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I believe that's what was originally intended, for Melina's horrified eyes to surge into the title song, having her parents' murder as the pre-title sequence, but from what I understand, someone realized that it was the tenth anniversary of DAF and wanted to bring back Blofeld to kill him off. It might have looked like a nice idea at first, but what a terrible way to end one of the greatest villains in movie history.
My favorite shot of the entire Moore era, btw.
Yes, you've got that love that shot of Bouquet's eyes. One of the best in a long time, for the series, maybe since On Her Majesty's Secret Service have we not scene anything as good, though Moonraker was great looking too.
It isn't my favourite but I did really enjoy it. My PTS top 5 would probably now go something like
1) TLD
2) TWINE
3) LTK
4) SF
5) GE
"Its pathetic! You British still believe you have the right to police the world...but...you will not live to see the day...old Korea is ruled by the North"
"Then you and I have something in common!!"
The rest kind of all fall into a group of good sequences, but they don't particularly stand out.
I really like it too. My favourite bit is when Moon unleashes on the punch bag and then he unzips it, and a guy falls out.
1.Goldeneye
2.From Russia With Love
3.Thunderball
4.Goldfinger
5.The Living Daylights
6.Die Another Day
7.The Spy Who Loved Me
8.Quantum of Sloace
9.The World is Not Enough
10.OHMSS
Decent Pre-Title Sequences-
1.License to Kill
2.The Man With the Golden Gun
3.For Your Eyes Only
4.Live And Let Die
- Goldfinger (N°2)
- FRWL (N°11)
- OHMSS (N°3)
70's :
- TSWLM (N°4)
- Moonraker (N°9)
80's :
- FYEO (N°5)
- Octopussy (N°8)
- TLD (N°7)
90's :
- GoldenEye/TWINE (absolute N°1s)
- TND (N°10)
00's :
- DAD (N°6)
- CR (N°12)
2012 : Skyfall (N°12 ex-aequo)
Twine
Goldeneye
TMND
Skyfall
DAD
QOS
CR
TLD is excellent and GE mirrors it with Bond dressed in black, face obscured at the beginning.
Top 5:
CR
SF
TLD
GE
OHMSS
The Spy Who Loved Me
Octopussy
Skyfall
Goldeneye
Casino Royale
2.For your eyes only : It's the epitome of all things Bond. James visits his wife's gravesite; a helicopter picks him up for an assignment and turns out to be controlled by his arch nemesis, who remains nameless in this film due to copyright infringements. Still the stereotyped, bald, wheelchair bound, cat-petting super villain is a force to be reckoned with. He steers the helicopter by remote control, toying with Bond before he tries to kill him. This gives Bond just enough time to turn the tables on his enemy, take control of the helicopter, lift the clichéd bad guy up by his chair and dump him into an industrial smoke stack. Daring at the time with stunts that still amaze and thrill.
3.Octopussy: Roger Moore may have been well over fifty when he made his sixth Bond, but that doesn't mean the film suffered for it. In fact, six must be his lucky number, as the film showcases one heck of a pre-title sequence. 007 has to outwit the entire Cuban army, destroy their latest military equipment, and make it back to safe territory, all the while flying a tiny Acrostar Mini Jet. The Moore era had its fair share of good "mini-movies," but this one stands out as the one to match.
4.The Living Daylights: Timothy Dalton is introduced in fine style in this entry. Gilbraltar, which had not been featured in the series before, is the setting for the game of cat-and-mouse between three 00 agents and a deadly assasin who is picking them off one-by-one. What makes this sequence particularly note-worthy is the fact that Dalton did most of his own stunts during the scenes where Bond is lying on top of the jeep being driven by the assassin as he makes his escape down the rock. No more Roger Moore in front of a blue screen, thank you very much. Of course, where would Bond be without beautiful women? So naturally there is one waiting for him after he dispatches the killer. Cool.
01) The Living Daylights: Still timeless piece of action that is especially enjoyable with the great music.
02) Moonraker: In those days a completely new filming experience; in the air. And it's still timeless. It also looks realistic and I hope we see something similar in future Craig films.
03) The World Is Not Enough: I remember the premiere of TWINE because of this fantastic opener. The nice thing is....it went on and on! No end. That makes it thrilling.
04) Skyfall: Truly amazing, but also deadly serious pre credits sequence. The screaming of the people....policemen killed at random. I was on the edge of my seat.
05) On Her Majesty's Secret Service: The best of the 1960's. Almost Jason Bourne/Daniel Craig like fighting sequences. Lovely.
06) For Your Eyes Only: When Bill Conti's Bond theme kicks in, it gets so good. Lovely to see Roger Moore sighing a big relief.
07) Quantum Of Solace: Like so many Bond films the pre credits sequence is great but the rest of the movie is less good. Especially with QOS this is the case. Tense, but way too short car chase.
08) The Spy Who Loved Me: Great jump. But that's basically 'it'. I understand in those days, in 1977, it was a fantastic opener. But not exactly timeless anymore.
09) Licence To Kill: Do we know that Christopher Nolan actually 'stole' this entire sequence for 'The Dark Knight Rises'? Anyway, nice funny stunt opener.
10) Tomorrow Never Dies: Great opener. Original idea, making a 'plane chase'. It more or less worked. Especially with Arnold's Bond theme.
TWINE
CR
TSWLM
TND
TLD
DAD
SF
OP
LTK
GF
GE
TB
OHMSS
YOLT
FRWL
QOS
AVTAK
FYEO
DAF
MR
TMWTGG
LALD
TWINE is a close runner up.
Thanks for the organising Darth.
My least favourite PTS would be Live And Let Die. No Bond and collection of fairly ordinary murders. Second worst is A View To A Kill - a poor remake of TSWLM with awful Beach Boys music interlude.
• the dark hallway at beginning and bright daylight outside,
• the nice weather in Turkey and the rain in London,
• the differing modes of travel (Bond on foot, in car, on motorcycle and on train),
• the busy city and the countryside.
I also love the way near the end of the sequence when Eve says "agent down" the sound of the rain grows, it encourages we the audience to ponder with M the significance and consequence of what has just happened, and yet the loud sound of the rain also seamlessly blends into the next sound of water flowing which in turn leads to the perfect moment for the title song to start-I just think things like this show superb film making.
I also felt the whole sequence was Mendes shoving 2 fingers up to those who thought there wouldn't be much action or that he couldn't "do" action.
Then there is some great stunt work, the cuff check, some nice quips (eg "just changing carriages") and Bond actually gets hit and hurt and then "killed" making it very different to nearly all the other pre title sequences.
And these are just SOME of the reasons I love it and it's my favourite!
Least favourite is trickier, I'd probably plump for something like You Only Live Twice.
I love it, but I'm a petrolhead. Whoever edited the sound, to go from the menacing string and then, suddenly, stop them and only have the glorious Aston V12 ripping through the gears was a genius. For that, alone, it's my favourite.
You can credit Arnold for that!
The QoS pre title sequence is for me let down by the visual editing/directing of the car chase. It looks like a very exciting chase but doesn't make me excited because of the "jumpy" nature of it that makes it hard to see well enough to enjoy as much as I feel I should!
Agree that it's a fantastic chase, but I just don't "feel" its a fantastic chase if you know what I mean.
I do also love however the zooming in over the lake with the accompanying music with the flashes of Bond himself, and the roar of the engine is beautiful!