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GoldenEye
starring: Joe Don Baker, Sean Bean, Samantha Bond, Pierce Brosnan, Robbie Coltrane

Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792842729
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 0792842723
Label: MGM Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: MGM Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM Home Entertainment
Release Date: October 19, 1999
Running Time: 130 minutes
Sales Rank: 11983
Studio: MGM Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: November 17, 1995




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The 18th James Bond adventure was a runaway box-office success when released in 1995, thanks to the arrival of Pierce Brosnan as the fifth actor (following the departure of Timothy Dalton) to play the suave, danger-loving Agent 007. This James Bond is a bit more vulnerable and psychologically complex--and just a shade more politically correct--but he's still a formally attired playboy at heart, with a lovely Russian beauty (Izabella Scorupco) as his sexy ally against a cadre of renegade Russians bent on--what else?--global domination. There's also a seductive villainous with the suggestive name of Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), and the great actress Judi Dench makes her first appearance as Bond's superior, M, who wisecracks about 007's 'dinosaur' status as a globetrotting sexist. All in all, this action-packed Bond adventure provided a much-needed boost the long-running movie series, revitalizing the 007 franchise for the turn of the millennium. --Jeff Shannon



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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - 90s Pierce Brosnan Bond
So Bond may be a "dinosaur" but he took a slight evolutionary step forward with Pierce Brosnan who at the time seemed born to play Bond. So it was the 90s, the coldwar had thawed out, so-called political correctness was in the air and so what's a "sexist", coldwar warrior, relic of the 1960s to do? Well, pretty much what he's always done. Because really the world hadn't changed so much that women don't no longer go for cocky, smooth talking alpha-males (no matter how p.c. things get) and governments don't use remorseless assassins to spy and kill for them. Heh, Bond's new boss, a woman (it's the 90s see) by the name of "M", calls Bond a dinosaur but she sure does need him and he's still popular with movie goers. Somethings don't change I guess and sometimes that's a good thing... A James Bond that doesn't know how to have a good time would be Bond in name only and having dumb lighthearted escapist fun is what the ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A Very Good Bond Picture
This is the first Brosnan Bond picture I've seen. I actually tried watching it, and was bored by the point he reached the hotel casino, but decided to try it again. I'm glad I did.

This was an above average Bond movie. It will not replace my favorites ("Diamonds Are Forever", "You Only Live Twice", "Man With A Golden Gun", and "For Your Eyes Only"), but it belongs in the group picture.

Being a "Remington Steele" fan, I'm not surprised to see Brosnan succeed in this role. My favorite of the bad guys was Bruno; he was a riot.

The back of the DVD commented on the eye-popping opening sequence. My hunch is it was talking about a stunt that was as spectacular as the necessary suspension of disbelief -- could that have happened in real life? I doubt it.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Best Bond---Pierce
This 1995 movie is the first of 4 Bond films that starred Pierce Brosnan, and by far, I believe his best. This is also the 18th Bond (if you include Never Say Never Again).

I tend to favor Pierce as my favorite 007 because he has the wit and sex appeal that I feel Bond should have.

This movie begins with a stunt that only Bond could do---bungy cording down a dam. It makes it special because they used Hoover Dam (near where I reside) as the location. They had to insert trees and vegetation, because we all know that you can't find that in the Mojave desert. I just moved here when they filmed this scene and I remember it being on our news.

Bond does everything right again and saves the world from Russian nuclear weapons. With this you get a very action packed adventure, complete with gadgets, car chases, beautiful scenery and the whole wonderful Bond package.

While ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Reflections on GOLDENEYE
A post-Cold War James Bond might have seemed unthinkable to some. "Bondmania" was a by-product of the tense political and military stalemate that endured between the Soviet Bloc and the West for nearly four decades. Against all predictions, the Cold War ended (thankfully) with more of a whimper than a bang. As a country, we found ourselves shout cries of joy and heave a few sighs of relief, but if it seemed to some to be "the end of history," it also must have seemed like the end of a perfectly good storyline for filmmakers and pulp fiction writers throughout the Western World.

It took a few years, but by the mid-90s, there were new cultural anxieties to be addressed and a new James Bond to meet the challenge. GOLDENEYE's relatively complex plot reflects those emerging anxieties, ones that we should have seen coming in '89 and '90, but were too euphoric to see. A new Russia, in social and economic turmoil, ... Read More




 

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