This model can involve sequels but also involves separate movies that focus on different characters – look no further than the Marvel movies, which center on various superheroes, or the “Star Wars” films, which will include separate stories about, for example, smuggler Han Solo.
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Previously, the record was held by the 1994 film Blown Away, which starred Tommy Lee Jones and Jeff Bridges.
The latest Bond movie, which has made over $75 million since its debut a few days ago, will probably not get to the numbers of the previous films but it will at least take a record.
But as Bond pulls back the layers of Spectre, awful truths are revealed that will shake the foundation of Bond’s past.
He has cut an image of 23 films out of the 24 Bond back catalogue all playing at exactly the same time. The song is a tad dramatic even by Bond theme standards, but works within the context of the film. Craig has brought more than $2 billion to the franchise and all of his films have done well at the box office, even Quantum of Solace, which is the least liked of the four by many fans. When he’s pushed to have human interactions, whether sexist or not, he’s at least doing something interesting enough to differentiate the Bond movies from your average superhero flick. At the same time, the newly appointed C (“Sherlock’s” Andrew Scott) is looking to make M (very traditionally assumed by Ralph Fiennes), Bond and the whole Double-0 section obsolete with a technologically advanced security monitoring system.
Bond globetrots and “Spectre” continues on to become a little too crowded for its own good. A few would say that is a negative aspect of the film, but I go to these films wanting that spirit of Bond to be deeply entrenched. We view the women through Bond’s eyes, and his gaze will always be Bond-centric; that’s to be expected.
“Spectre”, from Albert R. Broccoli’s EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Sony Pictures Entertainment, will open in China later this week. But as is the case with all Bond films, you leave wanting more of them, not him.
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He’s the most enduring secret agent character in movie history. Léa Seydoux is the film’s true Bond girl.
