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Respect!
I would like to thank you on behalf of EON for the 900 mil at the box office.
I remember one guy who said that he was avoiding it because of "a few bad reviews" - terrible logic - but we persuaded him into seeing it.
None of us have the right to say who isn't a Bond fan for X reason. Bringing up a conversation I had a few minutes ago, that's like telling someone they aren't a Bond fan because they didn't care for DAD.
I like women, but I don't care for the cocky, overly competent fat ones who will sleep with any and every guy. Does that remove me as a fan of women?
It's actually not different in the slightest.
You take a general thing, and then you don't like one part of the entirety of that certain thing, yet you enjoy a majority of the rest of it. Women, Bond films, it's the same exact thing, and it still doesn't give anyone the right to tell someone else that they are or aren't a fan of that.
Uhh, okay then. So a few people with the same thoughts = they're right and everyone else is wrong? Absolutely not. Congratulations on you and the others drawing a serious conclusion on a person you don't know whatsoever based on tiny evidence. Fantastic work.
100% sarcasm alert on my part.
http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/4572/mi6s-contribution-to-skyfalls-profits/p1
22 November 2012 first day released in Australia ,30 November 2012,
7th,14th, 17 & 19 December. 5 times my mission completed with Skyfall. I do again if I have to.
Well, that may be surprising, but I do not agree. What you say was true of Albert Broccoli. But whenever I hear Michael Wilson speak about Bond, what he says sounds fake to me. I remember a 1997 interview in which he said about Pierce Brosnan: "He is THE James Bond"; he did not seem to believe it at all - something in his tone, his eyes. To be perfectly honest, there is something I do not like in him: his enthousiasm looks like a 'forgery'... And his cameos in every movie since GoldenEye: Saltzmann or Broccoli would never have done such a thing... It seems as if Wilson wanted people to see him, constantly showing off, some sort of lack of modesty...
I keep thinking that what he mainly cares about is making money: remember the way he fired John Barry! Barry was contacted to score GoldenEye, but Wilson wanted him to write some kind of modern, commercial music (evidently to make more money by selling more CDs), which was artistically a huge mistake: Barry refused and was fired a few days later (and replaced by Eric Serra: what an enormous mistake again!!). Clearly Wilson did not understand the immense contribution Barry brought to the series (remember: Barry CREATED the Bond music; he wrote 90% of the James Bond Theme, not Monty Norman).
Albert Broccoli was very skillfully able to combine artistic and commercial aspects of the franchise, and made few mistakes. Michael Wilson is excellent at dealing with commercial aspects of the movies - oh yes, he is! - but some essential artistic aspects are gone since he took over in 1995, and even more since 2006... Where is that bondian look, where is that bondian atmosphere, that were so significant, so pronounced in the 'old' movies? Certain scenes in the new Bond movies ARE bondian, but too many others are NOT, or look like copies of genuine Bond situations. For instance, the torture scene in CR is immensely awkward and embarrassing, NOT bondian at all (despite the fact it directly comes from the Fleming novel - a pity the screenwriters were not able to adapt it correctly), especially the so-called humorous 'one-liners', which fall completely flat and destroy the atmosphere of the scene... And what about the 'defibrillator' scene, which should be nominated as the "worst and most ridiculous movie scene of all times"? And there are so many other examples...
It wasn't hard to twist my arm. I believe it was a case of..."Would you like to go and see Sky..."
"OK!"
"...fall?"
Round the year off with a fourth, as the wife and I have yet to see it together, and one of her friends who is not a Bond fan at all, wants to go and see it. Apparently the hype, and good word of mouth has intrigued them both into watching it. So we're booked in for the 30th of this month.
That's soon to change, I feel.
;)
Can't wait to add the dvd to my collection.
Again I find myself wondering how much longer it will stay on our screens here in Blighty. The fact that it came out nine weeks ago plus it's impending (ridiculously early, IMO) DVD/Blu-Ray release makes one think that it's days on the big screen must be numbered.
However, one also must take into account it's sheer sustained popularity. I honestly expected to be one of maybe half a dozen people watching it today - but to my amazement and delight I found that both matinee performances were absolutely packed. I think that positive word of mouth must be playing it's part.
And whilst I was waiting to go in for the first performance I heard an elderly couple mention SF, look at their tickets and then wonder aloud where screen 12A was. Helpful soul that I am I pointed out that the film was being shown on screen 10 and that the 12A on their tickets was actually the film's certificate. They laughed and said they were a bit out of touch as this was their first visit to the cinema in many years. I get the feeling that a lot of people who aren't regular cinemagoers are visiting the flicks specially to see SF because of all the praise the film has received not only from the critics but, far more importantly, from friends and family who have seen it and, quite rightly, loved it. I've certainly never had so many people come up to me and say how fantastic they think a Bond film is as they have done with SF.