DIE ANOTHER DAY (2002) Pierce Brosnan - James Bond Revisited 

I always wished Pierce got a better roll of the dice during his tenure. Goldeneye was so promising. Pierce and that movie are still one of my very favorites in the entire franchise.

the first half was decent, mostly the first 25 minutes. but when bond gets to iceland it goes COMPLETELY downhill

Die another day is Guilty Pleasure of mine. I have a fun time watching it.

I would love to see Brosnan come back as old man Bond in a Dark Knight Returns style story.

3:35 “He was a young guy…” Cue picture of the guy looking like the mummy

They ditched Brosnan but kept the writers - that's really adding insult to injury, I feel

Madonna techno, invisible car, surfing the big wave... throwing the kitchen sink was an understatement.

This one will always a special place in my heart since it was the first Bond movie I ever saw in the theater.

I've always liked this movie. Infact, I think I'll watch it again.

As someone who actually did sleep at the ice hotel in Quebec, let me say you are 1000% right. Worst sleep of my life - and definitely no sex!

"Batman & Robin of the Bond franchise" hits the nail on the head.

FUN FACT: The opening hovercraft scene was filmed about half a mile from my family home in Aldershot, Hampshire on some military ground. We were all so excited as my town doesn't have a great reputation. However, if you watch the BTS on the DVD, Pierce Brosnan basically slags off my town, saying of all the places he could be filming "Aldershot, bloody Aldershot!" Ironically I now live about 80km from Cadiz, Spain, which is where all the "Cuba" beach scenes were filmed.

I think that the opening story in Korea, then HK was actually fairly good...then it went downhill

I get why everyone hates Die Another Day, but I myself love it. It’s over the top and definitely ridiculous, but I can’t stop enjoying it every time I see it.

I'd love an Old Man Bond style movie after NTTD either with Dalton or Brosnan.

The first time i saw this movie i thought: "wow. I love Pierce Brosnan. And the studio let him down at every level."

I love this movie. Its bad, really bad....but its enjoyable to watch. The pre title sequence is amazing and the Gustave sword fight is the perfect blend of action and ridiculousness

The film did start strong, but then it goes downhill really fast when he just walks out of that prison hospital thing he was in, goes into a hotel and is given a room and just gets right back onto his feet again.

James Bond Revisited is great series!

What a trainwreck. It starts off so promising, but it goes downhill when Halle Berry (beautiful bikini clad body) is introduced. I wasn’t in denial when I saw this on opening day, my friend tried to remain optimistic, but I was angry and disappointed, so much so that I told the queueing line to don’t bother and to save their time and money.

I love this movie in the "so bad it's good" way. I also love the car chase scene on ice.

Rosamund Pike is hands down my favorite thing about this outing. If you enjoy her villainy, please check out “Gone Girl” and “I Care A Lot.” She’s so great at drawing an audience into an unsettling mystique.

One positive I will give this film is give Rosamund Pike a chance to breakout into the mainstream. Back then she was a little known actress and this movie was her breakout role.

We knew this analysis was coming; we knew it needed to be done. It was not as painful as I thought. When all is said and done, blame Madonna.

Pretty much everything up through the trip to Cuba is good, and I loved the VR training scene. It showed Bond in his office which we rarely ever see, and watching him go through the halls and give hand signs to his co-workers was just a great scene and side of Bond we almost never see. When they finally revealed it was VR it was a little disappointing but it was still a really cool scene. Berry was atrocious. One of the worst Bond girls they've ever had.

YES! Was hoping you would mention The Matador. Such a fun an underrated, fun movie where Brosnan shows a lot of charisma and a really different side.

lmao the big lebowski reaction shot is all of us. bravo ^_^

Plane flying through a laser beam was my really, WTF? moment...

I..LOVE..these James Bond entries. Used to watch every one of them with my Dad. So fun to hear someone talk about what they experienced when they came out.

But, it has the best quote ever that seems particularly apt these days, well for my life anyway. "Just surviving, Mr Cheng, just surviving" I have this as my one of my notifications on Windows and it gives me perspective on life.

I've only watched this once. That was enough. Pierce is my second favourite Bond after Sean, on the strength of Goldeneye alone.

I'd like to know what you think about Pierce's actual final performance as James Bond in the video game, James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing.

This was when she started phoning in her performances Anything after Monsters Ball she isn't even trying

This was only the second Bond movie I saw in theaters and I remember really liking it. It was the first time I followed anything online with any thoroughness and knowing that there would be references to past movies made me watch like an Easter egg hunt. I'll admit it doesn't hold up to repeat viewing but I still have more fun watching than I do watching any of the unofficial movies.

Seriously loving these episodes! Keep up the good work.

This was the last bond film my friend Tommy saw before he passed away, he was so excited for it. Then he saw it and wasn't so excited.

"Why's it so bad?" Well, the surf scene CGI answers that

I had been looking for an in depth video on this movie that delved into Brosnan's place in Bond mythology. Thank you so much for delivering the goods.

If Die Another Day wasn't attached to the 007 franchise, if it was just a Bond Parody existing as its own thing, I think it would be pretty well remembered as a campy 2000s action comedy.

thanks for the chuckles great review 📽🎞

9:55 We have an Ice Hotel in northern Sweden rebuilt differently each year in which you can stay over night. You sleep in pelts on beds of ice just like the bar and everything else. It's incredibly beautiful and not at all that cold when tucked in of course. No shrinkage occurred ;)

I’m an inner city high school history teacher and I LOVE this series. It’s a great example of public history: constructing narratives that get the non-academic public involved in the historical process. In my final project for the year, students construct a narrative for the public on any topic they want. I model the process by picking my own topic and constructing my own exhibit. I picked James Bond this year in honor of “No Time To Die.” For the midpoint in which students have to argue either the high point (golden age), low point (worse point) or turning point (an event in which two of the Politics, Economics, Religious factors, Social factors, Innovation and Art (PERSIA) factors changed their trends) I argued that while “Die Another Day” is bad, “Man With The Golden Gun” is even worse. “Die Another Day” at least had a good box office return and Berry and Pike play strong female characters. On the other hand, “Man With The Golden Gun” had a dismal return coupled with an unimaginative storyline involving solar panels and insulting portrayals of women such as Mary Goodnight. I picked economics, gender norms and artistic trends as my three PERSIA factors. Therefore, as a fellow film historian, I submit that “Die Another Day” is the second worst canonical Bond film because based on my thesis, “Die Another Day” has between one to two of its three PERSIA factors at an all time low. “Man With The Golden Gun” has all three factors at their worst. Anyhow, I thought you’d be interested in my interpretation. I LOVE your series. I’m looking into teaching my students how to submit their narratives and research on RU-vid for next year.

Yay, new vid 😍😍

Would love more of these even the connery films! Die another day is a gulity pleasure for me. It was the first Bond movie I saw in theaters. Now I see the flaws in it but I still have a soft spot for it.

Let's face it - this is the video we were all waiting for!

I feel like this movie was trying to target a younger audience, and just like Batman and Robin may have been filmed more for the sake of the studio cashing in on the merchandising such as selling toys to kids than to craft a good 007 film.

I was waiting for this

"Even the worst James Bond movies are still kinda good when you get down to it." Spoken like a true Bond fan 🙂

If it didn't have Rosamund Pike and Halle Berry in it there would be no reason to ever see this. And, as much as I like Halle Berry, she's upstaged by the amazingly gorgeous Rosamund Pike, who, even years later, can get away with wearing almost no makeup. Yeah, I think Halle Berry is a better actor, I just can't get over how amazing Rosamund is even without a filter of movie magic.

Says that at 19 he enjoyed the film and the top two reasons was the Bond girls and their respective actresses. Checks out.

I loved this movie as a kid and still love it even though I see the campy aspects now. The lowest point in the bond franchise is easily quantum of solace.

Bond at his smoothest. 🍸

I will admit one thing I love about this film was that someone had the balls to actually try to adapt the novel Moonraker.

Admittedly I haven't watched this in a while, but I remember really enjoying Die Another Day. Really had no idea there was so much hate on it!

just a remake of diamonds are forever

Man, I started with A View to a Kill, and now I'm here 3 hours later......damn you JoBlo !!!

One of the best Bond movies

I'm loving this series, hilarious! Very informative too. Die Another Day is my guilty pleasure.

Theres a clip from the 007 documentary "Everything or Nothing" where Pierce cracks up about the tsunami kite surfing. It's quite funny.

Best Bond Analysis. Drop some of the PC shit & we're gold.

at that point it became a parody of itself... thank god they realised that.

I love Pierce as James Bond 👍👍 When you have fun watching and time fly, than its a good movie 🎬

It isn't as bad as people make it out to be. The first half of the movie is legit great, but once it goes to the ice palace it starts to fall apart. The car chase on the ice is a great scene though, and the melting palace is an impressive set piece

This movie is my ultimate so-bad-it's-amazing guilty pleasure.

Very nice soundtrack you have for the youtube video that plays throughout the video and during the last 20 seconds of the youtube video.

The first 30 mins or so when Bond is captured is totally brilliant. Right up to and including the scene where he's shaving in a hotel room, this movie was brilliant. Some of the best moments of any Bond film period. Bond captured and disavowed was something I'd been wanting to see for as long as I've seen any incarnation of Bond. This part of the movie was awesome. Fight me. :) I also really loved the "Q" stuff. I've said elsewhere that for a decade or so before they used Cleese, I said Cleese would make a great Q if Desmond ever stepped down. Then they finally did it. he was goofy as "R" in TWINE, but in DAD, he was great. Then they rebooted things and lost the character, that sucked. But the VR thing was fun as hell - I can easily see Q using a VR simulation as training at this point in time. It also explained the "Bullet Time" remark you made. I didn't see a problem with that use at all, as it was exiting the simulation. Also, that simulation was only the second time we saw Bond's actual office at MI6 - the other being OHMSS. BUT, a couple of things I loved here were all the references scattered throughout to all the other Bond films - most are small easter eggs (Octopussy plane), but some are in your face (Halle's Andress bikini thing). Those were fun. It was also the first Bond movie to advance the plot in the titles. One of the most fun scenes was towards the end when Moneypenny was busted in the VR unit fantasizing about having sex with Bond in there. On first view, I thought "What are you guys doing? You can't ACTUALLY do that with Moneypenny and Bond", and then the VR simulator angle of that made me laugh big time. As for this being the worst of the franchise - I can't agree with that. Moonraker takes that title. Although the two share the "top of the peak for Bond swinging to the silly side of things" for sure. Is it great? Heck no. But there's a lot in this I liked - I do enjoy DAD more than most.

My girlfriend and I literally walked out of the theater halfway through this turkey. And we were drunk!

Great video series!

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Oh gods, I clearly remember my when this movie came out. My laid back, funny, comic book geek uncle lost it over this movie. Little did I know (at the time) he was also a HUGE James Bond fan. We rented this film when we visited for Thanksgiving, and his reaction afterwards was priceless. I will never forget the look of disappointed disgust on his face. It became, "the movie that shall not be named." 😂

Really looking forward to your take on Casino Royal 😃

Pierce Brosnan was never the problem in his movies. The biggest issues were at the script level. But everything Madonna, bad CGI, a lame villian, and invisible cars are the most memorable. I did like Bond getting caught and tortured. It mixed things up. If an angry Bond quit and went on a mission of revenge against his captors it could have been something different, memorable, unique & interesting. Even if that's a bad idea, almost anything would have been better than this movie.

"racist" "sexist" chill with the progressive terms. Replacing actors isn't "muh racist" ffs

I actually love that movie, that was my introduction to the James Bond franchise

I wish these videos would be an hour long🥰🥰

I was twelve when I first saw this. And I used to love it

Thanks for making me look up and learn the word "NADIR".

As a Bond fan let me just say, I've really enjoyed these vids. Looking forward to ur thoughts on the Craig films

Very good film review sir,I completely agree with your entire review.Haven't watched any of the Pierce Brosnan's Bond films in years,will have another go at them tho,have to find the dvds on the cheap.Does anyone know when the latest Bond film is being released????

This one is the first James Bond film I have ever watched!!! I just remembered 🤣

Funny thing... Toby Stevens is actually a very good Bond. I regularly listen to Bond radio dramas as ambience and he's fantastic as 007

Brosnan said at the James Bond Bafta tribute that they had asked him to another & he had said 'yes'. Read he was later told over the phone he would not be returning.

I love The Matador!

The opening scene is great with the hovercrafts!

Fun fact: My friend briefly worked on the Ice Palace set and made one of the ice chairs out of resin. Apparently he did a shoddy job and it wasn't very stable.

Not a sjw by any mean, but halle Berry deserved to get her own spy movie. She proved she could kick all kind of asses in john wick, imagine in her prime.

I'm gonna be honest, I really enjoyed the movie (and still do). Sure, it's it's really bad in places and it can make you cringe at times, but it's also over-the-top and a lot of fun to watch too. So if you're looking for a Bond movie that doesn't take itself too serious and something you can poke fun at in the process, this is your best bet IMO.

Always liked the over the top vibe of the movie. And I also love the car duel.

In the behind the scenes, Barbara Brocoli was told by her father to not mess up the franchise. Probably why they put the series on hold until Casino Royale to fix things up.

unpopular take, I liked Moonraker. Maybe because it was one of the first ones I ever saw so the nostalgia over wins out, but I just rewatched it and still dig it

His best 'Bond' movie was The Fourth Protocol. Brilliant.

DIE ANOTHER DAY was the 1st JAMES BOND movie I ever saw on DVD and the 1st I ever bought and led me to buy TOMORROW NEVER DIES & THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH

I realize I’m in the minority, here, but this is my second favorite Brosnan Bond film. Reminds me of a throwback to the Moore era. If anything, I thought Jinx was the low point. Great video, as always!

I'd add a few things to the good list, mostly from earlier in the movie. The opening theme is off but I remember being impressed by the fire and ice dancers in the opening credits (one context in which effects can be lacking in realism). Also, the way M relates to Bond when he comes back (saying he should have taken his suicide pill) is super cold. Indeed, the fact that Bond got caught was a huge shock at the time, and the grittiness of it presaged things to come in future movies.

Pierce really should of started his career with The Living Daylights. Just imagine him in a License to Kill type movie, which I think is the direction they were going in the first half of the film, which admittedly is pretty good

16:37 As a James Bond nerd, I never noticed this scar on Bond's back before. Potentially from his FYEO when Bond is injured while being dragged across a coral reef???

I enjoyed it because it was a love letter to the entire franchise. Alot of nostalgic bits to find...

That multi screen, camera combination surface on a car has fired up a lot of Engineers imaginations & to me was the highlight of the film. The New invisible Man movie was just like that but in prototype form.

You were definitely right about the 2 Bond girls in this movie. Halle Berry in that bikini was the high point of the movie, unfortunately.

Toby Stephens knew exactly what kind of movie he was in.