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I like the flap of his jacket as he turns and fires. Brosnan coolness at it's best.
Agreed. GE gunbarrel is my favorite.
Agreed.
Yes I think he's rather pigeon-chested when he's walking and a bit too straight-legged. I know it's ridiculous to rate them but we're all friends here! :D
In terms of shooting pose give me Roger any day (that man knew how to throw a shape!), Tim, or Craig's Spectre one over Pierce's any day: bend your knees Pierce!
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Yeah. I agree as well.
Yeah, it's a great Gunbarrel design. No wonder Kleinman is still with EON. Serra's score and Brosnan's very upright posturing are also highlights.
Drum and Base has no place in Bond IMO.
Agreed! Stiff as a poker! My least favourite gunbarrel!
Quite like the TWINE gunbarrel myself, though I can see why it might not be to everyone's taste. As for the scores in general, yeah there's a bit too much drum and bass in DAD. I would quite like to hear the film version of the Ice Palace car chase cue someday, which didn't feature the electronic elements.
No I like the TWINE Gunbarrel, it’s the drum and base elements in parts of the score I don’t like. For example the Caviar factory scene. DAD took it a step further as you say.
Arnold almost seemed to be getting bored with that one and doing weird things to amuse himself. He was even playing the Bond theme backwards..!?
I think the problem for me was that he seemed to go back to the sound from Backseat Driver but it just never sounded as authentic without the Propellerheads. A bit like how the Bond theme in Living Daylights sounds like someone trying to do that hip new electronic sound the kids are really into, without quite getting it.
I would've cut the opening scene for a couple of seconds, while the camera follows the huge skull with cigar, right until the moment we can see Sciara in the distance, on the left and that's where I'd move the circle to.. No "Dead are alive." text. I find it completely unnecessary. I guess it draws similarity with "Think on your sins." from Skyfall, but it doesn't do anything, except maybe spoil something..
Pretty perfect imo. See EON. It’s really not that hard to get it right.
So it's not easy to please everyone with these things! :)
Haha very true, I don’t think there’s a single GB we could all universally agree was spot on. Ironically for how unconventional it was, I think the closest to manage it was probably CR. I don’t think there’s many of us who didn’t get goosebumps at that part watching it for the first time. But even there you’ve got the redesign which people like myself would nitpick. I really don’t envy EON.
I wonder if they’ll try redesigning it again. Personally I‘d prefer it in motion, but I wouldn’t mind them keeping the Spectre one. I just hope the blood’s a bit slower and we can’t see Bond’s gun when he’s walking this time.
One element of the SPECTRE gunbarrel I loved was the hue of the blood. Perfect shade of red, IMO. I'd have it wobble, sink, re-emerge center of the screen then open,
I thought the gunbarrel itself looked good too: it looked like a gunbarrel, that's all it needs to do, even if I do maybe prefer the slightly funkier moving ones, as per Skyfall for example.
Yes, it does. The smaller dots descend to the bottom of the screen and we then open on to the PTS. From Thunderball onwards there was the usual opening we've come to know and love, at least up until the current Craig era. You're right that in Spectre we saw a return to that type of opening we'd originally seen in FRWL and GF, only instead of opening into the film we first got the text "The dead are alive."
One thing I'm not that keen on with the Craig era gunbarrels is how the blood is so thick and flows down so quickly over everything. It's like they can't wait to get it over and done with. It's markedly different from the gunbarrels of old, and not in a good way in my opinion.