Why are you shy of the title and blanking it out? This title was never an issue when it was released. It's just an octopus plus y. Seriously. We're not living in the 1984 novel or a puritanical religious cult. Just say Octopussy and be done with it. Prudishness is unbecoming.
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27:45 "He's alway off having sex somewhere while people are getting killed!" That line and Jen's fed up tone of voice made me laugh more than it should have.
Vijay Amritraj (Bond's sidekick "This is a company car!") is a former professional tennis player. He also appears briefly in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home... Given this was released in 1983, those bright red costumes always reminded me of the superhero suit from The Greatest American Hero tv show that aired around that time...
I've seen every Bond film several times, but watching them along with you is as fun as watching them for the first time. I don't know why I found "I will call him crunch" so funny.
“It’s not a James Bond movie unless a woman gets slapped.” “And still gettin’ it. Nothing stops this guy’s libido.” Jen has the best one-liners in the business.
Jen...you need an English announcer to announce your clothing choices to the audience. "And...Here she comes@ She's looks Smashing!! in a simple yet elegant movie reaction outfit by Louis Vetton....yada yada yada!"
Maud Adams has the unique distinction of being the Bond Girl in two different movies. And I still can’t believe they got Louis effing Jourdon to be the villain in this.
LOVED Jen's unique Bond reactions to Octopussy and how much she enjoys herself in these videos. It's funny to think that, at the time, everyone was complaining about Roger Moore being too old to play Bond and yet now, 40 years later, we can appreciate this older Bond.
It would have been better without the silly name and all the women parading around. Having Q in the field and flying in on a hot air balloon combined with the Tarzan call in the jungle made it a bit too farcical. Story was OK and Steven Berkoff is a great actor and was a bit wasted here IMHO. Probably an anathema in Bond films as there were several villains rather than one overarching one with lackeys. Probably not the worst, but the lower tier for me.
The 1st to appear twice as a main character, but the actual 1st actress to appear in two different Bond movies was Eunice Gayson, who appeared as Sylvia Trench in Dr.No and From Russia With Love. After that it would be Martine Beswick, who appeared as one of the fighting Gypsy girls in From Russia With Love, then as Paula in Thunderball.
Maud Adams was only the first to appear twice as a major Bond girl. Nadja Regin and Martine Beswick both appeared in two films. Regin was Kerim Bey's mistress in From Russia with Love and Bonita in the pretitle sequence of Goldfinger. Beswick was one of the Romani girls in From Russia with Love and Paula in Thunderball.
Another nice though about these last few Moore films is, like Jen picked up on, Roger Moore asked for fewer Bond girls per film and for them to get older, due to his self awareness that it looked ridiculous, and more than a little creepy, for a man his age to be chasing women in their early 20s. By all accounts of everyone who knew him, Moore was a real class act and a real gentleman in the literal sense of being a very gentle man despite his action hero roles.
Let me just say your English accent has been pretty good throughout the entire bond series. Brings a smile to my face whenever you attempt it. This Englishman endorses it 👍
Minus the “jungle hunt” sequence, Octopussy is one of my favorite 007 adventures! Maud Adams played the title role and was the unique Bond girl to appear in two different roles in the series. She was Andrea, the ill fated Scaramanga’s mistress in The Man With The Golden Gun (1974).
The 1st to appear twice as a main character, but the actual 1st actress to appear in two different Bond movies was Eunice Gayson, who appeared as Sylvia Trench in Dr.No and From Russia With Love. After that it would be Martine Beswick, who appeared as one of the fighting Gypsy girls in From Russia With Love, then as Paula in Thunderball.
@@craigcolandro2781 Yes, I mean in two main characters. Sylvia Trench is the same role in two different movies. And Miss Beswick, as the gypsy girl in FRWL, is not exactly a character as the one she played in Thunderball. By the way, legend says that Maud Adams appeared as one of the tourists visiting The Fisherman’s Wharf, in A View to a Kill.
@@Mr17051963 Yes, I think it is true about her cameo in View To A Kill, but I have not been able to spot her. I haven't looked super closely though, although other Bond fans have tried and tried with no luck.
Aside from those already pointed out, one of the female guards that grabbed the luggage also helped open A View to a Kill, on the ice berg boat and dancing in the opening credits. Early on Albert didn't want to reuse anyone killed in a film and for most of Sean's they held to it. Later they would reuse extras and a few key actors that filled a role perfectly, Maud having two lead roles was indeed rare. W. Gobel was another major exception. First as a Spector trainer in Russia with Love then later as M's Russian counterpart.
Glad you are continuing the Bond marathon, I grew up on Pierce Brosnan myself being a young kid when he debuted in 1995 with Goldeneye one of my favorite Bond films of all time. My first two Bond films I watched when I was 9 years old in 95 were The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker when my cousin Jeff introduced me to Bond series. He got me hooked and started watching and collecting the series on vhs as a kid and now have all of Bond movies on dvd or blu ray. I am 36 years old now. I am a fan of each of Bond actors in their own right. I am enjoying your reactions to the films.
The "SIT!" line with the tiger was a gag related to Barbara Woodhouse, who was very famous in the UK at the time. She was a dog trainer and had a very commanding voice - that was her catchphrase!
The sidekick you liked, Vijay, was played by Vijay Amritraj, one of the most famous tennis players in the world of the 70s and 80s (certainly a huge star in India and very popular in the UK). It was cool he was simply called Vijay (his real name). He was a quality tennis player (ranked number 18 in the world in 1980). 2 years before Octopussy was released, Vijay made the Quarter finals at Wimbledon. He didn't retire from tennis until 1993.
Hi Jen ! I can't emphasize enough how much I love your James Bond reviews. You are the only Reactor to review the entire series of James Bond francise and I'm just so thankful for having you doing this. Other reactors really ought to step up and follow your example on this. Thank you so much for promoting the greatest secret agent of all.
You are a perfect reactor for the James Bond franchise. You recognize everything that makes James Bond popular, and I love how you have observed the subtle changes to Bond over time, and all the things that have remained a constant. Keep up the great work! I'm really enjoying these and your other movie reactions as well!
Sorry if someone else has mentioned but Octopussy and Property of a Lady are the genuine titles of two Bond short stories written by Ian Fleming, Also Vijay Amritraj (the sidekick) was a professional tennis player hence the tennis gags. In the UK Barbara Woodhouse was a well known elderly eccentric animal trainer with her catchphrase “Sit!”. So we got the scene with the tiger.
Yes, it was the title of an IF story, but even when the film was released one imagined a woman with 8...cats. I wonder what it's connotations were in Fleming's day.
Roger Moore and James Cameron received honorary doctorates at my university graduation. The ceremony was at a building off Bond St, which Moore made an appropriate quip about during his acceptance speech.
There have actually been three versions of "Casino Royale." The first was a 1954 adaptation of the 1953 Ian Fleming novel, made for TV as an episode of the show "Climax." It starred American actor Barry Nelson as the very first live action James Bond. The second was a 1967 comedy spoof, with several different actors playing James Bond. (You have to see it to understand.) And the third was the 2006 Daniel Craig film.
The evil General Olov was played by Steven Berkoff who played villains in Beverly Hills Cop in 1984 when starred Eddie Murphy and was the Russian villain Lt Colonel Podovsky in Rambo First Blood Part 2 in 1985.
There were so many low-key MVPs this video: the villain walk, the croc boat, the masterpiece game... but I've got to give it to double-oh's best sidekick: GIGGLES! GIGGLES, YOU ARE MY LOW-KEY MVP!!!
Just regarding the character of Penelope Smallbone: at this point, Lois Maxwell (the actress playing Moneypenny) was visibly aging to the point that makeup couldn't hide it anymore, so they brought in a new character intended to be her replacement. Moneypenny would retire in-universe, and Penelope would be Bond's new target of flirtation... but in the end nobody really cared about Penelope, everyone still liked Moneypenny, so they kept her around for one more movie before doing a recast of her AND Bond for the first Dalton film, 'The Living Daylights' (which acted as a semi-reboot to the franchise).
Someone else who knows better please chime in, 'cuz the memory's going. John Barry had a bit of a dispute with the Bond producers back in '65 on "Thunderball" when they insisted that the name of the movie be in the title song. He had written a tune called "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" as his proposed title tune (Dionne Warwick covered it - it's kinda fun) and the theme is all over his score for the movie but the producers said NO, the song had to be called "Thunderball" which made Barry roll his eyes, but they were paying so he knocked off the song that appears in the movie very quickly and made a bit of a thing out of having poor Tom Jones sing "Thunnnnnnnn-deeeeerrrrr-BAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL" at the end, just to make the point that it was ridiculous. But nobody minded but him, so happy ending. Flash forward seventeen or eighteen years to "Octopussy" when the producers had the same request and Barry said, 'HELL NO will I write a song called "Octopussy" and surely the censors will back me on this?' Turns out there were 'concerns' about whether the title song would get any radio air play with a title like "Octopussy" so Barry was allowed to not have "Octopussy" in the song lyrics. "All Time High" did rather well when it was new. Only song of this era that did better was "For Your Eyes Only" which was nominated for an Oscar, if memory serves. Bond songs are tricky. In a few movies the composers wouldn't be contributing to the title songs, which I think was unfortunate. There's something cool about hearing the title song woven into the score but maybe I think that 'cuz I'm old. Sidebar - when Elmer Bernstein was given the job of composing the score for the John Wayne version of "True Grit" he was also asked to come up with a hit title song. "Sorry, are you asking me to write a catchy pop song with the title 'True Grit'? Seriously??" He said years later that he and his lyricist spent a hysterical afternoon coming up with unprintable rhymes for "True Grit" (how many awesome, inspiring-sounding words rhyme with 'grit'?) before they got seriously down to work - the song they came up with was also Oscar nominated that year, which probably doesn't prove anything much. So yeah, lyrics are tough.
I think this is my favourite Moore bond movie tbh. Looking forward that we're getting near to Timothy Dalton, probably my favourite bond and 'license to kill' being my favourite bond flick.
Loved it, Jen! Personally, as a huge Rita Coolidge fan, I loved theme "All Time High". Look forward to the next Bond, but don't miss "Never Say Never Again." It's a fun movie!
This is definitely one of my favorites. I mean, a cult of badass women smuggler ninjas? YES! Fight scene with assassins and exotic weapons? YES! Blue ringed octopus? YES! Cool sidekick and grounded but still fun gadgets? YES! There's just so much.
The part where Bond says "Sit!" to the tiger was an ad-lib by Roger Moore live during filming it wasn't in the script and they kept it in the movie......... :)
I love these reactions, Jen! So now for your Bond theme song update. After “For Your Eyes Only” being a huge song, reaching number 4 in the US charts and number 5 in Canada, “All Time High” became the third lowest charting Bond theme song, only ahead of “Moonraker” and “The Man with the Golden Gun”, peaking at number 36 on the US charts and number 38 in Canada. Can’t wait to hear what you think of the next Bond theme!
I don't know if you recognize the actor who played General Orlov, but the year after this was released, Steven Berkoff would also be the main villain in "Beverly Hills Cop", that being the crooked gallery owner.
6:35 - General Orlov was played by Steven Berkoff. He also played criminal Victor Maitland in Beverly Hills Cop', and the Soviet officer Colonel Podovsky in Rambo: First Blood Part II.
Octopussy was foreshadowing the existence of Octomom, 25 years later. Once I knew of a real Octomom, I was much more comfortable with concept of Octopussy.
Since you like a heist and art forgeries you must watch _How to Steal a Million_ (1966). Starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole it has forgeries, a fairly complex heist, and a bit of romance as well. Louis Jourdan, who plays Kamal Khan, among his many films was in a couple of musicals you'd enjoy: _Gigi_ (1958) starring Jourdan, Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, and Hermione Gingold, with songs by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, directed by Vincent Minelli; _On a Clear Day You Can See Forever_ (1970) starring Barbra Streisand and Jourdan, with songs by Lerner and Burton Lane, directed by Vincent Minelli.
"Coolest exit ever!" AGREED. That's exactly how a sexy lady should slip away from Bond -- when he secretly WANTS her to slip away so that he can track her. When Ian Fleming wrote the original novel, the villain just happened to own an octopus which he referred to as Octopussy -- and that was it, that was all that meant. I like how the usually quick-witted Bond dares not make any comment at all when she identifies her tattoo. Karmal Khan is more or less "the" villain, but for me it's all about General Orlov. I love how he says "Czecho-slo-VAKK-ia" during his master plan for conquering Europe. Bizarre coincidence: the plot of this movie is very close to that of another movie, The Fourth Protocol, starring Michael Caine, with Pierce Brosnan as a Russian villain. You may enjoy checking that out sometime, as a kind of accidental parallel version of this adventure. And thank you for giving props to Kristina Wayborn as Magda!
Nice jumper. I wonder if you'd like some of the other films Moore did around the time of his Bond fame - The Wild Geese - an action film with Roger Moore, Richard Burton and Richard Harris? A team of hell-raising mercenaries on a mission in Africa. North Sea Hijack - where Moore is in conflict with Norman Bates, (er I mean Anthony Perkins) and prefers cats to people. The Sea Wolves - a WW2 mission film also starring Gregory Peck and David Niven.
The opening sequence on the South American airfield was filmed (mostly) on the airfield RAF Northolt, which has already appeared in Bond as the airfield gates in 'Thunderball'. It's in the middle of Western London suburbs, a bit North of London Airport at Heathrow. It's where the Queen's coffin arrived in London before her funeral. The hangar blown up was a model, and the long shots of that small jet plane were shot in the USA for the background of the mountains, but whenever you see the tiny jet at low-level and flying through the hangar, it was actually on a pole on the back of a Jaguar car, with it's roof cut off. It's sometimes visible if you slow the sequence down. The shot from Bond's POV approaching the hangar shows the whole of the town of Ruislip, North London on the left side of the frame, many semi-detached houses and all.
Yearbook editor: "So, what's your favorite movie quote?" Me: "'My name is Pussy Galore.' - Goldfinger, 1964." Yearbook editor: "Ummm.... Got something else?" Me: "Octopussy, Octopussy, Octopussy.' -Octopussy, 1983." Yearbook editor: "How about something from Terminator? That was a good movie, right?"
What a great Breakfast treat!!! Watching Thursday morning! Enjoyed this version....Bond movies were lightened up with a little bit of silliness by Moore. In the following years, people started calling for a more serious Bond movie as Moore did his last movie as Bond. Example in this movie is 007 telling the tiger to SIT!...loved it but it added a slight bit of ***roll your eyes at the Dad joke*** "Ohhh...that's my little octopussy" (male laughter as I shake my head in disbelief while giggling) Ive had the same moustache like 007's for 40 years! Some girls loved it, some hated it..
"SIT !" Training Dogs The Woodhouse Way (BBC 1980) Tarzan yodel (RKO 1932 onwards) "Are You With Our Group" " No Mam I'm With The Economy Tour!" which spoofs a long running Woolwich Building Society TV ad where (after a set-up) the punchline was always "No (Sir/Ma'am) We're With The Woolwich!"
Interesting fact: Bond doesn’t use his standard iconic Walther PPK here, but a Walther P5. Bond mentions how it’s just him misplacing his PPK, but it was an attempt by the German gun manufacturer Walther to promote the weapon, as it was currently trying to market it to German police departments.
OMG I loved Masterpiece when I was a kid. I never met anyone else who had ever heard of it! I visited the National Gallery in London as an adult and got super excited any time I saw one of the paintings from Masterpiece
Q's impatience with Bond started in GOLDFINGER when director Guy Hamilton advised Desmond Llewellyn. "You work hard on this equipment and this is the guy who keeps destroying it in the field.
The tiny little jet aircraft at the beginning is a BD 5j. Yep it was a real one person jet aircraft. It's top speed was over 350 mph.! And if you wanted one, you had to build it yourself from a kit!! The Swedish actress, Kristina Wayborn as Magda is one of my all time favorites. Not exactly a villain, I think her character was in it for the money. Anyway a world class beautiful woman. Whew!! Love your reaction / reviews. As we say here in Texas; Y'all be safe.
One of my fave Bond films. I’ve been to Udaipur city in Rajasthan, India where much of this was filmed. You can visit many of the filming sites including the mountain monsoon palace and Octopussy’s floating lair, which is a hotel now. India is an awesome country and you definitely should go there.
A View To A Kill next. The last of the Moore era. By this point, the running gag amongst the critics of the day was the stuntmen probably had more screen time than him. What really caused him to call time on playing Bond was when he saw Tanya Roberts (his last Bond girl) and realised he was old enough to be her dad.
Awesome reaction! Around the 7:15 mark: Jen: "Is he the villain?" Me to the computer screen: "You saw Beverly Hills Cop. He was Victor Maitland. Art is even involved here too. Of COURSE he's the villain!" 😀 Poor BJ. Supersadface. Yeah, the 80s were much less stranglingly uptight than this century. Amusingly, few people gave a crap cos they generally thought it was amusing and since it was a Bond movie title it just made sense that it might have an element of the risque to it. 😛 Maud Adams (gonna say actress name instead of character name, for obvious reasons) was awesome in this one along with her team of ladies. I loved them and all they could do. And super happy for Q to get in on the action and to be adored by the young ladies.
This is my first James Bond movie and Roger Moore is first James Bond 007 to me what i see in my school i was 15 year old 1994 that's why Roger Moore is my favorite James Bond 007 🙂😎👍🏻👌🏻🙏🏻
Theme song in this one starts "All I wanted was a sweet distraction for an hour or two" ... And now I have it, time to kick back with a martini. Thank you Miss Moneyjenny!
Roger's Bond is seen as being humorous. But when he throws the knife and kills the Twin. He's not joking around. When he says "& Thats for 009" You see Bond is ruthless
The part where the guy bikes in-between the sword fight was not a stunt man. He was just a guy riding his bicycle that didn't know they were filming a movie.
OMG, we had Masterpiece as well! Ooh that forgery card was a rascally one, lol. That sweater is a winner, alls you need now is a fluted champagne glass with some ginger ale for these viewings ;)
Oh Jen, your sweater is AWESOME!! As a Brit I'm VERY JEALOUS! Loved your reaction! Ths was my first Bond at the Cinema! I was 7 years old! So this film has a special place in my heart! I remember loving every second of it. I agree, it was great to see an older Bond girl. Maud Adams and Roger Moore had good chemistry!
Christopher Reeve was filming 'Superman 3' at the same time at Pinewood studios when this was made. He and Roger Moore became good friends and would visit each other on their respective sets. There's actually a picture of them together with RM in his clown outfit lol
Vijay was a great character. He did well considering he wasn't really an actor but was a well-known professional tennis player from the 1970s. His death was shocking and brutal.
Just a note on the plot comments at the end. It was a bit more than “a bomb going off and killing a bunch of kids at the circus.” The device in question was a nuclear warhead.
Loving all of this talk about art forgeries.. You NEED to watch the Orson Welles documentary "F For Fake" if you haven't seen it. Stories of one of the best forgers of all time, plus more
This one was the one where they actually copped to the fact that Bond and Moneypenny were getting older... but then, they completely reneged on that when Timothy Dalton came in and Bond went back to being in his early 40s (though still the same man Roger Moore was playing).
Another great vid, Jen. "Vijay" was played by Vijay Amritraj, an Indian tennis tour pro who reached 18th in the world -- thus, the tennis racquet in-joke. From Ottawa, with love :)
Why are you shy of the title and blanking it out? This title was never an issue when it was released. It's just an octopus plus y. Seriously. We're not living in the 1984 novel or a puritanical religious cult. Just say Octopussy and be done with it. Prudishness is unbecoming.
I would invite you to learn about the enforcement of CZcams's language policy on creators.
CZcams's language policy has increased in strictness recently. Without muting & blurring the title, my video was flagged "inappropriate" numerous times, as it is bots that scan for language & they do not consider context, nor do they enforce the rules the same way for every channel. I have had several videos restricted & removed recently. I dont make the rules. I have no problem with the word or swearing & do so in the full lengths on Patreon. I wish there was a little more understanding of the guidelines we have to follow.
FYI as well, your own comment was flagged "offensive" because you used the word & I had to manually approve it.
@@jenmurrayxo Oh man
Yeah dude, unnecessarily harsh, but the back and forth in the comments helps her channel, ironically.
apparently you can write it, but not say it.
So uncalled for
27:45 "He's alway off having sex somewhere while people are getting killed!" That line and Jen's fed up tone of voice made me laugh more than it should have.
Slap it on a T-shirt!
The only way to improve that moment is if Jen took a real swig from her champagne flute that's hidden out of frame.
Yes, that cracked me up when she said "he's always ok and having sex somewhere!"
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Vijay Amritraj (Bond's sidekick "This is a company car!") is a former professional tennis player. He also appears briefly in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home... Given this was released in 1983, those bright red costumes always reminded me of the superhero suit from The Greatest American Hero tv show that aired around that time...
He did a great job, he's probably my favorite sidekick.
Loved seeing Vijay in this. And Jen killed it once again. So much fun!
Those red suits...so stealthy.
@@Cheepchipsable Brightly colored ninjas are a proud tradition. How else do you know they’re really good at their job? :p
If you know that going in, you get the tennis racket he's whacking the henchmen with as a funny inside joke.
I've seen every Bond film several times, but watching them along with you is as fun as watching them for the first time. I don't know why I found "I will call him crunch" so funny.
Thanks John! Glad you're enjoying ☺️👍🐙
“It’s not a James Bond movie unless a woman gets slapped.”
“And still gettin’ it. Nothing stops this guy’s libido.”
Jen has the best one-liners in the business.
Jen's wardrobe is always glorious. I seriously hope you know that you really are the best reactor on CZcams.
Thanks!! ☺️👍🇬🇧🐙
@@jenmurrayxo Commander Bond would be proud of that sweater MoneyJenny
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I agree, plus she is amazing at accents 😊
Jen...you need an English announcer to announce your clothing choices to the audience.
"And...Here she comes@ She's looks Smashing!! in a simple yet elegant movie reaction outfit by Louis Vetton....yada yada yada!"
Maud Adams has the unique distinction of being the Bond Girl in two different movies. And I still can’t believe they got Louis effing Jourdon to be the villain in this.
Gobinda is a fantastic henchman.
Dracula be trying to eliminate Bond! 😄
3 movies she's in a view to a kill as an extra in San Francisco pier scene
Maud Adams distinction is being two different bond girls
@@ComeOnIsSuchAJoy Eunice Gayson played Sylvia Trench, James Bond's girlfriend, in both Dr. No and From Russia with Love.
LOVED Jen's unique Bond reactions to Octopussy and how much she enjoys herself in these videos.
It's funny to think that, at the time, everyone was complaining about Roger Moore being too old to play Bond and yet now, 40 years later, we can appreciate this older Bond.
One of the more underrated Bond flicks in my opinion. It's great globe-trotting fun, even though Roger's starting to show his age a little bit.
It would have been better without the silly name and all the women parading around. Having Q in the field and flying in on a hot air balloon combined with the Tarzan call in the jungle made it a bit too farcical.
Story was OK and Steven Berkoff is a great actor and was a bit wasted here IMHO.
Probably an anathema in Bond films as there were several villains rather than one overarching one with lackeys.
Probably not the worst, but the lower tier for me.
Maude Adams who played Octopussy was the 1st actress to appear as a Bond Girl a 2nd time. 1st was The Man With The Golden Gun.
Debatablely, it could be Ursula Andress, who was Honey in Doctor No and Vesper in the Peter Sellers Casino Royale.
The 1st to appear twice as a main character, but the actual 1st actress to appear in two different Bond movies was Eunice Gayson, who appeared as Sylvia Trench in Dr.No and From Russia With Love. After that it would be Martine Beswick, who appeared as one of the fighting Gypsy girls in From Russia With Love, then as Paula in Thunderball.
Maud Adams was only the first to appear twice as a major Bond girl. Nadja Regin and Martine Beswick both appeared in two films. Regin was Kerim Bey's mistress in From Russia with Love and Bonita in the pretitle sequence of Goldfinger. Beswick was one of the Romani girls in From Russia with Love and Paula in Thunderball.
Perhaps the only Bond film where you actually hear true desperation from the character, during the nuke sequence.
It is especially impressive how tense the scene is considering he is dressed like a clown.
"He's always off having sex somewhere while some's getting killed." Jen's best line.
Another nice though about these last few Moore films is, like Jen picked up on, Roger Moore asked for fewer Bond girls per film and for them to get older, due to his self awareness that it looked ridiculous, and more than a little creepy, for a man his age to be chasing women in their early 20s. By all accounts of everyone who knew him, Moore was a real class act and a real gentleman in the literal sense of being a very gentle man despite his action hero roles.
Let me just say your English accent has been pretty good throughout the entire bond series. Brings a smile to my face whenever you attempt it. This Englishman endorses it 👍
Thank you!! ☺️👍🇬🇧
This is the first Bond movie that I saw. It's a lot of fun, and "All Time High" is my favorite theme song of the series.
So much fun! ☺️👍🐙
Minus the “jungle hunt” sequence, Octopussy is one of my favorite 007 adventures! Maud Adams played the title role and was the unique Bond girl to appear in two different roles in the series. She was Andrea, the ill fated Scaramanga’s mistress in The Man With The Golden Gun (1974).
The 1st to appear twice as a main character, but the actual 1st actress to appear in two different Bond movies was Eunice Gayson, who appeared as Sylvia Trench in Dr.No and From Russia With Love. After that it would be Martine Beswick, who appeared as one of the fighting Gypsy girls in From Russia With Love, then as Paula in Thunderball.
@@craigcolandro2781 Yes, I mean in two main characters. Sylvia Trench is the same role in two different movies. And Miss Beswick, as the gypsy girl in FRWL, is not exactly a character as the one she played in Thunderball.
By the way, legend says that Maud Adams appeared as one of the tourists visiting The Fisherman’s Wharf, in A View to a Kill.
@@Mr17051963 Yes, I think it is true about her cameo in View To A Kill, but I have not been able to spot her. I haven't looked super closely though, although other Bond fans have tried and tried with no luck.
@@craigcolandro2781 I tried, too!!!! Lol 😆
Aside from those already pointed out, one of the female guards that grabbed the luggage also helped open A View to a Kill, on the ice berg boat and dancing in the opening credits. Early on Albert didn't want to reuse anyone killed in a film and for most of Sean's they held to it. Later they would reuse extras and a few key actors that filled a role perfectly, Maud having two lead roles was indeed rare. W. Gobel was another major exception. First as a Spector trainer in Russia with Love then later as M's Russian counterpart.
Glad you are continuing the Bond marathon, I grew up on Pierce Brosnan myself being a young kid when he debuted in 1995 with Goldeneye one of my favorite Bond films of all time. My first two Bond films I watched when I was 9 years old in 95 were The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker when my cousin Jeff introduced me to Bond series. He got me hooked and started watching and collecting the series on vhs as a kid and now have all of Bond movies on dvd or blu ray. I am 36 years old now. I am a fan of each of Bond actors in their own right. I am enjoying your reactions to the films.
The "SIT!" line with the tiger was a gag related to Barbara Woodhouse, who was very famous in the UK at the time. She was a dog trainer and had a very commanding voice - that was her catchphrase!
Louis Jourdan is such a debonair actor! Personally one of my favorites in the Roger Moore era. Incredible locations and action sequences!
The sidekick you liked, Vijay, was played by Vijay Amritraj, one of the most famous tennis players in the world of the 70s and 80s (certainly a huge star in India and very popular in the UK). It was cool he was simply called Vijay (his real name). He was a quality tennis player (ranked number 18 in the world in 1980). 2 years before Octopussy was released, Vijay made the Quarter finals at Wimbledon. He didn't retire from tennis until 1993.
And also a cameo in a Star Trek movie
Hi Jen ! I can't emphasize enough how much I love your James Bond reviews. You are the only Reactor to review the entire series of James Bond francise and I'm just so thankful for having you doing this. Other reactors really ought to step up and follow your example on this. Thank you so much for promoting the greatest secret agent of all.
Shan Watches Movies also reviewed the entire franchise. He did a good job with it.
You are a perfect reactor for the James Bond franchise. You recognize everything that makes James Bond popular, and I love how you have observed the subtle changes to Bond over time, and all the things that have remained a constant. Keep up the great work! I'm really enjoying these and your other movie reactions as well!
Thanks! ☺️👍
Goldeneye is easily the best Pierce Bond movie, and actually my fav of the entire series! Can't wait to see your reaction to it in the future Jen!
Kristina Wayborn's balcony exit is the best part of this movie.
Sorry if someone else has mentioned but Octopussy and Property of a Lady are the genuine titles of two Bond short stories written by Ian Fleming, Also Vijay Amritraj (the sidekick) was a professional tennis player hence the tennis gags. In the UK Barbara Woodhouse was a well known elderly eccentric animal trainer with her catchphrase “Sit!”. So we got the scene with the tiger.
Yes, it was the title of an IF story, but even when the film was released one imagined a woman with 8...cats.
I wonder what it's connotations were in Fleming's day.
Roger Moore and James Cameron received honorary doctorates at my university graduation.
The ceremony was at a building off Bond St, which Moore made an appropriate quip about during his acceptance speech.
Ah, Maud Adams. I met her once in later years. A very classy lady indeed, she wrote me a little note. I like these bond reactions!
There have actually been three versions of "Casino Royale." The first was a 1954 adaptation of the 1953 Ian Fleming novel, made for TV as an episode of the show "Climax." It starred American actor Barry Nelson as the very first live action James Bond. The second was a 1967 comedy spoof, with several different actors playing James Bond. (You have to see it to understand.) And the third was the 2006 Daniel Craig film.
16:46 When even JAMES BOND reacts to your inuendo wordplay like "What?"
The evil General Olov was played by Steven Berkoff who played villains in Beverly Hills Cop in 1984 when starred Eddie Murphy and was the Russian villain Lt Colonel Podovsky in Rambo First Blood Part 2 in 1985.
Such a delight to watch Jen geek out during Bond movies 😅
There were so many low-key MVPs this video: the villain walk, the croc boat, the masterpiece game... but I've got to give it to double-oh's best sidekick: GIGGLES! GIGGLES, YOU ARE MY LOW-KEY MVP!!!
Just regarding the character of Penelope Smallbone: at this point, Lois Maxwell (the actress playing Moneypenny) was visibly aging to the point that makeup couldn't hide it anymore, so they brought in a new character intended to be her replacement. Moneypenny would retire in-universe, and Penelope would be Bond's new target of flirtation... but in the end nobody really cared about Penelope, everyone still liked Moneypenny, so they kept her around for one more movie before doing a recast of her AND Bond for the first Dalton film, 'The Living Daylights' (which acted as a semi-reboot to the franchise).
I always love the fact Q kits bond out with the exact gadgets he needs to use during every mission.
Someone else who knows better please chime in, 'cuz the memory's going.
John Barry had a bit of a dispute with the Bond producers back in '65 on "Thunderball" when they insisted that the name of the movie be in the title song. He had written a tune called "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" as his proposed title tune (Dionne Warwick covered it - it's kinda fun) and the theme is all over his score for the movie but the producers said NO, the song had to be called "Thunderball" which made Barry roll his eyes, but they were paying so he knocked off the song that appears in the movie very quickly and made a bit of a thing out of having poor Tom Jones sing "Thunnnnnnnn-deeeeerrrrr-BAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL" at the end, just to make the point that it was ridiculous. But nobody minded but him, so happy ending.
Flash forward seventeen or eighteen years to "Octopussy" when the producers had the same request and Barry said, 'HELL NO will I write a song called "Octopussy" and surely the censors will back me on this?' Turns out there were 'concerns' about whether the title song would get any radio air play with a title like "Octopussy" so Barry was allowed to not have "Octopussy" in the song lyrics. "All Time High" did rather well when it was new. Only song of this era that did better was "For Your Eyes Only" which was nominated for an Oscar, if memory serves.
Bond songs are tricky. In a few movies the composers wouldn't be contributing to the title songs, which I think was unfortunate. There's something cool about hearing the title song woven into the score but maybe I think that 'cuz I'm old.
Sidebar - when Elmer Bernstein was given the job of composing the score for the John Wayne version of "True Grit" he was also asked to come up with a hit title song. "Sorry, are you asking me to write a catchy pop song with the title 'True Grit'? Seriously??" He said years later that he and his lyricist spent a hysterical afternoon coming up with unprintable rhymes for "True Grit" (how many awesome, inspiring-sounding words rhyme with 'grit'?) before they got seriously down to work - the song they came up with was also Oscar nominated that year, which probably doesn't prove anything much. So yeah, lyrics are tough.
I think this is my favourite Moore bond movie tbh. Looking forward that we're getting near to Timothy Dalton, probably my favourite bond and 'license to kill' being my favourite bond flick.
Loved it, Jen! Personally, as a huge Rita Coolidge fan, I loved theme "All Time High". Look forward to the next Bond, but don't miss "Never Say Never Again." It's a fun movie!
This is definitely one of my favorites. I mean, a cult of badass women smuggler ninjas? YES! Fight scene with assassins and exotic weapons? YES! Blue ringed octopus? YES! Cool sidekick and grounded but still fun gadgets? YES! There's just so much.
So much fun!! ☺️👍🐙
There’s not a reaction series I look forward to more than Jen watching Bond films!
Thanks Steve! Love Bond!! ☺️👍🇬🇧
The part where Bond says "Sit!" to the tiger was an ad-lib by Roger Moore live during filming it wasn't in the script and they kept it in the movie......... :)
It was actually based on a dog training show that was popular at the time lol czcams.com/video/7IM_5OxlP2Q/video.htmlsi=lET93nCew70Js2Zd&t=13
It's actually a reference to a famous UK personality and dog trainer, Barbara Woodhouse, who used to say it in that same way, as well as "Walkies!"
I love these reactions, Jen! So now for your Bond theme song update. After “For Your Eyes Only” being a huge song, reaching number 4 in the US charts and number 5 in Canada, “All Time High” became the third lowest charting Bond theme song, only ahead of “Moonraker” and “The Man with the Golden Gun”, peaking at number 36 on the US charts and number 38 in Canada. Can’t wait to hear what you think of the next Bond theme!
Looking forward to it!! ☺️👍
I think you wouldn't be so much a villain as a lovable rouge who plays by your own rules and scoffs at authority but has a heart of gold.
"Are we just gonna knife this clown now?" - Jen
They all float down here, Jeeeeennn!
I don't know if you recognize the actor who played General Orlov, but the year after this was released, Steven Berkoff would also be the main villain in "Beverly Hills Cop", that being the crooked gallery owner.
These days, you'd never get away with casting a Frenchman to play an Indian, but Louis Jourdan definitely made it a memorable role.
James Bond and Jen Murray go together like peanut butter and chocolate.
8:56 Man I LOVE that game!! I had it growing up and we played it here and there. I learned a lot about art from it.
The guy who played Vijay was very new to acting at the time. He gained notoriety first internationally as a highly rated pro tennis player of the era.
Bond, in a gorilla suit, checking his wrist watch. i forgot how hilarious that was.JennyPenny , you rock !
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I love how you've totally embraced the silliness of Bond. It's so wonderfully over the top.
The title was the best thing about this bond venture.
I'm impressed with how well you follow the action and anticipate what will happen.
I had the plane and the horse float as toys when I was a kid! I saw the horsefloat in this video and memories from 1983 came flooding back lol
The Bond villain here Lou Jourdan played Dracula in a 1977 BBC adaption.
6:35 - General Orlov was played by Steven Berkoff. He also played criminal Victor Maitland in Beverly Hills Cop', and the Soviet officer Colonel Podovsky in Rambo: First Blood Part II.
Octopussy was foreshadowing the existence of Octomom, 25 years later. Once I knew of a real Octomom, I was much more comfortable with concept of Octopussy.
Jen " It's A Fake horse's **#% 😂😂 Well, We All know some REAL Ones! I Loveing this more animated Jen.😍
Since you like a heist and art forgeries you must watch _How to Steal a Million_ (1966). Starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole it has forgeries, a fairly complex heist, and a bit of romance as well.
Louis Jourdan, who plays Kamal Khan, among his many films was in a couple of musicals you'd enjoy: _Gigi_ (1958) starring Jourdan, Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, and Hermione Gingold, with songs by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, directed by Vincent Minelli; _On a Clear Day You Can See Forever_ (1970) starring Barbra Streisand and Jourdan, with songs by Lerner and Burton Lane, directed by Vincent Minelli.
"Coolest exit ever!" AGREED. That's exactly how a sexy lady should slip away from Bond -- when he secretly WANTS her to slip away so that he can track her. When Ian Fleming wrote the original novel, the villain just happened to own an octopus which he referred to as Octopussy -- and that was it, that was all that meant. I like how the usually quick-witted Bond dares not make any comment at all when she identifies her tattoo. Karmal Khan is more or less "the" villain, but for me it's all about General Orlov. I love how he says "Czecho-slo-VAKK-ia" during his master plan for conquering Europe. Bizarre coincidence: the plot of this movie is very close to that of another movie, The Fourth Protocol, starring Michael Caine, with Pierce Brosnan as a Russian villain. You may enjoy checking that out sometime, as a kind of accidental parallel version of this adventure. And thank you for giving props to Kristina Wayborn as Magda!
Nice jumper. I wonder if you'd like some of the other films Moore did around the time of his Bond fame - The Wild Geese - an action film with Roger Moore, Richard Burton and Richard Harris? A team of hell-raising mercenaries on a mission in Africa. North Sea Hijack - where Moore is in conflict with Norman Bates, (er I mean Anthony Perkins) and prefers cats to people. The Sea Wolves - a WW2 mission film also starring Gregory Peck and David Niven.
The opening sequence on the South American airfield was filmed (mostly) on the airfield RAF Northolt, which has already appeared in Bond as the airfield gates in 'Thunderball'.
It's in the middle of Western London suburbs, a bit North of London Airport at Heathrow. It's where the Queen's coffin arrived in London before her funeral.
The hangar blown up was a model, and the long shots of that small jet plane were shot in the USA for the background of the mountains, but whenever you see the tiny jet at low-level and flying through the hangar, it was actually on a pole on the back of a Jaguar car, with it's roof cut off. It's sometimes visible if you slow the sequence down.
The shot from Bond's POV approaching the hangar shows the whole of the town of Ruislip, North London on the left side of the frame, many semi-detached houses and all.
“Never team up wit James. You’ll get killed!”
I’m sure that’s in the contract they signed. Chance of death.
We had Masterpiece when I was a kid as well. Learned to appreciate some cool art... and I played with the money more than the game itself.
I remember watching this as a child not even realising that the title was ... "weird" ;)
Jen's all ready for the mustache rides in less than a minute in. 🤣
I remember when this movie won a radio station poll for the "Most Danceable James Bond Theme."
"Moustache from behind"
That's a word combo I never expected to hear
I enjoyed your reaction far, far more than I ever enjoyed this movie. You get so animated and talkative, I love it!
Add me to that list. The final two Moore Bonds are very low on my list, but Jen’s reaction is just pure fun. 😂
Yearbook editor: "So, what's your favorite movie quote?"
Me: "'My name is Pussy Galore.' - Goldfinger, 1964."
Yearbook editor: "Ummm.... Got something else?"
Me: "Octopussy, Octopussy, Octopussy.' -Octopussy, 1983."
Yearbook editor: "How about something from Terminator? That was a good movie, right?"
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The neon radar transceiver is my favorite movie prop ever
What a great Breakfast treat!!! Watching Thursday morning!
Enjoyed this version....Bond movies were lightened up with a little bit of silliness by Moore. In the following years, people started calling for a more serious Bond movie as Moore did his last movie as Bond.
Example in this movie is 007 telling the tiger to SIT!...loved it but it added a slight bit of ***roll your eyes at the Dad joke***
"Ohhh...that's my little octopussy" (male laughter as I shake my head in disbelief while giggling)
Ive had the same moustache like 007's for 40 years! Some girls loved it, some hated it..
"SIT !" Training Dogs The Woodhouse Way (BBC 1980)
Tarzan yodel (RKO 1932 onwards)
"Are You With Our Group" " No Mam I'm With The Economy Tour!" which spoofs a long running Woolwich Building Society TV ad where (after a set-up) the punchline was always
"No (Sir/Ma'am) We're With The Woolwich!"
Interesting fact:
Bond doesn’t use his standard iconic Walther PPK here, but a Walther P5. Bond mentions how it’s just him misplacing his PPK, but it was an attempt by the German gun manufacturer Walther to promote the weapon, as it was currently trying to market it to German police departments.
This is my favorite, James bond, James bond movie, and theme song. Saw it as a kid when it came out . Golden eye would be my close 2nd.
OMG I loved Masterpiece when I was a kid. I never met anyone else who had ever heard of it!
I visited the National Gallery in London as an adult and got super excited any time I saw one of the paintings from Masterpiece
Q's impatience with Bond started in GOLDFINGER when director Guy Hamilton advised Desmond Llewellyn. "You work hard on this equipment and this is the guy who keeps destroying it in the field.
The tiny little jet aircraft at the beginning is a BD 5j. Yep it was a real one person jet aircraft. It's top speed was over 350 mph.! And if you wanted one, you had to build it yourself from a kit!!
The Swedish actress, Kristina Wayborn as Magda is one of my all time favorites. Not exactly a villain, I think her character was in it for the money. Anyway a world class beautiful woman. Whew!!
Love your reaction / reviews.
As we say here in Texas; Y'all be safe.
All of the paintings in Masterpiece are on display at the Art Institute of Chicago.
SO GOOD. One of the best soundtracks of any of the Bonds, IMO. It has so much feeling. Maud Adams too.. SO GOOD
One of my fave Bond films. I’ve been to Udaipur city in Rajasthan, India where much of this was filmed. You can visit many of the filming sites including the mountain monsoon palace and Octopussy’s floating lair, which is a hotel now. India is an awesome country and you definitely should go there.
I grew in the pierce brosnon era too...he was my bond as a kid growing up in the 90s and early 00s.
A View To A Kill next. The last of the Moore era. By this point, the running gag amongst the critics of the day was the stuntmen probably had more screen time than him. What really caused him to call time on playing Bond was when he saw Tanya Roberts (his last Bond girl) and realised he was old enough to be her dad.
Awesome reaction!
Around the 7:15 mark:
Jen: "Is he the villain?"
Me to the computer screen: "You saw Beverly Hills Cop. He was Victor Maitland. Art is even involved here too. Of COURSE he's the villain!" 😀
Poor BJ. Supersadface.
Yeah, the 80s were much less stranglingly uptight than this century. Amusingly, few people gave a crap cos they generally thought it was amusing and since it was a Bond movie title it just made sense that it might have an element of the risque to it. 😛
Maud Adams (gonna say actress name instead of character name, for obvious reasons) was awesome in this one along with her team of ladies. I loved them and all they could do.
And super happy for Q to get in on the action and to be adored by the young ladies.
This is my first James Bond movie and Roger Moore is first James Bond 007 to me what i see in my school i was 15 year old 1994
that's why Roger Moore is my favorite James Bond 007 🙂😎👍🏻👌🏻🙏🏻
12:30 - "Is that a Faberge Egg in your trousers or are you pleased to see me?"
Stunt pilot from Houma Louisiana flew the tiny jet. (Fun Fact)
Theme song in this one starts "All I wanted was a sweet distraction for an hour or two" ... And now I have it, time to kick back with a martini. Thank you Miss Moneyjenny!
Jen! Bond had you going, with the croc disguise. As I recall, you saw the floating croc, said, "Frig," then the mouth opened. He gotcha! :)
Roger's Bond is seen as being humorous. But when he throws the knife and kills the Twin. He's not joking around. When he says "& Thats for 009" You see Bond is ruthless
The part where the guy bikes in-between the sword fight was not a stunt man. He was just a guy riding his bicycle that didn't know they were filming a movie.
That guy was a world class professional tennis player. Vijay.
The James Bond short story "The Property of a Lady" takes place at an auction for a piece of jewelry but not a egg by Fabergé.
I _love_ the way he says "Czechoslovakia", for some reason
OMG, we had Masterpiece as well! Ooh that forgery card was a rascally one, lol.
That sweater is a winner, alls you need now is a fluted champagne glass with some ginger ale for these viewings ;)
Oh Jen, your sweater is AWESOME!! As a Brit I'm VERY JEALOUS! Loved your reaction! Ths was my first Bond at the Cinema! I was 7 years old! So this film has a special place in my heart! I remember loving every second of it. I agree, it was great to see an older Bond girl. Maud Adams and Roger Moore had good chemistry!
Christopher Reeve was filming 'Superman 3' at the same time at Pinewood studios when this was made. He and Roger Moore became good friends and would visit each other on their respective sets. There's actually a picture of them together with RM in his clown outfit lol
Vijay was a great character. He did well considering he wasn't really an actor but was a well-known professional tennis player from the 1970s. His death was shocking and brutal.
I knew you would enjoy the Bond Girl's sari escape from the window lol It was very cool indeed!
Just a note on the plot comments at the end. It was a bit more than “a bomb going off and killing a bunch of kids at the circus.” The device in question was a nuclear warhead.
Loving all of this talk about art forgeries.. You NEED to watch the Orson Welles documentary "F For Fake" if you haven't seen it. Stories of one of the best forgers of all time, plus more
Jen naming the henchman: I shall call him "Crunch!" 😂
Any takers for Captain Crunch? 😉
This one was the one where they actually copped to the fact that Bond and Moneypenny were getting older... but then, they completely reneged on that when Timothy Dalton came in and Bond went back to being in his early 40s (though still the same man Roger Moore was playing).
Another great vid, Jen. "Vijay" was played by Vijay Amritraj, an Indian tennis tour pro who reached 18th in the world -- thus, the tennis racquet in-joke. From Ottawa, with love :)