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"We can't make Napoleon Plural talk; he's an A.U.N.T.I.E. agent!"
"I'll hold his head, you put Die Another Day in the player- he'll talk all right...!"
To be fair. Die Another Day has a pretty good Pre Title Sequence.
Now, the CGI parasailing scene on loop is a different story...
The only good thing I can say about that scene is it had a really great version of the Bond theme playing... Skip to 3:55
You still mean the VR MP scene, right? If so, agreed. Totally killed the relationship between the two with that scene, and it still pisses me off. I thought the VR fight that Bond has when he's 're-hired' was cool, albeit heavily scripted.
I loved that mission, but (and I don't think you're implying this) that wasn't a VR scene, it really happened. It's just Cigar Girl attacking the place, only more men are involved to give it a proper shooting mission. I loved blasting the guys coming down the sides and watching them fall past the windows before they broke in.
Ohh, okay, apologies, and indeed it was! The whole mission is an extended version of the scene in TWINE, with the gunfight goodness of the VR scene in DAD. It's great.
An homage to a videogame? It makes DAD even worse than I always considered it to be.
I wouldn't consider TWINE for the N64 bad. In fact it was rather fun. Not as good as GoldenEye 64 or Nightfire for that, but a fun game none the less.
That's not the first time Bonds played a video game in his history though if you also include NSNA.
I don't care. You don't make homage to videogame in a Bond movie, period.
And it was ridiculous in NSNA.
Could be worse...they could have payed homage to CR 67... :-S
Rowan Atkinson would play the same character with a different name 2 decades later in Johnny English.
Regarding the VR sequence, I'm not sure about the TWINE link but I do remember Lee Tamahori saying in the audio commentary that he wanted it to have a video game feel (the camera only focusing on the upper body, Brosnan's quick movements, the way he reloads the gun quickly etc).
The first bit when Bond walks in is amusing but the exchange:
"Its rather hard isn't it?"
"Yes...very"
is pretty awful.
We get it. THE JOKE IS ABOUT BOND'S PENIS!!