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Licence to Kill gun barrel feels so epic!!!
Anyway, I am immensely excited for gun barrel sequence in SPECTRE!
I have an opinion and I'm giving it. You can agree with it or not.
Look up the word "Bawbag".
Dear Lord. LTK is one of the worst. It does t even sound like the Bond theme until after the gunshot. Awful. Truly awful.
If that's what you hear, then that's what you hear. I hear nothing remotely Bondian until after the gunshot and even then it ain't great. After what is arguably the best Gunbarrel score in TLD, this one in LTK comes as a major let down.
Any gunbarrel score that has tried to cheat those opening bars hasn't worked, in my opinion.
Dr No, TSWLM, LTK, TND, TWINE all lack something that the other gunbarrels have. Punch perhaps?
The white dots and those opening bars in sync is what gives that adrenaline rush you hear so many Bond fans talk of.
I'm now off to see SPECTRE. I'll see how this all fits together.
Yep Goldeneye has a good stab at the gunbarrel score but is just a little too electronic to make it work fully.
When I heard Arnold had then got the gig for TND I was optimistic for his gunbarrel score as he was was basically a John Barry ape.
Somehow he fooled it up royally on his first two efforts.
Completely agree Fitz. I just don't get the love for Kamen's GB. That's not the Bond theme, to quote Partridge 'that's just noise'.
Anyway aren't we here to discuss SP's GB?
For me after the shambles of the last two films it was a step in the right direction but no more.
The design was better but why is it so difficult to go back to the Brosnan era design which was the perfect CGI update of Binder's? So perfect in fact that they EON themselves used it as the logo for the 50th anniversary but not perfect enough to use in their films? Go figure.
Again Daniel's walk too fast and seemed unnatural. CR still his best by a million miles.
Looks like we're stuck now with this blood which is subject to a force of gravity about 5 times what it is on earth and is sucked down the screen way too fast.
Still it was at the start and the music was decent so I can't complain too much.
Oh yeah one more gripe - let's have the barrel dissolve into the action. I don't need some caption about the day of the dead. Just the city will do fine thanks.
The cue in question is David Arnold's gunbarrel closer. And it really is a closer. To get the idea, imagine you were playing a James Bond computer game and your character dies. David Arnold's cue would be what you would hear. It should be nowhere near a gunbarrel score.
Just 40 minutes to go before I can analyse SPECTRE's properly.
Indeed. As I said before, a poster on here has created a fantastic DC gunbarrel. I imagine this was done without the technology afforded to Eon too.
It baffles me that Eon can't, or perhaps won't, give us something that works much better than what we have been served on the previous two films.
The two Arnold's that followed used completely different sections of the Bond theme and to me lost it's impact. I'd agree that TLD was the last time we got a truly traditional gunbarrel. DAD would be closest, except the melody is only played once due to the fact the Brosnan scene runs a little shorter. I wouldn't mind so much it being mixed up once in awhile, but, dang, TLD was a loooooooong time ago.
I agree with you on the Arnold cues too. Solid GB design undermined by poor musical decisions. And don't get me started on GE's dirge. After 6 years without a film we get this rousing rendition of the Bond theme played by someone banging a pan with a wooden spoon?
It really isn't rocket science. If you are stuck just go back to FRWL (incidentally a maxim that you could do worse to follow for all aspects of making a Bond film).
Still musically SP is probably the best GB we've had since TLD (I'm discounting CR's sumptuous kick-in-the-bollocks opening bars) so it's only taken 28 years to get back on track.
Basically you want a certain rendition of the Bond theme that is more or less the same as what's heard in all Bond films other than the ones you named on that list. Fair enough.
As for me, I always appreciate variety in Bond films. It's always interesting to shake things up, and I assume that's exactly why EON hasn't stayed rigid about it. I don't always agree with the choices, but it's much more interesting to talk about, otherwise all we'd have to say is "yup, same gun barrel, same animation, same timing in music, ect".
I actually like that they're not using the animation of the Brosnan CGI gun barrel, opting to go old school the way Maurice Binder got it done from 1962-1989, though this time it ends much like FRWL with the cut to black instead of a transition or hard cut to scene that GF and TB established.
That I'm glad to hear. It's been awhile since audiences could cheer at Bond while he walks the walk. When the music is messed up it throws you off and you're too busy thinking WTF!!!!!!! Hence, the Bond gunbarrel audience cheer is gone. Glad SP at least makes an effort to correct this.
C'mon you knew you weren't going to like it before you even saw the film lol.
No matter I'm glad you enjoyed the film. Another fan on the plus side.
Haha, I did set myself up to be disappointed. Such a shame, though. It could have been so much better. Happily, the PTS was so good I forgot about the gunbarrel quite quickly.
https://scontent-vie1-1.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xpf1/t50.2886-16/10946798_1495756094058021_1511167070_n.mp4
That made the hairs tingle on the back of my neck more than it did last night.
I wish the audience I watched it with was as raucous as that one. We're mostly very reserved when watching films at the cinema in this country.
You want moronic cheers to spoil your enjoyment of the film? I go to a football match for that caper. I go to the cinema to watch a film.
I'm guessing you would have hated it then when Bond unveiled his Union Flag parachute in TSWLM which had audiences across the globe standing up and applauding.
Me too.
back of my neck. :)