The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[bjmdds]

Eh, it's still better than most of what's on offer movie wise, right now. *shrug*

The point MP is that QOSTBM made history for the franchise, and NOT the kind of history Eon wanted a $230+ million Bond film to make. HISTORICAL fact for Craig's second outing.

[katied]

No its not, not really.
Katied has slagged off every other movie out there for various reasons. The Transporter comparisons to Quark are valid and there is a new Transporter movie out too I can't slag off Transporter 3 and say Quark is better.
Twilight may not be your cuppa tea but I can't imagine its worse than Quark or that Australia could be as incoherent telling a story as Forster. There are plenty of really good movies out there right now but they are smaller films.

Not everyone lives in a big city or has access to a movie theater where Slumdog Millionaire or Milk are playing,both movies I want to see. *shrug*

[Mazer Rackham]

No its not, not really.
Katied has slagged off every other movie out there for various reasons. The Transporter comparisons to Quark are valid and there is a new Transporter movie out too I can't slag off Transporter 3 and say Quark is better.
Twilight may not be your cuppa tea but I can't imagine its worse than Quark or that Australia could be as incoherent telling a story as Forster. There are plenty of really good movies out there right now but they are smaller films.

Not everyone lives in a big city or has access to a movie theater where Slumdog Millionaire or Milk are playing,both movies I want to see. *shrug*

Limited release depending where you are can be very limited.

[Mazer Rackham]

This weekends final #s

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1 Four Christmases $16,755,478
2 Twilight  $13,046,722 	
3 Bolt 	$9,796,149 	
4 Australia 	$7,050,261 	
5 Quantum of Solace $6,752,390 	
6 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa 	$5,079,120 	
7 Transporter 3  $4,668,898 	-
8 Punisher: War Zone $4,271,451 	

[James]

Bond 23 should open with a few minutes of the Craig and Dench end scene from QOS in black and white. Then we cut to Judi in bed (in colour). She has been dreaming the black and white sequence. The phone rings. "Oh it's you Bond" says Judi. Then we cut to.....Hugh Jackman in a safari suit and a couple of blondes, and the Bond music plays.....

[katied]

No its not, not really.
Katied has slagged off every other movie out there for various reasons. The Transporter comparisons to Quark are valid and there is a new Transporter movie out too I can't slag off Transporter 3 and say Quark is better.
Twilight may not be your cuppa tea but I can't imagine its worse than Quark or that Australia could be as incoherent telling a story as Forster. There are plenty of really good movies out there right now but they are smaller films.

Not everyone lives in a big city or has access to a movie theater where Slumdog Millionaire or Milk are playing,both movies I want to see. *shrug*

Limited release depending where you are can be very limited.

I live in a major city,and while we're not L.A. and San Francisco,we usually get the quote limited release unquote films when everyone else does, more or less.

[bjmdds]

Bond 23 should open with a few minutes of the Craig and Dench end scene from QOS in black and white. Then we cut to Judi in bed (in colour). She has been dreaming the black and white sequence. The phone rings. "Oh it's you Bond" says Judi. Then we cut to.....Hugh Jackman in a safari suit and a couple of blondes, and the Bond music plays.....

Dallas was a favorite show of mine in the 1980s here and that first episode scene annoyed all who were fans of the show. The point of forgetting the ENTIRE prior season though does apply to the pile of Bourne Eon is shoveling now. Craig was just asked if the next film would continue on this storyline arc, and in his usual classless, vulgar way said, "No f---ing way". He also now wants to explore Q and Moneypenny and have fun with that in a free standing plot! I guess all his bad press is getting into his head now. Craig is incapable of being a 'true' Bond and will fall on his face as such. There was no closure with TBM's storyline. We have no idea who these people are, what governments they represent, etc., but now Craig decided it's time for a fresh start. I'll say. Let's start with his dismissal. I find it hard to believe this film is still doing business in the now empty theatres it is playing in.

[Mazer Rackham]

Dallas was a favorite show of mine in the 1980s here and that first episode scene annoyed all who were fans of the show. The point of forgetting the ENTIRE prior season though does apply to the pile of Bourne Eon is shoveling now. Craig was just asked if the next film would continue on this storyline arc, and in his usual classless, vulgar way said, "No f---ing way". He also now wants to explore Q and Moneypenny and have fun with that in a free standing plot! I guess all his bad press is getting into his head now. Craig is incapable of being a 'true' Bond and will fall on his face as such. There was no closure with TBM's storyline. We have no idea who these people are, what governments they represent, etc., but now Craig decided it's time for a fresh start. I'll say. Let's start with his dismissal. I find it hard to believe this film is still doing business in the now empty theatres it is playing in.

That has got to piss off the fanboys. Right after the reviews started rolling in it was the dark middle story of trilogy so what ever was bad wouldn't be so bad in a trilogy. Now not only is there no trilogy there was no point to CR through Quark. Quark is just a bad conclusion to CR and horrible Bond film/awful Bourne chapter.

[katied]

Empty theaters?Hardly.There were 15 or so people in the theater when I saw it recently.I'm surprised, since it's been out for more than a month,that there are people that haven't seen it but the word of mouth isn't that great.Still, though...

[stockslivevan]

You guys forget that in the same interview Craig says that the Quantum organization can still be used. He was talking about the Vesper storyline, not Quantum. The ending of QOS makes that clear enough.

[katied]

I think Quantum will be around....I mean,obviously the Vesper storyline IS done

Oh and Stocks?Good to see you posting here again. honestly and truly.

[Milton Krest]

I think Quantum will be around....I mean,obviously the Vesper storyline IS done

Oh and Stocks?Good to see you posting here again. honestly and truly.

I think that the Vesper story was finished when Royale ended!

[katied]

Yeah...and what was the use of Yusuf- the payoff was seeing him for what, 5 minutes at the end of QOS.Bit of a lame duck,that.

[Mazer Rackham]

You guys forget that in the same interview Craig says that the Quantum organization can still be used. He was talking about the Vesper storyline, not Quantum. The ending of QOS makes that clear enough.

What he said was There is an organization that we can use whenever we want to not that they will.

[Mazer Rackham]

I think that the Vesper story was finished when Royale ended!

Funny that should happen at all. Bond was over Vesper before the book ended and by LALD he was in love with the next Bond Girl.

[The Sweeney]

QOSTBM is now reknowned for the biggest post-Thanksgiving drop in the USA IN THE HISTORY of the Bond franchise AND it lags BEHIND DAD in terms of attendance! Facts, nothing but the facts.

Didn't it also have the biggest opening weekend ever in both the UK and US too?

[Mazer Rackham]

QOSTBM is now reknowned for the biggest post-Thanksgiving drop in the USA IN THE HISTORY of the Bond franchise AND it lags BEHIND DAD in terms of attendance! Facts, nothing but the facts.

Didn't it also have the biggest opening weekend ever in both the UK and US too?

go with that and you'll have to admit the biggest drop off too.

[The Sweeney]

QOSTBM is now reknowned for the biggest post-Thanksgiving drop in the USA IN THE HISTORY of the Bond franchise AND it lags BEHIND DAD in terms of attendance! Facts, nothing but the facts.

Didn't it also have the biggest opening weekend ever in both the UK and US too?

go with that and you'll have to admit the biggest drop off too.

Absolutely. But these 2 facts could be twisted from either end of the spectrum. By clever wording, QoS could sound like the most successful Bond film ever, likewise, it could also sound like the biggest flop ever (as BJ pointed out).

Either way, EON are getting the cash, and we ain't.....

[Mazer Rackham]

Monday's BO #s

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FOUR CHRISTMASES $1,228,377

TWILIGHT $935,827

AUSTRALIA $624,505

BOLT $545,779

QUANTUM OF SOLACE $528,339

PUNISHER: WAR ZONE $386,547

TRANSPORTER 3 $378,471

MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA $323,936

[katied]

Bond was over Vesper before the book ended and by LALD he was in love with the next Bond Girl.

That's Bond for ya, though