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I think an improvement could have been if he deadpanned with a solemn face "my mother's dead" in response.
That phrase got a lot of laughter in the cinema, and the reason no-one wanted to chase P+W down the streets is because the general audience LOVED Die Another Day back then.
She was very poorly written and she lacked class. At least however stupid was Goodnight she looked somewhat classy.
I'll agree it did extremely well financially but I wonder whether "loved" may have been a bit of an exaggeration. Granted most of the reviews were fairly decent and I actually enjoyed it too at the time, but I can think of two people straight away that I talked to soon afterwards who thought it was disappointing and even my best friend said the effects were laughable.
An exchange so saccharine, i'm feeling sick just thinking about it. I hated that exchange in the trailer(s), I hated it on the big screen, and here, 9 years on, it certainly hasn't gotten better with age.
I watched Batman Forever for the first time in years the other day and, at one point, Nicole Kidman says to Batman: "I wish I could say my interest in you was...purely professional".
Also, I was watching a trailer the other day (tho annoyingly I cant remember the film) and I had a sense of deja-vu when I heard the line:
"you only have one shot...make it count"
Also, there was Skyfall's line of "a storm's coming". I remember first hearing that metaphor in The Terminator.
didn't you say that your wife ruined the Dalton era for you by pointing out the flaws in his performance?
Dalton was a decent bond but Craig takes things further IMO.
Couldn't agree more. I don't think there is an instance in all of Bond of greater disparity between the overall quality of the film (CR) and certain lines within it (post-ball bashing sequence) than this one.
Yeah that was recent post 911; we didn't want serious back then. People forget that when assessing DAD overall.
She did. But I don't agree with her. I hate the end of the PTS with the "I wish I could find a real man" Bond then landing his parachutte on the roof. It's bad really awful. But Dalton had real stature. He was better in TLD than LTK.
Agreed - it'd be better if it was just "They're playing a sadistic game" or something.
Jinx, Die Another Day
I'm honestly not sure what this had to do with DAD losing its appeal. Brosnan was still Bond at that time, of course he was recruited to voice Bond in a video game. It doesn't have anything to do with how much people liked DAD. It was less than two years after DAD mad a record amount of money for EON that they unceremoniously fired Pierce, so I think 2 years is the absolute outside we can give for how long it took people to turn on DAD>\.
There was no contract.
BB + MGW decided to go a different direction which had a lot to do with CR finally being available to do and 9/11. They say so themselves in Everything Or Nothing, the documentary.
DAD lost its appeal probably around 2005/2006 when Hollywood "suddenly" made completely different action movies (the Nolan/Bourne effect).
He wasn't under contract but he did say he wanted to do another one, and had no real reason to believe they wouldn't contact him for it. Sure they had no obligation to consider him through contracts, but, in social habits, it would've been nice of them to at least be more in contact.
The Bourne/Nolan films were attesting to their times. After 911 there was a war threat, and in 2002 an economic crisis. Over the top just didn't fit in anymore. DAD was basically released just after it's proper time.
Still, it took ott to higher levels then ever before except the seventies.
No, Brosnan wasn't fired teachnically. But if I want to renew my contract and my company doesn't offer, I will for all intents and purposes be fired.
As I said, DAD was too late. Before 911 films were lighter. Bourne was right on the mark. Don't forget that the late nineties the Western world was thinking it was invincible (and apparently invisible). Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man' was still acclaimed as the political and historical truth. Allthough some people may have seen the misery coming, most were still only obsessed with how well things were going. Sotckmarkets that would never come down again, all that sort of... misunderstandings. That's when DAD was conceived. When it was born however, 'the world had changed'.
Moneypenny, Skyfall
I'm surprised that Moneypenny didn't tell us more. It's a VW Bettle, but what's the starting price, and what extras can we have? If they're used, what are the service histories like? Come on Eve, don't keep us waiting.
Not convinced yet about Harris. I hope Spectre changes my mind. I really dislike the way the scene is delivered by both Dan and Harris at the end of Skyfall "You know, I don't believe we've been formally introduced" "My names Eve, Eve Moneypenny"
Harris seems to mutter it, the pause is un-natural. I don't know why that take got in. Craig saves it with the look and the follow up "Well I shall enjoy our time together...Ms Moneypenny"
So this woman shoots Bond, goes to Macau to shave Bonds face and he doesn't say so what's your name?
Chemistry seems wrong, I really hope the flirting between them in Spectre is more natural.
Wooden. He may as well gone full Austin Powers and say " Will
We shag now, or later" :))