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BOND POLLS 2015: Best Main Title Experience "GOLDENEYE" until "SPECTRE" (Your TOP 3 please)

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  • Ottofuse8Ottofuse8
    Posts: 832
    4 Points- CR
    2 Points- SP
    1 Point - GE
  • Gustav_GravesGustav_Graves
    Posts: 11,119
    I really find it difficult now :| .

    I mean, Daniel Kleinman is a man to be loved. And his entire Octopus-themed sequence for "SPECTRE" was perhaps not as captivating as the ones from "SKYFALL" and "CASINO ROYALE". Especially the one from SF was very much like a one-shot dream trip through from behind Bond's eyes through his life shortly after the PTS until he wakes up battered and bruised at the end of the main titles.

    But what I loved about "SPECTRE" is this wonderful throwback to REAL women. Off course slightly enhanced with CGI (ink hair etc.). But they appear/look so real. And there were so many of them. At times I had a real Robert Brownjohn feeling during Kleinman's titles. Especially the "Goldfinger" titles came to my mind. You could see the women from so close. Skin textures, hair, everything was so crisp and clear. Loved it.
  • Aziz_FekkeshAziz_Fekkesh Royale-les-Eaux
    Posts: 403
    CR- 4 pts
    SF- 2 pts
    I'll give 1 pt to TND because I've always liked these titles
  • Dubble_uh_ohDubble_uh_oh
    Posts: 38
    Casino royale credit visuals was the only decent one! The rest are eyes sores! I saw a footage in youtube of a person who was exhumed after being in his grave for 15 years! His body well preserved and intact inside the casket! That footage was way more exciting than seeing these ridiculous wtf opening credit sequences of these 007 films from 1995 to 2015!!
  • Gustav_GravesGustav_Graves
    Posts: 11,119
    Dubble_uh_oh wrote: »
    Casino royale credit visuals was the only decent one! The rest are eyes sores! I saw a footage in youtube of a person who was exhumed after being in his grave for 15 years! His body well preserved and intact inside the casket! That footage was way more exciting than seeing these ridiculous wtf opening credit sequences of these 007 films from 1995 to 2015!!

    Moderator? Troll?
  • TR007TR007
    Posts: 1,165
    GE
    SF
    CR
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
    Posts: 8,244
    IFM.

    Anyway, for me CR stands above all in experience. Of course it was also the expectation of (finally!!!) the new film, but the titles and song sure blew me away.

    Second I'd go for GoldenEye. It fits the time best. I loved the former-Soviet-Union and the song sure is a proper Bond-song.

    Third has to be Skyfall. Very good titles and an awesome song too.

    HM goes to SPECTRE> The song fits very well in the cinema and I love the tiltes. They're about as good as Skyfalls. I just like Adele's song better.
  • JohnHammond73JohnHammond73 Lancashire, UK
    Posts: 4,151
    Now Spectre has been released I feel I need to change mine, so my top 3 are now:

    CR
    GE
    SP
  • tigers99tigers99
    Posts: 582
    4 points=Casino Royale
    2 points=Spectre
    1 point =Goldeneye
  • Gustav_GravesGustav_Graves
    Posts: 11,119
    I still haven't made up my mind :-O
  • OHMSS69OHMSS69
    Posts: 2,341
    My top three
    4 points CR
    3 points SF
    3 points SP
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    Gustav_Graves wrote: »
    Dubble_uh_oh wrote: »
    Casino royale credit visuals was the only decent one! The rest are eyes sores! I saw a footage in youtube of a person who was exhumed after being in his grave for 15 years! His body well preserved and intact inside the casket! That footage was way more exciting than seeing these ridiculous wtf opening credit sequences of these 007 films from 1995 to 2015!!

    Moderator? Troll?

    Yes, which is he? I am as confused as you.
  • Gustav_GravesGustav_Graves
    Posts: 11,119
    Can I say something, as I am a gay adult man? I think the main title for "SPECTRE" was the most gay friendly one ever. Seeing that body of Daniel Craig in such slow motion, that at one specific moment the 007-logo is exactly covering Daniel's nipple. It's almost....erotic.

    All together I find Kleinman's titles the most erotic one's he has ever made. There are actually very reminiscent of Robert Brownjohn's titles. Also Brownjohn used to film entire naked bodies from very close.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    edited November 2015 Posts: 7,108
    1. GoldenEye - epic song with a brilliant visualisation of what happened between the PTS and the actual movie (i.e. the fall of communism in Europe), propably my favourite in the whole franchise.

    2. Skyfall

    3. Tomorrow Never Dies
  • Gustav_GravesGustav_Graves
    edited November 2015 Posts: 11,119
    The Daniel Craig Quadrilogy in Main Titles. For all the fans, in HD backgrounds/screencaps ;-):

    "James Bond 21 - CASINO ROYALE" (main titles and gunbarrel by Daniel Kleinman):
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    "James Bond 22 - QUANTUM OF SOLACE" (main titles and gunbarrel by Studio MK12):
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    "James Bond 23 - SKYFALL" (main titles and gunbarrel by Daniel Kleinman):
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    By the way, I never understood why people complained that there were a lack of female silhouettes in the last four Bond films :-).
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    Those squirming female silhouettes in Spectre are the most erotic ever since TMWTGG.
  • Crazysoul95Crazysoul95
    Posts: 3,336
    1. CR
    2. GE
    3. SP
  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
    Posts: 5,131
    1.SP 2. CR. 3. SF......I watched GE the other day and the CGI titles have aged badly.....The effects are dated and poor.
  • fjdinardofjdinardo
    Posts: 1,970
    Holy crap I just realized Goldeneye is 20 years old this month! I was 4 years old when that came out
  • Gustav_GravesGustav_Graves
    Posts: 11,119
    suavejmf wrote: »
    1.SP 2. CR. 3. SF......I watched GE the other day and the CGI titles have aged badly.....The effects are dated and poor.

    That's my impression as well. I think CGI nowadays is way way better, hence why I think the SF and SP titles will age much better.

  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
    Posts: 5,131
    Agreed. They are classic yet technically flawless.
  • Gustav_GravesGustav_Graves
    edited November 2015 Posts: 11,119
    One question though: Who ARE the girls actually who filmed the sequences with Daniel Kleinman/Framestore and MK12? I mean, I saw so many of them. Do these girls actually tell their friends and acquintances that they are part of one of the most important aspects of the Bond films?: A Main Titles-Girl??

    I am especially curious who that beautiful Asian girl from the "Skyfall" titles was. And although I am gay, at times I think she is one of those sex slavery girls that Severine was. There is this excruciating sadness and hollowness in her eyes:
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  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
    Posts: 5,131
    To be fair their not going to have any of the other bonds with their top off in the titles are they! Craig is the first buff Bond. The others are just normal.....or in Moores case a tad chubby...ha ha!
  • DrShatterhandDrShatterhand Garden of Death, near Belfast
    Posts: 805
    1. GE
    2. SF
    3. TND
  • Gustav_GravesGustav_Graves
    Posts: 11,119
    DrShatterhand wrote: »
    1. GE
    2. SF
    3. TND

    I think the TND-titles are one of the worst Bond titles I have seen. Especially here the CGI looks so incredibly dodgy. At times it felt like I was watching a B-version of The Matrix.
  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
    Posts: 5,131
    GE looks like a computer game by today's standards!
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    Posts: 5,745
    How about this one that never made it?
  • Gustav_GravesGustav_Graves
    edited November 2015 Posts: 11,119
    JWESTBROOK wrote: »
    How about this one that never made it?

    What about a big fat "NO":-). With that song every bit of style is flushed away by a toilet that hasn't been cleaned properly.

  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    Posts: 5,745
    Gustav_Graves wrote: »
    JWESTBROOK wrote: »
    How about this one that never made it?

    What about a big fat "NO":-). With that song every bit of style is flushed away by a toilet that hasn't been cleaned properly.

    I mean, okay.

    It's very much like Casino Royale's theme. Listen to it lyrically too.

    The guitar riffs to me signify Bond's angst and anger in the world, and then there's this:

    "Black ocean, cold and dark
    I am the hungry shark, fast and merciless
    But the only girl that could talk to him just couldn't swim
    Tell me what's worse than this"

    "I've seen your best and worst
    And at your worst, you're still the best
    But at my best, I am the worst
    It's a curse"

    "I can't fucking breathe, much less believe the truth
    I pick up a gun, aim for the sun, and shoot
    Better days, so unafraid in my youth
    I can't breathe or believe the truth"
  • DrShatterhandDrShatterhand Garden of Death, near Belfast
    Posts: 805
    Gustav_Graves wrote: »
    DrShatterhand wrote: »
    1. GE
    2. SF
    3. TND

    I think the TND-titles are one of the worst Bond titles I have seen. Especially here the CGI looks so incredibly dodgy. At times it felt like I was watching a B-version of The Matrix.

    Its inevitable that the CGI on the later films is better. I still think the x-ray sequences in TND are awesome, particularly like the girls in the bullets. The diamond necklace/satellite imagery is beautiful too (as is the girl). So much sexier I think than the squid sex in SP.

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