For me it's the swordfight that is the only watchable bit.
Starts with some pretty bad puns though with Madonna and Graves's "Diamonds are for everyone"
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He's (The actor, Toby Stephens) also Maggie Smith's son, and played Bond in several radio plays (Including "Goldfinger" with Rosamund Pike as Pussy Galore).
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One of the things that sets GOLDENEYE apart from the three others apart from the music, general tone etc. is Brosnan's hair is very different, longer, sort of more REMINGTON STEELE style.
It's funny seeing the first publicity photo of Craig as Bond, which wound up looking completely different from Craig's look in the films.
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The only redeemable piece of Die Another Day is Rosamund Pike. Everything else is terrible, maybe the worst Bond ever (bottom 5 for sure). Pike is gorgeous, and her villain is at least fun. But the rest of the film is a complete debacle on every level.
Not only that, but Bond being Blofeld's foster-brother, thus tying everything between Spectre and Bond closer together, makes it even worse. I get they were trying to go for some added gravitas, but it just made the entire series all the more ridiculous. It ruined a couple of the Bond films for me, and I prefer just watching Casino Royale & Skyfall, thus ignoring all that added mess.
I've only seen the film once, so what was Safin's motive past killing all of Spectre? Which he achieved at about the halfway point anyway.
After that, it all seems pretty nebulous. The world order needed to be changed? In what way? But then what about the intentions of "the buyers."? How do they line up? Then the notion of killing all Europe? Again why?
Yeah, unfortunately they don't really go into that at all. Seems to be a sort of twisted Thanos-style reasoning "Make the world a better place" but it's not really elaborated on.
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A couple of observations/opinions.
Were Craig and Seydoux this good in Spectre? Were they let down by the script or something? I really really liked the couple. Which is strange. I remember that I didn't like the two at all. It was another one of those obligatory love stories in action movies which are boring and act as dead weight bogging down the movie.
But here right from the first scene both had cracking chemistry and their story was very well done. You can believe that both of them were in love. I didn't get even a half of that in Spectre. Did I skip a movie or something? They were great.
Second, what's up with Blofeld? He had a miniscule role, but it felt like he had a glow up. He was uninteresting in Spectre, which is uncharacteristic of Christopher Waltz. But here I liked the character. And wished there were better movies with Craig and Waltz.
Third, what's up with Safin. When we was shot by Madeline, I thought he had some special ability or something. In trailers he said your skills die with the body, but I live on. Or something like that. But in the end he's shot by Bond and dies. What's up?
Finally, I don't know what to think about it. It was quite good. Even brilliant in places. But somehow it lacked that special something which Casino Royale and Skyfall had. That ending is both my favorite and the least favorite part of the movie. Somehow a Bond movie got me teared up. The closest that ever happened was in OHMSS. But Bond dies? I don't know what to think about that.
If someone says Bond didn't feel like Bond, he would have a solid point. Bond falls in love. I think that happened only twice before. OHMSS and Casino Royale.
It's strange seeing him depressed enough to let be shot dead within the car, due to Madeline's 'treachery'. The ending kinda fits that opening scene.
At the same time, it gave some really good moments like introducing his 'family' to Nomi. As if he's processing that fact. Giving him a daughter was sweet. At the same time so unlike Bond that I don't know how to process it.
I like my unusual Bond films. OHMSS is one of my favorites. So is Licence to Kill. For Your Eyes Only is my favourite Moore movie. Not The Spy Who Loved Me.
For the next film I wish they bring back some of the cast. I liked Ralph Fiennes a lot too. Again unlike Spectre he was very good here.
There seems to be a growing amount of articles comparing NTTD to the You Only Live Twice novel.
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I think the problem with Bond and Madeleine in Spectre was that it was very rushed. He meets her at the clinic about halfway through the movie, then saves her a short time later. At that point she doesn't like him, and only works with him because she has to. Then they get drunk and spend a night in a hotel and DON'T have sex, then they take a train ride, then Bloefeld, then everything at the old MI6 building. It's like they fell in love over the course of a few hours, and it was a big enough love that Bond quit MI6.
In NTTD, you can say that they've probably spent weeks together at this point when the movie opens, so it feels more natural.
I loved the scene with Blofeld, and I think it came down to his bantering with Bond. Craig played it almost playfully (up to the point where he tried to kill Blofeld), and it made the scene a lot more lively than any we've seen Craig play.