The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[bjmdds]

Coming from YOU how can Eon think they are doing it right? CR lasted 18 weeks in theaters. QOS only lasted a paltry 11 weeks before Eon yanked it. DAD lasted 23 weeks in theatres in 2002 FBF, what say yee about that statistical tidbit?

[Omega]

"Warner Brothers’ $250 million sequel is an utterly HUGE movie.
It earned $64.1 million in its second weekend (a 60 percent drop).
It has grossed $289.1 million after ten days.
This total is less than the The Dark Knight had earned at the same point in its run ($313.8 million), and that’s fine.
This total is also less than the The Avengers had earned at the same point in its run ($373.1 million), and that’s also fine.
Overseas, the film has already grossed $248.2 million, and its headed for a finish between $900 million and $1 billion worldwide. That weekend drop indicates that Rises won’t have the same legs as The Dark Knight, which ultimately found $533.3 million, so a domestic finish in the $450 million range seems likely. Many who expected the film to earn Avengers-sized numbers are pointing to the tragic Aurora shooting as the main reason for the film’s lower-than-expected business, but at this point, I believe that word-of-mouth is a bigger factor. While the film scored an “A” CinemaScore grade, critical reviews are not nearly as strong, and Bane is a less dynamic/marketable villain than Heath Ledger’s Joker. Still, as I keep reiterating, Dark Knight Rises is an enormous hit." "The opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics scored the event's biggest U.S. TV audience ever. NBC's telecast of the event drew a massive 40.7 million viewers, topping the 1996 Atlanta opening ceremony (39.8 million) as the most-watched beginning to a summer games since they were first televised in 1960." (This most likely affected Friday's USA TDNR totals too and will be little factor going forward now.)

Yes, in reality the new Bat film is doing extremely well, considering the awful shooting.......and now that the Olympics is on, i had almost forgotten that the film was out. I think the Olympics will distract potential cinemagoers to seeing the film in the next two weeks, as people sit at him cheering on their sportsmen and sportswomen! I think i will see the film, but it maybe a while yet.

I think if left in theaters TDKR will beat TDK, however the shooting and fights scared about lot away.
Olympics will probably have an effect but what up with not showing events live? The event I was going to watch had the results on the internet long before it was on tv here.


Spiderman will be lucky to clear 700 million the way its going, I think the main reason why is it the same f'ing story as 10 years ago. # sony mvpoei this year are over $400 million in cost, assuming Spyfall has the budget MGW said.
2 of those movies ,MIB & Spider, have not live up to the hype also the completion cut them down to size faster than thought.

could the economy be more a factor then they are admitting?

[FormerBondFan]

Coming from YOU how can Eon think they are doing it right? CR lasted 18 weeks in theaters. QOS only lasted a paltry 11 weeks before Eon yanked it. DAD lasted 23 weeks in theatres in 2002 FBF, what say yee about that statistical tidbit?

I hope Bond 23 fades faster than QOS, especially here in the US.

[FormerBondFan]

Looks like we're going to have a third Hobbit.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/t ... med-355817

More Middle Earth, less Bond.

[bjmdds]

Great news FSTF. Three of these will be another bat-like trilogy keeping the pressure on Eon to unload DC for Cavill hopefully. 2014 will affect the crummy Spider-boy sequel as well. Who ever thought LOTR would resurface with such gusto and anticipation. Round one seals Cr-egg's film's fate this November internationally then in December in the USA. FSTF, will you change your iconically known and revered signature picture to Bilbo Baggins soon?

[FormerBondFan]

Great news FSTF.

Enough with the FSTF. Khan is not in Trek 2 so I will be seeing the sequel.

Round one seals Cr-egg's film's fate this November internationally then in December in the USA.

We need more than vampires and Bilbo to do all the work. Your friend Jackman's Les Miserables will be on the same day as Bilbo's adventure. Rise of the Guardian will bring in kids and families on the Thanksgiving week.

FSTF, will you change your iconically known and revered signature picture to Bilbo Baggins soon?

That and Bilbo avatar.

[bjmdds]

Are you sure there is no Khan or are they teasing us? After weekend one, Bond 23 will have PLENTY of competition..........let's hope weekend 1 underperforms for Bond 23.

[FormerBondFan]

Are you sure there is no Khan or are they teasing us?

Simon Pegg said that Khan the next villain is nothing more than a myth.

After weekend one, Bond 23 will have PLENTY of competition..........let's hope weekend 1 underperforms for Bond 23.

Otherwise, send in the weirdos for Bond.

[Kristatos]

Looks like we're going to have a third Hobbit.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/t ... med-355817

More Middle Earth, less Bond.

Is there enough story in The Hobbit for three movies? It's a pretty slender book compared to LOTR. I thought even splitting it into two was bad enough.

[Kristatos]

NBC's Olympic coverage is getting the piss mercilessly ripped from it on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23NBCfail

[Omega]

Seriously do these people not know how to either keep a secret or promote a movie?
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDJ9Jtzs ... r_embedded[/video]
This is a spoiler relieved in internet forums when the studio lost the what was it board art which was later sold on ebay but most people didn't know about it so now they offer a piss poor teaser giving away what could of been a shocker.

[Kristatos]

The full trailer is out at 2pm today. As you can see, Daniel Craig is c**k-a-hoop with excitement.

[Omega]

Looks like we're going to have a third Hobbit.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/t ... med-355817

More Middle Earth, less Bond.

Is there enough story in The Hobbit for three movies? It's a pretty slender book compared to LOTR. I thought even splitting it into two was bad enough.

Jackson says Tolkien was going to rewrite the Hobbit before he died to match LOTR in tone and detail, he didn't but Jackson has 125 pages of whatever so he is going to rewrite the Hobbit to make it match his trilogy. 3 movies? Jackson can put a lot of detail in as his extended editions show still 3 movies out of one book seems to be milking the audience hard. I hope the hobbit is good enough to make two more movies out of it I feel it will be one too many movies but mainly too long between stories.

[Omega]

The full trailer is out at 2pm today. As you can see, Daniel Craig is c**k-a-hoop with excitement.

Does it matter? They keep reacting to internet leaks like this there will be nothing left to tell. Something get a spoilers so it ends up in the trailer? What sense does that make most people will never see the spoilers so why give it away. Its like movies that give away the best action sequences for free int the ads.

[Omega]

I don't know what NBCs answer is but I am pissed at the delay too. There has to be a answer so they get viewers but what they are doing now sucks. Watching it live makes us a part of the event watching it when the results are already online makes us those guys who tivo a ballgame then don't want anyone else to talk about it near them.

[James]

Seriously do these people not know how to either keep a secret or promote a movie?
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDJ9Jtzs ... r_embedded[/video]
This is a spoiler relieved in internet forums when the studio lost the what was it board art which was later sold on ebay but most people didn't know about it so now they offer a piss poor teaser giving away what could of been a shocker.

I just watched the international trailer which has a few new bits. I was surprised at the palm print gun gadget. Didn't Timothy Dalton get one of those in 1989! That's hardly a new idea. DC floating in the water feels straight out of the first and last Bourne films. Bond fakes his death. MI6 is attacked. More motorbike capers (yawn). Feels like we've seen this all before. They seem to have started giving most of the plot away but my money is on at least one surprise bizarre Craig era twist in this film that tramples all over anything by Ian Fleming or Cubby Broccoli.

By the way, what's with Craig's voice. He sounds like he's been sedated and can barely speak.

[bjmdds]

http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entir ... 073112.jpg This picture sums up Bond 23...........Dumb...........and Dumber I cannot watch any of this any longer. DC and this Q are a pathetic duo It is a decrepit portrayal of lunacy and I am sure FBF and even EA would agree. http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entir ... 073112.jpg Bardem looks like a reject from the 1970s disco era How can you take this franchise seriously? http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entir ... 073112.jpg This is the best picture yet of Cr-egg as Bond. The new trailer reveals all of the plot, just not the ending. How desperate is that?

[Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry]

Seriously do these people not know how to either keep a secret or promote a movie?
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDJ9Jtzs ... r_embedded[/video]
This is a spoiler relieved in internet forums when the studio lost the what was it board art which was later sold on ebay but most people didn't know about it so now they offer a piss poor teaser giving away what could of been a shocker.

I just watched the international trailer which has a few new bits. I was surprised at the palm print gun gadget. Didn't Timothy Dalton get one of those in 1989! That's hardly a new idea. DC floating in the water feels straight out of the first and last Bourne films. Bond fakes his death. MI6 is attacked. More motorbike capers (yawn). Feels like we've seen this all before. They seem to have started giving most of the plot away but my money is on at least one surprise bizarre Craig era twist in this film that tramples all over anything by Ian Fleming or Cubby Broccoli.

By the way, what's with Craig's voice. He sounds like he's been sedated and can barely speak.

DC sounds like he has marbles in his mouth half the time. He's a mumbler.

[bjmdds]

Seriously do these people not know how to either keep a secret or promote a movie?
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDJ9Jtzs ... r_embedded[/video]
This is a spoiler relieved in internet forums when the studio lost the what was it board art which was later sold on ebay but most people didn't know about it so now they offer a piss poor teaser giving away what could of been a shocker.

I just watched the international trailer which has a few new bits. I was surprised at the palm print gun gadget. Didn't Timothy Dalton get one of those in 1989! That's hardly a new idea. DC floating in the water feels straight out of the first and last Bourne films. Bond fakes his death. MI6 is attacked. More motorbike capers (yawn). Feels like we've seen this all before. They seem to have started giving most of the plot away but my money is on at least one surprise bizarre Craig era twist in this film that tramples all over anything by Ian Fleming or Cubby Broccoli.

By the way, what's with Craig's voice. He sounds like he's been sedated and can barely speak.

Correct James. The writers and Mendes stole concepts from other films and spliced them together thinking the audience will not notice the obvious. Don't forget the final top of the train fight scene in Mission Impossible I with the lost N.O.C. list as well. I GUARANTEE you the reviews of this film by critics will expose this as an obvious retread of the past films. It looks worse than imaginable. No escapism and putrid casting choices. It's a meltdown of the franchise. It cannot go on in this fashion any longer. FBF, IF this trash grosses a dime more than CR, never mind QOS, it will state a deterioration of the global psyche to embrace such rubbish. EVERYTHING about this film is wrong, from morbid pre-made plot ripoffs to a director who will be embarrassed by his final product, as was Forster.

[bjmdds]

The UK's Guardian is less than flattering this new trailer: "Actually, no. You see, it was all just a great big fakeout. James Bond was only pretending to be dead. And, from this image, we can tell that he spent his time lying low by going on an all-inclusive package holiday to Tenerife in an attempt to make it on to the next series of Boozed Up Brits Abroad."..............."Meanwhile, here's our first look at the new Q, played by Ben Whishaw. His first gadget had better be a decent razor for Bond, or God help us all.".........."And here's our first look at the new Bond villain, played by Javier Bardem. From this we can tell that he's either Max Zorin from A View to a Kill, that he watched A View to a Kill obsessively as a child and decided to mimic Max Zorin as closely as possible, or that he's just in possession of some really unfortunate genes."........."Finally, James Bond apparently winks now, like your uncle or creepy PE teacher does."