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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by _ed@sopuli.xyz to c/moviesandtv@lemm.ee

Many lists put Die Another Day last

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[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Die Another Day was meh, but I really didn't care for Skyfall and No Time to Die. The plots were too contingent on inorganic and out of character details. Q wouldn't be stupid enough to plug a USB drive into an MI6 networked device found on a known hacker supervillain. The convenience of the targeted DNA nanobots just magically being declared to have no solution without anyone doing any testing of theories was unbelievable and just revealed the obvious "we need to kill Bond in this one so come up with a reason for him to die nobly" pitch meeting pitch. It ruined the suspension of disbelief entirely. I feel like they just tried too hard to keep upping the stakes and outdo themselves that it just got ridiculous.

[-] purpleprophy@feddit.uk 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What killed No Time to Die for me were the nanobots being declared unsolvable in the same movie that explicitly shows EMPs being used. I thought for sure that was a Chekhov's gun being set up but no, just bad writing.

[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

EMP, MRI, or what about anti-nanobots? If you can program nanobots that kill people with particular DNA, couldn't you program nanobots that target other nanobots? I would assume they hadn't yet built in a self-defense protocol for the nanobots since they were cutting edge and not assumed to have any countermeasures yet. Anti-nanobots seem just as plausible as DNA targeting nanobots.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 8 points 9 months ago

I maintain that USB plot point was a PSA they were forced to put in.

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