BOND PART III: Tomorrow Never Dies (w/ James the Librarian!)
Much better than it had any right being.
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of misogyny and womanizing, sexual harassment.
This week, our librarian friend James Wilcox joins us for a a Bond film that really had no right being as good as it was. I mean, they started shooting a Thanksgiving release in April and had no completed script at that time. The whole set seemed chaotic and frantic, yet somehow, Canadian director Roger Spottiswoode managed to piece together a pretty good Bond flick with only one real problem - THE DIALOGUE IS SO BAD. I mean, it’s a pun every 3 minutes or so with little to no meaningful interaction between characters, and it’s just laughable. And those puns - EDIFICE COMPLEX?!?! Still, we’re decently impressed by this movie, and it’s worth rewatching even if it’s one of the sillier entries in the franchise. We’re discussing Tomorrow Never Dies this week on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!
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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.
Excerpt taken from "James Bond Theme," written and composed by John Barry, and performed by the John Barry Orchestra. ℗ 1962, 2012 Capitol Records LLC.
Excerpts taken from the film Tomorrow Never Dies, copyright 1997 Eighteen Leasing Corporation and Danjaq, LLC.
Excerpt taken from “Tomorrow Never Dies,” written and performed by Sheryl Crow. Copyright 1997 A&M Records Inc.
Excerpt taken from “Surrender,” written by Don Black and David McAlmont and performed by k.d. lang. Copyright 1997 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
