No Time To Die | October 8 2021 | 82% on RT | RIP Sean Connery

[wildphantom]

Up to $14.2 million in the U.K. in two days. So we’re over £10 million and a monster Saturday and Sunday incoming. £22-23 million I’m thinking. 
 

https://deadline.com/2021/10/no-time-to-die-opening-weekend-uk-international-box-office-daniel-craig-james-bond-1234847227/

Edited October 2, 2021 by wildphantom

[ddddeeee]

Rami Malek was so lame in this I'm howling 

[Chicago]

I think Tom Hardy was born to play a Bond Villain 

[Avatree]

23 hours ago, AJG said:

Absolutely none. It also features the worst score for major motion picture I have ever heard. Why they allowed this lunatic with a Yamaha keyboard near a Bond film is beyond me. Like what do you even call this?

 

 

 

This is amazing, thank you for sharing 😁

[35MM-18]

3 hours ago, Chicago said:

I think Tom Hardy was born to play a Bond Villain 

A lot of the 'popular' picks for being the next Bond would be better fits as villains, IMO. 

[Impact]

So next week I'm seeing a film I was begging to think never come out!

Could you imagine 15 years ago telling the Craig is not Bond crowd he still is Bond?

He broke Roger Moore's longest run record (wont break the most Bond films though, as back then they released films more quickly)

[Ronin46]

Variety is projecting 113M opening weekend overseas for Bond.

 

Daniel Craig’s swan song as James Bond is set for a record-breaking overseas opening.

After a long series of delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, “No Time to Die” exploded at the international box office on Friday, grossing $27.2 million across 54 markets to reach a running total of $51.4 million. Industry projections predict a weekend total of $112.9 million, which would give the latest 007 entry the biggest global box office debut of the pandemic era without China (the film opens in China on Oct. 29).

[elcaballero]

On 10/1/2021 at 6:18 PM, CoolioD1 said:

i find goldeneye a bit overrated but famke janssen is the hottest in any of those movies so it's top 10 at least. Tomorrow Never Dies is a sort of underrated i think it's a fun time. and die another day is the dumbest film ever made but you've at least got to respect the achievement of that. it's hard to make the stupidest thing ever but they did it.

Tomorrow Never Dies has actually aged really well for me. I think I like it a tad more than Goldeneye, which is little more rough around the edges than I remember.

[Eric Atreides]

 

[Pinacolada]

44 minutes ago, Eric Soprano said:

 

That's such a yiiiikes move, especially considering how active Ryan is on twitter. Who's idea was that? Lol

[FilmFincher]

This was pretty damn good! 

 

Has a fair few flaws, it's bloated in trying to juggle the carry-overs from Spectre and the newer elements. The newer stuff worked better for me, but your milage will vary on the old stuff depending on how much you liked Spectre. I appreciate their commitment to the bit though. 

 

I thought Malek, Lynch and Armas were standouts in this. Its a very satisfactory send off for Craig.

 

This is a very gadgety/heightened film, reminded me a lot more of a MI film or even latter Fast and Furious'; matches the new tone. The film has a real sense of fun which is much needed after the dour affair of Spectre. It goes for some proper laughs/gags. Occasionally too goofy. 

 

The cinematography is incredible. Absolutely stunning. It rivals Skyfall for me but I have a strong bias for film and 70MM IMAX, also love a film that's not afraid to get down and dirty with its shooting style when it needs to. 

 

The action sequences are pretty great as well. Captures the scale/stunts cleanly without losing momentum. Lots of really well done gunplay which is usually a weak point for Bond. While there is some occasional CG work (The odd car and some face replacement), it reminds you how thrilling it is to see these in-camera set-pieces unfolding in front of you. Proper old-school blockbuster filmmaking. 

 

Sound design was fantastic as well. Zimmer's score was solid (starts sounding a bit Batmany in the final act) but doesn't come close to David Arnolds work in earlier Craigs. 

 

It is a clear number 3 of the Craig era.

 

Casino Royale 

Skyfall

 

No Time to Die

 

Quantum of Solace

Spectre 

Edited October 3, 2021 by FilmFincher

[chasmmi]

17 hours ago, SchumacherFTW said:

Only 3 days late, you're getting better with your timekeeping 😉

This is No Time To Drone On now Schu

[Hatebox]

Two big problems with this movie:

 

1) The first half is Bond coming back to MI6, but we've already had that plot in Skyfall. There's a real sense of diminishing returns here. We've been through this already.

 

2) Thematically it's Craig's most serious movie by far and yet someone decided this was the film for his Bond to be lighthearted. It really jars, and I can't help but look at you, Phoebe Waller-Bridgers.

 

 

I did like quite a lot else about it but I really, really hope the next iteration is content with simple standalone adventures and 100 minute run-times.

 

 

Edited October 3, 2021 by Hatebox

[jason1230]

2 hours ago, Hatebox said:

Two big problems with this movie:

 

1) The first half is Bond coming back to MI6, but we've already had that plot in Skyfall. There's a real sense of diminishing returns here. We've been through this already.

 

2) Thematically it's Craig's most serious movie by far and yet someone decided this was the film for his Bond to be lighthearted (without ever being that funny). It really jars, and I can't help but look at you, Phoebe Waller-Bridgers.

 

 

I did like quite a lot else about it but I really, really hope the next iteration is content with simple standalone adventures and 100 minute run-times.

 

 

Average length for a bond film is longer than 2 hours.

[Chicago]

3 hours ago, Hatebox said:

Two big problems with this movie:

 

1) The first half is Bond coming back to MI6, but we've already had that plot in Skyfall. There's a real sense of diminishing returns here. We've been through this already.

 

2) Thematically it's Craig's most serious movie by far and yet someone decided this was the film for his Bond to be lighthearted (without ever being that funny). It really jars, and I can't help but look at you, Phoebe Waller-Bridgers.

 

 

I did like quite a lot else about it but I really, really hope the next iteration is content with simple standalone adventures and 100 minute run-times.

 

 

With just 100 minute runtimes, how does one become Epic?

[excel1]

4 hours ago, Hatebox said:

1) The first half is Bond coming back to MI6, but we've already had that plot in Skyfall. There's a real sense of diminishing returns here. We've been through this already.

 

 

 

And Die Another Day. And in QOS/POS, M revokes a bunch of Bonds stuff, in Spectre MI6 goes away and he goes rogue, etc etc...

Edited October 3, 2021 by excel1

[Hatebox]

1 hour ago, jason1230 said:

Average length for a bond film is longer than 2 hours.

And most of them feel it.

[Saul Goodman]

I can't believe Universal is pushing the 3D so hard in some countries. Skyfall released at a time when 3D was popular and yet that was never converted to play in the format.

[SnokesLegs]

8 minutes ago, Saul Goodman said:

I can't believe Universal is pushing the 3D so hard in some countries. Skyfall released at a time when 3D was popular and yet that was never converted to play in the format.

It’s simple really, higher ticket prices means higher potential takings after so many delays and costly marketing false starts. They’re squeezing it for every penny they can make, I’m amazed they didn’t try pushing 3D in the UK, it’s only in 2D here, although every cinema raised their ticket prices for the film, so we’re basically paying the 3D uplift already…

 

I can’t imagine any part of this film benefitting from 3D though. 

Edited October 3, 2021 by SnokesLegs

[35MM-18]

3 minutes ago, SnokesLegs said:

I can’t imagine any part of this film benefitting from 3D though.

My feelings on the matter.

Edited October 3, 2021 by 35MM-18