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.
I'm pretty sure General Moon was referring to how his government interrogated prisoners, & not his sons criminal activities, which he didn't know about.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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. :)
+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.
To be fair though, the Writers Strike didn't help matters for Quantum at all, sadly. And that was such a shame really as all the other Craig Bond films have been very good.
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.
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.....
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
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*! *:(*
+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.
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.
I personally enjoyed this one, yeah its silly and ridiculous at times. But for me it's a guilty pleasure. The same cannot be said for Quantum of solace. That "Bond film" doesn't get enough hate it deserves 😤. The plot was boring, and confusing, the villains sucked, the action scenes and editing were terrible, the film was too short but felt way too long for some odd reason, and the theme song was the worst bond song ever. The only i liked about the film was the video game for it, i used to play it all the time, and still enjoy it. It's one of the only rare times were the video game was way better than the actual movie it was based on
QoS suffered because the writer’s strike but still it was a pretty weak effort. Craig’s worst by a big freaking mile. And the song, in my opinion, is worst than Die Another Die.
I know people like to rag on the Roger Moore era, and hey, they're not wrong considering some of the dumb shit in it, but I unironically love all the dumb shit in it as it's almost playing all the spy tropes it help set forth, along with Moore always bringing his A Game. (RIP) Plus, "A View to A Kill" had Christopher Walken as Zorin, dare i say more?
They did references to previous films not only because this is the 20th Bond movie, but also because it was celebrating the franchise's 40th anniversary.
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.)
I shouldn't have to say this, but making fun of someone and making a fictionalized story about killing them are two different things, and the reason none of those things happened for the other incidents you mentioned is there was not a devastating cyber attack and threats of escalation from a leader worried about his number one fear coming true. It's like if a movie company in Afghanistan made a comedy about blowing up New York. As they've done that shit twice now, no one would just accept that. And as America has famously assassinated leaders before, as I said before, it feels like a threat. So pulling the movie from theaters was responsible, not cowardly. Showing the thing was not worth risking people's lives and property.
They couldn't have Col Moon go through plastic surgery and have him replace a South Korean mining tychoon or give him a indentical twin brother in Argentina who's being replaced by Col Moon ?
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."
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...
This was not a good movie, but that sword fight is just awesome. Even Mr. Plinkett, one of my favorite caustic critics, hailed it as a film sword fight done correctly.
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
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....
Fun fact: the reason there was no backlash for team america world police? It was one of kim jung ils favorite movies. He actually found it hilarious, even when they made fun of him. His son wasnt so receptive
Kim Jong Un had several doctors executed for trying to put him on diets and outlawed sarcasm in North Korea because he thought the generals were making fun of him (not joking he actually did that) So you can guess from that he has a very thin skin
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.
Damn, I was really hoping you'd tackle QOS. Not that I think DAD is a great movie, but it was just too predictable for a review seeing as how other reviewers such as Film Brain already did it, and I haven't seen anyone review QOS yet. In my opinion, THAT'S the absolute worst Bond movie, and I know I'm definitely not alone on that one.
It is pretty hilarious that we never blinked when we made the Soviets our go to villains, and they actually got close to actually nuking us once, but the bargain bin Maoist half a country makes us piss our pants. I feel like the drug abuse of the 1960's and 70's finally caught up to a whole generation one sunny day in 2004.
You should get Connery’s movies, specially From Russia With Love and Goldfinger. I think their influence on spy media and specially movies is unquantifiable. Dalton and Craig are also pretty good (tough you can skip Quantum Of Solace). Moore is a little too goofy for me.
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.
I enjoyed Die Another day very much, when it comes to bond flicks realism is not a priority and i had great fun watching it. Saying so, i also enjoyed the review and couldn't stop laughing it was one of the funniest reviews I've seen. Good job even if we disagree with our opinion on the film itself
Just because it doesn't have to be realistic doesn't excuse it from still needing to be comprehensible and sensible. This movie wasn't, and it fails because of it.
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
"I'd like to thrust you.....into a wood chipper." HAHAHAHA!!
Johnny McAuliffe dammit now I want to watch Fargo
I'm pretty sure General Moon was referring to how his government interrogated prisoners, & not his sons criminal activities, which he didn't know about.
This was my first Bond, what the fuck did I just watch?
Celebrities should not have political opinions....... nuff said
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?
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.
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.
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.
I laughed my ass off when the bunker exploded for no reason!
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.
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
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
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?
"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
6:55 Speaking of Madonna, can you please review Swept Away (2002)?
Goldeneye= great
Tomorrow Never Dies & The World is not Enough= fine, watchable
Die Another Day= excrement, avoid it all costs!
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.
You kinda missed that replaced DNA somehow means you can't sleep, so you need a "dream machine"
He's gonna review the Star Wars Holiday Species next!
My favourite line from that movie is "AAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHH!!!"
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'll say this, compared to how boring Quantum of Solace is, this film, while not the best Bond film, is an okay movie.
28:18 with John Cleese in this movie, a Monty Python joke had to be in this review somewhere.
Poor Halle Berry, she allways is replaced by a poor special effect
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!
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
I thank God for this movie for introducing us to rosamund pike.
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.
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?
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. :)
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
How is it possible I took the Austin Powers movies more seriously than Die Another Day?
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
The beginning of the end of the franchise. But Rosamund Pike is a smokeshow
I absolutely loathe this movie but I still think it's a lot better than Quantum of Solace
To be fair though, the Writers Strike didn't help matters for Quantum at all, sadly. And that was such a shame really as all the other Craig Bond films have been very good.
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.
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.....
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.
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
He didn't know about Judy Dench's future role decisions yet..
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*! *:(*
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?"
A little trivia: Neal Purvis and Robert Wade also wrote the Bond spoof, Johnny English, starring Rowan Atkinson. Makes sense.
Star Wars holiday special. Thats my guess.
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...
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 personally enjoyed this one, yeah its silly and ridiculous at times. But for me it's a guilty pleasure. The same cannot be said for Quantum of solace. That "Bond film" doesn't get enough hate it deserves 😤. The plot was boring, and confusing, the villains sucked, the action scenes and editing were terrible, the film was too short but felt way too long for some odd reason, and the theme song was the worst bond song ever. The only i liked about the film was the video game for it, i used to play it all the time, and still enjoy it. It's one of the only rare times were the video game was way better than the actual movie it was based on
QoS suffered because the writer’s strike but still it was a pretty weak effort.
Craig’s worst by a big freaking mile.
And the song, in my opinion, is worst than Die Another Die.
Love the North Korea rant!
I actually really like the Madonna song, it makes a nice change.
This movie had a spiritual successor in Kingsman: The Golden Circle.
I know people like to rag on the Roger Moore era, and hey, they're not wrong considering some of the dumb shit in it, but I unironically love all the dumb shit in it as it's almost playing all the spy tropes it help set forth, along with Moore always bringing his A Game. (RIP) Plus, "A View to A Kill" had Christopher Walken as Zorin, dare i say more?
They did references to previous films not only because this is the 20th Bond movie, but also because it was celebrating the franchise's 40th anniversary.
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.)
I shouldn't have to say this, but making fun of someone and making a fictionalized story about killing them are two different things, and the reason none of those things happened for the other incidents you mentioned is there was not a devastating cyber attack and threats of escalation from a leader worried about his number one fear coming true. It's like if a movie company in Afghanistan made a comedy about blowing up New York. As they've done that shit twice now, no one would just accept that. And as America has famously assassinated leaders before, as I said before, it feels like a threat. So pulling the movie from theaters was responsible, not cowardly. Showing the thing was not worth risking people's lives and property.
The song is better than Quantum of Solace song. Which is the worst
I heartily agree!!!
That “song” was lame and just bad.
Should’ve gone with Duffy for the theme song.
They couldn't have Col Moon go through plastic surgery and have him replace a South Korean mining tychoon or give him a indentical twin brother in Argentina who's being replaced by Col Moon ?
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."
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...
This was not a good movie, but that sword fight is just awesome. Even Mr. Plinkett, one of my favorite caustic critics, hailed it as a film sword fight done correctly.
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
madonna can actually sing?
you've never heard an isolated vocal track of hers, have you?
24:46
He shatters the entire windshield to let Jinx inside the car.
24:28
Full windshield.
It's so ridiculous Bond has this fat belly after being tortured for 14 months. How did the Koreans torture him? With good food?
5:50 Actually, that myth is confirmed.
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....
I actually enjoyed the Pierce Brosnan Bond films (including this one), just saying. Great review though.
The worst Bond theme ever? Another Way To Die begs to differ.
I think Benedict Cumberbatch should get a chance to play James Bond...
A possible explanation for the bad guy leaving the diamonds embedded in his face would be... because diamonds are forever?
Hey, I was born in 2002! Good to know i’m not the worst thing from that year 😂😂😂
Now happening with JOKER; so much for never happening again
Fun fact: the reason there was no backlash for team america world police? It was one of kim jung ils favorite movies. He actually found it hilarious, even when they made fun of him. His son wasnt so receptive
Kim Jong Un had several doctors executed for trying to put him on diets and outlawed sarcasm in North Korea because he thought the generals were making fun of him (not joking he actually did that)
So you can guess from that he has a very thin skin
Actually they tested in Mythbusters that it's possible to drive over a landmine with a hovercraft without exploding it (in theory).
yes this is the worst 007 movie , just a pile of shit
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.
Damn, I was really hoping you'd tackle QOS. Not that I think DAD is a great movie, but it was just too predictable for a review seeing as how other reviewers such as Film Brain already did it, and I haven't seen anyone review QOS yet. In my opinion, THAT'S the absolute worst Bond movie, and I know I'm definitely not alone on that one.
I actually like the invisible Car
I still refuse to believe that the supposedly best secret agent in the world is unable to escape from North Korea for fourteen months.
It is pretty hilarious that we never blinked when we made the Soviets our go to villains, and they actually got close to actually nuking us once, but the bargain bin Maoist half a country makes us piss our pants. I feel like the drug abuse of the 1960's and 70's finally caught up to a whole generation one sunny day in 2004.
Each time Sean talks about the diamonds, I have King Mah God (from Pehlous's Dingo Pictures review) screams : "The diamonds ? MAH GOD !"
Sadly, before I realized this is the worst Bond film, I bought it in iTunes, and to this day it remains the only Bond film I own in my collection
You should get Connery’s movies, specially From Russia With Love and Goldfinger.
I think their influence on spy media and specially movies is unquantifiable.
Dalton and Craig are also pretty good (tough you can skip Quantum Of Solace).
Moore is a little too goofy for me.
the last time pierce bronsnan played james bond was in 007 everything or nothing a video game that was actually pretty good
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.
I knew this day would come. Next episode is Phantom Menace.
Ever thought of doing something with FanboyFlicks? Two of my favorite bad movie reviewers.
+David Russendiz He should do something with GoodBadFlicks, IMO.
William Glover or a three way collaboration
I actually started the Fleming books before seeing the films.......After DAD.....I wanted Bond to die. Thank god for Craig and Casino Royale
Chinese invading the US? I'd be more worried about Bethesda suing.
+noobmaster117 uwotm8
3:59 You forgot to mention Olympus Has Fallen (2013), which Rick Yeun was also in, when talking about N. Korean villans in movies.
I really like this movie .
I enjoyed Die Another day very much, when it comes to bond flicks realism is not a priority and i had great fun watching it.
Saying so, i also enjoyed the review and couldn't stop laughing it was one of the funniest reviews I've seen. Good job even if we disagree with our opinion on the film itself
Just because it doesn't have to be realistic doesn't excuse it from still needing to be comprehensible and sensible. This movie wasn't, and it fails because of it.
Correction: John Cleese reprised his role as Q in the video game Everything or Nothing. But as far as the movies, yes.
Do super mario bros!
i think sam smith's - writings on the wall is the worst bond song ever. but madonna's - die another day is a definite second worst.
Writing on the wall is really good, imo. It sounds really good and seems like a Bond song.
+James Writings on the wall is an average bond theme, at least fits the tone of the franchise... but Die another day is awfull
Your face is fuggin creepy. It's pretty awesome.