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In Australia Palace Cinemas, Hornsby Odeon, Hayden Orpheum and the Ritz have all played every Bond film, include NSNA. Palace Cinemas had many sold out sessions.
At the very least, they could re-release SPECTRE in the lead up to NTTD, in the hopes of getting close to $1 billion.
Obviously EON bears no responsibility for the pandemic - it's a bloody disaster all around, and nobody could be expected to have foreseen it.
But . . . deep down, there is a small part of me that thinks, "if you'd released the film a year or two ago, we wouldn't be in this mess at all . . ."
Had there been a film every two years we'd be anticipating his eighth right now!
Wow! Eight Bond films with Craig would have been GOLDEN.
Hear, hear.
Yes I saw that in the cinema thread just before I posted my suggestion. Good on the Australian cinema chains. They seem to re-release the old ones in the US quite a lot and we get the odd little festival type thing in London (3 plus hrs from where I live)
We never get a UK wide showing though, very frustrating and 2020 would have been the PERFECT opportunity.
Eon don't release the films, they make them.
No, nobody is directly blaming EON. It's just that Standalone films would have helped and would have also increased Craig's Bond films...that's all.
No particular 'blame' from me, per se, just hard to avoid thinking about what could have been.
Chasing that kudos again. 8-|
As expected, podcast news:
Which seems fair enough and probably the least unexpected thing we'll hear this weekend! :)
Yes and no, I think.
For instance, the Marvel model - love it or hate it - is able to churn movies out quite quickly. I think they front-load the writing work, though. They set a big template in advance of which characters will be introduced, which plot points they want to hit, and what the timeline of films will be. Individual screenplays are then written one at a time within that framework. (At least I assume that's how it goes.)
I think that if they really wanted to serialize the "Craig Arc," they should have done so from the very beginning of his tenure. A stitch in time saves nine, and all that. . . But as you say, since it was more retroactive, I think subsequent writers/directors were a bit hamstrung. I've said many times that I really don't envy the guys who had to come along after SP and try to write a story - so many weird, messy threads to clean up!
Yeah, sounds reasonable to me.
Well I guess we'll see what they managed to come up with! :) I must admit, although the 'they got me back for one last job' angle is a very well-worn plot aspect from a lot of dodgy movies, there is a bit of me which is quite curious to see how it works with James Bond and I think it does weirdly feel quite fresh for him! Plus the idea of him retiring to spear fish in Jamaica must surely appeal to anyone who's read a Fleming book or two.
Just when everyone (myself included) thought you were behaving properly, you had to go back a full page and fetch something completely unrelated to yourself, just so you could, as usual, poke me. I'm flattered, but you really didn't have to. Specially right after I was courteous and complimentary of a metaphor you made, probably on that same page 8-|
Just so we're clear, I'm not biting, and I'm not the only one.
Either way, I always thought it was an odd choice to push ahead given the resurgence so I do wonder where that decision came from and who gave the move for the 180 in the end. I suppose that is insider knowledge we may never be privy to.
I was very much looking forward to seeing the film. But there was also some guilt and anxiety about it. Watching in a half-full theater, while wearing a mask, made Tenet feel like a lonely experience. I really didn't want to see Bond under those conditions.
That said, I'm not sure things will be better in April. We might have a vaccine in place, but not everyone will receive it right away. That could lead to complacency in February and March, and we might have a bigger mess on our hands.
In any case, this gives us six more months of great detective work from @Contraband to look forward to!
I must admit I would have been fascinated to see how Bond would have held up- would it have dragged in bigger audiences? Tenet seemed to have a slightly lukewarm reception from the critics so I wonder if that affected its draw slightly, but then it's a Nolan and they always do well so maybe not.
EDIT: I say convenient as it was the last to move. Not many are attending cinemas period.
It presumably would have helped a lot, but it’s also hard to see how one big movie could have kept them afloat by itself when they usually have dozens, yes. Especially, as you say, when people are divided over whether they even want to be there.
Yes, there’s no real scenario where no-one suffers damage here. Terribly sad.