007 Countdown Part 6 - GoldenEye

Hello everyone and welcome to Some Like It Scott's latest Countdown miniseries: the 007 Countdown. This time, in honor of the upcoming release of the 25th film in the franchise, NO TIME TO DIE, Scott, Scott, and Jay will be revisiting an abridged selection of 007 films to see how James Bond has evolved across decades, storylines, directors, and actors. Starting with the legendary performances of Sean Connery in FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE and GOLDFINGER and ending with the full retinue of Daniel Craig's performances across the last decade and a half, the countdown crew will give their thoughts on 10 different Bond films. Join us each week as we dissect a different Bond film!

 

On the sixth episode of the countdown, Scott, Scott, and Jay do see 6 years pass since LICENSE TO KILL, but do pick up the series with the next (17th) entry, GOLDENEYE, which also heralds the arrival of the long sought after Pierce Brosnan in the leading role. As is customary, GOLDENEYE opens with a stunt-laden introduction for the new Bond, infiltrating a Soviet chemical weapons facility run by a man named Colonel Ourumov (Gottfried John) on a top-secret mission in 1986. 007 links up with 006, Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean), but the latter is captured and killed, as Bond escapes. Fast forward 9 years to 1995, and the Soviet Union has now dissolved, and Bond attempts to prevent a member of the Janus Crime Syndicate, the oh-so-cleverly named Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), from stealing a helicopter capable of surviving EMP bursts. Shortly thereafter, a Siberian radar facility comes under attack as old enemy Colonel Ourumov uses the EMP-resistant helicopter to steal a space-based Soviet weapon capable of firing a targeted nuclear EMP blast, simply called GoldenEye. Ourumov and Onatopp destroy the facility and escape safely in their helicopter, spawning a hot pursuit from Siberia to Cuba with quite a few shocking discoveries along the way. The countdown crew give their thoughts on all of it, including Brosnan's Bond, the colorful supporting cast of Bond girls and villains, and whether this franchise is capable of any new tricks 17 movies deep.