It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
True but there's still a lot wrong with it. I love the design and the music (especially how it builds up over the logos) and Craig actually managed to do a decent pose this time. But for some reason they didn't think to make sure he hid the gun when he walked. And the blood's still too fast. And it didn't do the little shake thing at the end. And the subtitle was stupid.
Still, at least it was back at the start. Baby steps. They've been getting less terrible since QoS so maybe for the next one they'll finally get it right again. Can't believe it's been nearly 20 years since we got a Bond film with a proper, classic gunbarrel at the beginning of the film. Since then there's always been something wrong with it. Some gimmick or a shitty design or its in the wrong place.
I remember reading in the script, and seeing tweets from preview screenings, that originally the GB opened up afterwards in the traditional way, on the eye socket of Bond's skeleton costume. The subtitle was a last minute thing. Maybe Mendes saw how annoyed we were with the SF one and just couldn't resist adding one more thing to messing with us.
Better than QoS and SF but yeah that's not saying much. To be honest I still can't believe what they did with it in SF. The 50th anniversary and it's another piss poor one in the wrong place. They even used Binder's design on all the posters. And again, it was the 50th anniversary. What were they thinking.
Thanks pal,i'm just looking at 2 great versions that would make people sit up ,which is what the gunbarrel is supposed to do (or it used to).
And the way Craig is lit is wrong, with half of him in shadow.
And I love Craig's pose. Very Connery-esque. It has some suave swagger, it has some 'dance'. Brosnan always looked like a stiff tree in his gunbarrels.
Oh I enjoyed it Gustav....it is slightly faster in the music and I personally think one of the best gunbarrels of the series,certainly top 8.
Brosnan actually fired the gun like he was aiming at something, though. There was intent and confidence behind the way he moved.
Craig's pose reminds me of a child playing Cowboys and Indians in the park. I love Dan, but his gunbarrels beyond CR (one of the best in the series, very clever) have been consistently poor from design to scoring to pacing to posing.
It seems too rushed,ala late Moore/Dalton...SP is still better...but BOND 25 needs a really good gunbarrel to stop people eating popcorn and sit up and get involved straight away,which a Daniel Craig Bond film can do if it kicks people up the arse from the very start,which is why the gunbarrel is always so important .
EDIT: and I'm still not convinced that Dan's turn and fire is the same as the sound of the shot, it seems to early......
Unlike Mendes I don't treat the fans with contempt and give them what they want.
YES!!!! I love it!
Having a little fun is just fine too.
Your versions are vastly superior to what we've gotten so far in the Craig films.
Just an idea to grab the audience from the start ..grip them and draw them into Dan's (hopefully not) last film.
Thank you. :)
...but I made the gunbarrel :(
@AgentJamesBond007, I gave credit to the original maker in the video description. I had no idea it was you though. So thank you. :)
Sorry! Didn't realize. :( Still excellent job on the GB's.
Appreciate it :) I generally don't post my gunbarrels on here but I originally posted that on the Youtube thread months ago..
It's a great gunbarrel. The best fanmade Craig gunbarrel ever. Excellent work. Sorry I missed your posting it here. I don't visit the Youtube thread often.
When I did post it here like 100 pages back, you did comment..
Did I mention I have a terrible memory? =))
That's great. The rescored versions are too (horns and electric guitar make for a good combination, @Murdock).
We do need more varied arrangements of the music in the future. Will we get something as distinctive as the Moonraker gunbarrel music ever again? Unlikely, but I'll hold out hope.
The way the gunbarrel opens makes me think, could spectre be cut into like a one hour film and added to the end of skyfall or some sort of thing like that