Bond Anyone?
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Jo_5329

Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 04:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
DH and I went to see "Die Another Day" last night.

Let me clarify my feelings on 2 things here.
(1) I Love Pierce Bronson as Bond. He has done a better job of taking over the role than Daltry (sp) and Lazonbe (sp)
(2) The Bond "girl" should not over shadow Bond, period, end of discussion .. I won't talk about it <pouts>

The movie was typical "Bond" .... humor, sex, Money Penny on the drool, M being a boss that underneath gives a <wink> about Bond more than she ever lets on to anyone. Q, which John Cleese (sp) does amazingly well. He had some huge shoes to fill there.

SPOILER- Look for nods to the other Bond Movies throughout the movie though. You will be surprised how many things "slip" in .

The cars are amazing as usual, the special effects are knit well -- except for one seen in Switzerland, the CGI/Blue screen was way too obvious.

Okay now for the worst part of the whole movie, for me, and the part that almost made me walk out of the theater ..... Madonna's theme song SUCKS THE BIG ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I sat there with my fingers in my ears and hummed to myself just to get through it and to keep from loosing my supper.

Okay, got that off my chest.

Jo

Hummingbird

Monday, December 02, 2002 - 07:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't watch Bond movies any longer. Why? Because Sean Connery is the ONLY James Bond. The others are impostors.

Kstme

Monday, December 02, 2002 - 09:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Raymond Benson writes with Pierce Brosnon as Bond. I like PB as Bond. Like Roger Moore too. Didn't appreciate Connery until he "aged" and was no longer playing the character.

That being said. TheKid and dh saw this one. Both felt disappointed in it. Loved Halle Barry and Brosnon, but felt the story lacked big time.

Hummingbird

Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 09:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Loved the young Sean Connery as Bond! Those eyes, those lips, that panther-like stride! The ersatz Bonds never matched up.