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Which Bond Films Have The Best Poster Artwork?

sweeneysweeney
in Bond Movies Posts: 5
I have just been looking through the old James Bond Movie Poster Book (the 1989 edition that had a loose poster for Licence To Kill included) and in my opinion the poster campaigns for a lot of the more recent movies pale in comparison to many of the earlier ones. The Licence To Kill poster, with Timothy Dalton in a purple shirt superimposed onto the background) is ludicrous. The "Look Up! Look Down! Look Out!" poster for Thunderball, however, is ace.

What do you think were the best and worst of the series?

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  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    My favourites are The Living Daylights, GoldenEye, A View To A Kill and For Your Eyes Only.
    I also liked QOS very much.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    Which Bond films have the best poster artwork?

    None since 1987.
  • tanaka123tanaka123
    Posts: 4,325
    Best 3

    The Living Daylights (quad with all the action in the gunbarrel)
    The World is Not Enough Teaser (flame woman)
    On Her Majesty's Secret Service (main one-sheet)

    Worst 3

    Skyfall (main one sheet)
    Quantum of Solace (main one sheet)
    Spectre (teaser Craig in turtleneck)
  • BMW_with_missilesBMW_with_missiles All the usual refinements.
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    tanaka123 wrote: »
    Worst 3

    Skyfall (main one sheet)
    Quantum of Solace (main one sheet)
    Spectre (teaser Craig in turtleneck)

    So you're not a fan of the "tactical turtleneck"?
  • barryt007barryt007
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    For me I love OP and AVTAK main posters....to me they stand out a lot more than any of the others,with maybe TLD being an exception,that is good too.
  • MayDayDiVicenzoMayDayDiVicenzo Here and there
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    DN, FRWL, GF, TB, YOLT, OHMSS, DAF, LALD, TMWTGG, TSWLM, MR, FYEO, OP, AVTAK, TLD.
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    BMW_with_missiles wrote: »
    tanaka123 wrote: »
    Worst 3

    Skyfall (main one sheet)
    Quantum of Solace (main one sheet)
    Spectre (teaser Craig in turtleneck)

    So you're not a fan of the "tactical turtleneck"?
    Archer wears it better, though the Moore reference was a nice touch. It seemed more like a GQ photoshoot than a teaser poster.
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    When I saw that tactleneck poster for the first time, all I saw was Craig doing the Archer.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    60s Bonds and FYEO. CR teaser was good.
  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
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    We had a game on this and these three won:
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    But my own favorite is this one:
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  • MayDayDiVicenzoMayDayDiVicenzo Here and there
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    Yeah, the LALD poster is probably my favourite, too.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    Top 5

    1. TLD final one sheet - simply perfect. So colourful and has everything you might want; Bond looking cool, a girl with a gun looking sexy, an Aston with skis firing missiles, planes, helicopters, explosions.

    2. YOLT - Quad version of Bond walking upside down in the volcano. Totally outrageous as Bond stands there looking utterly cool while chaos reigns behind him. One gripe - the way he is hanging on with his big toe which looks extremely weird.

    3. TB - One sheet with the 3 panels. L007K UP!, L007K DOWN!, L007K OUT!. Pretty much 3 posters for the price of one. The height of Bondmania and it shows! Epic.

    4. OP - UK one sheet. Had this in my bedroom as a kid and its a beautifully drawn piece of artwork packed with the most exciting elements from the film.

    5. AVTAK - Love both the Golden Gate Bridge and Eiffel Tower ones equally. They are like twins: Bond perilously hanging off a famous landmark with a spectacular view behind him yet still looking cool and then a crazed villain hoving into view in the top left corner.

    Bottom 5

    1. LTK US one sheet - Absolutely execrable. Like the sort of thing I used to make as a 7 year old with a pritt stick and pictures cut out of magazines. Difficult ever to quantify but how much was this appalling poster (after the high of TLD) responsible for the box office drop off for LTK stateside?

    2. SP teaser - @jake24 says it best above that it looked like a GQ shoot. The only people happy with this was the company that made the jumper as it looks more like an advert for their clothing than a film. Utterly dismal.

    3. SP final - Bond just standing in front of a mask he wears for two minutes in the PTS. Thats it? Are they taking the piss? Compared to the posters the SP script was a work of creative brilliance.

    4. SF final - Bond sat on his arse shooting with a bit of gravel? Staggeringly bereft of the slightest inspiration. Any chance as its the 50th we go all out with an epic piece of artwork that harks back to the classic era? You know - just for the fans EON? No get f**ked you can have this shitty photoshop job that some YTS knocked off in 15 minutes.

    5. QOS final - Duller than an evening with Rory Kinnear. Bond and the girl walking in the desert. Wow. Really gets me pumped for the new film. Cheers EON.

  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Bumping this for new members, as the NTTD poster is out.
  • UnivexUnivex
    edited May 2020 Posts: 6,710
    Pretty unbeatable, IMO. And the FRWL one, of course.

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  • Matt007Matt007
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    Roger Moore looks like he's on stilts though on this on - I always liked some of the 1960s Japanese ones. I also like what they did with the Casino Royale Teaser poster
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    If we are counting for foreign markets.
  • R1s1ngs0nR1s1ngs0n France
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    LALD is the absolute best. Pefrect mix of concept, artwork and the brilliant use of Moore's name in conjuction with 007
    Worst - any of Craig's. Like the movie themselves, there's nothing Bondian about these posters.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited May 2020 Posts: 16,624
    Univex wrote: »
    Pretty unbeatable, IMO. And the FRWL one, of course.

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    Yeah I must admit that the 80s ones really do it for me, even though I can see the bonkers beauty of the late 60s ones. Octopussy and Moonraker particular, they're so well done. Oh and the Golden Gate View to Kill one, that's ace.

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    I did really like the Casino teaser poster
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    And I think the Spectre teaser is pretty supercool too. I think some really good classy photography can always do the trick.

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  • IGotABrudderIGotABrudder UK
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    My personal favourite is Moonraker, I’ve got it as my iPad background right now.

    LALD is terrific, as others have mentioned above. I’m going to give a shout out to DAF too.

    The weirdest poster is TSWLM. Bond and Anya are so tiny on it. It gives pride of place to a a trio of submarines.
  • echoecho 007 in New York
    edited May 2020 Posts: 6,393
    FYEO. Iconic.

    Closely followed by LALD.

    And then YOLT.
  • UnivexUnivex
    Posts: 6,710
    mtm wrote: »
    Univex wrote: »
    Pretty unbeatable, IMO. And the FRWL one, of course.

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    Yeah I must admit that the 80s ones really do it for me, even though I can see the bonkers beauty of the late 60s ones. Octopussy and Moonraker particular, they're so well done. Oh and the Golden Gate View to Kill one, that's ace.

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    I did really like the Casino teaser poster
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    And I think the Spectre teaser is pretty supercool too. I think some really good classy photography can always do the trick.

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    Couldn't agree more with you, @mtm. On all accounts. I even like the SP teaser very much. Always did. Not on par with the CR one, but still. Good to know I've got good taste, aesthetics wise, given that you're the one who's been doing all of that brilliant artwork.
  • hegottheboot_hegottheboot_ USA
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    This can go any number of ways but it also follows along with the general decline and slow death of artistic and exciting advertising campaigns.
    There are of course some amazing foreign alternates with custom artwork-particularly the 60's era in France, Spain and other countries. Then in Japan you have the striking photo collage poster style that have some really interesting one sheets.

    But the most iconic will always be the classic United Artists campaigns for Thunderball-YOLT that combined Robert McGinnis and Frank McCarthy's art into an astonishing legendary ad campaign.

    Special recognition: TLD UK Brian Bysouth poster-Definitive series best overall poster.

    Some of my general favorites:
    1.LALD-The design has everything and sums the film up in a bold and unforgettable image.
    2.FRWL-UK quad
    3. TB
    4. YOLT
    5. GF
    6. GE-Advance golden image with gun pointing at you "there is no substitute"
    7. TWINE-advance Flame Girl poster
    8. FYEO-UK Quad poster
    9. TLD-US one sheet
    10. TLD-advance-most dangerous Bond ever
    11. LTK-advance
    12. MR-advance Bond in space
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 16,624
    I think Goldfinger's has some brilliant and striking art. That's a genius poster.
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