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Which Bond Films Have The Best Poster Artwork?
I have just been looking through the old James Bond Movie Poster Book (the 1989 edition that had a loose poster for Licence To Kill included) and in my opinion the poster campaigns for a lot of the more recent movies pale in comparison to many of the earlier ones. The Licence To Kill poster, with Timothy Dalton in a purple shirt superimposed onto the background) is ludicrous. The "Look Up! Look Down! Look Out!" poster for Thunderball, however, is ace.
What do you think were the best and worst of the series?
What do you think were the best and worst of the series?
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I also liked QOS very much.
None since 1987.
The Living Daylights (quad with all the action in the gunbarrel)
The World is Not Enough Teaser (flame woman)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (main one-sheet)
Worst 3
Skyfall (main one sheet)
Quantum of Solace (main one sheet)
Spectre (teaser Craig in turtleneck)
So you're not a fan of the "tactical turtleneck"?
But my own favorite is this one:
1. TLD final one sheet - simply perfect. So colourful and has everything you might want; Bond looking cool, a girl with a gun looking sexy, an Aston with skis firing missiles, planes, helicopters, explosions.
2. YOLT - Quad version of Bond walking upside down in the volcano. Totally outrageous as Bond stands there looking utterly cool while chaos reigns behind him. One gripe - the way he is hanging on with his big toe which looks extremely weird.
3. TB - One sheet with the 3 panels. L007K UP!, L007K DOWN!, L007K OUT!. Pretty much 3 posters for the price of one. The height of Bondmania and it shows! Epic.
4. OP - UK one sheet. Had this in my bedroom as a kid and its a beautifully drawn piece of artwork packed with the most exciting elements from the film.
5. AVTAK - Love both the Golden Gate Bridge and Eiffel Tower ones equally. They are like twins: Bond perilously hanging off a famous landmark with a spectacular view behind him yet still looking cool and then a crazed villain hoving into view in the top left corner.
Bottom 5
1. LTK US one sheet - Absolutely execrable. Like the sort of thing I used to make as a 7 year old with a pritt stick and pictures cut out of magazines. Difficult ever to quantify but how much was this appalling poster (after the high of TLD) responsible for the box office drop off for LTK stateside?
2. SP teaser - @jake24 says it best above that it looked like a GQ shoot. The only people happy with this was the company that made the jumper as it looks more like an advert for their clothing than a film. Utterly dismal.
3. SP final - Bond just standing in front of a mask he wears for two minutes in the PTS. Thats it? Are they taking the piss? Compared to the posters the SP script was a work of creative brilliance.
4. SF final - Bond sat on his arse shooting with a bit of gravel? Staggeringly bereft of the slightest inspiration. Any chance as its the 50th we go all out with an epic piece of artwork that harks back to the classic era? You know - just for the fans EON? No get f**ked you can have this shitty photoshop job that some YTS knocked off in 15 minutes.
5. QOS final - Duller than an evening with Rory Kinnear. Bond and the girl walking in the desert. Wow. Really gets me pumped for the new film. Cheers EON.
If we are counting for foreign markets.
Worst - any of Craig's. Like the movie themselves, there's nothing Bondian about these posters.
Yeah I must admit that the 80s ones really do it for me, even though I can see the bonkers beauty of the late 60s ones. Octopussy and Moonraker particular, they're so well done. Oh and the Golden Gate View to Kill one, that's ace.
I did really like the Casino teaser poster
And I think the Spectre teaser is pretty supercool too. I think some really good classy photography can always do the trick.
LALD is terrific, as others have mentioned above. I’m going to give a shout out to DAF too.
The weirdest poster is TSWLM. Bond and Anya are so tiny on it. It gives pride of place to a a trio of submarines.
Closely followed by LALD.
And then YOLT.
Couldn't agree more with you, @mtm. On all accounts. I even like the SP teaser very much. Always did. Not on par with the CR one, but still. Good to know I've got good taste, aesthetics wise, given that you're the one who's been doing all of that brilliant artwork.
There are of course some amazing foreign alternates with custom artwork-particularly the 60's era in France, Spain and other countries. Then in Japan you have the striking photo collage poster style that have some really interesting one sheets.
But the most iconic will always be the classic United Artists campaigns for Thunderball-YOLT that combined Robert McGinnis and Frank McCarthy's art into an astonishing legendary ad campaign.
Special recognition: TLD UK Brian Bysouth poster-Definitive series best overall poster.
Some of my general favorites:
1.LALD-The design has everything and sums the film up in a bold and unforgettable image.
2.FRWL-UK quad
3. TB
4. YOLT
5. GF
6. GE-Advance golden image with gun pointing at you "there is no substitute"
7. TWINE-advance Flame Girl poster
8. FYEO-UK Quad poster
9. TLD-US one sheet
10. TLD-advance-most dangerous Bond ever
11. LTK-advance
12. MR-advance Bond in space