Hey, this means I'll have enough time to catch up.

Will you though? 😉

After chatting with Doc755, we decided that it's best to proceed as normal and then reconvene in November for No Time to Die.

Who knows: maybe we'll come up with another movie rewatch to bide the time until then  

I can try. :P

I'll try to see The Living Daylights tomorrow.

Die Another Day was trash.

I loved the intro.

The movie jumped the shark for me at the invisible car. The slow mo was very annoying, like it was trying to be the Matrix. I found them to be even worse than the green screen shots.

3 out of 10 for me, too.

I just saw "The Living Daylights".

Quite a turnaround for Bond movies. Leaving behind the more over the top and fantastic aspects of the Moore movies, The Living Daylights follows a very solid structure, with one of the most down to earth plots in the series. It also manageg to keep me guessing about the villain's plan without being too convoluted or contrived. The script is surprisingly well written, and it manages to deliver some great scenes that take advantage of the spy setting. Maybe the only problem it has is how dated some of the setpieces are, but I guess I can't be too hard on the movie for that. Timothy Dalton plays a much more grounded and professional Bond, with less of the glamour and theatrics of Moore or Connery. His acting makes a lot of the movie work. The scene in which he has Pushkin pinned down and he threatens to execute him is a rather chilling scene, reinforcing his role as a spy and hired assassin. The rest of the cast, however, is not that great. Maryam d'Abo is not a particularly good or noteworthy Bond girl (though she's smarter than usual and actively participates in the plot), and the whole cello subplot feels somewhat tacky, I kept expecting the cello to have some sort of importance for the plot, but it never really has it. The villains are also pretty weak. The three antagonists range between generic and annoying, which is not a good thing. In particular, the arms dealer and the "defector" aren't particularly intimidating or threatening, leaving all of that work to the main hencheman, which does have a really good infiltration scene in the country mansion. Also, the super car didn't really match the tone of the movie. It's one thing that Bond has a couple of hi-tech gadgets, and another thing entirely to have the fucking gadgetmobile.

Overall, it's a solid movie, and a welcomed change of pace in regards to Bond movies. A solid 8/10.

It's funny how many entries in popular franchises from the late 90s and early 2000s that were slammed hard on their initial release are being revisited by fans, and being judged to be not as bad as we thought they were at the time... except for Die Another Day, which most people still seem to agree completely sucks ass.

Not that I can disagree with that assessment, mind you.

PSA: As we head into the Craig era, streaming options once again become limited, however for those with HBO or any of its associated apps, Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace are among the options.

Die Another Day

Opening credits are awful – a very music video style sequence.  The theme tune, its certainly a divisive one, people either love it or really hate. I’m actually ok with it even if it doesn’t fit the film and led to Madonna’s awful cameo.

So I'm not actually going to review any further, this is film is so bad it's not even worthy of it.
I'll just note some of the embarrassments:
Needlessly terrible looking Green Scene after Green Scene sequences, half of which could have easily been shot with stunts on location.
Invisible Car, windsurfing, the danger room sequence with the sunglasses, almost every actin sequence in slow-motion, Michael Madsen looking like it doesn't want to be here, the creating of some stupid DNA restructuring storyline seemingly so they can have a North Korean villain but played by a white British guy...

Stephens is even less intimidating as a villain than Jonathan Pryce, an at least Pryce had the excuse of age and playing a media mogul, not a general.
Rosemund Pike is the only person who comes out of this with any credibility.

Atrocious... 1/10.