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Well, that should dispel the gossip about the villain’s weapon being changed via ADR post-delay to not mirror COVID too closely.
Sky ran a special on the Daniel Craig era leading up to NTTD and it featured this brilliant animation that paid homage to each of the four Craig title sequences to that point, it essentially carried through their mockup of the Casino Royale sequence into the ones for QoS and SF (the SP homage was too short to really make a judgment) and it stunned me how markedly more vibrant and honestly better the QoS sequence would have been if it were done that way.
Not unlike how Roger kept his poofy trousers in the PTS even after he'd stopped wearing them...!
Well now I want to see the US one. The international one is easly findable on YT, but does somebody has a link to the USA version?
That was a nice surprise to me too! I thought we would have got more of the same dark gothic titles of SF/SP.
Universal is actually the distributor of the film in Canada so they'd have that version with boths logos. MGM/UA is specifically US-only (and other markets where Universal isn't involved with the release, like the Nordics or Middle East, also have the MGM-only version)
Makes sense. Thanks for clarifying! I just assumed we were lumped in with the US for the market distribution.
Universal is handling all home media releases, correct? It'd be interesting that the MGM/UA gun barrel could therefore end up being omitted from the Blu-ray/UHD market.
So did I! Spent a while looking for the international intro on YouTube, kept getting frustrated that I was only getting the Canadian one lol
I’d like to see the US one
I downloaded the version with just the MGM logo when I did my “fix”, let me find it and upload.
Me too. Managed to find a lot of nice crowd reactions but all to the Universal one.
Physical, yes, while MGM retains global digital rights. So might be possible the only home release versions with the MGM-only gunbarrel are the US digital (iTunes etc) drops.
I also like those Dr. No dots in NTTD title sequence. It's nice and unexpected sweet moment of 007 early history.
Admittedly on my first viewing the dots gave me a slight worry that the Safin/Dr. No nonsense was going to be true. Fortunately, I was proven incorrect!
There are some details in this that makes me think there were originally more overt references to the character, like Safin surviving a bullet to the left side of the chest. Dextrocardia anyone?
I really loved that as well. And I agree with you about CR’s gunbarrel @CountJohn (although I also liked Spectre’s gunbarrel).
That may have been part of the problem. Ever since Casino Royale received the success it did by shaking things up and eschewing tradition, they've chased that same success by continuing to forgo tradition. The gun barrel is one element that already achieved perfection 59 years ago by virtue of its simplicity.
Apart from the accompanying music, the gun barrel changed very little over the course of the first 20 films, apart from when Lazenby dropped to a knee. The CGI bullet in DAD seems like it was probably more of an afterthought ("wouldn't it be cool if we...?") as opposed to the result of a serious sit-down concerning how they could differentiate this gun barrel from all the others. Which it seems is what the gun barrel has become now.
CR's gun barrel was indeed a very fun way to shake things up. It worked beautifully. QOS putting its gun barrel at the end was unnecessary but fine. The film was unusual anyways in that it was a direct sequel and a wrapping up of the events of CR. It was a fun and unexpected bit of experimentation in a film that was already experimenting successfully (in my book) in so many ways.
Then SF put the gun barrel at the end again. Huh? Why? Then SP put it in the right place but with a weird color filter and Craig swinging his gun wildly as he walked and the iris failed to open on the first scene. This was the closest Craig got to a normal gun barrel, but it was still very far off the mark of tradition. Then NTTD forewent the blood for the sake of symbolism.
It's all become a bit much at this point. Like deciding after so many years that the Mona Lisa could use a little something else to draw the crowds, so maybe we'll dash some glitter on her this month or give her sunglasses next month or something else the month after that to try to make it "better." If you really want to pleasantly surprise the fans, just give us a normal gun barrel again.
I still really like it though. Stripped back to its simplest elements, it really works.
Yup. That’s the one.
Love the V8 driving into the tunnel and don't miss the blood from the beginning one as much as I thought I would if I'd of thought about it before hand.
Are there just the THREE in the film?
Yes!! Thats the one I saw at the theater.