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[Mr Teddy Bear]

Seen the Quantum of Solace one recently?

[Double-0-Seven]

I did like Skyfall's design better than Quantum's, but I still feel like they should go back to the design used for the Brosnan films. It was the classic, iconic look but with a modern edge. Perhaps just do a new render of it (even though it's aged very well for something done in 1995). I echo the sentiment that it was mildly disappointing that after all the marketing heavily featured the classic gun barrel that that particular design of it wasn't spared for the film.

 

I really liked Craig's pose and they could easily keep it for his future films, but someone mentioned earlier in the thread that Bond is wearing the gray suit from Istanbul (confirming Mendes' intention to place it at the beginning). That makes me think they'll redo it with either a dark suit or a tuxedo for Craig's next film.

 

In that case, Craig will be the only Bond actor to shoot a new gun barrel for each film (unless they spare Bond 24's for Bond 25 and any more Craig might do after that). Connery technically only shot one, but counting the original Bob Simmons one that's two for Connery's tenure. Lazenby obviously only shot one. Moore shot two, Dalton one, and Pierce one.

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

In that case, Craig will be the only Bond actor to shoot a new gun barrel for each film (unless they spare Bond 24's for Bond 25 and any more Craig might do after that). Connery technically only shot one, but counting the original Bob Simmons one that's two for Connery's tenure. Lazenby obviously only shot one. Moore shot two, Dalton one, and Pierce one.

 

Certainly. Kinda weird changing the design each film, but apparently we're doing so now. 

[Ernst Stavro Blofeld Jr.]

I like a new shot being done for every film.  I wouldn't care if he did the same pose every time, but redoing it every film is something simple to do and helps keep things fresh.  I hated seeing Moore in flares in AVTAK or Connery looking young in a hat in DAF.  Even Brosnan looked different in DAD, and that was only seven years later.  I really wish they would use the design from the poster though.

[Satorious]

I'd almost certainly refilm it personally. Poor Mr Craig still needs his proper gun-barrel (QOS was too quick, SF was bland and filmed far too close to the camera - I don't think either flow naturally). I thought his final shooting stance from CR was very good indeed though. So I'm all for this re-filming of an individual gun-barrel idea - perhaps setting-up the tone for the movie.

[Hockey Mask]

A billion dollars with the gun barrel at the end.  Was it really worth 26 pages of "controversy".

[x007AceOfSpades]

A billion dollars with the gun barrel at the end.  Was it really worth 26 pages of "controversy".

 

I Lol'd.

[Matt_13]

Bit sad, innit? Still worth it!

[Double-0-Seven]

Yes. I bet it would have made $2 billion if it had been a proper James Bond film.

 

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

 

A billion dollars with the gun barrel at the end.  Was it really worth 26 pages of "controversy".

 

I Lol'd.

 

 

I'm glad SKYFALL has reached to the billion dollars because I'm not a SKYFALL basher. Still, I can look beyond the box-office success and still think it'd have suited better with the gunbarrel at the beginning, just like the 70% of people here.

[seawolfnyy]

A billion dollars with the gun barrel at the end.  Was it really worth 26 pages of "controversy".

Completely agree. I don't really think we need 26 pages of bitching for 5 seconds of movie.

[x007AceOfSpades]

 

A billion dollars with the gun barrel at the end.  Was it really worth 26 pages of "controversy".

Completely agree. I don't really think we need 26 pages of bitching for 5 seconds of movie.

 

 

While I wish It could have been at the beginning, you're right.

[JimmyBond]

 

 

A billion dollars with the gun barrel at the end.  Was it really worth 26 pages of "controversy".

 

I Lol'd.

 

 

I'm glad SKYFALL has reached to the billion dollars because I'm not a SKYFALL basher. Still, I can look beyond the box-office success and still think it'd have suited better with the gunbarrel at the beginning, just like the 70% of people here.

 

 

You're assuming every member here has voted in the poll. I think if everyone who ever registered here voted the results would be different. I'm not saying it would be radically different, but I think it would be closer to fifty/fifty.

[Satorious]

If you asked the general public or casual fan which they preferred - I'd suspect you'd get an even higher skew saying "at the beginning". Then again if you asked how many actually noticed it was at the end, you'd probably get a high number of people who didn't notice either way...

Edited by Satorious, 02 January 2013 - 05:36 PM.

[JimmyBond]

It all depends on the choice, like you said, if you asked "At the beginning?" then they'd say yes. Of course if you asked "Does it bother you that it wasn't at the beginning?" You'd likely get a different result as well.

[Hockey Mask]

Here's to another 26 pages.

[When In Egypt]

I think the gun barrel should be at the beginning where it belongs, and the reason for that - apart from the obvious - is that the ending of each new Bond movie should have a cool little sequence of its own.  And that cool sequence should be ...

 

JAMES BOND WILL RETURN

 

It's about time this famous sentence had a proper place in the Bond movies.  Right after the last shot of the film, we should see a fantastic little graphic design using the above sentence, along with the opening stabs of the Bond theme or whatever appropriate motif the title song might have.  And this sequence will appear like clockwork at the end of every Bond movie before the closing credits.

 

I know 'James Bond Will Return' appeared after the Skyfall gun barrel underneath the 50th Anniversary logo, but to be frank it looked rubbish.

 

What do you think, Bond chums?

[Harry Fawkes]

At the beginning where it belongs.

[DominicGreene]

Hey guys, I found the DVD version of the gunbarrel on Youtube.

 

[When In Egypt]

I do like that pose.  There's a touch of Moore about it.

[seawolfnyy]

I do like that pose.  There's a touch of Moore about it.

Interesting, I got more of a Dalton vibe from it.

[When In Egypt]

 

I do like that pose.  There's a touch of Moore about it.

Interesting, I got more of a Dalton vibe from it.

 

It's the left hand.  Moore did a ton of publicity shots throughout his tenure with his left hand doing that sticky-outy thing.

[x007AceOfSpades]

I guess a DVD copy got leaked onto torrent sites, so that's where the video most likely came from. Makes sense with the DVD release a month away.

[Harry Fawkes]

Compared to the other Bond's, therefore SC, GL, RM, TM and last but not least PB, this is simply the worst Bond walk and shoot I have ever seen!!!!

 

Absolutely rotten and believe me, DC could have done bloody better.

 

Gun-barrel sucks too.

 

After 50 years surely they could have done it better!

[PeteNeon]

It somehow looks a lot worse in that video, more amateur than I thought it was. I like the pose, but the barrel looks like something from YouTube, especially the spinning light reflections. The first Kleinman one is very similar but much better at emulating the Binder style.

[Harry Fawkes]

I prefer the one in QOS. DC did it much better albeit too fast for my liking.

 

[iBond]

Not only should it have been at the beginning, but if you notice that the gun barrel scene, you can see Craig's right hand holding the gun. It has been a tradition, even including Quantum of Solace, that the hand holding the gun is out of view until Bond fires the gun. But meh, he's beaten the record of how many gun barrels a Bond actor can do, so no point in doing it a fourth time. They might as well just keep this one.

[00Dalton]

something I threw together because amongst other things the music not being timed with the gun barrel annoys me.

[Ernst Stavro Blofeld Jr.]

Its private.

[DABOY]

This one's really good. It's been edited to use only parts of the Skyfall score

Edited by DABOY, 07 January 2013 - 10:29 PM.