum of Solace, the James Bond franchise was at an all time low. Luckily, Skyfall completely saved the Bond franchise from certain doom. But how exactly did Skyfall fill the void that Quantum of Solace left?
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Skyfall feels like a personal story instead of just a bond villain trying to end the world
Thats one of the reasons I love this movie it feels different from other bond movies even from the other Craig films
That's why I think both the next two movies with Craig tried to also go down the road of being more personal, but while also having a villain that was trying to take over/end the work.
The results?
Spectre, a film with a very well portrayed Blofeld by Christophe Waltz, set in a story that was decent, but a plot that dragged hard and felt longer than it's actual runtime.
No Time to Die had another decent story and a much better ploy with pacing to match that felt smoother with a similarly long runtime to Spectre, but Safin was boring as shit!
Both films tired to have both a compelling world altering villain, and a deeply personal story for Bond, but couldn't quite find the right balance to execute both well.
Skyfall gave us Silva, a villain out for revenge, period. Not trying to do anything crazy on a massive global scale, simply trying to get to M. You had a compelling villain, a deeply personal story, and a smooth plot. Skyfall kept it simple enough to keep things smooth, and complex enough to keep us interested. Spectre and No Time to Die tried to up the ante, and in the end, one gave us a comprable villain, but a less than ideal overall movie, and the other gave us a comprable overall movie, with a less than ideal villain.
Now is the inevitable waiting game for the next era of Bond films. Who knows if we'll ever see a film in the franchise again to the caliber of Casino Royale and Skyfall.
@@Mr_Yarnif Eon finally agrees to play ball with Chris Nolan, then we're in for a banger series of films from him.
The SkyFall was said to be the last film that Daniel Craig would do. It was brilliant!
What Skyfall was, was a wannabe Christopher Nolan film. Omniscient villain and check your logic muscle at the door. (Surveys showed that only five percent of audience members had any logic to check.)
Skyfall really knew how much of Bond's past was needed to make him more interesting but still mysterious, whereas I think Spectre really overplayed that hand and in the end it made it more uninteresting.
Spectre is just completely broken in how it desperately wants their to be mystery surrounding Bond’s past that is not supported by the prior 3 films. Bond is a former rich kid who got orphaned & became a spy. After his first mission a rival spy organization killed his girlfriend and he’s very mad. That’s it
I never watched Spectre and probably won’t watch it until the day I decide to just marathon Craigs films out of a momentary lapse if judgment lol.
When I saw Specter I really felt the entire franchise was over. Specter and No Time to Die ruined everything.
Bringing back Blofield just to shit in him as a character was an awful decision. Skyfall made a great story without stepping on the toes of older fans
@@EstelaAfonso-ws9vd I hate those movies, but they ultimately only botched the Craig era of Bond. Obviously, the next movie is going to be another reboot.
I was 14 when Skyfall was coming out. I remember the eeriness and expectation of the trailers, instantly made me a fan even though I’d never really paid attention to the series before that. It had tons of heart to it.
Now I realize I'm getting old... 😞
That mentioned Skyfall probably my favorite Bond, well definitely in my top 5 but I still did not watch No Time To Die.
@@thefrog9119 I wouldn't recommend No Time To Die honestly. It's not an awful movie but it's a bit emotionally bland. Way, waaay less serious and dark than Skyfall.
I was the same, didn't even knew about 007 franchise until skyfall and I instand became a fan cause I thought skyfall was excellent movie in cinematography and music, love the dark tone of the movie, spectre even do i think christoph waltz is an amazing actor didn't like the movie in general and finally, for me no time to die was the antagonist was boring but it was in general a good movie
Even though Quantum Of Solace is arguably Daniel Craig’s worst James Bond movie, it has one of my favorite opening scenes. James speeding through the streets while being shot at from his pursuers is nothing new, but the way the scene opens is pure art: first, all you see is a faraway shot of a tunnel as the camera slowly zooms in on James, then you hear the sound of a car’s engine roar to life as you see James slam on the gas pedal and the viewer realizes that he’s already being pursued by people.
The icing on the cake is how the scene ends. The viewer was given no timeframe of when it took place, so you’re thinking it may be a mission that happened some time after Casino Royale. But then he pops the trunk, and you realize WHY he was being chased: he had Mr. White in his trunk the whole time, and that the movie takes place only minutes after Casino Royale ended.
This opening scene is among the best of the James Bond movies, right up there with The Living Daylights, Tomorrow Never Dies, and Die Another Day’s opening scenes, Die Another Day being Pierce Brosnan’s worst James Bond movie… and a movie which I still love lol.
I LOVE QOS. All Craig bond films since just don’t do it for me. I’m clearly not the base for these films but my fave bond films are casino and QOS. I’ve seen them so many times. I must be weird. But I love angry hurt bond ❤
I remember both QoS and Spectre having great opining scenes. To the point where they were sadly the best part of both those movies...
@@frontsideboyMe too
QoS has some great scenes.
Overall it doesn't work, but there's still highlights there.
I totally agree. There are so many good sequences, it’s just that the script didn’t work with what was happening on screen. It’s one of those movies that could have been great, but due to the writers’ strike, this was the end result. It’s so unfortunate because you can see the potential of it. If the script had been given the treatment it needed, it could have been good.
The main thing I feel held back Craig’s time as James Bond was the obsession with continuity. Casino Royale and Skyfall are masterpieces if you ask me. And they are entirely standalone. But all the other films fail, and it is clear in retrospect that it’s not because continuity is bad (Look at the John Wick movies or the initial Bounre Trilogy). But these Bond movies are all cobbled together with no plan or anything close to a singular creative vision. Random circumstances could have resulted in entirely different movies. You can’t write a 5 movie arc this way, but you could have had five bad ass standalone movies instead of 2.
Agreed. The whole idea of Blofeld being some grand puppeteer who’s motive was to wreak revenge on Bond is paper thin at best. And in “Spectre,” Blofeld revealing his plan of being the author of all Bond’s pain shows the lack of thought that went into the concept. The original Blofeld in FRWL, Thunderball, and YOLT was much more compelling as a bad guy.
@@j.st.jamesesq.9599 It’s a lame characterization and a complete ass pull. It doesn’t make any sense. Bond/Blofeld growing up to be part of rival spy groups would have to be events that are independent of each other. Blofeld’s motivation for hating Bond is vague and dumb. In the previous movies there is no indication that anyone is trying to get revenge on Bond so nothing is being paid off in Spectre. Quantum of Solace felt like a filler episode of a Bond TV show, but Spectre wants to be series finale to a Bond TV show that never was, paying off a narrative that was never shown. Waltz however, was flipping born to play a Bond villain and it is a travesty what they did with him.
@@j.st.jamesesq.9599 And also, I’m really just confounded by the fact that the Craig era is so desperate to do continuity but without the consistent creative vision who need to make a film series it COULD have been done. We could have gotten the James Bond version of the Dark Knight or Bourne Trilogies. But you need to have a single team write and direct the movies & outline a plan ahead of time. Quantum of Solace could have been written in such a way that Spectre actually made sense. Like when you watch Across the Spider-Verse, you can go back and watch the original movie and be like “Oh yeah, that spider did glitch!”
I like the overarching character of bond throughout all five films though even if the overarching plot wasnt so hot but the character growth and arc for the character that they wrote for five films was just incredible.
@@TheJadedJames i like to see quantum of solice as a james bond adventure rather than a 007 adventure. i see it as he rebelling against M and trying to be free of MI6 on his own and do his own adventure but since he proved that he wasnt ready to leave behind Mi6 or M in casino royale his adventure sucks and is way less epic than the adventures that M would send him on and it wouldnt be till no time to die when he comes up with the mission on his own again and this time its good cause he's finally emotionally healthy enough and mature enough to handle his own adventures as evidence by the fact that he left MI6 at the end of spectre to be with the girl which he couldn't do back in Casino Royale even though he tried.
I've never seen Bond as mad as he was in Quantum and I guess it's the reason why I loved it. Raw and gritty, dude had just lost Vesper in the previous. I think time is going to be kind to Quantum, I really do.
its easier to forgive in time. after seeing casino royale at 15 years old not knowing who daniel craig was or what to expect it was hard to beat that cinematic marvel.
but quantum was a good movie i remember feeling it lacking as much charm as the first which was disappointing but understandable
I just re-watched Casino Royale, Quantum and Skyfall some weeks ago. I really disliked Quantum of Solace when it aired, and I was curious about how I would feel now, especially watching it just after CR because that would make it easier to understand the plot.
I must admit though that I was very dissappointed : it's still the worst James Bond for me. Plot incoherences, lots of potential wasted on the James Bond girl that could have been better, the archivist girl and the villain are plain ridiculous imho... The story just fails to interest me, past and present.
Bro hasn't watched Licence To Kill?
@@spacemann1425I was just thinking that!
I totally agree, however I personally find Quantum so disjointed and slow.
Skyfall was amazing, but Casino Royale is by far my favorite- Vesper’s passing and his quest for vengeance and feeling betrayed is what best explains why Bond became the Bond we know.
Wait, when you say "the Bond we know" do you mean just the Craig Bond or all of the film Bonds collectively? Because I really don't see an overarching quest for vengeance when it comes to the pre-Craig films.
@@FinnOtaku I was talking about the current Bond. Previous Bonds were just about showing crazy gadgets, “saving the world” and scoring with as many girls as possible. This was more evident with Sean Connery and Roger Moore.
@@miguellee3 Okay that makes sense then 👍
I mean technically with skyfall introducing Criags Bond into the timeline of all bond films. This "betrayl" and hardening of bond, could be argued what turns him into a "womanizer" , not in the different Era different ways of the world way, but in the sense bond doesn't settle down, is armor is on nonstop. It's always just buisness and pleasure. Skyfall begins, with his defeat, his failure to complete the mission, after being shot by money penny, and he takes time off, until the only thing he holds dear to him is attacked, home base of operations. Skyfall also goes deeper into Bonds armor cracking after being inserted into the timeline. Everything becomes extremely intimate at the end of skyfall. Then the next two films are about Bond reopening the hardened shell, then chosing to die, because he can no longer live a life without love - which Vesper basically hints at in Casino Royale, reaching the point where there is nothing left. Say what you will, but for a practically scrapped together 5 story bond series, it's a pretty solid tragedy.
Casino Royale is my favorite, too, but their love story was the only thing I didn’t buy. I think because they made everything (regarding emotions/feelings) feel so much more realistic that (although they acted it out beautifully) a little banter, having sex for a few weeks(?) - with a brutally beaten penis btw 🙈 - and then deciding to leave this life for the greatest, grandest love ever felt rushed and too exaggerated to me
Only thing about Skyfall that bugs me.
In the last movies he had only just begun, now suddenly he's too old????
I've always said that Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace together make the best 4 hour James Bond film. The great bits of Casino lift up the bad bits of Quantum. Personally, I would have liked a reference to the short story of the same name by Fleming.
That’s such a good point! If you watch Quantum on its own it kinda sucks, but as a two parter with CR it comes off as just the second half of a great story
The Craig Bond films make a lot more sense if you just assume they’re a straight reboot rather than trying to slot them in with the rest of the franchise. Dealing with the trauma of Vesper makes way less sense if there’s twenty films between the start and end of that arc where he doesn’t act on it at all, and Blofeld’s nonsense is inscrutable.
It's literally a straight reboot. He's absolutely wrong saying it fits in the original movies series timeline. Craig movies are their own self-contained continuity.
I Love Skyfall So Much!
Like The Brilliant Casino Royale, The Performances By Daniel Craig & Judi Dench, The Plot, Villain, Cinematography, Music, Dialogue, Iconic Scene After Iconic Scene.
Everything Is Excellent In This Film! Also The Introduction Of The Rebooted Q & Moneypenny.
Skyfall is a beautiful movie, but I get distracted by the plot everytime. It relies far too much on coincidence. Silva didn't even have to get captured to carry out his plan, it's just a forced attempt at a Joker-esque chaos agent. He knew where M would be multiple times, and could've easily killed her without all the fuss and fanfare.
Exactly. It's a well done movie, but if you think about the plot for like a minute you realise it makes no damn sense.
Yes, and it felt like two movies in one. The first part was catching the Villain, which was great, but the part in the estate felt like a totally unrelated movie and was tonally different. It felt very jarring and was not as good as the first part of the movie.
Skyfall is in many ways a rip-off of The Dark Knight. Sam Mendes himself admitted that TDK was a big influence on Skyfall.
Joker himself copied that trick from brad Pitt "seven" movie. More importantly, Half of Nolan movies have reference from older bond action scenes, from skyhook trick in dark Knight, joker shoes are similar to rosa klebb shoes, dark Knight Rises plane carrying scene is straight ripoff from license to kill opening scene, inception mountain scene is ripoff from George Lazenby bond film, tenet has a very bond like feela to it.
@@sreenivaskamath4243Sam mendes already clarified in 2013 that media took his words out of context, he himself admitted he was never inspired from dark Knight. There isn't a single shot in dark Knight which is similar to bond movies.
Not even a big bond guy but this instantly became one of my favorite films of all time after I first saw it.
Very well put!
I always chose to believe that those were just Winks at the audience and Easter egg references not actually reestablishing Craig's bond in the overall continuity. I think to do so would be a disservice to the Craig era.
Skyfall is my favorite Bond movie. Love everything about it.
Okay normie
This movie also features the best Bond film song ever.
I think Skyfall is Great. It's kinda when Daniel Craig slowly started morphing into Roger Moore.And it has that fantastic chase scene at the beginning & the cinematography of Roger Deakins the Macao section is also a standout.
Skyfall maybe the best critically acclaimed film but Quantum is the most watchable. I almost look at it as Casino part 2 since it carries over where teh first film left off. And OMG... Olga was was great on one of her first roles with her intensity. Storywise yeah, it was lacking but I just like me some Craig hehe
Skyfall is one of my favorite Bond movies!
Really enjoyed this video. It's a little odd, though, to claim that a couple of cheeky references to other films "firmly place it back into continuity."
What saved the Bond movies was Mission Impossible 3: Cassino Royale follows the same formular of "sh*t go wrong" and grounds the franchise back to reallity rather than action fantasy from the end of Brosnan's era. Skyfall is a fantastic movie, but Cassino is a real Bond movie.
Rewatched this the other day and it was so good, definitely better than a lot of bond films
Skyfall was the first James bond movie I watched and the only one I watched in theaters. I was so amazed at how it looked and felt.
Didn't watch the spectre and no time to die yet but skyfall has the best cinematic in james bond movie ever, the director of photography really hit it brilliantly
Skyfall is not only my favourite Bond film, but one of my favourite films full stop. I can watch it anytime and enjoy it.
The writing wasn't what made Quantum barely watchable to me. It was the editing. The action scenes have so many rapid nonsensical cuts I felt like I was going to have a seizure. Had to fast forwards through some of them when I finally did a rewatch recently.
Correct. The editing is poor.
AND THEN they made Spectre. Brutal.
Quantum and Solace are not bad. They only seem like huge letdowns because of the films that preceded them.
Skyfall is no doubt the best film overall in the Craig era. However Satorially the high point was Quantum of Solace. From the cut of his Tom Ford Regency suits, to Bond rocking dark denim and Harrington jacket ala. Steve McQueen, all of his outfits have become instant classics.
Actually, Quantum did very well at the box office. I'm not saying it was great but it was far better then Spectre and many many past Bond films. I think part of what dooms it too is having to be the follow up to Casino Royle.
But even with Quantum, no one was trashing Daniel Craig, his performance in the film was still top notch. I can't stand hyperbolic video titles.
This often happens with followups to well received movies. Example: XMen 3 was the most financially successful of that trilogy despite easily being the worst. Because XMen 2 was so good and so people came to see more of that.
Also, agree on youtube titles but sadly that's just how the algorithm works.
@@dipperdandyyou are forgetting one major thing - QOS was shot during the writer's strike.
Accurate. So did Die Another Day, which was the highest grossing Bond film up until Casino.
Skyfall is a love letter to the bond series itself saying " We are here".
They also got Thomas Newman on the score and Adele on the theme music-both excellent choices
I actually love Daniel Craig and sky fall is one of my favorites from not just him but from the entire franchise in general
Well hell, I guess I’m watching Skyfall again.
I really don’t like the Craig is no longer Bond but such is life. I really hope they don’t screw up the casting for he successor.
Casino royal is an epic start for the new Daniel Craig. Nothing could have been better for him.
Skyfall cemented him as the best James Bond to date.
It also has my favorite James Bond theme next to Diamonds are Forever!
Resurrected with skyfall only to be killed again with spectre then attempted resuscitation in No Time to Die
Valid
Loved all movies Craig as bond, but dissapointed by the villain in last on. Great video!
After re-watching a lot of Brosnan era (and some older classics like Moonraker) I still think Casino is my favorite. Granted, I have done one watch of Skyfall and I was distracted so this makes me think I need to go back and spend some time with it. Quantum and both of the last two movies didn't do it at all for me which probably skews my opinion of Skyfall unfairly.
Skyfall is a fantastic film. Its kind of how I would still tell people to watch Game of Thrones season 1-4 even though the show became ruined, because those seasons alone are peak fiction. I wouldn’t say Skyfall is peak fiction but man Skyfall is a fantastic film start to finish. Easy 8.5/10 for me.
Skyfall brought back the excitement I felt after Casino and the misfire of Quantity Sadly Spectre and No Time to Die.were underwhelming but Craig is one of the Best Bond's ever
Also the Skyfall song became a timeless classic
I'll never forget the day I did a James Bond maraton and I almost ended myself watching Quantum of solace that has the duration of 1 hour an a half, but felt like 3 hours, and the next on the list was Skyfall it has the duration of 2 and more than a half hours and I watched it two times because I loved It, definetley gonna watch it for the third time.
I just watched Quantum of Solace for the first time last night. Maybe because it was 2 am, but I liked it.
My number one Bond film.
Skyfall was one of the worst. It put Daniel's Bond into that silliness it was before him. So sad.
Skyfall was the first James bond movie I ever watched and it made me watch most of the classic movies. It is still the best movie of Craig era(personally) and bond movies as as a whole
Adela's Skyfall track is spectacular!
I rewatched Quantum and it was better than I remember. If you pull a double feature with CR, it comes together as 1 long movie. I genuinely enjoyed it
And let’s not forget how Adele immortalized this film with her iconic piece, that set this movie apart from all other Bond films, and all other films of that year
When Casino Royale first came out on DVD, you received a special DVD-Cut with snippets of interviews. A few years later, they changed the DVD set and took the interviews out. But I can tell you this - One day, during the construction site chase filming, Martin Campbell (the director of Casino Royale) had a chat with producer Michael Wilson. They noticed that Daniel Craig was playing the Bond character totally different...and they loved it. But, they couldn't figure out what he was doing. So about 20 days after shooting the film, they pulled Daniel aside and asked him - "You're a VERY different James Bond and we love it. What are you doing with the character?" Daniel Craig said - "James Bond is a bad guy. But he just happens to work for the good guys."
It's funny when I have a video on my watch later list and by the time I go to watch it the title and thumbnail have changed
After you see the documentary how Daniel Craig was hired and how the movies were shot.. you don’t question the Craig bond series as much as you would!
Great film! We based our entire business around just 1 scene from it haha
You say Die Another Day under performed. But it was not only the highest grossing Brosnan Bond film, it was the highest grossing of all the Bond films until Casino Royale.
I remember watching Quantum in theaters. Early on, I wasn't feeling it. But it wasn't until that damn boat chase, when it flipped inexplicably into the air, because of something with a rope or something, that I realized I hated it. The rest of the movie was excruciating.
Skyfall is awesome…i just wish Dame Judi Dench’s M didn’t die. she was the best thing to happen to the 90s era of Bond
Skyfall was the last GREAT 007 film, then Mission Impossible and John Wick took over as the best action sagas.
By the way, can we stop pretending Quantum of Solace is worst 007 film? As mediocre as it is is still better than the Roger Moore's era Austin Powers esque era.
Skyfall is my second fav James Bond movie next to casino royale!
I hope the next James Bond, whoever it is, will keep the franchise afloat.
Quantum is not bad. Better than some of the older movies
Skyfall is just on another level, and I love Casino Royale.
14 year old me was hooked on the inital release of Skyfall. It's the best Bond flick, at least in the Top 5 or Holy Trinity ranking of Bond movies!
I worked on skyfall and spectre. I liked all the Craig films apart from the last one which repeated to many themes from previous films
For me my favorite Daniel Craig james bond casino royale it also my all time james bond my all time second favorite is sky fall all time james bond movie
I love Spectre and No Time to Die. No Time to die was imo a perfect send off to Bond as a character and a franchise
I honestly loved Quantum of Solace, I didn't realize people hatted till recently
Same man, I've always loved Quantum.
I always thought it was a badass second part to Casino Royale. More gritty, more violent. Villains were realistic
Quantum of Solace felt like a Jason Bourne movie than Bond movie, that's why most people didn't like it. Made it worse with a convoluted plot (I mean movie was shot during the strike so that make sense) and the incompetent action scenes
THE ACTION SCENES. Yes. The writing wasn't what made Quantum barely watchable to me. It was the editing. The action scenes have so many rapid nonsensical cuts I felt like I was going to have a seizure. Had to fast forwards through some of them when I finally did a rewatch recently.@@15Candles
@@15Candles I enjoy the plot, its realistic and a good setup for specter.
Having grown up on James Bond, I think Thunderball was one of the first movies I saw in the cinema, QOS ranks at least middle in y books. Spectre is definitely my least favourite of his and I didn't care too much for Skyfall either. I was a big fan of OHMSS at the time and that has paid off over the years as it has slowly but steadily crept higher and higher in the rankings. That it was "revisited" so well in NTTD I founnd very moving and a fitting tribute to the franchise.
0:42 Die Another Day didn't unperform in terms of box office it was the highest-grossing James Bond film up to that point and made three times it budget and was 6th highest grossing film of the year maybe from critics pov it unperformed and looking back on it, it is generally conisdered one of worst Bond films but there should be some clarity to what you mean by underperform.
True, but it doesn’t fit the silly narrative that the franchise needed to be saved (to kill it 15 years later 🙄)
Casino Royale is still my favorite Bond movie... Damn I feel old now!
Skyfall has amazing cinematography thats for sure
What I really like about Skyfall - if you don't dwell too much into the opening sequence, you have no idea what Skyfall really is (and if you did, there is no clear clue up until you see the mansion).
And to be honest, it's the best Bond movie from Daniel Craig era. Casino Royale is good, but it's a visually cold movie, James Bond feels more like Jason Bourne, whereas Skyfall is a beatiful homage to old and new and sets tone how modern 2010s Bond should feel like.
Craig's 007 is so perfect and so are many of the characters across the new movies, plus the cinematography is just stunning
Die Another Day did not underperform. It was the highest grossing Bond film at the time.
The franchise absolutely did not feel dead in 2008 with QoS. Was it a step down or two from Casino Royale? Definitely. But nobody was counting the Bond franchise out especially when everybody was still over the moon about how great of a Bond Daniel Craig was. QoS was average as a 007 film. Casino Royale was a borderline oscar contender. That is the rarity. It resurrected the franchise and Skyfall merely cemented that resurrection after QoS simply took a bit of a detour.
Skyfall felt so unique in the Bond catalog. The English countryside felt so refreshing and put all the focus on the characters
I didn’t care for any of the Bond movies until Daniel Craig as his broodiness seemed to fit my idea of what Bond should be like fit together well.
If you didn’t care for them why would you have an idea of what Bond should be like. For that matter there were already those awesome Bourne movies.
I know right. It really does prove that the Craig films were Bond films made for people that weren’t Bond fans lol
The kerning on that thumbnail title 😭😭😭
I haven't seen Quantum since it was in theaters but I didn't hate it.
I'm not a fan of Craig era bond movies. Somehow it all became less fun and everybody is cranky in them. Also having him being old after just 2 movies feels off and doesn't really work. And somehow, to much personal drama got me tired, especially, when a lot of it was just badly written (the Blofeld part and dramatic end with that stupid virus didn't jive with the new feel).
Ohhhh nooo only 590 million dollars at the box office!
Personally I've never really gelled with Skyfall. It's not a bad movie by any means, but it feels slow and self-indulgent in several places and the ending isn't nearly as triumphant as it tries to appear. The fact of the matter is that Bond loses this fight, but the film frames the ending like he succeeded and is now going back to work. Skyfall does a lot of things well, but everything it succeeds at was frankly done better in Casino Royale.
It's always weird when people talk about Craig and don't learn how to pronounce his name.
In my mind, "Casino Royale" and "Skyfall" are the "Batman Begins" and "Dark Knight", respectively, of the James Bond franchise. Also, I find it funny that the odd numbered Daniel Craig Bond films that focus more on him are the good ones and the even number Spectre focused ones are the bad ones. It's kind of like the flipped version of the Star Trek films.
….yeah…..yeah….youre speaking the truth my friend
Star Trek 1 & 3 are massively underrated
It’s crazy that you don’t talk about the beautiful theme song by Adele on skyfall
The funny thing is that once again we are in a situation where the Bond franchise needs saving…
Sam Mendez did a fantastic job with sky fall.
Nobody has mentioned the theme song yet
Casino Royale and GoldenEye are the 2 greatest Bond films, 4 me at least :)
Well they sure shit the bed with the last one
Skyfall is great but I honestly think we will never get a better ending to Bond's story than No Time to Die. And honestly Spectre is (from a script perspective) far worse than Quantum ever was. The fact that it literally stole from Austin Powers for its big twist reveal is absolutely insane to me.
Quantum gets too much hate. Sure it isn't Craig's best Bond film, but its definitely better than Spectre.
Quantum of Solace is severely underrated.
I actually think Skyfall is one of the worst Bond films going. All the plot motivations happen off screen, gigantic plot holes, they try to build a new Moneypenny as an agent but every time she does something she's demoted quickly afterwards, it's not character growth but character entropy.
It looks good..... But that's about it!
I loved Die Another Day. Really surprised it underperformed….
Craig was the closest to the Bond character Fleming wrote. That original character was not suave like Moore or witty like Connery but very serious and somber, being more of a bulldozer than a scalpel.
wheels fell off after Spectre... went full camp
No Time To Die was an absolutely AMAZING movie
Die Another Day will always be my favourite James Bond movie. It has it all: fast cars, cool gadgets, beautiful women, bombastic action, picturesque set pieces, maniacal villains, great soundtrack, and most of all: Brosnan is actually having fun playing the role. It encapsulates all that I loved about this series as a kid, and it was fantastical enough for me to detach myself from real life when watching it, while the newer, more grounded Bond movies, mostly just make me think about what a chauvinistic asshole James really is... Damn you, modern sensibilities! Things were so much simpler back when I was 10 and didn't know any better.
I respect what you have to say about Die Another Day. In my opinion
DAD dropped off significantly after the 15 to 30 minutes marks. I do agree that its way more enjoyable than the way the Craig era was run.
Also Pierce Brosnan was the only actor who didn't get to leave the role on his own terms and he should have been given an opportunity to portray the part in a 5th appearance that we never got. Rosamund Pike makes it all more watchable and yes Brosnan does seem like he's having fun in this movie
And add a dash of woke culture to prepare us for the following bond movie. Nice. Goodnight Mr Bond.
Quantum is actually criminally underrated.....Sort of an epilogue to Casino Royal.
Skyfall is absolutely amazing, and left the franchise with such a good base to work on... And then Spectre and No Time To Die messed up hard. Q, M, and Moneypenny felt more like a mission impossible team. It was a huge mistake.
Skyfall is beautifully shot, but I never liked it - Bond makes too many illogical decisions. The whole final act of the movie, where he uses M as bait without getting any help or at least some proper weapons to defend themselves against Sylva's army, is just stupid. M dies because of Bond.
On the other hand, Quantum of Solace is one of my favourites. Beautiful intro, the brilliant car chase, the silent action scene at the Austrian lake opera, and also by far the most realistic plot based on a real event. It's actually a great movie.