This movie came out when I was in Russia on a college exchange program. The Russian movie title translated to "Die, But Not Now." This *still* never fails to crack me up.
My niece had her bone marrow replaced, due to leukemia. Oddly, afterwards she didn't become Egyptian like the donor of the replacement bone marrow. So strange.
It’s a Brosnan film. Nobody expected these movies to make logical sense. That’s not why people watched him. His Bond films were my least favourite for that reason. At least some of the Roger Moore outings made some sense. Brosnan’s films were basically down to a formula. Bond has an action scene, making a silly quip that leads into the titles. Bond gets his next case, maybe gets it on with some random woman, insert quips, action sequence, quips…and so on. Sure, you could argue that’s James Bond, but after Goldeneye, it’s just repetitive. Other Bond films could get that way, but not to the extent that they were made for 13 year old boys. They were like bad Marvel movies. It’s a shame a strike prevented Dalton from doing a 3rd film because he was the Bond of the novels. Quips only when necessary. Like the early Connery films. Those are the ones I watch. I’ve probably seen the sex scene in this about 10 times more than the actual movie. Which is one and done. Awful movie. Brosnan actually made Johnny English and Austin Powers obsolete.
@@ricardocantoral7672 Well, there were plenty of places where he did. His shock at seeing Alec Trevelyan alive, his sorrow over Paris Carver's murder, his connection with Elektra King and clear sadness at her betrayal. It's only the last one that didn't really have any deep character moments. But at the time, the producers weren't really confident enough to really plumb Bond's depths completely as Daniel Craig's movies did...hence, such actions as having a character like Christmas Jones to The World Is Not Enough just so the movie can end on an "Oh, James" moment, instead of Bond and M reflecting on Elektra's betrayal (the kind of ending a Craig Bond movie would have had). I love TWINE, but its main problem is that it has a split personality.
@@josephvanburen887 True but it was over the top for a Bond film at the time. EON since then has put a limit on how many companies are allowed to be featured in these films.
This movie makes me feel bad for Pierce Brosnan, as he plays the part extremely well. it's a shame the movies he was in were tarnished by bad effects and production decisions. he's actually my 3rd favorite Bond behind Connery and Craig.
Fun fact, in an earlier draft of the screenplay, the character of the Chinese agent was supposed to be Wai Lin, with Michelle Yeoh reprising that role from Tomorrow Never Dies.
Yeah, it kind of surprised me that he said fans don't think much of Brosnan as Bond. It's always seemed to me that they mostly liked him, even if they felt that some of his material fell short in places. In his best movies, he managed to pull off more serious moments than Moore did, while also keeping a light touch in places. Still, I'd have loved to see him in a remake of On Her Majesty's Secret Service...if he'd played that ending with his own experience with loss in mind, it could have been devastating.
Goldeneye was awesome, Tomorrow Never Dies was way better than it gets credit for, The World is Not Enough was shaky but had its moments... this was just absurdly bad
@@spaceace4387 It’s better than “Rise of Skywalker,” the movie that left the sequel trilogy on a wimper, but whether it’s better than “Rogue One” is debatable, and personally, I’d rather watch “Rogue One” than watch the scenes set on Naboo in “AotC.”
@@conradlorgar5508 Honestly, I don’t think that “Star Trek” is well, considering the death of the Kelvin timeline and the lack of direction for it since then.
Actually, Mythbusters recently tested the whole "landmine/hovercraft" thing, and it totally works. The cushion of air distributes the craft's weight so evenly, it's too light to set off a mine that takes less than a pound, let alone the 36 (I think) pounds that anti-personnel mines are set to.
Mr. Kill: ``I'm mister Kill.'' Me: ``Ha! That's funny because `kil' means `cold' in Dutch!'' Bond: ``that's a name to die for...'' me: ``... i feel like a idiot now ...'' :(
That's not only stupid thing in the movie, Icaros is just dumb they show hover crafts in the opening of the movie, why the not just supersize those hovercrafts or airdrop both equipment and troops on South Korea?
Patrick O'Ryan well there is a bond parody named casino royale (no relation to the Daniel craig film.) which got worse ratings than die another day. In fact, it's the lowest rated bond film on rotten tomatoes...look it up.
Quite frankly, Sean, I'm far more surprised by the fact that Rosamund Pike's career was able to survive Doom. Die Another Day is nothing. Speaking of which, you should really tackle Doom one day.
The guy who played Mr. Kil would later play Lurtz in The Fellow of the Ring and then the Witch-King and the Orc General in The Return of the King. The director Lee Tamahori made Once Were Warriors, which is a masterpiece, and out of the 6 movies he made afterward, Die Another Day is the only one that didn't bomb horribly at the box office. Can't wait to see which Christmas movie gets ripped on in next month's review. :)
This film actually got a novelization by Raymond Benson, who also wrote the novelizations for *"Tomorrow Never Dies"* and *"The World Is Not Enough",* after John Gardner retired from writing the James Bond continuation novels, which also include the novelizations of Timothy Dalton's 2nd & final Bond film: *"Licence To Kill"* and Brosnan's debut Bond film: *"GoldenEye".* In case you're wondering, the first James Bond film novelizations were *"The Spy Who Loved Me"* and *"Moonraker",* both were written by their script writer Christopher Wood. Sadly after this film, they didn't make any more novelizations of the Bond films.
Actually, you could interpret the opening credits of Skyfall as advancing the plot...if you take the interpretation that it's taking place during Bond's near-death experience (he plunges into the water as the credits begin), and that the whole sequence is Bond briefly on "the other side", seeing visions of not only his past but his future (images related to the rest of the movie).
If you can find all of them watch the ones with Sean Connery those are the most epic ones he is the ultimate James Bond. I hear that the ones with Roger Moore are also good,I'm still looking for them.
The 'It's a Trap!' callback never gets old! ROFL ...and speaking of Star Wars, my guess as to Sean's next review will be one of the prequels...at least, I hope it's one of the prequels.....
I'm rewatching ur vids again. I just love ur stuff and have for a few years now. Just wanted to comment and say that it's great content and deserves more attention. Also ur goofy.
This was the first James Bond movie i saw, and even though now i know it has a lot of bad stuff, at the time i thought it was great. Of course, i was 11 or 12 and still had no taste whatsoever, but it got me so into the franchise that i watched 10 James Bond movies in a row. Even so, great review, not so great movie, but it still has a little place in my heart
+Cinematic Excrement I won't really count this one against you because it happened in a video game, not a movie, but John Cleese did take the role of Q again in 007 Everything or Nothing. Like I said, though, that was a video game.
6:01 Actually, hovercraft do not trip landmines. At least, not pressure activated ones. The ground pressure of a hovercraft is spread over such a large area that it is too low at any one spot to trigger a mine (Most of the time), especially not anti-vehicle mines which require much higher force to detonate. There is the problem however that hovercraft cannot go up hill beyond the shallowest of slopes. And yeah, this movie sucks.
I understand your Rant about the North Korea thing. But my point of view was always that the Movie Theater Chains didn't want to risk it by having people in danger, they are a business after all. So if they get a threat, they have to do the right thing which is to close down. Especially after a few shooting incidents that happened in Theaters in the US. You might hate it, but it's the safe thing to do. Another nice review by the way. When I was a kid, this Movie was *the Shit*! *:D* ............................................... Now it's just *Shit*! *:(*
I've always acknowledged that "Die Another Day" is goofy and over-the-top, thankfully that translates into entertaining which I very much thought it was. I definitely agree that this thing is sub-par, but it's the tolerable kind.
When you said Judi Dench deserves so much better, you missed an opportunity to dub in her line from "Vicious": "I've got an Oscar, I don't need this bullshit."
I actually donated bone marrow for my dad when he was fighting mantle cell lymphoma, and yes, they do indeed have to kill off all of the recipient's bone marrow for that. It left him with no immune system until mine grew enough to replace it, but that just meant he had to be extra careful to avoid getting sick.
North Korean reactions, namely from Kim Jung Il: This film: he watched it eventually and was impressed--he especially liked the fact that it was a woman from his country that didn't even pretend to be charmed by Bond's looks. In fact, the director's son was actually more focused on that female Korean guard than anyone else. Team America: It was banned, obviously, but he did watch it in private and thought it was funny.
Andrew Ollmann kim jong il was a renowned lover of film as a whole, hence why he kidnappened the guy that was called "south korean orson welles" to kickstart their own film industry, as he loved the guys films. Kim jong un however....well he likes basketball
This one's a guilty pleasure for me. The car I think is still cool, but I am totally on board with everyone who says this was a bad one for Brosnan. Bless him for doing his damndest regardless of which film it was. More Bond movies should strive to be like GoldenEye, that was James Bond done right.
I'm married to a nurse, not medically trained, and I feel the same pain... Why are so many screenwriters such dumb arses? I can understand if Alex Kurtzmann's company's involved....
This film was just "too much", a common complaint of movies in the 1990's and 2000's. All Bond movies had a couple of awesome set pieces, but this was one set piece after another, which is why I think the CGI was bad. Plus, CGI was not up to todays standards so a lot of the things they wanted to show was still beyond their capabilities. This movie also continued the bad idea in Brosnan's run to have numerous love interests instead of just one. Another part of "too much" was of course the outrageous plot, which was so unbelievable it even eye-rolled Bond fans. The series rightly course corrected after this with a new stripped down Bond that was more believable and darker. They learned that this kind of Bond was just too silly and too much. Brosnan did not deserve these movies as this was the part he was born to play, but the times when these came out were just even more grandiose and cheesy than the Moore years. Bond in these movies was way too much a Marty Sue. (He always kind of was, but this movie just took all the suspense out of a Bond movie like it was a cartoon.)
YES! He should've commented on that and as bonus at the end of this the music video for Die Another Day song I would have like to hear his views on that.
+Yahiko25 Eh? It's bad, but it at least kinda resembles a Bond song... at times. DAD is just a total mess of a song that makes my ears bleed. AWTD is kinda like the Taco Bell of Bond songs. Awful, but I do occasionally revisit it for some reason
+Hayden Silbermann Madonna was going through a very strange phase, musically at that time. This was just before the release of her American Life album... Which in my opinion is her worst ever.
gosh. thanks to your vid I assume The Expendables quoted Die Another Day with that line about being ornithologists when asked why they came to the island.
Also, Die Another Day wasn't technically Pierce Brosnan's last outing as Bond, since he and several other actors from the movies provided their likenesses and voices to the 2004 James Bond game 007: Everything or Nothing, before Daniel Craig took over.
Still. Nice gag about Bond being an ornithologist. Fleming nicked the name from a book on birds by the real-life ornithologist James Bond. Which is nice...
I remember seeing this movie in the theater and despising it from the beginning. I guess that's what makes movies like Goldeneye the gems that they are.
I have to admit, Sean, I'm a little lost at ur next movie. Since it will b December, it would make sense for a Holiday movie. But with u saying Far Away at the end, and since Star Wars is coming out in a couple weeks, are u doing one of the Prequels?
The Diamond thing also always bothered me. I get that they wanted to give Zao a cool look but it doesnt make sense. Trevelians burned face? Largos one eye? Tee Hees missing arm? Nothing they could do about it. But if you have diamonds stuck in your face the first thing you'd do is pull them out to ease the pain, and your body would reject them anyway. PLUS its diamonds so their worth would either make you or someone else want to sell them.
Never saw this Bond installment and I'm glad I didn't. *full body shiver* Smeghead's next review will assumedly be in December, so it's almost assuredly the Star Wars Holiday Special.
1:02:55. It's not often that you can pinpoint the exact moment that a movie decides to go completely insane, to take a plunge off the deep end. But in Die Another Day, it's right there on the counter on my DVD player. 1:02:55. This is, in case you were wondering, the moment the VR training scenario with John Cleese's Q happens and the movie throws any semblance of being a serious Bond movie(or even a respectable Bond film) out the damn window. This is when the invisible car comes in, and the giant ice palace, and another big damn space laser, and the CGI surfing and just a parade of fuckin' awfulness that is unmatched in series history since the nadir of the Moore era. 1:02:55.
11:24 the next day Bond heads to the clinic and sure enough he tests positive for- oh, wait, if he can escape penal compounds in seconds he can escape every imaginable STD too!
I don't know if someone already mentioned it (probably), but Ian Fleming got the name James Bond from the author of an ornithology book. So that almost makes the bird joke better, I guess...
This movie came out when I was in Russia on a college exchange program. The Russian movie title translated to "Die, But Not Now." This *still* never fails to crack me up.
Samantha M Well, the title could be “Die, Sometime Later.”
When I hear western movies overdubbed to Russian, they always use the same 4 voice actors for all of the characters...
That is absolutely hilarious!
You speak Russian? Also, im curious, does Russia have good universities? Genuinely curious
My niece had her bone marrow replaced, due to leukemia. Oddly, afterwards she didn't become Egyptian like the donor of the replacement bone marrow. So strange.
It’s a Brosnan film. Nobody expected these movies to make logical sense. That’s not why people watched him. His Bond films were my least favourite for that reason. At least some of the Roger Moore outings made some sense. Brosnan’s films were basically down to a formula. Bond has an action scene, making a silly quip that leads into the titles. Bond gets his next case, maybe gets it on with some random woman, insert quips, action sequence, quips…and so on. Sure, you could argue that’s James Bond, but after Goldeneye, it’s just repetitive. Other Bond films could get that way, but not to the extent that they were made for 13 year old boys. They were like bad Marvel movies. It’s a shame a strike prevented Dalton from doing a 3rd film because he was the Bond of the novels. Quips only when necessary. Like the early Connery films. Those are the ones I watch. I’ve probably seen the sex scene in this about 10 times more than the actual movie. Which is one and done. Awful movie. Brosnan actually made Johnny English and Austin Powers obsolete.
@@christhornycroft3686 it's a joke lol. Why so serious?
I recently saw the EVERYTHING OR NOTHING documentary and when Pierce discussed the "para-sailing" sequence in DAD, he broke into a fit of laughter.
I saw that too. Like he knew it was utter tripe
Ruari Burt Brosnan said he was never satisfied with his Bond movies. He was annoyed that he wasn't really allowed to humanize the character.
I love Pierce Brosnan.
@@ricardocantoral7672 Well, there were plenty of places where he did. His shock at seeing Alec Trevelyan alive, his sorrow over Paris Carver's murder, his connection with Elektra King and clear sadness at her betrayal. It's only the last one that didn't really have any deep character moments. But at the time, the producers weren't really confident enough to really plumb Bond's depths completely as Daniel Craig's movies did...hence, such actions as having a character like Christmas Jones to The World Is Not Enough just so the movie can end on an "Oh, James" moment, instead of Bond and M reflecting on Elektra's betrayal (the kind of ending a Craig Bond movie would have had). I love TWINE, but its main problem is that it has a split personality.
14:21 Fun fact: since there's product placement in this film, some people call this movie Buy Another Day.
All movies have product placement. Lol.
@@josephvanburen887 Absolutely right! Bond movies were after all Aston Martin's biggest advertisements ever since Dr No.
@@MikoyanGurevichMiG21 Yet in the books, iirc, Bond drives a Bentley (which is now owned by Volkswagen Group).
@@josephvanburen887 True but it was over the top for a Bond film at the time. EON since then has put a limit on how many companies are allowed to be featured in these films.
Bond posing as an ornithologist is actually a cool nod to the man Ian Fleming named him after.
Too bad it was followed by that “mouthful” line.
This movie makes me feel bad for Pierce Brosnan, as he plays the part extremely well. it's a shame the movies he was in were tarnished by bad effects and production decisions. he's actually my 3rd favorite Bond behind Connery and Craig.
+Nathaniel Levesque Connery. He was the best Bond ever.
+Chris Martindale no Dalton in living daylights was the best!
+marblesjar Was always a fan of The Living Daylights. It's expansive, has a good cast and an interesting plot.
The worst movie I've seen Pierce Brosnan (and the only one) is Mama Mia.
Craig’s movies after Casino Royal were terrible
Fun fact, in an earlier draft of the screenplay, the character of the Chinese agent was supposed to be Wai Lin, with Michelle Yeoh reprising that role from Tomorrow Never Dies.
Actually, many fans would agree that Brosnan was great as Bond, the only problem being that he wasn't given much to work with after Goldeneye.
Yeah, it kind of surprised me that he said fans don't think much of Brosnan as Bond. It's always seemed to me that they mostly liked him, even if they felt that some of his material fell short in places. In his best movies, he managed to pull off more serious moments than Moore did, while also keeping a light touch in places. Still, I'd have loved to see him in a remake of On Her Majesty's Secret Service...if he'd played that ending with his own experience with loss in mind, it could have been devastating.
Goldeneye was awesome, Tomorrow Never Dies was way better than it gets credit for, The World is Not Enough was shaky but had its moments... this was just absurdly bad
when bond fakes his own heart failing , then zaps the doctors and says “I’m checking out ! “ cracks me up every time !! my guilty pleasure bond
2002: the year of this, Attack of the Clones, and Star Trek: Nemesis. Was the year TRYING to kill our beloved franchises?
Oh look its 2021 and all those franchises are alive and well but I guess over reaction is a nerd thing
Attack of the Clones wasn’t that bad, even if you don’t like it we can at least agree it’s way better than those trash Disney films.
@@spaceace4387 It’s better than “Rise of Skywalker,” the movie that left the sequel trilogy on a wimper, but whether it’s better than “Rogue One” is debatable, and personally, I’d rather watch “Rogue One” than watch the scenes set on Naboo in “AotC.”
@@conradlorgar5508 Honestly, I don’t think that “Star Trek” is well, considering the death of the Kelvin timeline and the lack of direction for it since then.
@@redjed100 being better than TROS and all of the prequels are better than Rogue One, all of the prequels are better than all of the Disney films
If the Razzie for Worst Visual Effects was still around today I'll bet anything this would've won.
They stopped doing those?
@@3Guys1Video They only did in 1986 and 1987.
Just take it in that The Two Towers cost less than this to make. As well as Star Wars Episode II IIRC.
Using the power of the sun to destroy enemies, hey, Scaramanga called, he wants his plan back
And you thought today's movies were too laden with nostalgic callbacks.
I believe the film DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER also had a satellite firing a laser to earth.
So did Blofeld. He also called Scaramanga and blew his top at him for ripping off his plan 3 years later.
Blofeld called and he wants his surgical identity swap & diamond powered space laser back.
@@LinkMarioSamus you can stop now
Actually, Mythbusters recently tested the whole "landmine/hovercraft" thing, and it totally works. The cushion of air distributes the craft's weight so evenly, it's too light to set off a mine that takes less than a pound, let alone the 36 (I think) pounds that anti-personnel mines are set to.
I laughed my ass off when the bunker exploded for no reason!
Mr. Kill: ``I'm mister Kill.''
Me: ``Ha! That's funny because `kil' means `cold' in Dutch!''
Bond: ``that's a name to die for...''
me: ``... i feel like a idiot now ...''
:(
Mr. Kill: "They call me... MISTER Kill."
That's not only stupid thing in the movie, Icaros is just dumb they show hover crafts in the opening of the movie, why the not just supersize those hovercrafts or airdrop both equipment and troops on South Korea?
6:55 Speaking of Madonna, can you please review Swept Away (2002)?
This film is more like a bond parody than an actual bond film.
I honestly don't mind when Bond does self parody hence my love of Diamonds are Forever. This film on the other hand is too dense to be that smart.
Patrick O'Ryan well there is a bond parody named casino royale (no relation to the Daniel craig film.) which got worse ratings than die another day. In fact, it's the lowest rated bond film on rotten tomatoes...look it up.
ASLB247 There's only one true Bond parody.
And that's Austin Powers.
Tyler Hill -_-...don't ever bring him up again! MY NAME IS AUSTIN!
ASLB247 call me crazy but I think casino Royale '67 is funnier than the Austin power movies.
Quite frankly, Sean, I'm far more surprised by the fact that Rosamund Pike's career was able to survive Doom. Die Another Day is nothing. Speaking of which, you should really tackle Doom one day.
is that the one with The Rock?
Yes.
"Why not Death Guy or Mr. Kill?!" Apparently AVGN didn't see this movie...
+TheHeroOfTomorrow i sure hope he didn't
+TheHeroOfTomorrow Hey, it's nice to see you here, man! Didn't know you were a fan. :)
Where did he say that?
Die - Hearts in his frankenstien video
Patrick Shields Ok
The guy who played Mr. Kil would later play Lurtz in The Fellow of the Ring and then the Witch-King and the Orc General in The Return of the King. The director Lee Tamahori made Once Were Warriors, which is a masterpiece, and out of the 6 movies he made afterward, Die Another Day is the only one that didn't bomb horribly at the box office.
Can't wait to see which Christmas movie gets ripped on in next month's review. :)
28:18 with John Cleese in this movie, a Monty Python joke had to be in this review somewhere.
"I'd like to thrust you.....into a wood chipper." HAHAHAHA!!
Johnny McAuliffe dammit now I want to watch Fargo
He's gonna review the Star Wars Holiday Species next!
My favourite line from that movie is "AAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHH!!!"
This film actually got a novelization by Raymond Benson, who also wrote the novelizations for *"Tomorrow Never Dies"* and *"The World Is Not Enough",* after John Gardner retired from writing the James Bond continuation novels, which also include the novelizations of Timothy Dalton's 2nd & final Bond film: *"Licence To Kill"* and Brosnan's debut Bond film: *"GoldenEye".*
In case you're wondering,
the first James Bond film novelizations
were *"The Spy Who Loved Me"*
and *"Moonraker",* both were written by
their script writer Christopher Wood.
Sadly after this film,
they didn't make any more novelizations of the Bond films.
You kinda missed that replaced DNA somehow means you can't sleep, so you need a "dream machine"
YES YES YES YES YES YES!
It's about time you tackled this one!
+Zice033
Yeah, It is. That and I'm also waiting for Quantum of Solace, But still.
+Zice033 YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
He didn't know about Judy Dench's future role decisions yet..
Actually, you could interpret the opening credits of Skyfall as advancing the plot...if you take the interpretation that it's taking place during Bond's near-death experience (he plunges into the water as the credits begin), and that the whole sequence is Bond briefly on "the other side", seeing visions of not only his past but his future (images related to the rest of the movie).
I like that!
Honestly brosnan is what I think of when I think of bond. He's so iconic in the role.
If you can find all of them watch the ones with Sean Connery those are the most epic ones he is the ultimate James Bond.
I hear that the ones with Roger Moore are also good,I'm still looking for them.
Cammy Mc Moore’s movies are lighter in tone than are connerys and are mostly highly entertaining. But Sean is tougher and better
@@rossmandell8734 Thanks for the feedback. I'm still on hunt for Roger Moore's James Bond movies. 👍
@@cammymc1982 They out there everywhere.
Why do you have difficulties to find them?
www.fatherly.com/news/james-bond-movie-streaming-where/
I still think Remington Steele first, though he wasn’t bad as Bond. And I watched that largely because I had a crush on Stephanie Zimbalist...
A little trivia: Neal Purvis and Robert Wade also wrote the Bond spoof, Johnny English, starring Rowan Atkinson. Makes sense.
The 'It's a Trap!' callback never gets old! ROFL
...and speaking of Star Wars, my guess as to Sean's next review will be one of the prequels...at least, I hope it's one of the prequels.....
Do you think they kept the diamonds in Zao's face so the audience would know who he is whenever he is on the screen?
I love your sense of humor. Keep this up and I'll be sending you my "Depends" bill. Thank You so much. Made my day.
I'm rewatching ur vids again. I just love ur stuff and have for a few years now. Just wanted to comment and say that it's great content and deserves more attention. Also ur goofy.
Also, my guesses for the next episode are...
Vacation (2015)
Or
Christmas Vacation 2 (2003)
+Zice033 You mean Cousin Eddie's Island Vacation? IF RLM said it was one of the worst things they watched so it must be that bad.
+Zice033 No, it's definitely star wars holiday special.
+Zice033 Probably Christmas Vacation 2 since Christmas is coming up.
+SassPD22 The Star Wars Christmas Vacation.
"To a place *far, far away*"
If you ask me, I think the next review is gonna be the Star Wars Christmas Special
This was the first James Bond movie i saw, and even though now i know it has a lot of bad stuff, at the time i thought it was great. Of course, i was 11 or 12 and still had no taste whatsoever, but it got me so into the franchise that i watched 10 James Bond movies in a row. Even so, great review, not so great movie, but it still has a little place in my heart
Me too! I still have the DVD of it and even when objectively I know its bad, I still love watching it.
Loved it as a kid too.
I thank God for this movie for introducing us to rosamund pike.
Actually, John Cleese's character's name is R, Q's replacement.
+Hewylewis He was R in The World Is Not Enough, but in Die Another Day he's credited as Q.
Cinematic Excrement Ah, I see. Must've been either a mistake or he was promoted.
+Cinematic Excrement I won't really count this one against you because it happened in a video game, not a movie, but John Cleese did take the role of Q again in 007 Everything or Nothing. Like I said, though, that was a video game.
*****
Heck yeah, it was.
+Hewylewis wasn't the R thing a joke? "if your Q does that make him R?"
You should review The World Is Not Enough, as Denise Richards singlehandedly destroyed the film.
yeahhh but she was so freakin hott
@@dr.spectre9697 that's exactly the way I describe her: "VERY pretty but terrible acting"
Agree her performance was stiff, but it didn't ruin the movie.
That movie had a lot of problems that happened WAY before Denise Richards' character shows up.
I'll say this, compared to how boring Quantum of Solace is, this film, while not the best Bond film, is an okay movie.
How is it possible I took the Austin Powers movies more seriously than Die Another Day?
3:59 You forgot to mention Olympus Has Fallen (2013), which Rick Yeun was also in, when talking about N. Korean villans in movies.
Don't know if it's been mentioned (and I should have posted when I first watched your review) but you have to be British born to receive a Knighthood
6:01 Actually, hovercraft do not trip landmines. At least, not pressure activated ones. The ground pressure of a hovercraft is spread over such a large area that it is too low at any one spot to trigger a mine (Most of the time), especially not anti-vehicle mines which require much higher force to detonate.
There is the problem however that hovercraft cannot go up hill beyond the shallowest of slopes.
And yeah, this movie sucks.
Goldeneye= great
Tomorrow Never Dies & The World is not Enough= fine, watchable
Die Another Day= excrement, avoid it all costs!
I still refuse to believe that the supposedly best secret agent in the world is unable to escape from North Korea for fourteen months.
Correction: John Cleese reprised his role as Q in the video game Everything or Nothing. But as far as the movies, yes.
I understand your Rant about the North Korea thing. But my point of view was always that the Movie Theater Chains didn't want to risk it by having people in danger, they are a business after all. So if they get a threat, they have to do the right thing which is to close down. Especially after a few shooting incidents that happened in Theaters in the US.
You might hate it, but it's the safe thing to do.
Another nice review by the way. When I was a kid, this Movie was *the Shit*! *:D* ............................................... Now it's just *Shit*! *:(*
This movie had a spiritual successor in Kingsman: The Golden Circle.
I've always acknowledged that "Die Another Day" is goofy and over-the-top, thankfully that translates into entertaining which I very much thought it was.
I definitely agree that this thing is sub-par, but it's the tolerable kind.
When you said Judi Dench deserves so much better, you missed an opportunity to dub in her line from "Vicious": "I've got an Oscar, I don't need this bullshit."
Wish I discovered your channel a long time ago. Funny..and really interesting new insights.
I actually donated bone marrow for my dad when he was fighting mantle cell lymphoma, and yes, they do indeed have to kill off all of the recipient's bone marrow for that. It left him with no immune system until mine grew enough to replace it, but that just meant he had to be extra careful to avoid getting sick.
North Korean reactions, namely from Kim Jung Il:
This film: he watched it eventually and was impressed--he especially liked the fact that it was a woman from his country that didn't even pretend to be charmed by Bond's looks. In fact, the director's son was actually more focused on that female Korean guard than anyone else.
Team America: It was banned, obviously, but he did watch it in private and thought it was funny.
At least they have the confidence to laugh at themselves.
Masdaw Galshini
Well, Kim does. The rest of NK would never get the chance to watch these movies.
Cheapsunglasses Soooo....Kim Jong Il has a better sense of humor than his son?
Andrew Ollmann kim jong il was a renowned lover of film as a whole, hence why he kidnappened the guy that was called "south korean orson welles" to kickstart their own film industry, as he loved the guys films. Kim jong un however....well he likes basketball
Andrew Ollmann his son got butthurt by some potheads making a movie about him. I guess Il wasn’t as bad as his son
24:46
He shatters the entire windshield to let Jinx inside the car.
24:28
Full windshield.
14:13 You should use that clip for other reviews.
Poor Halle Berry, she allways is replaced by a poor special effect
19:46 From what I heard, Iceland is the green one, while Greenland is the icy one.
Actually they tested in Mythbusters that it's possible to drive over a landmine with a hovercraft without exploding it (in theory).
A possible explanation for the bad guy leaving the diamonds embedded in his face would be... because diamonds are forever?
2:53 topical
This one's a guilty pleasure for me. The car I think is still cool, but I am totally on board with everyone who says this was a bad one for Brosnan. Bless him for doing his damndest regardless of which film it was.
More Bond movies should strive to be like GoldenEye, that was James Bond done right.
Gosh... The nurse in me dies another day everytime they do something medical in this movie...
It hurts. It realy does...
I'm married to a nurse, not medically trained, and I feel the same pain...
Why are so many screenwriters such dumb arses?
I can understand if Alex Kurtzmann's company's involved....
This film was just "too much", a common complaint of movies in the 1990's and 2000's. All Bond movies had a couple of awesome set pieces, but this was one set piece after another, which is why I think the CGI was bad. Plus, CGI was not up to todays standards so a lot of the things they wanted to show was still beyond their capabilities. This movie also continued the bad idea in Brosnan's run to have numerous love interests instead of just one.
Another part of "too much" was of course the outrageous plot, which was so unbelievable it even eye-rolled Bond fans.
The series rightly course corrected after this with a new stripped down Bond that was more believable and darker. They learned that this kind of Bond was just too silly and too much. Brosnan did not deserve these movies as this was the part he was born to play, but the times when these came out were just even more grandiose and cheesy than the Moore years. Bond in these movies was way too much a Marty Sue. (He always kind of was, but this movie just took all the suspense out of a Bond movie like it was a cartoon.)
13:05 Unless he hides in the twilight universe, where everyone has diamonds in their skin
no one has reviewed i know who killed me or the hottie and the nottie. smeghead, you're the man to do it
I really like this movie .
Would of loved to heard your commentary of the Madonna cameo.
YES! He should've commented on that and as bonus at the end of this the music video for Die Another Day song I would have like to hear his views on that.
5:50 Actually, that myth is confirmed.
The editor was Christian Wagner.
Much I hate the "Die Another Day" song, I still say that Alicia Keys and Jack White "Another Way to Die" is the worst Bond song.
+Yahiko25 Eh? It's bad, but it at least kinda resembles a Bond song... at times. DAD is just a total mess of a song that makes my ears bleed. AWTD is kinda like the Taco Bell of Bond songs. Awful, but I do occasionally revisit it for some reason
I really like Another Way to Die.
+Hayden Silbermann Madonna was going through a very strange phase, musically at that time. This was just before the release of her American Life album... Which in my opinion is her worst ever.
AWTD is the second worst in my book.
nah, the awful caterwauling at the start of Spectre was easily the worst Bond music
gosh. thanks to your vid I assume The Expendables quoted Die Another Day with that line about being ornithologists when asked why they came to the island.
It is a good excuse for foreigners going to a tropical setting with photographic cameras though.
Also, Die Another Day wasn't technically Pierce Brosnan's last outing as Bond, since he and several other actors from the movies provided their likenesses and voices to the 2004 James Bond game 007: Everything or Nothing, before Daniel Craig took over.
It's so ridiculous Bond has this fat belly after being tortured for 14 months. How did the Koreans torture him? With good food?
Still. Nice gag about Bond being an ornithologist. Fleming nicked the name from a book on birds by the real-life ornithologist James Bond. Which is nice...
Each time Sean talks about the diamonds, I have King Mah God (from Pehlous's Dingo Pictures review) screams : "The diamonds ? MAH GOD !"
do cinematic excrement pixels PLEASE Btw furst
And also do Fred the Movie, maybe even the trilogy if possible, btw second.
Let him do Fant4stic too
strolled in and had some fun! Some whine and you nagging on movies is a nice combo ;) marry Xmas !
1:58 Was that a f#@$ing stock laser sound effect?!
I'm gonna guess......Star Wars Christmas Special
+SamueltheJolly .... vacation.... far far away..... Star Wars...... Force Awakens.
+Jakisuaki That movie isn't even out yet.
I mistook; Star Wars Holiday Special www.imdb.com/title/tt0193524/
I actually like the invisible Car
I remember seeing this movie in the theater and despising it from the beginning. I guess that's what makes movies like Goldeneye the gems that they are.
I not only grok your message but believe it is wholly grokworthy.
I have to admit, Sean, I'm a little lost at ur next movie. Since it will b December, it would make sense for a Holiday movie. But with u saying Far Away at the end, and since Star Wars is coming out in a couple weeks, are u doing one of the Prequels?
this video is hilarious and it literally made my day, thanks!
18:14 SPECTRE reference?
12:25 I know that's only one flaw, but it was such a big one, it was worth mentioning twice.
Mr. Kill... Sean should have made a Horrid Henry joke, but then again he might not know what that is.
Love the North Korea rant!
Him managing to get knighted is probably the least unbelievable thing in the entire film.
11:17 I would not say this, after all in NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN you also have such scenes. in this intensity.
I knew this day would come. Next episode is Phantom Menace.
The Diamond thing also always bothered me. I get that they wanted to give Zao a cool look but it doesnt make sense.
Trevelians burned face? Largos one eye? Tee Hees missing arm?
Nothing they could do about it.
But if you have diamonds stuck in your face the first thing you'd do is pull them out to ease the pain, and your body would reject them anyway.
PLUS its diamonds so their worth would either make you or someone else want to sell them.
The beginning of the end of the franchise. But Rosamund Pike is a smokeshow
I have seen it once and it's enough.
Never saw this Bond installment and I'm glad I didn't. *full body shiver*
Smeghead's next review will assumedly be in December, so it's almost assuredly the Star Wars Holiday Special.
1:02:55.
It's not often that you can pinpoint the exact moment that a movie decides to go completely insane, to take a plunge off the deep end. But in Die Another Day, it's right there on the counter on my DVD player.
1:02:55.
This is, in case you were wondering, the moment the VR training scenario with John Cleese's Q happens and the movie throws any semblance of being a serious Bond movie(or even a respectable Bond film) out the damn window. This is when the invisible car comes in, and the giant ice palace, and another big damn space laser, and the CGI surfing and just a parade of fuckin' awfulness that is unmatched in series history since the nadir of the Moore era.
1:02:55.
I would love to see you tackle Saving Christmas.
this isn't as dull as Quantum of Solace or Never Say Never Again
11:24 the next day Bond heads to the clinic and sure enough he tests positive for- oh, wait, if he can escape penal compounds in seconds he can escape every imaginable STD too!
I don't know if someone already mentioned it (probably), but Ian Fleming got the name James Bond from the author of an ornithology book. So that almost makes the bird joke better, I guess...