No Time To Die: How Daniel Craig's Bond Changed Everything
2021 ж. 14 Қаз.
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No Time To Die is the end of Daniel Craig's time as James Bond. In this video, I try to go over how Craig reshaped 007, and used elements from previous Bonds like Sean Connery and George Lazenby to create a new take on the character, starting in Casino Royale.
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My favourite Bonds are David Tennant and Tom Baker
Hard to say. Connery just embodies the character so well. Timothy Dalton was pretty good, he was more gritty than any the others and George Lazenby was the most physically accurate looking. Craig is up there with Connery, but I’d have to say that Connery takes the cake. However, non of Connerys movies are my favorite.
As someone who grew up on the old movies, I didn't like Craig's Bond at first, but eventually his style grew on me. Why? Because every era of Bond is a product of its time. The jokey and campy versions we got back then reflected the way people thought of spies and conspiracies, we had 60s classy optimism, 70s relaxed silliness, then the absurd sci-fi ideas of the cold war, now we have the grit and darkness of a post-9/11 world. We realised that espionage isn't classy or fun, it destroys people. There's no evil mastermind who wants to fry the world from space, just greedy criminals in suits. That's the world we live in and this is the kind of Bond who would exist in it.
Very well said
Agreed whole heartedly. Bond and his villans always represent the attitudes and fears of their respective eras which is why I think Bond has been around so long. The character morphs to suit the needs of each generation and will always be able to remain relevant assuming that the creative team at the helm have a strong vision and can execute it. "There's no evil mastermind who wants to fry the world from space, just greedy criminals in suits." Again, agreed whole heartedly. Dominic Green is often maligned for a lack of panache when compared to Le chiffre and Raoul Silva but that's what always made him stand out to me. He isnt a shady terrorist, he doesnt have a gimmick, he is a business man with questionable morals. He doesnt want to hold the world to ransom or bring about some ideological change, but instead wants control and monopolise basic resources. He is basically Nestle personified.
But people do not go to a Bond film to see the real world reflected back at them. They want escapism. What you call jokey and campy films are in fact very enjoyable adventure spy movies. The Craig movies have taken Bond in the wrong direction in my view. Kingsman The Secret Service feels more like a real Bond film than any of Craig's movies. The fact that No Time To Die flopped proves that audiences do not want serious Bond movies. They want entertainment. If I want Jason Bourne, I will watch Jason Bourne. I want Bond to be Bond!
@@ysthafellgynghori8423 I agree. Too many times with these postmodern progressive and nihilistic style remakes on established OPs I see people say “well this is a realistic take on the character for today’s audience” as if people have always gone to fiction films and stories to see realism. I didn’t hate this movie, but I do hate the contrived group narratives and reactions that today’s audience comes up with when they try to make sense of things that didn’t work well within the plot of the movie.
“Greedy Criminals in suits” is spot on. Well said mate. I just watched all 5 Craig Bond movies. Love them. And now back to the Pierce Brosnan collection. Love them as well
Daniel Craig’s Bond had a story arc, we met him when he literally became 007 and we see him through murderous rampages and we know each kill takes a piece of his soul. This Bond is haunted and feels the weight of the world on his shoulders. All of his dreams were about to come true, and they were once again out of reach, he chose to save the world. It was a truly heartbreaking moment but that’s what it makes this movie special, no Bond has ever died before. No Time to Die makes it clear that this Bond is human who aches, ages and dies, I was shocked and I’m still in shock about it. Craig’s Bond has a story arc and that’s what will make his movies even more special as years and decades go by.
Yep, it's a shame that the only other Bond with any sort of meaningful character arc, George Lazenby, never got a second film and the follow-up reset back to a more cartoonish version of the Connery Bond.
Got incredibly choked up towards the final moments of the film. Craig's Bond dying for the ones he loves just felt like the perfect thematic ending for a character who hasn't been able to trust and is burned the majority of the time he's let himself love. Craig evolved the character and gave him a real sense of emotional depth that previous actors hadn't. It was what Bond needed and I hope it continues to evolve as time goes on.
Totally agree. In this movie he *actually* expressed his feelings towards Madeleine and I love the real depth that was brought to his character. The ending was gut wrenching and very believable.
It's a fine line. On one hand we love the 007 that we can turn on during the holidays at any point and any chapter in the series to watch for a bit of fun. On the other On Her Majesty's Secret Service hinted at a Bond with heart and more depth that stopped for quite a while with Lazenby's brief stint. No Time to Die pulled a nearly perfect rabbit out of the hat to give us both. While it's not the best one out of the series, NTTD did what few other Bonds have done so far.
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I also dug Daniel Craig channeling Richard Burton for five movies 😀
Way to spoil. It wasn’t accidental at all.
Fun fact: No Time To Die (2021) is the 1st James Bond movie to feature four different makes and models of Aston Martin vehicles. The cars are the classic silver-birch gun metal grey Aston Martin DB5, the classic Aston Martin V8, the Aston Martin DBS Superleggera and the new forthcoming mid-engined hypercar the Aston Martin Valhalla.
And I think we can all agree that they were so sexy to see - especially how well they were shot. To me at least.
Love the Astons, but personally that level of product placement is too much. Just the DB5 (although personally I think this is overused) or the V8 would have been enough imo.
@@mercury6765 True. I think with the DBS if still made sense to me. But to have the Valhalla in behind is a bit unecessary
Another Fun Fact: The Valhalla is just for display, bond isnt even in the same frame.
My review for No Time To Die, Just one word to say "Perfect". That's what I experienced. And what an end. Always stick emotionally to the heart.
Of all the James Bond actors, I’d have to say that Daniel Craig is my favorite 007, just his performance is truly unique as you’ve mentioned.
Just planting this reply before your comment inevitably blows up
Exactly ! Daniel is the best because he has more gravitas than other actors ! He was human, cold but also brutal and charming ! his Bond had more character than others !
@@glendarjj3991 neat
His Bond is my favorite one too.
Here before your comment blows up lol
Timothy Dalton is ridiculously underrated as Bond! He gave us a gritty, realistic Bond that was gloriously ripped straight from Ian Flemming’s novels.
Very well said.
@@duhduh666 I didn't like his Bond but he was way better than Craig's
No. He's not underrated. Absurd comment
@@strikerbowls791 Dalton is underrated
@@pr-tj5by So you don't like Ian Fleming's vision of the character?
SPOILER ALERT The ending was so sad, especially when he knew he’d never be able to touch his family again. And even through that blow he still focused on saving everyone. He was inches away from his happy ending.
It truly was no time for Bond to die. It was harsh. But I respect that story choice and I do like how it played out here.
And also that whoever he'll touch will become a threat to his family
He could have if they just used another emp to disable the nanobots as they did easier in the movie. This is just another example of wokeism as they kill off the male icon of the 20th century.
@@prodigy1605 umm Idk what movie you watched but that didn’t freaking happen. The nanobots are in your system for life, as Q said, and cannot be disabled. Even if he used an emp, they’d just re-activate. Y’all have diluted the word woke to the point it has no meaning anymore, and y’all have turned into such snowflakes. Nothing in this movie screamed political preaching.
@@MrRapmaster19 He just watched the trailers and some other reviews to get his “points”
Craig seemed to humanize bond. He was a skilled agent and killer, but he always felt like a real person. Im soooo glad he was allowed to flex some of this acting abilities in this last movie
My late father introduced me to James Bond when I was a kid. My dad was such a fan that he watched most of the James Bond films from Connery to Brosnan; I remember the time I watched "From Russia with Love" and "The Man With The Golden Gun" on home video. Then, when he heard about Daniel Craig being the new Bond actor back then, he was skeptical because he said "He looked liked a bad guy". But when I decided to rewatch "Casino Royale" alongside him, he finally appreciated Craig and his performance; that parkour chase and the torture scene got him hooked yet Vesper's death moved him, commented that it reminded him of George Lazenby. Then we also watched "Quantum of Solace". Then he also watched "Skyfall", which he also loved. My late father passed away in 2016 due to a disease. And it was sad because he never had the chance to watch "Spectre" (which I watched in the theater) and "No Time to Die". He grew fond of Craig over the years and I'm sure he's gonna appreciate Craig's final Bond film if he's still alive.
I think Rami did great as the villain. Dude comes off as a maladjusted freak because his character is a maladjusted freak lol the movie even touched on the idea of childhood trauma. Plus, since Spectre, the bond movies began to embrace more and more of the silliness/campiness of the previous bond movies and I think Rami’s portrayal is attributed to that. Crazy wild villain story on a secret island that’s actually a poison farm and he has an evil plan which endangers the entire globe. Also, most drippy Bond villain.
I just wish he had more to do in the movie. I think he had the potential to have the presence Silva had in skyfall but never quite got there
"most drippy bond villain" had me dying thank you for writing that lmao
Since spectre? So just 2 movies? What an arc of trend for observation.
@@kfj6709 I was thinking the same thing lol. Spectre is literally the last film before this one
To me Rami's villain just felt a bit 'Baby Blofeld'. Like they originally wanted Blofeld to be the main villain but then felt like they just had to have Rami Malek on board. It doesn't help that Blofeld in just a few scenes felt so much more intimidating than Safin. A lazy checklist of Bond villains. If this was always destined to be the end of this James Bond then the main villain really should just have been Blofeld.
It’s James Bond, they’re never gonna stop making them.
yeah continuity does not apply to James bond franchise. they just keep on resetting it after they are done with the stories.
@@jmgonzales7701 And they will most likely never be done with the stories, being as this series has been going strong since the early 60's. I really do feel like this is one of the few franchises that will never truly die, and will probably outlive all of us honestly.
@@michaelvessel4604 all good things must come to an end. Will it outlive us? yes I believe so but like everything else it will end just like James bond it will end but not soon it will go on for now.
The next installment is going to bring back the campiness
I want Henry Cavill or Idris Elba as the next Bond. Race doesn't matter to me. Having a black woman play 007 felt totally natural.
I knew you were going to talk about the car scene. I thought that scene was so powerful that I actually started crying all the way to title screen.
Craigs movie are some of the most interesting block busters ever. The fact that bonds masculinity was challenged in so many perfectly subtle and nuanced ways.
My review for No Time To Die, Just one word to say "Perfect". That's what I experienced. And what an end. Always stick emotionally to the heart.
The main problem with Craig's Bond, is that for the most part, his Bond happens off screen between films. He's just become a 00 in Casino, and Quantum takes place immediately after that. In Skyfall, everybody treats Bond like he's over the hill already and yet we the audience aren't given a clue as to how much time has transpired between Quantum and Skyfall, but the end of Skyfall promises a return to status quo, or at least a proper Bond mission next time around. Then we got the mess that was Spectre, and only in No Time To Die with a retired Bond does Bond ever really feel like James Bond as he does during the Brazil scene. It's a very uneven character arc.
A small thing I really enjoyed about Craig’s Bond that this film subtly hit harder on is his eyes. I remember as a kid so many people freaking out over blonde Bond and his blue eyes. Craig’s films always included a few shots where his eyes are the main focus, like in Skyfall when he walks down a dark hallway and stops where the light only illuminated his eyes. And then this movie bringing in his daughter and focusing on her having his eyes.
I actually really loved the movie. I was properly invested in it, and I loved the characters. I’m not quite sure how I feel about Malek’s villain, but otherwise it was great for me. The ending absolutely crushed me, which imo shows the attachment I had to the Craig version of Bond
At some point we should have a conversation about Timothy Dalton's James Bond. That guy was magnificent with his films.
Even though it was great, Casino Royale is still my absolute favorite James Bond movie
Casino royale and skyfall are masterpieces
That one and No Time to Die are my faves
That's a fact ! Nothing will beat Casino Royale ! Casino Royale ♤ is by far the best Bond movie of all time
Casino Royale was Overrated imo
@@glendarjj3991 Skyfall is overrated through the years, only Casino Royale ages well
I've always liked Dalton's bond, but I never realised why, but it's like you say, there's a quiet rage deep down inside him that even his own movies are trying to smother.
I have to say, this is an absolutely fantastic analysis. The way you tied Lazenby, Dalton and Connery's takes to Craig's was brilliant.
He truly did a better job than anyone expected. He was amazing. Great video!
I am honest when I first saw the movie I thought the hate for the ending would be much worse. From what I seen so far it isn't as bad as I thought. No Time To Die is a perfect send-off for Craig's Bond. And yeah, although Rami Malek was probably a weak villain, it wasn't real his movie, it was Bond's movie. The villain was just a way to get the story to where it needed to go.
The perfect triple show Damon's Bourne; Reeve's Wick, and Craig's Bond define the modern action movie. We are blessed.
I will say that No Time To Die made me reevaluate and find new appreciation for the entire Craig era of James Bond, so it certainly succeeds as the finale for that series of films.
I kept pausing No Time To Die. Trying to make it last as long as I could. Daniel Craig is my favorite. I was 17 when Casino Royal came out and now I’m 32. Crazy! Hell of a run!
Brosnan was always James Bond for me and other millenials playing Goldeneye, so when Craig was cast it didn't seem right that Bond had blonde hair now etc, "it's like he's not really Bond" and I lost excitement for a while. I must have accepted him as Bond to an extent because I eventually watched them all anyway and during the opening credits to 'No Time To Die' I was fighting back some tears because it just felt like losing a friend and the end of another era; I knew then that I had been wrong, "Daniel Craig, you really are James Bond."
Did you notice Craig asking Leiter "Who's the blond?" when talking about Leiter's partner? I think that was a reference to people joking about blonde haired Bond when Craig was casted
Er… no. Brosnan is IMO the worst. He never felt like his own character.
@@spaceodds1985 Goldeneye is my fav plus "tomorrow" was really cool. I like the oil and submarine aspects from "not enough" but the rest of the movie was starting to slip, for example the irresistible Denise Richard's acting was a joke, and the entirety of "Die Another Day" was a cartoonish disaster beginning to end.
The very first time I watched it, I remember liking Casino Royale well enough and yet feeling it was a bit slow and dull in some ways. A second watch without expectations allowed me to see it was genuinely great, and when I quit expecting it to "fit the mold" I was able to notice the added character depth and appreciate the genius of how they married the setpieces, eye candy and thrills of the movies with the focus on the "soul erosion" the job caused the character in the books. And from then on, Craig became unquestionably my favorite Bond ever. (I even defend Quantum of Solace from haters.) Other than finding Spectre mostly forgettable beyond Christoph Waltz's epic scenery-chewing, I've loved each of Craig's turns as 007, even if they required that 2nd watch before I "got it" and found how to appreciate the balance between old and new. I avoided spoilers and the hype machine throughout the pandemic and quietly, almost subconsciously filed No Time To Die away as the reason to make that 1st trip back to the theater to christen some end-of-pandemic moment where I just knew life was "normal" again. Sure I looked forward to it in some way as an anchor for hope of that normalcy, but in the most surprisingly detached way. No fixation, anxiously awaiting it, or anything. Didn't even pay attention to a trailer until a week or so before it ACTUALLY released. I mean to tell you, the hype machine was literally INVISIBLE to me on this one, and I was able to go with zero expectations whatsoever (save for the expectation that I had sufficiently calibrated my concept of what Craig's run of films WERE that I could expect familiar "movie comfort food.") *Man, did this film sucker punch me.* Look, I saw it 2 days ago, and I'm STILL shook. In the theater I was torn 50/50 between "I hate this and I feel CHEATED" and "I guess it fits enough with THIS Bond that I can forgive it, and I have to grudgingly respect the guts it takes to make this gamble with THIS franchise." I have a feeling that you're right, and in time this movie is going to be looked back on pretty favorably. It's very divisive, and I don't just SEE both sides but FEEL both sides. But to be honest right now? I kind of hate it. And I can see from many others' reactions and the lower than expected box office numbers (speculated to be due to the plot leak and post-viewing word of mouth killing some people's interest in seeing it) that I'm definitely not the only one. It isn't that I don't respect "Bond as a dramatic work" rather than a just mindless action film. But post pandemic, with the exhaustion of the last 4 years of political tumult and the hell of the pandemic? I needed that COMFORT FOOD, that through-line of thrills and tinge of sardonic fun happening AROUND that more serious and grounded Bond that I loved as the perfect blend of serious and fantastical. But instead I got a borderline Greek tragedy. I think in any other moment in time, I might have found it easier to stomach the direction they took. I don't LOVE it and can't help feeling like it rings a bit of a cheap publicity stunt--but Craig's Bond is also unquestionably the most humanized and I can understand how they probably felt that Craig's films' tone had probably set up the only scenario in which you'd have a prayer in HELL this audience would go along with this. And you HAVE to do the unexpected sometimes, or what's the point in continuing to make them? The deep irony is that it seems real life's events tragically conspired to sabotage those perfect conditions to get away with trying this tragic, bittersweet ending. I doubt I'm alone in feeling that while MAYBE I could have accepted the ending easier in another time and place? For James Bond, this was no time to go and die. With some time to mentally compartmentalize his films into their own "Craigiverse" and learn to feel this as the death of a VERSION of Bond, and not of THE Bond (which in my eyes, Craig had earned the right to be thought of) I hope I can learn to genuinely enjoy this movie the way I can tell they wanted me to. But being a romantic and an optimist buried beneath a sea of cynicism--i.e. EXACTLY the kind of person Craig's Bond would speak to emotionally--I'll never quite get over the sense that if EON was finally going to commit to writing a canonical ending for any Bond and not worry about how it'd effect the ability to make more films? *This vulnerable, long-suffering Bond had endured enough tragedy, and had EARNED the quiet, fulfilling retired happy ending with a family they teased both of us with... before they broke our hearts.*
Fantastic take, king. 👑 Thank you for sharing this nuanced perspective with us! I hadn't thought about the timing before, but you're right - that was probably a major factor in my reaction as well. But I relate most to your last point: _This Bond has earned his happy ending._ I liked the movie, but I left the theater feeling sad about the ending. It felt like an injustice. The comparison to a Greek tragedy is apt. I felt like it made sense, and it hurt pretty good, but it just didn't *feel* right. And I was kind of torn about it. On the one hand, this Bond grew and endured so much. By the ending scene, Bond had become so human that his sacrifice really *meant* something. On the other hand, though, he had to make that sacrifice after he finally got his well-earned happy ending - and that made me feel cheated. He deserved it - and so did Madeline. I honestly couldn't help but think about the unfairness of Madeline's story: After an upbringing filled with horror and trauma, she's finally happy with the man she loves - but just as she starts to settle into that, the love of her life decides that she must be a traitor, renounces his love for her, and disappears forever. (I thought the way he went about it was particularly cruel, too. Kinda hated him during that scene.) And then, when Bond and Madeline FINALLY get back together, it's revealed that she still loves him, EVEN after he knocked her up and left her forever. And THEN, when Bond builds a relationship with the child and repairs his relationship with Madeline over the course of the adventure, and it FINALLY seems like he's here to stay, Bond sacrifices himself - and leaves Madeline and her daughter alone for good. That just felt so _wrong_ to me. So while Bond's sacrifice makes perfect sense within his arc, I feel like it totally does him and Madeline dirty. It's just like you said: deep down, they _earned_ their Happily Ever After.
@Tristan Lane 100 thumbs up on the points about subverting what people WANT to see and them opting for the ending first and worrying about the rest after. I read that they filmed 3 different endings to help throw up a smokescreen around the certainty about which would be used... Maybe they'll have had the decency to put a happier one through post production and include it on the DVD/BluRay as an alternate ending for us sentimental saps that aren't ready to let go. (I hate when they do things like that but give it to you in choppy, unprocessed non-HD footage that jarringly reminds you "this is just a special feature and not the real movie.") If they do it, I hope you can opt to roll the theatrical cut or an alternate ending cut that's actually edited together properly. I mean they probably won't, but I can dream right? JESUS this movie is making me relive the whole emotional arc of finishing Mass Effect 3 for the first time--first shock, then anger, then depression, then deluded hope kidding myself they're going to give us an extra, better ending with the extended cut 😂
Wow. Profound comments - everyone👍 While I'll miss Daniel Craig channeling Richard Burton-as-007; I respect NTTD as much as "Logan." Cheer up.. Wolverine will be back. So will Bond 😀
Agree with your take. Craigs Bond should have lived and spend his life with his family. That would have been such an emotional scene seeing them driving together with “We have all the time in the world” playing in the background.
The Bond series is older than you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next, in which case this is the sixth version. The Architect
unexpected matrix quote, well done.
This is either a reference to the Matrix; or it's a fellow /tv/ poster.
I really need to show this video to my wife. On the way back from the cinema yesterday we were talking about how I feel the way that Craig's experiences effect and stay with him and how that makes him more believable as a character. She argued that Bond should be cold and unfazed like Brosnan. I definitely enjoy the Brosnan films - well, not Die Another day - but Craig's best are so much better. Casino Royale was actually the first one I saw at the cinema when I was 19 and it's stayed with me as my favourite.
The definitive take on Felix is the ORIGINAL one. He was so good and cool that the only reason why they re-cast him was because he almost outshined Bond in the first movie. He was basically an American mirror-image of James Bond. It's sad they never brought that sort of iteration back. Hopefully they will in the future...
Jack Lord was an absolute Chad of a Felix.
Yeah Jeffrey Wright portrays Felix as a willing pawn instead of as Bond's equal
Craig s bond films had best villains. La Chiffre clapping bonds balls torturing him is one of the best scenes. And the face melted guy is one of the best antagonists ever.
The one from No Time To Die was decidedly average
Le Chiffre was fucking boring. He's just a small fry in the hands of the absolute nothing that was Mr White, he almost gets killed by the terrorists he financed. His big plot is just trying to retrieve the money he lost on betting for some random plane prototype to be destroyed. He's a cripple, yet none of his handicaps really play a role in anything. Him ball busting Bond amounts to nothing, because not only Bond laughs in his face knowing he's screwed, but he gets killed and shoved aside by the movie immediately after. And the guy from QoS was so patheticly non-existent, not to mention how badly they handled Blofeld.
@@craigglassford8533 yup. rami's character was weak on purpose.
You've put into words what I never could. Timothy Dalton was my favorite Bond growing up. Once I got a little older Sean Connery spoke more to me. It was Daniel Craig who put out the perfect combination of Connery's cold-heartedness and Dalton's down to earth emotion and barely restrained anger and jadedness into a perfectly relatable character who struggles emotionally throughout the entire film. This is why everyone loves Craig as Bond and he's the best to do it yet.
Hmmm. I almost 100% agree with you. My only gripes with the Daniel Craig Bond is that by the end of Casino Royale, he’s being pushed along by the bad guys, he’s not pursuing them, or following leads. This continues throughout all the following films. Also at the end of most, if not all, of his films he doesn’t want to be 007 anymore. I’d love to see a return of a Bond who wants to be Bond. Also, the trope of the only good dad is a dead one is a stale trope long before it’s gotten old.
8:45 "The bitch is dead" I feel like that was the most powerful line we've ever gotten in a Bond, I think it shows how low and how poorly Craig's Bond is handling his circumstances
Plus it’s straight from the novel.
I grew up with the campy bond films so the modern ones never really hit the mark for me. They're good films but there was always something there that stopped me from loving them. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. reboot by Guy Ritchie, on the other hand, is everything I wish modern bond could be and more. It's fun, doesn't take itself too seriously and has silly gadgets that just kind of work. It's really unfortunate that though it perfectly scratched the campy spy film itch is never going to get a sequel. Even though a lot of people involved wanted it too...
You are so right. Box office failure doomed an excellent movie and its potential franchise.
It was played out by the Brosnan era, those movies became way too silly and it made total sense for them to go with a more serious bond especially since bonds tend to reflect the time they were made in. Serious action was big like the bourne movies
As much as I enjoyed a lot of the silliness, we had to get a change. I think I remember Daniel Craig saying that the Austin Powers films being such successful parodies of the Bond formula meant that they risked ridicule if they went straight back to Moore style stunts, campy villains, bonkers gadgets and meaningless sex. Die Another Day really showed that the old foundations were desperately creaking.
I never liked the campy and suave James Bond films, it gets boring after a while.
@@tomv2063 Yeah, i have to say that i did try to watch the old bond films after seeing casino royale and got pretty bored.
The Craig films don't feel like Bond at all. They feel more like Jason Bourne than the James Bond we know and love. I hope with Daniel's successor they make the Bond films fun again. 2015's Kingsman: The Secret Service proved that a Roger Moore Bond film still works in the 21st century so there's no excuse.
Pierce Brosnan is my favorite bond, but the movie writing outside of goldeneye were weak. Even with his amazing performance you can only do so much, I just really wish his movies had better writers. No time to die was awesome, great send off to criag.
I disagree all but Die Another Day was good
I would say I enjoyed all of them. Tomorrow Never Dies would be at the bottom only because it was the least interesting plot and villain out of all of them.
Thinking on it again goldeneye is his best but I liked tomorrow never dies as well. World is not enough and tomorrow never dies are just rough. They have moments but bind surfing a tidal wave? Like come on.
Weak? You're joking right?
I beg to differ, Tomorrow Never Dies probably aged a lot better than you may think. Especially with today's big billionaires swaying public opinions and controling medias and information.
Something I just noticed. Moore's last film "A View to Kill" Dalton's last "License to Kill" Brosnan's last "Die Another Day" Craig's last "No Time to Die" Moore and Dalton both end on "Kill" and Brosnan and Craig both end on "Die" ... but all of them have to do with the end of life. Interesting!
Well what about Connery? What was his last film?
@@hollywoodkid1342 dunno bruv
@@hollywoodkid1342 Diamonds are Forever ( Unless you count Never Say Never Again )
Great video my friend! Very well made points and summaries.
I completely agree with you about Remi Malek feeling too young for the part (as good of an actor as he is), but the movie was still amazing enough to let this detail go. Great videos! Keep it up!
Woah woah. He sacrificed the life he would have had with Madeline? He couldn't. That was the whole point. Being unable to touch his family meant that to Bonds mind, he was already dead. His world had come crashing down. And so he died at peace
OHMSS is still comfortably the best Bond film for me, but I was seriously impressed by No Time to Die - easily my favourite of the Craig era. I'm glad you mentioned Dalton - Licence to Kill still holds up well and The Living Daylights was definitely weaker but has one of the best openers of any Bond film
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Daniel Craig is the only Bond that I believe would really kill people
You continue to hit the nail right on the head.
Great video!
You are good at storytelling, though. Honestly, I'm inspired by your writing and mastery of spoken word.
Dear Captainmidnight, Thank you for a well researched piece. I grew up with the "Connery" Bond and like you I found Craig's Bond much closer to the original intent of the Flemming works. For those who have read the Ian Fleming series he did not create an "adult" story line, in the sense of say the genius of a John le Carré 's George Smiley, instead Fleming created an adult comic book before such existed. However one perception that comes through Fleming's work is that, while Bond has a lot of English education and polish, Bond as written is basically a "Sociopath", he is a character fixated upon goals, and uses anyone and anything necessary to achieve them, Bond Has few friends and fewer intimates, he manifests extreme violence OFF / ON as if by a switch and has little concern for its effects. While I admit that it is possible my perception of the various Bonds is governed by my first impressions, it is still my belief that when comparing all the Bonds in the franchise, Sean Connery still represents the most accurate representation of the Bond in Flemming's works.
I’ve always been a big fan of Dalton as bond, I think he’s definitely underrated.
This is my favourite Bond. Bond which I grew up with and I'm glad they ended up on a high note. Despite not the best Spectre or Quantum of Solace, this Bondiana films is considered like a native.
He introduced the best Bond villain with Le Chiffre so that's a legacy in itself.
Silva was also an excellent villain perfectly portrayed by Javier Bardem
Appreciate your insights.👍🏻
I forgot about James Bond Jr! Great episode overall, this was my first “franchise” as a kid and I loved every thing you did here.
No other franchise I feel like dressing up in a suit to go see. Something inside me just clicks and I feel like Im cool just watching it. They did a great job delivering on atmosphere in these movies. I liked the Brosnan films, but the MCU is becoming enough camp for the whole industry and I want to see them continue to nail these character driven action stories in a way no one but Eon seems to be able to pull off at the moment
The Brosnan movies had nothing to do with camp. You're thinking of Moore
@@strikerbowls791 He had an invisible car a villain had a giant laser to melt the polar ice caps.
Loved this video and your commentary on it. I've seen all the Bond films (save for one or two) and Craig will always be my Bond. His acting is the strongest, presenting a Bond with the most complex internal life. When he killed, I believed him. When he allowed vulnerability to shine though, it was emotional to see. He gave new life to what the character could become and made me really feel emotional with his protrayal. Casino Royale was revolutionary. I remember being taken aback in the theater during my viewing of Skyfall how much I felt for him. And I mean REALLY felt for him. I thought about that movie for weeks afterwards. No other Bond has been able to get that out of me. I CRIED watching No Time To Die. (I'm the rare 1% that still really enjoyed Quantum of Solace and Spectre) His rendition has a deeper pathos, and his saga will be the one that will truly stand the test of time to all future modern eras. He HUMANIZED Bond. And that is a true, cinematic achievement.
I found that I agree with most that you say. Thank you for doing this..
James Bond is what we all want to be, that's why he will never die.
And yet he did 🤣
It will be revealed that he survived.
License to kill was fire and had probably the best intro theme…..ok it’s a tie between that and world is not enough
Fantastic observation. Couldn't agree more
12:01 I had no idea this existed before watching this video and now It is all I live for
Super relatable, I have had a similar relationship with Bond since childhood and agree with almost everything you said ✌ I could listen and talk about James Bond for days, all the different iterations and the heritage is so special and unique compared to other franchises, even if the formula doesn't always churn out cinematic masterpieces. It's a messy, imperfect series and that's definitely part of the charm for me.
❤ James bond movies 🎬 too ;; ❤ watching all the old movies : Sean Connery & Roger Moore &piece Brosnan; Daniel Craig:: movies ; pretty woman: villain etc etc
As someone who watched every single Bond movie, your review helps me articulate now, looking back what I enjoyed about each generation and each actor's take on the franchise. I grew up in the Brosnan era and I remember hoping that Craig's Bond was just as good and I was pleasantly surprised that he was in his own way.
I love that Daniel Craig is just as amazing in Real Love as he is as James Bond.
Bond at his Bourniest.
I know your emphasis is on film and television, but I would be curious hear your analysis on the Uncharted video game series. The strong narratives and character building across those games contributed in no small part to their universal acclaim and they have since inspired many games in the genre to emulate the Hollywood blockbuster motif that they captured so well. This is of course provided that you have some experience with those games or the time to explore them if not. Keep up the great content.
Great video
I'm glad you enjoyed it. I however never saw Daniel Craig as a good bond. I just never could get behind his movies.
Saw new Bond film today. Awesome!! Made me mad that I wasted my time last week on new Venom movie - which was wasted crap! Venom franchise badly needs killer script writers and directors. The first Hal hour of new Bond film utterly blows away BOTH Venom films. And the ending was by far the best exit of any Bond actor. Craig kicked ass as Bond.
I only watched the Craig Bond films recently and absolutely loved them (except for Quantum lmao). I actually gasped when he killed the guy at the embassy in Casino Royale. It really illustrated he was a mean, bad guy. But his arc takes him so many places after that. I love it.
IMO the Craig-era films are a separate arc within the franchise. The ending was appropriate & perhaps the only logical way to cap off this mini-series. I have a real affinity to DC (Similar age etc) & whilst I'm looking forward to the direction they take it, it won't be the same!
Daniel Craig is my second favorite Bond, right after Brosumen. What i love so much about No Time To Die is how this Bond feels like a person who has tried so hard to want, and be nothing more then a killer because its his job and that's all he's known. You get the classic Bond, while understanding what made Bond this way. Perfect send off for Craig!
Brosnan made an excellent point that it was Gilory and Greengrass's Borne directed movies that set the pace and these films changed how Bond movies moved forward.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service was my favorite Bond movie before Casino Royale (2006). It was James Bond at its best. Bond should be a deep character, we already had 20 cartoonish movies from Bond.
Woman hides secrets from Bond, hides their child from Bond. Nice to see a realistic portrayal of women, 10/10.
Just found out you and I are the same age. I also saw Casino Royale and its funny cause my friends mom took us out to eat and I ordered a steak. I didn't know any better and later found out I expensive steaks are. Luckily I returned the favor hundreds of times by now but that poor kind woman didn't say a word or anything. It's one of those memories that makes me cringe but it wasn't that bad. You just reminded me of that. Ignore my comment lol it's for the algorithm
where do you live that steaks are so expensive ? Japan ?
@@arthemis1039 So expensive? I never mentioned the price. I simply said, *"later found out how expensive steaks are"* Meaning I didnt know how much a steak dinner typically costs compared to the rest of the menu. Is Japan the only place where a steak dinner costs more than a burger and fries?
"(Pierce Brosnan) ...was grown in a lab to play james bond." No one has put that thought into words for me till today :D
Moore's 007 run inspired the recent tenure of the MCU projects, with the earlier films resembling those of Connery's 007. Action sequences that feel repetitive, humor that occasionally falls flat, underwritten villains attempting to fit into serious world issues, and formulaic plots that never really change anything in the grand scheme of the larger story. Furthermore, Moonraker is prominently featured in Black Widow and heavily inspired its plot.
My review for No Time To Die, Just one word to say "Perfect". That's what I experienced. And what an end. Always stick emotionally to the heart.
Yeah I absolutely loved it
Yes on the Lazenby! Thanks!
You made some good points but I feel you overlooked some of the nuances of Dalton and Brosnan. I disagree that Dalton’s films worked against him, Glen had always pushed for a serious version of the character. TLD has cool cold war vibes and LTK is the most violent and gritty film of the series. Dalton imbued him a lot of sadness and rage that I notice more upon rewatch. Discounting DAD, Brosnan’s films do something interesting with the Bond character in each film. TWINE has some really interesting emotional stakes. I really love Casino Royale and Skyfall but I feel Craig’s era suffered heavily from inconsistency in its writing in a desperate attempt to establish continuity.
Quantum of Solace is easily the lowest of the Craig era. After that you have one decent (Spectre), and the rest are great.
Tbh, pierce Brosnan is my fav as a bond actor. Whenever i think of bond, i imagine him. I just wish he had gotten better movies like golden eye
Dalton was a really badass bond, he's an incredible actor and both his movies are really dope.
I really tried to hang in there with you but I couldn't get over hearing "George Laz-an-bee" 😂😂😂
I don’t understand how you did this whole video without mentioning Skyfall, which is almost certainly the greatest movie of any Bond film
I like Skyfall, but other than QoS it tied in the least to No Time, so it didn't really come up.
They casted a Bond who is ACTUALLY English.
Roger Moore was English. Also, Fleming made Bond Scottish after Connery's casting, so...
I know, I know. Half Scottish, half Swiss people are outraged at their only on screen representation being replaced with some English Dude. ;-)
Dalton is my favorite actor to portray James Bond. He was the prototype for Daniel Craig’s take on the character.
2 words: Timothy Dalton. Timothy's portrayal was a little more Fleming than Daniel Craig's, though. Dalton just wasn't allowed to explore the character as much creatively and that type of performance wasn't as well received as Craig's is today, largely because it was the 1980s, and between that decade and the 1970s, it's hard to determine which was cheesier. People wanted campier entertainment and Dalton shows up with a more grounded, realistic, Cold War spy thriller and it threw people off. My favourite Bond films are From Russia With Love, The Living Daylights and Casino Royale, in that order. You'll never catch me seeking out any Bond film starring Pierce Brosnan or Roger Moore, with the possible exception of Goldeneye, which otherwise, thankfully, feels like a Dalton project. But until Craig came along, serious spy thrillers weren't really a popular thing. People wanted a light, fun, goofy, romp with lots of explosions and hot women in bikinis. It's a shame, because I think a 3rd Dalton film could have hit the jackpot. As it was, he did one very good film with a mediocre, lacklustre villain, and a borderline okay but uneven, Americanized Bond film with a really good villain. My problem with Daniel Craig is that he pushed the Yuppie gym-rat stereotype a bit too much. Dalton's problem is the same as every other bond - a complete lack of backstory on the character. It's a shame, because Diamonds Are Forever, A View To A Kill, License to Kill and Quantum of Solace stand as 3 giant missed opportunities. They all had a lot going for them, but the execution just wasn't there. Either it was a bad script, an old man Bond, or not the revenge film it needed to be.
Wait, are we going to get a new Q? I really loved Ben his performance of the carracter.
I think they can preserve the continuity and make it way more episodic at once, also changing tone a bit. I see the next movie could be something like this: There is a conflict inside the the MI6 - traditional way lovers that don't trust the open access to information and prefer personal espionage action (like in the old bond movies), and the new young agents, more similar to Q, fluent in tech but prefers to take action from the distance. And there is two M like figures now in conflict - it's a mess and it's escalating. On this situation the new 007 is recruited - younger than the previous Bonds, and everyone REMEMBERS Daniel Craig Bond in this continuity. Previous Craig Bond is a legend here - even has his own glory of fame portrait like Judi Dench M. So everyone (Monneypenny, Q, M, second M, Nomi) are treating this new 007 like a child, don't trust him, miss old Bond, wishes he would be alive etc. And 007 have to pick an Alias but M forbids him to use James Bond name because he don't trust this new youngster. So new 007 uses various aliases through the movie, but he doesn't like it at all, because to him James Bond is a legend too, and he tries to do the best job. So gaining his confidence and trusting himself, he figures out that the Mi6 conflict is escalating because of foreign influence - a villain social media influencer (to make it more flashy, and over the top) that wants to controll the information through the social media and through hacking accounts, faking news, manipulating agents, politicians etc - and 007 goes rougue, cut's the connection with conflicted, manipulated Mi6, to infiltrate the villain. He defeats him with his tech knowledge, intelligence, and ofc brutal, rutheless violence, and charm, undoing and revealing all the villainous schemes, before Nomi, Monneypenny, M and Q finds him. After this Mi6 realises that it needs fresh blood and new perspective to fight those type of villains, resolves the inner conflict, and that the new 007 is worthy. M is proposing to 007 a new alias - James Bond, but 007 replies that he is not sure, because that was true name of a previous 007, and maybe it should not be used anymore. And then M reveals that father of James Bond (Craig) was a secret Mi6 agent in the 60's and after retirement, he decided to live under his alias second name - Bond. So this name was always a secret alias. And then M shows the new 007 a photo of Craig Bond's character's father - and we see non other than Sean Connery on it as James Bond like in Dr. No . So the new 007 agrees to take that name too, as his great predecessors, and to do his best. The End ;)
The Craig bond movies have always looked incredible and had great stunts. The story isn’t the best in a few of them but Craig is always acting his ass off and I love that we learn just so much about how this bond ticks. While also it’s honestly nice to watch a series of movies that have a good solid ending that ties everything up and can look back upon itself with pride.
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I enjoyed the movie for sure, and feel it was a good, “last outing” for Craig. My biggest gripe however is the ending. I believe that after everything they had done with Craig’s Bond, all the suffering and anguish he had to endure, he should have lived and had the life that no other Bond got to have. That would have been beautiful and would have made the parallel with On Her Majesty’s Secret Service truly emotional. I get that some people might think they’d too easy of an ending but I truly believe this iteration of Bond, Craig’s Bond, deserved to be happy in the end and have that family we have never seen Bond have before. This movie will always be remembered as, “that movie Bond dies in”, rather than , “The movie where Bond has a family”. I think they missed the mark here.
I think the parallel to the Dark Knight Rises would have been a bit too obvious there, for a series that already borrowed heavily from the Dark Knight in Skyfall. I'm not someone who thinks main characters have to die to have a sufficiently emotional beat at the end, but I thought Bond's death worked well here. And it gave Bond quite a bit of agency. It seemed to me, at least, that he could have (at least possibly) made it out alive had he tried to do so (hence why he was asking Q about if it was curable), but he opted to die because he decided living without his family (and perhaps being a risk to his family) would not be worth it. Craig's Bond "retired" in every single Craig film (... possible exception of Spectre? I forget.). Here, he was motivated to do something more permanent.
Good video
I’m sorry to be that guy but your pronunciation of LAZENBY is doing my head in. It’s LAY-zin-BEE not LAH-zuhn-BEE. Great video btw!
Il come back to this when I see the movie
Great review. I agree about the comparisons and contrasts with OHMSS, which I think was directed badly.
What some people have said about this Bond not being cool because he had feelings, and was broken inside ever since Vesper's death, is precisely what in my opinion making a much more interesting character. I believe fighting against evil geniuses and organisations such as Spectre, is a much more admirable deal when inside you there isn't much to live for, yet you continue. This is my favorite Bond, and also the one I grew up with. Brosnan's films happened during my childhood, and for me they seemed rather infantile and caricaturesque. Casino Royale meanwhile, was for me not only a splendid film but also the entrance to my late teens. It had a great influence for me back then. What I criticise about "No Time To Die" is that Malek's character should not have existed. He is supposed to be a genius, and I mean... he blew up Spectre in one second. He should have had much more screen. At least one film more. It would have been much more interesting if Bond's last film was about taking down Spectre. He sacrifices himself doing that.
This was a better anniversary film that Skyfall! And to be honest, I think M's meeting with Bond encapsulates the whole movie perfectly: classics with a twist. The normal M and Bond scene is basically "here's your mission, good luck". There it's the opposite. Bond and M chew each other out. Same arena, different dynamics. The rest of the movie screams classic Bond but throws in modern sensibilities, which were done perfectly!
“As long as there’s angry little men like you, I’m not irrelevant.” Bond will hopefully always be on a theater screen near you, because nobody does it better.