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Yeah, I have to admit, I get the ring stuff with regard to the previous villains, but I have no idea why Q has anything that connects Oberhauser.
Blowing up Mi6 for the umpteenth time and doing the 'mission vs girl' dilimma seemingly borrowed from The Dark Knight felt drawn out, melodramatic, uninventive, and quite frankly, unBond-like.
Bingo! I had this idea a while back to edit-insert the NTTD Safin lair infiltration into the Spectre Blofeld base escape to beef up the action and keep things tense. Then keep the Spectre ending riding off into the sunset. That should’ve been a proper base escape and explosion. SP suddenly looks a lot better.
Makes you just shake your head, what could have been.
Casino Royale - £21,441
Skyfall - £20,361
GoldenEye - £16,800
Goldfinger- £13,960
The Spy Who Loved Me - £12,844
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service - £11,114
Live and Let Die - £10,767
The Living Daylights - £10,707
Licence to Kill - £9,667
Quantum of Solace - £9,404
Spectre - £8,992
From Russia with Love - £8,806
Moonraker- £8,494
Dr. No - £8,349
A View to a Kill - £8,065
You Only Live Twice - £8,030
The Man with the Golden Gun - £8,001
Thunderball - £7,907
Tomorrow Never Dies - £7,825
For Your Eyes Only - £7,631
The World is Not Enough - £6,933
Diamonds Are Forever - £6,638
Octopussy - £6,449
Die Another Day - £6,225
I can’t imagine NTTD making it among the top 10 given how that is still brand new, not even getting how divisive it is. We’ll see!
Dalton himself seems to be praised more and more as time goes on, to the point where his Bond has a bit of a cult following. Again, this is outside of the fandom. I suspect it has a bit to do with the direction they went with Craig's Bond, but it helps that he himself has been in films like Hot Fuzz (which is a modern classic in my opinion) and has popped up consistently in shows like Dr. Who, Penny Dreadful, Doom Patrol, Chuck etc.
If anything, we're getting to a point where a sizeable chunk of people have grown up with Craig's Bond. Even if they were born on the tail end of the Brosnan era, their most prominent memories would be of seeing CR or SF in cinemas.
I think it might depend on age too. I'm in my mid-20s, and most people I interact with about movies and TV are between the ages of 18-35. Most aren't Bond fans, and not all my friends are even movie fans per say. I've just gotten the sense that Dalton is regarded more highly as Bond (again, in that cult following type way) than Brosnan amongst them. Again, I think it's partially due to the Craig era bringing Dalton's Bond into the spotlight a bit, and partially due to the fact that Dalton tends to crop up in TV nowadays in stuff that a few dedicated fans watch. Brosnan has really only done films in the last few years, and I must admit even I haven't seen any of them past Mamma Mia 2, and most of them before that I had no idea existed. The fact is he's not the movie star he once was, and quite a bit of his filmography now seems to include stuff with negative reviews, low box office figures, or stuff that's gone straight to video on demand. Dalton will always be looked upon more fondly as an actor with this in mind.
But this is just amongst a small sample of a very particular age group. I do get the sense Dalton is more appreciated now than he was in the past as Bond though, as are his two films. DAD also has a reaction to it that I can only describe as 'the stupid Bond film with the invisible car?'. So that doesn't help. And GE is a much more obscure Bond film for non-fans, as is TND and TWINE to an extent...
I'm happy to see SP perform so well. Craig's Bonds are generally doing well, as are Dalton's. OHMSS is rather high up that list too. Most of all, I'm pleased to see CR and GE so high up that list.
I agree. I like SF but I've always resented the fact that that was the Craig Bond that hauled in over a billion dollars, whereas CR did just a little over half of that. And to me -- just personal opinion -- SF is inferior to CR in almost every regard. That said, I was, of course, happy to see Bond score so well in 2012.
It's a film that keeps giving, in my opinion, that, despite its considerable feature length, never bores me or makes me want to check the time. I know some would rather have done without the Venice house sequence, but I dig that stuff. And the final scene of the film is such good fun; it makes me want to instantly restart the film. Still, after almost 16 years, I feel that way.
Exactly. Same here.
Both CR and BATMAN BEGINS are solid cases of films that were successful at the box office but an even bigger hit on DVD. Maybe if QOS was as good or even better than CR, it would have stretched to make a billion dollars.
You and I both. Personal tastes aside, kudos to SF for hitting $1 billion but I would've preferred some other installments reaching such a milestone. And yes, CR dominates SF in virtually every arena for me (though to be fair, most of the other installments throughout the series do too).