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NO TIME TO DIE (2021) - Critical Reaction and Box Office Performance

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  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Yeah, it's popular with the GA. The few people at my workplace who saw it really enjoyed it. The foreman had questions about how the films continue from here, and understood when I told him it would simply be a new timeline or universe.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    I guess I rate as general audience. Cool.

  • peterpeter Toronto
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    RichardTheBruce wrote: »
    I guess I rate as general audience. Cool.

    Then I’m in good company @RichardTheBruce , 😂!
  • matt_umatt_u better known as Mr. Roark
    edited October 2022 Posts: 4,292
    The final total in the UK is a whooping £98M.

    Let’s see if Avatar 2 will top that.

    But let’s not forget it came out when COVID was still a thing and that without an early digital release it would’ve bested SF. In a few words, NTTD smashed it.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    No Way Home was a lot of fun. Nothing but respect for what they did with the Marvel films in the run-up to Infinity War/Endgame. Seriously, a 25+ film run with a 2-film ending that actually satisfied? Impressive. Not really any interest in the MCU anymore, but I am looking forward to Deadpool + Wolverine.
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    @NickTwentyTwo ...and now that Wolverine is back from the dead WITH the same actor in the role, I'm expecting Daniel Craig to be cast as the new James Bond for B26
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    Yeah and the other thing is Deadpool always breaks the fourth wall so he'll almost certainly refer to Wolverine as Hugh Jackman... how does in-universe Wolverine respond to that?
    It'll be crazy.
  • 007ClassicBondFan007ClassicBondFan
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    peter wrote: »
    @NickTwentyTwo ...and now that Wolverine is back from the dead WITH the same actor in the role, I'm expecting Daniel Craig to be cast as the new James Bond for B26

    I heard B26 opens with a scorched/skeletal Craig Bond walking into M’s office for his next mission.
  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
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    007ClassicBondFan wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    @NickTwentyTwo ...and now that Wolverine is back from the dead WITH the same actor in the role, I'm expecting Daniel Craig to be cast as the new James Bond for B26

    I heard B26 opens with a scorched/skeletal Craig Bond walking into M’s office for his next mission.

    To be the relief of many fans who can’t seem to grasp what the nature of a reboot is. I never get tired of seeing those folks on social media commenting “but they killed him! How does it make sense that he’ll be back when he’s dead?!”
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    MakeshiftPython wrote: »
    007ClassicBondFan wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    @NickTwentyTwo ...and now that Wolverine is back from the dead WITH the same actor in the role, I'm expecting Daniel Craig to be cast as the new James Bond for B26

    I heard B26 opens with a scorched/skeletal Craig Bond walking into M’s office for his next mission.

    To be the relief of many fans who can’t seem to grasp what the nature of a reboot is. I never get tired of seeing those folks on social media commenting “but they killed him! How does it make sense that he’ll be back when he’s dead?!”

    I bet those are also the same people who haven't quite been able to figure out how Dench's M managed to travel through time.
  • 007ClassicBondFan007ClassicBondFan
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    They’re also the same people on social media who seem to take no issue in accepting the fact that each new screen iteration of Batman has been a reboot. The general audiences lack of knowledge when it comes to Bond kind of staggers me a bit at times.
  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
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    I think general audiences are more savvier than certain Bond circles. Bond is an anomaly that hasn’t had to go through the same kind of phases as other franchise where completely different filmmakers have their own take on the material without some steward overseeing everything.

    A friend of mine was only casually familiar with Bond, and she assumed with each actor the series rebooted itself, or at least soft rebooted as we saw with the Burton and Schumacher Batman films where certain actors carried over across the films but for the most part they’re not continuity heavy
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    edited October 2022 Posts: 22,214
    I've heard people say that the Dalton Bond was a soft reboot. I think it doesn't matter in the end. I have always viewed the films as standalone adventures, with only a marginal continuity at best. Some elements (Jaws, Gogol, ...) come back for the sake of convenience or to please us, but the films have no immediate ties between them otherwise. The Craigs were the first films to introduce a deep and consistent continuity as films. They form a "continuity block", a continent surrounded by an ocean full of separate islands. The next film will no longer play on this continent. And that's fine. Audiences will manage. They make abstractions of the Bond character anyway. There's a guy called Bond in every Bond film. We know him from previous films, but we rarely care what happened to him in those previous films.
  • matt_umatt_u better known as Mr. Roark
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    Thanks to the re-release NTTD achieves another milestone hitting the £98M mark at the UK boxoffice. The bad news for Bond is that SP is no longer in the top 5 since Avatar, thanks to the 4K re-release, bested it with a £95.8M updated total.
  • matt_umatt_u better known as Mr. Roark
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    Given the complicated circumstances behind NTTD release - with Covid-19 protocols still in place, being the first real theatrical event post a 18 months hiatus within a super crowded October/November and suffering from an older demographic less inclined to enter a packed move theater - I’m shocked that internationally (without counting China given the fact that half of Western films were banned there) only Spider-Man and Maverick grossed more than our beloved 60 years old hero. If we count China as well JW3: Dominion bested NTTD only by a dozen millions.

    That’s kinda crazy.
  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
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    You’re talking about properties that have always been more popular than Bond. The original 1986 film blew away Bond films of the past and contemporary era. SPIDER-MAN, at least with Maguire and Holland, were bigger than Bond.

    I don’t think the comparison sticks. It would be like saying THUNDERBALL’s box office was unimpressive compared to THE SOUND OF MUSIC and DOCTOR ZHIVAGO.
  • matt_umatt_u better known as Mr. Roark
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    My point is that NTTD did absolutely great and it is not just about being popular: people liked it.
  • LucknFateLucknFate Arkhangelsk
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    MakeshiftPython wrote: »
    You’re talking about properties that have always been more popular than Bond. The original 1986 film blew away Bond films of the past and contemporary era. SPIDER-MAN, at least with Maguire and Holland, were bigger than Bond.

    I don’t think the comparison sticks. It would be like saying THUNDERBALL’s box office was unimpressive compared to THE SOUND OF MUSIC and DOCTOR ZHIVAGO.

    I think you misread the point, NTTD did excellent for everything going on, IN comparison to some heavyweight properties Bond is at the level of, is what's being said.
  • matt_umatt_u better known as Mr. Roark
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    Exactly. NTTD’s international performance proved to be absolutely great.
  • Benjamin_Weekly69Benjamin_Weekly69 London
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    I am beginning to believe that NTTD is the best looking Craig film. Better than Skyfall. Yes.
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