"This guy has a bunch of diamonds stuck in his face." "Ok, I feel like those would be incredibly easy to remove." Oh, producer guy! Don't you know that... Diamonds Are Forever!?
"I guess I was saved by the bell" "Who was he talking to?" "Unclear." Some of us have no friends and have to say these things to ourselves for entertainment. 😭😂
Yeah, I always hear people complain about how characters in movies or on tv shows talk to themselves, and it's like... I do that all the time. I assumed that's pretty common. I find it weird that other people find it weird.
@@SchulzEricT I like to imagine my life to be a show for aliens or some higher beings so I like to deliver some punch lines or puns whenever something bad or difficult to deal with happens so they don't get bored
@@SchulzEricT I grew up watching Bond movies, The Truman Show, watched the very first seasons of Big Brother... But for some reason talking to yourself, and feeling like you're being watched all the time are still considered to be weird, even though my generation was exposed to that idea constantly.
The joke would be that Bond is captured and tortured at start, then it goes into the usual trippy title sequence over a Madonna number, @@FirestormX9. If the music were diegetic, it'd imply that her music is part of the torture.
Though that wardrobe is an homage to what Honey Ryder wore. Granted she was an exceptionally capable person (not just a normal civilian) but she wasn't a secret agent. The knife was for hunting purposes, right? Also probably doubled as a self-defense implement.
The sad thing is, Die Another Day started off with a lot of potential. James Bond being captured and exchanged, having to escape MI6, and going rogue to clear his name could've made for a really cool movie. But then it just devolved into... well, you know.
My thoughts exactly. At the start of the pitch meeting I thought, “hey this seems like a cool movie.” By the end it was like, “this seems like a cool movie for all the wrong reasons.”
To be fair, this movie simultaneously foreshadows that it would be crap by opening with an especially crappy Madonna song after Bond's rather BS capture in the prologue. Also to be fair, _Die Another Day_ is hardly the only story to implement a decent idea (extremely) poorly. I'm not saying you were saying it was, but I've seen *way* too many people try to use "this piece of media had a decent idea" as an excuse to defend subpar pieces of media. Oh well. Maybe another movie will use that idea far better another day since _Die Another Day_ sure as hell didn't.
"Because his heart isn't pumping blood through his body, he has the element of surprise." "That's.......okay." I had to stop the video here and recover.
Wait he escapes from MI6 almost instantly but was stuck in an NK prison for 14 months? Oh, inconsistent prison escaping abilities that scale inversely to the technology involved are tight!
I mean, this is not that far-fetched (in the bizarre context of the movie I mean). In North Korea, he had a lot of armed guards that would not hesitate to shout him on sight if he fled, he is constantly watched and tortured, and a whole over-militarised hostile country around him anyway if he managed to escape the bunker-prison. The MI6, on the other hand, think he is done for and broken since he started leaking info, so they have him lightly guarded, those guarding him have no weapon (they don't consider he will be hostile) and are more here to heal him than to keep him locked, and they keep him on a fairly small boat at swimming distance of a friendly place. The incoherence is more that the MI6 is behaving stupidly by thinking that their most dangerous 00 agent is now broken and useless (just because they think he started talking after 14 months of constant torture... even if it were true, cut him some slack!), therefore allowing for an easy escape, than James Bond being able to escape.
The opening to Die Another Day was amazing. Sets up would looked like it could be Brosnan’s best film yet. Great action, great set up……………..and then it’s like a 10 year old took over and made the rest of the film
Maybe early Sean Connery movies aside (and Dalton's), campy, over-the-top, and unpretentious fun is a James Bond tradition. Daniel Craig's era ruined that.
@@dr.juerdotitsgo5119 next one will have a tough time. Craig was a good realistic bond, others were illogical over the top bonds. Connery was the best, idk what will they do next, DC has retired from the franchise.
"Yeah, you know, just some light breaking and entering to have intercourse on some blood diamonds. It's very romantic." Hahaha, Ryan continues to give us gold with this series.
Yeah, the writers do seem to expect people to gobble up their nonsense without question. How dare you ask questions!? Shut your brain off like everyone else and get off my back!
"Ohhh where's that ice palace?" "In Iceland." "Don't you mean Greenland?" "Ice isn't green ya silly producer." "Well yes it's not but--" "Unless your freezing kale or green jalapeno peppers which I would just _not_ recommend at all!" "I mean you're not wrong but you do realize that Iceland isn't--" "So anyways--" _"Okay then."_
In all seriousness, I check every night when I get home from work for a new Pitch Meeting, and it's always the highlight of my day when the new one arrives.
“No, they just drove jeeps right across the minefield” 🤣🤣🤣 I will never be able to watch the beginning scene of Die Another Day again without thinking about that!!! 👍
The trades were being made in the de-militarised zone, and he was fleeing back to the north when Bond was chasing him, so I assume that he was in northern territory when he 'died'.
Well, it's not because there's a minefield that there can't also be a road that leads to the same place. Nothing inconsistent here. The mines ''guard'' the open fields, leaving only a narrow road to defend. It makes perfect sense. It's not like the camp would be COMPLETELY boxed in with mines. They still have to use trucks too at some point.
My wife and I both do that when we either don't have an answer for something or something doesn't make sense. It fits a surprisingly large number of situations.
I love how excited and totally amazed Producer guy gets whenever the name of the movie is said in the movie *OR* when there's a returning character and *"He's from the other movie!"*, and each time it's like the best idea he's ever heard.
@@jonathanallard2128 No, it's not quite that simple. After all, why are we hating on it if the public simply loves it? Are we just strange? No. (Well I am, but that's separate.) Part of the public loves it, enough to sell it. And because it's a cheap trick, it doesn't take as much love to justify its cost. So why do we and so many others dislike it? Because it's over-used. The first time we saw it, we were young and easily amused. The third time, it was eh. The eighth time, we started to feel like victims of a cheap marketing strategy.
@@TheReaverOfDarkness I'm sure that we are a minority, us who are critical of movie scripts, yes. You don't have to be strange to be a minority at something. The public does like, or at the very least, they don't mind of these tropes, in GENERAL.
You really nailed the differences in tone and reflection this time. Extremely well done. One overly optimistic and one just barely skeptical before pleasantly accepting the pitch. Now this is a winning combination.
I'm pretty sure the parts of the nervous system that control the heart are mostly separate. You can't think yourself into a cardiac arrest through prolonged stress might start to affect your health in other ways that lead to a cardiac arrest.
@@utkarsh2746 The heart literally beats on it's own. The brain only controls various molecular signals that will slow the heart down or speed it up. Makes sense that evolution wouldn't allow a living creature to willingly manipulate it's own heartbeats.
It's been a while since I've seen Die Another Day so I thought maybe Ryan got some detail wrong about Bond faking cardiac arrest (I've seen guys use a squash ball under the armpit which blocks the artery that's used to take a pulse reading, so I thought Bond did something like that) so I loaded up the scene and sure enough Bond wills himself into cardiac arrest. This movie is worse than I remember it being, which isn't saying much because I didn't think it was that great to begin with. Except for Rosamund Pike, she's just lovely.
You know, when you think about it, the electrocute-self button must have had a lot of engineering put into it. Like, the user pressing it would obviously just electrocute themselves, but the button and surrounding area must have been made of rubber or something non-conductive, because Bond could press it safely. It makes me wonder who built the suit, and if Graves even knew that button was there. Well, I guess we need a Rogue One-style spin off to explain who built that obviously fatal flaw into the suit. Sorry Hollywood, it's the only way.
"I guess I was saved by the bell" "Who was he talking to?" "Unclear." To be honest I totally get that. If I'm alone and I think of something funny to say, I'll still say it. I talk to myself quite a lot. It's sorta like the steam vent on a saucepan. I talk a lot when I'm with people, when I'm by myself I still have to vent that stuff so I talk to myself.
"Because his heart isn't pumping blood through his body, he has the element of surprise." Pretty sure the writer wrote this after having cardiac arrest, because a good chunk of his brain must've died from oxygen deprivation
4:50 The story of the newly British North Korean guy seems like a very interesting story! I'd honestly love that as a spinoff, maybe even more than the Bond movie itself 😂
I can't stop wondering what the hell the real writer thought that moment was meant to symbolize. Like, don't get me wrong, Sun Tzu's The Art of War remains shockingly relevant to this day, thousands of years after it was written. But I can't really think of a single observation from the book, or an overarching theme of her character that connect in any way that would make a knife getting stabbed through it and her actually mean anything. But the pitch meeting is right, they clearly meant it to symbolize something, maybe, I guess. *shrug*
@@rakkasaniron1696 You're looking into it too deeply. Sun Tzu always stated the obvious, such as not letting a book stop you from stabbing your opponent or something.
The only realistic part of this movie and the only science they got even remotely right is that drowning in ice cold water does make it slightly more survivable than a regular water drowning. It’s usually more effective on kids though.
Though that wardrobe choice is an homage to what Honey Ryder wore. Granted she was an exceptionally capable person (not just a normal civilian) but she wasn't a secret agent. The knife was for hunting & shucking purposes, wasn't it? Also probably doubled as a self-defense implement.
"And they hook up several seconds after meeting..." Producer, in every other movie pitch: "Why would two strangers do that so quickly?" Producer, for a Bond movie: yep, that tracks
Yeah, I mean... it's James Bond. Hot chicks who want to do him just spontaneously materialise wherever he goes. There's no use questioning it at this point.
@@Chuck_EL "As someone who's dated since I was a teen" so you're just introducing yourself as someone who is like the vast majority of people on this planet then...
“…And put a button for that function on the outside of the suit where either his enemy or himself could easily hit it accidentally during a fight?” “VERY unclear!”
How have you not done Moonraker yet?! “You know Star Wars?” “Oh sure, I know Star Wars, it made a lot of money” “Yeah so I was thinking we could do.. you know, that”
I think it went something like this: PRODUCER: What should we do for our next Bond movie? WRITER: Remember "The Spy Who Loved Me"? PRODUCER: You mean the Bond movie we just made that earned more money than all previous Bond films combined? WRITER: Yeah. Let's just do that. Again. Only with space shuttles instead of submarines. PRODUCER: Replacing submarines with space shuttles is tight!
Ryan- “The newly Transformed British North Korean fencing champion who was recently knighted is now dressed like a power ranger who can electrocute people while being unharmed.” WELL OKAY THEN!
I read that the greatest artistic geniuses throughout history have all followed a similar path: a period of wild experimentation followed by years-long commitment to perfecting one specific style. I immediately thought “Oh, like Pitch Meetings.”
"He thinks himself into cardiac arrest. Then when they least suspect it, he strikes." "He strikes while his heart is not working?" "See, I read that ninjas can do that, so I decided James Bond can do it, too." "How do ninjas do it?" "Oh, I did zero research on it. But it sounded cool, so now James Bond can do it. Then he sees a pretty girl, so he says 'thanks for the kiss of life.' " "So he's still James Bond, but he's also a ninja?" "That's right. He's still James Bond, but he's also going to be Hokage." "He's going to be what?" "It's something ninjas say."
Every time a Pitch Meeting comes out for a movie I haven't seen I quickly go watch it, so I can fully appreciate all the work screenwriter guy has put into his pitch.
I LOVE Pierce Brosnan's Bond movies, but Die Another Day was too much for me 😂😂 it was too ridiculous. Please do Tomorrow Never Dies. That is my most favorite bond movie ever.
@kabouterwesley84 imo honest trailers has higher highs but also lower lows. I also like longer videos so watch honest trailer commentaries which helps my enjoyment, while there is no pitch meeting equivalent.
I was a kid when I first saw this movie, and even then I was confused how he managed to stop his heart and be totally fine. If even a child can't suspend their disbelief for your movie, you've really done something wrong.
Logical inconsistencies aside I absolutely LOVE the intro and first act of this movie. It blew my mind to think how Bond could be captured and lose a year of his life in that place. Then he has to escape his own agency. He has to go to Cuba to meet up with a cold-war contact. It is gritty and Bond at his best. And face-diamonds was more unique than most of the relatable bad-guys of late (russian officers, a drug lord, more russians and a media mogul - Renard could have been amazing but they forgot about his power). Then there's a light mask and it all starts falling apart. Don't even talk about the suit. We dont talk about the suit.
Gustav: Time to face destiny! Bond: Time to face gravity! Gustav gets sucked into plane turbine. That. That right there was a top shelf Bond quip. One of my favorites. Good job Writer Guy.
Also my favourite. Instead of Bond being invincible all the time he was in prison & badly treated, which was a nice change of pace. Of course things improved for him with Jinx getting the thrust of it.
2:12-2:15 Yup.....a perfect expression for this entire movie. Thanks for doing an older Bond movie! Do more!! I'm certain there is _plenty_ of material to work with!! O_o
Absolutely your best James Bond pitch meeting. Wow wow wow! Hilarious. I had to be taken to the emergency room because I laughed so hard but it was certainly worth it! LOL.
Brosnan had the cool, sophisticated agent down like no other. Craig is way closer to the original Bond of the books. Less suave and more psycho. Both good actors, just different writing and approaches.
Leaving the video you are currently watching immediately when you get the notification for a new pitch meeting video is super easy, barely an inconvenience!
