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The name's 25. Bond 25, or rather, it's NTTD.

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  • BounineBounine
    edited September 2019 Posts: 2,599
    Personally, I think Skyfall is a better name than Goldfinger and Thunderball. There’s more poignancy in the former (overall, Skyfall is a good film too). Not all the decisions Fleming made were the be all and end all.


  • echoecho 007 in New York
    Posts: 6,359
    M_Balje wrote: »
    There are to bissy with surviving or with there love = No Time To Die
    So much action = No Time To Die
    Wrong Adreline / Wrong blood = Wrong reasens = No Time To Die
    No Risico = No Time To Die

    =

    No Time to live = No Time To Die

    QED.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    Posts: 14,667
    Will Univex return? The answer may be in the title (NO).

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  • boldfingerboldfinger
    Posts: 5,767
    Cue @Univex, "I never left." ;-)

  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    MEE NOT IDIOT
  • UnivexUnivex
    Posts: 6,710
    boldfinger wrote: »
    Cue @Univex, "I never left." ;-)

    You beat me to it, @boldfinger ;)
  • Pierce2DanielPierce2Daniel
    edited September 2019 Posts: 4,410
    Eurgh.....



    This tweet basically confirms that NO TIME TO DIE is basically another way of saying TOMORROW NEVER DIES which is another way of saying DIE ANOTHER DAY.

    How did Eon settle with another title which eludes to a 'period of time' and 'death'?!?!?? I thought this title would grow on me, but it's done the opposite.
  • MinionMinion Don't Hassle the Bond
    edited September 2019 Posts: 1,165
    Pierce2Daniel wrote: »
    Eurgh.....



    This tweet basically confirms that NO TIME TO DIE is basically another way of saying TOMORROW NEVER DIES which is another way of saying DIE ANOTHER DAY.

    How did Eon settle with another title which eludes to a 'period of time' and 'death'?!?!?? I thought this title would grow on me, but it's done the opposite.
    I’m not seeing the connection here. Forgive me for being unfamiliar with this game show, but couldn’t that clue be for TND or DAD? Even if it is NTTD, that interpretation could be on them with no consultation from EON. Please correct me if I’m mistaken.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    It translates as TND, those other two don t mean the same at all.
  • RyanRyan Canada
    Posts: 692
    Yeah the "the day after today" bit is clearly meant to be the clue for "Tomorrow" and doesn't seem at all to be poking fun at the new title. All of these are obvious, harmless bits of fun.
  • Pierce2DanielPierce2Daniel
    Posts: 4,410
    Ryan wrote: »
    Yeah the "the day after today" bit is clearly meant to be the clue for "Tomorrow" and doesn't seem at all to be poking fun at the new title. All of these are obvious, harmless bits of fun.

    I know that the Pointless question is a reference to TND - but the fact that the literal breakdown is 'The Day After Today Will At No Time Cease to Live' which is so darn similar to the new title is depressing.

    Look, Eon have used only 4 titles which have not been deprived from Fleming in some way. 3 of those titles have used the following formula:
    1. Reference to period of time: Tomorrow/Day/Time
    2. Use of the word 'Die': Dies/Die/Die
    It's so evidently a crutch for Eon. If they are creatively bereft they use the above formula. The worst part is they probably don't even know they are doing it.

    They should have called the film NO TIME TO KILL which makes more sense. But if they really really had to use the word 'Die', then A REASON TO DIE was heaps better:

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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    I wonder if it will be called TANK FORCE in America?
  • RC7RC7
    Posts: 10,512
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    I wonder if it will be called TANK FORCE in America?

    Ha ha
  • IGotABrudderIGotABrudder UK
    Posts: 631
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    I wonder if it will be called TANK FORCE in America?

    brilliant
  • ResurrectionResurrection Kolkata, India
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    I wonder if it will be called TANK FORCE in America?

    That gave me good laugh :))
  • RyanRyan Canada
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    I wonder if it will be called TANK FORCE in America?

    Post of the thread.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited September 2019 Posts: 13,904
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    I wonder if it will be called TANK FORCE in America?

    Please
    don't forget the exclamation point.
  • matt_umatt_u better known as Mr. Roark
    Posts: 4,343
    Pierce2Daniel wrote: »
    They should have called the film NO TIME TO KILL which makes more sense.

    More sense? For a film about a man who kills people? Lol.
  • RevelatorRevelator
    Posts: 2,919
    Pierce2Daniel wrote: »
    It's so evidently a crutch for Eon. If they are creatively bereft they use the above formula.

    Exactly. The creative process behind the title was neither creative nor much of a process.
    They should have called the film NO TIME TO KILL

    That at least would have a double-meaning.

  • MinionMinion Don't Hassle the Bond
    Posts: 1,165
    Revelator wrote: »
    They should have called the film NO TIME TO KILL

    That at least would have a double-meaning.
    Which would give it just as many layers as No Time to Die, which also can be interpreted multiple ways.

  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited September 2019 Posts: 13,904
    Therefore my theory there will be a near-sacrificial lamb character named (P.S.R.) Thyme.
  • RevelatorRevelator
    edited September 2019 Posts: 2,919
    Minion wrote: »
    Which would give it just as many layers as No Time to Die, which also can be interpreted multiple ways.

    Less interesting ones. The wordplay is also more contrived, since "die" gets shoved into "No time to lose," whereas "No" is simply prefaced to "Time to Kill." And "kill" is just slightly less shopworn than "die" as a title word. Neither title is great, but the actual one sounds more generic.

  • RossiRossi
    edited September 2019 Posts: 157
    Maybe Malek's character is, in fact, Madeleine's lost brother, one which her father had NO TIME for. His name is Mr. Die.

    Family issues, you know.
    OK, I just realized... Sam Mendes is not directing this one, neither is Lee Tamahori. :D
  • boldfingerboldfinger
    Posts: 5,767
    Revelator wrote: »
    Minion wrote: »
    Which would give it just as many layers as No Time to Die, which also can be interpreted multiple ways.

    Less interesting ones. The wordplay is also more contrived, since "die" gets shoved into "No time to lose," whereas "No" is simply prefaced to "Time to Kill." And "kill" is just slightly less shopworn than "die" as a title word. Neither title is great, but the actual one sounds more generic.
    Hardly.
    But if you add period signs KILL would be cooler than DIE.

    NO. TIME TO KILL.

  • RevelatorRevelator
    Posts: 2,919
    boldfinger wrote: »
    NO. TIME TO KILL.

    That only works if spoken by William Shatner.
  • boldfingerboldfinger
    Posts: 5,767
    @Revelator, that is a brilliant thought :-))!
  • DrClatterhandDrClatterhand United Kingdom
    edited September 2019 Posts: 349
    Bond 25: I've Mod Edit Better Titles
  • ThunderballThunderball playing Chemin de Fer in a casino, downing Vespers
    Posts: 815
    I like the title fine, even if it’s kind of ordinary. At least it’s not another goddamn one word title starting with S. Because of that, I’m relieved. They could’ve made the o’s in No and To and make it OO7 but decided not to I guess. Ah, whatever.
  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
    Posts: 4,346
    I should post this link to very funny musings on the meaning of the title "NTTD" by Matt Miller, the "Culture" editor at Esquire magazine. Best bit:
    "Consider for a second: You Only Live Twice, Tomorrow Never Dies, Die Another Day, and No Time to Die. None of these films imply immortality as much as they hint to procrastinating when it comes to death. James Bond is finally forced to confront his own mortality, upon realizing he's been putting it off for nearly six decades."
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited October 2019 Posts: 16,576
    Pierce2Daniel wrote: »
    Eurgh.....



    This tweet basically confirms that NO TIME TO DIE is basically another way of saying TOMORROW NEVER DIES which is another way of saying DIE ANOTHER DAY.

    It doesn't though, does it.
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