Bond. James Bond.

Ian got GoldenEye confused with Tomorrow Never Dies for the Playstation.

Ian's Bond Education
Tomorrow Never Dies



Now for what may be the most generic of all the Bond movie titles...

Tomorrow Never Dies opens well, as Bond has to fly a nuclear missile out of a terrorist mountain camp before the whole place explodes.  it injects adrenaline into the movie as it is meant to.  I also liked the plot set up where a secret organization is trying to start a war between China and Britain, even though this gives us quite the stretch with no Bond. 

However, I found that this set up was mostly disappointing.  They keep hinting throughout the movie that China and the West are tat the brink of war, but that tension is never really felt at all.  We only get a couple headlines here and there.  I also didn't like Jonathon Price's villain, playing a sinister William Randolph Hearst.  It felt like the filmmakers here wanted to say something clever about media mogulism, but it wasn't very compelling.

But here's my biggest problem with the movie (which is my same problem with the title): its generic.  There's really nothing special or interesting about this particular Bond installment.  Action scenes are scattered throughout, but they're pretty plain Jane.  There is a motorcycle/car/helicopter chase which is very run-of-the-mill.  There's a part where the movie oddly turns into a kung fu movie for about 3 minutes.  Then there is the climax on the stealth boat with is just more of the same: James shooting guns while running as things around him explode.

TND is not incompetent, but there is absolutely nothing special.  Except maybe that part where he pretends to give a guy a light and instead punches him in the face.

5/10

Skyfall took forever because MGM was falling apart.  The other problem is that Daniel Craig is being a bitch and whining about doing these so they keep giving him time to do other stuff.  That and they feel they need to over-complicate things and "save" the franchise with every movie so they're probably taking more time to write all of them.

I kind of agree. In fact, I'm pretty sure I've seen enough evidence to know that all three of us miss the days of classic, fun, Bond.

You can fix Die Another Day. Spectre should have been an entirely different movie.

A better example would be:

I rather get Tomorrow Never Dies every 2 years than Skyfall every 4 years.

I think you guys might enjoy the last two Brosnan movies more than I do.

Thing is, I don't know that extra time is really any guarantee that these end up being better (see: Quantum of Solace). If anything I feel like a big part of the problem they've been having is that they're overthinking these things.

I agree with that, Spectre was a good example of them succumbing to attempting to put too much into the film, though overall I still liked the film even if it wasn't as good as Casino Royale or Skyfall. 

Ok you have a point only because I have no recollection who you're talking about.  Granted I haven't seen that movie since I was like 12, but I'll give you the nod.  I just really hate Die Another Day.

Christmas Jones.

*drops mic*