10 Movies That Embarrassed Other Movies Released At The Same Time
1. The Bourne Identity EMBARRASSED Die Another Day
It's often said that Austin Powers and 9/11 collectively killed the Pierce Brosnan era of tongue-in-cheek James Bond films, though in reality the primary culprit is actually Doug Liman's The Bourne Identity.
Released five months before Brosnan's final outing as 007, The Bourne Identity was in many ways a Bond film without the branding - a kinetic, globetrotting spy thriller focused on a protagonist with the initials "J.B."
It proved a major critical and commercial success, and to this very day is credited with reinvigorating the stagnant spy genre, by way of its more cerebral storytelling and gritty, intense action.
The Bourne Identity was such a riveting breath of fresh air that it became tough to get excited about another silly Bond movie, and so it's little surprise that Die Another Day's joyless camp left critics and fans alike rather indifferent.
Though Die Another Day was a massive box office hit regardless - more-than-doubling Bourne's financial haul - it ultimately brought Brosnan's tenure as 007 to an unceremonious end, before Bond producers rebooted the franchise with Daniel Craig in the grittier vein of the Bourne movies.