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Then I’m in good company @RichardTheBruce , 😂!
Let’s see if Avatar 2 will top that.
But let’s not forget it came out when COVID was still a thing and that without an early digital release it would’ve bested SF. In a few words, NTTD smashed it.
It'll be crazy.
I heard B26 opens with a scorched/skeletal Craig Bond walking into M’s office for his next mission.
To be the relief of many fans who can’t seem to grasp what the nature of a reboot is. I never get tired of seeing those folks on social media commenting “but they killed him! How does it make sense that he’ll be back when he’s dead?!”
I bet those are also the same people who haven't quite been able to figure out how Dench's M managed to travel through time.
A friend of mine was only casually familiar with Bond, and she assumed with each actor the series rebooted itself, or at least soft rebooted as we saw with the Burton and Schumacher Batman films where certain actors carried over across the films but for the most part they’re not continuity heavy
That’s kinda crazy.
I don’t think the comparison sticks. It would be like saying THUNDERBALL’s box office was unimpressive compared to THE SOUND OF MUSIC and DOCTOR ZHIVAGO.
I think you misread the point, NTTD did excellent for everything going on, IN comparison to some heavyweight properties Bond is at the level of, is what's being said.
Daniel Craig's No Time To Die has been hailed the 'best' 007 film (Image: MGM)
It is Daniel Craig's last appearance as James Bond
No Time To Die won rave reviews (Image: Handout/MGM)
Oh, dear! Please don’t report this to @Mendes4Lyfe , because his fear is the last two Craig entries just weren’t aging well. Especially Bond 25– the film so bad that he can’t utter the proper title, 😂.
(2018)
And so it was always going to be a bomb.
😂 😂 😂
…and some things never change… six-seven years of saying the same thing over and over and over… What’s the definition of madness again?
In 2018 this guy obviously wanted “B25” to fail…and six years later, when the film is now, definitively, a success during very challenging times, this guy ignores reality, gloms onto a single post to prove the lie he keeps telling himself.
🤯
It's quite nice to know none of us can predict the future anyway.
I disagree. People can predict the future . Some will be correct and some won’t be. Some will have guessed and been correct due to luck, others may have a better sense of the business and got it right, and some who understand the biz may predict things that never turn out to be correct.
But we can all predict the future.
But it’s worrisome that a certain person ignoresthe actual history and success of something.
At one point we have a fella who, by his own posts, wanted the failure of a film (he was an opponent three years before the thing was released), and now that the years have gone by and we can actually measure its *general* success (without even bringing up the obstacles it confronted on its release), this guy now claims the film is, as he feared, aging poorly.
Now to him it might be. That’s his opinion. But to state this, as he always does, as objective fact is pretty telling.
🤷♂️
Perhaps I should have said 'predict the future with 100% accuracy', or simply put 'see into the future'. You're right, if some have a better sense of audiences and the film industry, or are simply lucky in their instincts, they can get certain things right with hindsight. But I guess what I'm trying to say is none of us know exactly what's going to happen with these films, and often we'll be wrong about something (again, no one in 2018 could have known about Covid, and to a lesser extent Boyle). We'll all be wrong about something.
But yes, I get what you're saying. If you manifest a dislike of a film beforehand you can potentially find any reason to... well, dislike it, even in hindsight. And if the film has done well to any degree/had an impact on audiences, one person's public critique isn't going to change that (especially as limited as it is to this forum). But anyway, I've gotten into too many discussions about all this, haha. I'll leave it at I'm glad NTTD was, by and large, successful. Bond will have things to tackle going foreword, but I think the franchise is in a much better place than many people believe it is. Hopefully these issues with Amazon will resolve in the near future, but we'll see.
That holds for most of Craig's Bonds for me. After CR, many were not love at first sight (except SP, if you can believe it), but I still liked them very much. A few viewings later, however, they all quickly climbed in my ranking, especially QOS and SF, which I now regard with the highest of praise.