\tAlthough I sat in my large seat at Cinemark in Moosic anticipating the start of Die Another Day, I could not help but to look at my watch during the movie. Because as far as Bond films go, ?Die Another Day? was clearly one of the worst examples of the spy film genre.
\tThe plot here was insignificant because the movie was clearly about James Bond being James Bond. However, there might have been something about defeating an African-diamond kingpin who happened to be a Korean nationalist before DNA transplant surgery. As if that was not sinister enough, the villain incognito turned a satellite reflector into a second sun which doubles as solar energy space weapon that even the US military cannot shoot down. Get all that? You weren?t supposed to. Bond saves the world in expensive cars, lush locations, and beautiful girls in typical cinematic grandeur.
\tI realize Bond films are held to a lower standard than other movies, but I refuse to believe that people watch them knowing they'll be full of unrealistic action, cheesy one-liners and innuendo. Timothy Dalton had the best idea when he wanted to explore how Bond rationalized the morality behind the character?s license to kill. Unfortunately for the audience, the lighthearted fun that characterizes Bond films was noticeably absent from that era in Bond film history. Unfortunately for today?s audience, Pierce Brosnan?s Bond of Die Another Day fails at even that.
\tWhat irked me the most was how ineffective the film was at actually using Halle Berry?s acting prowess. Her character, Jinx, was more prone to weak dialogue than anything reminiscent of a Halle Berry role. Even her character, Storm, in X-Men had better things to say than the pathetic sexual innuendo that highlighted the low points of movie. When you heard Jinx talk about ?getting the thrust? of something, you can only put your head in your hands and long for the savvy bond girls of years past. Halle Berry was no Ursula Andres in Dr. No, but she certainly could have been had the right script been written for her.
\tI disliked the pro-American tilt to the movie that we certainly did not see in Tomorrow Never Dies. In that movie M states that "unlike the CIA/FBI, we don't get our news from CNN." The barb obviously referred to the perceived level of intelligence both agencies had in the eyes of the world before the September 11 attacks. Instead we had an all-American looking agent instructing M that if "you can't control your agent, [the Americans] will." That represented a marked change in how a movie about British intelligence tiptoed around the issue of US intelligence in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
In Die Another Day, product placement is fairly prominent. We see a new Phillips poster in an abandonded subway station, plugs for Aston Martin ("Aston Martin calls [the car] the Vanquish, we call in the Vanish"), close-ups of a Sony-Ericson phone, and undoubtedly other advertisements. There's nothing really to detract from though. This movie is pretty average fare even for a Bond film, and I recommend that you wait until the fare is average to watch this movie.
I saw it tonight and it was BAD. I couldn't figure out for the life of me where the bad guy could get the funding for all of this stuff. And why he wanted it. The dialogue was terrible, but forgivable because it's a bond movie and the only thing about the special effects that were special was the way it was used in the parachute/surfing scene: to add cheezy bond-esque fake fx. Everywhere else, it was been there done that. I was actually bored throughout the movie despite the fact that there was about 10 minutes during the entire thing that something wasn't being blown up. Not worth it, IMHO.
The last time I looked a Bond movie is not reality? Just a spoof on it? GEE!
I saw it tonight and I enjoyed it just fine. Did any of you all notice all the nice Sony Vaio Laptops and my favorite..... The Sony Flat Panel Displays? Those Cubans sure had nice Displays hehehehehe... Sony was all over the movie.
I love my Sony Flat Panel Display and I enjoyed the Bond Movie.
This movie was not "bad" It is your normal Bond movie with sex jokes, action, explosions, stupid plots etc. It is a kind of humor we need in a serious world.
Comments
1. Moonraker
2. The World is not Enough
3. A View to a Kill
4. Die Another Day
5. ~ Toss up?
So I guess Die Another Day is at the bottom of my heap here.
Shawn Joyce
?Die Another Day?
\tAlthough I sat in my large seat at Cinemark in Moosic anticipating the start of Die Another Day, I could not help but to look at my watch during the movie. Because as far as Bond films go, ?Die Another Day? was clearly one of the worst examples of the spy film genre.
\tThe plot here was insignificant because the movie was clearly about James Bond being James Bond. However, there might have been something about defeating an African-diamond kingpin who happened to be a Korean nationalist before DNA transplant surgery. As if that was not sinister enough, the villain incognito turned a satellite reflector into a second sun which doubles as solar energy space weapon that even the US military cannot shoot down. Get all that? You weren?t supposed to. Bond saves the world in expensive cars, lush locations, and beautiful girls in typical cinematic grandeur.
\tI realize Bond films are held to a lower standard than other movies, but I refuse to believe that people watch them knowing they'll be full of unrealistic action, cheesy one-liners and innuendo. Timothy Dalton had the best idea when he wanted to explore how Bond rationalized the morality behind the character?s license to kill. Unfortunately for the audience, the lighthearted fun that characterizes Bond films was noticeably absent from that era in Bond film history. Unfortunately for today?s audience, Pierce Brosnan?s Bond of Die Another Day fails at even that.
\tWhat irked me the most was how ineffective the film was at actually using Halle Berry?s acting prowess. Her character, Jinx, was more prone to weak dialogue than anything reminiscent of a Halle Berry role. Even her character, Storm, in X-Men had better things to say than the pathetic sexual innuendo that highlighted the low points of movie. When you heard Jinx talk about ?getting the thrust? of something, you can only put your head in your hands and long for the savvy bond girls of years past. Halle Berry was no Ursula Andres in Dr. No, but she certainly could have been had the right script been written for her.
\tI disliked the pro-American tilt to the movie that we certainly did not see in Tomorrow Never Dies. In that movie M states that "unlike the CIA/FBI, we don't get our news from CNN." The barb obviously referred to the perceived level of intelligence both agencies had in the eyes of the world before the September 11 attacks. Instead we had an all-American looking agent instructing M that if "you can't control your agent, [the Americans] will." That represented a marked change in how a movie about British intelligence tiptoed around the issue of US intelligence in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
In Die Another Day, product placement is fairly prominent. We see a new Phillips poster in an abandonded subway station, plugs for Aston Martin ("Aston Martin calls [the car] the Vanquish, we call in the Vanish"), close-ups of a Sony-Ericson phone, and undoubtedly other advertisements. There's nothing really to detract from though. This movie is pretty average fare even for a Bond film, and I recommend that you wait until the fare is average to watch this movie.
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I saw it tonight and I enjoyed it just fine. Did any of you all notice all the nice Sony Vaio Laptops and my favorite..... The Sony Flat Panel Displays? Those Cubans sure had nice Displays hehehehehe... Sony was all over the movie.
I love my Sony Flat Panel Display and I enjoyed the Bond Movie.
This movie was not "bad" It is your normal Bond movie with sex jokes, action, explosions, stupid plots etc. It is a kind of humor we need in a serious world.
Fellowship
<strong>It is a kind of humor we need in a serious world.
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Buy Another day because there is a shitty amount of product placement.