Adam and I caught a matinee of Die Another Day to save money but they raised ticket prices so we only got a dollar off normal price.
He thought it was even worse than the Transporter, but he didn’t get his hopes up so the disappointment was less.
I admit, I’m a total sucker for Bond movies. I’m not even one of those people who go on and on about how Connery is the best Bond. See, I like franchises that exist long enough to build up enough meta to have extra levels. Like the Simpsons. Simpsons writers now are people who have been watching the Simpsons for years. There’s no way they can ever be in a non Simpson state. Same thing with Bond movies. In this one, they really poked fun at themselves, like the appearance of old gadgets and the car fight.
The sword fight was pretty sweet (actually, all the sword stuff was). So I consider myself entertained. The last bit is pretty bad upon further reflection, but oh well.
There’s are huge technical plot holes, of course (the invisible car has so many things wrong with it, hovercrafts still exert downwards pressure on the ground, big satellites just don’t happen) but if you want to justify, then you can think of these things as modern day adaptations of old storytelling conventions like the invisibility cloak or hand of god type stuff.
Yay. Bond.
I liked the movie, but it seemed like the filmakers had sketched out the primary elements of a stereotypical Bond movie and then made a by-the-numbers flick based on what went before. The satellite and the diamond thing were retreads from an older picture (10 points to whoever guesses the correct one). While it’s nice to see the franchise continue, one wonders how they’re going to keep it fresh for the next ten years.
Of course, the Bond series and the Godzilla series are probably the only ones that get to change almost, if not all, of the entire cast every outing, so future behavior is difficult to predict. Maybe there’ll be enough data in a hundred years.