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Rotten Tomatoes:
Audience: #3
Critics: #7
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/franchise/james_bond_007
IMDB Average User Ratings of all EON films:
1. CR 8.0
2. SF 7.8
3. GF 7.7
4. NTTD 7.5
FRWL 7.4
6. DN 7.2
GE 7.2
8. TSWLM 7.1
9. TB 7.0
10. YOLT 6.8
LALD 6.8
SP 6.8
13. OHMSS 6.7
TMWTGG 6.7
FYEO 6.7
TLD 6.7
17. DAF 6.6
LTK 6.6
QOS 6.6
20. OP 6.5
TND 6.5
22. TWINE 6.4
23. AVTAK 6.3
24. MR 6.3
25. DAD 6.1
Metacritic: #6 (tie):
https://www.metacritic.com/pictures/every-james-bond-film-ranked-worst-to-best
[Dated Oct. 5 but it appears to be a live ranking]
Or he could have quickly fashioned the soft toy into some manner parasurfing contraption and surfed the thermals from the explosion in a cool cgi stunt
Metacritic's user score for NTTD is 6.3, making it one of the lower-ranked entries.
189.032 votes on IMDB against 434 on Metacritic. Try again.
And you haven’t seen it yet.
Bye.
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Yes, there are far more IMDB than Metacritic user ratings. Also by point of comparison:
LALD IMDB USER RATINGS: 103,134
LALD METACRITIC USER RATINGS: 53
DN IMDB USER RATINGS: 159,217
DN METACRITIC USER RATINGS: 82
But still, NTTD is one of the lower ranked Bond films among Metacritic users. Why? I don't know ("review bombing," possibly?), especially as the overall Metacritic user ranking is not that different from IMDB users, except in at least one other notable exception: where IMDB users (213,514) rank DAD at #25, Metacritic users (361) rank the same film at #5. Make of that what you will.
And he hasn’t even seen the goddamn film.
=))
People keep noting this bit of information yet keep getting outraged about it and reply to every post he makes, instead of ignoring him. That's why he keeps doing it. He's winning.
Can you prove that?
I’m not outraged, I’m entertained!
Reality checks out. The film is a winner.
Internet naysayers are whiners.
Let's not start that business; Who is a true fan? Who understands Fleming?
Never ends well, and it inherently causes resentment and bad blood. It comes of as pretentious and doesn't take any of the subtleties into consideration.
I am offended by Bond dying and I would like to have a conversation with anyone explaining to me how I do not understand Fleming, which has been a large part of my life for over 55 years.
I've never cared either way. If one bombs, we'll get a (probably needed) adjustment. Fans caring about box office is a phenomena that coincides with the growth of the internet. Growing ups in the '60s and '70s, and even into the '80s, I never remember any film student or movie fan worrying about box office. If there was a record breaker, like JAWS or STAR WARS, that would get covered in entertainment news, but not much beyond that, maybe a special feature or update annually. It wasn't until the '90s that I saw the fan base basically doing the worrying for the studios.
That’s why audiences win.
See, I don't think most audience members would have been confused at all. Did anyone really think Timothy Dalton's Bond battled Odd Job in the caverns of Fort Knox once upon a time? I highly doubt it.
EON could have made the decision to kill off each Bond iteration at the end of his respective run, and the tradition would have eventually been embraced as sacrosanct. It sure beats the sight of Grandpa Roger bidding adieu by bonking a 25-year old girl in a shower while Q watches via mouse robot. Or Brosnan spewing out bad puns with Halle Berry as they're buried naked in conflict diamonds, while Moneypenny masturbates via VR.
It's one thing to be disenchanted with the circumstances of Bond's death, or with the movie proper (again, I have a whole list of critiques of NTTD), but to suddenly feign outrage at the decision to kill a character who's been in 25(!) movies, and assayed by six actors...c'mon!
To be blunt: Apart from the experimental Dalton duology, the franchise was creatively bankrupt from 1971 to 2002. (I love some of the Moores, but only as a dessert; there's nothing remotely nourishing about them.)
It's not a surprise EON hadn't killed Bond, as they hadn't done anything interesting with the character once Tracy took a bullet to the head. It took the disaster of DAD, and a change in the winds of action cinema, for Brocolli and Wilson to at long last pursue dramatic storytelling possibilities.
I may not care for NTTD, but I give the team kudos for doubling down on this course. I never want this series to revert back to Moore/Brosnan banality again.
After he shaved off his beard the movie took a one way ride down the toilet for me...I walked out the cinema and didn't want to see another Brozza flick again....even if it did well at the time.
There is much to enjoy, though the bad stuff is really bad (CGI dive, CGI parasurfing, Madonna cameo, Halle Berry, the quips in general, but that one goes for the entire Brosnan run). There is nothing there for me after the race with Zao, but some of those earlier scenes are absolutely great in my eyes (Bond tortured and about to face a firing squad, the sword fight, most of Cuba).
I’d be hesitant to take social media as representative of the public mood to be honest. If it was then we wouldn’t be stuck with Boris and co in power. I think those who don’t like it are probably more likely to want to vent online, and I remember reading that the majority of tweets come from a fairly small minority of accounts. And I think anyone who discusses films online like we are now is a minority to be honest, irregardless of the site. I’ve always loved doing that, but I don’t know anyone else who does.
It’s fair to say the film has its detractors, and I’m not going to make any predictions about how it’ll be thought of in the future. But at the end of the day, I think if “most did not like it”, then it wouldn’t be making all this money. I know a good box office isn’t a sign of quality, but surely it’s a sign of popularity? It’s doing almost as well as Skyfall in the UK, even with the pandemic, and will probably finish as the third highest grossing film of all time over here. That’s mental. I didn’t expect it to do that well even pre 2020. If most people thought it was a dud then I think bad word of mouth would have caught on by now.
*prepares screens & shields for Birdelson phaser fire*
You should watch Spectre, you might like it!
One is a scene that is grossly disrespectful and ill judged towards a beloved character. And the other is an insult to our intelligence that beggars belief in its naffness. It’s executed terribly but the whole idea behind a ‘CGI stunt’ is moronic in the first place