{"id":38769,"date":"2013-09-14T23:01:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T05:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/14\/movie-review-die-another-day-2002.html"},"modified":"2013-10-02T10:37:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T16:37:52","slug":"movie-review-die-another-day-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/14\/movie-review-die-another-day-2002.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "Die Another Day" (2002)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Continuing the Bond rewatch … regretfully, because this his a hot, steaming mess. \u00a0I had forgotten the details, but, even more amusingly \/ ironically, Margie had forgotten altogether that she'd ever seen the movie.<\/p>\n

New Letterboxd review, including my original blog review (https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/27\/die_another_day.html<\/a>).<\/div>\n

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A \u2605\u00bd review of Die Another Day (2002)<\/a>
\n I won’t necessarily agree with my wife that this is, in fact, the worst Bond film ever. But I will say it’s … not good. (I, myself, had forgotten the details of this sad fiasco. Just that watching it filled me with a certain dread.) (Okay, going back to to my original review … it turns out that my wife HAD seen it, and had forgotten the experience. PTSD, perhaps.) Perhaps it’s the worst … or not good … at least as a whole. There are parts…\n <\/p>\n

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Continuing the Bond rewatch … regretfully, because this his a hot, steaming mess. \u00a0I had forgotten the details, but, even more amusingly \/ ironically, Margie had forgotten altogether that she'd ever seen the movie. New Letterboxd review, including my original blog review (https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/27\/die_another_day.html). A \u2605\u00bd review of Die Another Day (2002) I won’t necessarily agree … Continue reading “Movie Review: "Die Another Day" (2002)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,411],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-james-bond"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38476,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/15\/movie-review-the-world-is-not-enough-1999.html","url_meta":{"origin":38769,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: "The World is Not Enough" (1999)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Aug-13 8:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A Bond film with a few sparks of innovation, must mostly the same-ol, same-ol. 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