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Denzil2222
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Do you think eon treated him badly by telling him after die another day they wanted him back for a 5th movie and then changing their mind? I think they did, he was a better bond than craig, die another day was a horrible movie, it was really a bond parody not a bond movie but that wasnt brosnans fault.
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What half of DAD was good ?
The first half. Until it started to get all CGIsh, it had promise of being a good movie. What did you think of that sword fight?
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
The only thing I like was Bond talking to Raoul; It's one of those moments in awful films where you wish the plot didn't have to rear it's ugly head again and alas, it does.
Sorry I didn't notice your post till now. The Sword Fight was well choreographed but it's completely stupid. When Bond and the villian square off, weather it be playing cards or golf, it's always a private affair between two gentlemen. This idiocy of destroying property and crashing through windows and Graves whining like a little b**** because Bond bested him the first time was just too embarrassing to watch.
There are just so many bad things about Die Another Day from the the get-go. We have Bond surfing, villians who look like they are barely out of high school, Bond's cover is blown in mere minutes, and a standard overblown chase sequence with guns-a-blazin'. Die Another Day felt like an action film based on a video game.
I thought Bond as the outsider was good. The Cuba sequence seemed OK to me. Bond a Q was good - and the last we've seen of Q. Loved the Aston vs Jag, ice palace destruction...
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I wish Bond as an outsider was written at least somewhat competently, it's even less convincing
than when he went rogue in Licence To Kill.
The only thing I concede that was okay was Bond talking to Raoul in Cuba. Everything else I would prefer getting a root canal instead of viewing again.
Agreed. I think the first half of DAD is almost as good as a Bond movie can get. Our expectations were subverted - the previously-invincible Bond was captured, held captive for a year, and tortured (I also liked the way the opening credits stylishly helped tell the story by depicting the various menacing methods of his torture) - and he grew a beard! Ferreting out a sleeper operative in Cuba by way of ordering a special cigar was brilliant, and the scene with Bond driving the old Bel Air, wearing a Cuban shirt, smoking a cigar, with a revolver tucked in his waistband! Replace Cuba with Jamaica and the Bel Air with a Sunbeam Alpine and I'm in literary Bond heaven!
And then the film does a complete 180. Invisible cars, Moneypenny on the Holodeck, Halle Barry, a man with unremoveable diamonds in his face, an ice palace, the worst innuendo and punmanship known to man, and a Robocop suit with tasers for hands. What hast thou wrought, Purvis and Wade? What in God's name hast thou wrought!?
Sorry, the better moments are completely rubbed out by the WTF ones.
I'm with spectrebloefeld here. I think DAD had some terrific moments but on the whole was let down by some really poor sfx and a second half that just went too far into comic book territory. The exciting first half put Bond in a position we hadn't seen him in before up till that point. (I think the pun was meant to be painful - start off with classic Bond mode and then take a darker turn).
The scenes with Bond and M were played completely straight and showed not only the bitter, human side of Bond but the cold side of M.
The swordfight was one of the best action sequences in the whole series. It was tense, brilliantly filmed, and one of the few scenes that didn't rely on CGI.
Personally I liked the sequence with Bond and Q. Whilst being nostalgic it showed JC had come into his own as the character and he was actually competant, unlike in TWINE.
The second half of the film is where it all falls down, mainly because its just too comic book like. The escape in the speed thingy, the infamous wind-surfing sequence and THAT car. However there were a couple of good scenes, namely the car chase between Bond and Zao and the final Bond/Monneypenny embrace. I remember when I saw that in the cinema, got a huge laugh and I think it was a great way to round off the 40 year Bond/Moneypenny relationship. In general, is it the best Bond film? Absolutely not! But is it the worst? IMO No!