Episode 21: Die Another Day
Well friends, it's finally happened. We're at the end of the Brosnan years. And by God is he not going gently into that good night.
Join us for a ""Celebration"" ""of all things Bond"" as the movie sucks itself off for being the 20th Bond film so hard that it forgets to actually be a movie in and of itself.
And in a called shot that goes back to January of this year, we are joined by the man, the myth, the legend: Riley Quinn, host of Trashfuture and The Bottlemen!
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Comments (25)
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.😅
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
may i humbly suggest for upcoming bonus episodes: Paul blart mall cop 2 and the incredibles 2
If Riley was an oyster he'd die trying to self-shuck
The shirt needs to exist
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
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
I demand the shirt.
So how long till the Wild Wild West bonus episode
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
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
them song is dire nother day
This is such a motherfucking Westwood era Command and Conquer game of a movie
I would definitely buy the shirt that Alice suggested!
Though I guess it was TECHNICALLY Devon who suggested it…
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!
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.
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
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".
1:31:27 maybe he still is in that north korean prison and all of this was just in his head...
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.
Impressive how this film managed to rip off the villain death from The Incredibles 2 yrs before that even came out
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
For all the talk of rehashing and merging things, no credit for the hybrid doomsday device "Solex Agitator stapled to Goldeneye"?