The best advice I’ve heard for appreciating the early Bond films is to remember that they came out less than 20 years after WWII. British audiences especially were just again becoming super hungry for luxuries and exotic travel. So Bond, with his expensive habits and globetrotting were really thrilling at the time, especially to British viewers. Plus, atomic power and its supposed accessories were also still very new and exciting to people. And they didn’t have to be all that realistic, because few people knew enough to question what they were being shown. If you do the next film in chronological order, “From Russia With Love,” you’ll see all these thrilling atmospheric aspects cranked up even more.
Emily: "I'm sorry... Honey... Rider?!?" Me: (wonders if Emily's jaw hitting the floor during "Goldfinger" will register on the nearest Richter scale) BTW, Bond's suit during dinner with Dr. No still holds up.
@@jamescampbell8910 in moonraker the Bond girl wasn’t a nasa scientist she was a British special branch agent and her name was gala (short for Galatea) brand and the plot didn’t involve space they were trying to cash in on the success of Star Wars plus it’s the one I hated the most because it strayed away massively from the source material which is my favourite book of the series by Ian Fleming
My mom got me hooked on Bond when I was a little kid. She said she was going to name me Sean but when they asked she was still so out of it from the drugs "Stacey" came out instead.
The James Bond theme is a genius piece of composition. It has three distinct parts, mirroring James' three roles: The dum-dahhh-dum-dum is gentle and subtle, for when he's being sneaky and stealthy. The dum-diddle-ah-dum dum-dum-dum is the solo guitar of James being suave and cool. The baddab-badaa ba-da-dah!!! On trumpets is saved for the action scenes, where James is in a shoot out or a vehicle chase.
Ian Fleming *was* in British Intelligence during WWII, and attached to the unit that features in "The Man Who Never Was"/"Operation Mincemeat". I think he even pops up in "Operation Mincemeat" (as a character) when one of the commanders laments that everyone in the unit wants to be a novelist.
He wrote the "Trout memo", while working as aide to the head of NavL Intelligence. This memo contained several dozen schemes for deception operations, on which number 28 was planting misleading documents on a corpse to.be found by the enemy(which became operation mincemeat)
In the book, it's clear that Bond's trip though the vents is a planned obstacle course. At the end of the course, he faces a giant octopus. Also in the book, it's a poisonous centipede, not a tarantula. The book also says that Dr. No is only half Chinese. This first film was a gamble. It had a fairly low budget of a million pounds. The second film doubled that budget and the third film tripled it. Can't wait for Goldfinger. My favorite Bond film. It's the one that created the template for the rest of the series.
I seem to remember Dr No wanted to torture Bond to find out how much he'd endure before dying and that he planned on doing it with other people. The book gave more of No's background and even explained how he got all his minions.
Also, Honey was supposed to be staked out in the path of carnivorous crabs. Being the naturalist she was she knew they were harmless and that if she just stayed still, they'd just climb over and past her.
@@timbuktu8069 I think when I first saw Dr. No, I mentally superimposed the crabs crawling up that slope. I first say it on TV on the ABC Sunday Night Movie and you couldn't really tell on our TV whether they were there or not.
As a Brit “Dreadful,simply dreadful.” to “that fu*’ing sucked!” is about right. This reaction came as a shock wasn’t expecting a Bond. As a kid I grew up with the 80s Bond films so the early Connery ones didn’t appeal to me, but as I got older I started to see all that was great about them.
It's generally understood that From Russia With Love and Goldfinger are the two best Sean Connery Bond films, with Thunderball a close third. Dr. No was basically an experiment, since the studio had no idea if James Bond would even work cinematically.
I grew up in the 80's, "For Your Eyes Only" was the first one I saw in the theaters, but I saw "You Only Live Twice" and "On her Majesty's Secret Service" on network TV and I liked those just as much. Once they were released on video I binged them all, and I loved most of the Connery movies and later Roger Moore, it was the weird 70's phase from "Diamonds Are Forever" to "Moonraker" that I couldn't get into until I could appreciate the 70's particularly funky brand of cheese...
@Randy White That's probably the best one in that phase in the sense of actually being a thrilling action/sci-fi movie, which has the odd effect of making it not as fun as balls-out crazier ones. It's still too cheesy to take seriously, (It introduces Jaws after all) but it's nowhere near as bonkers as a pigeon doing a cartoon take in "Moonraker" or Roger Moore vs the Fantasy Island midget on a boat in MWTGG.
The real problem with this movie is that as a modern movie watcher you can't shake the huge amount of tropes and parodies it started. I keep getting Austing Power vibes, the movies looks like a parody of a James Bond movies at times, which is crazy. I have to keep reminding myself it's the original one. In a way, it's too iconic for its own good. Later movies are iconic too (Goldfinger anyone?) but intentionally so. You kind get the Bond meta.
Broccoli, the vegetable, has been around since Roman times and selectively bred as a cultivar in Italy. Albert R. Broccoli's family does hail from Calabria, Italy, and the green broccoli most familiar to us all is actually Calabrese broccoli, one of the 3 most common types. So his family name is directly connected to the vegetable.
I heard the vegetable connection story in a pub over beers a long time before the Internets were around to fact check. It was embellished a bit to suggest that his family had made their money in the old country via broccoli and it was enough to send family members to the US to carve out a new life in the early 20th century, and that therefore the entire Bond phenomenon is indirectly funded by a vegetable. I choose to believe this in its entirety, rather than let any disappointing facts ruin it.
"I want to see how this progresses..." I can't wait until the "weird" phase of the late 70's. I don't know if Roger Moore vs Herve Villachaiz is a high or low point for this franchise, but it's unforgettable... Between Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, you guys should watch the Austin Powers and Bourne trilogies. (There's five Bourne movies but the fourth and fifth ones weren't as big influential hits) Although the continuity in James Bond has never been great and the tone and style veers wildly, "Casino Royale" (2005) was really the first hard reboot and the reason it was necessary was because Austin Powers and The Bourne Triolgy deconstructed a lot of the tropes that James Bond had relied on for so long. It's good to watch them for context; in a sense, they are unofficial Bond movies, exploring what the character would be like at his most cartoonish vs his most realistic.
The unofficial "Casino Royale" with David Nivem, Peter Sellers and Woody Allen, et. al. pretty much deconstructed all those tropes. The 2005 Casino Royale rescued the original story from what those nuts did.
@@inquisitive6786 Certainly moreso than "Die Another Day." The Bourne movies are still movies, but they explore what the reality of what a covert government kill squad would be like; they're *illegal,* which means they have to hide it not just from the public, but also from oversight, which then means they're not necessarily killing actual security threats, they're killing whoever they feel like...
Ashleigh being in Memphis and these two being in west-central mississippi, prolly wouldnt be too difficult to set up a collab if all parties were interested
You're correct about the tarantula bite. There are well over 800 species of tarantulas around the world and most are very docile. I had several as pets when I was a kid. They have to really be abused or handled roughly to make them bite and most species bites are less irritating than a bee sting. Many have hairlike bristles that they can shoot from their abdomen when scared. The bristles are barbed like fish hooks and are far worse than being bitten. I've picked up many wild tarantulas around the US. They will often walk toward a still hand and crawl on to absorb the body heat. They normally don't mind contact as long as you let them initiate it. Same with most creatures.
Can't wait for you guys to react to… "From Russia with Love", "Goldfinger", "Thunderball", "You Only Live Twice", "Diamonds Are Forever" All James Bond films with the best 007 in Sean Connery! 🎥🍸
@@jdnaz1288 you only live twice has a high sentimental feel for me, weirdly like comfort food, but movies. Thunderball was my favorite as a kid, now it's probably spy who loved me. But after Moore, it just falls off, IMO.
@@brynjolfr I like most of the Bond films after Moore's. I do like most of Moore's too, of course(especially The Spy Who Loved Me & For Your Eyes Only).
I had never seen a James Bond movie before I started going out with my now husband back in 1975 and soon found out that he was a massive fan of the Bonds movie and took much pleasure in introducing me to them. I never became as big a fan as him but I did enjoy the Sean Connery movies. I did like the George Lazenby movie especially because of Diana Rigg and some the the Roger Moore movies were fun but it went downhill after that in my opinion anyway. Daniel Craig made a good Bond he was the closest to the Sean Connery Bond.
Honey Rider's full name was Honeychile Rider in the novel. Miss Taro, the woman you reference from the middle of the film who tries to set Bond up to be killed is the classic femme fatale trope. Looking forward to your review of From Russia with Love, one of Connery's best Bond films.
The name is Trench, Sylvia Trench. Jack Lord who played Felix Leiter went onto play Steve McGarrett in the long running Hawaii Five-0 series, 'Book-em, Dano'.
Leiter was played by a different actor in every appearance until Jeffrey Wright started portraying him in the Daniel Craig movies. EDIT: Almost, @kall reader pointed out that David Hedison was brought back from "Live and Let Die" to re-appear in "License to Kill"
@@chrisleebowers Actually, David Hedison played Felix Leiter in the Roger Moore Bond, Live and Let Die and in Timothy Dalton's Bond film, Licence to Kill
In the early '60s travel to other countries wasn't common, only rich people or business men could afford it, the majority of people would have never been abroad so, the thing such as the Tarantulas and Black Widow spiders were exotic and not known to the public at large, perhaps if you were in the Forces, the Navy in particular you may have heard about them but probably never seen one and most certainly would not know how poisonous they were compared to other species.
As a Brit, and considering the era & Ian Fleming's background, I'd certainly say that 'Dreadful, Simply Dreadful' would be well up there with ''f-ing sucks'.
Thanks for keeping Bond's scene with M getting his iconic Walther PPK issued. Many reactors to this film skip it. Bond trying to sneak the Beretta back out while leaving (and M calling him out on it) starts to give you insight into both of their characters.
Exactly. It shows that Bond does get attached to his weaponry. But with the Beretta deemed unreliability, the Walther is introduced as a more stable and comparatively powerful replacement. And while M might not be out in the field, he’s not a fool either.
In the book it was a centipede not a spider. It was changed because they thought the audience wouldn't know about venomous centipedes. Also that painting in Dr. No's lair was very famous at the time. It had recently been stolen.
Since you like the locations..The exteriors of Dr No's "Facility" are the old bauxite shipping plant in Ocho Rios Jamaica. All of the beach stuff was shot just outside the harbor in Ocho Rios at the beach where the Dunn's River (down from Dunn's Falls) empties out in the the sea. Since Dr No filmed there it has alway been called James Bond Beach.
@@ericjanssen394 It was a simple suggestion if 27 is too many (and it is). For what it's worth I'm not a fan of the Moore and Brosnan films and think the Lazenby is one of the worst of the lot.
@@anhistorian7255 Moore's cheeky charm powers his movies, some of which feel really low-brow and half-assed. The Brosnan movies are better produced, though I don't think Brosnan was necessarily right for the part (Connery, Dalton, and even Moore at certain times could play terse cold-blooded ruthlessness well, Brosnan just can't, I remember my dad saying that he lacked any intimidating qualities that the Bond character should have).
@@ryanjacobson2508 I agree with you with Moore but they were like spoofs to me, which is why I didn't like them. I thought Dalton was an excellent Bond.
The production company he hinted at is called EON which stands for Everything Or Nothing, meaning they put everything including the kitchen sink into each following Bond movie so every dime they grossed and didn't personally profit from went into each subsequent movie so more money for stunts, outfits, layers, gadgets, music including the title theme song and artist which also became a thing unto itself. As a side note Ian Fleming wrote his novels in a place he could get away and focus and the name of the place which would decades later be the title of another Bond film is called Goldeneye.
At the time this was made Ursula Andress (Honey) was married to John Derek (who played Joshua in THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (look him up because he, too, was devastatingly handsome and was later married to Bo Derek). Ursula's voice was dubbed in this film because, although she spoke English the producers were afraid Americans wouldn't be able to understand her because of her Swedish accent. We had to wait until Hammer films released SHE (based on the H. Rider Haggard novel) in 1965 to HEAR her.
Enjoyed your reaction to Dr. No. I saw this movie when it first came out. I was 13 and this movie had everything a prepubescent lad could want in a movie. The only two scenes I can always remember is the iconic beach scene and the big explosion scene at the end. Fun trivia: Sean Connery was in Kenya finishing a Tarzan movie(Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure) when the producers asked if would like to come back and be in the next Tarzan movie. He said,”Sure I’d love to ,but two people have taken an option on me to work in some sort of spy movie. But I’ll be back>” He never made it back.
Many , many years ago I was lucky to spend 30 minutes in Ursula Andress's company.. God, that was a fun half an hour.. She was warm, funny and slightly flirtatious , in short just amazing..
I have to say, it is refreshing to see a reaction channel reacting to movies as old as time and not looking simply for views by reacting to movies made for the masses. Seem to be so few.
If I remember right, the exchange between Sylvia Trench and Bond ending with that most classic line routinely ranks among the most famous film scenes of all time.
Fun Factoids...The first bikini had been worn at a Paris fashion show in 1946, but in the 1950s the bikini was still seen as something of a taboo. Andress' bikini arrived at a key moment in the history of women's fashion, coming at the "birth of the sexual revolution": the 1960s. In the corresponding scene of the original novel, the character Honeychile Rider wears only a leather belt with a scabbard, and no bikini. The filmmakers for Dr No decided that when Andress spoke her lines in English, her thick Swiss-German accent was a problem. Her speaking voice was dubbed by the German-British voice actress Nikki van der Zyl.
Dr. No is still my favorite villain. Even though his screen time is brief. We get just his voice with the first introduction. And somehow the actor manages to make a calm, even toned voice sound like pure evil. And then when we finally observe Dr. No in the flesh, he comes across almost robotic in his lack of emotion and facial expression. And yet again, it comes across as incredibly menacing and dark. Definitely a genius stroke of less being more. Way more.
In the novel they use a poisonous centipede and it crawls over his face and he stays still as much as possible and then when it's cleared he kills it with his shoe.
Some cats may gently nibble or bite their owners as a sign of affection. It is thought to be reminiscent of how a mother cat will groom her kittens with small bites and is more common in cats who have had litters. This is not usually a problem form of biting.
Hell Yeah Emily!!! Goldeneye on N64 was the shit back in the day. Also, love the hilarious banter between you two, Matthew don't be knockin Emily's standards now, after all she married you buddy! I don't know about anyone else, but I can't wait to see Emily's reaction to Goldfinger and the Bond girls fictional name in that one, she's gonna lose her shit!
"Honey! People are watching!" 🤣🤣🤣 I do enjoy a Bond girl with a punny name, but some are more on the nose than others 😅 Excited for Emily to get to the wacky Roger Moore era, but Dalton and Brosnan are my faves.
I don’t know if this has been mentioned yet, but Ursula Andress, who played Honey Rider, did not voice her own character. She had a rather thick accent so she was dubbed over. Same thing happened to her on Clash of the Titans. This was also a very common thing for Bond films. Hire an actor whether they speak English or not, and just dub them with someone else’s voice. They did that to Goldfinger as well because he didn’t speak English at all (besides the iconic line, “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.”). Through the movie he said his lines very quickly in German and was reduced in post.
A number of years ago, I binged the entire Bond series, including the 2 non-Eon films. It took me almost 3 full days with hardly any breaks. It was one of the most painful experiences in my life. I still have nightmares from time to time. Iraq was less traumatic.
All of the Bond movies are very dated to the era they were made in. Since I happen to like the 80's, the 80's Bond movies to me are the most enjoyable. The other Bond movies range from okay time-wasters to painfully corny, and the Craig movies somehow aren't corny enough and his movies are guilty of catering to the worst excesses of modern action film-making to varying degrees.
I’m 48. Became a huge Bond fan by age 8 or 9. Started reading the novels at the exact same time my family had a VCR and we could rent anything. From then this very day: only thing I like about Dr. No is the intro at the baccarat table and Bond coldly executing Dent.
Did you ever stop to think that in the final scene were Bond and the girl are in the boat and Bond releases the rope. Bond did this in order to plug a hole in the boat that needed filling!
I've been a Bond fan for ages - love them all, even the "bad" ones. Obviously Connery is the archetype, and Moore is the one I connected with as a little kid, but don't sleep on Timothy Dalton's two films - he was a vastly underrated Bond. Enjoy the journey!
The girl you two wondered about when asking "why is she in the story," is there to show that Dr. No had infiltrated Government House. Thus explaining how he knew to have someone meet Bond at the airport.
It's generally understood that From Russia With Love and Goldfinger are the two best Sean Connery Bond films, with Thunderball a close third. Dr. No was basically an experiment, since the studio had no idea if James Bond would even work cinematically. But it's definitely a very rough first attempt.
I started to watch amovie and saw that Albert Brocoli was the producer. Then I saw it was a Ian Fleming story. Ten saw that Desmond Llewellyn {Q} and Gert Frobe {Goldfinger} were in it. The movie was "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. What the heck, a kid's movie.
First 007 movies I ever watched were Live and Let Die and You Only Live Twice. My Dad was a fan, so set it up so I could watch each movie in order. But yes, as many say, you can't look at this with a modern mind Everything that seems off was normal at the time of filming especially the female sex objects. Now I watch it for the nostalgia, complete with eye-rolls. But as a kid who didn't know any better, these movies were fascinating. The only thing that bothered me as a kid was in You Only Live Twice, but I won't spoil it. So I was pumped when Brosnan took over to revisit the franchise. Can't wait to watch you continue to enjoy it.
@@paintedjaguar No, the kind that just stands there, and looks sexy and when needed screams "JAMES!" or swoons while saying "Oh, James" The first time you dealt with a female villian that actually is trying to kill him is not until Thunderball. Miss Taro barely counts as she just sets him up. Thunderball's Number 11 is more ruthless. And then nothing more until Diamonds are Forever, however, I wouldn't really count that one. Most of the female supporting cast were just there to add to the sex appeal and as character didn't do much. But that was the curse of the 60s/70s, and a bit of the 80s.
The 1st Roger Moore as James Bond film when he took over the character after Sean Connery retired from the franchise to act in other movies...I am glad Roger was to make the character his own and put his own fresh spin on his interpretation of Bond and perfectly blending Bond into the 70s & 80s. Live & Let Die has great menacing villains, gorgeous Bond women, helpful allies, awesome stunts, spectacular explosions, neat set pieces, cool locations, unique gadgets and a kick @$$ soundtrack all under the tutelage of a veteran Bond director & producers. 😎✌️🍸🇬🇧
I re-watched Dr No not that long ago and didn’t care for it as much as my memory suggested. However… watching with Emily made it so much more enjoyable. Thank you!
Haha!! Love the quick spinround. M: "Can we get a tarantula?" E: "F*** you! 😀 " And of course all females names had connotations with them. Interestingly, Honeys voice was a famous TV star in the UK. Dr No was in one of Disney's films they don't talk about anymore. "One of our dinosaurs is missing"
Emily James Bond was created by the author named Sir Ian Fleming. Fleming based his James Bond's stories on his actual time with OSS during WWII. One of Bond's villains, Scaramunga played by Christopher Lee in other movies served in during WWII as an Intelligence Officer possibly worked with Fleming on some classified missions.
I love Dr. No, because of all the Bond movies, it's probably the closest to the source material, which I also love. As the movies progress, they start to stray further and further from the books and become their own creation. Biggest change overall was in Q branch. It's not that the movies are bad, but they just stopped following them directly and started using the highest level of the plot of the book and made their own interpretation.
To me, Dr. No is like a pilot episode of a tv show: they had the basics but still trying to find its way. Bond shooting the unarmed professor was kind of out of character. The opening credit sequence would change after Dr. No.. From Russia With Love started to nail down the definitive style of the films and Connery started to shape the character more. Goldfinger, they had it pretty much figured out...
Thank you for leaving in the introduction to the Walther PPK. Most other reactions these days skip over that scene, but I believe it's critical going forward in the series. It's the only weapon that all of the Bond actors have used during their respective tenures - and to many film and weapon afficionados, the PPK is disputably one of the most if not the most famous and influential sidearm weapon in film history. Not even Dirty Harry's 44 Magnum can claim that. And it's still being made today. Like a good tuxedo, a classic never goes out of style, and the PPK is definitely classic. So much so that even in the books, a fan wrote to Fleming stating that the Walther is a better carry conceal, so he wrote it in. And the rest is literary and film history...
I have a soft spot in my heart for Goldfinger, since my Mom got a free VHS copy of it in the mail along with The Odd Couple. As kids we watched the F out of those two movies.
I have not read the books at all, but what I've understood is that the books are missing the romantic and more light hearted material from them. And at least the first ones were more serious spy stories. But overall, the movies are pretty good, some are very good, some not so much, but it is each their own. 27 movies, not like you will be hitting it out of the park every time. Entertaining is the term I would use for the 007 movies. I am curious to hear what Emily has to say about all the different Bond actors. And by the way, rest in peace Sean Connery.
Please watch more Bond's~ ! They're entertainment in their purest form :). I'd say there are clear highlight bond movies on each decades, like "Goldfinger" and "On her majesty's secret service" in the 60's, "The spy who loved me" on the 70's. The 80's bond films are my personal favorites, aside from "A view to a kill". 90's you'll get "Goldeneye", "Casino Royale" in the 00's and "Skyfall" :).
The best advice I’ve heard for appreciating the early Bond films is to remember that they came out less than 20 years after WWII. British audiences especially were just again becoming super hungry for luxuries and exotic travel. So Bond, with his expensive habits and globetrotting were really thrilling at the time, especially to British viewers. Plus, atomic power and its supposed accessories were also still very new and exciting to people. And they didn’t have to be all that realistic, because few people knew enough to question what they were being shown.
If you do the next film in chronological order, “From Russia With Love,” you’ll see all these thrilling atmospheric aspects cranked up even more.
Also, especially the Connery era Bonds and even Moore era bonds were a bit... 'sus', regarding racial and gender relations, so to speak.
"So Bond, with his expensive habits and globetrotting were really thrilling at the time, especially to British viewers." the same to US viewers
Emily: "I'm sorry... Honey... Rider?!?"
Me: (wonders if Emily's jaw hitting the floor during "Goldfinger" will register on the nearest Richter scale)
BTW, Bond's suit during dinner with Dr. No still holds up.
Was just about to mention that aspect of Goldfinger myself lol
@@GamingWithGeo Or Moonraker
@@jamescampbell8910 in moonraker the Bond girl wasn’t a nasa scientist she was a British special branch agent and her name was gala (short for Galatea) brand and the plot didn’t involve space they were trying to cash in on the success of Star Wars plus it’s the one I hated the most because it strayed away massively from the source material which is my favourite book of the series by Ian Fleming
"I'm going to place him in an easily escapable situation involving an overly elaborate and exotic death." - Dr Evil
My mom got me hooked on Bond when I was a little kid. She said she was going to name me Sean but when they asked she was still so out of it from the drugs "Stacey" came out instead.
We recently lost the composer who wrote the score for James Bond. So having you sing the tune is a good way to honor his memory.
RIP Monty Norman.
RIP, Sean Connery. And Monty Norman who wrote the original James Bond Theme.
Also RIP Christopher Lee whom James Bond was partially inspired by
The James Bond theme is a genius piece of composition. It has three distinct parts, mirroring James' three roles:
The dum-dahhh-dum-dum is gentle and subtle, for when he's being sneaky and stealthy.
The dum-diddle-ah-dum dum-dum-dum is the solo guitar of James being suave and cool.
The baddab-badaa ba-da-dah!!! On trumpets is saved for the action scenes, where James is in a shoot out or a vehicle chase.
I think I saw the composer of the Bond music died about a week ago.
Ian Fleming *was* in British Intelligence during WWII, and attached to the unit that features in "The Man Who Never Was"/"Operation Mincemeat". I think he even pops up in "Operation Mincemeat" (as a character) when one of the commanders laments that everyone in the unit wants to be a novelist.
He wrote the "Trout memo", while working as aide to the head of NavL Intelligence. This memo contained several dozen schemes for deception operations, on which number 28 was planting misleading documents on a corpse to.be found by the enemy(which became operation mincemeat)
In the book, it's clear that Bond's trip though the vents is a planned obstacle course. At the end of the course, he faces a giant octopus. Also in the book, it's a poisonous centipede, not a tarantula. The book also says that Dr. No is only half Chinese.
This first film was a gamble. It had a fairly low budget of a million pounds. The second film doubled that budget and the third film tripled it.
Can't wait for Goldfinger. My favorite Bond film. It's the one that created the template for the rest of the series.
I seem to remember Dr No wanted to torture Bond to find out how much he'd endure before dying and that he planned on doing it with other people. The book gave more of No's background and even explained how he got all his minions.
Also, Honey was supposed to be staked out in the path of carnivorous crabs.
Being the naturalist she was she knew they were harmless and that if she just stayed still, they'd just climb over and past her.
@@timbuktu8069 I think when I first saw Dr. No, I mentally superimposed the crabs crawling up that slope. I first say it on TV on the ABC Sunday Night Movie and you couldn't really tell on our TV whether they were there or not.
@@richardb6260 I really want to see this movie redone with modern special effects. And the way it was in the book.
@@timbuktu8069 I'd like to see a James Bond TV series that faithfully adapts all the books in release order and set in the 50s and early 60s.
As a Brit “Dreadful,simply dreadful.” to “that fu*’ing sucked!” is about right.
This reaction came as a shock wasn’t expecting a Bond. As a kid I grew up with the 80s Bond films so the early Connery ones didn’t appeal to me, but as I got older I started to see all that was great about them.
It's generally understood that From Russia With Love and Goldfinger are the two best Sean Connery Bond films, with Thunderball a close third. Dr. No was basically an experiment, since the studio had no idea if James Bond would even work cinematically.
I grew up in the 80's, "For Your Eyes Only" was the first one I saw in the theaters, but I saw "You Only Live Twice" and "On her Majesty's Secret Service" on network TV and I liked those just as much. Once they were released on video I binged them all, and I loved most of the Connery movies and later Roger Moore, it was the weird 70's phase from "Diamonds Are Forever" to "Moonraker" that I couldn't get into until I could appreciate the 70's particularly funky brand of cheese...
@Randy White That's probably the best one in that phase in the sense of actually being a thrilling action/sci-fi movie, which has the odd effect of making it not as fun as balls-out crazier ones. It's still too cheesy to take seriously, (It introduces Jaws after all) but it's nowhere near as bonkers as a pigeon doing a cartoon take in "Moonraker" or Roger Moore vs the Fantasy Island midget on a boat in MWTGG.
Guys can’t believe you’re doing my favourite franchise. Sir Sean’s delivery of the famous line has never been bettered. 🍸
The real problem with this movie is that as a modern movie watcher you can't shake the huge amount of tropes and parodies it started. I keep getting Austing Power vibes, the movies looks like a parody of a James Bond movies at times, which is crazy. I have to keep reminding myself it's the original one. In a way, it's too iconic for its own good.
Later movies are iconic too (Goldfinger anyone?) but intentionally so. You kind get the Bond meta.
There are no problems with this movie. It is damn near a perfect film.
Broccoli, the vegetable, has been around since Roman times and selectively bred as a cultivar in Italy. Albert R. Broccoli's family does hail from Calabria, Italy, and the green broccoli most familiar to us all is actually Calabrese broccoli, one of the 3 most common types. So his family name is directly connected to the vegetable.
Al went by the nickname Cubby, due to his last name.
I heard the vegetable connection story in a pub over beers a long time before the Internets were around to fact check. It was embellished a bit to suggest that his family had made their money in the old country via broccoli and it was enough to send family members to the US to carve out a new life in the early 20th century, and that therefore the entire Bond phenomenon is indirectly funded by a vegetable. I choose to believe this in its entirety, rather than let any disappointing facts ruin it.
"I want to see how this progresses..."
I can't wait until the "weird" phase of the late 70's. I don't know if Roger Moore vs Herve Villachaiz is a high or low point for this franchise, but it's unforgettable...
Between Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, you guys should watch the Austin Powers and Bourne trilogies. (There's five Bourne movies but the fourth and fifth ones weren't as big influential hits) Although the continuity in James Bond has never been great and the tone and style veers wildly, "Casino Royale" (2005) was really the first hard reboot and the reason it was necessary was because Austin Powers and The Bourne Triolgy deconstructed a lot of the tropes that James Bond had relied on for so long. It's good to watch them for context; in a sense, they are unofficial Bond movies, exploring what the character would be like at his most cartoonish vs his most realistic.
The unofficial "Casino Royale" with David Nivem, Peter Sellers and Woody Allen, et. al. pretty much deconstructed all those tropes. The 2005 Casino Royale rescued the original story from what those nuts did.
Bourne is realistic?😂
@@inquisitive6786 Certainly moreso than "Die Another Day."
The Bourne movies are still movies, but they explore what the reality of what a covert government kill squad would be like; they're *illegal,* which means they have to hide it not just from the public, but also from oversight, which then means they're not necessarily killing actual security threats, they're killing whoever they feel like...
Love the James Bond series. So glad you guys are doing this.
"Ten Beans" has extra meaning for me: one of the other movie-first-viewing reactors I frequent showcases her cat which is named Beans!
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Yay Ashleigh and Beans
Hi! Yes! Hellooo!
Ashleigh being in Memphis and these two being in west-central mississippi, prolly wouldnt be too difficult to set up a collab if all parties were interested
@@nicholasperrin3241 could you imagine the Ashleigh/Emily combined energy?!? Poor Matthew! 😂
You're correct about the tarantula bite. There are well over 800 species of tarantulas around the world and most are very docile. I had several as pets when I was a kid. They have to really be abused or handled roughly to make them bite and most species bites are less irritating than a bee sting. Many have hairlike bristles that they can shoot from their abdomen when scared. The bristles are barbed like fish hooks and are far worse than being bitten. I've picked up many wild tarantulas around the US. They will often walk toward a still hand and crawl on to absorb the body heat. They normally don't mind contact as long as you let them initiate it. Same with most creatures.
Can't wait for you guys to react to…
"From Russia with Love", "Goldfinger", "Thunderball", "You Only Live Twice", "Diamonds Are Forever"
All James Bond films with the best 007 in Sean Connery!
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The next 3 are not only the best Connery Bond movies, but 3 of the best in the franchise, imo.
@@jdnaz1288 you only live twice has a high sentimental feel for me, weirdly like comfort food, but movies.
Thunderball was my favorite as a kid, now it's probably spy who loved me. But after Moore, it just falls off, IMO.
@@brynjolfr I like most of the Bond films after Moore's. I do like most of Moore's too, of course(especially The Spy Who Loved Me & For Your Eyes Only).
I had never seen a James Bond movie before I started going out with my now husband back in 1975 and soon found out that he was a massive fan of the Bonds movie and took much pleasure in introducing me to them. I never became as big a fan as him but I did enjoy the Sean Connery movies. I did like the George Lazenby movie especially because of Diana Rigg and some the the Roger Moore movies were fun but it went downhill after that in my opinion anyway. Daniel Craig made a good Bond he was the closest to the Sean Connery Bond.
Seeing Emily's reaction to the spider, I suggest "Arachnophobia" with John Goodman for Halloween
Honey Rider's full name was Honeychile Rider in the novel. Miss Taro, the woman you reference from the middle of the film who tries to set Bond up to be killed is the classic femme fatale trope. Looking forward to your review of From Russia with Love, one of Connery's best Bond films.
I love for many of these videos Pippen gets Emily's attention by basically saying "Mom, dont forget about me"
The name is Trench, Sylvia Trench. Jack Lord who played Felix Leiter went onto play Steve McGarrett in the long running Hawaii Five-0 series, 'Book-em, Dano'.
Leiter was played by a different actor in every appearance until Jeffrey Wright started portraying him in the Daniel Craig movies.
EDIT: Almost, @kall reader pointed out that David Hedison was brought back from "Live and Let Die" to re-appear in "License to Kill"
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Actually, David Hedison played Felix Leiter in the Roger Moore Bond, Live and Let Die and in Timothy Dalton's Bond film, Licence to Kill
@@kallreader7376 Thank you, I forgot about that.
Monty Norman the composer of the James Bond theme music (twangy guitar etc.) died this week aged 94.
Dunah aa .daaa dunnnaaa...that suckkkss
A man who knew what going to be iconic ruclips.net/video/pCLfyg4jwQ8/видео.html
In the early '60s travel to other countries wasn't common, only rich people or business men could afford it, the majority of people would have never been abroad so, the thing such as the Tarantulas and Black Widow spiders were exotic and not known to the public at large, perhaps if you were in the Forces, the Navy in particular you may have heard about them but probably never seen one and most certainly would not know how poisonous they were compared to other species.
As a Brit, and considering the era & Ian Fleming's background, I'd certainly say that 'Dreadful, Simply Dreadful' would be well up there with ''f-ing sucks'.
Thanks for keeping Bond's scene with M getting his iconic Walther PPK issued. Many reactors to this film skip it. Bond trying to sneak the Beretta back out while leaving (and M calling him out on it) starts to give you insight into both of their characters.
Exactly. It shows that Bond does get attached to his weaponry. But with the Beretta deemed unreliability, the Walther is introduced as a more stable and comparatively powerful replacement.
And while M might not be out in the field, he’s not a fool either.
"Yes Mr. Bond, that aquarium cost...ONE MEELYON DOLLARS."
In the book it was a centipede not a spider. It was changed because they thought the audience wouldn't know about venomous centipedes.
Also that painting in Dr. No's lair was very famous at the time. It had recently been stolen.
Since you like the locations..The exteriors of Dr No's "Facility" are the old bauxite shipping plant in Ocho Rios Jamaica. All of the beach stuff was shot just outside the harbor in Ocho Rios at the beach where the Dunn's River (down from Dunn's Falls) empties out in the the sea. Since Dr No filmed there it has alway been called James Bond Beach.
And Golden Eye, the Fleming Estate is just a hop skip and a jump up the coast.
You could always watch the debut film of each Bond, rather than go through the lot. Nice to see some Bond reacted to :)
@@ericjanssen394 It was a simple suggestion if 27 is too many (and it is). For what it's worth I'm not a fan of the Moore and Brosnan films and think the Lazenby is one of the worst of the lot.
@@anhistorian7255 Moore's cheeky charm powers his movies, some of which feel really low-brow and half-assed. The Brosnan movies are better produced, though I don't think Brosnan was necessarily right for the part (Connery, Dalton, and even Moore at certain times could play terse cold-blooded ruthlessness well, Brosnan just can't, I remember my dad saying that he lacked any intimidating qualities that the Bond character should have).
@@ryanjacobson2508 I agree with you with Moore but they were like spoofs to me, which is why I didn't like them. I thought Dalton was an excellent Bond.
The production company he hinted at is called EON which stands for Everything Or Nothing, meaning they put everything including the kitchen sink into each following Bond movie so every dime they grossed and didn't personally profit from went into each subsequent movie so more money for stunts, outfits, layers, gadgets, music including the title theme song and artist which also became a thing unto itself.
As a side note Ian Fleming wrote his novels in a place he could get away and focus and the name of the place which would decades later be the title of another Bond film is called Goldeneye.
The 2nd one is my favorite. Do “From Russia With Love” next!
007 is the man and Sean Connery is my favorite James Bond. I can't wait for your reaction to From Russia With Love.
At the time this was made Ursula Andress (Honey) was married to John Derek (who played Joshua in THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (look him up because he, too, was devastatingly handsome and was later married to Bo Derek).
Ursula's voice was dubbed in this film because, although she spoke English the producers were afraid Americans wouldn't be able to understand her because of her Swedish accent. We had to wait until Hammer films released SHE (based on the H. Rider Haggard novel) in 1965 to HEAR her.
Enjoyed your reaction to Dr. No. I saw this movie when it first came out. I was 13 and this movie had everything a prepubescent lad could want in a movie. The only two scenes I can always remember is the iconic beach scene and the big explosion scene at the end. Fun trivia: Sean Connery was in Kenya finishing a Tarzan movie(Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure) when the producers asked if would like to come back and be in the next Tarzan movie. He said,”Sure I’d love to ,but two people have taken an option on me to work in some sort of spy movie. But I’ll be back>” He never made it back.
Not very often that somebody has the ability to make me feel young. Thanks. LOL
Many , many years ago I was lucky to spend 30 minutes in Ursula Andress's company.. God, that was a fun half an hour.. She was warm, funny and slightly flirtatious , in short just amazing..
I have to say, it is refreshing to see a reaction channel reacting to movies as old as time and not looking simply for views by reacting to movies made for the masses. Seem to be so few.
Go to Mia Tiffany's RUclips Channel. She reacts to a lot of vintage films.
If I remember right, the exchange between Sylvia Trench and Bond ending with that most classic line routinely ranks among the most famous film scenes of all time.
Fun Factoids...The first bikini had been worn at a Paris fashion show in 1946, but in the 1950s the bikini was still seen as something of a taboo. Andress' bikini arrived at a key moment in the history of women's fashion, coming at the "birth of the sexual revolution": the 1960s.
In the corresponding scene of the original novel, the character Honeychile Rider wears only a leather belt with a scabbard, and no bikini. The filmmakers for Dr No decided that when Andress spoke her lines in English, her thick Swiss-German accent was a problem. Her speaking voice was dubbed by the German-British voice actress Nikki van der Zyl.
Dr. No is still my favorite villain. Even though his screen time is brief. We get just his voice with the first introduction. And somehow the actor manages to make a calm, even toned voice sound like pure evil. And then when we finally observe Dr. No in the flesh, he comes across almost robotic in his lack of emotion and facial expression. And yet again, it comes across as incredibly menacing and dark. Definitely a genius stroke of less being more. Way more.
In the novel they use a poisonous centipede and it crawls over his face and he stays still as much as possible and then when it's cleared he kills it with his shoe.
Some cats may gently nibble or bite their owners as a sign of affection. It is thought to be reminiscent of how a mother cat will groom her kittens with small bites and is more common in cats who have had litters. This is not usually a problem form of biting.
If you are doing the movies in order, the next two are my personal favourites. From Russia with Love and Goldfinger. Enjoy!
Hell Yeah Emily!!! Goldeneye on N64 was the shit back in the day. Also, love the hilarious banter between you two, Matthew don't be knockin Emily's standards now, after all she married you buddy!
I don't know about anyone else, but I can't wait to see Emily's reaction to Goldfinger and the Bond girls fictional name in that one, she's gonna lose her shit!
"Honey! People are watching!"
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I do enjoy a Bond girl with a punny name, but some are more on the nose than others 😅
Excited for Emily to get to the wacky Roger Moore era, but Dalton and Brosnan are my faves.
I await Emily’s reaction to Goldfingerr.😃
I think you guys work together better than any other RUclips channel I've seen of any type. I love that you're together
I don’t know if this has been mentioned yet, but Ursula Andress, who played Honey Rider, did not voice her own character. She had a rather thick accent so she was dubbed over. Same thing happened to her on Clash of the Titans. This was also a very common thing for Bond films. Hire an actor whether they speak English or not, and just dub them with someone else’s voice. They did that to Goldfinger as well because he didn’t speak English at all (besides the iconic line, “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.”). Through the movie he said his lines very quickly in German and was reduced in post.
A number of years ago, I binged the entire Bond series, including the 2 non-Eon films. It took me almost 3 full days with hardly any breaks. It was one of the most painful experiences in my life. I still have nightmares from time to time. Iraq was less traumatic.
All of the Bond movies are very dated to the era they were made in. Since I happen to like the 80's, the 80's Bond movies to me are the most enjoyable. The other Bond movies range from okay time-wasters to painfully corny, and the Craig movies somehow aren't corny enough and his movies are guilty of catering to the worst excesses of modern action film-making to varying degrees.
After being bitten by the radioactive tarantula, James Bond became Spider Spy. 🕷 😉
I’m 48. Became a huge Bond fan by age 8 or 9. Started reading the novels at the exact same time my family had a VCR and we could rent anything.
From then this very day: only thing I like about Dr. No is the intro at the baccarat table and Bond coldly executing Dent.
Now you're ready for the Austin Powers movies! The painting Bond looks at in Dr No's lair had been stolen in real life a few years before
You only live twice, is my favourite Bond movie
The same voiceover actress dubbed both Sylvia and Honey but the actress playing Sylvia's voice can be heard in the trailer.
Did you ever stop to think that in the final scene were Bond and the girl are in the boat and Bond releases the rope. Bond did this in order to plug a hole in the boat that needed filling!
Pippin heard "three blind mice", he was off.
I've been a Bond fan for ages - love them all, even the "bad" ones. Obviously Connery is the archetype, and Moore is the one I connected with as a little kid, but don't sleep on Timothy Dalton's two films - he was a vastly underrated Bond. Enjoy the journey!
Imagine how Kreiger would have accessorized that Lair....
The girl you two wondered about when asking "why is she in the story," is there to show that Dr. No had infiltrated Government House.
Thus explaining how he knew to have someone meet Bond at the airport.
It's generally understood that From Russia With Love and Goldfinger are the two best Sean Connery Bond films, with Thunderball a close third. Dr. No was basically an experiment, since the studio had no idea if James Bond would even work cinematically. But it's definitely a very rough first attempt.
Fun trivia for you... Ian Fleming wrote the original story of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!
I started to watch amovie and saw that Albert Brocoli was the producer. Then I saw it was a Ian Fleming story. Ten saw that Desmond Llewellyn {Q} and Gert Frobe {Goldfinger} were in it. The movie was "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. What the heck, a kid's movie.
The notion of the spider being radioactive leaves me wanting James Bond as Spider-Man 007...
Originally Honey was supposed to threatened by crabs, but the crabs showed up frozen.
I just want to point out some trivia: Sean Connory had arachnophobia, so that scene was the spider was a heck of a hard scene to film with a stuntman.
First 007 movies I ever watched were Live and Let Die and You Only Live Twice. My Dad was a fan, so set it up so I could watch each movie in order.
But yes, as many say, you can't look at this with a modern mind Everything that seems off was normal at the time of filming especially the female sex objects. Now I watch it for the nostalgia, complete with eye-rolls. But as a kid who didn't know any better, these movies were fascinating. The only thing that bothered me as a kid was in You Only Live Twice, but I won't spoil it. So I was pumped when Brosnan took over to revisit the franchise.
Can't wait to watch you continue to enjoy it.
Yeah. The female sex object who might decide to murder you if you piss her off. That kind of sex object?
@@paintedjaguar No, the kind that just stands there, and looks sexy and when needed screams "JAMES!" or swoons while saying "Oh, James" The first time you dealt with a female villian that actually is trying to kill him is not until Thunderball. Miss Taro barely counts as she just sets him up. Thunderball's Number 11 is more ruthless. And then nothing more until Diamonds are Forever, however, I wouldn't really count that one. Most of the female supporting cast were just there to add to the sex appeal and as character didn't do much. But that was the curse of the 60s/70s, and a bit of the 80s.
Thanks for this one. Hope you watch ALL the Bond films. It’ll take a while.
Here he is somewhat belivable as a secret agent, later it's a neverending stream of "we meet again Mr Bond"
Need to see Live and Let Die, Roger Moore as Bond, one of my personal favorites of the Bond films.
The 1st Roger Moore as James Bond film when he took over the character after Sean Connery retired from the franchise to act in other movies...I am glad Roger was to make the character his own and put his own fresh spin on his interpretation of Bond and perfectly blending Bond into the 70s & 80s. Live & Let Die has great menacing villains, gorgeous Bond women, helpful allies, awesome stunts, spectacular explosions, neat set pieces, cool locations, unique gadgets and a kick @$$ soundtrack all under the tutelage of a veteran Bond director & producers. 😎✌️🍸🇬🇧
I re-watched Dr No not that long ago and didn’t care for it as much as my memory suggested. However… watching with Emily made it so much more enjoyable. Thank you!
In the book, the tarantula was a centipede.
Haha!! Love the quick spinround.
M: "Can we get a tarantula?"
E: "F*** you! 😀 "
And of course all females names had connotations with them. Interestingly, Honeys voice was a famous TV star in the UK.
Dr No was in one of Disney's films they don't talk about anymore. "One of our dinosaurs is missing"
Emily
James Bond was created by the author named Sir Ian Fleming. Fleming based his James Bond's stories on his actual time with OSS during WWII. One of Bond's villains, Scaramunga played by Christopher Lee in other movies served in during WWII as an Intelligence Officer possibly worked with Fleming on some classified missions.
I love Dr. No, because of all the Bond movies, it's probably the closest to the source material, which I also love. As the movies progress, they start to stray further and further from the books and become their own creation. Biggest change overall was in Q branch. It's not that the movies are bad, but they just stopped following them directly and started using the highest level of the plot of the book and made their own interpretation.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service is also pretty close, but most people can't get past George Lazenby's performance as Bond.
Professionals have standards. Be efficient. Be polite. Have a plan to kll everyone you meet...
This is still probably my favorite Bond movie
To me, Dr. No is like a pilot episode of a tv show: they had the basics but still trying to find its way. Bond shooting the unarmed professor was kind of out of character. The opening credit sequence would change after Dr. No.. From Russia With Love started to nail down the definitive style of the films and Connery started to shape the character more. Goldfinger, they had it pretty much figured out...
I love how all the cars in the 1960's and the 1970's came equipped with half a ton of dynamite. At least if you believe the movies.
The song "Jump Up" was performed by Byron Lee And The Dragoneers, an early dancehall reggae group.
"Simply dreadful" is the 1960s English equivalent of Michael Corleone telling Connie, "If you marry this man, you will disappoint me."
I don't think refined the "Bond formula" until a few films after this one, but if you gave this an 8, you're gonna LOVE the later ones.
I always assumed the spider was crawling on a projection of Connery, never knew it was glass he was crawling on.
If you look closely at the scene, you'll note a reflection of the spider in the glass.
Great reaction, the one true James Bond, Connery will never be matched. RIP!
It’ll take a while but can barely wait until you get to For Your Eyes Only. The best Bond movie. The best.
Thank you for leaving in the introduction to the Walther PPK. Most other reactions these days skip over that scene, but I believe it's critical going forward in the series. It's the only weapon that all of the Bond actors have used during their respective tenures - and to many film and weapon afficionados, the PPK is disputably one of the most if not the most famous and influential sidearm weapon in film history. Not even Dirty Harry's 44 Magnum can claim that. And it's still being made today. Like a good tuxedo, a classic never goes out of style, and the PPK is definitely classic.
So much so that even in the books, a fan wrote to Fleming stating that the Walther is a better carry conceal, so he wrote it in.
And the rest is literary and film history...
New Bond- Fast cut action shot of car doing a j-turn . Old Bond- Laborious three point turn shown in full.
I have a soft spot in my heart for Goldfinger, since my Mom got a free VHS copy of it in the mail along with The Odd Couple. As kids we watched the F out of those two movies.
For its release in Japan, this film was translated into the Japanese for "We don't want a doctor".
I mean, if you want to get technical, the first James Bond was in the 1954 adaptation of Casino Royale, but everyone forgets that one.
And Roger Moore played James Bond in a skit on a BBC show that was a precursor to SNL before Dr. No was made.
Glad teddy is enjoying it too…
I have not read the books at all, but what I've understood is that the books are missing the romantic and more light hearted material from them. And at least the first ones were more serious spy stories. But overall, the movies are pretty good, some are very good, some not so much, but it is each their own. 27 movies, not like you will be hitting it out of the park every time. Entertaining is the term I would use for the 007 movies. I am curious to hear what Emily has to say about all the different Bond actors. And by the way, rest in peace Sean Connery.
To quote the late great Terry Pratchett "Like many people without ethics, he had standards."
I saw the Austin Powers trilogy and am just now watching some Bond movies. It was so much fun to see this (and recognize Ausin/Dr. Evil)!!!
Please watch more Bond's~ ! They're entertainment in their purest form :). I'd say there are clear highlight bond movies on each decades, like "Goldfinger" and "On her majesty's secret service" in the 60's, "The spy who loved me" on the 70's. The 80's bond films are my personal favorites, aside from "A view to a kill". 90's you'll get "Goldeneye", "Casino Royale" in the 00's and "Skyfall" :).
Gotta watch them all in order!
i would wait to read ian flemings original novels until after you watched the whole series to avoid spoilers. he did 12 novels 2 short stories.
Hahahah if Honey Rider got Emily I need this series continued :D
Matthew: "Couldn't afford me!".
Me thinking: "That's why she married you, so that she would not have to pay you!".
Rip To A Great Actor Sean Connery, The Original James Bond, We Still Miss You
Minor thing, but Dr. No was first released in 1962, in the UK. It was released in the US in 1963.