AJB live commentary on Die Another Day

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,855Chief of Staff
    For anyone who doesn't know, Stephens' mother is the incomparable Maggie Smith and his father was Robert Stephens- who once was an excellent Sherlock Holmes
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,855Chief of Staff
    Number24 wrote:
    That's the case with lotos of Bond films-

    Timestamp? I keep falling out of the internet

    Swordfight
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Toby Stephens makes a much better Bond (Radio 4 series) than he did a Bond villain.

    With apologies to anyone non-UK who doesn't get the reference, he reminds me a bit of Dominic Raab, in this role (the minister who'd been deputising for Boris Johnson)... the same false smile with a hint of a sneer.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,855Chief of Staff
    The club Blades is a central location in Fleming's "Moonraker"- though they "only" play cards, not swordfight.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,855Chief of Staff
    Music- “Bond Gets the Key” and “Virtual Reality” not on OST. Only partially used in the film
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Actually a great fight for Brosnan‘s last movie!
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Higgins wrote:
    Actually a great fight for Brosnan‘s last movie!

    A highlight of the film.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,855Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Toby Stephens makes a much better Bond (Radio 4 series) than he did a Bond villain.

    With apologies to anyone non-UK who doesn't get the reference, he reminds me a bit of Dominic Raab, in this role (the minister who'd been deputising for Boris Johnson)... the same false smile with a hint of a sneer.

    Oh excellent! Thank you Shady! I knew I'd been reminded of someone by Raab's...er... performances over the last few weeks.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,331MI6 Agent
    I'm at the horrible VR scene
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,855Chief of Staff
    Dench and Brosnan working together sooo well.
  • JTMJTM Posts: 3,027MI6 Agent
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Higgins wrote:
    Actually a great fight for Brosnan‘s last movie!

    A highlight of the film.

    Yes was great scene—thought Stephens was very good in it with so much aggression.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    He‘s still with M in the subway station
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,855Chief of Staff
    John Cleese is something completely different from ol'Desmond. In the wrong way, unfortunately.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,855Chief of Staff
    Higgins wrote:
    He‘s still with M in the subway station

    Nope- he's now with Q
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,331MI6 Agent
    Thanks
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,855Chief of Staff
    Music- “The Vanish” and “Bond Goes to Iceland” (they run together) Not on OST
  • JTMJTM Posts: 3,027MI6 Agent
    How exactly did “Graves” become so much of a figure, to the level that he’s knighted, in 14 months...well actually much less than that—Bond was imprisoned for that long but Moon had to go though extensive (months) of surgery???
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,331MI6 Agent
    I had to watch the VR twise :#
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Charles Robinson works well as a virtual reality 'gaming'-type shooter.

    Now, the infamous invisible car... and to add insult to injury, the famous Bond/Q dialogue from GF is reprised while everyone in the audience is still groaning in despair about the idea of the car.

    But Cleese is appropriately Fawlty/Pythonesque.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Timestamp: Vanquish
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • JTMJTM Posts: 3,027MI6 Agent
    The f****** car...completely forgot about that.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,331MI6 Agent
    The bad scenes are piling up and the good scenes get rarer
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Toby Stephens makes a much better Bond (Radio 4 series) than he did a Bond villain.

    With apologies to anyone non-UK who doesn't get the reference, he reminds me a bit of Dominic Raab, in this role (the minister who'd been deputising for Boris Johnson)... the same false smile with a hint of a sneer.

    Oh excellent! Thank you Shady! I knew I'd been reminded of someone by Raab's...er... performances over the last few weeks.

    Can almost see Raab parachuting in to the daily briefings with a Union Jack chute.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • JTMJTM Posts: 3,027MI6 Agent
    We’re off to Iceland...
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Ice palast in sight
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    M/Frost dialogue channels Klebb/Tatiana
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,855Chief of Staff
    And it is now that the film takes a steep dive downwards.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    "I'm Mr Kil". Yeah, who cares?
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    edited April 2020
    Barbel wrote:
    And it is now that the film takes a steep dive downwards.

    Yup :#
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,855Chief of Staff
    JTM wrote:
    How exactly did “Graves” become so much of a figure, to the level that he’s knighted, in 14 months...well actually much less than that—Bond was imprisoned for that long but Moon had to go though extensive (months) of surgery???

    Plot hole
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