I actually have a warm spot for this film because it was one of my mom's favorites and one of the last she watched before she passed away. (My parents took me to see James Bond films over and over growing up!) Objectively though,It's got lots of good moments and plenty of bad. I love the invisible car and the ice chase and I think that some of the action is terrific. I like the larger than life world in danger elements that some James Bond movies should definitely have. I also think the moment Bond walks into the hotel with his beard is one of Brosnans best as 007. But....it also has really bad writing,the series worst one liners and the single worst scene in any 007 adventure! (Of course that's the tidal wave surfing!) So is it his worst? Of course it is but it's still fun to watch!
Over the top rubbish all bond movies are fine at the start then unfold into unbelievable story lines contrived and obviously pre planned disjointed. Casino Royale worked the best as a whole as it flowed well as a whole.when they travel to other countries it can spoil the flow or story with elaborate gadgets and unrealistic stories/ bad guys .
I always enjoyed Bond movies growing up, I was born in 85 and Goldeneye N64 really brought me deep into the world so I was around 17 when DAO released and I went to go see it with another 007 fan and we were very disappointed. Now I find a lot of the movie enjoyable but back then my expectations were very high. Wish they would bring Dalton or Pierce back one last time as Old Man Bond like MGSV4 or Logan.
About the fencing scene: Oh, but Graves and Bond do know each other. Not only is Graves really Moon, he already has Frost on his payroll, so knows even more about Bond! The Graves offensive makes competitive sense to me.
This was my first ever bond movie. I thought this is how bond was. I could hardly watch Daniel Craig but now he is my favourite. Keep in mind I was in grade 4 when this movie came out.
The only Bond movie I should have walked out on.Should have went exit stage left when I saw the invisible car, but I stayed and tortured myself to the end.Pitifully painful to watch, a total bummer.
Madonna only agreed to do the title song if she could have a cameo role in it, and EON gave into her demands. The worst move ever. You could tell her that she can't act till you're blue the face and she still would believe her own hype.
This could have been Brosnans best Bond movie. The first 30 minutes of this film is really good with Bond being captured in the pre title sequence in North Korea and Bond being tortured in the opening credits with the music playing and the exchange of prisoners in the demilitarised zone, then like they say it goes down hill fast. Which is a shame because it could have been one of the best.
I remember not going to see James Bond DAD because they had become too campy. I loved when Timothy Dalton took over from Roger Moore. I actually enjoyed “The Living Daylights”. I had actually given up on Bond after “The Man with the Golden Gun” because they didn’t reflect the book character as envisioned by Fleming. Back to DAD, I actually was watching on TV and recording it and I loved the opening sequences up to the Hong Kong hotel...I couldn’t believe how good and how much fun it was and then feeling a new excitement. They then torpedo my excitement with the rest of the story and at that point I was tortured like Bond seemingly with my head in the toilet... the only difference is, I did it to myself by watching the rest of it to the end. I thank the producers of the Bourne series...although, again, not faithful to the books, for treating the character as real and capable. The events in our real world demanded a new seriousness and thankfully EON productions finally payed attention.
I like certain story elements of the World Is Not Enough over Tomorrow Never Dies however Tomorrow Never Dies has more of a Goldeneye vibe as it was only 2 years later from that masterpiece. We all just wanted a Goldeneye 2. Where they went with Pierce after that was downhill from there.
We got Casino Royale because of this movie, the only thing that bugs me is that Brosnan deserved atleast one more movie as 007 because he is my favorite bond and the one that I grew up on
I saw this again for the first time since seeing it in theaters a few months ago and I actually found it not as bad as I remember it. It's all fairly promising until the ice palace. Even then, the ice lake car chase is great. Heck, even the cringey dialogue with Jinx in Cuba isn't enough to sink the movie for me. Still, Brosnan's worst, though no fault of his own.
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I agree with everything that you guys say, Joe and David. On the other hand, in the same year the videogame 007: Nightfire was released and boy! I really wish that videogame was the movie intead of Die Another Day! It has a better story and it's better written in a BIG way! To be honest, I like to see Die Another Day just because of nostalgia. Back in the day, I lived incredible moments by watching the film with my cousins and after seeing the movie we played that we're MI6 agents hahaha! So, for that reason, sometimes I like to see it but it's not my "go to" Brosnan movie when I really want to see one of his. I tend to go to Goldeneye or The World is Not Enough. I send you my greetings! :D
Strange that David & Joe say that Bond and Graves are meeting for the first time in the fencing scene. They'd, of course, previously met when Graves was still Colonel Moon. And Graves/Moon was already contemptuous of Bond from that first meeting. The film is fascinating for its story of a fanatically anti-Western North Korean communist military leader who goes to the incredible extreme of changing his physical AND cultural identity, all for his monomaniacal goal of breeching the South Korean border. (And pleasing his father.) Will Yun Lee's performance as Moon in the pre-credits sequence is the foundation of the story. I love DIE ANOTHER DAY.
@@dylancooke8394 problem is that doesn't work with Brosnan world is not enough was the start of the end 🙈 ok film but golden eye smashes and tomorrow never dies.
Nice discussion guys. After feeling really positive after the darker opening, it went downhill from there. I literally laughed out loud in parts of this, and was willing for that laser to take out Jinx when she was trapped in the chair.🤭 I was so incensed, I wrote the first act of a potential screenplay for the following film, and posted it to Michael Wilson at Eon! It was returned to me via their lawyers in California.😬 Really sad end to Brosnan's tenure though.😔
Die another day is a entertaining film, and without surfing on a kite on a hurricane it wouldn’t be the worst! The beginning is good! My favorite from Brosnan is tomorrow never die, I love goldeneye too
Listening to David and it's like our Bond evolution was similar. There was a documentary I think called Being Bond and they interviewed the producers and they knew that the story was going to be an issue in a post 911 world that was a little bit darker. I swear they got the set designers from whoever designed the Beaches Resorts, everything looked like a bright facade and could have been done so much better. The one thing I was hoping someone would bring up was Michael Madsen's character, he's with the CIA but bossing M16 around? I wanted to see Brosnan come back for one more to redeem himself but that just wasn't going to happen.
Die Another Day will always be the Batman and Robin (1997) of the James Bond franchise. It's absolute nonsense and not even entertaining nonsense - awful CGI, a pointless Madonna cameo, a terrible theme song, and atrocious dialogue that Halle Berry was mostly lumbered with. There's no redeeming qualities about it. It has zero atmosphere because so much of it was filmed in front of green screens. The only good thing you can say about it is that if it wasn't so awful we probably wouldn't have got the brilliant Casino Royale. Pierce Brosnan would've kept his job and the producers would've made another cartoonish entry.
Honestly, this film was my introduction to Bond growing up. Whilst I have a true soft spot for this movie and will never truly hate it I'll always appreciate the fact that it introduced me to a fantastic franchise. But for what it's worth, Casino Royale was the one that truly pulled me in as a fan.
I can't disagree with the assessment. The film was terrivly over the top. That said, I was and am still entertained by the film, whereas some of the others on the worst list do little for me. I loved the opening where Bond was captured and tortured. That gave him a feeling of reality never seen in a Bond film before or since. I'm amazed at my willingness to suspend disbelief in this film, especially with the over-the-top CGI. Nice review, Guys!
I believe the car chase scene between Bond and Zao was after the CGI wave scene.. not before, I think David got the scene order mixed up. I actually still don’t mind the whole ice palace part of the movie, I think that whole sequence is fun & enjoyable but the CGI wave was one step too far.. not to mention how bad it looks, even back in 2002 it didn’t look good.. because I remember my dad saying how fake it looked when we were driving back home after we left the cinema 😂 If you remove that CGI wave scene, maybe a couple of the cheesy one liners.. and change the plane sequence at the end.. I think it would have been a great Bond movie and one of the best in the franchise to be honest. Because everything else in my opinion is really good 👌🏽
Yes, I feel EON Productions and MGM should bring Back Lee Tamahori to direct one of the future James Bond movie. I hope he will bring back Tongue In Cheek Humor, Over-The-Top Escapism and amazing gadgets back to James Bond franchise which were missing throughout the Daniel Craig era. I would want the CGI Bullet to fly out during the Gunbarrel Sequence and if possible bring back Halle Berry's Jinx Character
Die Another Day lost me the second I saw that stupid bullet they put in coming *up* the gun barrel. Every second of the film after that was painful to endure.
Ilsa Faust [Rebecca Ferguson] in Mission Impossible Rouge Nation is what Jinx's should have been- a mysterious force who we are unsure we can trust but want to know more about. She works well in Fallout and I'm glad she's returning for the new films but it's a shame she hasn't had a spin off yet [and she's ex MI6 so there's room for Bond crossover!]. Jinx on the other hand comes across as really underwritten [as the spin off was meant to be a prequel], has to be rescued by Bond in Iceland, Hallie Berry is miscast and just doesn't make you want to see a whole movie with her.
David, great video... I agree with all your points. I think Pierce had probably the worst bond villains in all his films and I think that’s been the problems with his films... he is one of my favourite bonds however as he portrayed bond very well and the films were very entertaining at the time! Just one question, what is the lovely grey cardigan you are wearing? Very smart buddy! 👍👌
This movie is right up there with Moonraker and Octopussy as the worst Bond movies. "I'm Mr. Kill." -"Now there's a name to die for." Yuck. And the Michael Madsen character was awful.
It was great until Bond left for Cuba The minute Berry comes in it loses it very quickly. Bronsnan was great as Bond when the script was good, he was epic in the hotel scenes in HK. Just surfing Mr Chang is so cool. So is the suit with red tie scene when he gets told Zoo is in China. That is cool on Connery level. Shames PB didn't get that one definitive great Bond film. His best role is as Thomas Crown. He is brilliant in that film.
So, this film was first Bond I saw in cinema aged 11. I kind of liked it at the time but even then it seemed nowhere near Goldeneye or Tomorrow Never Dies, which I was practically brought up on. I rewatched this film for first time in probably 5 years last night and it's so frustrating! The pre-titles is decent and the first half is not bad at all. BUT it totally drops off a cliff about half way through. Halle Berry is so, so cringe, it's difficult to watch. The love scene after the beach in 'Cuba' is vomit-inducing. The invisible Vanquish is too far. Ice palace sequence is so bad. Climax on the aircraft is dull. End love scene is cringe beyond belief, just end the damn film already. Even Judi Dench is directed to be weird in this film, why does she HATE Bond so much? Definitely one of the worst in the series.
Well I'm going to be the odd one out here and say ...... I like this film sure it has some things that dont work. John Cleese as Q agree with what you guys said, the surfing scean I'll conceived and badly excited. I like the meeting of Bond and Jinx , there I sead it! The villain this character is reminiscent of Sir Hugo Drax from the Ian Flemming novel Moonraker , and I liked Tobey Steven's in this roll one of the best villains in my opinion. Love the Aston Martin chaise to. No I like the movie. Great work guys. Darren 🇬🇧
Alot of similar key points raised by HaphazardStuff about DAD as well. They could have explored the bearded 'broken' Bond alot more, but soon as he shaves off his beard, that all gets forgotten about very quickly. But Meh...it was Bond in the early 2000s. The era where there was alot of experimentation, and films seemed to just throw caution to the wind a bit.
I used to think that Moonraker was perhaps worse, but Moonraker had an excellent first half and didn't go off the rails until the middle of the second act. View to A Kill had Walken who was fun throughout, but DAD went off the rails before the basic plot even got underway.
Agree with Jinx and the bad dialogue. However, She did great in Executive Decision with Kurt Russell. Halle can handle the close ups, Eye candy and EON misused her IMHO.
It's his worst by a pretty wide margin. But the thing is, I also kind of understand where they were coming from. That whole period was kind of lost as far as films went, especially action films, after The Matrix and LOTR and the Star Wars prequels. CGI had reached that point like a lot of tech does where you could do it but nobody really understands how to do it yet and it's a mess for a while, which was the 2000s (don't get me started on Indiana Jones 4). Everyone thought they could wallpaper over no attempt at writing with CGI in a sort of Michael Bay-ification of the movie industry. It was a disaster and looking back you can see why people started to gravitate to the more low-key, on-the-ground more realistic stuff like Bourne and putting the heavy CGI in the more pure fantasy fare like Marvel where it fits better, while the stuff that tries to still merge realism and fantasy too much, like the recent attempts at Terminator, continue to bomb. It's sort of like my excuse for LTK: it tried too hard to keep up with its time and match what it saw as its competition instead of being true to itself. That's what made CR so good; it sort of upended and rebooted its own genre combining elements of where action and spy films were going while still being totally recognizable as Bond.
The opening gave me the impression is it was going to be a good film because it reminded me of of the beginning of Goldeneye. As the film progressed however it just got sillier and sillier. Bond films are supposed to be a little bit tongue and cheek but this movie hammed it up way too much for my liking.
It's a shame they didn't put more into the screenplay, because Die Another Day had the potential to be one of the better Bronsnan Bond films. The film just did not follow through with the promise from that fantastic opening teaser which lead to a bigger disappointment when it was finally over. I will admit, I did like Graves skydiving out of the plane to "London Calling" though.
I loved this movie at the time. It was 40 years of Bond and I was so excited to see it. Watching it today, it's a really bad film. I spent ages defending adaptive camouflage and it does exist, but an invisible car was a step too far for a Bond movie. The cgi surfing was not Bond, which always did their stunts live. As I said, loved the movie at the time but 17 years later it's a terrible movie. Rosamund Pike was very good and it was her first movie. She's gone on to do great films like Gone Girl.
I would love to have seen Brosnan or Dalton (in their prime) in the Casino Royal reboot. It's all about timing. After recently rewatching Dalton (Living Daylights) and Brosnan's TWINE...as much as I was excited about them both as 007, I think they were both too casual and more like male models and lacked dynamics and enthusiasm. Even as one dimensional as stone face, uncharismatic Craig is, at least he brings an intensity.
It has so many cringe moments (but they’re funny cringe moments) however it’s still a fun film. Halle Berry is poor but Pierce is doing his best. It does go south once it goes Ice Palace. Love the song too - it’s different.
I was it is the worst Bond movie on purpose. There are elements which I admire. I feel if they removed all of the silly elements, then this would not be the worst.
For me, this is a very watchable Bond. Probably a bottom third film for me. I tend to rank Bond films into three categories: Top Tier Cinema, Top Tier Bond, and Watchable Bond. Top Tier Cinema are the Bond films I think stand up as outstanding films in any genre, films like Golden Eye, From Russia with Love, Casino Royale. Top Tier Bond are films that stand out in the franchise, but not necessarily more widely. Films like Live and Let Die, Thunderball and World is not Enough. Everything else is Watchable! That's the great thing about this franchise, even the 'worst' films are still entertaining.
Agree with David 100%. The Aston Martin scene was fantastic. Idk if that stems from it being the first Bond movie with an Aston in it since Goldeneye, but that whole chase was great. Rest of the movie is soooo cringe-worthy. Especially now.
For me a fascinating question is how they could write something as dumb as DAD. Like Moonraker, it falls of a cliff half way through. This film was the first Bond that left me stone cold. Spectre is the second, I think it's the worst Bond with DAD a close second.
I just re-watched Die Another Day again for the first time since I saw it in theaters. I hated it when I saw it in the theater. GoldenEye was a Timothy Dalton movie that feels like it was meant for him. Tomorrow Never Dies feels like a video game, possibly after the success of GoldenEye N64. The World is Not Enough is probably the best for Pierce even though GoldenEye is usually considered to be better. Die Another Day feels like an updated Thunderball or a campy Roger Moore era Bond.
I have to chime in here and say I am not outraged with this assessment. 'I'm missed to kill, now there's a name to die for' is the singular worst line of dialogue in not just a Bond film, but ANY film. However, I cannot fault the ambition of DAD. Flipping an Aston Martin, driving it through an ice palace, invisible cars, perhaps the writers and producers can just be accused of having too much fun. PB
Die Another Day failed because it leapt 30years into the future with invisible cars, and being able to genetically alter you ethnicity. The bad CGI didn't help and the silly henchmen either. I'm Mr Kill Well that's a name to die for. I mean come on? I didn't like how they turned Pierce Brosnan into a Roger Moore type Bond because that belonged to Roger and he made it his own. Then there's Madonna . Who thought it was a good idea to have her in this? John Cleese being Basil Fawlty instead of Q and Halle Berrys Jinx who managed to survive a very high dive. It did give us talent to look out for like Rosamund Pike and Toby Stephens who are both great actors. This will get better as it gets older with the next generation of Bond fans because the technology will be more believable.
I think that this is by far Brosnan's worst, and for me it's one of the 3 worst official Bond movies of all time. I get that it was spectacular, but by this point in time, the budgets and technology and moviemaking techniques were so sophisticated that there really was no excuse to mess up a Bond movie so badly. They had the cream of talent available, and they created something so goofy and far-fetched that they disappeared up their own asses with their blend of CGI, celebrity, sponsorships and marketing opportunities they were working into their formula that it was just a bunch of crap.
His character sucked in this film compared to Goldeneye. He was terribly boring to watch. Pierce is a capable actor of delivering so it's not his fault at all.This script needed to be burned.
This film is top 5 worst but not the worst. Your review on this seemed pretty rushed, which is understandable. I'm surprised you didn't talk about the nods to all the prior Bond films.
Bond for a time was plausibly unrealistic. There came a time (during the Moore era) when suspension of disbelief just went out the window. There is a reason why Bond is now challenged and perhaps surpassed by franchises like Bourne and Mission Impossible; series that probably wouldn't even be in existence if there had never been a James Bond.
Sometimes subjective bias & personal preferences can adversely color what should be a more objective examination. For instance, "that couldn't happen" sentiment, for a fantasy film seems rather inappropriate. Fantasy films are not supposed to "get real" It's all about entertainment.
As I review the whole body of work that is cinema 007 Dr No to present, They've yet to match the gripping , shocking scenes of Connery and the tarantula or the "you've had your six" magic..
I disliked pierce's character in this film just like I did with Ford's Indy character in the Crystal Skull. How they managed to take characters that I love and make them boring and dull is beyond me. You just want to use that torch short round used in Indiana Jones Temple of Doom and wake these characters up.
This movie is two movies. The first half is great. Once Bond is headed to the ice palace it turns into the worst Bond film ever.
I actually have a warm spot for this film because it was one of my mom's favorites and one of the last she watched before she passed away.
(My parents took me to see James Bond films over and over growing up!)
Objectively though,It's got lots of good moments and plenty of bad.
I love the invisible car and the ice chase and I think that some of the action is terrific.
I like the larger than life world in danger elements that some James Bond movies should definitely have.
I also think the moment Bond walks into the hotel with his beard is one of Brosnans best as 007.
But....it also has really bad writing,the series worst one liners and the single worst scene in any 007 adventure!
(Of course that's the tidal wave surfing!)
So is it his worst?
Of course it is but it's still fun to watch!
Love it!
I Loved Die Another Day ! The Only thing I didn't like was the CGI surf surf off the cliff scene.
Same!
I like it I don't know why
@@senecastoictruths you should get help if you like this movie
I really enjoy the first half of the movie, it’s when Bond arrives in Iceland that the movie loses me.
Pretty much after he shaved his beard the whole North Korea POW timeframe just disappeared
The first 10 min was allmust good but then it gets awfull
Over the top rubbish all bond movies are fine at the start then unfold into unbelievable story lines contrived and obviously pre planned disjointed. Casino Royale worked the best as a whole as it flowed well as a whole.when they travel to other countries it can spoil the flow or story with elaborate gadgets and unrealistic stories/ bad guys .
Was my first Bond and I love it. Its schlock sure but its fun schlock. So much going on it never bores you. I'm 100% biased though. Nostalgia feels.
I always enjoyed Bond movies growing up, I was born in 85 and Goldeneye N64 really brought me deep into the world so I was around 17 when DAO released and I went to go see it with another 007 fan and we were very disappointed. Now I find a lot of the movie enjoyable but back then my expectations were very high. Wish they would bring Dalton or Pierce back one last time as Old Man Bond like MGSV4 or Logan.
About the fencing scene: Oh, but Graves and Bond do know each other. Not only is Graves really Moon, he already has Frost on his payroll, so knows even more about Bond! The Graves offensive makes competitive sense to me.
This was my first ever bond movie. I thought this is how bond was. I could hardly watch Daniel Craig but now he is my favourite. Keep in mind I was in grade 4 when this movie came out.
The only Bond movie I should have walked out on.Should have went exit stage left when I saw the invisible car, but I stayed and tortured myself to the end.Pitifully painful to watch, a total bummer.
Madonna only agreed to do the title song if she could have a cameo role in it, and EON gave into her demands. The worst move ever. You could tell her that she can't act till you're blue the face and she still would believe her own hype.
I love these discussions, please continue !!!
This could have been Brosnans best Bond movie. The first 30 minutes of this film is really good with Bond being captured in the pre title sequence in North Korea and Bond being tortured in the opening credits with the music playing and the exchange of prisoners in the demilitarised zone, then like they say it goes down hill fast. Which is a shame because it could have been one of the best.
I remember not going to see James Bond DAD because they had become too campy. I loved when Timothy Dalton took over from Roger Moore. I actually enjoyed “The Living Daylights”. I had actually given up on Bond after “The Man with the Golden Gun” because they didn’t reflect the book character as envisioned by Fleming. Back to DAD, I actually was watching on TV and recording it and I loved the opening sequences up to the Hong Kong hotel...I couldn’t believe how good and how much fun it was and then feeling a new excitement. They then torpedo my excitement with the rest of the story and at that point I was tortured like Bond seemingly with my head in the toilet... the only difference is, I did it to myself by watching the rest of it to the end. I thank the producers of the Bourne series...although, again, not faithful to the books, for treating the character as real and capable. The events in our real world demanded a new seriousness and thankfully EON productions finally payed attention.
I think Craig has been fantastic...and to think some purists said he couldn't be Bond because he's blonde! Most realistic bond ever I think.
@@ciananmacreamoinn9253 Most realistic Bond, and copied Austin Powers trope by being related to the villain LOL 😂😂😂😂
Goldeneye > World Is Not enough > Tomorrow Never Dies > Die Another Day
I like certain story elements of the World Is Not Enough over Tomorrow Never Dies however Tomorrow Never Dies has more of a Goldeneye vibe as it was only 2 years later from that masterpiece. We all just wanted a Goldeneye 2. Where they went with Pierce after that was downhill from there.
Correct. And on my total ranking: Goldeneye, #8, TWINE, #17, TND, #22, DAD #24
Agreed. The World is Not Enough is a pretty good Bond film that people forget.
YES!!!!!
Exactly!
You're right about the film two thirds through, sitting next to my brother in the cinema we exchanged a look at that point...
We got Casino Royale because of this movie, the only thing that bugs me is that Brosnan deserved atleast one more movie as 007 because he is my favorite bond and the one that I grew up on
I saw this again for the first time since seeing it in theaters a few months ago and I actually found it not as bad as I remember it. It's all fairly promising until the ice palace. Even then, the ice lake car chase is great. Heck, even the cringey dialogue with Jinx in Cuba isn't enough to sink the movie for me. Still, Brosnan's worst, though no fault of his own.
I would like to hear both of your opinions on every James Bond movie, including 'Never Say Never Again' and the original 'Casino Royale'.
Really enjoyed this talk, wish it was an hour longer!! lol
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I agree with everything that you guys say, Joe and David. On the other hand, in the same year the videogame 007: Nightfire was released and boy! I really wish that videogame was the movie intead of Die Another Day! It has a better story and it's better written in a BIG way! To be honest, I like to see Die Another Day just because of nostalgia. Back in the day, I lived incredible moments by watching the film with my cousins and after seeing the movie we played that we're MI6 agents hahaha! So, for that reason, sometimes I like to see it but it's not my "go to" Brosnan movie when I really want to see one of his. I tend to go to Goldeneye or The World is Not Enough. I send you my greetings! :D
Strange that David & Joe say that Bond and Graves are meeting for the first time in the fencing scene. They'd, of course, previously met when Graves was still Colonel Moon. And Graves/Moon was already contemptuous of Bond from that first meeting. The film is fascinating for its story of a fanatically anti-Western North Korean communist military leader who goes to the incredible extreme of changing his physical AND cultural identity, all for his monomaniacal goal of breeching the South Korean border. (And pleasing his father.) Will Yun Lee's performance as Moon in the pre-credits sequence is the foundation of the story.
I love DIE ANOTHER DAY.
You guys should now do a new debate series: "Is the 3rd Bond film their best?"
Great idea!!!!
Goldfinger , spy who loved me , world is not enough skyfall 👍
They did actually do this didn't they?
I'm sure they did this?
@@dylancooke8394 problem is that doesn't work with Brosnan world is not enough was the start of the end 🙈 ok film but golden eye smashes and tomorrow never dies.
Nice discussion guys. After feeling really positive after the darker opening, it went downhill from there. I literally laughed out loud in parts of this, and was willing for that laser to take out Jinx when she was trapped in the chair.🤭 I was so incensed, I wrote the first act of a potential screenplay for the following film, and posted it to Michael Wilson at Eon! It was returned to me via their lawyers in California.😬 Really sad end to Brosnan's tenure though.😔
Die another day is a entertaining film, and without surfing on a kite on a hurricane it wouldn’t be the worst! The beginning is good! My favorite from Brosnan is tomorrow never die, I love goldeneye too
He's a kite dancing in a hurricane.
Listening to David and it's like our Bond evolution was similar. There was a documentary I think called Being Bond and they interviewed the producers and they knew that the story was going to be an issue in a post 911 world that was a little bit darker. I swear they got the set designers from whoever designed the Beaches Resorts, everything looked like a bright facade and could have been done so much better. The one thing I was hoping someone would bring up was Michael Madsen's character, he's with the CIA but bossing M16 around? I wanted to see Brosnan come back for one more to redeem himself but that just wasn't going to happen.
Die Another Day will always be the Batman and Robin (1997) of the James Bond franchise. It's absolute nonsense and not even entertaining nonsense - awful CGI, a pointless Madonna cameo, a terrible theme song, and atrocious dialogue that Halle Berry was mostly lumbered with. There's no redeeming qualities about it. It has zero atmosphere because so much of it was filmed in front of green screens.
The only good thing you can say about it is that if it wasn't so awful we probably wouldn't have got the brilliant Casino Royale. Pierce Brosnan would've kept his job and the producers would've made another cartoonish entry.
Honestly, this film was my introduction to Bond growing up. Whilst I have a true soft spot for this movie and will never truly hate it I'll always appreciate the fact that it introduced me to a fantastic franchise.
But for what it's worth, Casino Royale was the one that truly pulled me in as a fan.
It feels like writing from an original story in a bond video game
I can't disagree with the assessment. The film was terrivly over the top. That said, I was and am still entertained by the film, whereas some of the others on the worst list do little for me.
I loved the opening where Bond was captured and tortured. That gave him a feeling of reality never seen in a Bond film before or since.
I'm amazed at my willingness to suspend disbelief in this film, especially with the over-the-top CGI.
Nice review, Guys!
I believe the car chase scene between Bond and Zao was after the CGI wave scene.. not before, I think David got the scene order mixed up. I actually still don’t mind the whole ice palace part of the movie, I think that whole sequence is fun & enjoyable but the CGI wave was one step too far.. not to mention how bad it looks, even back in 2002 it didn’t look good.. because I remember my dad saying how fake it looked when we were driving back home after we left the cinema 😂
If you remove that CGI wave scene, maybe a couple of the cheesy one liners.. and change the plane sequence at the end.. I think it would have been a great Bond movie and one of the best in the franchise to be honest. Because everything else in my opinion is really good 👌🏽
I think you were both a little too hard on Halle Berry.She’s a good actress,smoking hot,and seems like a genuinely good person in real life.
Overall, I actually found this film quite entertaining.
Yes, I feel EON Productions and MGM should bring Back Lee Tamahori to direct one of the future James Bond movie. I hope he will bring back Tongue In Cheek Humor, Over-The-Top Escapism and amazing gadgets back to James Bond franchise which were missing throughout the Daniel Craig era. I would want the CGI Bullet to fly out during the Gunbarrel Sequence and if possible bring back Halle Berry's Jinx Character
Die Another Day lost me the second I saw that stupid bullet they put in coming *up* the gun barrel. Every second of the film after that was painful to endure.
Exactly! OO7
I could just watch Pierce Brosnan walk around, and I would be happy.
Yes. A god-awful mishmash of all other Bond movies displaying absolutely no effort by the scriptwriters and producers.
Ilsa Faust [Rebecca Ferguson] in Mission Impossible Rouge Nation is what Jinx's should have been- a mysterious force who we are unsure we can trust but want to know more about. She works well in Fallout and I'm glad she's returning for the new films but it's a shame she hasn't had a spin off yet [and she's ex MI6 so there's room for Bond crossover!]. Jinx on the other hand comes across as really underwritten [as the spin off was meant to be a prequel], has to be rescued by Bond in Iceland, Hallie Berry is miscast and just doesn't make you want to see a whole movie with her.
David, great video... I agree with all your points. I think Pierce had probably the worst bond villains in all his films and I think that’s been the problems with his films... he is one of my favourite bonds however as he portrayed bond very well and the films were very entertaining at the time!
Just one question, what is the lovely grey cardigan you are wearing? Very smart buddy! 👍👌
You guys were so spot on with this film 😂. I'll admit, Halle was pretty good in Swordfish and John Wick 3
Somebody else noticed how good she was in John Wick 3!!!! Yes!!!
The producers let Brosnan down....yuk!
This movie is right up there with Moonraker and Octopussy as the worst Bond movies. "I'm Mr. Kill." -"Now there's a name to die for." Yuck. And the Michael Madsen character was awful.
It was great until Bond left for Cuba The minute Berry comes in it loses it very quickly. Bronsnan was great as Bond when the script was good, he was epic in the hotel scenes in HK. Just surfing Mr Chang is so cool. So is the suit with red tie scene when he gets told Zoo is in China. That is cool on Connery level. Shames PB didn't get that one definitive great Bond film. His best role is as Thomas Crown. He is brilliant in that film.
That's roughly where I think it goes wrong. I think the movie is decent before Bond enters that Clinic.
Stacy : JAAAAAAAAAAAAAMES
Jinx : Yo mamma Stacy
Madonna : SIGMUND FREUD
So, this film was first Bond I saw in cinema aged 11. I kind of liked it at the time but even then it seemed nowhere near Goldeneye or Tomorrow Never Dies, which I was practically brought up on. I rewatched this film for first time in probably 5 years last night and it's so frustrating!
The pre-titles is decent and the first half is not bad at all. BUT it totally drops off a cliff about half way through. Halle Berry is so, so cringe, it's difficult to watch. The love scene after the beach in 'Cuba' is vomit-inducing. The invisible Vanquish is too far. Ice palace sequence is so bad. Climax on the aircraft is dull. End love scene is cringe beyond belief, just end the damn film already. Even Judi Dench is directed to be weird in this film, why does she HATE Bond so much?
Definitely one of the worst in the series.
Well I'm going to be the odd one out here and say ...... I like this film sure it has some things that dont work. John Cleese as Q agree with what you guys said, the surfing scean I'll conceived and badly excited. I like the meeting of Bond and Jinx , there I sead it! The villain this character is reminiscent of Sir Hugo Drax from the Ian Flemming novel Moonraker , and I liked Tobey Steven's in this roll one of the best villains in my opinion.
Love the Aston Martin chaise to.
No I like the movie.
Great work guys.
Darren 🇬🇧
I expected you to be from France
Can’t wait for you guys to do spectre
Alot of similar key points raised by HaphazardStuff about DAD as well.
They could have explored the bearded 'broken' Bond alot more, but soon as he shaves off his beard, that all gets forgotten about very quickly.
But Meh...it was Bond in the early 2000s. The era where there was alot of experimentation, and films seemed to just throw caution to the wind a bit.
I used to think that Moonraker was perhaps worse, but Moonraker had an excellent first half and didn't go off the rails until the middle of the second act. View to A Kill had Walken who was fun throughout, but DAD went off the rails before the basic plot even got underway.
Agree with Jinx and the bad dialogue. However, She did great in Executive Decision with Kurt Russell. Halle can handle the close ups, Eye candy and EON misused her IMHO.
It's his worst by a pretty wide margin. But the thing is, I also kind of understand where they were coming from. That whole period was kind of lost as far as films went, especially action films, after The Matrix and LOTR and the Star Wars prequels. CGI had reached that point like a lot of tech does where you could do it but nobody really understands how to do it yet and it's a mess for a while, which was the 2000s (don't get me started on Indiana Jones 4). Everyone thought they could wallpaper over no attempt at writing with CGI in a sort of Michael Bay-ification of the movie industry. It was a disaster and looking back you can see why people started to gravitate to the more low-key, on-the-ground more realistic stuff like Bourne and putting the heavy CGI in the more pure fantasy fare like Marvel where it fits better, while the stuff that tries to still merge realism and fantasy too much, like the recent attempts at Terminator, continue to bomb. It's sort of like my excuse for LTK: it tried too hard to keep up with its time and match what it saw as its competition instead of being true to itself. That's what made CR so good; it sort of upended and rebooted its own genre combining elements of where action and spy films were going while still being totally recognizable as Bond.
Martin Campbell and Lee Tamahori are both from New Zealand. Weird.
Halle Berry and Megan Fox are examples of their looks getting them to where they’re at
It wasn't this hated when it came out. But I guess the invisible car felt dumb af from the first viewing.
I love it personally. No guilty pleasure.
Agrees!!!!
No time to die had such a sad ending that i likes die another day and spectre.
The opening gave me the impression is it was going to be a good film because it reminded me of of the beginning of Goldeneye. As the film progressed however it just got sillier and sillier. Bond films are supposed to be a little bit tongue and cheek but this movie hammed it up way too much for my liking.
Die Another Day is great if you can imagine the silhouettes of Joel, Tom Servo, and Crow in the lower right.
Did you cry at the end?
It's a shame they didn't put more into the screenplay, because Die Another Day had the potential to be one of the better Bronsnan Bond films. The film just did not follow through with the promise from that fantastic opening teaser which lead to a bigger disappointment when it was finally over. I will admit, I did like Graves skydiving out of the plane to "London Calling" though.
I loved this movie at the time. It was 40 years of Bond and I was so excited to see it. Watching it today, it's a really bad film. I spent ages defending adaptive camouflage and it does exist, but an invisible car was a step too far for a Bond movie. The cgi surfing was not Bond, which always did their stunts live. As I said, loved the movie at the time but 17 years later it's a terrible movie. Rosamund Pike was very good and it was her first movie. She's gone on to do great films like Gone Girl.
John Cleese was no longer the bufoon in Die Another Day, and was the perfect wit foe to Brosnan's Bond.
He's way better in this movie than 'World' where he comes across as stunt casting and he's enjoyable in the 'Everything or Nothing' video game
@@jamesatkinsonja Restore the original timeline with Henry Cavill as 007 and Cleese as Q.
@@spenser9908 Cleese is 81 now [only 4 years younger than Desmond when he finished] so unlikely.
@@jamesatkinsonja Yeah I guess :/
I would love to have seen Brosnan or Dalton (in their prime) in the Casino Royal reboot. It's all about timing. After recently rewatching Dalton (Living Daylights) and Brosnan's TWINE...as much as I was excited about them both as 007, I think they were both too casual and more like male models and lacked dynamics and enthusiasm. Even as one dimensional as stone face, uncharismatic Craig is, at least he brings an intensity.
Did I miss the cardigan memo?
Die Another Day is great Bond movie.
debatable.
Hmm this comment needs to be Debated Another Day
This movie starts so strong and ends so poorly.
It has so many cringe moments (but they’re funny cringe moments) however it’s still a fun film. Halle Berry is poor but Pierce is doing his best. It does go south once it goes Ice Palace. Love the song too - it’s different.
I know that is not a good movie, but I really like it. Nobody is perfect...
I was it is the worst Bond movie on purpose. There are elements which I admire. I feel if they removed all of the silly elements, then this would not be the worst.
die another day is my guilty pleasure, actually I don't feel really that guilty. i like the movie.
Wasnt Pierce’s last actually Everything or Nothing?
I agree bad movie goldeneye is my fav
For me, this is a very watchable Bond. Probably a bottom third film for me. I tend to rank Bond films into three categories: Top Tier Cinema, Top Tier Bond, and Watchable Bond. Top Tier Cinema are the Bond films I think stand up as outstanding films in any genre, films like Golden Eye, From Russia with Love, Casino Royale. Top Tier Bond are films that stand out in the franchise, but not necessarily more widely. Films like Live and Let Die, Thunderball and World is not Enough. Everything else is Watchable! That's the great thing about this franchise, even the 'worst' films are still entertaining.
Its not bad movie my first Bond in cinema in 2002 age 9.
Agree with David 100%. The Aston Martin scene was fantastic. Idk if that stems from it being the first Bond movie with an Aston in it since Goldeneye, but that whole chase was great. Rest of the movie is soooo cringe-worthy. Especially now.
For me a fascinating question is how they could write something as dumb as DAD. Like Moonraker, it falls of a cliff half way through. This film was the first Bond that left me stone cold. Spectre is the second, I think it's the worst Bond with DAD a close second.
Haley Berry was amazing in JOHN WICK 3!!!
I can’t even finish the movie they lost me right in the middle bad jokes everything felt forced. That’s one you try and forget for sure.
Nothing is as bad as the last Bond movie Specter
As Brosnan says it Band James Band.
It's the Cardie Boys!
I just re-watched Die Another Day again for the first time since I saw it in theaters. I hated it when I saw it in the theater.
GoldenEye was a Timothy Dalton movie that feels like it was meant for him.
Tomorrow Never Dies feels like a video game, possibly after the success of GoldenEye N64.
The World is Not Enough is probably the best for Pierce even though GoldenEye is usually considered to be better.
Die Another Day feels like an updated Thunderball or a campy Roger Moore era Bond.
How is it like Thunderball?
I have to chime in here and say I am not outraged with this assessment. 'I'm missed to kill, now there's a name to die for' is the singular worst line of dialogue in not just a Bond film, but ANY film. However, I cannot fault the ambition of DAD. Flipping an Aston Martin, driving it through an ice palace, invisible cars, perhaps the writers and producers can just be accused of having too much fun. PB
Die Another Day failed because it leapt 30years into the future with invisible cars, and being able to genetically alter you ethnicity. The bad CGI didn't help and the silly henchmen either.
I'm Mr Kill
Well that's a name to die for.
I mean come on?
I didn't like how they turned Pierce Brosnan into a Roger Moore type Bond because that belonged to Roger and he made it his own. Then there's Madonna . Who thought it was a good idea to have her in this? John Cleese being Basil Fawlty instead of Q and Halle Berrys Jinx who managed to survive a very high dive.
It did give us talent to look out for like Rosamund Pike and Toby Stephens who are both great actors.
This will get better as it gets older with the next generation of Bond fans because the technology will be more believable.
This movie would have been better as a video game, and 007: Nightfire would've made a fantastic movie IMO.
I think that this is by far Brosnan's worst, and for me it's one of the 3 worst official Bond movies of all time. I get that it was spectacular, but by this point in time, the budgets and technology and moviemaking techniques were so sophisticated that there really was no excuse to mess up a Bond movie so badly. They had the cream of talent available, and they created something so goofy and far-fetched that they disappeared up their own asses with their blend of CGI, celebrity, sponsorships and marketing opportunities they were working into their formula that it was just a bunch of crap.
James Bond vs James Bond
Toby Stephens plays Bond in UK radio adaptations of the Fleming novels
Still better than that shitty movie Spectre, now that was a crap movie.
Invisible car, nuff said
I remember being a kid and loving this film, then casino royale came out :) .........ill say no more!
After he leaves the Cuban Sleepers office it goes down hill, it couldn’t been Brosnans License To Kill.
this maybe brosnans worsted bond film, but not because of brosnan, he did a great job as playing bond
His character sucked in this film compared to Goldeneye. He was terribly boring to watch. Pierce is a capable actor of delivering so it's not his fault at all.This script needed to be burned.
This film is top 5 worst but not the worst. Your review on this seemed pretty rushed, which is understandable. I'm surprised you didn't talk about the nods to all the prior Bond films.
You started with...it's unrealistic....This is Bond after all.... you like it because its unrealistic!
Bond for a time was plausibly unrealistic. There came a time (during the Moore era) when suspension of disbelief just went out the window. There is a reason why Bond is now challenged and perhaps surpassed by franchises like Bourne and Mission Impossible; series that probably wouldn't even be in existence if there had never been a James Bond.
Worst 5 bonds Films
1. A View to a Kill
2. Die Another Day
3. Moonraker
4. Diamonds are Forever
5. Quantum of Solace
Specter
Licence to kill
Octoupussy
Specter
Licence to kill
Octoupussy
Never say never again
Na, dont agree at all
@@chitown1782 interesting
Sorry!
It boggles my mind that the same writers wrote Die Another Day and followed it with Casino Royale
I love these
Sometimes subjective bias & personal preferences can adversely color what should be a more objective examination. For instance, "that couldn't happen" sentiment, for a fantasy film seems rather inappropriate. Fantasy films are not supposed to "get real" It's all about entertainment.
As I review the whole body of work that is cinema 007 Dr No to present, They've yet to match the gripping , shocking scenes of Connery and the tarantula or the "you've had your six" magic..
Dr. No is #9 on my list.
Pierce Brosnan in Die Another Day acts like Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of The Crystal Skull.
I disliked pierce's character in this film just like I did with Ford's Indy character in the Crystal Skull. How they managed to take characters that I love and make them boring and dull is beyond me. You just want to use that torch short round used in Indiana Jones Temple of Doom and wake these characters up.
@@rocky1942racoon that pretty much sums it up.
Spectre is Daniel Craig's last Bond film to date so "as long as we do this quickly"... Haha, hindsight