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Agree 100000%. There is absolutely nothing, and I mean nothing, about DAD that is redeemable. It contains the worst elements of the entire franchise, which include -
The worst title.
The worst Bond.
The worst Bond villain.
The worst Bond girl.
The worst Bond gadgets.
The worst Bond song.
The worst script.
The worst director.
When you have all these things stacked up against you, there isn't anywhere to go but down. Or you scrap everything and start again......fast forward to 2006, where a decent Bond movie is born.
"you're alive now but you live to die another day"
In that context the title is actually quite good.
Sellout.
The Day of Battle by A. E. Housman
"Far I hear the bugle blow
To call me where I would not go,
And the guns begin the song,
'Soldier, fly or stay for long.'"
"Comrade, if to turn and fly
Made a soldier never die,
Fly I would, for who would not?
'Tis sure no pleasure to be shot."
"But since the man that runs away
Lives to die another day,
And cowards' funerals, when they come
Are not wept so well at home."
"Therefore, though the best is bad,
Stand and do the best my lad;
Stand and fight and see your slain,
And take the bullet in your brain."
More like caricature.
-No Madonna
-Show a bigger difference in Bond post-torture, like a slight limp or cuts
-Take out Peaceful Fountains of Desire (or whatever her name was) and put Michelle Weoh in a cameo as Wai Lin.
-Take out Halle Berry and the whole Jinx character and replace her with a stronger character who is a villain. (and keep Frost as a ally)
-Keep Zao as he was (diamonds in the face) without the gene stuff
-No ice palace or Iceland at all
-NO PARASURFING
-Bring in another director
-Have Gustav Graves and General Moon be two different people.
-Take out virtual reality and have it be a test mission as Bond will test himself and bring him back.
-No invisible Aston Martin.
-Keep homages at a minimum.
I liked the Ice palace myself. I thought the set was really well designed and it did remind me a bit of the old OTT villian lairs.
To be honest the whole Moon is Graves angle didn't annoy me much and if they were two different people why would they work together? So I'd keep that. But instead of the stupid gene therapy just say he's had loads of plastic surgery, Graves (who might not be called Graves now actually) would be disfigured, his face messed up after he had way too much work done.
I much rather an old-school training exercise or a real attack on MI6. But the scene of Moneypenny I take it as an insult to 40 years of history because of a stupid joke.
Yes also, the absurd Moneypenny 'virtual reality' nonsense from the very end. Can you have imagined Maxwell behaving like that. Ok, new 'Penny, new Bond, new times, but that was all a bit unsavory. I don't know what they were thinking
Goodnight 8-|
2. Have a proper title sequence, i.e not intercut with torture scenes and the CGI was really quite bad.
3. Jinx. Get rid of that character, or maybe just make her less smarmy, less ostentatious, less cartoon-ish.
4. The Madonna cameo.
5. The surfing scene on the ice with the parachute. That NEEDS to go.
6. David Arnold did a great score, a little too heavy on the electronic elements, if we could scale that back and actually turn the music up a little higher because it was almost impossible to hear during the ice chase.
7. I like the idea of the invisible car, just make it a little more realistic, i.e it doesn't become completely invisible, like not the tires aswell, and it's more of a camoflage type of thing that all-out Harry Potter style invisibility....
8. The ridiculous robocop suit Graves had on.
9. Any and all CGI used in that movie.
10. I felt the laser scene was OTT and ridiculous...
Just realised that I REALLY don't like this movie.
You've only just realised...??? <:-P
I've always disliked it, but when I started making the list I realised just how much I don't like Die Another Day, I found it embarrassing, sucks that it was Brosnan's last outing to go out 'Batman and Robin' style.
Please, please, please... DAD is much better tham Batman & Robin.
You know what, at least DAD doesn't have Arnold Schwartzenegger making horrible ice puns or singing.
Although, interestingly, both are the 4th film in a continuity (the Tim Burton/Joel Schneider Batman series and the Brosnan Bond films respectively), both involve ice, and both are the worst in their respective sets of four. Both also involve satellites using the sun in some way.
I know pretty much none of us like Die Another Day, it has some really stupid moments towards the end, some terrible dialouge and overall it's one of the worst Bond films.
But it's not worse than Batman and Robin.
Y'know what, I can turn down the volume and still be attracted to her when she says stupid things, but I can't do that to Arnie.
Exactly. Sure DAD has a stupid 2nd half but Batman and Robin is just generally a terrible, terrible film.
DAD is definetly a bad Bond film but on it's own, compared as a film to Batman and Robin, it's miles better.
And both films were followed by a reboot of each franchise.
and made their Respective franchise's reborn and important again.
And, as of 2012, three films have been released in the reboot continuity of each franchise.
Still a weak title by itself. I would have preferred the title in Italian: Death can Wait. Still, the movie would have sucked, but at least the title would have been decent.