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A photo of Connery projected onto a hand is 1000 more imaginative than the last three Daniel Craig posters. Previous Bond posters are works of art that commanded books published about them. They also inspired imitations. Not so any more.
Folks would still be saying there's no effort or imagination gone into it though. That's what a lot of people say when faced with simplicity.
The NTTD ones that are blue and grey with Bond on the motorbike etc, are exempt from this criticism.
If Craig's Bond is in a Business suit and wields a PPK with a raised Eyebrow or Wink, and is surrounded by beautiful women, with pictures of action scenes stylishly designed around the poster, with the Giant Head a Shadowy villain lurking behind him....and I dare say even with a Tagline included, we might say it doesn't suit Craig's Bond, because he doesn't normally kiss the Bond girl at the film's end or end his Bond films on a Particularly Happy Note.
Fans have come up with far better posters for SP and NTTD. Without losing the realistic tone of the films. Matching the 'ultra-realistic style of Craig's Bond' is one thing, but to produce such bland uninteresting work is quite another.
Yeah, true....That's it. I think EON are doing this on purpose, coz they must have seen better works from fans, but still ignore and do as they please.
As dull as the film!
I get a bit tired of hyperbole.
Do you work in design?
I would disagree that they aren't thrilling per se, but I think you're dead right: they can't go crazy with it because that would be pretending that the film is something it isn't.
Also they've worked out what grabs your attention from the side of the bus or whatever. I remember the Spectre one being everywhere and I defy anyone to say it didn't work, that folks didn't know there was a Bond film out.
True. With Spectre, the white tux on navy background stood out like crazy. I like the style of that one.
My favourite Spectre poster, though, will always be:
Absolutely the best one of the bunch. I have it proudly on my wall.
So it did! But it's a cheeky low-res swiped-off-the-internet version, the swines :)
The U.S. LTK poster would've also made a good choice. Again, just thrown together and nothing to draw anybody in.
Of the actual choices, NTTD by far. If I was going past a cinema in a car or casually and I didn't know who Daniel Craig was and didn't see the 007 logo then you'd have no idea what it is nor would you care. No gun, nothing to identify it as a Bond movie. It's like somebody in the marketing department who had no clue was asked to quickly mock up a poster and just grabbed a random Craig photo and went with it.
GE, TND and SP aren't great, but not that bad either. QoS really seems strange. I know the Craig era was kind of about stripping away glamour for grit, but it looks more like an ad campaign for people who really need a drink: "After a hard day in the dessert, you deserve a glass of (fill in the blank)."
Anybody else lean toward liking the teaser posters better than the final release products? So many do a much better job of getting me excited about an upcoming Bond film. For years, I had the TLD "Most dangerous Bond - ever" poster on my bedroom wall.
I don't like the photo (as you say, it seems to have been slightly grabbed from the pile), but I think the dinner suit and the nature of the title is enough to tell you (for better or worse, 'No Time To Die' sounds like a Bond film title). And if anyone doesn't yet know Daniel Craig is James Bond 15 years in then they're probably not going to be in the market for this film anyway. It won't have been designed in isolation from these facts so we can't really judge it as if it wasn't: it is clearly a Bond film poster.
Yeah I think my main objection to it is that it's a sort of photo illustration: a composite image which has been worked over so thorughly that it's kind of left as being rather style-less: it's neither a photo nor an illustration but somewhere inbetween. If it were a really beautiful, fashion-style photograph of the two of them actually walking in the desert it could have been very stylish.
They can be lovely. The Casino Royale one of him sat at the poker table with his gun is one of my favourites: I love it when they use good photography (this one is slightly over-retouched, but maybe it needed it). Oddly the NTTD teaser is the first one we've had that's under-processed! :)
The voting shows that every film poster received votes:
Bond has had many chases with many vehicles. However his boat chases haven't always been thrilling. Lets turn our attention for the next Klebbie and vote for worst boat chase. You are to look at the pacing and excitement that the chase generates. I would argue it's harder to pull off a good boat chase over a good car chase. Here are the nominees:
There you have it my dear academy members. What is the worst boat chase?
Terrible sequence
I am glad this was not choose the best as I would struggle seperate the boat chases in TWINE and LALD both superb.
@Mathis1 are you sure you aren't just talking about the TWINE PTS in general? :P