VFX Artists React to Bad and Great JAMES BOND CGi

Sam, Niko, and Wren break down the practical and visual effects from some of the most popular James Bond films throughout it's 60+ year run.

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00:00 Welcome to VFX Artists React
00:55 Botched Car Chase
03:19 Unnecessary VFX
05:52 Raycon
06:55 Old vs. New Fight Scenes
08:40 Car Stunts & Miniatures
10:21 Insane Plane Stunt
12:37 Disney's Magic Crystal
12:56 Not So Invisible Car
14:14 World's 1st Tracked Matte Painting
16:10 World's Biggest Sound Stage
17:53 Acting in Zero Gs
19:27 Real or CGi?

[briansadler]

That first car chase error wasnt even VFX, thats why Wren was confused

[jrbogdany]

So glad to see The Living Daylights getting some love! Both of Dalton’s Bond films are super underrated and are well worth a watch.

[nightrobin]

The CGI Daniel Craig hands were in the Shanghai Fight earlier. Not in the Macao fight.

You see it in Skyfall. He’s wearing the gloves when he’s fighting the guy who falls out the window.

They shot it with the gloves on, but had to CGI hands later. It’s the fight with Patrice

[QueenFiria]

Fun fact about the Bond set. After they were done with the submarine hanger, the set went to Riddley Scott for the filming of Legend (1986). The set was furnished with a foam forest with some real trees for filler, birds, and lots of bird feather shavings for snow.

Over the course of filming fumes from gas-controlled bonfires gathered in the rafters. Then one day this powder keg of a set caught fire and it ALL burned to the ground. Ridley Scott shelved his work and went golfing after seeing the set completely engulfed.

[blakehandler]

The scene with John Cleese walking "strange" is an homage (Easter egg) to his famous "The Ministry of Silly Walks" sketch from the Monty Python.

[scottmanley]

Moonraker had janky 1970's special effects.... but it's the only movie I know which had the space shuttle taking off inverted like the real shuttle did, every other movie gets it wrong, or just uses stock footage. The best sequence in that movie is right at the start where there's a fight for a parachute while falling from a plane.

Really, you should do a Stuntmen react to some of the classic bond stunts - like the base jumping in Spy Who Loved Me & View To A Kill. The fights on top of a Train and a Plane(!!!!) in Octopussy. Using live aligators as stepping stones in Live & Let Die. And of course the corkscrew car jump in Man With The Golden Gun

[AccAkut]

17:33 that granate throw is actually pretty realistic, they teach soldiers to throw/roll them like a bowling ball basically in indoor use, as it reduces the chance of accidently letting go of the trigger

[xevious]

Dude I freaking love Living Daylights, one of the most underrated Bond films with the most underrated Bond actor.

[danielmannandersen]

Good to see Timothy Daltons two awesome movies get a shoutout. The plane scene in Dark Knight Rises was taken directly from License to Kill

[mitchsn]

The most jarring thing about the Spy Who Loved Me shot is the absolutely perfectly straight horizon line of the ocean. Other than that it looks great! Especially for its time

[youngpaddy]

The gloves are from the Patrice skyscraper fight in Skyfall not the Komodo pit and only for a couple of shots. 
Bond’s not wearing them when he’s holding his gun at the beginning of the scene but they’ve suddenly appeared when he catches Patrice’s hand.

[ltdowney]

The Timothy Dalton films are so good and surprisingly dark and gritty for the time. Seriously, he deserved to be Bond for longer, but Goldeneye went into development hell for years.

[DaveNagy]

Fun fact guys: for the supertanker set Ken Adams had some guy he knew come in and help plan out the lighting. That guys name was Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick. He says it somewhere in one of the dvd extras.

[petergriffin]

Living daylights is such an overlooked gem. I found both Timothy Dalton movies very very enjoyable and I don't understand why they are so overlooked and unknown.
They also both have absolute banger songs!

[lukebaxter]

You guys had better do a Stuntmen Reacts dedicated to James Bond to follow this up.

[umumaomao]

Just noticed that the henchman with the black hair behind Bond at 19:52 is Liang Yang, who plays the guy Tom Cruise and Henry Cavil fight in the bathroom in Mission Impossible Fallout! Great performer, he needs to have a proper fight with Bond in a future movie!

[zymn]

Timothy Dalton is the most underrated Bond and his two movies are excellent and he deserved more. I slept on him for too long because of what I heard about it, but having a Shakespearean actor in the role adds gravitas and levity unlike any other Bond performance. You believe it when he's angry, and every other emotion. Everyone should check them out, it's almost Craig before Craig, in some ways I prefer actually.

[HorySmokes]

Fun fact: the submarine hanger set was designed by Ken Adam who had been the Bond production designer since Connery. He was having trouble lighting the set due to the size & ended up contacting an old colleague for help - Stanley Kubrick. He agreed to come in under absolute secrecy on a Sunday to light the set with Adam & it was Kubrick who suggested building the lighting into the set.

[iknowmorethanyoudo]

A 2nd Harry Potter Episode !
• Dumbledore vs Voldemort fight in HP5
• differing approaches to vfx as the directors changed
• continuity between HP & the new fantastic beast films (the physics of the magic!)

[GeekdomCentral]

The 'A to B' comparison of old and new fights was hysterical. Loved that