Nov 17 2008Bond is a Popular, Money-Making Franchise
1. Quantum of Solace - $70.4 million--the best opening ever for a Bond movie or any other film with the words "quantum" and "solace" in the title.
2. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - $36.1 million. Every1 luvs escaping to theaters 2 C talking animals!
3. Role Models - $11.7 million, and it's all going to Big Brothers/Big Sisters! (No it isn't.)
4. High School Musical 3: Senior Year - $5.9 million. Who says people won't pay to see teenagers sing and dance in a Disney production, week after week? I think I said that, but I was dead wrong.
5. Changeling - $4.2 million, bringing the Clint Eastwood-directed film to just over $27 million in four weeks. I'm so confident it could have made a lot more under my title, Anglina Jolie and the Baby Switcheroo.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Reader Comments
1. Anexio - November 17, 2008 1:51 PM
First and doesn't that put a layer of frost on your penis tip?
Suckers!
2. Uncle Eccoli - November 17, 2008 2:01 PM
I went to see Bond this weekend. I thought it was awful - nothing but action sequences and glib one-liners. I got up and left about halfway through.
3. Elmo - November 17, 2008 2:26 PM
the action scenes in Bond would have been amazing- WOULD have-
they cut to a different camera angle every 3 seconds! it was driving me nuts..
you couldn't see a damn thing, all that money was wasted because of a crappy director
4. Scooby - November 17, 2008 2:27 PM
I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one that thought it sucked. Awful!
5. Spice - November 17, 2008 2:49 PM
Solace is a discomfort, definitely!
10 bucks is not worth it. The bond girls weren't half as good as the previous ones. Not awful but somehow upsetting.
6. Somebody - November 17, 2008 3:23 PM
Way too many chase scenes...
1.)Aston Car chase
2.)Chase M's Bodyguard Mitchell on foot
3.)Motorcycle chase
4.)Boat chase
5.)Airplane chase
Sequels rarely do well...
Bring back Q and Moneypenny!
7. Elmo - November 17, 2008 4:16 PM
@Somebody
well I like all those scenes normally... it should have been a longer movie, including more.. non-action stuff
8. Mr. Mason - November 18, 2008 3:19 AM
//nothing but action sequences and glib one-liners//
Have you ever seen a Bond movie before this? Here is my understanding of the Bond franchise:
Pre-Daniel Craig: "Look out! It's an STD-riddled alcoholic with a loaded gun!"
Daniel Craig: "Look out! It's James motherfucking Bond!"
Apologies if the movie didn't have enough slurring Scotsmen and penis surgery via lasers for those who didn't like it, but good news! The new Star Trek's got you covered on both fronts!
9. NVG - November 20, 2008 12:47 PM
Well, I hated the shaky camera, too, but I liked the film as a whole.
Brutally cool.
Just think that they just brought the whole Vesper Lynd episode to a close so they can now completely start afresh.