MOTW: James Bond: Die Another Day
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I didn't see this in the theater, and rented this tonight for 99 cents. Hard to beat that. After watching it, I'm glad I only paid a buck, not the full price that tickets and etc would have cost. Sadly, it seems that Bond has slipped badly back into the Gadget Zone that typified most of the Roger Moore and last set of Connery flicks - we even have a homage to the toys from that era. Not much is paid to the plot of the movie, and beyond-belief high-tech is thrown away as so much tinfoil. Berry is having a lot of fun here, but is totally unbelievable as much as Carey Lowell was in License to Kill, and basically reprises her role from Swordfish. The previous two Bond movies starring Brosnan were much better - they focused on a story, dammit, esp. Tomorrow Never Dies, which, aside from the stupid ship-boring torpedo, was quality plotwork and character development. In Die Another Day, however, we have more or less pretty bla moments. The two standout exceptions are the Hong Kong hotel scene at the front that sets up and uses Bond knowing about the Head of Staff being a Chinese agent in order to get started up again, and the sword fight scene in the middle that ranges through and tears up an English club. But then, they had to go and screw that up by reprising it in a flash-patter at the end scene between the two women that was there only to kill off Frost in a most stupid way, all the while interleaving the strobe lighting effect with the fight between with Bond and the main villain. The car chase over the ice was beyond pointless, and was there totally to show off that the bad guys can also pack heat into fancy sports cars – rice, rice, baby. I think the point could be made that with enough wizz-bang gadgets and toys, anyone can be a Secret Agent or at least look like one. The whole movie was mostly in-jokes and self-referencing like a bad episode of the Simpsons, with over-heavy does of sexual innuendo that would only amuse the highschool crowd, and seemed jarringly out of place in a Bond movie. I thought there was something wrong on occasion with my DVD player in that there were visual slowdown at points, until I realized that this was supposed to be something Important and Special, but come out Badly Placed and Unneeded. This is not a reflection on Brosnan - he is an extremely capable actor, as the Thomas Crown Affair and the Forth Protocol shows, and he lives the Bond role like a skin - he has the body language and the facial ticks down cold. But to me, the series needs to return to its co
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I didn't see this in the theater, and rented this tonight for 99 cents. Hard to beat that. After watching it, I'm glad I only paid a buck, not the full price that tickets and etc would have cost. Sadly, it seems that Bond has slipped badly back into the Gadget Zone that typified most of the Roger Moore and last set of Connery flicks - we even have a homage to the toys from that era. Not much is paid to the plot of the movie, and beyond-belief high-tech is thrown away as so much tinfoil. Berry is having a lot of fun here, but is totally unbelievable as much as Carey Lowell was in License to Kill, and basically reprises her role from Swordfish. The previous two Bond movies starring Brosnan were much better - they focused on a story, dammit, esp. Tomorrow Never Dies, which, aside from the stupid ship-boring torpedo, was quality plotwork and character development. In Die Another Day, however, we have more or less pretty bla moments. The two standout exceptions are the Hong Kong hotel scene at the front that sets up and uses Bond knowing about the Head of Staff being a Chinese agent in order to get started up again, and the sword fight scene in the middle that ranges through and tears up an English club. But then, they had to go and screw that up by reprising it in a flash-patter at the end scene between the two women that was there only to kill off Frost in a most stupid way, all the while interleaving the strobe lighting effect with the fight between with Bond and the main villain. The car chase over the ice was beyond pointless, and was there totally to show off that the bad guys can also pack heat into fancy sports cars – rice, rice, baby. I think the point could be made that with enough wizz-bang gadgets and toys, anyone can be a Secret Agent or at least look like one. The whole movie was mostly in-jokes and self-referencing like a bad episode of the Simpsons, with over-heavy does of sexual innuendo that would only amuse the highschool crowd, and seemed jarringly out of place in a Bond movie. I thought there was something wrong on occasion with my DVD player in that there were visual slowdown at points, until I realized that this was supposed to be something Important and Special, but come out Badly Placed and Unneeded. This is not a reflection on Brosnan - he is an extremely capable actor, as the Thomas Crown Affair and the Forth Protocol shows, and he lives the Bond role like a skin - he has the body language and the facial ticks down cold. But to me, the series needs to return to its co
I actually really liked Die Another Day, I thought it was Pierce Brosnan's best Bond film. You speak the truth though, it didn't really stick to the traditional Bond spy film, it was all action and gadgetry, the very things that I love in an action movie.:) Brad Jennings Sonork: 100.36360 AIM: hongg99
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I actually really liked Die Another Day, I thought it was Pierce Brosnan's best Bond film. You speak the truth though, it didn't really stick to the traditional Bond spy film, it was all action and gadgetry, the very things that I love in an action movie.:) Brad Jennings Sonork: 100.36360 AIM: hongg99
The problem is they are out of books so they are just making it up, and its just not as good as Ian Flemmings.
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I didn't see this in the theater, and rented this tonight for 99 cents. Hard to beat that. After watching it, I'm glad I only paid a buck, not the full price that tickets and etc would have cost. Sadly, it seems that Bond has slipped badly back into the Gadget Zone that typified most of the Roger Moore and last set of Connery flicks - we even have a homage to the toys from that era. Not much is paid to the plot of the movie, and beyond-belief high-tech is thrown away as so much tinfoil. Berry is having a lot of fun here, but is totally unbelievable as much as Carey Lowell was in License to Kill, and basically reprises her role from Swordfish. The previous two Bond movies starring Brosnan were much better - they focused on a story, dammit, esp. Tomorrow Never Dies, which, aside from the stupid ship-boring torpedo, was quality plotwork and character development. In Die Another Day, however, we have more or less pretty bla moments. The two standout exceptions are the Hong Kong hotel scene at the front that sets up and uses Bond knowing about the Head of Staff being a Chinese agent in order to get started up again, and the sword fight scene in the middle that ranges through and tears up an English club. But then, they had to go and screw that up by reprising it in a flash-patter at the end scene between the two women that was there only to kill off Frost in a most stupid way, all the while interleaving the strobe lighting effect with the fight between with Bond and the main villain. The car chase over the ice was beyond pointless, and was there totally to show off that the bad guys can also pack heat into fancy sports cars – rice, rice, baby. I think the point could be made that with enough wizz-bang gadgets and toys, anyone can be a Secret Agent or at least look like one. The whole movie was mostly in-jokes and self-referencing like a bad episode of the Simpsons, with over-heavy does of sexual innuendo that would only amuse the highschool crowd, and seemed jarringly out of place in a Bond movie. I thought there was something wrong on occasion with my DVD player in that there were visual slowdown at points, until I realized that this was supposed to be something Important and Special, but come out Badly Placed and Unneeded. This is not a reflection on Brosnan - he is an extremely capable actor, as the Thomas Crown Affair and the Forth Protocol shows, and he lives the Bond role like a skin - he has the body language and the facial ticks down cold. But to me, the series needs to return to its co
If the last James bond script or print was on fire and I was busting for a pee I wouldn't... :) Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net "I killed him dead cuz he was stepping on my turf, cutting me out of my bling the same way my ho cuts cookies, officer" "Alright then, move along" - Ian Darling, The Lounge, Oct 10 2003
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I didn't see this in the theater, and rented this tonight for 99 cents. Hard to beat that. After watching it, I'm glad I only paid a buck, not the full price that tickets and etc would have cost. Sadly, it seems that Bond has slipped badly back into the Gadget Zone that typified most of the Roger Moore and last set of Connery flicks - we even have a homage to the toys from that era. Not much is paid to the plot of the movie, and beyond-belief high-tech is thrown away as so much tinfoil. Berry is having a lot of fun here, but is totally unbelievable as much as Carey Lowell was in License to Kill, and basically reprises her role from Swordfish. The previous two Bond movies starring Brosnan were much better - they focused on a story, dammit, esp. Tomorrow Never Dies, which, aside from the stupid ship-boring torpedo, was quality plotwork and character development. In Die Another Day, however, we have more or less pretty bla moments. The two standout exceptions are the Hong Kong hotel scene at the front that sets up and uses Bond knowing about the Head of Staff being a Chinese agent in order to get started up again, and the sword fight scene in the middle that ranges through and tears up an English club. But then, they had to go and screw that up by reprising it in a flash-patter at the end scene between the two women that was there only to kill off Frost in a most stupid way, all the while interleaving the strobe lighting effect with the fight between with Bond and the main villain. The car chase over the ice was beyond pointless, and was there totally to show off that the bad guys can also pack heat into fancy sports cars – rice, rice, baby. I think the point could be made that with enough wizz-bang gadgets and toys, anyone can be a Secret Agent or at least look like one. The whole movie was mostly in-jokes and self-referencing like a bad episode of the Simpsons, with over-heavy does of sexual innuendo that would only amuse the highschool crowd, and seemed jarringly out of place in a Bond movie. I thought there was something wrong on occasion with my DVD player in that there were visual slowdown at points, until I realized that this was supposed to be something Important and Special, but come out Badly Placed and Unneeded. This is not a reflection on Brosnan - he is an extremely capable actor, as the Thomas Crown Affair and the Forth Protocol shows, and he lives the Bond role like a skin - he has the body language and the facial ticks down cold. But to me, the series needs to return to its co
I genuinely though it was a good action movie... it wasn't a great bond movie, because as you point out, it was too much gadgetery and not enough plot but it was still a good action movie. To be honest I wasn't expecting much more when I saw it because I had missed it in the cinema and a few of my friends said not to expect the typical bond movie so all I was after when I rented it on DVD was an action movie.... It gave me exactly what I expected. Regards, Brian Dela :-) http://www.briandela.com[^] IE 6 required.
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I didn't see this in the theater, and rented this tonight for 99 cents. Hard to beat that. After watching it, I'm glad I only paid a buck, not the full price that tickets and etc would have cost. Sadly, it seems that Bond has slipped badly back into the Gadget Zone that typified most of the Roger Moore and last set of Connery flicks - we even have a homage to the toys from that era. Not much is paid to the plot of the movie, and beyond-belief high-tech is thrown away as so much tinfoil. Berry is having a lot of fun here, but is totally unbelievable as much as Carey Lowell was in License to Kill, and basically reprises her role from Swordfish. The previous two Bond movies starring Brosnan were much better - they focused on a story, dammit, esp. Tomorrow Never Dies, which, aside from the stupid ship-boring torpedo, was quality plotwork and character development. In Die Another Day, however, we have more or less pretty bla moments. The two standout exceptions are the Hong Kong hotel scene at the front that sets up and uses Bond knowing about the Head of Staff being a Chinese agent in order to get started up again, and the sword fight scene in the middle that ranges through and tears up an English club. But then, they had to go and screw that up by reprising it in a flash-patter at the end scene between the two women that was there only to kill off Frost in a most stupid way, all the while interleaving the strobe lighting effect with the fight between with Bond and the main villain. The car chase over the ice was beyond pointless, and was there totally to show off that the bad guys can also pack heat into fancy sports cars – rice, rice, baby. I think the point could be made that with enough wizz-bang gadgets and toys, anyone can be a Secret Agent or at least look like one. The whole movie was mostly in-jokes and self-referencing like a bad episode of the Simpsons, with over-heavy does of sexual innuendo that would only amuse the highschool crowd, and seemed jarringly out of place in a Bond movie. I thought there was something wrong on occasion with my DVD player in that there were visual slowdown at points, until I realized that this was supposed to be something Important and Special, but come out Badly Placed and Unneeded. This is not a reflection on Brosnan - he is an extremely capable actor, as the Thomas Crown Affair and the Forth Protocol shows, and he lives the Bond role like a skin - he has the body language and the facial ticks down cold. But to me, the series needs to return to its co
I have to disagree and say that DAD was one of the best Bonds. It was a brilliant return from the horrific The World is Not Enough. DAD had the locations, the toys, the action, the wit, the drama and the sex that makes a good Bond film. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Miszou wrote: I have read the entire internet. on how boring his day was. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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I didn't see this in the theater, and rented this tonight for 99 cents. Hard to beat that. After watching it, I'm glad I only paid a buck, not the full price that tickets and etc would have cost. Sadly, it seems that Bond has slipped badly back into the Gadget Zone that typified most of the Roger Moore and last set of Connery flicks - we even have a homage to the toys from that era. Not much is paid to the plot of the movie, and beyond-belief high-tech is thrown away as so much tinfoil. Berry is having a lot of fun here, but is totally unbelievable as much as Carey Lowell was in License to Kill, and basically reprises her role from Swordfish. The previous two Bond movies starring Brosnan were much better - they focused on a story, dammit, esp. Tomorrow Never Dies, which, aside from the stupid ship-boring torpedo, was quality plotwork and character development. In Die Another Day, however, we have more or less pretty bla moments. The two standout exceptions are the Hong Kong hotel scene at the front that sets up and uses Bond knowing about the Head of Staff being a Chinese agent in order to get started up again, and the sword fight scene in the middle that ranges through and tears up an English club. But then, they had to go and screw that up by reprising it in a flash-patter at the end scene between the two women that was there only to kill off Frost in a most stupid way, all the while interleaving the strobe lighting effect with the fight between with Bond and the main villain. The car chase over the ice was beyond pointless, and was there totally to show off that the bad guys can also pack heat into fancy sports cars – rice, rice, baby. I think the point could be made that with enough wizz-bang gadgets and toys, anyone can be a Secret Agent or at least look like one. The whole movie was mostly in-jokes and self-referencing like a bad episode of the Simpsons, with over-heavy does of sexual innuendo that would only amuse the highschool crowd, and seemed jarringly out of place in a Bond movie. I thought there was something wrong on occasion with my DVD player in that there were visual slowdown at points, until I realized that this was supposed to be something Important and Special, but come out Badly Placed and Unneeded. This is not a reflection on Brosnan - he is an extremely capable actor, as the Thomas Crown Affair and the Forth Protocol shows, and he lives the Bond role like a skin - he has the body language and the facial ticks down cold. But to me, the series needs to return to its co