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Maybe we should bring back the double taking pigeon.
Spider-Menace, watch out! ;)
"Well... here's to us."
If it wasn’t for the pandemic Spidey would’ve topped Infinity War globally so yes, even NWH is being damaged by COVID.
The point is Spider-Man’s audiences are way younger than Bond and that demographic is the one that is keeping theaters alive, without mentioning that Spidey was always going to be way bigger.
People trying to use Spidey’s insane numbers as a way to downsize NTTD’s great run are just pathetic.
Well deserved if you ask me. Considering it's my #2 Bond movie. No joke. :)
Well, it certainly stinks like a #2. ;)
I kid I kid, I love that bat**** film, double taking pigeon and everything about it.
Same. It just gets better and better every time I watch it. :D
I'm not saying bond has to "beat spider-man" though. The point is that no way home didn't fall off compared to the two previous entries in the Tom Holland spidey series, in fact it could well best them. Spider-man has seen an upwards trajectory, even inspite of the new omicron variant, and it kinda blows a hole in the "B25 didn't do as well because of the pandemic" theory that seems to be so popular.
Please read @matt_u 's post. He sums it up well.
That's more of an assumption on your part than anything.
But even if that was the case, it still proves my point. Spidey is going UP compared to previous entries, whereas bond is declining. If the pandemic really was having that kind of impact then NWHs numbers should be lower than that of FFH and Homecoming, but they aren't. The demand to see spidey in cinemas INCREASED during the pandemic compared with before. We can't say the same about Bond.
Can't you accept that Spider-Man is the one exception in this entire story? Three Marvel films did less than a Marvel film usually does. A Spielberg film fell flat right after its start. Dune missed its target, and so on. Bond isn't the exception, NWH is.
Yes exactly, you've proven my point. If Bond were the barnstorming success like has been claimed then it WOULD be the exception.
No one is saying that NTTD is crazy successful beyond measure, only that it has done very well all things considered. It more than passed its test without being the campus' Einstein.
The box office figures for Spider-Man are likely going up because everyone is trying to see it now, before cinemas are closed due to new lockdowns.
Marvel is, for lack of a better word, a marvel. We're talking comic book fans who even dress up for conventions. Comparing Bond to Marvel (or Star Wars) is not a fair comparison.
Star Wars trounced The Spy Who Loved Me the BO, too. It doesn't mean TSWLM flopped. Not at all.
NTTD would’ve hit at least $925M if the pandemic never occurred. In the US it was projected to fall in between SP and SF (so $250M according to Forbes January estimates) and in China alone it would’ve grossed something like $40M more.
Maybe. We'll never know. But I'm perfectly satisfied with the BO results as they are. ;-)
Marvel is marvel...spiderman has done well as expected..but also bonds boxoffice has also done very well...as expected..
Marvel movies are always the top boxoffice takers...but remember that bond has beaten 3 other Marvel movies this year in terms of boxoffice...and is going to be the 2nd biggest movie this year...
B25 isn't a mega hit by any means, it about made its money back, and probably does well on VOD.
Just not the homerun that the narratives try to convince you of.
Globally, given the circumstances, it performed better than SP, that benefited a lot from being a direct sequel to SF while NTTD had to face a 18 months delay… just saying…
So any attempt to downsize what the film was able to do is just inappropriate.
LTK has been suffering with that since 1989.
Yes, and B25 is in the same boat. Not a mega hit and not a mega flop. We don't need to try and push it into either category with "well, given the circumstances..." it can just exist in the middle.
Yeah let’s just pretend NTTD’s run wasn’t damaged by a global pandemic and a 22 months gap between the first full trailer and the actual release.
It’s quite hard to not feed the trolls tho.
People like that are seemingly frustrated and they want others to feel the same.
Haters need to hate...wish they'd just go watch their Brozza bollocks and leave the Craig film alone.