GOLDENEYE | The Game-Changing James Bond Movie That Defined a Generation

Pentex Productions โ€ข December 5, 2025
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GoldenEye is one of the most influential James Bond movies ever made (and not just because of the GoldenEye 007 N64 video game) so in itโ€™s 30th anniversary year letโ€™s take a look back at Pierce Brosnanโ€™s first James Bond movie and the way in which it saved the Bond series for another generation. ๐Ÿ”ต ๐—ฆ๐˜‚๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐—ฃ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜… ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜‚๐˜€ ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ: https://www.patreon.com/pentexproductions ๐Ÿ”ต ๐Ÿ”ต My first time ever playing the GoldenEye 007 video game: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-143921498 ๐Ÿ”ต Bond ranking video (bonus video): https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-118342232 ๐—–๐—›๐—”๐—ฃ๐—ง๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—ฆ 00:00 โ€“ Diving in to GoldenEye 04:52 โ€“ Bond 17 and Daltonโ€™s departure 08:07 โ€“ The next generation of Bond 15:31 โ€“ Pierce Brosnan as Ianโ€™s Flemingโ€™s James Bond 007 19:40 โ€“ GoldenEye opening scene 25:09 โ€“ GoldenEyeโ€™s first act 29:40 โ€“ Izabella Scorupcoโ€™s Natalya Simonova 34:20 โ€“ The new MI6 40:08 โ€“ GoldenEye Q scene and St Petersburg 44:57 โ€“ GoldenEye archives and tank chase 48:44 โ€“ GoldenEye ending 53:52 โ€“ GoldenEye 007 N64 video game 56:40 โ€“ The future of James Bond ๐Ÿ”ต Watch my guest appearance on the @SpyHardsPodcast celebrating 30 years of GoldenEye with Calvin Dyson & Dave Schilling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ICB_KBq9pU ๐—™๐—ข๐—Ÿ๐—Ÿ๐—ข๐—ช ๐—ฃ๐—˜๐—ก๐—ง๐—˜๐—ซ ๐—ข๐—ก ๐—˜๐—ฉ๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—ฌ๐—ง๐—›๐—œ๐—ก๐—š, ๐—˜๐—ฉ๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—ฌ๐—ช๐—›๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—˜, ๐—”๐—Ÿ๐—Ÿ ๐—”๐—ง ๐—ข๐—ก๐—–๐—˜ โ˜‘๏ธ Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/pentexproductions โ˜‘๏ธ Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/PentexPenguin (to prove I watch other movies besides LOTR and James Bond) โ˜‘๏ธ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/pentex.bsky.social (mostly for James Bond chat) โ˜‘๏ธ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PentexP (mostly unused) ๐—ฆ๐—ข๐—จ๐—ฅ๐—–๐—˜๐—ฆ Some Kind of Hero, by Ajay Chowdhury and Matthew Field The James Bond Archives, Paul Duncan (editor) Spyhards Podcast โ€“ SpyMaster Interview 71 โ€“ Jeff Kleeman - https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/jeff-kleeman-on-the-brosnan-bond-era-spymaster-interview-71/id1526729282?i=1000647179957 Spyhards Podcast โ€“ SpyMaster Interview 106 โ€“ Bruce Feirstein - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZFFqFxm5_s Some still images sourced from: https://www.thunderballs.org/thunderballproductionstills ๐— ๐—จ๐—ฆ๐—œ๐—– ๐ŸŽต Fractions by Alexander Nakarada (https://www.creatorchords.com), Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ๐ŸŽต Life by Alexander Nakarada (https://www.creatorchords.com), Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ๐ŸŽต Hall of the Mountain King by Kevin MacLeod โ€ข Edvard Grieg | http://incompetech.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ๐ŸŽต https://www.bensound.com/free-music-for-videos #JamesBond #Goldeneye #PierceBrosnan

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