Fun fact: initial drafts of this film leaked during the Sony Hacks featured intriguing ideas like M being a traitor and Blofeld being a vicious African warlord played by Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Never stop naming random Australian celebrities and pointing them out in the movies you watch. I find it both hilarious and beautifully patriotic. Hard combo to pull off.
13:24 To be absolutely fair to Blofeld, as well as getting some frantic photocopying done for the showdown, he did also have the time to install a 5 inch thick, 20 foot high bulletproof glass wall in the corridors of the dilapidated MI6 building, bizarrely.
When I saw Spectre in the cinema everybody genuinely seemed to think M was going to drop the C-bomb. There was a lot of awkward laughter when he said 'careless' instead.
🤣 Now I'm imagining Daniel Craig's Bond getting dressed/brushing his teeth while driving or changing suits like they talked about in the Quantum of Solace video
Ever see that deleted scene from Casino Royale, the Bond emerging from the water? Just before that scene he tried his hardest to privately change into his swim trunks on the beach but he was worried a guy would see him, so he tries to be discreet, only to realize once he's finished that the other beach goer is actually blind. That was VERY Mr. Bean.
My favorite part of this movie is near the third act when they establish the villain can see and hear everything, has eyes in the sky and complete omniscience, and the very next thing that happens is the lady decides she doesn't want to be involved and just walks home, all the good guys let her go, and then she gets captured immediately. Great writing, fellas. Keep earning that bread.
Holy shit, I was wondering about this the other day. It's been so long since I saw this film, and I forgot how it built to that dumb climax where she's tied up in the old MI6 building that was about to explode. I thought to myself, "Wait. She was with Bond when he escaped that desert lair, and was with him when he got back to London, right? How did she get captured again?" And because it's Spectre, I didn't want to waste my time looking up the plot points of the film again, so I just left it. Thanks for reminding just how shit that third act was, sincerely. I forgot just how contrived everything about this film's plot was. Wow, she just walks off-screen, with the threat still at-large... This fucking movie, man...
I think the beat that just sent me is when they get off the train and just walk into Bloefeld’s lair… like, what the fuck? Why was Bautista trying to kill them if they were on their way from walking into Bloefeld’s hands? What was their plan? For me that’s the moment where the movie goes from a genuinely okay 7 or 6 to a 5.
My favorite part is the fact that she professes her undying love for Bond after he's tortured and then once they get back to London the next day she's all "um actually this isn't going to work out after all" and Bond is all "ok bye-bye then" lmao
@@SteelyDanzig Swan: "Well, good luck preventing the world from being enslaved tonight, I guess. I'm gonna walk back to my home in the Austrian Alps." Bond: "Can I call you sometime?" Swan: "No." Bond: "Oh. M'kay." Intense chemistry, those two had....
For the record, Bond DOES wear brogues in GoldenEye. In the scene where the train crashes into the tank, as 006 reaches for the gun on the floor, Bond stands on it and you can clearly see he’s wearing brogues. He does indeed use his brogues to go rogue.
@@HoustonSoto if you can't see the socks how would you know? In Canon its technically possible that blofield is a sicko who goes into his shoes guns blazing with no socks
On the thames chase, helicopters legally have to follow the river when they're flying through London, for safety reasons. It is nice for an international super terrorist criminal to follow that rule in the name of safety.
Whatever, helo would outrun speedboat (and it's not even a speedboat) without breaking a sweat, a handgun would have little chance to hit the helo at that distance ,I mean even with an AK you'd have a hard time touching a moving helicopter from firm ground, and even if it did hit a handgun would have very little chance to cause any meaningful damage, particularly from that distance, also he's shooting from a moving boat. So at that point who cares.
It kinda makes sense for an international super terrorist to follow the rules… like how if you were driving with expired tags, you’d be extra careful about speeding.
I LOVED Batista in this. I thought he was already above the henchman role when he took the part, but he played it great, and I respect him more for it. He’s the only immediately memorable part of the movie for me
Fun fact: In Spectre, Dave Bautista (Batista) became the fourth actor with a professional wrestling background to play a James Bond villain, following in the footsteps of Harold Sakata (Goldfinger (1964)), Peter Fanene Maivia (You Only Live Twice (1967)), and Pat Roach (Never Say Never Again (1983)).
Fun fact: This movie created the tradition of Day of the Dead parade in Mexico. Before that, there was no Day of the Dead parade or big celebration of any kind, but since, we were like “hmmm… maybe we SHOULD have a parade”. And now there is a Day of the Dead parade every year, in which the gigant skeleton puppets made FOR THE MOVIE, appear every time. Don’t know if they were gifted or sold, but before Spectre there was no parade or puppets, but after Spectre, there is one every year
day of the dead celebrations existed before the movie however that sort of celebration you see in the movie was based from Los Angeles celebrations of Day of the dead (with large puppets) minus the Aztec- Mexica costumes. The ones in df before the movie , were held at night and were more intimate. The real DOTD celebration is somilar to japans day of the dead - OBON Festival , very shintoist. Altough Df had a zombie walk going in in 2014 that was similar , that took place before the movie but no puppets.
The helicopter over the thames bit was probably a filming consideration. London has a really small area where hellicopters can be flown, and its basically just the thames. Emergency service helicopters can fly elsewhere, and you can get special permission but its hard and it takes a long time. Probably easier and safer just to fly where you are generally allowed. A villain may not care about that restriction (though flying elsewhere may draw unwanted attention), but from a practical filming perspective it makes sense.
The boys are now looking at this comment sweating thinking "Ah christ, please don't let this get any traction or attention or we've gotta do all those bloody movies too"
This is your best video for a while lads. They’re all Grade A but this is Grade A+. Also, that In Bruges insert was a work of art. Way to go as ever, Ben.
@@DOSkywalkR I realised that as I was typing but it says he did it in the vid details, so I rolled with my error and hoped no one would notice. Damn your skills!
I loved how they made a big deal about Monica Belucci being the oldest Bond girl, and then they give her almost nothing to do, and kill her off almost immediately. She deserved a better role. In fact, she should have been the main bond girl - she's still very attractive, can act, and her age is more appropriate for someone as old as Daniel Craig.
i love when edgy antihero type characters who are completely willing to kill everyone they come up against, even some random people in the crossfire, even people theyre allied with through careless actions etc. and when faced with the ultimate bad guy, who can and will escape and do it all again, theyll just make a dumb speech and let the bad guy live
“I won’t stoop to your level, I’m better than you.” *villain looks just behind him to see the bread trail of blood, mayhem and carnage the hero took just to catch him.*
In the old films it would only be due to Blofeld legitimately evading Bond and not some kind of mercy. In this I guess its supposed to show he's changing but that arguably only makes sense/sticks if he doesnt make another appearance
The brothers plot twist was pure Austin Powers. I remember that being all I could think about for the rest of the movie. Was it a meta-commentary? Coming full circle? Did they not konw? Will Blofeld's son be the next antagonist? Sooo many questions...
I'd love to see an Austin Powers sequel with Scott Evil as the villain. Austin and Dr. Evil have to work together to defeat him, since neither is smart enough to do it on their own.
9:22 I hate Spectre, but that train fight is easily my favourite Bond fight scene. It should've been the climax of the movie - Bond defeats Blofeld, he takes a train ride with Swann to celebrate, and Hinx shows up to spoil the party.
When Bond was getting his brain drilled and Blofeld said he wouldn’t be able to recognise faces anymore all I could think of was the ‘face blindness’ gag from Arrested Development.
That bit about the movie Lighthouse is hilariously accurate. I started it, got half way through, and stopped. I did indeed have my chance and was not going to finish it. Well done boys.
I really liked that part in this movie when they revealed that bond was actually blonde all along but blofield used ink in all the shampoo bottles in MI6
This analysis is a trip! I honestly have NO recollection of this movie at all. One of those where after 5 minutes of leaving the cinema I'd forgotten everything about it.
My criticism of the song "Writings on the Wall" is of its structure: it has this nice build up, with strings and horns and Smith singing "if I risked it all, would you break my fall?" and then the whole thing shifts to these drifting piano chords with Smith's thin reedy falsetto, and the tension is completely deflated. There's no payoff in the track and so it just feels formless and meandering.
@@BenFromCanada No, it is we that have failed you. You do an incredible job & one minor miss is nothing to worry about. 👍 ... that said, would've been perfect, though... 😏
As a huge Bond Fan, when they revealed that Blofeld was Bond's "Brother", I was like "Wait, is Bond now doing Austin Powers? This Mandele Effect sh1t is getting outta hand".
I'm glad you called out Spectre for how silly its premise is. The idea that the villain is not only secretly James Bond's brother, but was also secretly responsible for all of Bond's misfortune in his life, including the last three movies, is just such a blatant retcon that is such an overstretch in trying to make everything relevant, that it honestly probably would've improved the movie if they'd just left it out altogether.
Connecting those villains just didn't work... I mean, if you watch; 'Casino Royale', 'Quantum of Solace' and 'Skyfall' individually, none of those villains feel like they're bridged. This plotline was such an afterthought.
Oh goodness, yes. For one, the whole Blofeld being responsible for all the events that happened just made the previous films absolutely bad. They never needed to be that explicitly connected. What the hell were they thinking? I really hate the person who thought the telenovela approach was a good idea. It's really unforgivable.
They could have just said Quantum was a branch of SPECTRE, one of its many tentacles. Le Chifre and Roman Polanski were members of that branch of the organization. Just a couple lines is all that would be needed. Blofeld is just leader. He can hate Bond because he’s cost the organization lots of money, and Bond doesn’t need to have any sort of connection with him.
@@monksally exactly. It was a lousy attempt on the writers' part to be edgy and twisted. Yet the twists and reveals weren't anything new by today's standards.
Yeah it’s a genuinely terrible concept. I’d put this as Craig’s worst film, QOS was pretty meh but this ludicrous retcon diminished the previous films. I just choose to ignore it and pretend Spectre didn’t happen.
We are the RADIOHEAD fans shown @ 20:27 !!! Crazy to see ourselves randomly in your video, I watch weekly. Thanks Mr Sunday Movies and Ben from Canada!
The Third Man, as part of one of the most famous scenes in the film. "Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
Bautista is definitely the best part of this film. I wish they would have brought him back for no time to die, again with no dialogue. It’s a total nod to jaws.
The thing about Spectre is that to me it felt like it was two films worth of ideas crammed into one. It’s like the producers didn’t know if they’ve get Craig back for another one and so decided to introduce and deal with Blofeld all in one big story, and conveniently connected to all the past Craig films. While I don’t hate this film as much as others, from what I’ve seen, my opinion of it has gone down since I first saw it. The opening prologue is one of the best, if not the best, in the series but the rest of the film feels conflicting at times. As though they want to keep Craig’s aspects of Bond but also mix it in with some of the Moore aspects which does not work in a film that already feels all over the place at times.
Mason, since I know you love being publicly corrected by nerds, the tracker that Bond was injected with in Casino Royale was cut out of his arm by Le Chiffre right after his record-breaking Aston Martin barrel roll
Honest to god, I have been saying “I’m going to watch The Lighthouse” for like a year and a half now and it doesn’t look like it’s gonna happen, so that bit near the end really hit home for me.
It's really weird, over the last few weeks I've watch all the Craig movies as a refresher for NTTD and I liked Skyfall way more, and disliked Spectre way more, than the first and only times I'd seen either movie. I think the problem is retrospectively Spectre doesn't really "earn" any of these big moments it tries to shoot for. Turns out Blofeld was behind everything in the first three movies! Umm, ok? Waltz was a great villain, because of course he was, but he got so little screentime and the entire movie is such "tell, don't show", that he's just kind of... there? and also ultimately pretty ineffectual for being such a seemingly omniscient villain. And then the romance with Madeleine, her professing her love for this guy that she only met like maybe 5 days earlier and didn't even *like* that much until they had one post-traumatic bang session, just felt so rushed and contrived. And the complete lack of chemistry between the two actors didn't help either.
One of the reasons I did like Spectre was that towards the end it really looked like Seydoux's character was just going to walk away from Bond and I was really into that idea. It'd be the first Bond girl (to my knowledge) who ends the relationship on screen on her terms, not dead or just thrown on the heap between movies. And she had good reason, but then she's just back for not reason at the end. I don't remember it well but I just remember being annoyed at them missing so much opportunities to do really good shit.
I have to say, I saw a thumbnail of this channel months ago. I remember it was for some movie I liked and did not want to hear some people trashing it. I got bored the other day and clicked on the GoldenEye breakdown. Great stuff, I have been hooked. I watched all of the bond stuff so far. Overall the Craig movies are my favorite. Specter was just, sort of bad. I think Casino Royal is a better move, but SkyFall is my favorite bond film. If that makes sense lol. Perhaps because it was my mom's favorite and it was one of the last movies we saw together. Also Quantum of Solace wasn't bad imo. Was it as good as Casino Royal, no. I still enjoyed it. Like I said great stuff. Looking forward to getting caught up on everything.
As my girlfriend loves to point out, the problem with the song is that the octopus imagery leads you believe there will be some octopus on bond action. Distinct lack of any octopi in the film though
It felt like too much of a plot convenience that SPECTRE was behind *everything* from the previous films. Le Chiffre, Quantum, and Silva were all just SPECTRE's pawns? And Bond and Blofeld grew up together? The world's greatest secret agent and the head of the world's biggest criminal organization just happened to be foster brothers?
I remember watching this film with my mother, who was a big Bond fan since it began in the 60s and halfway through this one she just went "this is a bit boring, isn't it? Is it over soon?" Perfect sum up from my mother, there. Even Daniel Craig looked bored out of his nut in this.
The whole point (I thought) of bond "retiring" and sucking at his tests in the previous movie was to trick the bad guy into thinking he sucked, when he really still didn't suck. But maybe I'm wrong.
Starting at 29:10 -- you guys go into a overly complex explanation about the cross-over in audiences. I don't know what you would call that little thing but I live for that. Simply amazing lol I'm subscribing
The most frustrating thing about this one is that the opening shot is so spectacular and the rest of the movie slowly erodes that goodwill. It’s just not fun. Lea Seydoux is on the verge of tears the whole time. It’s just so DOUR.
Dour is exactly the word I use to describe it. There's no energy or life there, it doesn't feel like a Bond film. Even the darkest Bond flicks have a playfulness to them.
@ yeah, I can see that. I thought it took itself seriously for this era, but not so much that it wasn’t recognisable from another Bond film, in my opinion.
Fun fact: helicopters have to fly along the Thames river through London. This is for safety reasons. They drop into the river rather than smashing into buildings that way
The twist in Austin Powers was at least satisfying. Neither Austin nor Dr. Evil knew they were brothers, so it didn't actually affect anything that had come before. The twist in Spectre was much more like the twist in Scream 3, where Sidney also found out she had a brother, and it turned out he had orchestrated everything from the first movie. Absolutely spitting in the face of every fan.
Yeah, I'm still amazed that they made the exact same mistake with Blofeld that Star Trek Into Darkness made with Khan. Even going through all the trouble of denying the character was exactly who everyone already figured out he was to the point of giving him a different name. And then the big "My name is Khan/Blofeld!" reveal falls completely flat within the context of the movie. It's only significant in an outside of the movie way to the audience like James said, and even then mainly just to the franchise fans. I remember there being a lot of confused muttering in the theater after the Blofeld reveal especially.
If I directed this, I probably would've shouted at the writers for trying that misdirection out. It never works and I'd rather be honest with my audience then build up anticipation for the events of the film rather than make people excited for who the next villain is (and fail spectacularly).
@@joshbuechler4867 In a way, yeah. But those reveals were not that frustrating compared to modern Khan and modern Blofeld. I think because people were more inquisitive about main villains. The reveals of Miss Moneypenny and John Blake were more about closing out the movies and coming together to complete the pieces of the puzzle. At least that's how I see it.
One of the things I liked about the first couple Craig movies was that they eschewed the tradition of Bond just getting a little cut on the side of his face during even the biggest of fights, and let him actually get beaten up pretty good, which makes him more grounded and sympathetic. But by the time we get to Spectre, he's brawling with Dave Bautista and emerging without a scratch on him.
“Cunt fucking kids” is, without doubt, my favourite gag I have ever seen or heard from any of your videos or podcasts. Genuinely laughed out loud. Thank you.
Remember when they made a big deal out of Bond finally having an age-appropriate Bond girl, but then his actual love interest turned out to be another woman young enough to be his daughter.
The point of you not only being that guy to enjoy both kinds of films BUT ALSO having planned to watch The Lighthouse immediately after This (the 4th part of the series in which the boys discuss the bond series) for the first time is the premise, setup and Punchline of a fantastically delivered joke.
A huge part of the Bond formula is kind of just copying whatever’s popular in action movies and really movies in general at the time of the films release. Sometimes it blends into the film really well and you don’t even think about it, other times it sticks out really bad and all you can think about during the film is “huh, this is just like (insert most popular action movie of that year)”
"You see, Bond had a pre-set kill limit. Knowing that weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at him until he reached his limit and shut down." -Blofeld
Fun fact: initial drafts of this film leaked during the Sony Hacks featured intriguing ideas like M being a traitor and Blofeld being a vicious African warlord played by Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Kim Jong Un's 007: Spectre.
Sounds like a better movie
Not to be confused with the vicious African warlord from Casino Royale?
@@KeithFraser82 Africa’s a huge continent, you can have more than one.
@@geekTroperaku There was no such outrage for Live and Let Die. Please don’t make things up.
I love Ben's passionate and extensively researched defence of the big net.
This is incredibly out of context but Radiohead made the original Bond song for Spectre but it was turned down unfortunately
@@froot... They said that in the video
@@sabrina63 I forgor
Never stop naming random Australian celebrities and pointing them out in the movies you watch. I find it both hilarious and beautifully patriotic. Hard combo to pull off.
I love it...
"Ah yes, Edward Danson, the lead actor of aussie sitcom, three men and a 'roo"
And I'm just thinking, what?
Between James and Maso and Aunty Donna, I now have a very healthy (unhealthy?) knowledge of random Aussie things like Hey Hey it's Saturday
I was not expecting the list to include Dickie Knee!🤣
I get the same feeling from a bulldog farting
Half of Hollywood is Aussie
13:24 To be absolutely fair to Blofeld, as well as getting some frantic photocopying done for the showdown, he did also have the time to install a 5 inch thick, 20 foot high bulletproof glass wall in the corridors of the dilapidated MI6 building, bizarrely.
When I saw Spectre in the cinema everybody genuinely seemed to think M was going to drop the C-bomb. There was a lot of awkward laughter when he said 'careless' instead.
Almost booed when he didn’t drop the C bomb
Thankfully there’s a few edits on RUclips which show what C really stands for
I literally mouthed that word thinking he was going to say. Then “careless” or that😂
they shouldn't have even said careless, great way to deliver the c-bomb without saying it
I remember this happening to me too. You see this in Australia?
“I can unjustly criticize anything, and I do regularly” is such a powerful sentence
That bit in Spectre during the car chase where he pushes the little car into the parking space is sooo Mr. Bean.
🤣 Now I'm imagining Daniel Craig's Bond getting dressed/brushing his teeth while driving or changing suits like they talked about in the Quantum of Solace video
Or something from Johnny English
Ever see that deleted scene from Casino Royale, the Bond emerging from the water?
Just before that scene he tried his hardest to privately change into his swim trunks on the beach but he was worried a guy would see him, so he tries to be discreet, only to realize once he's finished that the other beach goer is actually blind.
That was VERY Mr. Bean.
Lots of British comedy in it that us Americans just don’t get what’s so funny
Just reminds me of Never Say Never Again
"Ice down you knees, Bond....you old piece shit" made me laugh very hard, but also felt like a personal shot.
My favorite part of this movie is near the third act when they establish the villain can see and hear everything, has eyes in the sky and complete omniscience, and the very next thing that happens is the lady decides she doesn't want to be involved and just walks home, all the good guys let her go, and then she gets captured immediately. Great writing, fellas. Keep earning that bread.
Holy shit, I was wondering about this the other day. It's been so long since I saw this film, and I forgot how it built to that dumb climax where she's tied up in the old MI6 building that was about to explode. I thought to myself, "Wait. She was with Bond when he escaped that desert lair, and was with him when he got back to London, right? How did she get captured again?" And because it's Spectre, I didn't want to waste my time looking up the plot points of the film again, so I just left it. Thanks for reminding just how shit that third act was, sincerely. I forgot just how contrived everything about this film's plot was. Wow, she just walks off-screen, with the threat still at-large... This fucking movie, man...
I think the beat that just sent me is when they get off the train and just walk into Bloefeld’s lair… like, what the fuck? Why was Bautista trying to kill them if they were on their way from walking into Bloefeld’s hands? What was their plan? For me that’s the moment where the movie goes from a genuinely okay 7 or 6 to a 5.
@@MayhemMessiah Holy crap, you're right. Why the hell did Blofeld send Bautista to kill them? This movie...
My favorite part is the fact that she professes her undying love for Bond after he's tortured and then once they get back to London the next day she's all "um actually this isn't going to work out after all" and Bond is all "ok bye-bye then" lmao
@@SteelyDanzig
Swan: "Well, good luck preventing the world from being enslaved tonight, I guess. I'm gonna walk back to my home in the Austrian Alps."
Bond: "Can I call you sometime?"
Swan: "No."
Bond: "Oh. M'kay."
Intense chemistry, those two had....
For the record, Bond DOES wear brogues in GoldenEye. In the scene where the train crashes into the tank, as 006 reaches for the gun on the floor, Bond stands on it and you can clearly see he’s wearing brogues.
He does indeed use his brogues to go rogue.
brogue moment
Maybe the real quantum of solace were the spectres we made along the way.
Skyfall
@@Swoosh_015 That’s a real Casino Royale of a comment.
So that's just it, huh? We're some kinda "No Time to Die"?
Octopussy
This is the best ongoing joke of this entire channel
(Except of course corn of coblin)
Disappointed Blofeld wearing little slippies with no socks wasn’t brought up
That was how you knew he was a bad guy.
They’re loafers with no-show socks.
@@HoustonSoto if you can't see the socks how would you know? In Canon its technically possible that blofield is a sicko who goes into his shoes guns blazing with no socks
The chip in his arm got dug out by Le Chiffe's crew in casino royale.
Yeah I didn’t understand why they were saying he chewed it out. Lol what?
Figured someone else would catch that too. 007 nerds unite.
@@PittsburghSonido They actually mention that in the extended audio edition.
One thing you shouldn't rely on is these two paying attention to the details
@@cph4314 True. Obvi we’re not here for the deets.
Bond: It’s cool, I’ve got a license to kill.
Policeman: Not in this country.
Oi you got a license for that murdering?
On the thames chase, helicopters legally have to follow the river when they're flying through London, for safety reasons.
It is nice for an international super terrorist criminal to follow that rule in the name of safety.
Whatever, helo would outrun speedboat (and it's not even a speedboat) without breaking a sweat, a handgun would have little chance to hit the helo at that distance ,I mean even with an AK you'd have a hard time touching a moving helicopter from firm ground, and even if it did hit a handgun would have very little chance to cause any meaningful damage, particularly from that distance, also he's shooting from a moving boat. So at that point who cares.
@@shinobi-no-bueno no
"HEY we might be willing to topple entire governments in the pursuit of personal gain, but we aren't ANIMALS, we follow traffic safety laws!"
It kinda makes sense for an international super terrorist to follow the rules… like how if you were driving with expired tags, you’d be extra careful about speeding.
why? there isnt a building over 4 stories in the uk
I LOVED Batista in this. I thought he was already above the henchman role when he took the part, but he played it great, and I respect him more for it. He’s the only immediately memorable part of the movie for me
Fun fact: In Spectre, Dave Bautista (Batista) became the fourth actor with a professional wrestling background to play a James Bond villain, following in the footsteps of Harold Sakata (Goldfinger (1964)), Peter Fanene Maivia (You Only Live Twice (1967)), and Pat Roach (Never Say Never Again (1983)).
Fun fact!
You have a licence to trivia too I see
Peter Maivia aka The Rock’s grandad!
@@thebloodyaussie1458 a licence to trivia is also a licence... not to trivia. So in a way, we all have a licence to trivia.
A which point do we stop caring? Or is it the more there are the more it's interesting? I'm confused.
This is the only movie I’ve ever had to rewind an hour of because I suddenly realised I zoned out and had no idea what was going on
Fun fact: This movie created the tradition of Day of the Dead parade in Mexico. Before that, there was no Day of the Dead parade or big celebration of any kind, but since, we were like “hmmm… maybe we SHOULD have a parade”.
And now there is a Day of the Dead parade every year, in which the gigant skeleton puppets made FOR THE MOVIE, appear every time. Don’t know if they were gifted or sold, but before Spectre there was no parade or puppets, but after Spectre, there is one every year
LOL
day of the dead celebrations existed before the movie however that sort of celebration you see in the movie was based from Los Angeles celebrations of Day of the dead (with large puppets) minus the Aztec- Mexica costumes. The ones in df before the movie , were held at night and were more intimate. The real DOTD celebration is somilar to japans day of the dead - OBON Festival , very shintoist.
Altough Df had a zombie walk going in in 2014 that was similar , that took place before the movie but no puppets.
This is very true. Did you also know…Tuxedos were invented in 1962 with the release of Dr No? It’s true! Men wore dresses to events before that.
@@chibiromano5631 boring, didn't read.
And remember, Mexico itself did not exist until 1982, when it was invented by the Taco Bell Corporation, now Yum Foods Brand Group.
The helicopter over the thames bit was probably a filming consideration. London has a really small area where hellicopters can be flown, and its basically just the thames. Emergency service helicopters can fly elsewhere, and you can get special permission but its hard and it takes a long time. Probably easier and safer just to fly where you are generally allowed.
A villain may not care about that restriction (though flying elsewhere may draw unwanted attention), but from a practical filming perspective it makes sense.
Now that you're done with bond that has to mean you're available for Johnny English...
The boys are now looking at this comment sweating thinking "Ah christ, please don't let this get any traction or attention or we've gotta do all those bloody movies too"
Yes man
The second JE film is oddly charming. Honest 🙏🏽
@@PredakillerPS3there's only 2
@@Blackhawk211 There's 3. Google is your friend
This is your best video for a while lads. They’re all Grade A but this is Grade A+.
Also, that In Bruges insert was a work of art. Way to go as ever, Ben.
This one wasn't edited by Ben, they said it in the video 😅
@@DOSkywalkR I realised that as I was typing but it says he did it in the vid details, so I rolled with my error and hoped no one would notice. Damn your skills!
That 'Now we know what C stands for' In Bruges edit is youtube oscar worthy..
Crying with laughter 😂
What time stamp is it?
@@lupinisthinking 18:19
@@ImLewisPatrick thanks!
I loved how they made a big deal about Monica Belucci being the oldest Bond girl, and then they give her almost nothing to do, and kill her off almost immediately. She deserved a better role.
In fact, she should have been the main bond girl - she's still very attractive, can act, and her age is more appropriate for someone as old as Daniel Craig.
But is she the heir to the seydoux fortune? Thought not…
I don’t think she died actually
This has been my favourite series from Caravan of Garbage! I now have knowledge about suits that I didn’t know I needed or wanted.
Bespoke Comment. "Catchphrase!"
"Fuckin' ice down your knees, Bond. You old piece of shit" had me HOWLING.
i love when edgy antihero type characters who are completely willing to kill everyone they come up against, even some random people in the crossfire, even people theyre allied with through careless actions etc. and when faced with the ultimate bad guy, who can and will escape and do it all again, theyll just make a dumb speech and let the bad guy live
“I won’t stoop to your level, I’m better than you.”
*villain looks just behind him to see the bread trail of blood, mayhem and carnage the hero took just to catch him.*
In the old films it would only be due to Blofeld legitimately evading Bond and not some kind of mercy. In this I guess its supposed to show he's changing but that arguably only makes sense/sticks if he doesnt make another appearance
The brothers plot twist was pure Austin Powers. I remember that being all I could think about for the rest of the movie. Was it a meta-commentary? Coming full circle? Did they not konw? Will Blofeld's son be the next antagonist? Sooo many questions...
His daughter is the villain in one of John Gardner's reboots so anything's possible.
I'd love to see an Austin Powers sequel with Scott Evil as the villain. Austin and Dr. Evil have to work together to defeat him, since neither is smart enough to do it on their own.
Scott Blofeld
9:22 I hate Spectre, but that train fight is easily my favourite Bond fight scene. It should've been the climax of the movie - Bond defeats Blofeld, he takes a train ride with Swann to celebrate, and Hinx shows up to spoil the party.
That’s happened a few times man
That would've sucked, copying specifically what makes the pacing quite poor in many previous bond films.
When Bond was getting his brain drilled and Blofeld said he wouldn’t be able to recognise faces anymore all I could think of was the ‘face blindness’ gag from Arrested Development.
I feel like Dave Bautista is the perfect modern Bond henchman, maybe that’s me.
I second this.
He's wasted in this movie
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What he needed were those teeny tiny glasses he wore in Blade Runner. That would have made him perfect. Or steel balls.
He along with the pre opening titles action scene was the best part of the movie
That bit about the movie Lighthouse is hilariously accurate. I started it, got half way through, and stopped. I did indeed have my chance and was not going to finish it. Well done boys.
Yep me too
I really liked that part in this movie when they revealed that bond was actually blonde all along but blofield used ink in all the shampoo bottles in MI6
This analysis is a trip! I honestly have NO recollection of this movie at all. One of those where after 5 minutes of leaving the cinema I'd forgotten everything about it.
My criticism of the song "Writings on the Wall" is of its structure: it has this nice build up, with strings and horns and Smith singing "if I risked it all, would you break my fall?" and then the whole thing shifts to these drifting piano chords with Smith's thin reedy falsetto, and the tension is completely deflated. There's no payoff in the track and so it just feels formless and meandering.
Just like this film
@@samjackson9560 fuckin burn.
Even though I know it's been beaten to death, I still think thematically Spectre fits better with the sorrow and tone.
Plus Radiohead ❤️
Damn you've put into words how I feel about that song for 6 years, fair play!
I think you hit the nail on the head, and yet, this song bafflingly won the Oscar for "Best Original Song"...
I would like to personally thank the editor for 18:25 , any reference to in Brugge is appreciated, but that was hilarious
Whoever is editing this… bravo on the In Bruges Ralph Fiennes C-Bomb clip
22:31 it’s really smart of Q to realize that of all spies in the intelligence community, Bond wasn’t gonna have an uneventful retirement if he tried
3:10 the editor on this is really losing a chance to insert clips from Never Say Never Again
where Rowan Atkinson interacts with Sean Connery.
Ben from Canada is like that
[Not so sudle (I cant spell it I tried) plug]
@@Ooffoop HINT: There’s a B in it! 🐝
I'm sorry
@@BenFromCanada No, it is we that have failed you.
You do an incredible job & one minor miss is nothing to worry about. 👍
... that said, would've been perfect, though... 😏
@@Sweet00thtkc GOD DAMN IT HOW COULD I FORGET THAT!
As a huge Bond Fan, when they revealed that Blofeld was Bond's "Brother", I was like "Wait, is Bond now doing Austin Powers? This Mandele Effect sh1t is getting outta hand".
I'm glad you called out Spectre for how silly its premise is. The idea that the villain is not only secretly James Bond's brother, but was also secretly responsible for all of Bond's misfortune in his life, including the last three movies, is just such a blatant retcon that is such an overstretch in trying to make everything relevant, that it honestly probably would've improved the movie if they'd just left it out altogether.
Connecting those villains just didn't work... I mean, if you watch; 'Casino Royale', 'Quantum of Solace' and 'Skyfall' individually, none of those villains feel like they're bridged. This plotline was such an afterthought.
Oh goodness, yes. For one, the whole Blofeld being responsible for all the events that happened just made the previous films absolutely bad. They never needed to be that explicitly connected. What the hell were they thinking? I really hate the person who thought the telenovela approach was a good idea. It's really unforgivable.
They could have just said Quantum was a branch of SPECTRE, one of its many tentacles. Le Chifre and Roman Polanski were members of that branch of the organization. Just a couple lines is all that would be needed. Blofeld is just leader. He can hate Bond because he’s cost the organization lots of money, and Bond doesn’t need to have any sort of connection with him.
@@monksally exactly. It was a lousy attempt on the writers' part to be edgy and twisted. Yet the twists and reveals weren't anything new by today's standards.
Yeah it’s a genuinely terrible concept. I’d put this as Craig’s worst film, QOS was pretty meh but this ludicrous retcon diminished the previous films. I just choose to ignore it and pretend Spectre didn’t happen.
We are the RADIOHEAD fans shown @ 20:27 !!! Crazy to see ourselves randomly in your video, I watch weekly. Thanks Mr Sunday Movies and Ben from Canada!
I genuinely can’t think another movie where the villain says “Cuckoo”.
_Mystery Men_
No time to die
The Third Man, as part of one of the most famous scenes in the film.
"Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
(Note that that speech is pretty misguided, because during the Renaissance Switzerland exported mercenaries to fight in other countries.)
@@sgl0d10n twice, in fact.
Bautista is definitely the best part of this film. I wish they would have brought him back for no time to die, again with no dialogue. It’s a total nod to jaws.
Bautista is probably the perfect candidate for an actual reboot of Jaws, which makes his character in Spectre extra disappointing.
@@garretteverett2613 I agree, he would make a fantastic 25ft great white cruising the lower new york bay area.
He definitely died in Spectre.
lol of course but if you watch moonraker, jaws should have died like 5 times haha.
“A Couple of Backwards Boys Running Amuck” needs a Weekly Planet Poster
hi joe brennan from the joe brennan channel
Wowee I can’t go anywhere these days
The thing about Spectre is that to me it felt like it was two films worth of ideas crammed into one. It’s like the producers didn’t know if they’ve get Craig back for another one and so decided to introduce and deal with Blofeld all in one big story, and conveniently connected to all the past Craig films. While I don’t hate this film as much as others, from what I’ve seen, my opinion of it has gone down since I first saw it. The opening prologue is one of the best, if not the best, in the series but the rest of the film feels conflicting at times. As though they want to keep Craig’s aspects of Bond but also mix it in with some of the Moore aspects which does not work in a film that already feels all over the place at times.
I like spectre because it made me fell asleep on the theater and it was one of the best sleep I’ve ever had in my life
I too fell asleep. The only thing that roused me was that drill scene.
18:25 I honestly haven’t laughed like that in a long time. Thanks editor
Thank you for timestamping that. I was searching for it for ages!
Mason, since I know you love being publicly corrected by nerds, the tracker that Bond was injected with in Casino Royale was cut out of his arm by Le Chiffre right after his record-breaking Aston Martin barrel roll
They actually mention that in the extended audio version.
I just love the idea of Bond having Donnie Darko posters at his apartment.
The only good thing to come out of Spectre was Radiohead's song and technically it didnt even come out of Spectre
Writing's on the Wall is really good too to be fair, but yeah they definitely should've used Radiohead's.
Such a good song for such a bad film
@@Akkbar21 Agreed. Radiohead are terrible.
a radiohead fan saying that a radiohead song is the best part of something? what a surprise.
Actually, that's precisely what happened, it was taken out of Spectre, that is to say it came out.
Honest to god, I have been saying “I’m going to watch The Lighthouse” for like a year and a half now and it doesn’t look like it’s gonna happen, so that bit near the end really hit home for me.
Oh boy I hope this week there’s a “did he go rogue or did he retire” segment
You mean “Does he use his Oxfords to go rogue?”
He rogtired
@@warl0rdj1m You win.
18:25 may just be the BEST EDIT EVER IN THE HISTORY OF EDITING BRAVO
On Bond’s navy uniform, there’s actually a pic of Daniel Craig in British Navy getup from a couple weeks back to advertise the new film.
I think he was given an actual official rank in the Navy which is weird
@@ANGELOFDARKification I believe it was “Honorary Commander”
The fictional character of James Bond was a Commander in the Royal Navy Reserve during WWII
This movie had the absolute most BORING and non-eventful "car chase" in any movie I've ever seen.
In a James Bond movie as well, that's unacceptable.
Agreed, that car chase was the least exciting action scene ever.
A glorified car commercial
Came here to say the same thing. I have more exciting commutes than this car chase.
Fitted a boring and non-eventful film.
It's really weird, over the last few weeks I've watch all the Craig movies as a refresher for NTTD and I liked Skyfall way more, and disliked Spectre way more, than the first and only times I'd seen either movie.
I think the problem is retrospectively Spectre doesn't really "earn" any of these big moments it tries to shoot for. Turns out Blofeld was behind everything in the first three movies! Umm, ok? Waltz was a great villain, because of course he was, but he got so little screentime and the entire movie is such "tell, don't show", that he's just kind of... there? and also ultimately pretty ineffectual for being such a seemingly omniscient villain.
And then the romance with Madeleine, her professing her love for this guy that she only met like maybe 5 days earlier and didn't even *like* that much until they had one post-traumatic bang session, just felt so rushed and contrived. And the complete lack of chemistry between the two actors didn't help either.
One of the reasons I did like Spectre was that towards the end it really looked like Seydoux's character was just going to walk away from Bond and I was really into that idea. It'd be the first Bond girl (to my knowledge) who ends the relationship on screen on her terms, not dead or just thrown on the heap between movies. And she had good reason, but then she's just back for not reason at the end.
I don't remember it well but I just remember being annoyed at them missing so much opportunities to do really good shit.
Kinda weird James doesn't know a thing about Radiohead considering "Mr Sunday Movies" is a Radiohead song
It may be, like, a joke. Considering it's been referenced at least five times . . .
@@chefdean7257 what's a joke?
Considering that they don't always post about movies, nor always post on Sundays, I don't think they live up to their name. Terrible
@@SirBigWater Its always Sunday in Australia, Mate. Cause of the hemispheres and shit.
@@parakathepyro Hemispheres? Ain't that the actor for Thor? Weird Australian names
I have to say, I saw a thumbnail of this channel months ago. I remember it was for some movie I liked and did not want to hear some people trashing it. I got bored the other day and clicked on the GoldenEye breakdown. Great stuff, I have been hooked. I watched all of the bond stuff so far.
Overall the Craig movies are my favorite. Specter was just, sort of bad. I think Casino Royal is a better move, but SkyFall is my favorite bond film. If that makes sense lol. Perhaps because it was my mom's favorite and it was one of the last movies we saw together. Also Quantum of Solace wasn't bad imo. Was it as good as Casino Royal, no. I still enjoyed it.
Like I said great stuff. Looking forward to getting caught up on everything.
In Irish the word “bróg” is just the general word for shoe, so I quite enjoyed Does He Use His Brógs to go Rogues
And I believe he does wear brogues during the Scotland sequence in Skyfall, so he does indeed use his brogues to go rogue(s).
As my girlfriend loves to point out, the problem with the song is that the octopus imagery leads you believe there will be some octopus on bond action. Distinct lack of any octopi in the film though
She's a genius. I had no idea that that's why I hate this film.
With this film it felt like they thought it’d be great. They had a checklist and everything sounds great. But they forgot to write a good script
It felt like too much of a plot convenience that SPECTRE was behind *everything* from the previous films. Le Chiffre, Quantum, and Silva were all just SPECTRE's pawns? And Bond and Blofeld grew up together? The world's greatest secret agent and the head of the world's biggest criminal organization just happened to be foster brothers?
I swear, I could’ve taken the name change from Quantum to Spectre if Blofeld had said “Oh, we rebranded”
I remember watching this film with my mother, who was a big Bond fan since it began in the 60s and halfway through this one she just went "this is a bit boring, isn't it? Is it over soon?"
Perfect sum up from my mother, there. Even Daniel Craig looked bored out of his nut in this.
Skyfall took from the Dark Knight, and Specter has Blofeld use the "It was me BARRY!" Reverse Flash meme. It's all connected!
The Ralph Fiennes In Bruges reference is the best thing I've ever seen in one of these, Bravo BEN!
Missed opportunity to have bond save a random henchman from everything leaving behind the Bond girl
The most memorable thing that I remember from watching Spectre in theaters was that I started choking on ice when the plane went through the building
The whole point (I thought) of bond "retiring" and sucking at his tests in the previous movie was to trick the bad guy into thinking he sucked, when he really still didn't suck. But maybe I'm wrong.
No, bond just actually sucked at the time lmao
@@MichaelManning15 oh shit.
Starting at 29:10 -- you guys go into a overly complex explanation about the cross-over in audiences. I don't know what you would call that little thing but I live for that. Simply amazing lol I'm subscribing
Amazing Spider-Man movies for CoG? Can't wait to see James and Maso talk about them!
27:39 I feel like a lot of bad guys in Bond forget he’s James Bond
The most frustrating thing about this one is that the opening shot is so spectacular and the rest of the movie slowly erodes that goodwill. It’s just not fun. Lea Seydoux is on the verge of tears the whole time. It’s just so DOUR.
I think that's even made apparent in the cinematography. I watched the blu ray and it's just so dull and drained of colour.
Dour is exactly the word I use to describe it. There's no energy or life there, it doesn't feel like a Bond film. Even the darkest Bond flicks have a playfulness to them.
@@rkitchen69 same man....its just dark brown and orange, felt like wearing heavy tint sunglasses indoors
@ nah, that film had actual stakes and was way, way more entertaining.
@ yeah, I can see that. I thought it took itself seriously for this era, but not so much that it wasn’t recognisable from another Bond film, in my opinion.
Love the Brosnan impression. I'm disappointed you didn't get around to saying, 'Buy me a pint,' though.
I think you guys should do the original teenage mutant ninja turtles movies from the 90s. They were fucking great
The guys from comic pop did that one
Mason was so distraught at James' unsanctioned buffoonery he forgot to tell us to grab that gem!
He actually does say it in the extended audio version.
"James Bond Goes Tropical" should be a title.
While eating a slice of pineapple on a burger
Fun fact: helicopters have to fly along the Thames river through London. This is for safety reasons. They drop into the river rather than smashing into buildings that way
International criminal and terrorist blofeld is very concerned with keeping the airspace of London safe for all
My god that "Now I know what C stands for" almost killed me. Incredible editing Ben.
The Blofeld Face.
The Wilhelm Scream.
The pillars of Cinema
Holy shit that In Bruges reference made my life.
The twist in Austin Powers was at least satisfying. Neither Austin nor Dr. Evil knew they were brothers, so it didn't actually affect anything that had come before. The twist in Spectre was much more like the twist in Scream 3, where Sidney also found out she had a brother, and it turned out he had orchestrated everything from the first movie. Absolutely spitting in the face of every fan.
Yeah, I'm still amazed that they made the exact same mistake with Blofeld that Star Trek Into Darkness made with Khan. Even going through all the trouble of denying the character was exactly who everyone already figured out he was to the point of giving him a different name. And then the big "My name is Khan/Blofeld!" reveal falls completely flat within the context of the movie. It's only significant in an outside of the movie way to the audience like James said, and even then mainly just to the franchise fans. I remember there being a lot of confused muttering in the theater after the Blofeld reveal especially.
If I directed this, I probably would've shouted at the writers for trying that misdirection out. It never works and I'd rather be honest with my audience then build up anticipation for the events of the film rather than make people excited for who the next villain is (and fail spectacularly).
See also Moneypenny and Robin John Blake.
@@joshbuechler4867 In a way, yeah. But those reveals were not that frustrating compared to modern Khan and modern Blofeld. I think because people were more inquisitive about main villains. The reveals of Miss Moneypenny and John Blake were more about closing out the movies and coming together to complete the pieces of the puzzle. At least that's how I see it.
That In Bruge edit around 18:20 caught me so off guard I actually choked, well done
Can’t believe we made it all the way from Kassino Ragaal to Spectray.
One of the things I liked about the first couple Craig movies was that they eschewed the tradition of Bond just getting a little cut on the side of his face during even the biggest of fights, and let him actually get beaten up pretty good, which makes him more grounded and sympathetic. But by the time we get to Spectre, he's brawling with Dave Bautista and emerging without a scratch on him.
James and Maso really calling me out on my half-hearted intentions to watch the Lighthouse
“Cunt fucking kids” is, without doubt, my favourite gag I have ever seen or heard from any of your videos or podcasts. Genuinely laughed out loud. Thank you.
Remember when they made a big deal out of Bond finally having an age-appropriate Bond girl, but then his actual love interest turned out to be another woman young enough to be his daughter.
FYI: I'm the guy that enjoys both Bond movies and weird movies like The Lighthouse, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
The point of you not only being that guy to enjoy both kinds of films BUT ALSO having planned to watch The Lighthouse immediately after This (the 4th part of the series in which the boys discuss the bond series) for the first time is the premise, setup and Punchline of a fantastically delivered joke.
Remember when they remade Austin Powers 3 and took all of the fun out of it?
Cant wait to watch this vid, might watch the lighthouse after as long as it isn't spoiled in the next 39 minutes
The Blofeld thing in this movie also bears a striking resemblance to the Palpatine thing from Rise of Skywalker. Huh...
Star Trek Into Darkness as well.
A huge part of the Bond formula is kind of just copying whatever’s popular in action movies and really movies in general at the time of the films release. Sometimes it blends into the film really well and you don’t even think about it, other times it sticks out really bad and all you can think about during the film is “huh, this is just like (insert most popular action movie of that year)”
@@TheDamnWinner
Spectre's plot is very similar to The Winter Soldier.
If a film comes first then the second film bares the resemblance.
How?
In this movie they don't even explain that S.P.E.C.T.R.E is actually an acronym of Special Executive for Counter-intelligence,Terrorism and Revenge
Tenet! Guys! You MUST DO TENET! I'll even go the extra mile and leave a like. Save the sub for Tenet
The fact that I *was* going to see Lighthouse and yet I am watching this is extremely funny and slightly frightening
As far as the Song goes... It would have been very hard to beat out Skyfall. That shit still gives me goosebumps when I hear it. It's soooo good.
You know my name form Cris Cornell is better
@@bionicearth Yes, let's argue over subjective enjoyment of music, I'm sure that'll be worthwhile.
@@bionicearth for what it’s worth, you’re right.
The one for No Time To Die is Bond theme perfection too.
@@hollandscottthomas not even close lol
"You see, Bond had a pre-set kill limit. Knowing that weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at him until he reached his limit and shut down." -Blofeld