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I don't like it either but lets see when the MI 6 dies down, maybe it won't gross as high as SF but critically you've not seen a blockbuster grab these kind of reviews since TDK.
I'm not even on the MI 6 train because of my dislike of Cruise, Bond never gets across the board great reviews, critics always might prasie it to a degree, it's great but there's this or there's that, something will always stop it getting the notices that MI 6 is getting. Even the likes of Goldfinger are rated as they in retrospect.
Although Bond is kind of critic proof which it has that going for it, MI 6 is really benefiting off these reviews, people will go an see Bond regardless of the reviews.
I fully aware the phenomenon that was SF although some people on this forum like to try and play it down because it suits their agenda.
Seriously, the critical reception os M:I 6 is not miles above the critical reception Skyfall received. Numerically it's a tiny bit better (86 vs 81 on metacritic), and if you look behind the numbers, you could argue Fallout's critical reception is worse than Skyfall's was. Remember, it's Skyfall's critical reception + cultural phenomenon status that propelled it to 5 Academy Award nominations. There is no way Fallout will get nominated for 5 Oscars.
Never say never again
Or Black Panther, etc etc. MI:6 doesn't live and die by reviews, really, but they do help. I do agree that Skyfall was a bigger cultural phenomenon than MI:6. Some of that is down to timing, too - the Olympics, etc, but Bond also simply draws on a much longer history and deeper cultural well than MI does.
I wonder how much impact the Olympics had on SF box office performance. Couldn't hurt the UK numbers.
Is it just me or does he look like the henchman in Nightfire
Yes! You’re thinking of Armitage Rook. He looks like him very much.
Rook is plain menacing.
This, on the other hand, is Rook. ;)
Don't kid yourself. Skyfall's phenomena wasn't down to the movie alone. There were other major contributing factors; the obvious one being the Olympics segment. MI:Fallout relied only on itself as a film and the star power of its leading actor. Tom Cruise is bigger than Ethan Hunt and any Bond actor for that matter.
Not to mention the goodwill they had slowly built through successive entertaining entries.
SF was a phenomenon because it resonated with a huge number of people across a broad demographic. The Olympics connection is overstated.
I daresay almost non-existing.
It definitely resonated with a large number of people but at the same time, based on my experience and interactions with people it was the Olympics and heavy push of the 50th anniversary that ushered the film to achieve the reception and status it got.
I don’t really see any significant evidence for that. The numbers it did were down to positive word of mouth and repeat viewings. The film itself did the heavy lifting.
Absolutely agree with you @RC7 ... especially outside of the UK, I can't see how much pull that opening had for people to go and see SF-- and repeatedly...
It was strongly marketed. It hit a large swath of important demographics, who then went back for more and more viewings.
I would say the Olympics had little or nothing to do with the box office numbers.
Agreed @Murdock, the wait probably had a more significant role than the opening at the Olympics had.
Just catching up here now. I agree with @RC7 and @Peter re Skyfall. It was a tremendous global hit. Its success really was not due to the Olympics fervor.
Well, this sounds like a bigger henchman role than I first thought. Interesting.
As long as it doesn't have Bond holed up in one of the Hobbit houses, a la Skyfall but called ShireFall, I can dig NZ. ;)
Shire Another Day, The Shire Is Not Enough, Tomorrow Never Shires, Goldenshire, Licence To Shire, A View to a Shire, Octoshire, For Your Shire Only, etc…
Google search for "James Bond": 68 million hits
Google search for "Ethan Hunt": 4 million hits
Ethan Hunt has a long, long way to go
A hobbit romance film? :))
Thundershire and Moonshire aren't bad ones either, I guess! Funny how changing the titles slightly makes you think of some very strange plotlines. Is there a thread for this?