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00:00:00.000 But Danny Boyle, a very good filmmaker, and he was set to direct it.

00:00:07.460 And I think that from what I've gathered by reading reports is that he didn't want James Bond to die.

00:00:17.740 And Daniel Craig was ready for James Bond to die.

00:00:20.720 Daniel Craig had producing credits late into his tenure. 0.99

00:00:24.400 and eon that is everything or nothing the broccoli family were ready for him to die and all that kind

00:00:31.860 of stuff and uh danny boyle wasn't there so they left they departed amicably having creative

00:00:37.940 differences and um they brought in oh god i'm so bad with names right now i'm trying to explain

00:00:45.400 things and i'm just making it harder who directed no time to die carrie joji fukunaga um he

00:00:58.260 wrote the it movies and um he's an interesting filmmaker uh he also got me too'd or something

00:01:10.820 and there were some bad reports of him on set with no time to die but anyway carrie fukunaga

00:01:16.800 um i generally like him actually and i felt that no time to die was sort of the only way possible

00:01:28.440 to end the craig era or the best way possible let's say because he tied up all the threads

00:01:34.380 he made it all work somehow even though with sam mendez the whole thing was becoming very unwieldy

00:01:42.920 and a movie like specter maybe some good moments to be fair but it was a rather boring film and i

00:01:51.040 don't re-watch that and i uh am known to re-watch james bond movies so there you go there are a lot

00:01:58.420 of problems and i would i've re-watched no time did i more often than i've re-watched skyfall or

00:02:04.960 specter sam mendez's films i thought he did tie it up the action sequences were pretty awesome

00:02:11.800 and um some fun characters and i think that they just made it work and they brought a they brought

00:02:21.880 the whole story to a conclusion in a way a lot of bond fans don't like no time to die james bond can

00:02:27.060 never die what's going on here i did like it a lot of callbacks to older films uh again i well

00:02:35.740 directed great action sequences some interesting characters i i really liked the big bad is just

00:02:43.420 sort of like a almost austin powers like villain who just wanted to destroy the world i kind of got

00:02:48.980 into it interesting covid metaphor is all about disease and nanobots and whatever uh good i i

00:02:57.300 thought it was good uh but i i don't they they sort of painted themselves into a into a corner

00:03:06.440 of what can you do next and so eon was working with a number of ideas and a number of different

00:03:13.880 directors and they just couldn't crack the nut and the years were just going by it was 2025 and

00:03:20.500 they hadn't cracked the nut and amazon had reached a deal with eon earlier where they were they they

00:03:26.880 had the rights to stream all the james bond movies and sort of be a co-producer distributor for the 0.99

00:03:33.740 james bond movies and then they just got so sick of uh the broccolis that they were just like fuck

00:03:40.320 it we're going to throw a billion dollars and we get it we are going to produce this thing 0.93

00:03:45.300 and they are now in the process of finding the new James Bond they have hired Denis Villeneuve

00:03:53.440 to direct I thought that was interesting because you know Amazon is a streaming studio

00:04:01.280 and they have done some theatrical releases but it's all streaming and it's sort of sloppy

00:04:09.540 content if we're honest i mean yeah the jack reacher stuff is kind of fun but

00:04:16.720 not the deepest thing you could imagine and almost kind of conservative on some level but anyway

00:04:22.860 they are in search of the next bond uh the search for the next james bond is underway this is

00:04:28.460 quoting their press release well we don't plan to comment on specific details during the casting

00:04:33.060 process we're excited to share more news with 007 fans as soon as the time is right and you have

00:04:40.280 people you know suggesting actors and so on um one thing that i noticed is that you know james bond

00:04:49.020 goes out of copyright uh 70 years after the death of the author and so you could get it renewed i

00:05:00.160 I know Disney did this with their properties many times,

00:05:04.060 but at some point it goes away.

00:05:05.660 And Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain.

00:05:09.240 And, you know, one of the most iconic characters everywhere.

00:05:12.560 But I think it's interesting to talk about my favorite bonds

00:05:17.980 and sort of where this whole thing could go.

00:05:22.540 You know, Craig followed the Dalton year,

00:05:27.480 not the um timothy dalton no the brosnan years of the 1990s and early 2000s and they had their

00:05:35.020 own legal dispute before brosnan came on board but those films were very successful they were

00:05:41.580 pretty relevant uh in their way people were talking about them and they successfully solved

00:05:50.160 what do we do with james bond after the cold war in golden eye they sent him back to russia but

00:05:56.080 it's like a post-Soviet Russia that's even more murky and dangerous than before and

00:06:02.060 although I do like Goldeneye and I think a lot of the other films the next two have their moments 0.89

00:06:11.880 I really don't like that era of James Bond at all and and I think Brosnan really set the tone I

00:06:20.080 think he was a very fake James Bond I don't think he's a good actor I don't think he has a great

00:06:25.400 presence it's very handsome but he looks to me like he's a male model playing james bond he

00:06:32.800 doesn't look like he's the actual guy like connery uh it's just something there's something

00:06:39.600 fake about it that has always bothered me and i don't like re-watching those movies i would much

00:06:45.380 rather watch some terrible movie like the man with the golden gun or diamonds are forever or

00:06:52.420 a classic Connery than I would want to rewatch a Brosnan film. GoldenEye may be an exception that

00:06:59.700 that is a fun romp, but I don't think there's a lot of there there. And they hit this point with

00:07:07.000 Die Another Day. It's easy to get all these titles mixed up, which is really one of the worst

00:07:14.180 films ever made. I think you could safely say that it was just CGI slop. He's windsurfing.

00:07:22.420 It's like a Marvel movie. It was the first Marvel movie. CGI, slop fest, totally just preposterous nonsense all over the place. And that was a success, financially speaking.

00:07:43.420 but to Barbara Broccoli's credit she recognized that something had really gone wrong and they

00:07:52.180 had to go back to basics and they brought in Craig and Casino Royale I can remember seeing it in the

00:07:59.600 theater I didn't quite know what to expect I was at Duke at the time and 20 years ago wow we should

00:08:08.400 do a retrospective on Casino Royale but I didn't really know what to expect and I had actually

00:08:17.080 walked out of Die Another Day uh I guess I was a bit of a snob even when I was in my early 20s I

00:08:24.400 just couldn't take it I thought it was a terrible film and it was an insult and I think after the

00:08:29.420 windsurfing I just walked out so I you know a new Bond movie let's see what happens uh it's been

00:08:35.880 four years that's enough time to sort of land and get your bearings and go in a new direction

00:08:43.060 and uh i was blown away by casino real i was really taken into it i've re-watched it so many

00:08:50.960 times and yeah it's a younger bond he's grounded you see him get his double o he has his first

00:08:57.500 kill and his second kill in the opening sequence and uh he's genuinely in love with vesper lind

00:09:05.640 they bought the rights to the book which they hadn't had that's why you had that crazy woody

00:09:10.280 allen spoof um they bought the rights to casino real and it it it made it work and and it is true

00:09:18.940 it's true to the book they extrapolated off the book quite a bit of course but uh bond is broken 0.99

00:09:26.260 by vesper lind and he sort of becomes the cold-hearted bastard after her death the bitch

00:09:33.540 is dead as he says to em and he moves on to another plane of existence and he is james bond 0.99

00:09:42.520 after that puppy love is squashed i thought that was a great move the problem they ran into with

00:09:50.820 craig is that you know james bond let me just read some of this

00:09:56.840 he talks about going after the hand

00:10:03.780 um

00:10:05.600 is this it yeah

00:10:16.200 he wants to um

00:10:20.720 he wants to go after the hand that holds the whip

00:10:31.140 yeah yeah it was the same with the whole russian machine fear was the impulse for them it was

00:10:42.060 always safer to advance and to retreat advance against the enemy and the bullet might miss you

00:10:47.460 retreat evade betray and the bullet would never miss but now he would attack the arm that held 0.85

00:10:54.080 the whip and the gun the business of espionage could be left to the white collar boys they could 0.52

00:11:00.560 spy and catch the spies he would go after the threat behind the spies the threat that made them

00:11:07.520 spy the telephone rang and bond snatched up the receiver he was on to the link the outside liaison

00:11:14.660 officer who was the only man in london he might telephone from abroad then only in dire necessity

00:11:20.400 he spoke quietly into the receiver this is 007 speaking this is an open line it's an emergency

00:11:27.940 can you hear me pass this on at once 3030 was a double working for redland that was vesperland 0.99

00:11:37.520 yes damn it i said was the bitch is dead now oof it's great stuff 0.99

00:11:48.140 so he becomes the cold-hearted bastard and the sort of super spy now 1.00

00:11:55.900 james bond will get broken and he'll get depressed but he rises above it 0.97

00:12:01.940 the thing with daniel craig is that you have the death of vesper lynn and he just can't ever let

00:12:10.220 it go he never really becomes james bond it's almost like the first two films casino royale

00:12:18.620 and quantum of solace were this you know uh prelude prequel uh reboot of james bond but then

00:12:27.480 he never becomes James Bond and then four years later after Casino Royale was disappointing at

00:12:33.500 the box office and critically speaking they do Skyfall and he's already this old broken man

00:12:39.660 that's the conceit throughout the film you know you're a dinosaur uh you know MI6 we're we have a

00:12:47.980 DEI hire or we have a DEI counselor now we have an HR department here in MI6 you don't get it

00:12:54.160 So he just became this dinosaur.

00:12:56.340 He never became James Bond.

00:12:57.780 There was never a point where he was off on a mission, 1.00

00:13:03.900 you know, drinking drinks, banging bitches, 1.00

00:13:08.120 and killing bad guys and saving the world. 1.00

00:13:11.140 It's like they never allowed that to happen.

00:13:15.260 Craig was never James Bond.

00:13:17.060 He was being rebooted, and then he was a dinosaur

00:13:19.740 and too old to be James Bond.

00:13:21.300 it the whole craig era i mean i think there are a lot of good aspects to it and i like quantum of

00:13:29.840 solace even as a film maybe not a james bond film and i i definitely like casino real and i thought

00:13:36.080 no time to die was good i don't like skyfall or specter i don't like sam mendes actually

00:13:40.700 but there's a lot of good things about it but there was never a james bond movie it was all

00:13:48.520 about like becoming something never being that thing and then being outmoded and there was like

00:13:56.480 this inability to assert James Bondness which is a formula of Bond just romping around the world

00:14:06.640 kicking ass banging chicks having a good time doing it for England of course being a modern

00:14:16.100 playboy they they all all the things that connery and more etc could do they they could never 0.98

00:14:22.380 really assert and so the craig era is this like it's like hollow it's like a eggshell without

00:14:31.640 a yoke to if that's the right way of thinking about it there's no james bond in there there's

00:14:37.020 just sort of like this thing around it and i think there was a there are a lot of problems

00:14:43.320 with the Craig era in that way

00:14:45.520 and I don't know if you can even do James Bond

00:14:47.740 at this point

00:14:48.420 especially after the Craig era

00:14:51.860 but

00:14:54.300 I just went

00:14:57.620 through my own personal

00:14:59.640 lengths here

00:15:01.540 you know I was too young

00:15:05.880 to see Roger

00:15:07.840 Moore

00:15:08.300 in the theaters

00:15:10.680 um i was born in 1978 but i watched on vhs and when these movies were replayed i watched tons 0.95

00:15:18.840 of roger moore and i just loved him and yeah he's kind of silly and it's a bit ridiculous for this

00:15:25.300 somewhat you know hoity-toity uh elegant man to be getting into fistfights and winning and things

00:15:35.000 like that but i just liked him spy you love me man with the golden gun is a terrible film but

00:15:41.380 it's just really watchable in some weird way at least for me i love moonraker uh i love for your

00:15:49.940 eyes only which is a great film and that was sort of the back to basics you know let's let's really

00:15:58.900 ground bond again after moonraker and and octopussy and some other or octopussy was later

00:16:05.540 it was after moonraker let's ground bond again and even a view to a kill you know has a banging

00:16:12.960 theme song and great characters is it a great film of course not but there's just a lot there

00:16:19.260 and uh i think roger moore was the best one he captured something that wasn't really captured

00:16:26.020 with ian fleming and and that is the humor some humor in there with ian fleming but he leaned into

00:16:32.660 it maybe sean connery was the first one to lean into it uh in diamonds are forever that was sort

00:16:39.600 of the first roger moore film before roger moore but uh sean connery was phoning in his performances

00:16:47.180 roger moore never phoned in a performance roger moore was always committed to the bit

00:16:52.280 and i respect that i know sean connery is everyone who thinks when you think of james

00:17:00.280 von you just think of sean connery and he is really great and amazing um thunderball

00:17:06.560 you only live twice um diamonds are forever the guy is phoning in the performances

00:17:16.140 not definitely not in dr no not in from russia with love not in goldfinger those are he's

00:17:22.840 committed he's phoning it in he doesn't want to be there he was in all these legal disputes or

00:17:27.960 personal financial disputes with the producers he's phoning it in and i have to dock him on that

00:17:35.220 even though he is iconic i think timothy dalton is is criminally underrated

00:17:40.460 uh he grounded james bond again he based bond off the bond of the books

00:17:47.760 what he lacks in humor i think he makes up in ruthlessness and toughness he sort of is the

00:17:54.740 bad guy particularly in license to kill he's sort of playing the villain getting revenge

00:17:59.940 and uh but he is very handsome and you can believe him as a seducer and uh i think there's just a lot

00:18:08.320 of good things. I think Living Daylights has some flaws, but setting it in the Cold War with

00:18:15.380 assassins and a female assassin, he doesn't want to kill her, so he shoots her gun. There's just

00:18:21.760 a lot of great stuff that's Fleming-esque in those films, and I think he's very good. Lazenby

00:18:28.460 is in what many people consider to be the best James Bond movie. It's a contrarian choice, but

00:18:35.440 honor majesty majesty's secret service is a great film and has all the elements blofeld a great

00:18:42.500 villain skiing really just you know well well pre-cgi ski scenes um that are real um he's not

00:18:54.860 he's not quite the superman that roger moore was who can kind of do backflips and things like that

00:19:00.580 it's a real ski chase scene that's just fantastic um daniel craig i've already spoke about him i i

00:19:08.480 think there are some really good moments there uh i i think the whole daniel craig era is sort of

00:19:15.800 hollow on some level now barry nelson i put that in halfway as a joke uh so if anyone asks you

00:19:22.640 you know who is the first man to play bond on screen as a trivia question the sucker answer

00:19:28.140 is sean connery the real answer is barry nelson um barry nelson was of course more famous for

00:19:36.600 playing another character i'll show that to you um much more famous for paying the

00:19:46.860 creepy manager of the overlook hotel in the shining um but he actually was the first man

00:19:56.280 to play james bond uh pierce brosnan i've already mentioned i i just find him fake

00:20:02.140 um very handsome over acts in a way that's not believable like when he's he's distraught about

00:20:12.120 i don't know the his lover and uh what is the one um tomorrow never dies the world is not enough

00:20:22.260 is pretty good i agree with you the world is not enough is pretty good i agree with that

00:20:27.820 i actually think that might be better than golden eye golden eye in the world is not enough are

00:20:34.140 pretty good i like the female villain in the world is not enough in in the the other villain who's an

00:20:41.540 anarchist he says you know what do you stand for james bond the preservation of capital it was

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＂The B＊＊＊h is Dead Now＂

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