Joss Whedon quips

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by plastroncafe

Every movie can't be a winner.

They can be a winner in their heart...

[plastroncafe]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

They can be a winner in their heart...

Don't worry, we're not taking away anyone's Participation Trophy.

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Not yet.

[ProactiveMan]

Originally Posted by plastroncafe

Whedon has said in interviews he was not expecting that particular line read. That it was supposed to be a whimsical off-the-cuff statement, but that Halle Barry instead said it as if she was in a Greek tragedy.

That makes sense. She did the same thing towards the end of Die Another Day with what I assume was supposed to be a double entendre "looks like we're going down together" but she put the emphasis on "together" for some reason and read it like one would say "here we go again!", with a goofy grin on her face.

It was Die Another Day thought, so nobody was still watching at that point.

[THGhost]

On the commentary track the people on it say the punchline for the Toad quote should have been "It croaks!"

Originally Posted by ProactiveMan

That makes sense. She did the same thing towards the end of Die Another Day with what I assume was supposed to be a double entendre "looks like we're going down together" but she put the emphasis on "together" for some reason and read it like one would say "here we go again!", with a goofy grin on her face.

It was Die Another Day thought, so nobody was still watching at that point.

Man, I remember thinking that movie was the coolest thing ever when it came out. How silly was I.

[ProactiveMan]

Originally Posted by THGhost

Man, I remember thinking that movie was the coolest thing ever when it came out. How silly was I.

I'm not gonna lie, I did too. Everyone was crapping on it at the time, but I thought it was great. I watched it again six months later and realized that everyone was right. It's embarrassing bad.

Funnily enough, the one with Denise Richards that was also lambasted is actually not that bad.

[THGhost]

Originally Posted by ProactiveMan

the one with Denise Richards that was also lambasted is actually not that bad.

The World Is Not Enough. That one's okay. The Brosnan Bonds seemed to get worse and worse and they went on. GoldenEye was great, Tomorrow Never Dies was pretty good, The World Is Not Enough was okay and Die Another Day was garbage.

[ProactiveMan]

Originally Posted by THGhost

The World Is Not Enough. That one's okay. The Brosnan Bonds seemed to get worse and worse and they went on. GoldenEye was great, Tomorrow Never Dies was pretty good, The World Is Not Enough was okay and Die Another Day was garbage.

I would have agreed until the last time I watched them. The World is not Enough hasn't aged well, and I think TND edges it out slightly. On that subject, check out Jonathan Price's tablet PC acting next time you watch TWINE. Hilarious.

[THGhost]

Originally Posted by ProactiveMan

I would have agreed until the last time I watched them. The World is not Enough hasn't aged well, and I think TND edges it out slightly.

I'm slowly collecting them all on Blu-ray, so I'll get round to watching them eventually. I'm fully prepared for them to have not aged well.

Originally Posted by ProactiveMan

On that subject, check out Jonathan Price's tablet PC acting next time you watch TWINE. Hilarious.

Don't you mean TND?

[ProactiveMan]

Originally Posted by THGhost

Don't you mean TND?

Lol! Yes I do. I mix their names up all the time... I have to think about the theme songs to figure it out.

Tomorrow Never Dies is the one I was trying to say hasn't aged well, mostly because the conventional wisdom was that The World Is Not Enough was way worse, but last time I watched them I found the opposite to be true.

None of them have aged brilliantly; even GoldenEye, which is definitely the best of the Brosnan movies, has that funky industrial synth score and the nonsensical computer hacker stuff that reeks of the 1990s.

[Allio]

Some of the AoU lines were funny

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by THGhost

The World Is Not Enough. That one's okay. The Brosnan Bonds seemed to get worse and worse and they went on. GoldenEye was great, Tomorrow Never Dies was pretty good, The World Is Not Enough was okay and Die Another Day was garbage.

I liked all of those. Die Another Day was pretty fun. The opening sequence with the fight with the Kim Jong Il clone on the hovercraft was pretty sweet, and I have no idea what people's problem was with the invisible car.

[ProactiveMan]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I have no idea what people's problem was with the invisible car.

The invisible car was cool; so were the ice palace, the sword fighting and the guy with diamonds in his face. The cgi laser chase on the other hand...

[THGhost]

Damn that movie was silly. And I loved it.