Quantum of Solace to be released in UK 17-days before US premiere!
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As said they want to catch the holiday in the US.
Personally I think it's a bad idea. There will be more than a few fans who end up downloading it. The truth is we don't like waiting.
Yeah, this is just setting it up for mass piracy.
Those spoilers are largely accurate, except that.... well, I'll leave that for now. Interesting that, as the Sony bod who introduced the London screening said that it ws the first screening anywhere.
As for the film - no spoilers, but... oh dear. An immense disappointment. I've just got back from the screening, so I may feel more generous after a night's sleep, but it's the weakest Bond movie since the days of Octopussy and View to a Kill.
It's not that it's actually bad. As a grab-bag of action sequences which happen to call the central character James Bond, it's OK. But as a follow-up to Casino? All the stuff the last film got unexpectedly right is messed up.
The problem may be the running time. It's a little reminiscent of the first release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, where they tried to keep the running time down (sort-of) by leaving in all the FX, while cutting the 'boring talky bits' that gave the FX (ie, action set pieces - there's at least eight of them) context and point.
It doesn't wrap up the Casino Royale storyline; quite the reverse, as it effectively ends in the same place, with MI6 having one member of the conspiracy to interrogate for leads. It does though close off the story of Bond's attachment to/grief over Vesper.
Since when is Bond American?
Bond himself is English. Ian Fleming was British. Albert Broccoli was American but the 007 Albert R Broccoli stage is in the UK.
On the upside, you colonial types get the Star Trek trailer with it, while we won't...
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Its made by an American production company and studio. That alone qualifies it as an American film.
Uh ... EON Productions -- which is the production company that actually makes the movies -- is based in London, and Danjaq, which holds the Bond copyright and trademarks, is managed by the Broccoli family. Just because MGM distributes the series doesn't make it an American series, no moreso than a British distributor handling JJ Abrams' Star Trek in the UK would make Star Trek a British film.
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Oh.
Well then I rescind my earlier remarks. My mistake.
Well then I rescind my earlier remarks. My mistake.
Slightly off topic.Does this mean we get the ST XI trailer first as well?
How come there's no uproar like this when the UK gets a big film months after the US release? Yes, the US is probably the biggest single market, but you'd think it was the only place of Earth that mattered.
Bond movies are, if anything, very multinational productions.
This one has a German director, a Brit in the lead role, a Canadian, a Brit and an American for writers, an American editor, a largely British film crew, it was shot all over the world (virtually everywhere but America) and it was produced by a Japanese-owned company.
And? Doesn't change the fact you don't get this sort of thing when the UK, or Australia, or where ever else, doesn't get the latest blockbuster movie for months after the US release.
I'm agreeing with you. This notion that Quantum of Solace is an American movie is a false one. Creatively it's a multi-national production. Financially, when it comes down to it it's Japanese.
A quick Googling suggests that Friday the 31st is the last day of the half term school holidays in the UK so that is probably why we're getting it then.
What uproar?
OK, not "uproar" but people acting like this is something that shouldn't happen. Or like it's an injustice to the American fan base to have to wait 2 weeks, when it's pretty common for anyone else anywhere else in the world to have to wait for movies and TV shows. Or that all of a sudden, because the US isn't getting it first, that everyone else should be more careful about spoilers than the US posters would be in the usual situation.
Yeah, but consider the source. It's Good Will Riker. Overreacting and not making sense is his thing. And by his standards this was a fairly minor complaint.
Other than that, I see a couple people expressing slight disappointment and pondering the business sense of delaying a movie's release in its largest market when downloading is so prevalent. It's hardly been made into a major issue by anyone.
Other than that, I see a couple people expressing slight disappointment and pondering the business sense of delaying a movie's release in its largest market when downloading is so prevalent. It's hardly been made into a major issue by anyone.
True enough. I just think does it make any more sense the other way around? Not really, either way you're cutting out a huge chunk of the audience who will be able to download a cam copy, or a screener of the movie within no time.
As long as they can keep a DVD rip from appearing I don't think the availability of cams and telesyncs has much impact on a movies Box Office.
The sort of person who cares so little for the artform that he would watch a low quality cam rather than see it at the cinema probably wasn't going to spring for a ticket anyway.
I totally agree. That's a big part of the reason why I think piracy isn't half the problem the industry makes it out to be.