YouTube is streaming the first 19 James Bond movies for free

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by tosh • 6 years ago

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Beggers1960• 6 years ago

Old school Bond films can't be beaten - for a whole range of reasons. The storylines are absolutely chaotic and hilarious in equal measure.

LeviIsaac• 6 years ago

Yes and that includes everything starring the late Sean Connery, such as Dr. No and Goldfinger, through to Pierce Brosnan's brief Bond revival with titles like Goldeneye.

tonyedgecombe• 6 years ago

Not in the UK.

chanmad29• 6 years ago

Not sure how popular this opinion is among Bond nerds but as a general movie lover, I find Daniel Craig to be the best. Got mostly better storylines, best action scenes, looks fittest. Maybe he lacks the Sean Connery suave but the other things make up for it.

diegoperini2• 6 years ago

I use to marathon Bond movies thinking about the same thing. It's probably because he has the more believable body size for the stunts he makes.

beerandt3• 6 years ago

They might be the best action movies, but I don't consider them the best Bond movies, bc they're so different than every other Bond movie. They're a different genre all together.

It's not that I don't like them, or even like them any less in general; I just have a hard time considering them to be Bond movies at all. They're so serious, even when being sarcastic and dry. They're not fun, and not something I probably would have been excited to binge watch as a kid, as the other ones are/were. I try hard to convince myself this is just temporal bias, but I'm less convinced the more I think about it.

And I still can't wrap my head around the fact that Goldeneye and Casino were directed by the same person.

I say this as someone who has 4 different actors in my top 5 Bond movie list, and none are Craig. So probably not a popular opinion- but also as someone who's never read any of the books, but seen every movie multiple times.

Then again, I also consider Brave Little Toaster to be a better version of Toy Story 3, for almost opposite reasons, while I still consider TS3 to be objectively the best Pixar-formula movie made. (Unless counting the first 10 mins of Up as it's own entity.)

jwalton2• 6 years ago

Yeah, I 100% agree. I heard an interview with Daniel Craig once where he said that they couldn't make Casion Royale as fun and playful as the originals, because of "Austin Powers". He said they would have had to walk a delicate line between parody/campy and fun, and they felt it wouldn't have worked. But now we don't get any new "real" Bond movies. :/

vb6sp6• 6 years ago

They might be the best action movies, but I don't consider them the best Bond movies

yes, they seem to borrow heavily from the Bourne movies instead of from past Bond movies. Still enjoyable.

tomjen32• 6 years ago

The entire point of it is that James Bond is the perfect man, who always knows what to do and how to get the ladies. Graig didn't play that, so in my mind it makes it a bad Bond movie.

It may still be a great movie. The Bourne triology works great as a movie but it wouldn't, and isn't a James Bond movie.

I just wish the movie producers would create new franchises rather than reboot the others.

DobryMorozov• 6 years ago

I'm a big Pierce Bronson fan. Really liked Tomorrow Never Dies when I was a kid

snake_plissken• 6 years ago

I agree and really love the Daniel Craig movies but, they're from a different era.

In my mind it ends up being like the Jordan-Lebron or the Ronaldo/Messi-Maradona debate. There are just too many intrinsic differences between the two eras that it makes a real comparisons basically impossible.

mhh__2• 6 years ago

I think everyone likes the bond they grew up with but I think it's fairly uncontroversial to say that Craig is the best actor to play the role.

Skyfall is still alarmingly good, i.e. it's a bond film with explosions and car chases that also has real thematic depth and absolutely beautiful cinematography.

WorldMaker3• 6 years ago

I feel Skyfall is the movie that proves Bond is a Time Lord.

danielscrubs• 6 years ago

Craig has zero charm, and charm was Bonds selling point for me at least. If it doesn’t have that you might as well watch a Vin Diesel movie. “The man from UNCLE” was more Bond than anything Craig was in.

Wowfunhappy3• 6 years ago

Okay, I haven’t seen any Bond movies except for SkyFall (which I hated). I should probably try another. What should I watch?

diegoperini2• 6 years ago

Tomorrow Never Dies, Casino Royale are good starters.

pjbster• 6 years ago

You should try to save Casino Royale. It's worth the wait and, after enduring the middle 6 or so, you'll appreciate just how much better it is than all that came before it.

Best opening credits. Best femme fatale. Most believable villain. It's all downhill from there.

neverminder2• 6 years ago

All of them. I'd start with the first one, Dr No. It's like going through history.

beerandt3• 6 years ago

The opposite of Craig is probably Moore in Live and Let Die, so maybe there (but it's also polarizing among fans), or Goldeneye for relatively recent Brosnan, or Dr. No or Goldfinger for classic Connery.

staticman2• 6 years ago

Goldfinger is a classic. I would not start with Doctor No, i never liked that one.

tomjen32• 6 years ago

There is an argument for seeing them in order, but I have always loved Octopussy.

James Bond is best when there is a clear bad guy, so when the Soviet Union went away the movies went a little weird.

Nilithus• 6 years ago

GoldenEye. You got the classic Pierce Brosnan suave and you get Sean Bean as the villian. Was my first bond movie and I still love it. Great action pieces too.

mhh__2• 6 years ago

Why did you hate Skyfall?

Wowfunhappy3• 6 years ago

Good question! It's been a long time and I don't remember much, but I think I remember complaining to a friend that Bond seemed invincible. He could automatically do anything, and so there never seemed to be any real danger.

fluidcruft• 6 years ago

I don't know what it is about Skyfall but I also just hate it and it's my least favorite of the Daniel Craig even though Casino Royale and Spectre are great. Each Bond is different. My all time non-Craig favorite is Thunderball.

philbo• 6 years ago

    Goldfinger
    Thunderball
    Diamonds Are Forever
    Live And Let Die

WorldMaker3• 6 years ago

Here's a fun Fake TED Talk on why On Her Majesty's Secret Service is both often overlooked, and also quite possibly the best Bond movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac8JWzyNI6c

jwond• 6 years ago

I’m pleasantly surprised that YouTube would do this given that is almost certain to rouse the ire of certain social activists due to the “problematic” nature of these films.

villgax• 6 years ago

That could be said about literally every film on the planet.

uniqueid• 6 years ago

Youtube PR has more pressing issues with 'problematic' content this week. It would suit them fine if the internet argues about James Bond instead https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/8/22162779/christchurch-sho...

Wowfunhappy3• 6 years ago

Aww, these appear to require Widevine in order to watch.

Oh well...

jwalton2• 6 years ago

And you need to be in America.

mcraiha• 6 years ago

Topic is not accurate. David Niven's Casino Royale is missing.

amanaplanacanal• 6 years ago

The best Bond movie.

7357• 6 years ago

When I wrote the first one in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; I wanted him to be a blunt instrument ... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.

cafard• 6 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(ornithologist) , which agrees with what I read in the ornithologist's obituary, argues against that.

type0• 6 years ago

James Bond is dead now (or retired). Will you cheer for Jane Bond 007 now?! All previous movies are considered chauvinistic by sjw battalion. She's black, so double diversity points there:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/15/lashana-lynch-n...

neverminder2• 6 years ago

This is where "get woke go broke" rule kicks in hard. I've watched the last 10 or so Bond movies in cinemas, but I will stop doing it if they choose to desecrate it like that and I'm not the only one.

YouTube is streaming the first 19 James Bond movies for free

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