Archives: A
- E F - N O
- Z Posters Message
Boards
Who
We Are and Why We Do What We Do
BLU-RAY DVDs:
Batman Begins
Black Hawk Down
Blade Runner
Bourne Trilogy
Cars
Casino Royale
Cloverfield
Dark Knight
the Duchess
Enchanted
Fifth Element
Hellboy
Chronicles of Narnia
Harry Potter years 1-5
Ice Age
Incredible HULK
Independence Day
Iron Man
Juno
Kill Bill 1 & 2
Kung Fu Panda
Mamma Mia!
Men in Black
No Country for Old Men
Persepolis
Pirates: Dead Man's Chest
Pirates: At World's End
Rambo box set
Ratatouille
Spiderwick Chronicles
Sleeping Beauty
Star Wars Prequel Trilogy (1-3)
Star Wars Trilogy (4-6)
Terminator
Terminator 2
Top Gun
Total Recall
Transformers SE
300
Ultimate Matrix coll
Twilight
Underworld
V for Vendetta
Wall-E SE
X-Men Trilogy
Zack & Miri Make a Porno
We're Kidlet Safe
Search engine
by FreeFind
click to search site
Now in Release:
Adam Resurrected
An American Affair
Cadillac Records
Che
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Coraline
Curious Case of
Benjamin Button
Day the Earth Stood Still
Defiance
Donkey Punch
Doubt
The Express
Four Christmases
Frost/Nixon
Inkheart
The International
Milk
New in Town
Pink Panther 2
Pride and Glory
Revolutionary Road
Role Models
Sex Drive
Slumdog Millionaire
The Spirit
Taken
Two Lovers
The Uninvited
Watchmen
What Just Happened
While She Was Out
DVDs on Sale:
Alice
in Wonderland
An American in Paris
Batman
Begins
Bambi
Beauty
and the Beast
Blade
Runner
Cinderella
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
E.T.
Forrest
Gump
Gone
With the Wind
Harry
Potter yrs 1-4 set
Harry
Potter Order of Phoenix
Alfred Hitchcock set
Incredible Hulk SE
Indiana
Jones trilogy
Iron Man SE
Kung Fu Panda
The
Lion King
Lord
of Rings 12 discs
Mamma Mia! SE
Mary
Poppins 40th LE
Marx Bros set
Ultimate
Matrix set
Monty
Python - Holy Grail
Pirates of Caribbean 3
Ratatouille
Saw I - IV set
Saw III (unrated)
Saw IV (unrated)
Saw V (unrated)
Shrek Trilogy
Simpsons Movie
Sin
City
Sleeping
Beauty
South
Park Movie
Spider-Man Trilogy
Spiderwick Chronicles
Star Wars Prequel Trilogy (1-3)
Star
Wars Trilogy (4-6)
Twilight
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Wall-E SE
X-Men Trilogy
Zack & Miri make a Porno
Looney
Toons
Golden Age DVD
Volume
1
Volume
2
Volume
3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Volume 6
Rocky & Bullwinkle DVD
Season
1
Season
2
Season
3
Popeye the Sailor DVD
v.1 1933 - 1938
v.2 1938 - 1940
v.3 1941 - 1943
75th anniversary coll.ed.
Star
Trek TOS (TV)
Star
Trek TNG
Star
Trek Films
 click for full sized poster |
Tomorrow Never Dies Starring Pierce
Brosnan; |
IN SHORT: Best Bond since Thunderball.
First, a flashback: Cranky and his friends, to the man, all walked out of Goldeneye holding the same opinion: If only Pierce Brosnan had something to do, rather than go through the paces that made every Bond film seem the same time and time again, the series could once again be close to what it was when Sean Connery was Bond.
Cranky doesn't care how much money Goldeneye made, it was tired and by the book and, most important, it wasn't fun.
Someone finally paid attention. True, everything in Tomorrow Never Dies is in the Bond template, from a big bang opening sequence (followed by the usual fizzle of a Bond song) is here -- the gadgets, the car, the girls, the explosions -- but the 18th flick in the MGM franchise explodes gloriously across the screen.
Everything in the Bond template gets done better than it's been done in years. Lots of gadgets, all of which Bond uses. A terrific new car which more than earns its keep as the best Christmas present a boy can get - - and if you don't agree with me, just watch Brosnan in the back seat of the car, grinning and cackling like the aforementioned boy, as he guides the BMW by remote control. Delightful.
The action sequences in Tomorrow Never Dies are the most fun I've sat through in years, thanks to director Roger Spottiswoode who knows when to cut a sequence short, and how to blend action with humor (He should. He helmed Eddie Murphy's 48 Hours.) A long sequence, set on the streets and rooftops of Saigon offers the joy of a very clever and potentially gory death for Bond -- but I won't tell you what it is -- and the thrill of seeing action starbabe Michelle Yeoh (last seen in Jackie Chan's Supercop) wrapped around Bond and handcuffed to him, all at the same time. The villain, in this case media baron Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) meets a suitably grotesque and gory end. Oh happy, happy joy joy!
The story in brief: Carver, as Lord and Master of a media empire with tendrils into every house on the planet with a television, wants control of the news information flow into every home. Info is power, y'know. Therefore he must create the story which, in this case, is World War 3. Bond has 48 hours to stop him, aided by his Chinese equivalent, a sexy hard kicking agent named Wai Lin (Yeoh). Teri Hatcher, as his Carver's wife Paris, adds spice and a bit of skin as a former Bond love.
Wait, there's more.
The double entendres fly hot and heavy in the first hour. Just enough to make you groan, and then they're gone. "M" (Judi Dench) has a bigger role than jockeying a desk and "Q" (Desmond Llewellyn) plays a supporting role in two, count 'em two, product placements. Yes, you've all been bitching online about the commercials for umpteen products that have purchased a place in Tomorrow Never Dies. Cranky has, too. Get over it. The film rocks.
On average, a first run movie ticket will run you Eight Bucks. Were Cranky able to set his own price to Tomorrow Never Dies, he would have paid...
$7.00
Tomorrow Never Dies is everything a boy could want. Except for the song, in which singer Sheryl Crow sounds like a beached whale. Unlike Goldeneye, which barely recovered from its song, Tomorrow Never Dies rights itself in two or three minutes and zooms off into the Bond hall of fame.
 |
Click to buy films starring Pierce Brosnan |
| Click to buy films starring Jonathan Pryce | |
| Click to buy films by Roger Spottiswoode | |
| Click to buy James Bond films |