Obvious flop


The writing's on the wall.

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i'm not feeling this film AT ALL........ obvious money grab

parts 2+3 were shit enough

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I don't expect it to do well. I don't think they realize how much good will they obliterated with those sequels. The ground breaking effects are common place now. They only way this movie can do great is they bring it big time with the story. And if they had any great ideas they've have used them by now! This movie is going to have a HUGE front loaded opening, and then once word of mouth gets around that it's another lackluster mediocre entry that probably disregards established canon, only the die hard fans will keep showing up. The best this movie can do is spend two hours retconning the last two movies to further setup a re-sequel with the 5th movie. It's going to be a huge waste of time.

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This, the new Bond, and Top Gun will all bomb.

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New Bond will probably be a huge success.

New Top Gun will probably be a minor event, but not a straight up bomb.

This Matrix, however, unless it gets good reviews and Keanu Reeves carries this amazingly, it's going to be a trainwreck.

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Idk man... Spectre was bad enough. And they actually had the audacity to make another "new" Bond with Daniel Craig again??

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This Bond series with Craig has been hit and miss. But each hit seems to have a more positive effect than each miss.

Casino Royale and Skyfall both generated huge goodwill with the public.

If this movie is slightly good, it will be a success - pandemic aside.

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Bond fans universally despise Craig. The only hope NTTD has of doing well is if casuals who don't know anything about the Bond series show up in droves as they did for Skyfall and Casino Royale, but that won't be happening in a pandemic. Eon Productions have backed themselves into a corner that they can't get out of. They've alienated their core fans and made their business entirely dependent on casual moviegoers who don't even care about the Bond character or series. The franchise will be in an even worse place than it was following Licence to Kill. There might never be another Bond film again.

I'm still not even sure that this one will get released because they still obviously need to do major reshoots which aren't possible with a pandemic going on.

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I think so. And Kingsman looks like it's now positioned to totally replace Bond with it's new direction resulting from the underwhelming sequel. If that proved to be a success, Bond might be in a bad position.

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I'm not familiar with that film, but I don't think anything will "replace" Bond. Bond always has the potential to rise from the ashes no matter how bad things get. I just don't know if the producers have a willingness to get back to the traditional formula that was so beloved by the fans and made them filthy rich. It's a near perfect cinematic formula that was abandoned for incomprehensible reasons.

I didn't think the series could get any lower than it did with Skyfall, and then Spectre was even worse. I naively thought that they were going to get back to basics and make a standalone Bond film this time, but amazingly they are continuing in the failed creative direction of Spectre.

Craig, Purvis/Wade, Broccoli, and Wilson all need to resign.

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Well, if the Matrix franchise can resurface after being practically dead for decades... Bond surely can do it too I guess.

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I think you're wrong. Craig is a adequate bond. The hardest part about bond is casting a new one. So of course they will keep Craig as long as they can.

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"They've alienated the core fans". Funny statement.

I hope you realize that 95% of the Bond movies' business is made from people who are casuals.
And I hope you realize also that "core fans" will still watch the movie just so they can come on internet pages to complain.

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I won't be going to see it in the theatre. I won't financially support a Daniel Craig film. And I'm certainly not the only fan who will be boycotting it.

Besides, the box office numbers are fudged, and Craig has been given way too much credit for drawing money. If you look at the numbers closely and adjust for inflation, population growth, and other factors, Craig is arguably the least successful Bond of all time. Connery, Moore, and Brosnan were the big money draws.

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I HAVE ENJOYED EVERY BOND FILM...ONLY TRUELY LOVE THE CONNERY RUN THOUGH...I LIKE CRAIG AS BOND AND HAVE LIKED TO REALLY LIKED ALL HIS BOND FLICKS...I THINK YOU MIGHT BE TRANSPOSING YOUR OWN OPINION ONTO A FANBASE WITH THEIR OWN VARIED THOUGHTS,MANY OF WHOM ALSO ENJOY CRAIG AS BOND.

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I like Craig a lot as Bond, and I consider myself a Bond fan (since 1979). However, giving Craig a producer's seat and growing influence on the scripts was probably a mistake. Spectre was a disaster and because they seem to be continuing with the same storyline, I'm not planning to see NTTD in theater (I've seen every bond movie in theater since Moonraker).

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THATS FAIR.

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I've heard so many longtime fans say this is the first Bond film in decades that they won't be seeing in the cinema, and this was the case before covid. I won't be seeing it either.

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I sincerely wonder, who asked for this?

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Probably just the Wachowskis.

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I guess so, because I never heard ANYONE saying "I wish there was a new The Matrix movie". Even the hardcore fans I know never said it, even though most of them were already fed up with the sequels. Why Warner Is ready to finance that is beyond me. I really don't see how it could be a success. Make enough money to be even? Maybe. A huge hit? I really doubt it.

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Ordinarily yes as those sequels (esp 3) pretty much destroyed the Matrix as a franchise..., but Keanu is 'a thing' again (no doubt a big reason M4 finally went ahead is due to his new popularity/comeback in the ever growing John Wick franchise) and 90s nostalgia is kind of 'a thing' (Jurassics) so it its got a chance at least being as big as Matrix 1 (450m)

That's assuming post covid theatres will open again and ppl are going on mass again (hopefully by 2022)

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Flop blop shubyduby slop shop. Who gives a flying fuck if it flops. I didnt, and you didn't buy shares in the film. Let's just hope it's good. Speculation is pointless. And negative speculation is putting bad vibes out there son. Let's hope for the best but expect the worse.

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Crickey! Chill, mate. It was just a prediction. It's fun. Never made a prediction for a football match, eh?

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Your right. I had eaten too many disco biscuits. I was a strange creature last night.

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NO...YOU WERE RIGHT...I AGREED WITH YOUR ORIGINAL RESPONSE...A.K.'S THREAD STARTED IN AND HAS VEERED FURTHER INTO THE LAND OF NEGATIVITY...

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Shit son. Cheers for the back up.

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I'm looking forward to it very much, though I'm also part of the minority that liked Reloaded and Revolutions.

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Blasphemy!!!

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THEY ARENT THAT BAD...THEY JUST ARENT GREAT...STILL,VERY ENTERTAINING FLICKS.

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