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amp316 said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
I got invited to see this movie in a cinema as a kid, mainly because my city's in in (Bilbao) and that doesn't happen too often.

I remember it being pretty horrible.

 

I wonder how much it cost them to film in Bilbao since the city is in the movie only for the first five minutes.  What a waste of money.

From what I heard, there were going to film a chase scene there, but because the weather wouldn't improve (it rains here practically every day except for July/August, so I don't know if they did their research properly or just thought 'Spain's sunny so it's cool') they just shot what they could in a few hours (they just wanted to show the Guggenheim museum anyway) and changed the script around that.

Perhaps that's proof that they didn't put much effort behind the movie.



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thank god we had the austin powers series just at the right time to counter the madness and sillyness of the last three Brosnan Bond movies..



 

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I quite like TWiNE, my major gripe with it is Denise Richards acting.

I can understand why you don't like it Amp, and even why you rate it lower than TND... but Die Another Day is an atrocity of a film in general, I really don't understand why you will be rating it higher than TWiNE.



There are several Bond movies that when I watched for the first time I felt asleep... Diamonds are Forever, Octopussy, For Your Eyes Only and The World is not Enough. The first three, I watched again and I really liked. While Diamonds are Forever remain a good movie until the appearance of the fake Willard White, Octopussy had (to me) the most complicated plot in the series but well executed and FYEO had a serious Moore acting- maybe the only movie that he acts that way. The World is Not Enough I watched only once -two years ago and the sad thing is that I dont remember anything about the movie.The only thing that I still remember is that the oil plot is ridiculous.

I was going to watch again today... But reading your review I think that I will do it later....



Like Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough is what I would consider just another okay modern Bond movie, that I'll only watch every once in a while. The Bond films that follow afterwards, are the ones that I can no longer tolerate.

With The World is Not Enough, the producers tried to experiment by adding more in-depth story/characters , but in the end, it was executed rather poorly. Renard could have been a pretty good villain, but the poor execution ruined it. Most of the time I forgot that he couldn't feel pain, and on top of that, he doesn't get enough screen time.

Now in regards to Brosnan, I think he had the potential to be a good James Bond, if it wasn't for the producers constantly performing their lame experiments. This has been an ongoing issue since Roger Moore left the role of Bond, and is one of the big reasons why I hold A View To A Kill so close to my heart. Since that time, the Bond series has never been the same afterward. It was the end of the old-school era of Bond, and the beginning of a tradition of constantly tinkering with the character, tone, and focus of the films. First, there was the more serious and realistic Dalton Bonds. When this didn't work, the producers decided to go back to the Moore/Connery formula for Brosnan's first Bond outing, GoldenEye. This worked out very well, but unfortunately, it was never built upon. Instead, the producers decided to turn Brosnan into Rambo in a tux for the next film. Then in the next film, they decided that they should perhaps make him a more deeper and emotional character. And for his final Bond film, they just decided to make him a crazy cartoon character. And then there's the Craig Bond films, which I'm not going to get into right now.

Since Roger Moore's departure, there has been three actors to play Bond. Each has such a different take and feel, that it's almost like three different film series with a common theme and character name. They seem so disconnected from each other, that it keeps me from really getting into the series before it's changed up again.

By the way, Amp, what's up with your comment about Brosnan being a "Roger Moore Lite"? Are you poking fun at Roger Moore, one of my favourite James Bonds, again?



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I like this one.

Probably a 3/5 for me, sits somewhere in the middle.



I am very upset that you gave this 0 stars only because it means you can't give Die Another Day a lower score which it deserves because it is the absolute worst James Bond movie of all time. I expected you to give this a one. You are going have to explain to me specifically why you don't give Die Another Day at least a score of -2 now.



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lol I remember this movie as one of my first genuine disappointment in cinema...back then you don't know what "disappointing" feels like....I think I just felt underwhelmed after seeing it

Still I would give it 6/10 & it holds more entertainment value than quantam of boredom.



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DixieKong said:

Like Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough is what I would consider just another okay modern Bond movie, that I'll only watch every once in a while. The Bond films that follow afterwards, are the ones that I can no longer tolerate.

With The World is Not Enough, the producers tried to experiment by adding more in-depth story/characters , but in the end, it was executed rather poorly. Renard could have been a pretty good villain, but the poor execution ruined it. Most of the time I forgot that he couldn't feel pain, and on top of that, he doesn't get enough screen time.

Now in regards to Brosnan, I think he had the potential to be a good James Bond, if it wasn't for the producers constantly performing their lame experiments. This has been an ongoing issue since Roger Moore left the role of Bond, and is one of the big reasons why I hold A View To A Kill so close to my heart. Since that time, the Bond series has never been the same afterward. It was the end of the old-school era of Bond, and the beginning of a tradition of constantly tinkering with the character, tone, and focus of the films. First, there was the more serious and realistic Dalton Bonds. When this didn't work, the producers decided to go back to the Moore/Connery formula for Brosnan's first Bond outing, GoldenEye. This worked out very well, but unfortunately, it was never built upon. Instead, the producers decided to turn Brosnan into Rambo in a tux for the next film. Then in the next film, they decided that they should perhaps make him a more deeper and emotional character. And for his final Bond film, they just decided to make him a crazy cartoon character. And then there's the Craig Bond films, which I'm not going to get into right now.

Since Roger Moore's departure, there has been three actors to play Bond. Each has such a different take and feel, that it's almost like three different film series with a common theme and character name. They seem so disconnected from each other, that it keeps me from really getting into the series before it's changed up again.

By the way, Amp, what's up with your comment about Brosnan being a "Roger Moore Lite"? Are you poking fun at Roger Moore, one of my favourite James Bonds, again?

I was actually not poking fun at Roger Moore at all.  I was doing it with Brosnan.  If you look at the thread, I made three comparisons between Brosnan and Moore with me taking Moore's side every time.  I am sick and tired of hearing about how Brosnan is such a good Bond and that he has the positive characteristics of both Connery and Moore because he doesn't.  Roger was very good at playing the lighter and humorous side of 007.  My point was that Brosnan also tries to do so and fails miserably in my opinion.  The only time that I poke fun at Roger was becasue he was far too old at the end of his run.  Truth be told, I think that The Spy Who Loved Me is one of the best Bond films ever.



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