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But "M" also said the words in "Skyfall" @DarthDimi. Anyway, I'm willing to remove it, if some moderators dare to address people like @Suivez_ce_parachute publicly as well. Otherwise I will keep it there.
I mean, you guys are here to maintain some 'positive spirit' no? And although everyone needs to react in complete freedom, I'm getting tired of the notion that one f-bomb creates more negativity in here than someone who knows how to articulate complete negativity towards one person. The latter ones sometimes are as poisonous as I am.
The film has now reached £90.5 mil (which at today's exchange rate equals approx $136.6 mil).
BO followers are now sure that SP will overtake Avatar's £94 mil, by the xmas hols to become the 2nd highest grossing film in the UK behind SF. SP will likely now finish with £95 mil.
Mind you sometime early next year, don't be surprised to see the film, SW7 overtake both SP & SF.
@mepal1, would be nice seeing both SF and SP as the top two highest grossing films in the UK! Only a few more million to go.
Yes........that is the current figure for SP in the UK.
Yes, the UK film trade wrote an article recently stating that they think its possible for SW7 to gross somewhere around the £110 mil mark. You should find a link to the article, some pages back here on this thread.
I'll get back to you later with info, on how previous SW films have fared in the UK, if i can find that info. I do know the original SW film was a massive hit in the UK.
The furthest back the records go are to 1975. There are other charts around for films before this date, but the figures are somewhat estimates.
There are several tables from the BFI records.
Go to table 1.2 for Top 20 highest grossing films at the UK box office, 1975-2014 (inflation adjusted).
I was surprised to see that in the UK, 'Jaws' was a bigger hit than 'SW'.
I still can't get my head around the fact that the Pierce Brosnan musical 'Mamma Mia' is in that list. :-O
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-top-films-of-all-time-june-2015.pdf
Enjoy the read. :)
So it's by no means a sure thing that SW7 can take out SF, but the 3D gross (I'm assuming the film is 3D) should help.
It's interesting that Brosnan's Mamma Mia outgrossed QoS in the UK in 2008 as well. That must have stung EON.
Yes, the Titanic gross, does include the 3D release in 2012, and that also applies to SW.TPM.
Like, most countries i presume, the 3D prices here are noticeably higher, maybe an extra couple of quid per ticket.
Something else i found out recently, was that one of our big cinema chains in the UK i.e. 'The Odeon', had been charging the public and extra £2 for a standard ticket for the viewings of SP.
Yeah well. For the very same reason I get completely tired of the negativity in here surrounding the film. Perhaps I sound a pick. But I think SP needs a bit of counterbalancing. If I wasn't here, SP would easily be the worst Bond film ever.
I think people in here really suffer from "comparison sickness" and "over-analyzing OUR beloved films to death". For me the fun is gone. Everything people in here talk with nuanced words, but the result is: sheer negativity. It frustrates me.
If I was alive 30 years ago, being 33 back in 1985, watching films must have been such a better experience. It truly saddens me that people in here can't enjoy a Bond film anymore. Yuk!
You and I both. I've probably stated it a solid 1,000 times by now. ;)
Good for you. Nice to hear. But for me the "fun" and "entertainment" that the Bond films have is completely absent in here. Personally, on first watch, SP for me was a great experience. But when you constantly read, and I mean constantly, that the movie is shit, you're going to start to believe it yourself.
And again, I miss a positive vibe here. And I'm not asking for yea-sayers without criticism. But at least for a slightly more positive style in posting.
I guess we all have a film that we like to drag through a pool of mud from time to time. In my case, I have a few. By now people have read my rants quite often. I'm only getting away with that because I take sufficiently long pauses between said rants. ;-) So rather than repeat every day how ridiculous the AVTAK story is, I save my energy for one outburst every two months or so. ;-)
It's nothing compared to fire and brimstone that came down on those who didn't like SF in 2012 - ah, those were the days!
Regarding films, 20+ years ago you just went to the cinema, watched the film, and were just left with your own opinion of the film, and those of your family, friends and work colleagues.
I do think that negativity thrives better I. The social media era. We lost our talent, our quality to pinpoint positive things on this planet. I hate that!
How can news about Pluto and Ceres be as impopular as someone shifting on a toilet, whereas ISIS grabs us all, by brains and balls.
At the end of the day, it is the most recent Bond film - the freshest one, and it's going through the ringer and being debated, as others have before it. I haven't actually seen much negativity towards SP, just critical discussion, which is to be expected on a fan forum. There is a difference, to me, betweeen the two.
I think the SF discussions were way more 'negative' up to just a few months ago, 3 full years after release. Fans of that film are probably glad that we've moved onto another target for discussion.
Yes, and now we replace that by SP.
There's one difference though. 2015 is not 2006. 9 years ago the social media environment was a tinyyyy bit different. To state this with some sarcasm.
Actually in 2006 the internet forums had some very hostile voices towards the Bond world, and its star.
Until the movie appeared in cinema's, that's absolutely true yes.