GoldenEye (film)/YMMV

• Adaptation Displacement: The licensed video game is at least as famous as the movie, and in some circles, definitely more so.
• Badass Decay: At the beginning of the film it seems to have happened with Bond. The mission at the dam doesn't go so well, he's belittled for his womanizing, the Russians no longer take him seriously, the new M looks down on him, even Moneypenny has grown tired of his flirting. Then, he starts tearing through St Petersburg in a tank.
  • Also subverted in real life. Pre-production, many of the financial backers and studio executives were worried that Bond might not have much of a purpose in the Post-Cold War world.
• Crowning Music of Awesome:
  • Tina Turner's title song.
  • Eric Serra's "The Experience of Love" over the Closing Credits deserves a mention. Retroactively appropriate; it was the last film in the Original Continuity where the romance wasn't token.
• Evil Is Sexy:
  • Holy crap, Xenia!
  • There are those who would happily trade places with Natalya when Janus is explaining how he and James used to share everything.
• Fan Dumb: There was a minor outcry because was the first movie where James Bond was issued a foreign-built car, the German BMW Z3. Made dumber because in his driving action sequence, he uses a vintage Aston Martin.
• Fetish Retardant: Xenia. The only 'real' sex scene she has in the movie is with a balding, overweight Guy. And then it ends with Death by Sex
  • Hell, the 'sex' scene with the Admiral is nothing compared to how Bond reacts during his 'sex scene' with Xenia in the sauna. Check out his expression upon being trapped by Onatopp's Murderous Thighs.
    • It should be noted this is the only time "safe sex" is ever mentioned, in any context, in the series' entire history.

Xenia Onatopp: You don't need the gun... Commander.
James Bond: Well that depends on your definition of "safe sex".

• Foe Yay Shipping: 006 and 007. They used to share EVERYTHING. It doesn't help that their reaction to each others' betrayal -- real or perceived -- comes off looking more like scorned lovers. Yaoi Fangirls took that and RAN.
• Funny Aneurysm Moment: "Maybe you two would like to finish debriefing each other at Guantanamo, hmm?"
• Magnificent Bastard: Alec Trevelyan
• One-Scene Wonder: As in many Bond flicks, the MI 6 officials only appear once in the beginning for mission briefing. However, Judi Dench steals the show in her debut as M, giving Bond a tongue-lashing that her predecessors could have only dreamed of.
• Unfortunate Implications: Bond reveals to General Ouromov that Janus is of Lienz Cossack descent and he'll betray the Russians, not because of their history, but because it's in his nature to do so.
• Viewers are Morons: Very minor example, but is there any real reason that Tanner feels the need to describe an EMP as "the idea being to knock out the enemy's communication before he, she, or they can retaliate."?
• Writers Cannot Do Math: Janus' revenge plot makes no sense considering he is far too young to have parents that were killed at the end of World War Two. If he was an infant when that happened, he'd be at least ten years Bond's senior, and they appear to be the same age. Possible justifications include Janus having access to plastic surgery, and Janus' father living with his shame for several years after the war, before finally breaking down and killing both himself and his wife. Given that the role of Janus was originally written as a mentor to Bond, with Alan Rickman in mind, the original version would have been the appropriate age.
  • Again, survivor's guilt is specifically pointed out as the reason for the death of Alec's parents. Given how the guilt could build over time, this gives Alec ten to thirty years to be born before his father kills himself and his mother, separating him sufficiently from the original event his father feels guilty over. It's one hell of a stretch, but it can JUST BARELY happen.