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[Dustin]

Am not in a position to make technical suggestions about this, nor did the recent efforts disagree that much with me. But I can follow how the CGI does at times not get satisfactory results.

Personally, I find some of the avantgardistic/surreal effects in those gunbarrels quite fitting to the films, in an ironic sort of way. Could there be found some kind of middle ground at all? After it's become such a favourite spot for each director to put his stamp on?

[AMC Hornet]

I never had a problem with Daniel Kleinman's gun barrels for Pierce Brosnan (I even appreciated the bullet flying into the barrel in DAD - it told me that this was going to be another Bond film, but with a few curves thrown in along the way).

 

Even if they just took the one they already shot for Skyfall and stuck it at the beginning of B24 I'd be satisfied, although it would be nice to see DC in a tux, and a bit more of the rifling around the edges of the screen.

[Mr_Wint]

The Brosnan gunbarrel was OK, but I am not a fan of Craig's gunbarrels. Mixing the gunbarrel into the story as "his first kill" or "something he has to deserve before he is Bond" was not a bright move. Seriously, I can't even find words to describe how stupid it is. I wish someone could tell EON that it is totally ineffective to put the gunbarrel at the end.

 

A gunbarrel based on the teaser poster for SF could work.

[The Shark]

Just to note: this thread isn't about the placement of the barrels, but the design of them.

[thecasinoroyale]

I personally can't stand the horrid design of the Craig gunbarrels - 'Casino Royale' was acceptable, I guess, but 'Quantum of Solace' and even 'Skyfall' to an extent, was sloppy and too bland.

 

The CGI Brosnan era was very slick and polished of course for that new era feel, but it kept the look and design of the classic gunbarrel camera shot from Maurice Binder, making it more real and working perfectly with real light and colour. It's not a homage to go back and use that design, because it's a design that is real and worked.

 

If anything, the new Craig gunbarrels are almost mocking the gunbarrel design like a spoof that wants to be James Bond, but isn't allowed to use the real design so they make up nearly aceptable CG ones.

[The Shark]

The CGI Brosnan era was very slick and polished of course for that new era feel, but it kept the look and design of the classic gunbarrel camera shot from Maurice Binder, making it more real and working perfectly with real light and colour. It's not a homage to go back and use that design, because it's a design that is real and worked.

 

The Brosnan one looked more three dimensional, but still didn't look realistic. No real gunbarrel interior would be that reflective.

[Armand Fancypants]

 

I know that Maurice Binder's optical printing isn't coming back,

 

It really should. It's an icon that is still used in the bulk of the merch and branding.

[dtuba]

 

A gunbarrel based on the teaser poster for SF could work.

Like having Craig actually walk into the gun barrel. And shoot.

 

OK, I know he's short, I guess that is a little silly.

[AMC Hornet]

5' 11" isn't short, not even compared to 6'1" - which was the average height of all the previous Bond actors.

Now, pose Craig back-to-back with Christopher Lee (6' 6") like Moore did in '74, and that famous shot would have to be presented portrait style, rather than landscape...

[AgenttiNollaNollaSeitsemän]

What I would like to see in Bond 24 is a amalgation of the Skyfall and classic Binder gunbarrels.