The Film That Almost Ruined James Bond? - 007 Die Another Day - Movie Review 

Yeah, I think that with the same script it would not have saved the movie from the criticism received, but I do think that it might’ve helped it have a more grounded feeling in reality after the changes that 9/11 made to the entertainment industry and peoples understanding of governments and military, etc. I’m not sure what you would do about the Icarus space laser, though. No matter what that’s kind of out there for the time.

Ummm The World Is Not Enough was pretty out there

Yeah time really flies. Feels like it was maybe 10 years ago to me.

Same! It's a shame Brosnan gets a bad rap just because of 1 movie. People act like the rest of them were bad because of this one. I've heard people even say GoldenEye is his only good film. I just don't get it!

​@@hughmunguss5338Do people discount Tomorrow Never Dies too? I always found TND to be almost up there with Goldeneye. TWINE is still pretty good but is definitely the lesser of the first three movies.

@@DonGEX A lot of people dog on TND still. They say it's just such a step down from GoldenEye. It gets the sort of treatment that Spectre gets after Skyfall. You follow up such an amazing movie and people are way more critical of it.

Same I don't get notifications for them even.

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Tomorrow never dies is one of the best out there I think. I actually thought it was on the same level as GoldenEye. It made me happy Jay liked it so much. People shouldn’t laugh at other fans for having preferences anyways.

@@connieliquorson4368 Yeah its so weird to me people throw the other Brosnan Bonds out the window because they don't like Die Another Day.

People shouldn’t be making fun of an opinion like that anyway. I think that all of Brosnan‘s movies are really fun.

@@DegenerateJay agree.

Hell yes to Tomorrow Never Dies! Such a great time and yet so underrapreciated....

I also think a lot of people forget that it was super profitable. It got a bad reaction but it made tons of money. People act like this movie was going to get James Bond canceled but I really don’t agree with that sentiment. Also, it was not the first bond movie to disappoint a lot of people. For some reason Pierce just gets Completely lambasted for being tied to this movie when he showed up, did his job, well, and a lot of people found the movie fun.

The golden age of James Bond video games right there. We had Agent Under Fire, Nightfire and even Everything or Nothing. Really miss that.

@@connieliquorson4368 I miss those days. Me and my cousins played the crap out of Nightfire's multiplayer, especially the skyrail map.

@@micpere1991 I am getting hit with a wave of nostalgia just talking about it. I remember I used to practice on one of those games with bots and I thought it was so cool that you could play the multiplayer even if you didn’t have anyone over.

@@connieliquorson4368 the bot ai customization was robust for it's time, especially since it was a console game.

Playing local multiplayer back in those days were a treat. Oddjob will forever be banned from play in Goldeneye

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That’s true. I thought the surfing idea was cool/fun but then once he comes onto the land, it looks like he’s standing in front of a green screen instead of actually in a environment. And there’s a lot of places like that in the movie which I would argue the previous three films did not really have that problem. I think that when making this movie they were way too enamored with CGI and the ability to mess with effects.

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I remember having the DVD with the really cheesy cover on it of jinx and bond, standing, pointing a gun at the person holding the case lol. But yeah, I really enjoy the movie still.

@@DegenerateJay i can agree with that and same here as well I remember that too.

There's a lot of things I do like. I think it's a shame that, regardless of peoples opinions, Pierce Brosnan was treated so poorly after this movie and people act like his other films weren't fun or good because of their opinions on this one. That's something I'll never understand.

@@DegenerateJay thats ok for me it was pierce that got me in 007 thanks to his video game for the N64. without him i would not got into the bond franchise.

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Same! I’m really hoping we see more of that in the near future when it’s further along!

@DegenerateJay nice. Also as a request can you start putting the background music you use in the description please.

Yeah I think I enjoyed it way more than I did when I was younger, but it's definitely a mixed bag. It's a shame Jinx was ramrodded into the story because that definitely just added to the issues of the movie :/

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Top gear proved it would work can't remb if it was quite the same as this but I recall being shocked such thing was actually possible

That’s the thing - even with its problems, I personally think it’s still really fun and enjoyable. It kind of feels like watching an action video game at times. And there’s a lot of really cool scenes in it, and I think even people who don’t like the movie appreciate a lot of the good scenes.

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​​​@@sethdavis459 After Skyfall, arguably earlier, I think the franchise really lost its way and forgot what Bond movies were supposed to be about: enjoyable escapism with a near-unflappable hero. I dislike what might be described as the 'character development' Bond underwent during the Craig years; and the films themselves became far too sentimental. Killing him off was the final straw. I now consider Die Another Day to be the final Bond film. The producers would find it hard to convince me to part with my money to see a new 'Bond' film at the cinema in the way that I did for every film from Goldeneye to No Time to Die.

@@sethdavis459 Yes, it's a matter of opinion, of course. I do think it's pretty abysmal. Yes, I certainly hope so, though I've certainly lost confidence in them.

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That’s actually pretty funny, and I know this is going to be a super unpopular take, but I actually really enjoyed Star Trek nemesis lol. And I was a huge fan of the TNG generation, so I wasn’t like a casual fan or anything, I think I was just in the minority. I do know it has a lot of problems though. I think it would’ve probably been better if Jonathan Frakes had directed it, even if it had a similar story, I think he could’ve given it more heart.

@@DegenerateJayimo I wish both Brosnan and the Enterprise E crew had one more movie in their franchise

@@DegenerateJayalso I do really enjoy this fan my only nit pick about it is there’s no real interaction between Bond and Moneypenny they only see each other in VR

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You escaped this time

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@@sethdavis459 nope! The whole set up of the Bond girl being Moneypenny at the end was ridiculous. Bond spent so long with her out in the field and yet he didn’t know her full name till she told him at the end of the film? Seriously? Would have much rather had John Cleese return as Q (or R) than what we got - a stereotypical portrayal of a young geeky computer nerd who looks about 12 years old! I thought Bardem with his highlighted blonde hair was a ridiculous villain and his motive to get revenge on M, years later after what she did to him, seemed too long a gap to be believable. The ending was, as others have noted, reminiscent of Home Alone and since when did Bond inherit a stately home? This film (and CR) mentioned he was an orphan, so why couldn’t the script writers have had Skyfall be the children’s home he spent his years at, after the death of his parents? That would have been much more believable. I also don’t get why they killed M off. Silva killing her (via the attack on Skyfall) means that he ends up getting what he initially set out to do (even if he didn’t live to see her die) and Bond ends up failing in his mission to protect her! It would have been better for M to have survived Skyfall and simply retire at the end of the film, paving the way for Mallory to take over. I also didn’t think the action sequences were anything new or special. The only thing I really liked (and it was a good nod back to Fleming) was the villain’s deformity (something which I could see Fleming coming up with had he lived to write more Bond books.) I will say that Skyfall is 2nd best to Casino Royale, followed by SPECTRE and then NTTD, with QoS bringing up the rear, but the last three are so much of a muchness for me, that what I think it’s shown is that without the blueprint of a Fleming novel to go by (or taking elements from different Fleming novels), the script writers and the producers cannot come up with enough essence of Fleming to do the Bond character justice. CR was superb in its updated adaption and I would have loved had they followed it up with more updated versions of Fleming’s novels, beginning with LALD, but that would have needed each film to have been released every two years, and Craig’s age would have been against him completing the full 11 novels. Had the producers gone with Campbell’s choice of Henry Cavill as Bond, aged 23 at the time, he could have achieved that feat had he been up for it, but everything is in hindsight, isn’t it? Still, I have CR to watch again and again, and whilst I thought Craig did a good job in that film, he’ll never be Bond to me, and I feel Henry Cavill was a major missed opportunity.