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We got Skyfall, which is now nearing a billion dollars, both a critical and financial success, showing Bond is more popular than before. Furthermore, we know more films are on the way, with some class A talent attached, giving Bond a promising future. If you ask me, that's all a Bond fan could ask for in the 50th year.
How many people actually knew it was James Bond day? The game was terrible and basically nothing was happening. Remember everybody was angry at Connery for not doing the 50th celebrations? Well that didn't matter because we didn't get any.
Oh wait, we got an auction most of us couldn't afford and a documentary that America got for free, the UK had to pay for and other places just couldn't watch it (thank God for the member on here who put it on Youtube).
To be fair we did get the car exhibit but other than that it really wasn't very exciting. Even the film posters were let downs (except the teaser).
Absolutely spot on.
I dont think saying SF was a great film as many are doing is a defence either. Shouldnt they be trying to make a great film every time? Or are we supposed to be on our knees with gratitude every 10 years because they actually put in some effort and hired some top talent to give us a good film (2002 notwithstanding obviously!) and the rest of the time take whatever pap they throw our way?
The 50th was pathetic for all the reasons thelivingroyale states above and more. The only person who delivered for the 50th was Danny Boyle and I'm pretty sure that had bugger all to do with EON and Sony.
Absa-bloody-lutely. It should make no bloody difference whatsoever whether Bond is 37 years old, 50 years old, 58 years old, I couldn't give a hoot. It winds me up when people use this as an excuse, it's like they've been to the EON equivalent of Piz Gloria.
Countries like Russia,Poland, East Germany, Lithuania, and most Eastern Block countries banned Bond in the cinema. And it was banned in China. Now Bond has all the considerable extra millions from those countries.
The most successful Bonds always had a killer promotional campaign. Yes it helps if a film is good but let's face it, Moonraker still cleaned up at the box office so that tells you that quality is not the motivator that gets you to the cinema.
True. It seems we have to kiss ass when they make a really good Bond like they are doing us a favour. :) There is no excuse with the budgets they got for the last 17 years. Bond as a franchise has got way more leniency than other franchises that get the plug pulled after one misfire of a film.
And I think the 50th has been the most underwhelming 50th I can imagine. At least with the 40th, it was nice to see the other Bonds minus Sean at the premiere. It makes no sense they did not do the same for the 50th.
yh with these markets Thunder ball would of made several hundred million more adjusted for inflation. As many of these are big markets Skyfall looks to make around $75 mil in Germany, Russia is at about $25 mil and China should add about $50 mil so Thunderball would of made at least $1.2 billion if it had been released in these markets. Yh good movies does not make a big blockbuster sucess for a big franchise look at the top 10 highest grossers ever some pretty bad movies in there e.g Pirates 2 and 4 Transformers 3 for example.
Connery was the biggest actor in the world at the time of Thunderball. There was no IMAX either or multiplexes so that needs to be taken into account. IMAX tciket prices are higher too.
Also tickets sold needs to be looked at. I know Thunderball holds that record. Back then people went to see Connery and then Bond. Bond was huge of course but Connery was the motivator to go and see it. No denying, but the man was a mega star. Craig is the not the sole reason SF is doing great. Mendes being the director of Oscar recognition has his fan base as well. And the Olympics gave a nice helping hand when billions saw Bond and the Queen in the opening ceremony. That is publicity you cannot buy.
I loved Pirate 2 and 4. But Transformers made me want to pull down the screen at my local cinema. I thought my intelligence was being p**sed on and took it as an insult :)
Hey do you remember the few here who explained that EON knew nothing about show business, that a 50th year celebration was more important than releasing one more Bond movie "as usual" ? :)
Goldfinger was never #1 of the week in the US for instance, and Thunderball was #1 only for 1 week (but note that at that time charts in the US were seemingly opinion polls from movie theater managers, and not "hard facts" !)
It was a time were the moviegoers were not only 14-34 years old, but also the parents on their own, and not just to bring the kids to see a Disney. So, for instance, in the US, Doctor Zhivago did almost twice more as Thunderball, and the Sound of Music almost three times. But TB had the cool factor to the max... (and this despite bashing the Beatles - sometimes I wonder if it's a telling sign that at that time the Beatles were considered as Twilight today : "for the girls only" !)
I don't take anything away from the greatness of Thunderball, but I find trying to compare box office sucess of any older movie with a modern one pretty useless. It's a totally different world now. There's just no way to 'equalize' all the different factors.
I saw movies in the cinema multiple times in my teens, now it's once then I purchase the DVD.
Just because a film earns say $1 billion doesn't mean it's the best.
And the earnings of the films of the films depends on what they are released against.
For example, if skyfall was competing against a batman and some animated pixar film
at the cinemas it woudn't have earned as much money as it has.
I now feel so bad about that.... :\">