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[karligula]

I hope Daniel Kleinman does return, I like all his titles. I especially like the moment at the end of the Casino Royale titles when Daniel Craig walks towards the camera and stares right at you. It makes me remember how he got all that bad press while they were making the movie, but here he walks straight up and stares everyone down as if to say, yeah I'm Bond, deal with it!

[Harmsway]

I'm hoping to see Kleinman make it back (I loved his work on CASINO ROYALE). But, truth be told, I wouldn't be that upset if MK12 sticks around, either.

[DaveBond21]

I'm hoping to see Kleinman make it back (I loved his work on CASINO ROYALE). But, truth be told, I wouldn't be that upset if MK12 sticks around, either.

I'd be happy with either. I want it to be one or the other rather than someone new.

[Tybre]

I wouldn't mind if MK12 returns for Bond 23. I love QoS title sequence. But I'm curious how Daniel Kleinman would make B23 titles after 4 (5?) years gap.

Well there was a pretty big gap between DAD and CR.

[mister-white]

I wouldn't mind if MK12 returns for Bond 23. I love QoS title sequence. But I'm curious how Daniel Kleinman would make B23 titles after 4 (5?) years gap.

Well there was a pretty big gap between DAD and CR.

Yeah, 4 years between those two, and I consider DAD was probably his worst sequence, and CR was his best. Actually CR's titles was exactly what I was hoping for, a crazy Bond title sequence using 2D animation with a card motiff. So, he's done it before, where a long gap has given us some of his best work, let's hopes it happens again.

[Dainshdude118]

Even if they did create the sequence before hearing the song, it's still, IMO, far superior to anything that Kleinman did in his five films. I find the titles for CASINO ROYALE to be quite mediocre and vastly overrated, and the other four title sequences range from subpar (GE) to truly awful (TND, TWINE, DAD).

See I always saw it the other way around. I enjoyed Kleinman's work more with each new movie. I like GE but it's all rather medicore in my opinion (the one point I imagine we both agree on), I really enjoy TND, TWINE I could take it or leave it, the opening of it is actually really well done, but then it gets into an oily mess. I always loved the DAD one because of the continuation of the storyline through the titles, and felt the images really lifted up what is an otherwise average song.

Now CR. This is unlike anything Kleinman has done before. It was a bold move getting rid of the dancing nudes, instead he gives us beautiful card motif with Bond duking it out with other enemies. That shot of Vesper as the Queen of diamonds always sends chills down my spine, as does the "007" card dissolving into the computer screen with "Double-o Status confirmed" and at the same time we see that screen it's when Cornell's "Are you ready to die" lyric is sung. That was no coincidence on Kleinman's part, he creates his images in tune with the song, and I love that.

Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy the titles for Quantum of Solace, but they didnt do anything. Again I feel it was a horrible misstep to have them created before the song was even recorded.

As for GOLDENEYE, I actually think that it was Kleinman's best of the five films that he did the titles for. Stacked up against those of the rest of the series, it's not at all the best (that would probably be reserved for some of the earlier entries), but it's miles better than his other four title sequences (TND in particular, which I found to be the worst). The CR titles didn't really do much for me, either. I do agree with you on the opening of the TWINE credits. Very well done, and it's a shame that the rest of the sequence couldn't have been as inspired.

What I really credit MK12 for doing was taking a truly awful song (AWTD is, for me, easily the worst title song in the franchise, although DAD gives it some competition) and makes it somewhat tolerable by giving us something really cool to look at. Visually, I think it's one of the better titles sequences, but as a package deal with the song, it's somewhere towards the middle of the pack.

I loved both “Another Way to Die” and the location cards, but found the title sequence uninspired and frankly, boring. There are some redeeming qualities to it, for instance, I like the kaleidoscope effects, but it lacked the metaphor and symbolism I would have wanted from an “artistic” Bond film. It predominantly consisted of sand and slow motion bullets, or at least, that’s the mental image it’s left me with.