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Channel 4's "The Ultimate Film" counted down the most successful 100 films to show in UK cinemas ever.
They rank according to attendances...

#90 You Only Live Twice 1967
Estimated Admissions 8.3m

#80 Die Another Day 2002
Estimated Admissions 8.58m

#69 Live And Let Die 1973
Estimated Admissions 9m

#61 Moonraker 1979
Estimated Admissions 9.41m

#34 The Spy Who Loved Me 1977
Estimated Admissions 12.46m

#27 Goldfinger 1964
Estimated Admissions 13.9m

#18 Thunderball 1966
Estimated Admissions 15.6m

Looks pretty shitty huh? From the 20 Bond movies, only 7 got the top 100...

That's not difficult at all! Just think about it for a minute,... what do they do? they check according to attendences which looks pretty objective, right? no inflation and such...

WRONG, this is even worse, you can at least adapt inflation but not this.
What's wrong with this? At the start of the movie-making industry, who went watching? Average Joe? No! the rich, who could afford it and mostly only once.

It is only the last few years that going to the movies has become a "hobby" or something that is considered a normal "hanging out-time", which is a very big contrast with the start when it was very elite.

Seeing that Thunderball managed to get 15.6 million people is admirable, but it looks much more powerful when you realise that this was established in 1966; most movies get already 10 million at minimum these days...

You said it Yerss

damn straight girl

And where the f*ck, old boy, is a classic like OHMSS amongst all this rubbish? There's no accounting for taste!!!

well, perhaps it's not that bad at all

*cough* GOLDFINGER *cough*

I like that one

*cough* Spyware again *cough*

...Don't follow

I just bet!!!

you just won

Of course i did...i always do!

you won't hear that much huh

Don't forget...when the OTHER 00 agents are gone there's still me!!!

cause you're sub-sub-sub-sub-sub agent?

No 5???

sure, we'll go even more sub

If this is a post Connery ref you can forget it!!!

it should be?

Knowing you, it's something from a PIERCE film!

and you should start seeing those too

where was that?

what?

that audience..ppl who voted

I don't follow

yhm...

how did they make this chart.
pll voted, or what?

not at all to me out of ALL the UK movies ever, 7 Bond movies are a damn lot! no matter who watched when!
and it's not given that they judge it with bond-fans' criteria (even so not all movies were masterpieces, right?), they have to be movies that, as a whole, respond to people's general liking

so all in all I think Bond did well

yes, but my point, evy, is that in the '60s-'70s, going to the movies wasn't as popular as it is now. These days it is normal to go to the movies weekly or a few times a week, at that point it very much wasn't and I think they should have thought of that: society and how to spend their free time changes!

no, they just went to see the movie

i don't understand

that they just see how many people go

to the cinema?

yes

i got it at last bag

yay

yeah bag

so what is your opinion

that there should be goldeneye

oooh... so the poll was based on a statistic with regard to the viewers? and are you sure they didn't take it into consideration?

yes to both your queries (I always wanted to use that word )

they just wrote down how many people saw the movies in the cinema, without even thinking that in the last few years it is not 'a'-normal to go a few times to the same movie or just in general more to the cinema

When you take into account the tastes of the average Joe, then 7 out of the 20 is good going in my opinion. That's more than a third of all bond movies...and lets be honest...as much as we love em, not all of them truely make the grade. The likes of octopussy and TMWTGG spring to mind as examples. OHMSS is a wonderful bond..but well...it was never going to do that well with the unknown mr lazenby in the leading role. (Even though he does well over all). And there are probably simple reasons why many of the others didnt totally do it for the general public. DAF is another example of an average bond.

but if you then go and look at how many people went to see the movie and compare it to the total of movie-goers in that year, you get a totally different statistique in which every bond movie will undoubtedly score good