I said exactly the same thing to an angry punter when my boss at the time (a woman!) was being given a hard time. Shut him up completely. Then lo and behold, M says the same thing as me!
The amount of chaos, confusion and destruction Bond creates in this scene is off the charts. This would be the climax of a regular movie, but this is only the opening of one of my absolute favorite Bond films.
I love the “climax of a different mission” thing they do at the beginning of Bond films to indicate Bond does these crazy escapades ALL the time, not just when we are watching him during the movie’s mission.
@@GreatWestern175 You can actually see M trying not to be TOO smug about her competent agents as opposed to the ham-handed and short-sighted actions of their naval officer which almost set off a nuclear disaster. This is why gathering intelligence should always be done by the best.
When M says "His job!", there is some great acting being done there. She's conveying her frustration at the botched job her agent was sent on, her respect for Bond and anger over the danger he is now in having to save everyone. She's hard but she does give a damn.
Every opening was awesome! It's a shame the only one that could follow the great opening was golden eye, but atleast for the other three the intros were great
@@Vikingr4Jesus5919 A radar guided weapon system uses its radar differently between war and peace setting. Fighter planes with war settings have secret boosting of its capabilities when you switch to war.
@@ghostviggen Ah, that's interesting additional info. But I was actually just joshing haha. The difference between war and peace is often one trigger pull. I mean, that's technically how WWI started, if my history serves me well.
@@bizzyizzy9526 Well, isn't there a transmission failure? So it seems the ship's transmitter has some damage it seems (strange that the regular radio works, but hey what do I know, maybe weapons has their own dedicated transmitter for missiles control and that is out?) ps: Sadly this would fit the readiness of current British forces! I mean they had what? Two failures to fire a Trident-Missile (so their nuclear deterrent is in question!) in a row!
Admiral: "What the hell is he doing?" M: "His job!" Best "Sit your ass down and shut the hell up" line in all of film history....Judy Dench is a god damn national treasure!
@@lindildeev5721 which is made even better because one of the first things she ever said to Bond when she first met him was "I think you're a sexist, misogynist dinosaur."
I like when she was told she didn't have the balls for the job she replied at least she had the advantage of not having to think with them. Or something along those lines. I forget which movie.
Couldn't agree more. Not necessarily the best movie overall, but definitely the best opening or at the very least one of the best openings in the series. Still a great movie overall!
Me too, although I like the “Shocking... Positively shocking” intro to Goldfinger as well. These days... Bond has lost it. Other action franchises do this sort of thing so much better.
I'm pretty sure when he ejected the "backseat driver", his head would have been severed as he still had the chord around his neck. And I'm pretty sure he would have already lost consciousness given the time he already been choked.
The most likely answer to the 1st part of that is that the guy that was strangling Bond was so surprised that he let go of the cord The most likely answer to the 2nd part of that is that Bond has been given enough training to ensure that if he's been choked he will be able to stay consciousness for several minutes loner then most people
also, telling the missile to auto-destroy cannot be done as it is out of range of its ship, yet they got a live feed to the missile's somehow existing frontal camera lmao
Well, James hadn't quite grokked that there's someone back home who's too trigger-happy to let him *finish his job* before blowing the place to hell. JB: "Ask the Admiral exactly *where* he'd like his bombs delivered." SUBTEXT: (M, if you so desire it, your favorite son will shove them up his ass.)
This opening scene is one of the reasons Tomorrow Never Dies is one of my top 5 favorite Bond movies of all time. And it's one of the few Bond openings where something isn't going horribly wrong and really shows just not only how good an agent Bond is, but how M is confident in Bond when Bond tries to get the bombs away from the missile.
Kind of did go horribly wrong though, he was supposed to just take pictures then leave, but he had to risk his life to avert a disaster. It’s James Bond though, so it was ez for him lol
Bond isn't introduced immediately, we the audience see what the agency sees until the action. Best Bond movie period I love the grainy spy camera perspective.
Me too! I saw this at 9 years old in 1999, Golden Eye was the one that made me fall in love with the 007 franchise though, I ended up seeing that a year later when I rented it on VHS from our neighborhood library lol
I'm with you, it was my first Bond film and that, Pierce Brosnan was my favorite actor. He had that typical James Bond vibe. He had that charisma. My Childhood movie
@@jamespruitt6718 It shows that Bond isn't the average stereotype of spy, and more on the lines of the british "commando" tradition, specifically the intelligence operations of the SAS.
The very first scene of the very first DVD I've watched, back in 1999. Suddenly, there was a whole new universe for home cinema. No more butchered, dirty VHS image with forced dubbed voices. Now an extraordinarily clean, beautiful visual with wonderful sound, language choices, chaptering and so much more. A instant revolution.
From what I understand it's sort of like a psychological label. When you switch to WAR it's meant to make you think if even for a split second before firing such a large weapon.
I read somewhere that the Swedish JAS Gripen fighter jet had a similar type of switch, the exact function of which is supposedly classified but which unlocks certain features of the aircraft that might be better not being available to use accidentally in situations where people aren't out to kill you.
@@nevillefatbottom2927There's a full power switch in the F-15 that gives the engine 3% more power but requires a complete rebuild afterwards. The pilot also probably gets a dressing down afterwards.
Brosnan has some super openings: Goldeneye.....Absolutely iconic, arguably the most memorable of the whole franchise. Tomorrow Never Dies....action, rip-roaring fun and a sassy Judi Dench The World is Not Enough....slower pace, classy action and some great one liners. Die Another Day....best bit of an absolutely appalling film.
+Joan Ruiz Jacob I agree. It was ridiculous, but in a good way; a good finale. After that, realism took the driver's seat and Craig became the new Bond.
Dudes still acting his ass off he was cast as Dr fate in the dceu and he killed that role also plays Liam hennesay in the forgeiner alongside Jackie chan which his character is based off Martin mcginess and gerry Adams ( both ex ira terrorists)
One of the best James Bond opening sequences. Brosnan truly embodies a typical Bond - smooth, sleek and makes a kill to save the world before bed time.
David Arnold's time with the franchise's soundtracks is ridiculously underrated. The scores from this, The World Is Not Enough, and Casino Royale are among the most memorable in the series.
That missile looks so outdated, and the explosion of the other ones on the mountain also definitely not 2020 quality; it shows it's from the 90s still-not-there special effects.
The Gun barrel sequence, that walk and the shot, the pose. Followed by a peace to war sequence, having that one line and lastly followed by a n opening song that have the perfect Bond theme. You know it it's a Bond theme with that kind of music. All of these is makes Tomorrow Never Dies a good movie, (including the story). Such nostalgic. Brings back my memories and childhood experience
My favorite Bond intro. "His job!" - my favorite line in a Bond film. :-) Love seeing the two main stars of "As Time Goes By" pitted against each other. :-)
This is why Brosnan's movies are MOSTLY my favourites (You know what I'm talking about). Haven't watched all of the other ones, but to me they hit the right spot between the silly Moore movies and the serious Craig ones. To put it in a nutshell, it's silly work cleverly made, with a right balance of over the top action-packed scenes and comedic tone mixed with actual suspense, nice plot and appealing characters.
Which we would get if they would just go with Nomi, Bond's replacement as 007 in No Time to Die. She was fun and she had some of that Brosnan and Moore style along with her own.
It's a really great opening to display that the world and warfare was changing to a rely on new advanced tech and the agent on the ground was becoming more and more irrelevant. But those that rely entirely on their technology and don't take into account human intuition and rational thinking would make mistakes. A concept that would be boring to explain with dialogue. The director and writers did a great job with this.
Almost all 1962-2002 bond movies are master piece. Except a few ones Whats made me mad is the new producer from daniel craig era. That decided to transform bond into a generic action movie that looks more like jason bourne then james bond Their argument was that bond was too lucky, too handsome, too funny and smooth, too much skilled, too much helped by fancy gadget, too much of a flirt guy. Which according to them made bond movie not realistic Result: bond popularity collapsed ever since they did that 😂 never change a recipe that works and give sucess. Bond movies since 2006 are now just a action movie among many others. Its no longer a must watch
They’ve made some mistakes in the film but still tomorrow never dies is the best anyone can do. Should be in Greatest number 5 until Daniel Craig arrived.
When I was a kid, I don't think I realized how much chaos and confusion Bond was DELIBERATELY causing in order to steal the jet. I thought he was just blowing shit up for fun!!
The takeoff's a bit of a reference to Goldeneye, as in that film 007 takes the plane down the cliff first. In this one, he taxis down to the bottom before doubling back for takeoff.
I’d say the actual reference was a massive explosion after he got the plane in the air in both films, cos in Goldeneye he had to ride a motorbike off the cliff and sky dive to the plane before it crashed
@@FEARoperative agree to disagree. Yeltsyn indeed started removing political opponents pretty early in his reign, albeit not right away. Still, THERE WERE independent parties, THERE WERE different powers at play - not just one like it is now. And last but not the least, there was an independent journalism in the country. If you think now is any better, you’re either misinformed or too young to remember.
@@Badchi I literally said the elections back then were more legit than today. People will go out of their way to misunderstand and get offended these days.
@@FEARoperative You have to phrase your responses better next time. Your “in the 90s it was” seemed to have been directed at my “it’s a circus not election”.
The Brosnan era really had top notch opening sequences. The pre-credits moments in Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, and Die Another Day are all perfectly good mini-movies in their own right (The World Is Not Enough being the only one that's kind of lacking).
The World Is Not Enough, though the longest of all the cold openings (save maybe one of the more recent Craig ones), has grown on me. It's Brosnan at his most ruthless (hell, it was probably one of the coldest Bonds next to Quantum--from the way he took down the heavies in the bank all the way to when he executed an unarmed woman point-blank and in cold-blood) and that boat chase sequence was awesome!
Tomorrow Never Dies may not be my favorite Bond film (though still a good Bond film) but I think it may have one of my favorite cold opens, if not THE favorite.
This is my favourite James Bond movie as Pierce Brosnan second outing as 007 James Bond in Tomorrow Never Dies I am dedicating this movie DVD to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them both again very soon to Chris and Hester from Billyxxx
What I love about Tomorrow Never Dies is that it's one of the movies people thought at the time was really outlandish and mental, but over time has actually proven itself to be among the more realistic and frightening scenarios, where media barons shape narratives that actually cause serious rifts and possibly even lead to wars between peoples and countries. Elliot Carver is therefore one of the most sinister Bond villains, because he really exists!
You have a few dozen men with some of the most lethal weapons in mankind's arsenal, and none of them can hit a virtually stationary plane 25 meters away.
"What the Hell is he doing?"
"His Job."
I love that response
A line from Die Hard, too.
Only bettered by "Sometimes I don't think you have the balls for this job M". "At least I don't have to think with them"
@@twaito I was just coming here to say that. h/t to you.
a good way of saying to admiral windbag there "shut the hell up asshole let the man get on with it"
I said exactly the same thing to an angry punter when my boss at the time (a woman!) was being given a hard time. Shut him up completely. Then lo and behold, M says the same thing as me!
"Backseat driver." Only Pierce Brosnan could deliver that line in a way that cracks me up.
Agreed
When he straightened his tie in the underwater scene in the opening of The World is Not Enough.
Judy Dench as “M” was perfect. No matter who the Bond. Perfectly eloquent and dignified, but could whip everyone into shape quick.
The amount of chaos, confusion and destruction Bond creates in this scene is off the charts. This would be the climax of a regular movie, but this is only the opening of one of my absolute favorite Bond films.
Yep I love this movie so much. It's just non stop action and I love it.
I love the “climax of a different mission” thing they do at the beginning of Bond films to indicate Bond does these crazy escapades ALL the time, not just when we are watching him during the movie’s mission.
Chos and confusion are the underrated words here...typical of a war lol
@@turbopokey Bond: They really do send me in for all the crazy stuff.
True! Great movie!!!
3:59 "Bloody hell, can't you people keep anything locked up?" LMAO British sarcasm in the face of total SNAFU
Pretty well sums up NATO-Russian military relations
@celticknight221 Yeah...with rocket launching failure😂
The '90ies was Russia's SNAFU decade...
@@samuelattas3864
Literally just them covertly telling NATO to help them clean up leftover Soviet fuck-ups
"Ask the admiral where he'd like his bombs delivered."
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why Bond is the coolest man ever.
Love that line, how the admiral reacts in confusion and M chuckling to Bond's humor
@@GreatWestern175 You can actually see M trying not to be TOO smug about her competent agents as opposed to the ham-handed and short-sighted actions of their naval officer which almost set off a nuclear disaster.
This is why gathering intelligence should always be done by the best.
Bronze Blues, No, That's why THIS Bond is the coolest man ever
@@pr-tj5by I cannot disagree with that.
Well, Admiral Roebuck good luck explaining your poor decision making to the Minister of Defence
Me, an entry level analyst at MI6: "hey should we paint the spy camera white to match the snow?"
When M says "His job!", there is some great acting being done there. She's conveying her frustration at the botched job her agent was sent on, her respect for Bond and anger over the danger he is now in having to save everyone.
She's hard but she does give a damn.
One of the Best Judi Dench M moments for sure.
@OP yeah totally agree. She’s angry and pissed and I love it😂
He's going for the bombs!?
It's also a riposte to the admiral. At 2:31, M says that "my man isn't finished", the admiral replies "get your man out of there - his job is over".
Total opposite of the last movie.
God the Brosnan films had the best openings out of any bond films ever, and i have seen them all.
Every opening was awesome! It's a shame the only one that could follow the great opening was golden eye, but atleast for the other three the intros were great
Agreed
Whilst I agree Brosnan had the best openings, I think the Craig's Casino Royale Free Running opening was possibly the best of all
For me Tomorrow Never Dies is the best Opening Sound Track of Bond films.
All brosnan films and craig films are good except quantam of solace which was shit
"I've evacuated the area. Ask the Admiral WHERE he'd like his bombs delivered."
Into his ***
Some classic lines said by this bond.. "Backseat driver"
brosnan was so cool.... craigs bond would say admiral..... and then stare into the camera while having a midlife crysis
@@ErniLandia hahahah
Lies again? Troy Melbourne Sydney
I always found the “Peace/War” missile setting on the British cruiser hilarious😆.
A lot of weapons have a war/peace time setting.
@@ghostviggen Isn't that just a trigger?
@@Vikingr4Jesus5919 A radar guided weapon system uses its radar differently between war and peace setting. Fighter planes with war settings have secret boosting of its capabilities when you switch to war.
@@ghostviggen Ah, that's interesting additional info.
But I was actually just joshing haha. The difference between war and peace is often one trigger pull. I mean, that's technically how WWI started, if my history serves me well.
Even Pax Romana was a thing "though ironically they still waged war, its just it was less civil war in Rome in those times"
I love how Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer are in the same film after spending so much time together in 'As Time Goes By'.
Jean and Lionel. wow.
"We can't send a destuct signal to the missile, we still have a perfect video uplink though!"
And the missile can perfectly hug the relief of the territory it traverses.
ship -> missile -- one link
mi6 -> bond -- another link
I think that The problem was not that it was out of range rather there was a technical mal function with The missile receiving the signal
@@assaissa
He means the video link on the missile...that was working fine...so if that signal is working then the link to disarm should work too.
@@bizzyizzy9526 Well, isn't there a transmission failure? So it seems the ship's transmitter has some damage it seems (strange that the regular radio works, but hey what do I know, maybe weapons has their own dedicated transmitter for missiles control and that is out?)
ps: Sadly this would fit the readiness of current British forces! I mean they had what? Two failures to fire a Trident-Missile (so their nuclear deterrent is in question!) in a row!
With Judy and Geoffrey in this together it's like a more intense episode of As Time Goes By. HaHaHa
I thought that was cool too.
RIP Geoffrey
"Would you care for a custard tart, Admiral?"
To me Brosnan will always be the most charismatic Bond ever....no matter what critics say.
Admiral: "What the hell is he doing?"
M: "His job!"
Best "Sit your ass down and shut the hell up" line in all of film history....Judy Dench is a god damn national treasure!
Men's gotta do, what a men's gotta do.
I like the fact she sounds like a proud mother.
@@lindildeev5721 which is made even better because one of the first things she ever said to Bond when she first met him was "I think you're a sexist, misogynist dinosaur."
I like when she was told she didn't have the balls for the job she replied at least she had the advantage of not having to think with them. Or something along those lines.
I forget which movie.
As a Uber delivery driver i must use that last line,
.....ask the customer where he wants the pizza delivered...
Weird coincidence. I got an Uber notification as I was reading this comment.
This is probably my favorite intro segment of all the 007 movies.
Couldn't agree more. Not necessarily the best movie overall, but definitely the best opening or at the very least one of the best openings in the series. Still a great movie overall!
Good but Goldeneye had the best intro and song.
Same, before things got crazy over the top in the next two films.
Me too, although I like the “Shocking... Positively shocking” intro to Goldfinger as well. These days... Bond has lost it. Other action franchises do this sort of thing so much better.
Agreed. And then the movie went downhill from there.
The Ejection is hilarious, and the line after it “back seat driver” 😂 😂 😂
I'm pretty sure when he ejected the "backseat driver", his head would have been severed as he still had the chord around his neck. And I'm pretty sure he would have already lost consciousness given the time he already been choked.
@@Mrraugut I'm also sure he wouldnt have been able to do anything that he did. But the point is its a movie not a fucking documentary.
@@adamrules01 Of course it's a movie and it makes no sense. But it's fun to go back and make fun of the absurdity.
If you look the ejected guy goes into the other jet causing it to blow up
The most likely answer to the 1st part of that is that the guy that was strangling Bond was so surprised that he let go of the cord
The most likely answer to the 2nd part of that is that Bond has been given enough training to ensure that if he's been choked he will be able to stay consciousness for several minutes loner then most people
"zooms in onto the cia encoder"
*somehow misses the nuclear torpedoes*
lmao gotta love the classics
3:02 - Jeep is blocking the nuclear torpedoes.
also, telling the missile to auto-destroy cannot be done as it is out of range of its ship, yet they got a live feed to the missile's somehow existing frontal camera lmao
Well, James hadn't quite grokked that there's someone back home who's too trigger-happy to let him *finish his job* before blowing the place to hell.
JB: "Ask the Admiral exactly *where* he'd like his bombs delivered."
SUBTEXT: (M, if you so desire it, your favorite son will shove them up his ass.)
Then you wouldn't get the cliffhanger drama'/!!!
Yoooo cultured man lmao
This opening scene is one of the reasons Tomorrow Never Dies is one of my top 5 favorite Bond movies of all time. And it's one of the few Bond openings where something isn't going horribly wrong and really shows just not only how good an agent Bond is, but how M is confident in Bond when Bond tries to get the bombs away from the missile.
Kind of did go horribly wrong though, he was supposed to just take pictures then leave, but he had to risk his life to avert a disaster. It’s James Bond though, so it was ez for him lol
@@PBL187 hahaha well said, bond is the guy you want nearby when stuff goes wrong.
"His job!"
@@PBL187 Well he is trained for this kind of work. The Bristish don't fool around when training there agents anymore than we do!
Bond isn't introduced immediately, we the audience see what the agency sees until the action. Best Bond movie period I love the grainy spy camera perspective.
Good old 90s.
Lucky Eddy Hagar the Horrible and Broomhilda are two of the most unfunny comic strips
@@bille5960 all comic strips are unfunny. we read them for nostaliga for a simpler time.
Such an underrated Bond opening scene. What is he doing? HIS JOB. Brosnan was the best
100% The Best.....
People may dislike Tomorrow Never Dies, but it holds a special spot for me as it was the first James Bond film I ever saw.
I actually like TND, it’s in my top 5, but the best 2 are From Russia With Love and Goldeneye
Me too! I saw this at 9 years old in 1999, Golden Eye was the one that made me fall in love with the 007 franchise though, I ended up seeing that a year later when I rented it on VHS from our neighborhood library lol
Honestly I like Tomorrow Never Dies a lot
I'm with you, it was my first Bond film and that, Pierce Brosnan was my favorite actor. He had that typical James Bond vibe. He had that charisma. My Childhood movie
It may be the most underrated Bond film. Certainly Brosnan's most underrated
Brosnan is like the Rambo of all the Bonds, just going in guns blazing, seriously is in boss mode
He is the most reliant on heavy weapons Bond.
RC car.
Rocket Launchers.
Grenades.
Plastic Explosive.
Stun Gas.
Ski acrobatics.
A FREAKING TANK.
It actually shows his military training. You don’t see this kind of work from Daniel Craig.
@@jamespruitt6718 It shows that Bond isn't the average stereotype of spy, and more on the lines of the british "commando" tradition, specifically the intelligence operations of the SAS.
Best bond games are all Brosnan ones too
@@jamespruitt6718 you are kidding right? Daniel Craig’s bond is much better at hand to hand and flying as well as driving.
" I wonder whether the CIA will be more upset that they lost it or we found it " 😂😂
The very first scene of the very first DVD I've watched, back in 1999. Suddenly, there was a whole new universe for home cinema. No more butchered, dirty VHS image with forced dubbed voices. Now an extraordinarily clean, beautiful visual with wonderful sound, language choices, chaptering and so much more. A instant revolution.
Best Bond intro ever. The fact that we don't see Bond until very late makes it so good, so unique
I love that Peace ---> War switch
From what I understand it's sort of like a psychological label. When you switch to WAR it's meant to make you think if even for a split second before firing such a large weapon.
- We can't fire this nuclear rocket, it is peace.
- Turn war on!
- Yessss Sirrr!
I read somewhere that the Swedish JAS Gripen fighter jet had a similar type of switch, the exact function of which is supposedly classified but which unlocks certain features of the aircraft that might be better not being available to use accidentally in situations where people aren't out to kill you.
@@nevillefatbottom2927There's a full power switch in the F-15 that gives the engine 3% more power but requires a complete rebuild afterwards. The pilot also probably gets a dressing down afterwards.
Brosnan has some super openings:
Goldeneye.....Absolutely iconic, arguably the most memorable of the whole franchise.
Tomorrow Never Dies....action, rip-roaring fun and a sassy Judi Dench
The World is Not Enough....slower pace, classy action and some great one liners.
Die Another Day....best bit of an absolutely appalling film.
give DAD a break, it was supposed to be a homage to the previous 19 Bond films and 40 years of cinematic Bond
+Joan Ruiz Jacob
I agree. It was ridiculous, but in a good way; a good finale. After that, realism took the driver's seat and Craig became the new Bond.
He had the best opening scenes
Die Another Day's opening was epic!
For TWINE you forgot the classy underwater tie straightener
Geoffrey Palmer, who played Admiral Roebuck in this movie, rest in peace. (1927-2020)
The "Filthy habit." line gets me every time. The fact it lines up with the music makes it extra satisfying.
The very best of David Arnold, compressed into 9 minutes. This score is fantastic.
Amazing score!!!! Quite simply perfection
And Moby.
Absolutely agree. Brilliant! The ideal successor to the great John Barry.
I don't hate Eric Serra as a screen composer but he was God awful with the Goldeneye soundtrack as a whole.
Yes! Just like John Barry, mixed with modern trends
One of the most epic Bond openings to this day. This movie speaks to my childhood. Miss you Brosnan.
Me too Massively!
Same
Dudes still acting his ass off he was cast as Dr fate in the dceu and he killed that role also plays Liam hennesay in the forgeiner alongside Jackie chan which his character is based off Martin mcginess and gerry Adams ( both ex ira terrorists)
Me too, it was my very first Bond movie as a 7 year old, haha. My uncle reluctantly let me watch it.
I remember being 6 or 7 and not really understanding what made those torpedoes important.
Now this... Is what Bond should be like. Cheesy one liners, action, explosions and perfect hair.
One of the best James Bond opening sequences. Brosnan truly embodies a typical Bond - smooth, sleek and makes a kill to save the world before bed time.
Before Tea time, before tea time
David Arnold's time with the franchise's soundtracks is ridiculously underrated. The scores from this, The World Is Not Enough, and Casino Royale are among the most memorable in the series.
RIP Geoffrey Palmer. “Abort missile, abort missile”
Having been reminded of him and Dench and As Time Goes By, him playing the Admiral was no coincidence
A bit of a cockup on the missile front! ;-)
It’s been so long since I’ve seen any of the Brosnan bond films, I’d forgotten how fantastic they are. And the openings were top notch.
The thing that I love the MOST about this film, is that it looks like a film from 2020. The picture quality is incredible for 1997.
That missile looks so outdated, and the explosion of the other ones on the mountain also definitely not 2020 quality; it shows it's from the 90s still-not-there special effects.
@@julioareck lol that mountain explosion was disgusting. Looked worse than a youtubers explosion.
@@vegsmashed grow up
@@strikerbowls791 Says the guy with one video that has 24 down votes and 4 upvotes. Learn to make videos instead of garbage.
No this is definitely from the 90s
“What the hell is he doing?” “His job!” 👏👏👏👏
The Gun barrel sequence, that walk and the shot, the pose.
Followed by a peace to war sequence, having that one line and lastly followed by a n opening song that have the perfect Bond theme. You know it it's a Bond theme with that kind of music. All of these is makes Tomorrow Never Dies a good movie, (including the story). Such nostalgic. Brings back my memories and childhood experience
Watched this on its release date in Coventry cinema. The entire auditorium stood up cheering when that plane reappeared after the drop!! Fantastic.
This and Goldeneye openings were fantastic! Love the line "ask the admiral where he would like his bombs".
3:17 I love how the sudden change music makes the situation critical with the presence of nuclear weapons.
My favorite Bond intro. "His job!" - my favorite line in a Bond film. :-) Love seeing the two main stars of "As Time Goes By" pitted against each other. :-)
I thought Lionel was in the Army.
@@joekerr3638 Well, some people find they need a part-time job after retirement...
Robinson is so underrated! If I was James Bond he’s the guy I’d want in my earpiece
Bond just casually stops what is basically a broken arrow incident from occurring like it's another Tuesday
This is why Brosnan's movies are MOSTLY my favourites (You know what I'm talking about). Haven't watched all of the other ones, but to me they hit the right spot between the silly Moore movies and the serious Craig ones. To put it in a nutshell, it's silly work cleverly made, with a right balance of over the top action-packed scenes and comedic tone mixed with actual suspense, nice plot and appealing characters.
exactly!
Rodger Moore was the best.
Exactly. That perfect blend. I'd love a return to this tone of bond. Fun, not depressing
Hey, let's not forget Connery and Lazenby!
@@kanagawayarichin Brosnan and Moore are my favorites with Connery
The relationship between Bond and M is defined by that smirk on her face. Love it.
I love how Bond zooms in on the torpedoes like "Don't you see THOSE, idiot??!!"
The jeep was covering the missiles in the beginning.
@@MartinZanichelli imagine what will happen if that cruise missile hits those torpedoes, that Admiral Roebuck should've wait
I love when M says "His job" so sure what her agent is doing
One of the best openings in an action film ever
My favourite opening of all the Bond movies!
GOLDEN EYE was also amazing
@@karagothshlomidabush3727 "For England, James ?"
"For England"
Two hours later
"For England, James ?"
"No, for me"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHH !"
We need this kind of James Bond again.
Which we would get if they would just go with Nomi, Bond's replacement as 007 in No Time to Die. She was fun and she had some of that Brosnan and Moore style along with her own.
@@samsonguy10k No
@@samsonguy10k 🤦🏻♂️
@@samsonguy10k Yeah, same. She really has the style to pull that off. They'll never do it because of the anti-woke snowflakes screaming, sadly.
@@Cailus3542 Haven't you noticed? Go woke, get broke! 😂😂😂
It's a really great opening to display that the world and warfare was changing to a rely on new advanced tech and the agent on the ground was becoming more and more irrelevant. But those that rely entirely on their technology and don't take into account human intuition and rational thinking would make mistakes. A concept that would be boring to explain with dialogue. The director and writers did a great job with this.
One of the most underrated Bond films of all time! Love it!!
By far my favorite one
@@Badchi it’s kinda weak, because they wanted to put a lot of effects into it and 2002 had bad CGI
@@simplifier_ I think you're mistaking it with Die Another Day, which is horrible.
Almost all 1962-2002 bond movies are master piece. Except a few ones
Whats made me mad is the new producer from daniel craig era. That decided to transform bond into a generic action movie that looks more like jason bourne then james bond
Their argument was that bond was too lucky, too handsome, too funny and smooth, too much skilled, too much helped by fancy gadget, too much of a flirt guy. Which according to them made bond movie not realistic
Result: bond popularity collapsed ever since they did that 😂 never change a recipe that works and give sucess. Bond movies since 2006 are now just a action movie among many others. Its no longer a must watch
@@mathewvanostin7118 could not disagree more
I loved goldeneye as a kid but the older I get, I dare say that maybe tomorrow never dies is the best Brosnan bond movie
GoldenEye is so much better and tommorow never dies is one of the WEAKER BOND MOVIES
tomorrow never dies is alot morr escapist while goldeneye has a really good story and great characters
Tomorrow Never Dies & Goldeneye ...easily two of the best Bond films ever.
GoldenEye yes tommorow never dies no
They’ve made some mistakes in the film but still tomorrow never dies is the best anyone can do. Should be in Greatest number 5 until Daniel Craig arrived.
I love how the ejected navigator doubles up as a grenade 😂
Don’t forget the rocket booster the seat uses to eject. it would still be firing at that point
When I was a kid, I don't think I realized how much chaos and confusion Bond was DELIBERATELY causing in order to steal the jet. I thought he was just blowing shit up for fun!!
I was 9 when I saw this movie in 1997. This opening was better to my eyes and ears than a Disneyland trip.
no matter who is playing J. Bond all the movies have great action... thanks.....
This intro is amazing. Also the first dvd I bought when I dropped $1k on my first dvd player and $45 on this DVD. will always love this movie.
I still love how Judi Dench's M goes from "you're a sexist, misogynist dinosaur" in Goldeneye to this "What's your man doing?" "HIS JOB!" in this one.
I mean, he may he a sexist misogynist dinosaur, but you still need a hammer to insert nails into wood.
It's gratifying because bond has the full support of his authority figures, not like the Craig films with all this drama
9:06 M's face, thinking, 'That's my boy!'
How about "back at you ". "in your face rear admiral "!
Tomorrow Never Dies is seriously underrated.
best cold open of the entire series. _TWINE_ is also great, and so is _GoldenEye_ ... but this is my personal fave.
The takeoff's a bit of a reference to Goldeneye, as in that film 007 takes the plane down the cliff first. In this one, he taxis down to the bottom before doubling back for takeoff.
I’d say the actual reference was a massive explosion after he got the plane in the air in both films, cos in Goldeneye he had to ride a motorbike off the cliff and sky dive to the plane before it crashed
what is he doing?
His Job. the confidence she has in bond is palpable
2:15 “We have election in Moscow” Right, like that’s gonna be legit.
In the 90s? More or less so.
Afterwards yeah, it's a circus not elections.
In the 90s it was. More than today.
@@FEARoperative agree to disagree. Yeltsyn indeed started removing political opponents pretty early in his reign, albeit not right away. Still, THERE WERE independent parties, THERE WERE different powers at play - not just one like it is now. And last but not the least, there was an independent journalism in the country.
If you think now is any better, you’re either misinformed or too young to remember.
@@Badchi I literally said the elections back then were more legit than today. People will go out of their way to misunderstand and get offended these days.
@@FEARoperative You have to phrase your responses better next time. Your “in the 90s it was” seemed to have been directed at my “it’s a circus not election”.
One of the best pre-credit intros because Bond's superiors get to see him in action, whereas usually they just see the results.
The Brosnan era really had top notch opening sequences. The pre-credits moments in Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, and Die Another Day are all perfectly good mini-movies in their own right (The World Is Not Enough being the only one that's kind of lacking).
The World Is Not Enough, though the longest of all the cold openings (save maybe one of the more recent Craig ones), has grown on me. It's Brosnan at his most ruthless (hell, it was probably one of the coldest Bonds next to Quantum--from the way he took down the heavies in the bank all the way to when he executed an unarmed woman point-blank and in cold-blood) and that boat chase sequence was awesome!
@@skyry101 I just miss the fun and escapism, the cool panache of Brosnan that was missing with Craig, except for the first 40 minutes of Spectre
The WINE pre opening title sequence was the only good part about the movie
TWINE bank and boat chase is lacking, it might be one of the longest intros of the franchise?
I still would have preferred Dalton
Brosnan was and will always be the best of Bond....❤️❤️❤️
One of the most suspenseful of the Bond intros. David Arnold's soundtrack here is exhilarating to listen to.
This scene is even funnier if you'd watched the series "As Time Goes By" -- also with Dame Judi and Geoffrey Palmer.
Even if the movie itself isn't one of the most impressive, this opening scene is absolutely amazing.
"Bloody hell. Can't you people keep anything locked up??" - Love it!
A great piece of cinema. This scene has it all.
if elliot carver were to describe this intro: delicious...
'It isn't even mine!'
what will happen if elliot carver gets the nuclear torpedos instead of the sea drill.
Since he is the villain and Bond ruined all his plans he would despise this intro. He would simply say "Pathetic"
Tomorrow Never Dies may not be my favorite Bond film (though still a good Bond film) but I think it may have one of my favorite cold opens, if not THE favorite.
The cheekyness that Brosnan brought to Bond was a perfect mix of Connery and Moore. Loved what he did with Bond.
No creativity like this in Bond films anymore. The little things like the Ejector Seat into the other plane makes it so much more memorable
Such a great scene
Another scene that shows us why Brosnan is the best Bond ever.
That's Connery
Me in my childhood i used to see Brosnan movies awesome 😎 movies by Brosnan James bond
We miss you handsome hero ❤️ of my time
This is my favourite James Bond movie
as Pierce Brosnan second outing as
007 James Bond in
Tomorrow Never Dies
I am dedicating this movie DVD to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them both again very soon to Chris and Hester from Billyxxx
RIP Geoffrey Palmer (Adm. Roebuck) 93 yrs. OBE
2:42 My absolute favorite gag in a Bond movie: the Navy ship has a switch for going from PEACE to WAR
My train of thoughts after reading this comment :
".......Wait no, that's not possible I have missed thaPFFFFFFFFRT ! xD"
I have never ever ever seen that. That’s brilliant lol
Haha. Nice eye
That isn't a gag. That's an actual switch in various military hardware.
This is my favourite intro to a Bond movie, and one of my favourite scenes of any Bond movie.
Possibly the greatest opening of bond ever... Never stops gettin exiting
Golden eye, Tomorrow Never Dies, the world is not enough...the best opening scenes and intros ever for 007 movies
Let's not talk about Die Another Day!
I love the absolute carnage run Bond goes on.
What I love about Tomorrow Never Dies is that it's one of the movies people thought at the time was really outlandish and mental, but over time has actually proven itself to be among the more realistic and frightening scenarios, where media barons shape narratives that actually cause serious rifts and possibly even lead to wars between peoples and countries. Elliot Carver is therefore one of the most sinister Bond villains, because he really exists!
The best opening sequence of any Bond film!!!!!
Controversially but comfortably my favourite Bond film
OK, so you either really love a great bike chase or you really hate Terri Hatcher. I wonder which it is?
Neither especially
That gatling gun must be firing at something else, because it would be shredding the absolute dogshit out of that plane on the ground.
Indeed. It would take us all day to unpack everything wrong with this opening.
@@DJones476 it's a james bond film not a documentary
@@DJones476 but it’s cool tho 🥺
It was firing automatically at the barrels that just exploded.
You have a few dozen men with some of the most lethal weapons in mankind's arsenal, and none of them can hit a virtually stationary plane 25 meters away.
I love how James Bond just naturally knows how to fly a fighter jet.
Lol. But of course!
he’s bond… of course he knows
he's a naval commander and a seasoned operative, and it's pretty well established that he knows how to fly planes througohut the series....
Love the opening in this and love the movie! Pierce Brosnan is awesome! One of my favorite Bonds besides Roger Moore.
Same here
Why would you strangle the pilot , you'll die too ! 🤔🙄🥴
"You forget the 1st rule of mass media...get the people what they want" - 007..🍷
They imprint anything these days...