The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[Kristatos]

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...what is this I don't even, that gunbarrel for a start, great that it's finally back but it looks so....halfassed, Craig didn't do the bond walk right there either, along with the turn and that fight reminded Me more of austin powers when he fights one of doc evils henchmen in the original (ie ah my eyes, judo chop). Yes they put the music from ohmss in this clip

DAF, actually. It's from the final fight with Wint and Kidd, IIRC.

[bjmdds]

Variety: “Spectre,” the 24th James Bond film, has set its sights on a weekend haul of $75 million after pulling in $28 million from 3,929 locations on Friday. The Sony, MGM and EON, release — directed by Sam Mendes and starring Daniel Craig, Naomie Harris and Lea Seydoux — had been pegged to generate as much as $80 million in its first weekend. Considering “Spectre’s” Thursday night take of $5.25 million and a Friday total under the anticipated $30 million mark, however, the latest Bond outing is pacing to fall short of “Skyfall’s” $88.4 million debut and land in the mid-$70 million range, in line with Sony’s conservative estimates............Boxoffice.com: Compared to Skyfall, reviews have been mixed (particularly from American critics) for Daniel Craig's fourth outing as 007 with a 62 percent Rotten Tomatoes score as of Saturday morning. Unfortunately, word of mouth is also significantly more modest with a 72 percent Flixster score thus far; however, the studio reports a solid "A-" CinemaScore. The general consensus among casual audiences remains to be seen, but for now BoxOffice is projecting a "$72.5" million opening weekend.-------this is BAD news for EON here It is already underperforming on the opening weekend and being front loaded, it will be all downhill from here. Sweeney, I have NO idea what world you live in to embrace this trash as a Bond film but I hope you don't go broke seeing it numerous times. This film's plot is a disgrace: watch Sandy Kenyon's video review here from ABC NY. Sandy always liked Cr-egg too: http://abc7ny.com/entertainment/sandy-k ... e/1071771/

[bjmdds]

Also posting a great debut showing on Friday was Fox and Blue Sky's The Peanuts Movie. The long-awaited big screen adaptation of the hugely popular and influential series took in an estimated $12.1 million on opening day. That's close to the $12.3 million Happy Feet opened to in 2006 when it also shared opening day with a James Bond film (Casino Royale). Peanuts' first day was also just 10 percent behind Wreck-It Ralph's $13.5 million opening day three years ago, another nostalgia-driven animated pic. Very positive reviews (87 percent) and word of mouth (86 percent) indicate the film is poised for a great $43 million debut weekend and a very fruitful run ahead as it has the entire holiday season to continue playing with multiple generations' of fans...........Peanuts and Katniss and the SW crew will now bury ECT-TRE's media talk in the weeks to come and I don't see it doing over $1 billion worldwide and in fact now $800 million might be a stretch. Cr-egg is DONE as far as Bond 'fever' is concerned, even for the minions, (except Sweeney), who see 'the writing is on the wall '

[acid]

+1. Perfectly said.

Thanks Veronica

[bjmdds]

Rex Reed of The New York Observer whined about Spectre: “The trouble is, we’ve seen it all before. Despite a plot trajectory that changes so often they seem to be making it up as they go along, everyone on and off the screen seems to be doing it by the numbers”. Wall Street Journal‘s Joe Morgenstern huffed, “Debilitating fatigue has set in…clumsy acts of cannibalization in a new movie that recycles old concerns about secret service operatives like Bond becoming obsolete in a high-tech world.”----------------Lawrence Toppman is a theater critic and culture writer with The Charlotte Observer: Daniel Craig in ‘Spectre’: Bored, James Bored: Now, in “Spectre,” he presides impassively over 2 1/2 hours of mediocrity. He and almost everyone else seem to be fulfilling an obligation so they can make films they care about. After the dull opening chase in Mexico, highlighted by a helicopter battle in which Craig’s stuntman is all too evident, the movie plods on with dull chases, dull escapes, a dull race against a clock to save a kidnap victim, a dull bureaucrat trying to replace double-O agents with drones and computers, a dull madman out to dominate the world, a dull hulking assassin who never speaks, a dull love interest 20 years younger than Bond and a dull torture scene in which the bad guy pets – wait for it – a white Persian cat! Bond fans will know what that has meant in films that put this one to shame. My fingers itch to explain the absurd motive behind the villain’s malevolence. Suffice to say it ties up all of Craig’s Bond films with an explanation none of the others prepared us for, a revelation no doubt conceived at the end of some sleepless, bong-fueled night by the four credited writers and uncredited counterparts. (Though the quartet was never conceived as a unit, this picture pretends it was.) The film awakens occasionally in London, when the new M (Ralph Fiennes) teams with computer whiz Q (Ben Whishaw) and alert Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) to guard the home front. They oppose C, who wants to dismantle British intelligence, a role in which Andrew Scott displays the conniving menace of a doodlebug. The story slumbers when we’re left with Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux), the daughter of a Bond nemesis and a doctor who falls in love with him because the script says to. It goes into a coma when Christoph Waltz turns up as the ruthless criminal madman, a man so deranged he never wears socks. At the center of the film, like a man trying to "pull a donkey out of a peat bog", stands Craig: inexpressive, uninflected and obviously tired. Perhaps he’s trying to play a chap who never allows himself access to his emotions, for fear loved ones may be snatched away, but he just looks like an actor who wishes he could quit his job. By the way, Sam Smith croons a title song with the ominously prophetic name “Writing on the Wall.” It’s dull. ☆ 1/2

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rogerebert/com's Matt Zoller Seitz: Or maybe—blasphemy alert—the problem is Craig's performance. He might be the most drop-dead-serious actor to play Bond, and he probably comes closer than anyone to making the character seem plausibly human (Pierce Brosnan had his moments, even though the scripts were even less inclined to support his efforts than Craig's). But as the character has become increasingly opaque and recessive—so much so that Mendes and company seem less interested in Bond as a cold but complex person than as a sculptural object to light and pose—you may wonder what the point is. This Bond is a sinewy husk of a man, pursing his lips and staring into the middle distance. He's turned into the narrator of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" but with a sidearm. The actor and the writers give us so little to grab onto that it's hard to sense Bond's feelings, much less feel with him. Late in "Spectre," we're supposed to believe that Bond is truly attached to his love interest, Lea Seydoux's Madeleine Swann (nice double Proust reference there). She reciprocates the craggy killer's affection even though, as she rightly observes, she was living in hiding for years until Bond led the bad guys straight to her. But there's little in this film's writing of Bond, or in Craig's performance, to imply that the character is capable of investing in anything more emotionally fraught than a martini mixed with house vodka. This film won political correctness kudos for casting Monica Bellucci as Bond's first age-appropriate lover (she's two years older than Craig), but "Spectre" itself squanders her in two scenes, then ditches her for the 30-year old Seydoux. Blofeld's chief henchman is a bust, just a muscleman in a suit; he makes a memorably nasty entrance blinding a rival with his thumbs, but from then on, he's all sneers and punches and kicks. Blofeld fizzles, too. Waltz, who tends to give the same performance over and over with minor variations but at least has the decency to be a hoot each time, is in "Spectre" only slightly longer than Bellucci, and has been drained of the glee he displayed in Quentin Tarantino's films. The payoff of his character's storyline is so dumb that it makes the "twist" in "Star Trek Into Darkness" seem sensible and heartfelt. Stupider still is Bond's reaction when he finally gets the drop on his nemesis. Bags of Scrabble tiles make more sense.

[Daltonite Toothpaste]

2 positive user reviews for Spectre, has this place turned into Dedicated To Daniel?

[bjmdds]

Forbes: With $28 million, Spectre scored the second best Friday gross in 007 history, just above the $27m Friday of Quantum of Solace and just below the $32.5m Thursday/Friday debut of Skyfall. To be fair, only the last two Craig films had numbers anywhere near this big. Actually, for what it’s worth, the $47m debut weekend of Die Another Day in 2002 would be around $67m today and would have an adjusted Friday gross of around $26.5m ($23.8m plus an 11% IMAX/PLF bump). And when you play around with inflation, this Friday gross starts to look a little less impressive. The “troubling” part is that Spectre‘s pure Friday number is “just” $22.75 million, which is noticeably lower than the “pure” Friday business of Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and the adjusted figures for Die Another Day.

[bjmdds]

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TOMATOMETER :QOS:

65%
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 279
Fresh: 181
Rotten: 98

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TOMATOMETER : ECH-TRE

62%
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 210
Fresh: 131
Rotten: 79

[Omega]

I think the drop off in sp if it shows up in the opening weekend will be partly to cod , I've play three days almost straight with my friend just because it's a new game , you can see a bond film any time for the next 50 years. New game with every one at the same rank only happens one a year


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[bjmdds]

$28,000,000 Friday-----$26,750,000 Saturday -----$18,250,000 Sunday-----Oh baby ECH-TRE did LESS on Saturday than on Friday THAT is a major indication that EON is screwed royally and that this film will be burnt toast sooner rather than later $73 million opening weekend here is NOT a good sign with only Peanuts in the mix. With a hopeful 65% drop off next weekend, it might only do around $30 million with the Hunger Games burying it the week later and SW nailing the coffin shut on this epic insult to Fleming's franchise. Look at this chart: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/ ECT-TRE is the ONLY film to drop off on Saturday vs. Friday

[Kristatos]

Estimated tickets sold for CraigBond US & Canada opening weekends (source: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/ ... r=1&p=.htm)

Casino Royale: 6,234,100
Quantum of Bollocks: 9,405,100
Trifle: 10,977,000
The Return of Rico*: 8,478,500

*=Little in-joke for Dreddheads there.

[bjmdds]

Boxoffice.com: 'While Spectre was off to a solid start this weekend, the goodwill with audiences left behind by Skyfall failed to help lead to a break-out debut for Spectre. Mixed critical reviews, especially from critics in North America, also appear to have taken a toll on the film's potential.'---------meanwhile, I cannot find ONE mention of the UK and overseas week 2 box office totals anywhere? Are they hiding something?

[bjmdds]

Seattletimes.com: For the past 20 years, ever since their father handed over the keys to the series, the ferociously private Barbara Broccoli, 55, and her half brother, Michael Wilson, 73, have micromanaged Bond’s every move. While moviemaking is a collaborative process, Broccoli and Wilson have final say over every line of dialogue, every casting decision, every stunt sequence, every marketing tie-in, every TV ad, poster and billboard. In particular, it is the steely-eyed Broccoli who runs the Bond franchise. She was the one who decided to recast the central character in 2005, giving the job to Craig, whom she had seen in the indie drama “Layer Cake.” She was the one who, with “Spectre” hanging in the balance after the on-set injury of Craig this year, figured out how to keep the $300 million production on track. Yes, a woman is in charge of the world’s most aspirational male brand. Although she rarely speaks in public and keeps a low profile in Hollywood — born in Los Angeles, she now lives and works in London — Broccoli has an iron-fisted reputation. “Barbara scares the hell out of people,” Wilson said in a rare sit-down interview at the St. Regis Hotel in Mexico City a few hours before the premiere of “Spectre,” which opened in the United States on Friday. “Everyone is frightened to death of her.” “Good!” shouted Broccoli, who was seated beside him. She laughed. “I mean it,” Wilson continued. “They all know I’m a big pushover, so they don’t care about me.” Wilson brushed aside any notion that there would be big changes in how the franchise was managed. “We’re in it for the long haul, whatever that may be,” he said. As for Craig’s future, Broccoli shut down that question. “Maybe I’m in denial, but I don’t want to think about another Bond,” she said. “Until he definitely says otherwise, I’m not going to give it another thought. If Bond moves to a new distributor, Broccoli and Wilson will have their grit tested once more: New studio executives, particularly marketers, tend to want to put their stamp on Bond. “If we get the wrong partners, there are liable to be conflicts,” Wilson said. The deal that is expiring is lavish, requiring Sony to pay 50 percent of the “Spectre” production costs — which total some $250 million after accounting for government incentives — for only 25 percent of certain profits, once costs are recouped. Sony also shoulders tens of millions of dollars in marketing costs.

[English Agent]

Estimated tickets sold for CraigBond US & Canada opening weekends (source: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/ ... r=1&p=.htm)

Casino Royale: 6,234,100
Quantum of Bollocks: 9,405,100
Trifle: 10,977,000
The Return of Rico*: 8,478,500

*=Little in-joke for Dreddheads there.

Arghh......never noticed that before....ie (est) admission figures at 'Boxofficemojo'........must of been a relatively new addition to their site.......thanks!

btw.....The land where you live in has some interesting title names for the Bond films!

[bjmdds]

Thewrap.com: Snoopy and “Peanuts Movie” take big bite out of Daniel Craig thriller’s less-than-stirring $73 million domestic debut: James Bond and “Spectre’ triumphed in their debut at the North American box office, but Charlie Brown and “The Peanuts Movie” kept the suave super spy from breaking major records in a $73 million opening weekend. That’s way under the $88 million that the last 007 movie “Skyfall” opened to three years ago and at the low end of analysts’ projections for the 24th film in Hollywood’s longest-running film franchise. Less-than-sterling reviews, some spotty word-of-mouth and a strong $45 million second-place showing by the “Peanuts” posse took a toll on “Spectre.” On its way to becoming the highest-grossing 007 movie ever, “Skyfall” enjoyed a Saturday surge in its domestic debut that saw its grosses top its Friday number by 11 percent. The Saturday number for “Spectre,” the worst-reviewed of any recent Bond film, was about four percent under its Friday figure. That suggests that word-of-mouth –which travels very fast in today’s social media-driven world– hurt rather than helped.

[English Agent]

Boxoffice.com: 'While Spectre was off to a solid start this weekend, the goodwill with audiences left behind by Skyfall failed to help lead to a break-out debut for Spectre. Mixed critical reviews, especially from critics in North America, also appear to have taken a toll on the film's potential.'---------meanwhile, I cannot find ONE mention of the UK and overseas week 2 box office totals anywhere? Are they hiding something?

Just wait a few more hours and we will get the breakdown of the International figures.............though the total as of now is $218,000,000.

For a worldwide figure of $291,000,000.

Last i heard midweek was SP was still going pretty strongly in the UK.

What i want to know is which of the members here went to see the 'Peanuts Movie' instead of 'SP' ?