When Pierce Brosnan portrayed the iconic James Bond character, he jumped out of speeding boats, drove sports cars on ice and defeated lots and lots of bad guys. Is there anything Brosnan can't do? Play video games, apparently.
Brosnan appeared on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" Tuesday night, and instead of just plugging his new movie "The November Man" and going home as he probably should have, Brosnan accepted Fallon's challenge to face off in the Nintendo 64 classic video game version of "Goldeneye." Fallon said it was his "childhood dream" to play the 1997 first person shooter with the man who portrayed Bond, James Bond. But he probably imagined it would have gone a little differently.
In the clip, Brosnan and Fallon stepped up to the console, and Fallon explained how to use the controls in the game. Brosnan looked a little confused. It was like watching your dad trying to figure out how to play a video game for the first time, i.e. totally cringeworthy.
Right before they started playing, Fallon said "Good luck, Mr. Bond," a perfect reference to the usual send-off from those creepy Bond villains. Unfortunately, Brosnan needed a lot more than luck in playing "Goldeneye." He said he had only played once before, and during that time, he shot himself in the foot in the game. Not a good sign of things to come.
Brosnan couldn't really figure out how to pick up a gun, which is obviously of the utmost importance in a first person shooter game. For about all of 30 seconds, which is how long the match lasted, Brosnan's Bond avatar just kind of walked around making a karate chop with his hand. He played it off well in the clip, though, saying, "When in doubt, chop." Duly noted.
Fallon was the only one shooting during the match. At first, it seemed like he wasn't causing any damage to Brosnan's seemingly indestructible avatar. Could he actually be James Bond? But then Fallon defeated his opponent, and we were all kind of devastated that the once suave and powerful Bond doesn't even know his way around a Nintendo 64 controller.
Thankfully, Bond's fighting and espionage doesn't usually take place in the virtual world. Otherwise, we would all be in a lot of trouble.
