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I think TLD has a pretty bad sequence, but in fairness, the song lyric does mention headlights fading at that point. Still pretty "bloody literal-minded", as M would put it. :))
The LTK titles were a real low, I think. The part where he's laid out two gambling chips onto a casino table to spell out '007' is actually a bit embarrassing, and you can really tell that's something he thought of on the day of shooting.
Not a fan of all the Olympus camera product placement in the titles for LTK either.
Agreed. I love Kleinmans work but his last two titles sequences are overcooked imo!
Yeah I'm the same, not too keen on the callbacks. I think OHMSS's titles are a bit naff to be honest, I've never liked them. I find the time theme to be a bit obvious.
Yeah the clock thing doesn't work for me: it just doesn't feel like Bond imagery.
Also it's kind of wrong in meaning: Bond may race against time, but he's not trapped by it, which is what that seems to say.
The bit where they all hit the coat of arms pose is good though, that's nice.
I enjoy pretty much all the title sequences of the Craig era, which are maybe the best of the series (except QOS, not bad per se but nothing special compared to the others). They are like movies into themselves.
I think it's one of Binder's masterpieces.
(ducking for cover).
Surely that's not controversial. I hope not anyway.
This one is...............
I love the NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN title sequence. Bold choice to have a somewhat AM easy listening theme tune played over an action scene while the titles anonymously appear.
I love that image. It’s the royal coat of arms, but with naked women! It’s cheeky and yet genuinely patriotic at the same time. An outstandingly good idea, and it fits the film’s title really well.
Mine too!
Personally (and this is an opinion I have stated many times before so feel free to ignore) I feel that MR is the last authentic James Bond film ever made, and that everything from FYEO onwards has comprised only reboots and fan fiction.
I don't disagree, but curious to hear your thinking on that. Is it because it's the last film of the 60s directors/Ken Adam/Shirley Bassey/Bernard Lee?
Yeah, Gilbert was terrific. I went to see a screening of Spy Who Loved Me in Leicester Square with Mr Gilbert in attendance- that's pretty good.
Moonraker is fun. If you accept it for what it is, it’s a great movie to watch with your friends. Especially with open commentary. I greatly enjoy Jaws.
Here’s a controversial opinion from me: the worst piece of acting in a James Bond movie comes from ThunderBall. When Bond goes to investigate the health farm at night, the way Patricia asks him: “James. James, where are you going?” It sounds WAY too overdramatic. It’s the way she says it that makes me cringe.
Respect!
Cor there's a few candidates for that one. The Stealth Boat Captain in TND is always one of my top favourites, he's rubbish!
All of those and more. The aesthetic seems to change too, as if the film stock changes. Most importantly, and very personally, MR was the last one I saw as a child (or young teenager). By FYEO I was 14/15 and things just seemed different.
IMO the real movie James Bond first appeared in a casino in 1962 and lived through numerous adventures over the next seventeen years until in 1979 he finally left the planet and went into space. An ascension, in a way.
FYEO was a reboot, although it went unrecognised at the time (did the term even exist, in a film way?).
These views are very personal to me and I do understand why most people disagree.
It's a wonderfully crafted film and while it doesn't all work it remains the apex of Epic Bond.
The clock is more of a reference to the passage of time, which is why we see clips of previous films going down in an hourglass. It’s just another way of trying to connect Lazenby with the previous films because the filmmakers really wanted to hammer the fact that Connery and Lazenby are one and the same and that OHMSS is the culmination of everything that lead up to it.
Of course, somebody didn’t give Binder the memo that the film was virtually ignoring YOLT (it’s the only film not to get a callback).
I think it's definitely one of the more major watershed films from one period to the next, alongside maybe GoldenEye. You would think that Daylights would be (especially as it's the first time Bond has had to become younger in the series), but it isn't really- not that much changes between that and AVTAK. It's nice that so many of the personnel working on the series cross over with each other so there are very few distinct lines drawn. Even Barbara Broccoli was present in Jamaica during the shooting of Dr No (she was a baby admittedly!).
No Time to Die is a cinematic triumph on a level above pretty much any film in the series whose name is not Casino Royale.