Freeze and Bond villain Gustav Graves wear mechanical exoskeleton suits. Thye also both have no hair, including eyelashes and eyebrows. Zao’s eyes, like Freeze’s, are also silver and dead looking. Frozen midway in his transformation, Zao’s visage is that of a pale, almost silver color. Zao is partway through his transformation from North Korean to Caucasian appearance when Bond interrupts the procedure. Zao is in a special clinic, a so-called “beauty parlor”, which alters the DNA of an individual and literally changes the way they look–including their ethnicity. His face has a silver appearance, and his eyes are also silver and lifeless. Freeze falls backward into a vat of ice-cold “cryo solution” which mutates his body–in other words his DNA. Pale Faceīoth films feature villains with altered complexions from some sort of accident or procedure. Both pools are also covered in cheap-looking dry ice for effect. Bond rescues her, and thaws her out in an outside thermal pool. Similarly, in Die Another Day, Bond’s ally Jinx struggles to keep her head above rising ice-cold water. Robin is frozen solid by Freeze’s ice gun, and Batman heats a frozen pool with a handheld laser so Robin can thaw out. Freeze after surfing on the rooftops of Gotham. In Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder (Chris O’Donnell) is in pursuit of Mr. Two Characters Are Thawed Out in a Hot Pool This scene is the low point for the Bond franchise, bar none. At least this was filmed for real and does not use horrible CG effects like Batman & Robin. The horrible CG surfing would be saved for the last act of Die Another Day when Bond surfs yet again this time using a makeshift parasail to ride a tsunami. Pe’ahi beach in Hawaii doubles as the shoreline of North Korea. It isn’t that dark, but the North Korean soldiers patrolling the beach cannot see them. In Die Another Day, Bond and two South Korean agents surf into North Korea under the cover of darkness. And Batman and Robin use metal doors to sky-surf after him and across the rooftops of Gotham. Freeze escapes with a pair of metal butterfly wings strapped to his back. Moments later they find themselves high above Gotham City. Batman jumps inside before the hatch closes, while Robin grabs onto the side as it takes off. Freeze takes off in a rocket through the museum’s ceiling. After a ridiculous scuffle inside an ice-covered museum, Mr. Batman & Robin begins in the most ludicrous fashion. Surfing just does not fit well with either character. Hard to believe that either Batman or James Bond would be surfing in a film. And in certain scenes, the two films even share a similar approach to lighting and color. The villains also use a similar space-based weapon, and both villains wear a similar-looking biomechanical suit. (The recipient, Madonna, has won a total of seven Razzies making her officially the worst actress on Earth).Īpart from Razzie awards, both films share similarities in goofy, artificial-looking set design and similar icy backdrops. It also earned more Razzies than Die Another Day, which only received one for Worst Supporting Actress. Batman & Robin didn’t perform so well and earned considerably less than previous Batman films, and almost killed superhero movies in Hollywood. Financially, Brosnan’s final Bond film raked in $431.9 million worldwide which made it the top-grossing Bond film at the time (without being adjusted for inflation). Still, Die Another Day is the better film artistically, though still not great. Maybe director Lee Tamahori set himself a challenge to improve on Batman & Robin, because, as you’ll see, there are too many similarities for it to be just a coincidence. The film gets more and more ridiculous with each new scene, but it is still relatively conservative compared with the bonkers Batman & Robin. There’s a comic book look in certain scenes from Halle Berry’s NSA agent Jinx performing a perfect 200-foot backward dive off a cliff to every single scene in Iceland. But ultimately it failed.įive years later, Die Another Day tried something similar. Director Joel Schumacher referred to his last Batman film repeatedly as a “comic book” and there is an attempt to translate the heightened color, light, and performances of what is on the page to the screen. Is it a coincidence that the worst Batman movie shares similarities with the worst James Bond movie? Probably, because EON Productions, the production company behind the Bond movies, would have to be off their rocker to let Die Another Day be influenced by 1997’s Batman & Robin.
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