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1. Casino Royale
2. Skyfall
3. No Time to Die
4. Quantum of Solace
5. Spectre
Remember when I said to say goodbye?
You looked at me and said there's... no time to die!
The marketing for Omega is endless with this title!
And now i am wondering if NTTD will have a scene with Bond, being shoot multiple times, bleeding out, Madeline looking at him going "you're hit, you're dying man" he looks straight at her and says "I got No Time To Die" and jumps back into action lol.
I think I'm going to cry.
Need a tissue for your eye?
Don't give up the day job! ;)
Wow! Now THAT would be a terrific Bond film title!
Calling NTTD bland and uninspired is a bit like calling a four minute pop song primitive.
On the other hand, I don´t feel good about the fact this title inevitably refers again to Bond´s significance, which is bad bad bad.
Goldeneyyyyyyye
More like solid Columbo.
Hey, it's better than the song Sam Smith famously wrote in 15 minutes. :))
If you'll forgive me, it's much better than most of the suggested titles that have been mooted around here. It's got a Bondian feel too it, and let's be honest. No matter what EON came up with, it was never going to appease everyone.
It definitely doesn't reflect well on the screenwriters, considering all the time they've had to think of a title. But I'm inclined to believe a title this bland was probably the result of group-think among the producers and studio higher-ups--I would like to think that professional writers wouldn't hack out something so robotic and pseudo-Bondian as No Time to Die.
NTTD doesn't sounds like ANY other Craig era films. You should blame the Brosnan era, since both TND and DAD are quite awful and less meaningful titles than NTTD.
No doubt there, and while I do really like the title, I can agree with @Birdleson that it has quite a fan-fiction flair to it. However, it's not a one word S-title and it gives me Brosnan vibes. I'm more than happy with it, let's just hope that the film itself is great.
Die Another Day has a similar meaning to No Time to Die though.
100%, but it doesn't feel cheesy like the Brosnan one, at least to me. Plus, the Cubby nod is a nice touch and the logo is wonderfully vintage.
-Fourth title to feature “Die,” which definitely cements it as a classic trope for the series. Some may find this repetitive or off-putting, but I’m cool with it. Gives it a sense of familiarity. After all, death is a huge part of these films!
-Thinking about it, I’m surprised it’s the first Bond to feature the word “Time” in it. Glad the title was NOT “All the Time in the World.”
-There were many inferior title possibilities. Shatterhand has classic Bond significance, but would have been the third consecutive one-word S title. At least the last one to have “Die” in the title came back in ‘02. A Reason to Die got an upgrade with this official title. Any of the stuff with Genome just would have came off as awkward for a final title, as interesting as the concept is. And most importantly it was NOT “Swansong,” which to me was the worst suggested Bond title I’ve heard (not trying to come off as mean to whoever started it, just have a strong dislike of it for many reasons).
-My first choice was The Property of a Lady, and Risico second, but I’m happy with what I got. After all, Fleming’s remaining titles can be used at any given time down the road.
I’m sorry you’re not into it @Birdleson. Hopefully you can have a reversal of the SP experience though by not liking the title but enjoying the actual film, which matters most!
We're in the minority but not a very small group, I hope. There's currently a poll on the Commander Bond forum regarding the title, with the following results:
43% "Like it"
35% "I'm not sure, bit generic?"
10% "It Will Grow on Me"
8% "I've No TIME For It. Do You see What I Did There?"
4% "Remain"
So the majority over there is actually not crazy about it. The "Like It" category might be larger on this board, but tant pis.
However, it's just not clever and (as others have noted) it means basically the same thing as Die Another Day and Tomorrow Never Dies (which should have been Tomorrow Never Lies). What's next? Yesterday Didn't Die? Die Next Week? Won't Die on a Tuesday?
Perhaps No Reason to Die would have been slightly more interesting.
TOMORROW NEVER DIES
DIE ANOTHER DAY
and now
NO TIME TO DIE
Indeed, you could argue NO TIME TO DIE means the same as DIE ANOTHER DAY. If you have no time to die then you won't die right now, you'll die another day. It's more-or-less the same title. And what's with this obsession with dying? Ian Fleming had one title with 'die' in the title: LIVE AND LET DIE. That was a clever twist on the adage LIVE AND LET LIVE. See, Fleming was clever and imaginative. He didn't keep rehashing the word die in other titles because he was clever and imaginative. There's no reason to keep rehashing 'die' or 'dies'. I do think
DEATH TO SPIES
is a cool title but even I would concede it's another title about dying! I think DEATH TO SPIES sounds more dramatic than NO TIME TO DIE.
I think the repetitive use of 'die' is reason enough to question the decision making of Eon and MGM. It's not clever nor imaginative. Perhaps it is time for the franchise to move on with new owners. The 60th anniversary would be the ideal time for change.
Then the pluses you suggested for No Time To Die, as applied to Craig or hopefully more Bond not having time to die. The mission!
It will soon become familiar enough to be canon. If that's not automatic at this point.