I bought Die Another Day on Friday. In a 2 disc set, it’s got more special features than any other Bond film. The question is — do I care? Generally, the special features are pretty dull, at least after you’ve seen one of them. I mean, there’s a whole feature on the 10 seconds of surfing at the start of the film, which everyone forgets was even there. Well, I did anyhoo.

But the point of this is not to review the DVD — I’ll do that later — but to say that some of the effects look much much better on a smaller TV screen. The horrendous CGI when Bond does his parachute/surfing was hardly noticeable to my Dad, and he loved it. “I bet people were laughing at this bit, eh?” “Well, yes Dad, but not for the reasons you think…” I have yet to watch the end fight on TV, but perhaps it also improves as Dad looked fairly happy then, too. This is a bit of a surprise, as I’d previously noted that The World is Not Enough was much worse on television.

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