Day 16 of the Bond Film Marathon, film 17:GoldenEye.
Exit Dalton, enter Pierce Brosnan. Pierce Brosnan, the Bond EON was finally able to snag after all these years, was set to star as the super spy in the first Bond film in 6 years. With a somewhat lighter tone, but still dark and slightly realistic, Bond was back. With an original story and great direction behind it, what could possibly go wrong?

In 1986(before the events of The Living Daylights), James Bond 007 and Alec Trevelyan 006 are on a mission to destroy Soviet Chemical weapons at a facility in Russia. The missions goes haywire and 006 is killed in action, but Bond manages to escape finishing the job ("For…

Part of:
Dr. No-vember or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bond Films

Good, because I think you're a sexist, misogynist dinosaur. A relic of the Cold War, whose boyish charms, though wasted on me, obviously appealed to that young woman I sent out to evaluate you.
-M

MGM was sold in 1990 and this started a series of events that led to EON Productions suing them over certain rights to the James Bond films. This resulted in a six year hiatus between films, the longest since the franchise began in 1962. With the next film continuously being pushed back until Timothy Dalton resigned from the role in April of 1994. It was announced less then two…

See, I had a problem with Goldeneye right from the outset that actually had absolutely nothing to do with the quality of the film, whatever that may turn out to be. The problem was the N64 game.

I knew that it was going to take an effort on my part to actually watch and appreciate the film and not spend the whole time trying to match scenes to levels in the (absolutely brilliant even to this day) game. I didn't always succeed (I started having a conniption when that bloody silo made an appearance) but I think I did a lot better than expected. Mind you, I haven't played it for a few years.

It's strange, actually, when I was…

The Journey to Skyfall continues with the 17th James Bond film, GoldenEye!

I'm torn. I'm really torn. GoldenEye used to be one of my favorites in the franchise. And of course, how could it not? It was the film that introduced me to the character. The one that got me to pick up the Fleming books and watch all the films. It's responsible for my James Bond fandom.

But nostalgia be damned, GoldenEye has aged... pretty bad.

It's strange really because there's nothing about this film that's any different than the other Bond films that haven't aged. GoldenEye *was* responsible for bringing Bond into the modern post Cold War era that defined the earlier Bond stories. But there's many minor…

The first Brosnan Bond film.
A new M.
A new Moneypenny.
All very exciting stuff.

From the jawdropping intro sequence with the bunjee jump off the dam, right the way through to meeting 006 and the freefall into the nosediving plane, this is high octane, no bullshit mentalness of the highest order.
Make no mistake, the action in this film is downright incredible. From the tank sequence in Moscow through to the radar dish finale, this standard of awesome hasn't been cinematically realised since You Only Live Twice.

Brosnan makes for a very agreeable Bond but sadly the misstep to somewhere between Dalton's darkness and Moore's quip-happy, raised eyebrow nonsense isn't my cup of tea. A perfect Bond for the…

After Ned Stark kidnaps Nightcrawler with the help of Jean Grey, James Bond has to help a hot Russian chick do a thing with computers so that London won't get Ocean's Elevened. Because London is a city where there are people with valuable lives, as opposed to Las Vegas (this is all explained in greater detail in the movie). Also Mitchell from the hit cop mystery Mitchell is there, as the American, and John Cleese for some reason. Oh, and that lady from As Time Goes By yells at Bond.

Oh, what else. There's that one part where you're on the dam and I'd always fall off because I could never find the ladder. The worst. And everyone's face was…

Day 16 of the Bond Film Marathon, film 17:GoldenEye.
Exit Dalton, enter Pierce Brosnan. Pierce Brosnan, the Bond EON was finally able to snag after all these years, was set to star as the super spy in the first Bond film in 6 years. With a somewhat lighter tone, but still dark and slightly realistic, Bond was back. With an original story and great direction behind it, what could possibly go wrong?

In 1986(before the events of The Living Daylights), James Bond 007 and Alec Trevelyan 006 are on a mission to destroy Soviet Chemical weapons at a facility in Russia. The missions goes haywire and 006 is killed in action, but Bond manages to escape finishing the job ("For…

For the new generation in a new world, Pierce Brosnan oozes sex appeal, handsome charm and gritty realism first seen from Sean Connery in 1962, as he steps into the role of James Bond in his 1995 debut 007 adventure. It's the film that proved James Bond can still exist in a post-Cold War world and he won a new legion of fans thanks to this return when the world needed the original action hero.

MI6 agent Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean) is killed in action by Russian Colonel Ourumov (Gottfried John) on a mission in the late 1980s. His colleague and close friend James Bond manages to escape and carry out the destruction of their target, a Soviet chemical facility.…

After a 6 year absence from 007 the world waited in anticipation to see how Pierce Brosnan would fare as the worlds coolest spy, less than a minute into the film we witnessed one of the greatest 007 stunts to date, Bond was back. Goldeneye is a fantastic bond film, Brosnan's finest and is very reflective of the decade. Brosnan makes for an excellent bond (probably my 3rd favorite after Craig and Connery) and much like Craig holds some of the best features of all the previous Bond's combined (Moore's charm, Conney's cool, Lazenby's strength and Dalton's stern-ness). The action and stunt work is fantastic and whilst at times very ridiculous (e.g. the tank scene) is always entertaining. The 90's,…