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No Time to Die (2021)
Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga
influenced by Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Characters
Nomi most strongly recalled Michelle Yeoh’s Wai Lin in Tomorrow Never Dies, arguably one of the physically strongest Bond leading ladies to match the hero, but even she fell into his arms by the end.
It's true that he's your typical antagonist that wants to do something bad (in this case, kill millions of people with a bioweapon), but even a somewhat shallow character like that has allowed a lot of actors to have fun with it in the past, including Gert Frobe ("Goldfinger"), Jonathan Pryce ("Tomorrow Never Dies"), Sean Bean ("Goldeneye"), and others.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
influenced by Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Themes Plot
The MacGuffin driving the plot is all very contemporary, even if it’s truth-manipulation themes are rather reminiscent of the 1997 Bond entry Tomorrow Never Dies .
The car chase on the Spanish Steps wouldn’t have been half as memorable without Hunt and Grace awkwardly navigating being handcuffed together (perhaps in a nod to Tomorrow Never Dies ?) and the breathtaking motorbike / parachute stunt is grounded in reality by Ethan snapping at Benji “I’m trying to get away from the mountain!”
“American Made” is a better, more intriguingly conflicted project than (a generation ago) “Air America” with Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. as heroin smugglers in the Vietnam War.
It’s “Blow” and “Air America” and “Narcos” all rolled into one laugh-through-the-grimaces romp, a picture so clever its damning history lesson may be ignored by those who don’t know history, and cannot recognize when it repeats itself.
“ American Made ” is basically a mash-up of “Air America” and “Goodfellas,” with Cruise using his own piloting skills to do stunt work.
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Directed by David Leitch
influenced by Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Plot
The story, written by the franchise’s writers Chris Morgan and Drew Pearce, borrows from various spy films, such as Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997, Mission: Impossible 2, 2000, and Spectre, 2015.
The music ranges from classic spaghetti western themes to my favorite piece, the gorgeous Jerry Goldsmith-penned theme from the film Under Fire.
The legacy is a long one: "Beverly Hills Cop," "Tango & Cash," "Starsky & Hutch," "48 Hrs.," "Men in Black," "Turner & Hooch," "Miami Vice."
It's a tried and true formula that's even resulted in a sub-genre where men are paired with man's best friend in flicks such as "Turner & Hooch" and "K-9."
What Taylor and Landes (and star Octavia Spencer, whom it was reported as having a hand in shaping her character and story) have done, pretty ingeniously, is meld that dusty subgenre with the old school slasher trope of revenge from TERROR TRAIN and SLAUGHTER HIGH and the like, to create something that is both over the top while still being oddly human and sympathetic.
Opening with scenes that set up the unstoppable locomotive as an almost evil entity – so much so that Scott and cinematographer Ben Seresin appear to be remaking Terror Train – but before long the film is kicked into overdrive and, if you’re willing to go along for the ride, you’ll quickly forget all the silly clichés that are shoved into every scene.
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Directed by Joseph Kosinski
influenced by Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Visuals
Zeker richting het einde, waar één van de scènes een geüpgradede versie van een ‘jatscène’ uit Tomorrow Never Dies lijkt, en zeker zo ook uit Mission: Impossible kon komen.
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée
influenced by And the Band Played On (1993)
Themes
This is the kind of film HBO was tackling in the early 1990’s with dramas like And the Band Played On.
Director Doug Liman and screenwriters Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth could have borrowed a name from any number of James Bond films — You Only Live Twice, Live and Let Die, Tomorrow Never Dies, Die Another Day — to describe its hero’s curse and gift.
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Directed by Jim Gillespie
influenced by Terror Train (1980)
Themes
Who knows, it works for me just the same as My Bloody Valentine or Terror Train.
Other fun extended cameo parts go to Cheech Marin ("Tin Cup," "From Dusk Till Dawn"), Danny Trejo ("Reindeer Games," "From Dusk Till Dawn"), Terry Hatcher ("Tomorrow Never Dies," "Heaven's Prisoners") and one of the hottest actors working today in a concluding, surprise bit (although it's probably not who you think it would most likely be considering the subject matter).
Teri Hatcher of "Tomorrow Never Dies" also appears in the film as the evil Miss Gradenko.
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)
Directed by Chad Stahelski
influenced by Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
A stunt co-ordinator who has worked on everything from James Bond’s Tomorrow Never Dies to comic book sequels Iron Man 2, Spider-Man 2 and The Wolverine , he was Reeves’ stunt double and fight co-ordinator in The Matrix movies.
Alone with his dog like Will Smith in “I Am Legend” (2017), Hanks combines the doggie daddy duties of “Turner & Hooch” (1989) with personified pals like Wilson the volleyball in “Cast Away” (2000).
I get it, and you’ll get no confirmation here regarding the ending of Finch and whether or not the canine bites it, but I can guarantee you this isn’t the Turner & Hooch (1989) sequel you’re fearing.
Which is a shame, because Hanks is no stranger to being the only human around, having been a memorably convincing scene partner opposite a destructive mastiff (“Turner & Hooch”) and an anthropomorphized volleyball (“Cast Away”).
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Directed by Dan Trachtenberg
influenced by Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Plot
Pero, como sucedió con Tomorrow Never Dies, hay una increíble sensación de frustración en escalar tan alto un edificio narrativo sólo para aventarse, al final de toda gloria, por una ventana evidente.
After each great Bond movie usually comes a disappointment: Tomorrow Never Dies succeeded GoldenEye , Quantum of Solace trailed Casino Royale , and now Spectre comes after the superlative revisionist Bond that was Skyfall .
It climaxes with a giant battle--well, giant-er battle, no less easy to follow for its scale--complete with noble sacrifices that don't land with much impact and a cutesy-pie denouement I didn't care for when I saw it at the end of The Spy Who Loved Me, Octopussy, and Tomorrow Never Dies, either.
With some bland action sequences – one almost wishes for Michel Bay’s presence as Lee Tamahori of Tomorrow Never Dies and xXx: State of the Union fame clearly doesn’t seem up to the task.
The Island is an amalgamation of Logan’s Run and The 6th Day, which can only mean that something driven very fast is certain to meet with a solid object and reach a fiery conclusion (repeat as necessary).