To all 007 fans on the board, what did you think of the 20th Bond film "Die Another Day". I saw it at the cinema way back in January and have to say I was pretty impressed by it and thought it was the best I've seen since "GoldenEye". Brosnan I think gave probably his best performance as Bond and it also had one of the better villains in recent times with Toby Stephens sneering maniacally as evil diamond brocker Gustav Graves who was a sort of hybrid of Max Zorin and Hugo Drax. It also showcased two tasty pieces of kit in Halle Berry and Rosamond Pike.
There were little tweaks with the formulae which I think mostly worked. Most effective was the title sequence which for the first time in the series showed scenes which actually futher the plot as we witness Bond's torture at the hands of North Koreans, where he is stung with scorpions repeatedly and also beaten and dunked in water head-first for 14 f*cking months! Also new techniques used were the extensive slow motion and speed up scenes which are used in most modern day action films. I think this was actually a good idea as the Bonds are always known for their innovation and for being up to date etc and I think this was a good idea to introduce this into the series whilst established Bond, Pierce Brosnan is still in the role as it won't look quite as outlandish when a new actor takes over.
One thing I did however have a problem with was the extensive and actually embarrassingly poor CGI effects used throughout the film. The worst scenes that I can think were (1) the bit where Halle Berry evades capture by jumping off a wall and landing into really badly digitally created waterfall/river and (2) the so bad it was really laughable effect of bond using a surf board with parachute to escape the cresendo of water coming his way in Iceland when Graves deploys the satelite weapon Icarus to melt the ice: it looks like a playstation one screenshot of Bond on his surfboard, so phony, that you expect a "please load memory card for next level" message to appear on the screen. You expect those kind of bad effects in an sci-fi porn film not a $90 million dollar budget Hollywood movie.
That aside I thought the film was quite good and am glad that Brosnan will be doing one more in 2005 which will probably be his last as he will be into his 50's by then. Unless he wants to go the Roger Moore route and make them till he is 57. LOL I liked Moore as Bond and is probably my favourite, as I grew up with him in the role, but he was really past it by "A View To A Kill".
Who would you like to see take over from Brosnan?
Peace
MMCK
There were little tweaks with the formulae which I think mostly worked. Most effective was the title sequence which for the first time in the series showed scenes which actually futher the plot as we witness Bond's torture at the hands of North Koreans, where he is stung with scorpions repeatedly and also beaten and dunked in water head-first for 14 f*cking months! Also new techniques used were the extensive slow motion and speed up scenes which are used in most modern day action films. I think this was actually a good idea as the Bonds are always known for their innovation and for being up to date etc and I think this was a good idea to introduce this into the series whilst established Bond, Pierce Brosnan is still in the role as it won't look quite as outlandish when a new actor takes over.
One thing I did however have a problem with was the extensive and actually embarrassingly poor CGI effects used throughout the film. The worst scenes that I can think were (1) the bit where Halle Berry evades capture by jumping off a wall and landing into really badly digitally created waterfall/river and (2) the so bad it was really laughable effect of bond using a surf board with parachute to escape the cresendo of water coming his way in Iceland when Graves deploys the satelite weapon Icarus to melt the ice: it looks like a playstation one screenshot of Bond on his surfboard, so phony, that you expect a "please load memory card for next level" message to appear on the screen. You expect those kind of bad effects in an sci-fi porn film not a $90 million dollar budget Hollywood movie.
That aside I thought the film was quite good and am glad that Brosnan will be doing one more in 2005 which will probably be his last as he will be into his 50's by then. Unless he wants to go the Roger Moore route and make them till he is 57. LOL I liked Moore as Bond and is probably my favourite, as I grew up with him in the role, but he was really past it by "A View To A Kill".
Who would you like to see take over from Brosnan?
Peace
MMCK
