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While you are 100% right, the inhuman dreadfulness of WTOW doesn't do it much good either :))
I do understand. But I must say that I never rewatch SP because I dread being exposed to that song. I hate the piss filter, I hate the script, but most of all, I hate that song. Not that we should make this a I-hate-SP thread (there's always that danger lurking about), but I do believe a different song like The Man who built the Moon, by Gallagher, would've made me less hateful of that film. That, a refreshed colour grading, and a different third act with no brothergate. What a killer film that would've been.
So yeah, back on topic, TWOTW is clearly the winner here.
I don't generally bother with fanedits, but I do wish I had a version of Spectre with the fanmade gunbarrel sequence that's out there on YouTube, and the version of the titles that uses the Radiohead song. Silly little things but they would make watching it more bearable I think.
The only Bond track I can't listen to, I always fast forward the title sequence when watching SP.
So much better. When Arnold was announced as the new Bond composer, I was pretty excited about it as I knew him from that soundtrack.
It's a great piece of music and very Bondian pre Arnold's Bond involment. Play Dead remarkably fits very well thematically with the SP title sequence .
The Writing is On the Wall from Spectre by Sam Smith! It had 9 total votes
Another Way to Die from QOS received 6 votes
The Man with the Golden Gun received 1 vote
Die Another Day received 3 votes
Tomorrow Never Dies received 0 votes!
We are going to give another Klebbie, this one for worst title sequence. The nominees are:
MK12 for Quantum of Solace
Maurice Binder for Licence to Kill
Maurice Binder for A View to a Kill
Daniel Kleinman for Spectre
Just four nominations for your consideration. So my dear academy members who will take home the Klebbie!
Of the candidates here, it is between AVTAK and LTK. I am giving it to AVTAK. It has a couple of good ideas like the crosshairs, but the tacky skiing girl looks dreadful. I am not talking about the model, mind you. Just the whole esthetics of the thing.
Maybe Binder saw a rough cut of the film, slept through most of it, but saw the x-ray camera and figured it would have a prominent role.
So I have no vote, but I look forward to whatever nitpicking will be directed at Quantum of Solace...! :D
Spectre gets my vote.
But I just wanted to say I do love what Mk12 did for QOS. Not a fan of naked Craig for SP, though. But many sequences in the 70s and 80s were poor, if you ask me.
Binder's LTK is sadly diminished and lacks strong imagery, though the killing motif is presented with the target sights, women getting gunned down, and the lady at the end firing the pistol.
Weak as LTK's sequence was, it never made me laugh, which is what the audience and I did when the CGi octopus began perving on Craig's shirtless chest. So the Klebbie goes to Spectre, which shows that Klenman has been over-relying on CGI and dodgy ideas, though his previous work was excellent.
Process of elimination:
Binder/LTK. As mentioned by @Last_Rat_Standing, I’ve never understood the “camera motif” used here. Perhaps Binder was simply running out of ideas at this point. It does, however, feature the lovely Diana Lee (Playboy’s POTM for May 1988 😊), so I’m certainly not going to vote for this one. It’s hard to believe that Ms. Lee turned 59 years of age, just a few days ago!
Binder/AVTAK. A strange one. At the time I thought that this was Binder’s attempt to do “new-wave.” If so, it only underscored the advancing age of Moore, Maxwell, etc. all). Still, I like it, especially as a back-drop to the Duran-Duran’s song. In fact, upon the release of AVTAK in 1985, I actually left a second screening of the movie immediately after the titles, stating that the movie was all downhill from here!
MK12/QoS. It certainly is different and the “sand” motif is appropriate given the story. That means, the winner (loser) is….
Daniel Kleinman for Spectre. When viewed with Sam Smith’s underwhelming vocals, this just doesn’t do anything for me. And even on mute, it doesn’t work for me. And the call backs to CR, QoS, and Skyfall actually start here. Oddly, I thought Kleinman’s titles for Skyfall were among the best in the series, so I was very disappointed.
Oh Licence To Kill easily. He had no ideas and it shows. They ended up using a camera theme because one of the product tie-ins with the film was with a camera manufacturer. No joke! Absolutely dreadful.
And one of the shots was of a gambling table with two chips arranged so they almost spell out 007. Unbelievable.
Quantum of Solace's is hugely uninspired (guns, bullets, women, guns, bullets, women) but it's professional enough and does the job. Although that weird bit where it suddenly turns into a zoetrope is very odd. What's that got to do with anything?
It is rather dated-looking next to the other Craig title sequences which have left the slightly leery treatment of women behind, this one hasn't.
AVTAK's isn't great (the Rogers are lovely but conspicuously from TSWLM) but it rattles along well enough and the ski theme at least fits with what we've just seen.
And everyone loves this bit, surely? :)
And Spectre's is fine isn't it? It doesn't stick in the mind quite as well as the other Kleinmans I guess but there's not much wrong with it. I rather like all of the eyes looking at Bond.
Apparently it's because he saw some cameras at the wedding scene (were there?) and that a sponsor of the film was Kodak or someone. Shocking.
Binder's work in the 80's did start to run out of steam. Though I enjoy both FYEO and OP. The remaining 3 aren't up to snuff.
May I suggest at some point; best villain monologue?
LTK is a close runner-up, in that it is so random. Is it a camera to take a picture of the license to kill?