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The dream was old even then. I think we need a new writer who can bring things back to a much tighter, compact and thrilling story.
Estimates now put SP box office take for Friday at around $27.5 mil (that also includes the take from previews).
Film expected to take around $74 - 74.3 mil for the weekend..........oh dear it keeps going down a little!
Must be entirely due to the wave of bad-mouthed, "rotten" US reviews. Reviews that felt mostly like extensions of the SonyLeaks, combined with disgusting aversion towards the very essence of "Bond". I can't see any other reason. This past week has been a bit destructive for the film (now 62% at RT, and completely undeserved).
Let the Americans have "their own 'james Bond's", with a re-imagined flying orphan who is pussy enough to develop a bat phobia, a 53-year old 'true stuntman' who can't even do a real parachute jump and a bunch of car racing gangstas who's next adventure will be "Fast & Furious On Mars".
And outside the USA, please let there be a more realistic spy, with humour, wit and his own "Superman brains".
Grrrr..
:-L
It's just....."SPECTRE" does not deserve a 62% RT rating (that Forbes review.....Grrrr). It's unfair.
Of course it bloody doesn't.
A fair few negative reviewers have a downer on Bond in general it seems rather than be critical of SP per se.
SP just may be Top 5 Bond for me after a few more viewings, but at this point, it's in sixth place, which is phenomenal to me, and I couldn't care less if it has a 5% rating or a 100% rating. I don't care if Douche Doucheface in NYC loves it or hates it; I was floored by it and that's all I really care about. Bring on more negative reviews from people complaining about things they don't understand or whining about scenes and tidbits that have existed in the series since the 1960's. It doesn't phase me at all.
One, in particular, made a big deal of how unrealistic the scenes in Rome and New York looked to him. Yes, I said New York, as that was the basis of his discontent. I suspect the idiot didn't even see the film.
He easily affirmed my long standing belief that critics, in general, are about as useful as a rubber crutch...
I seem to remember some years ago a critic in the UK slagged off a film.......then was caught out when questioned about the film, they admitted they hadn't even seen the film.
What a muppet!
It's quite sad that an instance of something like that happening even exists.
Crap like that really makes my blood boil.
:-S
Anyway, a 62% in rotten tomatoes is not a tragedy, if the next President of the States got a 62% of the votes, he would be very pleased, . ;)
Edit: The numbers and Box Office Mojo confirm a 28 million friday. The numbers talks about a 78 million weekend, while Deadline predicts 73-74+, but it considers a 27.5 million friday.
Right.. maybe we should just boycott all British films ...umm right after Bond. Oh wait that's a joint US/UK film.
Bond lost China with SF ..they prefer more Michael Bay.
What's wrong with flag waving anyway? Isn't Bond "flag waving"?
Do you remember the review of CR in which someone thought Montenegro was a fictional country made up for the film!
:))
If some critics had an extra brain cell they would be classified as 'plants'.
:))
GG as for the Mission Impossible movies they are pretty good competition which the EON formula needs in order to become stale. Am I glad we'll be getting a new Bourne movie which might up the ante. Both are decent franchises that together with the EON folks keep good spy movies alive in a spectacular way. I still think that the last MI movie should have done better at the US BO since you think the US audiences prefer their US cousins better than a certain 007.
I think the problem the US audience has with the recent MI films.........is not the films so much themselves, but with the star Tom Cruise!..........Anyway we've gone off topic!
If SPECTRE had been done Memento-style, would it have ended with the best third act of any Bond movie ? :)
The barrell is from the prison scene in the dark night rises and bond is from skyfall :)
Cruise lost most though when he bounced on the sofa.
Fans forgive him when he's Ethan Hunt but shun him otherwise.
That's true. When he dumped Nicole and jumped on Oprah's chair it caused a lot of problems for him. Along with his religious beliefs. He was bulletproof before that. Oprah and her fans had way too much power at one time unfortunately.
A bit unfair really, but an example of what the US media tends to do to people who are 'larger' than them. That's why I had a feeling they would massacre SP.......because SF was bigger than them.
Having said that, not all of the criticism is unwarranted however. If the film had been better and more balanced, the narrative could have been much more positive from them, despite wrist slashing, Sonyleaks or Sam Smith. The film sort of played into their hands. It could have gone either way.......having seen it yesterday, I don't think there was a specific agenda. It's a polarizing film.