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No Time To Die (James Bond #25)


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Kinda nuts that Halloween Kills nearly equaled the opening weekend of No Time to Die.  Can't tell if that means (a) there was way more demand for a new Halloween than I thought, (b) there was way less demand for a Bond than I thought, (c) both of those, or (d) there's just a ceiling number of people going out to the theaters for non-Marvel movies right now and  that ceiling is around 50 million dollars.

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Also, Halloween Kills had the biggest opening weekend for a horror movie in 2021 and for an R-Rated film since Bad Boys 3. Most impressive of all is that it broke all of these records despite the horrible reviews and the movie being available on Peacock.

 

I guess very few people in the States actually subscribe to Peacock, lol.

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What the fuck do Peacock and Halloween Kills have to do with the already forgotten Bond film.

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21 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

The only peacock I know, is Capt. Peacock! :lol:

 

BRB, got to go home and feed my pussy

 

 

2 minutes ago, JoeinAR said:

What the fuck do Peacock and Halloween Kills have to do with the already forgotten Bond film.

 

The tangent began with me expressing my surprise that Halloween Kills did as well as the Bond movie in its opening weekend.

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My local Odeon doesn't have screenings of it after Thursday 28th (i assume this is across the board). 

So ... a movie delayed for 18 months and regarded as one of the year's most highly anticipated releases is ending its UK cinema run after 4 weeks. Hmmm.  

 

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Or alternatively, UK cinemas often don’t finalise their times until later in the week - our local (and big) Vue lists no showings of anything after the 28th… which is pretty standard.

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Mark Gatiss has revealed that he and Steven Moffat have discussed how they'd go about writing a Bond if asked. Gatiss reckoned the return of a lighter approach would be a good idea for the future of 007 - 'They often react to the times, and the times are currently bleak as fuck. They need to have fun with it again, like when Roger Moore was Bond'.  

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It started out very good.

Gadgets are back, humour is back, we get a fantastic ally in Dr Armas. The script is literate and the action flows from it, instead of the usual set-piece formula.

Then.....

the action for action sake plot turns return e.g. the Ford Rover commercial.

I was really excited when I saw they brought back the " Garden of Death" from the novel YOLT.

But, the whole sequence on the island was a huge disappointment ( and what exactly was Safin planning?).

Henchmen are lined.up like human cutouts in a  shooting gallery.for Bond to shoot down. Boring.

So, a Bond film in the classic manner that suffers from a lame climax and poor villains

 

On 02/09/2021 at 2:59 AM, Sweeping Strings said:

It was a good idea to make him considerably younger and geekier, 'cause that's how tech wizards tend to be nowadays. The classic 'exasperated-but-just-about-underlined-with-respect' relationship between him and Bond remains, it's just played differently now.   

They made him gay in this one( like the actor).

It was done in a subtle and satisfying manner

Or, was this established in previous films?

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Agreed, it actually managed to not feel crowbarred in for the sake of it (as it would be if they did it with Bond ... although granted, there is the infamously ambiguous 'What makes you think this is my first time?' in Skyfall). 

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I definitely agree the series needs to rediscover its lighter tone. Even something closer to Casino Royale would be a better mix than the dreary, serious tone that afflicted the last 4 films. At some point the Craig films just stopped being fun, though there were glimpses along the way.

 

CR had an excellent mix of action and some genuinely funny moments. Not to mention the best Bond girl of the Craig era.

 

Hopefully they get Martin Campbell back, plus Arnold obviously.

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8 hours ago, crypto said:

Hopefully they get Martin Campbell back, plus Arnold obviously.

My hope was that they could get back the dream team of Campbell, Lamont, Baird, and Méheux. Obviously, this is not going to happen, but I'd settle for Gassner.

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8 hours ago, crypto said:

CR had an excellent mix of action and some genuinely funny moments. Not to mention the best Bond girl of the Craig era.

Nooo! Paloma is the best Bond girl ever!!!

Otherwise yeah Bond should be more fun and less serious. I miss Moore and Brosnan era

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21 hours ago, Sweeping Strings said:

Agreed, it actually managed to not feel crowbarred in for the sake of it (as it would be if they did it with Bond ... although granted, there is the infamously ambiguous 'What makes you think this is my first time?' in Skyfall). 

Was 007 supposed to be a lesbian?

She wore pants and, most tellingly, had short, unstraightened hair.

I've known many black lesbians and they NEVER use straightener.

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Dunno ... I did think her initial 'look' was intended as a tribute to Rosie Carver from Live And Let Die. Also think a chance was missed for a bit of fun ... for example, Bond reverts to type and attempts to seduce her only for her to respond with '007 tries to sleep with 007 ... Christ, the rumours about your ego are true!' 

  

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