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"She got three minutes, I got 92."

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I like how the story was put into the title sequence. Something a little different. I didn't, however, like those flaming bodies. I thought they looked... what's the word I'm looking for... oh yeah... stupid.

I could have really done without the remix of Madonna's song at the end. Did we really need a remix? NO!

I don't let that get too much in the way of what I thought, with the exception of a few things (very cheesy visual FX, Madonna's song, and bad audio mixing), was a pretty good inclusion in the Bond franchise.

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Originally posted by BMikeJ:
I wish they had used Garbage again for this picture. I really didn't care for the Madonna song. At least with the Garbage song in TWINE, it felt a little closer to a Bond song. The credits sequence was so good this time and actually advanced the story. That song was the only shortcoming.

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Mike, the song would have been out of this world had David Arnold written it, as he did with TWINE. Madonna's a great talent - it's not as if she couldn't pull it off. It's the fact that she wrote the song and it turned out the way it did that's rubbing a lot of people the wrong way.

But hey, we still got a fantastic score out of the deal. And I'm personally hoping that this kind of response to the song will encourage the producers to make the right choice next time.

My friends 10 year old daughter said the song was crap and she's a Madonna fan!

As to whether an Arnold Bond song would have been 'out of this world' as Jeron says is debatable (and of course we'll never know), 'Surrender' is good, good but not great, Goldfinger is great! whereas The World Is Not Enough was quite mediocre but at least it sounded like Bond, to be fair Barry didn't always hit the mark, 'All Time High' and 'Man With The Golden Gun' being prime examples IMNSHO though others here may like these and think I'm way off the mark?!

I think Arnold's new Bond score DOES suffer from not having a title song to reinterpret throughout the film.

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What Arnold said is true!

My friends 10 year old daughter said the song was crap and she's a Madonna fan!

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lol!

C'mon people. Those lyrics are lame. They make no sense. And there is little to no melody to speak of.

"Sigmund Freud...Analyse this...Analyse this." PLEEEESE.

Now...when you have a REAL lyricist like Don Black you get something that makes sense and applies to the film.

"The World is not enough. But it's a perfect place to start, my love. And if you're strong enough, together we can take the world apart, my love."

Or

"People like us know how to survive. There's no point in living if you can't feel the life. We know how to kiss and we know how to kill. If we can't have it all then nobody will."

PLUS there is a MELODY!!!!

Hell...even "Goldeneye" and "Tomorrow Never Dies" had those things and lyrics that made more sense.

Sorry, I had to run to catch this bandwagon!

I also didn't like the Madonna "song" and I love what David Arnold said about it. I think a much better choice could have been made for the opening title. Of course, I felt the same way about Sheryl Crows "Tommorow Never Dies". Let's face it, not all of the Bond songs are good. Some are hits and some are misses. This Madonna one is definitely a miss.

Bradley

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Die Another Day," which debuted Friday, is Arnold's third Bond score, and he assures people won't hear another note from Madonna's song, which shares the film's title, anywhere else in the movie.

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Well, that's if you don't count the reception scene in the Ice Palace, or the end titles, of course.

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Originally posted by Bradley:
Let's face it, not all of the Bond songs are good. Some are hits and some are misses. This Madonna one is definitely a miss.

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The song is a hit. Top ten on Billboard's Hot 100. 750,000 singles sold worldwide. It's been a long time since "A View To A Kill". And it's the biggest opening boxoffice for a Bond film. Ever. I wonder how much the song (and Halle Berry) had to do with that..........

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Originally posted by ChrisN:
And it's the biggest opening boxoffice for a Bond film. Ever. I wonder how much the song (and Halle Berry) had to do with that..........

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Well, let's take ticket prices and inflation into account - and then figure out if it's the biggest opening ever. (1962 dollars are much different than 2002 dollars!)

And I can't really imagine that most people flock to a theater to pay $9 for a movie just cause of a Madonna song - I think it's cause the film is fun, entertaining, and a good way to spend some time in the movie theater - and we all know Bond is a household name, which will have an "expected" draw anyways. (Personally, I'm still glad it beat out Harry Pooter this weekend.)

The song is a hit. Top ten on Billboard's Hot 100. 750,000 singles sold worldwide. It's been a long time since "A View To A Kill". And it's the biggest opening boxoffice for a Bond film. Ever. I wonder how much the song (and Halle Berry) had to do with that..........
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Yeah Chris...it's a "Hit" with the record buyers/radio listeners but NOT with the critics and majority of fans.

Lots of crummy songs make air play and the top 40.

I just think the Madonna song wasn't nearly as good as other things she has done. This "techo" phase she's going through was only really good when she was working with William Orbit.

James

Gae NP Die Another Day (Madonna...NOT!!!)

Just read this on Aint It Cool News

"Segue into the title sequence and song. As anyone, but the hearing impaired, will swear in a court of law that Madonna’s DIE ANOTHER DAY white noise is by far the worst song ever in the history of film, much less James Bond. The actual visual aspect of the opening credits was spectacular. Really great work, only there was no mute button in the theater. I thought maybe this song was a set up. A song so bad that it instantly creates a vicious hatred for her, so when she appears in her cameo later in the film, perhaps a wayward swing of a sword would lob off her head, thus causing every audience in the world to stand up and applaud the film for 3 solid minutes. Alas… that never happened. "

Those are Harry's words of course. He took the words right out of my mouth.

The song is just bad, really really bad. And seeing Madonna try to play off Bond during the fencing scene, spouting off sexual innuendos that really had no place in the scene, because there was a far hotter chick in the room with him to hit on (the MI:6 traitor)... well it just didn't work for me. Mabye if she was one of the extras that got shot or run over by the Aston Martin...

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Originally posted by Gae:
I also agree with David Arnold on this one. The song sucks big time. It isn't even in the same league as previous Bond Songs and doesn't even deserve to be associated with a Bond movie. The song itself sounds like someone is fiddling with the volume control button..its really annoying. Having said all that, its a shame that the NY Post had to use Prince Phillip (the apotheosis of Good taste) as an example of another dissenting voice.

Gae NP Die Another Day (Madonna...NOT!!!)

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The gospel according to Prince Phil...