As you can tell by my persistent comments, I really really enjoyed this series, so thank you for making it! I hope your videos garner a lot more attention and I'm eager to hear your thoughts on the Brosnan era and whatever else you decide to explore in the future. But no rush! We have all the time in the world 😜 (Oh and dear Henry Cavill Bond Fans of 2030: I was here when this channel had less than 100 subscribers! 😌🤚)
Like you, I appreciate the Craig era for its attention to thematic concerns. But I'm really ready for a different direction now! Would definitely like to hear your analysis of the Brosnan run!
Bond's entire life has not just been a life of service but actually a life of sacrifice. Fleming sets this up from the beginning and follows all the way through the Craig era. Like I said before Bond is a Bodhisattva.
Ryan, Thank you as always for a thought provoking video. I personally love No Time To Die though it’s a movie I find myself almost afraid to watch- mainly because of Bond’s death. I’ll be honest; I went into seeing the film with ZERO spoilers being ruined for me. I saw it in IMAX and loved the film. I laughed, and I cried. It really was (and continues to be a visceral experience for me). From the moment the vial is smashed into his face I am just gut wrenched until the film ends. For me I had my suspicions about 007 dying based off the film’s title, knowing this was Daniel Craig’s final ‘bow at the curtain’ but I held out hope that he’d live to die another day. What sealed the deal and made me beyond certain that Bond was dying is when Naomi and Bind are in the Cato plane getting briefed by M and Naomi asks permission for Bond to be re-designated as 007. It’s a pivotal moment for the storyline but that brief act of making Bond 007 again sealed his fate in my mind. It’s an old trope in films- another example is in Star Wars- a New Hope when another pilot (the name escapes me at the moment) but he and Luke have a few throw away lines ‘have I got stories to tell you…’ etc. and sure enough that pilot dies in the battle of the Death Star. So yes when M grants Bond the 007 designation I squirmed and sank into my seat. I knew it was for real this time… and it hurt and it still hurts. I have been a devote Bond fan since I was 6 and coincidentally became a father the same year that Bond found out he was a father (how poignant!) but it hit home infantly harder on a personal emotional level. I dare say No Time to Die is one of my favorite Bond films (it had plenty of faults and flaws and contrivances) but the emotional rollercoaster that the film takes you on make it the most emotionally powerful Bond film for me. When the film faded to black and the credits rolled I think I held my breath the entire time silently praying to see the ‘James Bond will return’ dialog. It was one of the biggest reliefs I’ve ever experienced. For days / even weeks I was melancholy. I think it’s a beautiful thing for a creative or artistic endeavor to leave a lasting impact and this film surely has done that for me. I cannot wait for Bond 26.
An entertaining and thought-provoking series. Your reflections on the Craig Era have helped, somewhat, to ease my frustrations around the five films, especially SPECTRE. Finding through lines with these five films can be tough, despite EON really leaning into the aspect of continuity. It's a pity that there wasn't a stand-alone adventure after QUANTUM as that would have set up the growing exhaustion of the Bond character in the next three flicks. (I've lost count how many times this Bond left MI6!) Your ideas around Bond's bifurcation as well as the theme of betrayal and drive to a death wish are well-argued. Because the screenwriters have such a rich history with which to draw (especially Fleming's writings), there are always more layers to discover in the series. You've done a great job of peeling a few of the deeper layers. Thank you!
It's taken me a while to process, but "No Time to Die" might be my favorite James Bond movie. Or actually, that's not quite true. *Without Safin*, NTTD *would* be my favorite Bond movie. I love everything about it: The characters, the locations, music, cinematography, the SET DESIGN and first and foremost Bond's development as a human, off-grid, off-duty, drunk on both love and distrust, as well as his brief experience as a father. I love this movie and yet, I left the theater angry and sad. I saw it with my dad who quite liked it and the whole way back home, I complained to him how silly and stupid the entire movie was! But in reality, my gripes only came with Safin and his ridiculously inconsistent unbelievable depiction. That made me zone out of the film and sadly spoiled everything about CraigBond's death scene. Overall though, I do love this film as a meaningful and consistent end to this character. Sure, I would've preferred a sensible villain and maybe a happy ending, where the Bond family drove off in peace - but hey - I can always turn off the DVD after the Norway forest fight. 😄
I like Safin in concept (the idea of Bond facing off against a villain styled like a classic horror monster is tantalizing), but the execution is lacking.
@@AnalyzeThisMisterBond Ever since Pierce Brosnan surfed down the ice tsunami, that has been true for all my Bond criticisms! 😄 Cool concept - terrible execution. Which might just be a compliment for the Craig series. For what it's worth, even their failures were always pretty good in concept.
i love the hell out of this movie and the villian Safin. I understood him. I experienced a situation in my career where i work with criminals, but there was a individual who was exactly like Safin, with his motives, his trauma, and people don't understand that there is absolutely evil people out there. Iook at the CEO situation that occured in NY. People are truly capable of being like Safin.
Thank you! Craig and Seydoux are strong enough in the film that they pull me through the wonkiness, but I do understand (to a point) why others find it so frustrating.
For me, I loved the first 3rd of this one. The opening, bond in retirement, cuba, all the way up until the death of Felix is just dripping with class and style. The swings they take thereafter are interesting but feel too underbaked to really work.
I also love the novel of "You Only Live Twice," but even when Bond has amnesia and is in love with Kissy (with a secret kid in the oven), he ultimately will not stick around and live the "domestic bliss" life that is presented because it's not in his nature, despite what he thinks he wants. Which is one reason why his resignation to die in NTTD feels so unnatural and forced. Bond's inclination has always been to survive, first and foremost. Even within itself, the conclusion of NTTD is inconsistent, since Bond is hell bent on escaping until the arbitrary silo door malfunction forces him to return...it's only then that he apparently decides he should die to "protect" his family. It doesn't ring true, even within confines of this particular iteration, that this Bond would simply give up and not try to find another way out of not only this predicament, but his larger conundrum. We know Craig and EON started with Bond's death as a prerequisite for Craig's return and worked backward, and it certainly shows. This is rarely an advisable plotting strategy, except as a tool for driving a separate agenda that I would argue has little to do with Craig's Bond trajectory. Having said all that...I appreciate how deeply you've thought about all this and your talent for articulating it
I think one of the fairest complaints about NTTD's ending is that the moment that changes everything for Bond (his poisoning by Safin and subsequent realization of his predicament) does not really land.
I can't understand why people don't see the whole Craig era as Bond becoming the Bond of Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan? The believe he's died you have to 1. forget FRWL, YOLT, Skyfall, when we too "see Bond die" not to mention the beginning of NTTD! 2. Think pure coincidences all the other elements if NTTD that can only be to establish that he is not definitely dead which in Bond means Not Dead! The movie is NAMED No Time To Die ! Just seems like bizarre, acharacteristic (for Bond Fans) anti Western/ anti White Male morbid conditioning! Spoiled. Absurd. Selfish! Pathetic! Snap Out Of It!
Hi Ryann , my name is Shawna and I’ve been a a bond fan on my life and here is my take on no Time to die first of all the movie is trash. The name of the movie is misleading. The characters do not make any sense whatsoever. The main bad guy literally is incompetent. Give me a break he is in assassin and he can’t even take out specters family. Are you kidding me James Bond literally looks like a man at the end of his rope. I am surprised that he hasn’t gone all shooter. You know what I mean and Ralph Fiennes I respect him very much but he’s not a good M, and in my opinion, he looks at bond like he has a Files filing cabinet. He doesn’t care about him. In my opinion you should’ve been stripped of his PPK and his license to kill status, and sent to a mental institution, because I see James Bond literally to the point of taking his own life, which is not good Matilda, Spector’s daughter gets to drive off Scott’s free after committing patricide you do not kill your father, and she gets to literally drive away. There’s no accountability with her. She should’ve been put up on charges and her and Vons daughter should’ve been put in foster care or found a family for her that will take care of her. Are you kidding me and why in the hell would James Bond not know who this woman is and does he know what contraception is really and why in the hell would bond put a child’s life in jeopardy by running like that they have a house he knows the floor plan, so does Matilda there’s a safe room, put her in there and have the fight there because you know your home like the back of your hand shut off the lights wait for them to come and take care of it. You do not put a child’s life in jeopardy like that, that is a responsible stupid upon his part in the nano technology give me a break that is so stupid really and then the ending. Oh my God talk about the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. I really wanted to scream when I left the theater after watching that bond never dies. It is a tradition ever since back in Connery took the roll so give me a break in the toast that they were having at the very end of the movie. Give me a break. You know these people do not know him they’re not his friends are you kidding me that was very disrespectful and I even waited for the credits to roll to see if we were going to get a new James Bond. There was no absolutely no mention of James Bond will return really so this is the ending of the whole thing man wow I on Fleming would be so proud not so if I had to say anything about this movie, it’s just glorified fanfiction. It is not a James Bond movie whatsoever and Daniel Craig does not look like James Bond in the books if you want to know who James Bond is look at Timothy Dalton that is your blueprint other than that do not waste my time on stupid shit that is my comment on this movie and have a nice day and I’m sorry that is so long
I agree. It was Craig's idea to kill Bond. It's like he was subliminally saying he's better than the previous actors and bigger than the franchise. He's got such a big ego.
@ and in my opinion, that’s when Arbor broccoli should I cut them off at the knees and told him that your character will stay alive no matter how much I did not like it because killing off James Bond was the biggest insult to the franchise to date, and he needed to grow up and I hate to tell him this is not a really good actor. He thinks he’s the bomb Diggity dong. No, he’s not, I’ve seen other actors like Timothy Dalton that man is really good actor really good Daniel Craig it’s just a joke. God Pierce Brosnan is better of an actor than he will ever be and that’s just my opinion.
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One of my favorite scenes in No Time To Die is when Bond visits Vesper's grave and tells her that he misses her.
It's a lovely moment.
As you can tell by my persistent comments, I really really enjoyed this series, so thank you for making it! I hope your videos garner a lot more attention and I'm eager to hear your thoughts on the Brosnan era and whatever else you decide to explore in the future. But no rush! We have all the time in the world 😜
(Oh and dear Henry Cavill Bond Fans of 2030: I was here when this channel had less than 100 subscribers! 😌🤚)
Just binge watching all your videos. So well put together.
Thank you, Anthony!
Like you, I appreciate the Craig era for its attention to thematic concerns. But I'm really ready for a different direction now! Would definitely like to hear your analysis of the Brosnan run!
The Craig era took a very long time to tell its story. Time for a change of pace.
Bond's entire life has not just been a life of service but actually a life of sacrifice. Fleming sets this up from the beginning and follows all the way through the Craig era. Like I said before Bond is a Bodhisattva.
Ryan,
Thank you as always for a thought provoking video.
I personally love No Time To Die though it’s a movie I find myself almost afraid to watch- mainly because of Bond’s death.
I’ll be honest; I went into seeing the film with ZERO spoilers being ruined for me. I saw it in IMAX and loved the film. I laughed, and I cried. It really was (and continues to be a visceral experience for me). From the moment the vial is smashed into his face I am just gut wrenched until the film ends. For me I had my suspicions about 007 dying based off the film’s title, knowing this was Daniel Craig’s final ‘bow at the curtain’ but I held out hope that he’d live to die another day. What sealed the deal and made me beyond certain that Bond was dying is when Naomi and Bind are in the Cato plane getting briefed by M and Naomi asks permission for Bond to be re-designated as 007. It’s a pivotal moment for the storyline but that brief act of making Bond 007 again sealed his fate in my mind. It’s an old trope in films- another example is in Star Wars- a New Hope when another pilot (the name escapes me at the moment) but he and Luke have a few throw away lines ‘have I got stories to tell you…’ etc. and sure enough that pilot dies in the battle of the Death Star.
So yes when M grants Bond the 007 designation I squirmed and sank into my seat. I knew it was for real this time… and it hurt and it still hurts. I have been a devote Bond fan since I was 6 and coincidentally became a father the same year that Bond found out he was a father (how poignant!) but it hit home infantly harder on a personal emotional level.
I dare say No Time to Die is one of my favorite Bond films (it had plenty of faults and flaws and contrivances) but the emotional rollercoaster that the film takes you on make it the most emotionally powerful Bond film for me. When the film faded to black and the credits rolled I think I held my breath the entire time silently praying to see the ‘James Bond will return’ dialog. It was one of the biggest reliefs I’ve ever experienced. For days / even weeks I was melancholy.
I think it’s a beautiful thing for a creative or artistic endeavor to leave a lasting impact and this film surely has done that for me.
I cannot wait for Bond 26.
I'm glad you found the film powerful! I think it'll age well.
An entertaining and thought-provoking series. Your reflections on the Craig Era have helped, somewhat, to ease my frustrations around the five films, especially SPECTRE. Finding through lines with these five films can be tough, despite EON really leaning into the aspect of continuity. It's a pity that there wasn't a stand-alone adventure after QUANTUM as that would have set up the growing exhaustion of the Bond character in the next three flicks. (I've lost count how many times this Bond left MI6!) Your ideas around Bond's bifurcation as well as the theme of betrayal and drive to a death wish are well-argued. Because the screenwriters have such a rich history with which to draw (especially Fleming's writings), there are always more layers to discover in the series. You've done a great job of peeling a few of the deeper layers. Thank you!
"You Only Die Once" would be a great name for a rogue Bond movie.
It's taken me a while to process, but "No Time to Die" might be my favorite James Bond movie. Or actually, that's not quite true. *Without Safin*, NTTD *would* be my favorite Bond movie. I love everything about it: The characters, the locations, music, cinematography, the SET DESIGN and first and foremost Bond's development as a human, off-grid, off-duty, drunk on both love and distrust, as well as his brief experience as a father. I love this movie and yet, I left the theater angry and sad. I saw it with my dad who quite liked it and the whole way back home, I complained to him how silly and stupid the entire movie was! But in reality, my gripes only came with Safin and his ridiculously inconsistent unbelievable depiction. That made me zone out of the film and sadly spoiled everything about CraigBond's death scene.
Overall though, I do love this film as a meaningful and consistent end to this character. Sure, I would've preferred a sensible villain and maybe a happy ending, where the Bond family drove off in peace - but hey - I can always turn off the DVD after the Norway forest fight. 😄
I like Safin in concept (the idea of Bond facing off against a villain styled like a classic horror monster is tantalizing), but the execution is lacking.
@@AnalyzeThisMisterBond Ever since Pierce Brosnan surfed down the ice tsunami, that has been true for all my Bond criticisms! 😄 Cool concept - terrible execution. Which might just be a compliment for the Craig series. For what it's worth, even their failures were always pretty good in concept.
i love the hell out of this movie and the villian Safin. I understood him. I experienced a situation in my career where i work with criminals, but there was a individual who was exactly like Safin, with his motives, his trauma, and people don't understand that there is absolutely evil people out there. Iook at the CEO situation that occured in NY. People are truly capable of being like Safin.
You do a great job laying out theme and theory of this movie in concept--but boy, the movie really under serves all of these elements.
Thank you! Craig and Seydoux are strong enough in the film that they pull me through the wonkiness, but I do understand (to a point) why others find it so frustrating.
For me, I loved the first 3rd of this one. The opening, bond in retirement, cuba, all the way up until the death of Felix is just dripping with class and style. The swings they take thereafter are interesting but feel too underbaked to really work.
Love this
Thank you!
Just how many stylish glasses do you own? 🤔😂
Was it a different one each video?
It was! I have a collection of eyeglasses.
@@AnalyzeThisMisterBonda very useful hobby 😎👌
I need my heroes INVINCIBLE
You need your heroes DEAD (until they return in the inevitable reboot)
@@AnalyzeThisMisterBond how DARE you, analyzethis???
I also love the novel of "You Only Live Twice," but even when Bond has amnesia and is in love with Kissy (with a secret kid in the oven), he ultimately will not stick around and live the "domestic bliss" life that is presented because it's not in his nature, despite what he thinks he wants. Which is one reason why his resignation to die in NTTD feels so unnatural and forced. Bond's inclination has always been to survive, first and foremost. Even within itself, the conclusion of NTTD is inconsistent, since Bond is hell bent on escaping until the arbitrary silo door malfunction forces him to return...it's only then that he apparently decides he should die to "protect" his family. It doesn't ring true, even within confines of this particular iteration, that this Bond would simply give up and not try to find another way out of not only this predicament, but his larger conundrum. We know Craig and EON started with Bond's death as a prerequisite for Craig's return and worked backward, and it certainly shows. This is rarely an advisable plotting strategy, except as a tool for driving a separate agenda that I would argue has little to do with Craig's Bond trajectory. Having said all that...I appreciate how deeply you've thought about all this and your talent for articulating it
I think one of the fairest complaints about NTTD's ending is that the moment that changes everything for Bond (his poisoning by Safin and subsequent realization of his predicament) does not really land.
I can't understand why people don't see the whole Craig era as Bond becoming the Bond of Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan?
The believe he's died you have to
1. forget FRWL, YOLT, Skyfall, when we too "see Bond die" not to mention the beginning of NTTD!
2. Think pure coincidences all the other elements if NTTD that can only be to establish that he is not definitely dead which in Bond means Not Dead! The movie is NAMED
No Time To Die
!
Just seems like bizarre, acharacteristic (for Bond Fans) anti Western/ anti White Male morbid conditioning!
Spoiled. Absurd. Selfish! Pathetic!
Snap Out Of It!
Uh…he was incinerated on screen.
Hi Ryann , my name is Shawna and I’ve been a a bond fan on my life and here is my take on no Time to die first of all the movie is trash. The name of the movie is misleading. The characters do not make any sense whatsoever. The main bad guy literally is incompetent. Give me a break he is in assassin and he can’t even take out specters family. Are you kidding me James Bond literally looks like a man at the end of his rope. I am surprised that he hasn’t gone all shooter. You know what I mean and Ralph Fiennes I respect him very much but he’s not a good M, and in my opinion, he looks at bond like he has a Files filing cabinet. He doesn’t care about him. In my opinion you should’ve been stripped of his PPK and his license to kill status, and sent to a mental institution, because I see James Bond literally to the point of taking his own life, which is not good Matilda, Spector’s daughter gets to drive off Scott’s free after committing patricide you do not kill your father, and she gets to literally drive away. There’s no accountability with her. She should’ve been put up on charges and her and Vons daughter should’ve been put in foster care or found a family for her that will take care of her. Are you kidding me and why in the hell would James Bond not know who this woman is and does he know what contraception is really and why in the hell would bond put a child’s life in jeopardy by running like that they have a house he knows the floor plan, so does Matilda there’s a safe room, put her in there and have the fight there because you know your home like the back of your hand shut off the lights wait for them to come and take care of it. You do not put a child’s life in jeopardy like that, that is a responsible stupid upon his part in the nano technology give me a break that is so stupid really and then the ending. Oh my God talk about the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. I really wanted to scream when I left the theater after watching that bond never dies. It is a tradition ever since back in Connery took the roll so give me a break in the toast that they were having at the very end of the movie. Give me a break. You know these people do not know him they’re not his friends are you kidding me that was very disrespectful and I even waited for the credits to roll to see if we were going to get a new James Bond. There was no absolutely no mention of James Bond will return really so this is the ending of the whole thing man wow I on Fleming would be so proud not so if I had to say anything about this movie, it’s just glorified fanfiction. It is not a James Bond movie whatsoever and Daniel Craig does not look like James Bond in the books if you want to know who James Bond is look at Timothy Dalton that is your blueprint other than that do not waste my time on stupid shit that is my comment on this movie and have a nice day and I’m sorry that is so long
We have very different feelings!
I agree. It was Craig's idea to kill Bond. It's like he was subliminally saying he's better than the previous actors and bigger than the franchise. He's got such a big ego.
@ and in my opinion, that’s when Arbor broccoli should I cut them off at the knees and told him that your character will stay alive no matter how much I did not like it because killing off James Bond was the biggest insult to the franchise to date, and he needed to grow up and I hate to tell him this is not a really good actor. He thinks he’s the bomb Diggity dong. No, he’s not, I’ve seen other actors like Timothy Dalton that man is really good actor really good Daniel Craig it’s just a joke. God Pierce Brosnan is better of an actor than he will ever be and that’s just my opinion.