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Re: Watchin' Dr. No last night

Posted by jamesgarvin (A) on August 11, 2005 at 07:09:54

In Reply to: Re: Watchin' Dr. No last night posted by RGA on August 11, 2005 at 00:01:04:

"They have dumped Brosnan so they must feel the people have grown tired of him."

Actually, they did not dump Brosnan. They would like him to do another film, and have tried to sign him for two more films. He is the one who, at this time, has expressed his feeling that he would not like to return. His last film as Bond grosses 160 million. That is a lot of tired people.

I agree the inflation can he an influence. But the proof in the pudding is how Dalton's number compared with Moore's last film - From a View to a Kill, which, in my opinion, is the worst of the Bond films. View did 23 million it's opening weekend, and took in slightly more than 50 million. Those were in 1985 dollars. In 1987 dollars, Dalton's first did significantly less it's first weekend, and only slightly more than View when it's run ended. Inflation does not explain Brosnan's box office as double that of Dalton's, and it certainly does not explain Dalton's box take vis a vis View's. The real damning number is License to Kill, Dalton's second film. It scored $8.7 million on it's opening weekend, and did $34.6 million in the U.S. Compare those numbers with Brosnan's first film. Inflation does not come close to explaining that disparity.

Brosnan's second film grossed 25 million on it's first weekend, ended at 125 million. His second film did better than the first, which was the opposite of Dalton's. Brosnan's third film did 35 million it's opening, a shade under 127 million total. Brosnan's fourth film took in 47 million opening weekend, finishing at 160 million. One of the top grossing films in 2002, and the top grossing action film (if you classify Star Wars as science fiction.)

The only conclusion which can be drawn is that the ticket holders like Brosnan, as each of his films have done better than the previous. On the other hand, they did not like Dalton, because his second film did substantially less than the first. I suspect that the people who went to the first Dalton were Bond diehards who went because of the franchise. Many stayed away for his second. Which is too bad.

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