GoldenEye Opening Title Sequence
March 82010
Daniel Kleinman creates one of the most nuanced layered sequences in the series for the action adventure thriller GoldenEye (1995), starring Pierce Brosnan in his first outing as James Bond. With the franchise returning after a seven year hiatus and many questioning 007’s purpose, the film addresses the issue head on by reflecting the new geopolitical structure of a post Cold War world, with the focus being on broken and fractured Communist Russian imagery and the dangers therein. This inevitably caused controversy at the time of the film’s Russian release. The song, a favourite among Bond fans, is performed by Tina Turner and was written by Bono and The Edge, though sadly it does not feature throughout the film’s score. No copyright infringement intended. To be removed at the behest of the distributor.
Duration : 0:2:31
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March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
Yeah I do like …
Yeah I do like Brosnan, This is his best film Imo. I did’nt like him that much in The World is not enough or Die Another Day that much. I think Craig is the best Bond since Dalton and he’s trying to make Bond look more like of a highly trained assassin rather than a super hero.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
I gotta stick up …
I gotta stick up for Brosnan here. Whatever problems his films have, he didn’t write, produce or direct them. His performance as Bond is the core that sort of keeps everything running along regardless of how crazy things get around him, be it diving inside an oil pipeline at 100mph or the invisible car, etc.
Similarly Quantum of Solace’s flaws really have nothing to do with Daniel Craig. He did do his best with a patently underdeveloped script and messily directed vision.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
Craig is more of a …
Craig is more of a Dalton of today. Bond was supposed to be protrayed as Tough and ruthless who killed or exploited everyone who got in his way. Roger Moor and Brosnan in his last 2 films made Bond seem like a character from a Sunday morning cartoon. I did like Brosnan in This and Tomorrow never dies as that’s where he really shined.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
This was bond, …
This was bond, craigs one can burn in a fire (awaits flames).
If i want realism i dont watch bond, craig took all the fun and bond out of it.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
I had the VHS Spine …
I had the VHS Spine Collection it only had the 19, they were like an orangey colour. They released DAD on VHS too, I had it, don’t think it had a reversible cover though, as the box was seethrough, keeping with the Ice theme, and I remember there being ads inside for Bond DVDs.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
Epic. The opening …
Epic. The opening depicts the collapse of communism.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
Pff I had no idea …
Pff I had no idea Eric Serra did the soundtrack for this movie, another reason why Goldeneye is so great.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
notice how alot of …
notice how alot of movies around this time were using a sort of pipe being hit in their soundtracks?
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
i wonder what hes …
i wonder what hes expecting for them. when i brought them a while ago they were buy one get one free at 12.99 each
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
On eBay UK, I …
On eBay UK, I actually found an image of the collection of 19 films arranged into the picture – from Dr. No to TWINE. Strangely, the seller is only advertising with the title, ‘James Bond 18 VHS video collection – offers considered’ with a reserve of 30 quid. Maybe they’ve lost one or are keeping one back.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
I couldn’t find an …
I couldn’t find an image of the collection of tapes together in sequence let alone the die another day tape, but i wonder what they would add to the spine design
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
Yeah, I just …
Yeah, I just googled it and as I thought a VHS copy came up on eBay and the like (for the UK at least). But it’s only the regular cover that’s shown so it remains unknown whether it was reversible or not with the ‘Collection’ cover on the flip side. I have a sneaking suspicion that it might have been.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
I had the dvd of …
I had the dvd of die another day, that film came out in late 2002 so the dvd 2003, so i think vhs had been phased out by then. I don’t remember seeing a vhs tape of die another day anywhere let alone a spine ‘collection’ one.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
This song was …
This song was written by Bono and The Edge
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
Yeah, all the most …
Yeah, all the most famous actor poses. And now I remember that too – Elektra and Christmas and Big Ben in the background were taken from the TWINE poster.
Do you remember if they managed to get to a Die Another Day addition in that VHS montage collection – perhaps with a reversible cover? I’ve still got the DVD Special Edition (I prefer it to the UE actually) and it had a reversible cover as part of the gradual 007 image.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
yep thats the one i …
yep thats the one i still got the tapes in fact. they came out around mid ninties i think and when twine came out they exapanded the collage with the 2 bond girls from that movie onto it which looked out of place.
But the image went like this if i remeber:
Sean connery with his gun pointing out in front of him , roger moore in his suit, dalton holding the sniper rifle and brosnan holding gun up ready
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
I think I know the …
I think I know the one you’re talking about. Was it a big explosion filled, collage style picture with the five Bonds up to Brosnan?
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
the girl with two …
the girl with two heads freaked me out as a child. but this is the bond i grew up with, and who got me interested in getting all the vhs tapes which made a big picture when you collect them all and put the spines together
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
Tina Turner is great
Tina Turner is great
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
It’s a great fight …
It’s a great fight – dirty, boxed-in and painful like in From Russia with Love. In the UK that sequence was cut for over 10 years – all the kicks and ear claps and headbutts were gone until the release of the Ultimate Edition.
Annoyingly the MPAA cuts still remain throughout the film like when Bond karate chops Xenia in the car. It makes you wonder what these people do with the footage they cut – do they just burn it to be irritating?
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
Goldeneye’s premise …
Goldeneye’s premise on a basic level is what would happen if Bond had to fight himself. Genious. And that fight scene at the end between Bond and Alec is sick, one of the best, still one of my fav’s even considering all the fight scene movies and all that……..
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
Goldeneye was …
Goldeneye was Brosnan’s first and best round at Bond, his other bond films were great, no doubt but they’d have to be after a solid such as Goldeneye. Everything about it’s genious the set-up, the story, the pacing, and the villian, the villian undeniably the most memorable bond films have the most memerable villians, something about them making them completly unique and uniquly dangerous. Alec being the perfect villian because he is James Bond.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
hmm the only thing …
hmm the only thing i didn’t like about QoS was the theme music.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
I love how they …
I love how they symbolize the end of the Cold War with all the elements of the flag of the Soviet Union crashing to the ground at 0:36.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:28 am
Tina Turner managed …
Tina Turner managed it to get the old ‘feel’ of typical Bond songs back. What a great score and lyrics.