AJB live commentary on Die Another Day

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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Pierce is good in these moments reviving and reassuring Bond girls close to death... Bond's humanity comes through. (And sets up Craig/Vesper... the girl who couldn't be resuscitated.)
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Cameo from MGW as a General
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    An American officer orders the South Korean troops to mobilise. That didn't go down well in South Korean cinemas :# :#
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    Robocop!! :o
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Graves gets his Robocop outfit
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Madsen seems a bit out-of-genre... but he adds value to this film, with nice touches
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Where is Higgins?
  • JTMJTM Posts: 3,027MI6 Agent
    Always quite liked Colin Salmon as Robinson.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Graves gets his Robocop outfit

    Not a good look.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    JTM wrote:
    Always quite liked Colin Salmon as Robinson.

    Seconded
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    edited April 2020
    Oedipal Complex stuff. It makes sense of Madonna's "Sigmund Freud" lyric.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Where is Higgins?

    Still here
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Madsen seems a bit out-of-genre... but he adds value to this film, with nice touches

    I respectfully disagree. He can be a great actor when he tries (he's amazing in KILL BILL Vol. 2, for instance) but he's embarrassing when he just shows up and speaks lines. He's really in 'phoning it in' mode here.

    I agree
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Just trying to find anything enjoyable since Brosnan left the Vanquish
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    Slow motion death and Gladiator style singing :# :#
  • JTMJTM Posts: 3,027MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    Higgins wrote:
    Just trying to find anything enjoyable since Brosnan left the Vanquish

    You've got Rosamund Pike coming up in arguably her best outfit. There's that, at least.

    Thanks for the reminder, that’s something to look forward to :x
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    General Moon, Vlad and Mr Kil could all have been so much better with a director of real talent (I'm thinking of how Martin Campbell directed Xenia Onatopp, Ouromov and Boris in GE, or how Terence Young directed Kronsteen, Red Grant and Klebb in FRWL)
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    Higgins wrote:
    Just trying to find anything enjoyable since Brosnan left the Vanquish

    You've got Rosamund Pike coming up in arguably her best outfit. There's that, at least.

    I forgot about that one :D
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    Gymkata wrote:
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Madsen seems a bit out-of-genre... but he adds value to this film, with nice touches

    I respectfully disagree. He can be a great actor when he tries (he's amazing in KILL BILL Vol. 2, for instance) but he's embarrassing when he just shows up and speaks lines. He's really in 'phoning it in' mode here.

    I agree

    He's in a role similar to Admiral Roebuck in the TND PTS, but with more attitude and spark. The first time there's been some real Anglo-American tension in a Bond film since Lewis Gilbert and Lois Chiles tried but failed to inject some, in MR.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    OMG... Rosamund... I'm in love! The first proper cat-fight in a Bond movie since FRWL.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Music "Antonov" a long cue on the OST
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Music a bit like Robin Hood
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Music "Antonov" a long cue on the OST

    To my ears, all over the place again.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • JTMJTM Posts: 3,027MI6 Agent
    JTM wrote:
    Gymkata wrote:
    Higgins wrote:
    Just trying to find anything enjoyable since Brosnan left the Vanquish

    You've got Rosamund Pike coming up in arguably her best outfit. There's that, at least.

    Thanks for the reminder, that’s something to look forward to :x

    Need more shots of Pike...too much time is being taken up with unimportant things like Bond/Graves and Icarus
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Apparently Berry added the "bitch" part herself. The fight's good enough to earn it, I guess.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    I‘ve hear that shortafter she played in a theater in London mostly nude :x
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Music "Antonov" a long cue on the OST

    To my ears, all over the place again.

    Oh yeah, it's part of the reason this is Arnold's worst 007 score.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    All of Jinx' lines are bad one-liners :#
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Higgins wrote:
    I‘ve hear that shortafter she played in a theater in London mostly nude :x

    You have to tell us more, Higgins, with pictures to back you up.
  • JTMJTM Posts: 3,027MI6 Agent
    Higgins wrote:
    I‘ve hear that shortafter she played in a theater in London mostly nude :x

    And just because I’m a man who enjoys the arts, what was the name of this play and is there a recording?
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