Episode 21: Die Another Day

Blair the bugblair barblairian

Forgot to comment this last week, but this podcast was the first time I ever heard the term "blairite" used, and it caused me psychic damage every single time I heard it.😅

oranjest1

Bond: "It is incredibly fortunate that a disability exists in most of our enemies. If a disability didn't exist, we'd have to make one ourselves" oh shit no that's actually Biden about Israel not Bond about disabilities oh fuck

josie

may i humbly suggest for upcoming bonus episodes: Paul blart mall cop 2 and the incredibles 2

Noblesse Oblahaj

If Riley was an oyster he'd die trying to self-shuck

Kimmie

The shirt needs to exist

Christine Pizan

the roger moore bonds never felt they need to justify why they existed, narratively speaking, yet it seems like throughout the brosnan years that's been a big concern the writers had

Christine Pizan

this is definitely the most fucking insecure a bond movie ever gets why don't you love me, why are you watching triple x and the matrix, i'm still cool, i can do extreme sports, please love me

An Actual Dog woof woof

I demand the shirt.

The Beak TM

So how long till the Wild Wild West bonus episode

toxdaniel

You guys are determined to create shirts that I cannot wear in front of my parents or even just in public. The only one I could conceivably wear is the Lazenby, all the others are just wack

Harry Brennan

I have so, so many thoughts after this... 1. The film melts everyone's brains so much that the last act of the film gets compressed into the last 20 mins of the podcast. there's not even any time to unpack how mental the car chase and final villain showdown are. 2. Because of that, Moon's dumb exo-suit gets mentioned, but noone brings up how for some reason, it has *a button on his chest that kills other people, unless *someone else presses it*, and then it *shocks him** ?! 3. and Bond's car has an ejector seat, which is set up... he gets flipped on his roof in the car chase, presses the ejector seat, and instead of firing him into the ground as mulch, it... flips the car back up and keeps him in his seat?! 4. No mention at all of the villain getting killed like Syndrome in the Incredibles? 5. all the milking s**t about Brosnan at the end - hilarious, but we know it only exists because this film melts the brain of anyone who watches it

Harry Brennan

Impressive how this film managed to rip off the villain death from The Incredibles 2 yrs before that even came out

Rowan

them song is dire nother day

david hobson

This is such a motherfucking Westwood era Command and Conquer game of a movie

The Token Detergent Rinser (British)

Though I guess it was TECHNICALLY Devon who suggested it…

The Token Detergent Rinser (British)

I would definitely buy the shirt that Alice suggested!

Dana Himrich

I'm a little surprised that you didn't mention how Toby Stephens has played Bond in several BBC radio dramas, making him (at least to my knowledge) the only actor who has played both Bond and and a Bond villain in official adaptations. My theory about why this movie is Like That is very simple: the producers wanted a John Woo movie. Face/Off and Mission Impossible 2 had both come out a few years earlier, and EON probably thought that was gonna be the future of action/espionage movies before Bourne came along and mucked everything up. And apparently they did ask John Woo to direct this!

Ignatius

Lee Tamahori's debut film 'Once Were Warriors', for all its faults, is a superbly crafted and emotionally devastating movie. I simply cannot fathom how he went from that to 'Die Another Day' in less than a decade. Though I imagine we have him to thank for casting the great Lawrence Makoare as Mr. Kil.

Tom Moffat

Is “Riley of Trashfish and the Bottlemen” anything? I don’t think so, but it was rattling around my brain demanding to be let out. Not that Riley knows who they are anyway

Cate Kneale

I do hope you cover why "Sigmund Freud, analyse this" is the most profound statement on the Bond film franchise, expressing as it does the competing Eros and Thanatos drives herewith expressed. Also I really want an Alice drop of Madonna saying "cockfights".

Alfred Lang

1:31:27 maybe he still is in that north korean prison and all of this was just in his head...

OvO Hoot

Have to mention since they didn't: the quip Bond says when the villain gets sucked into a jet engine by his parachute is "Time to face gravity". That has nothing to do with gravity, idiot. That's like the opposite of gravity.

Kerfliggle

Other things Toby Stephens is: 1) Captain Flint from Black Sails, 2) John Robinson from Netflix’s Lost in Space. 3) In real life, the son of Dame Maggie Smith. 🤯

The ending bit gave me a rib injury sweet merciful pain it hurts so bad but I laughed so hard

Made up name

For all the talk of rehashing and merging things, no credit for the hybrid doomsday device "Solex Agitator stapled to Goldeneye"?

British Pterodactyl

No thanks. I like cock... fights.