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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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24 November 2002 - 12:31 am
If you're looking for a good movie to see in then nest few days, I'd like to recommend the new James Bond flick Die Another Day. Like all good Bond movies, it is very over-the-top, but this one has a bit of an edge to it. I don't want to give too much away, but I will mention that the title sequence is awesome. It's the typical Bond sequence with stylized girls dancing and swimming around on the screen, but it is also highlighting a rather disturbing torture sequence.
After the movie is over and reality sets in, you'll find yourself thinking that there's no way that James could have done this or that, but you won't find yourself thinking that during the movie. My adrenaline was pumping. Was he going to make it alive? Was he going to catch up with the bad guy? I don't want to spoil things for you, but of course the answers are yes and yes. But during the film I wasn't so sure.
The only fly in the ointment was the predictability of the plot. As michael can testify, I had a pretty good handle on just about everything that was going to happen, in broad generalities if not specifics. But that didn't seem to lessen my enjoyment of the film at all. Die Another Day gets my enthusiastic approval.
Posted by on 24 November 2002 at 12:31 AM
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i think that this one was edgier in response to XXX. You gotta keep the kids interested. Not that I didn't like the movie; i did. But I found the idea of Bond doing all that crazy surfing a little ridiculous...
Posted by ben on 26 November 2002 - 3:29 PM
The surfing was the most ridiculous part of the movie. I suspect that they had him surfing in the beginning to make the later surfing scene seem more realistic.
Of course, the whole thing about Bond flicks is that they aren't realistic. At all. michael makes a good point when he says that the problem with the two preceeding Bond movies was that they tried to be too realistic. I mean, Bond is the guy who flies around on jet packs and drives his car underwater. There's supposed to be more there than regular action movies offer.
Posted by david on 26 November 2002 - 5:05 PM
I remember feeling disgusted with the 2nd surfing scene. Not only is it not at all realistic, but it was quite obviously blue screen/cgi'ed. It was one of the worst looking effects shots I've seen since the 80s.
Posted by james on 27 November 2002 - 1:26 PM