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EON better get it right for the next one.
It's a fundamental aspect of why the old Bond films were so great.
Now ,with SF and SP ,it could be either one ,and thats not right.
Thats the laziness of SP that has caused that,not SF,that WAS an original score before SP.
QOS followed straight on from CR,but had an entirely different score,even.
@bondjames Couldn't agree more. Of course, no one will ever top John Barry but I would be happy with someone who does a kind of tribute act to him, such as D.Arnold than the generic stuff we have had in the last couple.
I just want a new sound which still captures the 'essence' and 'spirit' of classic Bond films.
The enthusiasm and pure love of Bond and Barry that David Arnold had at the Albert Hall shows he would be seriously up to scoring BOND25...we need him back believe me.
With just a little bit more Bond Theme, please.
I'd love Arnold back. It's clear he's a huge fan and he seemed to be getting better and better too as he went on (CR is probably his best imo and his score was the best part of QoS and one of the only things I liked about it). I also think that the Kingsman guys could do a really good job.
Newman is gone for sure imo. Apparently him and EON clashed quite a bit during SF, I was surprised they got him back for SP but I guess a combination of Mendes wanting him plus the Oscar potential outweighed any bad blood. But I really can't see him doing another. I think Arnold is the most likely choice, unless the next director has a specific guy in mind again.
Hopefully Villeneuve, the Broccoli's and whoever writes the script can work out some sort of balance to it all.
Fixed it, since Newman did the biggest sin of them all according to some on MI6Community - overusing the Bond theme.
Agreed. Let's hope Eon doesn't hire either of them. ;)
Don't you mean Thomas Newman, since he's the one shoving the Bond theme way too many times in the soundtracks?
Rubbish...absolute rubbish..if you heard what i heard the other night at the Albert Hall you would change your mind....or probably not.
Who is the only composer in the Craig era to put the Bond theme in the OST outside of the end credits? Hint: It isn't David Arnold, he only put the Bond theme in the end credits of CR and QOS.
So Newman can bugger off for ruining the Craig era by putting the Bond theme too much again like in the Brosnan era. Given how many members are disliking these 90's soundtracks, it'd be a popular opinion to get rid of that god-awful Newman's cliched music.
CR (and QOS) has less Bond theme than SF. So by your own admission, Arnold wipes the floor with Newman. Newman destroyed the good direction the Bond soundtracks were going. To hell with him!
This is the stupidest thing I've ever had the displeasure of reading. Why do you hate the Bond theme so much? Having a Bond film without the Bond theme is simply moronic. It's removing an iconic element for what? Because you don't like hearing the theme? It's like having a Superman Movie where Superman doesn't wear his iconic costume.
You seriously want the Bond theme NOT played in a Bond film ??!!
Do you like Bond ?
It has been criminally underused in the Craig era. As for why we can't have it, it is a part of the recipe, why would you want it taken away?
How does that make any sense? Seriously, you argue like a little child. I never said or even insinuated that less Bond theme = autmatically better score. Newman's Skyfall score is so brilliant that even if it had three times as much Bond theme as it did, it would still be a better score than anything Arnold has ever done.
Martin, Hamlisch (Bond 77), Conti (Submarine) and even the maligned Serra (Goldeneye Overture) did it so well.
Newman did it superbly in the SP PTS.
I'd much rather hear that than the actual standard theme blaring away at full blast like it did in FRWL when Bond was in his hotel. Even Barry didn't do that later in his tenure. From TB onwards he incorporated it into an original melody (sometimes giving it the flavour of the film or the scene's theme, as he did with the 'howling wind blown' version during the hovercraft sequence in DAF). Just masterful stuff.