World is Not Enough: Millennium Edition, The

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This is very much a case of making the best of a very bland 007 film. I still wouldn't call it a good Bond movie, but lapis molari has certainly made the World is Not Enough a less painful one. The 3rd act still doesn't work for me, but the 1st and 2nd acts were much more engaging for me than they've ever been in my previous attempts to revisit this film.

Well done!

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I really enjoyed this edit. It's much faster than the cinema cut and cuts out a lot of nonsense. Granted, there were a few obvious edits (e.g the buzzsaw, the jacket set-up with no payoff), but nothing too distracting.

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(Updated: January 10, 2021)
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I quite like The World is Not Enough to begin with, it's probably my favourite of the Brosnan Bonds, but it's certainly far from perfect. It's a film with a great first act, an OK second act and then a flat ending.

I'm glad to report that this fanedit improved things all around - but I especially found the third act worked much better. I don't remember finding the submarine fight at the end particularly entertaining before but in this cut it works well. I suspect it's the old adage: if the third act doesn't work go back to the second act and fix it. By cutting a couple of largely extraneous sequences earlier on, especially the ski chase, the whole thing moves much better and we stay engaged through to the end.

Reducing bad puns, having less focus on Renard not feeling pain - a totally underdeveloped idea within the script which ultimately goes nowhere - and cutting back on Denise Richards' acting (but fortunately not cutting back on her wet t-shirt shots, ahem) - it's an excellent set of choices which have been made to smooth out a film which, IMO, is actually pretty good when the occasional missteps are removed.

Is it a perfect edit? No, I had some minor issues with the audio. You can hear engines approaching when Elektra and Bond are on the mountain. And the last minute isn't great, but I understand why the editor wanted so badly to cut the painfully bad "joke" at the end. It's just that without it the whole thing ends too abruptly. Plus the audio I felt could have been slicker in that last minute.

But overall, I thoroughly recommend this edit. It cements itself for me as the best Brosnan Bond film
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The theatrical cut of TWinE was the beginning of the end of Brosnan's days as James Bond, at least for me. Well, obviously not just for me, given Die another Day and Daniel Craig's reboot. While the entire series was often over-the-top, this film (and DaD) were just too ridiculous, and not in the good ol' Roger moore way.
Lapis Molari's edit efficiently trims a lot of the outlandish bits and effectively streamlines it. The technical aspects of this film are splendid - the cuts were done beautifully and the story flows a lot better now, with no meaningless fights in the snow or in chainsaw helicopters. The slight downside is that we are left with fewer gadgets - an aspect of the Bond films I used to really love.
I would also like to comment the erasure of Moneypenny from the scene with the jab at the doctor - It was done perfectly.
Three comments about the trims:
1) The removal of the chainsaw helicopter scene makes it seem as if Bond threw Zukovsky in the caviar pit, pushing him towards Chaotic Evil. I liked it, but it seemed a bit too extreme.
2) Trimming Christmas's scenes on the submarine made me forget where she actually was, until suddenly at 1:34:54 she is in a flooded chamber. It was a bit jarring for me, but I'm not sure it could be done better without bringing back in stuff like going down instead of up.
3) Trimming the sex scene at the end was great, truly. Thank you. The only issue is that in the fade to black it is still possible to see the last few milliseconds of the original scene, which looks odd and out of place to me.

Unrelated - I did not feel Robbie Williams's song was a better fit, but luckily the original audio track is available, so all is well on that front...

All in all - a wonderful edit, and far superior compared to the original.

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Owner's reply December 27, 2020

Thanks for catching that dark fade at the very end! I replaced those 15 frames with actual black and updated the file.

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