Originally posted in November 2012, this is a re-edited version of the review that runs 2m 25s shorter than the original. Aside from the usual edits to film clips, one or two lines have been cut due to being incorrect, but this is also the most effort I've ever had to do to correct my performance. This was as I was starting to transition to the "angry" phase where I was very exaggerated and shill, and I've tried to mitigate that with countless cuts; the voiceover was just on the very edge of being able to be re-edited rather than having to do the whole thing over (which will be the case with some). I remember feeling a bit disheartened when this review first came out because I got a lot of flak over my choice of Bond film, rather than other entries like Moonraker or Quantum of Solace, hence why I stepped up the "anger" for the subsequent year. Regardless, I hope you enjoy this repost, which is to coincide with another video later in the month.
I have to disagree with the creepy sex offender reference to Bond, it's not like the women weren't aggressive in these films. I mean no woman had ever said no to Bond that I'm aware of, none of them are under duress, so seems pretty consentual to me.
First, not saying NO does not equal consent, don't recall him in this movie nearly as much, but Bond does rape and forces himself on women in the older movies (either force or duress). So calling him sex offender might be technically incorrect as he hasn't been convicted and registered, but I think it gets across how little regard he has for consent.
Had to quickly look up the names and found a nice summary "Connery's Bond rapes three women in his films in total: he pressured Miss Taro (an enemy agent sent to spy on him) in Dr No into sleeping with him, forcibly rapes Miss Galore (I refuse to dignify that fucking name) and blackmails Patricia Fearing in Thunderball into having sex with him by threatening to get her fired." Not that other scenes aren't a bit iffy and I do remember him beating women but I don't remember if he forced himself on them, too. The less said about the book Bond the better. Bond movies are pretty fun, but there are those scenes where I prefer to get a drink from the kitchen to avoid being crept out by some scenes.
Fun fact: Former Bond actor Roger Moore even hated this movie. After it first came out he said, and I quote, "I though it just went too far. And that's from me, the first Bond in space."
@@cinemagraphic6324 my former best friend seriously loves die another day because as he claims that die another day is the greatest bond movie ever made
That would be correct, he took the name James Bond from who wrote a book about ornithology that he found. Flaming thought it was the perfect name for his character.
Stephen Nootens I believe he liked it because it stood out as a name that sounds ordinary and unremarkable so he can blend in better. Ironically enough his name is one of the worst kept secrets.
15:00 Secrecy? We are talking about a man who would introduce himself with his real name to the villain and not so subtlety hint that he is an agent. Remember how he used to taunt Largo at their first poker game in Thunderball? James Bond always had this cheekiness of hiding in plain view. Kind of a bad spy if you think about it.
@@bobwalsh3751 Yeah, but considering that he uses it on every mission and villains tend to recognize the name, its hardly a cover anymore, if it ever was one.
The best bit of this film was General Moon. Particularly how he follows the torture scene with a straight faced delivery of "I do not condone what they do here"
Most of the James Bond movies are over the top action films, sort of like the later fast and furious films. The books were much more down to earth than the movies and were a great deal dirtier.
The plan is to re-unit North+South Korea, take over Japan ['a bug waiting to be squashed'!] and then attack China. It makes about as much sense as it sounds!
Well. that and he straight up says 'Japan is a bug waiting to be squashed.' Step 1, reunification under northern occupation, Step 2, settling old scores with the Japanese.
What's funny about Brosnan's ornithologist line is that the author of the original James Bond novels, Ian Flemming, got the name James Bond from looking at a book about birds by a guy actually named James Bond. I have no idea if the line was a reference to that fact, or just a really stupid line, but considering how much DAD references other James Bonds films, it wouldn't be surprising if it was a reference. (Although it probably wasn't)
Ian Fleming took the name James Bond from a real guy who was an ornithologist. In addition, in the Dr. No book, birds (or their s_t) play an important role. You're welcome.
32:23 I don't think it was his suit that had a function to electrocute himself, I think the idea was that he was hanging onto the side of the plane, which was metal, and the electricity coming out of his gloves reacting and backfiring onto him. Although I guess that's still just as stupid, since that means this supposed criminal mastermind didn't consider such an obvious flaw with his 'half-built Robocop' cosplay.
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You mentioned Bond being the “British Superman,” but there’s actually an Elseworlds story called “Superman: True Brit.” I’m not sure if that’s good or bad.
It's Action Man the movie! Mid/late 90's Action Man toys had endless 'extreme' sports variants and a new bad guy, Dr. X - the villain even had a robot arm or something, similar to the ending of this film!
I think what really hurts about this film is how aside from one or two changes, the first quarter of this movie was giving so much potential and was almost one of the best starts of all the movies in the series.
I think James Bond pretending to be an ornithologist is a reference to the real life ornithologist from whom Ian Fleming borrowed the name, James Bond.
You know... I just realized that you can find double agents in this universe just by recognizing the people telling the lame sexual puns. Or at the very least find all the ones written by a bad screenwriter.
The best of your reviews, Matthew. This is among the worst in the 007 series. Ironic that Toby Stephens would play a much better version of Graves in the Alex Rider series on Amazon.
its less of a movie and more a string of references and homages to previous films. if you removed them all the "movie" would probably be only 25min long.
21:39 - I think what happened here was that Graves' backstory was lifted pretty much directed from the literary version of Hugo Drax. However, they evidently forgot to include the part where Novel!Drax killed a reclusive millionaire and stole his identity, just so it wouldn't look like he magically blinked into existence all of a sudden. Oh, and he did it over the course of a decade or so, not just 14 months.
I am one of those demented souls who actually likes this film. It's got that "so bad it's good" vibe to it, and has a few things I like. The characters have decent ideas behind them, Brosnan is on top form as Bond, Toby Stephens hams it up quite well, and I think Rosamund Pike did surprisingly well for her first film role. The Aston Martin Vanquish is my second favourite Bond car behind the DB5: it's sleek, cool, has lots of gadgets (the invisibility thing isn't even that unrealistic), and partakes in what is for my money the best car chase in the entire series, mainly thanks to it being the only time a villain has been given a gadget-laiden car to rival Bond's. The score is also good, and at the very least Madonna's song is upbeat and catchy, something the last 3 Bond songs weren't. Overall, I like the film because it's the kind of over-the-top Bond film we'll probably never get again.
I remember watching an old Bond movie when I was younger (Dr No.) and in it, Bond deliberately sleeps with a woman who he knows is there to kill him and hates his guts (actually hates his guts, in a legit way, not a 'you were my target but I developed feelings for you' kind of way). He slept with her purely because he wanted to, and later left with a smirk on his face, while she was handcuffed to the bed and furious. It the first time I saw James Bond be a huge creep, but it definitely wasn't the last (coughSkyfallcough)
Die Another Day is officially 20 years old! I remember i saw it with my late dad opening weekend I didn't hate it and it made $431.9 million but I understood why it was so clumsy celebrating the 40th anniversary of the franchise at the time Still elements that work: fun action set pieces particularly the feud between Bond and Gustav Graves, love Halle Berry as Jinx, Rick Yune as the diamond faced Zao, and this was my first introduction to Rosamund Pike Judi Dench is still my favorite as M The bits of the film that do work are unfortunately marred by a ham-fisted script that relentlessly attempts a Roger Moore degree of wordplay There is no pun or sexual innuendo too shameful for screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade Even as an ode to the arch manner of Bonds-passed, there seemed to be little discrimination in which lines would be cut The theme song by Madonna is way too overproduced mixing in techno and synthesizer vocals Can't help but notice that lack of cohesion between the dialogue, tonal shifts, and disastrous special effects is greatly director Lee Tamahori’s fault but Broccoli and Wilson need to share in that blame Moore even publicly stated that he hated this film for all its ridiculousness Heck it was controversial in the Korean Peninsula and The North Korean government disliked the portrayal of their state as brutal and war-hungry It almost killed the franchise to embarrassing degrees to the point of self parody Lots of ludicrous stuff from invisible cars to laser beams Yet this is a notable Bond film for several reasons; Principal of which was due to the world-changing event that took place during its production 9/11 upended the Western world and, in turn, what they expected from their entertainment The classic Bond villain was no longer a believable threat to the world Existential danger was more palpable, more real Broccoli and Wilson understood this and decided to pursue a completely different path for Ian Fleming’s world-famous spy The movie made Pierce Brosnan the only Bond to be let go from the role but also ultimately brought us, Daniel Craig, as the gritty rebooted agent and the greatest Bond we’ve got Thank god the series got rebooted and Skyfall did a better job celebrating its 50th at the time
LuLu, the singer who performed The Man With The Golden Gun, recently declared that she sang the worst Bond song. When she was reminded of Die Another Day, she with withdrew her declaration. 😂
12:27 Film Brain forgot one of the references. This one was from the man with the golden gun, in the scene where Kananga kills someone with the said “golden gun”.
I did see this in the theatre, it was a nice try to be darker in the beginning, and went downhill after, it was the last with this cast minus Judy dench, shame it was a bad script and bad movie, it could have been great
I was 13 when I first saw this film as a rental. And I was actually quite invested in the movie up until the part where the doctor point blank states that he'll kill off the bone marrow, at which point I just completely checked out. Even if I wasn't thinking "death," it still managed to lose all credibility up to that point in time, and it became impossible to take the rest of the movie even remotely seriously.
23:05 do they have lit candles in the middle of an ice palace? Wouldn't that, you know, melt the walls? As if the heat in the room between Bond and Frost wasn't enough to likely melt them!
This made me remember how much I actually enjoy this movie (only Bond I've seen in theaters to be fair.) I do really like the sword duel and the training exercise which was like a full blown movie recreation of someone playing Goldeneye 64. My positives are your negatives, what can I say? Then again, I also like everyone's (other) favorite punching bag from the series Moonraker as well. I've got no problem at all with 007 getting silly.
Ah the beginning of the ANGRY ERA of Bad Movie Beatdown. Even despite the more shrill and exaggerated anger being played up, I still enjoyed this era of the show a lot.
Funny how Lee Tamahori damn near destroyed both the James Bond and the XXX franchises. Brosnan's age is certainly an issue; he looks okay throughout much of it but terrible in the opening NK infiltration. And yet it's still not as cringey as the close-up of Roger Moore's baggy eyes framed by a scuba mask in For Your Eyes Only. I wouldn't watch another Bond movie until Goldeneye because of that single repulsive shot. "He's not even trying to hide the fact he's a bad guy! He even looks like a weasely bastard! So how the hell has he fooled anyone into thinking he's a humanitarian!!" Counterpoint: Donald Trump still has a third (or a quarter...no, wait, a fifth, maybe) of the United States convinced he's a patriot.
Why would Colonel moon put a gun and tried to kill his own son which he thought earlier in the film was dead and was genuinely upset about it!? Huh!?😵💫
I didn't realize that the Brosnan and Craig Bond films came out during the Fall (with one exception). For some reason I thought they were summer films considering they are action flicks.
Maybe he thought it was better to have diamonds in his face don’t have scars from the diamonds being there🤷♂️ Another reviewer mentioned that and when I thought about it that makes more sense, out of the two options I’d rather have diamonds in my face then scars at least diamonds look Nice.
Terrific and accurate review. This movie sucks and needs to be called such. Lifelong Bond fan but I remember apologizing to my date in 2002 for taking her to this piece of crap. Same thing happened in 2015 with the abomination that is Spectre.
Who else thinks Pierce Brosnan should have been given this role 5-10 years earlier, when the man was in his absolute prime? I could see that Brosnan doing the xxx type stunts like surfing and what not. Cuz while he was still very fit, a man of his years surfing just seems out of place. But 25-30 yo Pierce? He might.
29:56 Wait, why are the DPRK, that is North Korea to the uninitiated, trying to invade Japan?!? Hasn't their goal always been South Korea at unified Korea underneath their regime?!? How does taking Japan over help them accomplish that goal? I just don't understand this plot Point. Why invade Japan?
MetaSynForYourSoul, the movie reviewer made a mistake when he said "invade Japan," as the movie clearly says North Korea is trying to invade South Korea across their commonly shared Demilitarized Zone.
In an earlier film Q and 007 have the same exchange using "You've got to be kidding." In the earlier film, Desmond Llewellyn replies, "I never joke about my work."
Hopefully Bond's next time being assisted by a black female secret agent will go better.
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"It's like the birthday boy falling face first into the cake." Uh, did Mathew just imply that after watching this movie on his 12th birthday, he immediately hit the sauce and that resulted in that sentence I paraphrased? Also, how could you not laugh at Mr. Kill just because of how ridiculous that is? There are some things that you should not take too seriously.
Yeah, even as a Bond fan I actually kinda like Die Another Day. Sure, it's not great but I found some pretty enjoyable moments, and to be honest I actually like the Madonna theme as a guilty pleasure.
worst bond ever, from script, theme, performances and direction, and the director was arrested for soliciting whilst dressed as a woman. guess it was doomed from start to finish.