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    Thumbs down 'Try Another Day' (spoilers)

    I am a big 007 fan but this has to be the worse Bond movie I have seen in recent history.......

    I expected it to be bad, but god not this bad, this movie simply is over the top sci fi which usually belongs to movies like Charlie's Angels.... =P

    This is one of the weakest Bond films destined to sit on the shelf alongside Moonraker, Octopussey and Tomorrow Never Dies.

    There is a great opening credit sequence, gritty and exciting and showing a real edge to Bond and a side of him that we haven't seen... then Madonna song comes on...it is ****ing awfull !!

    The set pieces are ridiculous, the CGI is at times laughable, there is quite simply the worst CGI scene in film history in this film, it looks like a computer game -... blah

    The theme of this film is too much towards sci-fi, and tooo much pop corn..... Madonnas cameo is out of place and obviously her payment for singing the theme.

    take it ..... the parachute and snowboard scene.. I mean HOW the Hell does an OLD FART like Pierce Brosnan do that...?
    and the final airplane fight scene was excellently over-the-top... this is not Matrix ..... this is James Bond 007, its suppose to have British elegance and character... but it has bacome an American pop corn fick/flick....

    The moment I got out of the theatre I already forgot what the hell I just watched... another Bond film with a Bad guy trying to use a satellite to take over the world?... hey i think that was the same story from the last 3 Bond movies...

    btw Bourne Identity 10x better than this Bond film and the next 007 is this guy

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    Die Another Day: not enjoyable nonsense.

    The Bourne Identity: enjoyable nonsense.

    xXx: some enjoyable nonsense.
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    The point of xXx was to make a 007 for todays generation.. and it works perfectly. Loved it for that. Current 007 flicks are going down in quality but I'm still looking forward to Die Another Day (seeing tomororw). 007 is trying to keep its pants on and beat xXx which is different. 007 has lost its type of genre movie... a purely spy movie. I guess some blame can go with Russian being allies now but Hollywood wants to show that but its only fiction stories and movies. U can still carry on spy stuff between the most powerful countires.

    Agreed thats its too much of a popcorn flick. Mystery is what 007 is about!
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    hey,
    i liked bond, and DAD, and the new movies, and Brosnan, they're different from the old bonds/movies, which makes it unique
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    waiting to see it on DVD

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    Originally posted by Kn'thrak
    The point of xXx was to make a 007 for todays generation.. and it works perfectly. Loved it for that. Current 007 flicks are going down in quality but I'm still looking forward to Die Another Day (seeing tomororw). 007 is trying to keep its pants on and beat xXx which is different. 007 has lost its type of genre movie... a purely spy movie. I guess some blame can go with Russian being allies now but Hollywood wants to show that but its only fiction stories and movies. U can still carry on spy stuff between the most powerful countires.

    Agreed thats its too much of a popcorn flick. Mystery is what 007 is about!
    I disagree. xXx and 007 are totally different. While the 007 series relies heavily on convoluted plots and the same lovable old James Bond, xXx insults its viewers with action sequences that do not compliment the plot. It also insults the viewer's intelligence, while the James Bond series has always carried on coherent and sometimes very complex storylines.
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    Originally posted by MovieDetective
    I disagree. xXx and 007 are totally different. While the 007 series relies heavily on convoluted plots and the same lovable old James Bond, xXx insults its viewers with action sequences that do not compliment the plot. It also insults the viewer's intelligence, while the James Bond series has always carried on coherent and sometimes very complex storylines.
    Well stated there!
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    Originally posted by MovieDetective
    I disagree. xXx and 007 are totally different. While the 007 series relies heavily on convoluted plots and the same lovable old James Bond, xXx insults its viewers with action sequences that do not compliment the plot. It also insults the viewer's intelligence, while the James Bond series has always carried on coherent and sometimes very complex storylines.
    Thats exactly what I said.... with the added that 007 is trying to be like xXx now. Big mistake!!!

    If xXx was insulting... why such a huge profit and just about everyone liked it? Thats just saying, its like sticking ur head in a bucket of acid and enjoying the experience

    The last good 007 was GoldenEye. It was so old style 007 it was just too good. *dreams about Tank scene*

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    Originally posted by Kn'thrak

    If xXx was insulting... why such a huge profit and just about everyone liked it? Thats just saying, its like sticking ur head in a bucket of acid and enjoying the experience
    Well xXx's target audience is generally only concerned with the special effects and music and overall "badass"ness of the movie. I'm not denying that the movie is probably very entertaining if you appreciate films like that. I can't ask everyone to think the same way I do.

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    Having seen all three spy movies, I'd rank 'em as follows:

    1)Tie: DAD and Bourne
    2)xXx

    Now, I really liked all three. Bourne was a perfect old-school 007 movie, even if it wasn't Bond. DAD is a damn-near perfect modernized Bond movie, with enough plot and intrigue to satisfy spy junkies and enough solid action to satisfy those who just want a popcorn flick. xXx was 2 hours of loud, mindless action.
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    Quote Originally Posted by blugh
    Having seen all three spy movies, I'd rank 'em as follows:

    1)Tie: DAD and Bourne
    2)xXx

    Now, I really liked all three. Bourne was a perfect old-school 007 movie, even if it wasn't Bond. DAD is a damn-near perfect modernized Bond movie, with enough plot and intrigue to satisfy spy junkies and enough solid action to satisfy those who just want a popcorn flick. xXx was 2 hours of loud, mindless action.
    ok, anyone who says bourne identity was a good movie must not have read the book, the people who made the movie should be shot for killing that book, that book (and the other 2 in the trilogy bourne identity, bourne supremacy, bourne ultimatum) r some of the best books ever, insane suspence, and twists thrown in everywhere. if u havent read them do

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    I've got to admit DAD is not (yet?) my favourite Bond.

    For one thing technical I don't like the blue screen/green screen effect. Looks fake with blurred edges. It may work in Minority Report but not Bond.

    The laser fight scene did remind me of computer game.

    Mind you it's a homage to the last 19th "official" Bond film so if it's over-the-top it's a "homage to the over-the-tops".

    On a five-star scale, I give a five. Four goes to the girl who'd been a good sport and went to the movie with me.

    Need to see it again to make up my mind when it comes out on DVD cos I've gotta admit, I wasn't paying much attention on screen.

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    Originally posted by editman
    Four goes to the girl who'd been a good sport and went to the movie with me
    Girls Girls Girls ... any other hobbies besides that editman? :butt:

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    Originally posted by Mischa
    Girls Girls Girls ... any other hobbies besides that editman? :butt:
    Movies, sex and occasionally saving the world. Don't want nothing more. Don't need nothing more.

    For Editman, work is play. Play is work. That is my destiny. I work hard. I play hard. Why right this moment I'm bloody working.

    I had no frirends and never will have any. I am the lonelist person in the whole wide world. A lighthouse keeper at the fringe of the world standing guide for nobody. A spare part. A placebo.

    Because, ultimately, I am just an ungrateful bastard.

    There. You got me started.

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    sounds like u are the lost 009 agent :big grin:

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