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https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/
For the record SP dropped 52% in its second weekend with 33.6 million dollars.
It's unsurprising, but eventually it will probably stop at about $200m. These sort of films have an upper limit stateside, no matter how good they are. The real fun will be the foreign gross.
But Rogue Nation dropped 48 percent in its second weekend, and 17 million dollars difference in the first 10 days of release. Fallout is on track for a new franchise high stateside, not adjusting for inflation.
I am not expecting the next Bond to go to the lengths that Cruise does (what Dalton did in LTK is good enough for me), but the action in the MI films leaves Bond looking poor. Look at Mendes' big explosion. All the money spunked away on his record breaking explosion, and yet, it doesn't look as impressive as the explosions during the Tanker chase in LTK. If Bond is to stand a chase, EON need to pull away from the luvvie directors, and get someone who knows the genre, series, or both, intimately.
I feel it was so high because from what I remember, the summer 2000 season was not a huge season for major blockbusters. So to have it be the highest is not surprising.
Correct me if I'm wrong though. I was 11 years old that summer.
The only thing that MI2 has going for me is the break in at the pharmaceutical company. Woo and Limp Bizkit just made the rest unbearable.
As a pro or a con? I kind of flip-flop on it, myself. Some days I love it, some days it annoys me.
You could be right. My memory is fuzzy about that year. Cruise was flying high career wise at that time (it predated the Scientology controversy and the infamous humiliating couch jump) and big over stylized stuff was in (I think that was around the time Michael Bay was on fire and Woo had already hit it big in the West with Face Off). MI2 just played into that sort of style. I Iiked it more then than I do now, but it never hit the spot like the more recent ones do.
Not a bad film by any means. But.
The music sucked most of the time.
Cruise can do all the stunts in the world, but there wasn´t one single shot in Fallout that came even remotely close to the action in Ronin or Michael Mann stuff. For me it became absolutely clear today that great-looking action cinema has to do a lot more with capturing magic than with the actor doing his own stunts. Give me iconic shots!
Overall, I wasn´t fond of the cinematography. Too many dark shots, which seems to connect again to misguided striving for realism.
I didn´t enjoy the scarcity of humor, although it was very good when it was there.
Wasn´t the right day perhaps, but I don´t feel like re-watching it anytime soon.
I disagree. Visually they’re beautiful. Narratively, that’s subjective.
TLD is elegant but Skyfall isn't?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pJOm2mRHDE0
You really love that video don't you?
I think Cruise channeled all of that in Fallout (but in an MI context), so I can appreciate how it may not work for some.
Definitely a bit different from the prior two entries which were much lighter and not as emotional. I think McQuarrie nicely straddled the line between action, emotional depth and humour without tipping too far into the heaviness that was MI:3, but it certainly lacks the lightness of GP/RN.
I thought less humour was a plus. That sort of tone made GP feel refreshing at the time but now stuff like Marvel and Fast and Furious is dominating, and Bond has shifted back to films with more gags, I think it's a bit played out. I thought the darker tone was cool. Something that bugged me though is that they kept hinting at really bleak, dark events but then pulling the rug out. I could forgive it at the start with the fake news reports because that had a story reason but when we got that really well done haunting scene of Ethan reenacting that Modern Warfare 2 level with the French police only for it to be a dream, I was annoyed. The sunset at the end bugged me less because I knew that would be misdirection, it wasn't like he was going to lose after all that.
The action was really good as expected. I thought the story was all over the place. There's three seperate unconnected (until now) enemies: the Syndicate, Lark, and that nuclear scientist guy, and they all have the same vague unexplained motivation of taking down the "old world order"? Are they anarchists? Do they want to replace it with something? I don't know. I didn't think any of the villains were great either but that's something these films have always suffered with.
I thought it was a bit too long and for some reason I don't find myself as loving some of the cast like most seem to; Ferguson made so little an impression on me in the last film that I didn't recognise her when she first showed up. Cavill was a non entity I thought, completely forgettable, although to be fair I don't think he had the best character to work with. Seems like they didn't know what to do with him. I thought he'd at least be a great physical presence but then they ruined that by having him struggle so much in the bathroom fight.
I liked how they fleshed out Ethan a bit more though and gave him some new motivations (just can't let bad things happen) that make sense with what we've seen of him in the other films. And the music was brilliant.
I agree with @Shardlake that it was overhyped but to be fair I think it's a big improvement on the last one. Doesn't always succeed but at least it tries to do something different, and the action is as great as ever. I'd give it a 7 or 8 out of 10.
I could put a pretty bow on my post, if that will please you. If not, you'll just have to accept my post as it is.
Glad I wasn’t the only one who didn’t recognise Ferguson. Thought it was just me getting old.
The music is divisive isn’t it?
I think this would be a pretty good finale but if it isn't the end I definitely can't see them going past 7. I think they'll probably do one more and then Cruise will call it quits. Maybe they'll try and carry on with a new lead, and if not I'm sure we'll get some sort of reboot eventually. But I think the current version doesn't have that much longetivity.
Cruise was interviewed a month or two back, noting he's still got two or three installments left in him. They'll definitely have to tone the stunts down when he gets into his 60's if they manage that many.
Even if the box office falters I don't mind (MI really aren't that big when it comes to box office anyway - they make decent money but trail FF, Bond and the rest). They've proven to be quite inventive and intelligent with how they've managed the brand IP & Cruise seems to have a vested interest in maintaining what he's created. I'm sure he'll come up with some idea that works, even if it's different from what they have going now.