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On its Thursday opening day in the U.K. and Ireland it grossed an estimated $6.2 to $6.8 million. This is around 13% ahead of Spectre’s Monday opening and 26% behind Skyfall’s Friday opening. While the different days of the week make it hard to compare the grosses directly, it appears that the pandemic has not hurt the film. The swan song for Daniel Craig as James Bond follows a strong international showing for Dune, which grossed a total of $77 million after its second weekend.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/article/ed4000384004/?ref_=bo_hm_hp
Yes I would say it's good especially compared to QoS/SP scores. While it's hard to compare with older films due to lower review counts I was surprised that the Brosnan Era couldn't crack the 80% threshold. I have a feeling that this one will grow on people.
I wouldn't say that Bond films aren't spy films either. They might not be John le Carré, but they most definitely fall within the espionage subgenre. After all, they are credited for creating the "spy craze" of the Sixties. I don't deny that they're also action adventure movies, but the genre is far-reaching and encompasses many different subgenres including superheroes, swashbucklers, pirates, survival films and even horror films.
That's perfectly fine. We all have different tastes and see things differently. I personally prefer Martin Campbell's direction over Mendes. I also prefer Bond storywise over Indiana Jones. The common accord is that the second Indiana Jones movie wasn't as good as the first movie, inspiring a lot of less-than-flattering headlines at the time of its initial release, hence it doing a little less well than Raiders at the box office. For the record, I quite liked the movie when I first saw it in the cinema back in '84, even though I felt it borrowed a few scenes from Octopussy that came a year before it. However, Temple is a prequel and it didn't feel cohesively linear to the first movie, which is why I and many others prefer Last Crusade as it feels like a proper continuation to Raiders. Sadly, the polished continuation of Last Crusade didn't extend itself to Crystal Skull.
Very few films are deemed perfect, but I think CR comes as close to it in the modern Bond era as it can get. For me, there were too many scenes in SF that didn't totally engage and satisfy me the same way CR had done, which is why I've got CR at number 1 in my Craig era ranking. I admit that I haven't seen NTTD yet, but as it's Craig's last outing (and going off some of the feedback) I doubt it'll be in pole position.
James Bond film makes £5m in first day at UK box office
The character is different, but I'm talking about the style of the film. As you say, Bond and Indy sit on the same shelves quite happily and tonally they're very similar: family action/adventure films with thrills and spills and jokes. They use different flavourings but they're both sponge cakes in the end.
They're spy films as much as Indy films are about archeology, which is to say, not very much. Fleming followed the spirit of Buchan and Sapper with his books but put his hero in the secret service because it added a bit of flavour, but they're not really about spying. He goes around the world and battles big evil villains.
Well sure, but you have other folks around here saying how awful it is that the current Bond films are too cohesively-joined, so it's impossible to please everyone. I can kind of agree that Temple isn't quite up there with Raiders, but it's still a brilliant adventure film and I think more successful as a movie than most Bonds.
Personally I like that ToD wasn't another Raiders remake and I wish they'd gone with more varied adventures along that line- I'm hoping that's what the new one does, certainly.
That's cool, I certainly think CR is one of the very best in the whole series. I'd put SF up there too- I don't really know which of the two is my favourite, but I think it's great that Craig has two of what I would say are the very best Bond films. I'm yet to see the new one too, sounds like it won't quite be there with those two, but that's fine.
Full (Italy, Cinema are at 50% capacity though)
No 3d seen, only Imax, even if the former is available
I liked the movie a lot (WAY better than SP, imho) and Hans Zimmer *got* it how a Bond soundtrack should sound - he referenced Barry *and* Arnold, which was just awesome.
Do I need to digest the movie a bit? Yes! But I will do so by seeing it another time for sure. I understand some of the negative reviews and what they dislike - however it was nothing to dislike for me. Fleming purists will have a lot to enjoy ... but not only them. But it will give people a harder time who seek for the more formulaic interpretation (*nothing* wrong with that!).
I can only recommend to go and see it *fast* and avoid all spoilers.
In terms of the Box Office I am super-curious about the opening weekend (but I am leaning towards a positive surprise) ... but if the movie has "legs" we shall see. The only given thing is that it will polarize ... fans as well as "casual" moviegoers.
I'm far less optimistic about the US, I think it's run there will be a little disappointing. Not surprising given the fact that abysmal garbage like Shang Chi, Venom 2 etc etc are making/will make huge numbers there...
Though I've had two inoculations I'm still in the 'at risk' category, so I picked an early showing (around midday) in the hope it wouldn't be so crowded, and consequently there were about four people in the audience other than myself. It was on multiple screens in the cinema, though, so that, along with it being an earlier screening, probably accounts for the low numbers. I'm in the UK.
‘No Time To Die’ Clocks $22M Through Two Days Offshore, Sets Multiple Records – International Box Office
https://www.google.com/amp/s/deadline.com/2021/10/no-time-to-die-opening-weekend-uk-international-box-office-daniel-craig-james-bond-1234847227/amp/
This is in Japan. Audiences ALWAYS quiet, respectful. And this time, people near me moved. But quiet. In the U.S., years ago, I had people cheering and clapping during the PTS and more.
I say "near me" but the theater has an empty seat between people, and I was also on an aisle. First movie I have been to here since Spectre. Yes, that long! And I was wearing my usual TWO face masks and sanitized my seat myself. No eating or drinking.
Weird I've just watched this through YouTube lol. Pleased to see he really enjoyed it. My second viewing really made the ending less hard to bare.
I’ve never seen Bond as a spy. More of a WW2 SOE style operative, a throw back to Fleming’s wartime career. As M says in DAD, Bonds job is to infiltrate the bad guys and stir things up, not to lie low and gather intelligence. I think the films started as thrillers and have evolved into action films, but modern ones are better when they go back to the thriller elements (apart of course, from a couple of jaw dropping non-CGI stunts)
He had an ID as Jerzy Bondov is TLD if that counts. He was a Russian in TWINE. DAD definitely had one in the PTS.
Come to thing of it he carried a calling card in QOS that had the name R Sterling, a callback to TSWLM.
Mr. Van Bierk ;)
Yes, he really hated QOS, nice to see him defend SP though!
I think Jerzy Bondov was mocked up for him by Koskov though, not MI-6.
To your point, he claims to give up espionage at the end of the Casino Royale novel way back in the 60s.
“He would leave spying to the white collar dickheads, he would go after the hand that holds the whip…”
I’m pretty sure that’s how he wrote it. ;)
That's real solid business NTTD is doing, with the int'l projection for this weekend going from $90m to $114m and challenging Skyfall's opening numbers in so many markets. Still a stretch to imagine NTTD reaching $1 billion in the end, but if North America brings about $200m and $100m from China, NTTD will be on track to safely outgross CR and QOS and maybe even approach Spectre's $880m.