Sunday, December 01, 2002

 
MOVIE REVIEW: DIE ANOTHER DAY * (1 star out of 4).
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I'm not a huge fan of the James Bond genre, but I usually do enjoy these movies, at least on a superficial level. However, this is my least favorite James Bond movie that I've seen. My two main complaints are these:

First, I know that James Bond is, on some level, a science fiction character, and he's supposed to have the very "latest" technology, including some things that haven't exactly been invented yet. Nonetheless, these things usually sound reasonably plausible, like something we could invent in the next five or ten years, if we really put our resources to it. But in this movie, James Bond gets an invisible car. He presses a button, and his car becomes invisible, using holographic projections of what's on the other side of the car. This does not seem like something that we're going to invent in the next 10 or 20 or 50 years. This sounds like something that we will invent in no fewer than 200 years, if ever. So, now, does James Bond have an invisible car from now on? If so, that seems like a major revision of the character. But if not, then why not?

My second main complaint is that the sexual innuendo was very coarse and not the least bit clever. I found Mr. Bond and his associates to be not the least bit sophisticated in this regard, and some of the crude double entendres offended my intelligence, if not my sensibilities.

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