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Did you like Danny Kleinman's Skyfall titles?


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#61 Vauxhall

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Posted 15 November 2012 - 05:27 PM

I've never been a huge connoisseur of the title sequences, but I thought SKYFALL's was tremendous. The title song also worked excellently alongside the imagery in my opinion.

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Posted 15 November 2012 - 06:44 PM

(though I still appreciate their efforts in creating those location title cards, which I had hoped we'd be seeing again this time around).

I loved the location titles. I was hoping it would become a new Bond tradition. Could you imagine having 50 years of location titles in the vault and the outrage if it ever ended.

#63 Vauxhall

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Posted 15 November 2012 - 07:50 PM


(though I still appreciate their efforts in creating those location title cards, which I had hoped we'd be seeing again this time around).

I loved the location titles. I was hoping it would become a new Bond tradition. Could you imagine having 50 years of location titles in the vault and the outrage if it ever ended.

Excellent point! I also really liked the location cards in QUANTUM OF SOLACE. They were generally imaginative and not too obtrusive. Perhaps they could try something similar in the future.

I was about to go off-topic about SKYFALL's locators but will start a new thread instead.

#64 The Real X Filter

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Posted 15 November 2012 - 08:24 PM

I haven't see the Skyfall textless credits, and now seems to be offline.

Anyone has downloaded it?

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Posted 15 November 2012 - 09:32 PM

I haven't see the Skyfall textless credits, and now seems to be offline.

Anyone has downloaded it?


The opening Credit sequence you mean?

#66 The Real X Filter

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Posted 15 November 2012 - 10:33 PM

Yes, the one is it at the main page, but doesn't work anow

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Posted 15 November 2012 - 10:41 PM

They were great! I liked them better than both Quantum Of Solace and Casino Royale...

**Ducks before tomatoes are thrown**

#68 Nicolas Suszczyk

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Posted 16 November 2012 - 12:53 AM

They were great! I liked them better than both Quantum Of Solace and Casino Royale...

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My toughts exactly!

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Posted 16 November 2012 - 04:15 AM

Yes, the one is it at the main page, but doesn't work anow


I have it downloaded and if you want, I could email it to you.

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Posted 16 November 2012 - 12:37 PM

Wow I did not notice before that it was young Bond the first time they showed his eyes. That is pretty awesome.

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Posted 16 November 2012 - 12:56 PM

Nor did I Bucky until second viewing, and it all made sense. A chilling and yet brilliantly small touch.

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Posted 16 November 2012 - 01:00 PM

I've had a peek at the titles - and that definitely looks to be a young Craig Bond, and an older version at the end. In the tunnel as a boy, emerging as a man.

Silva is in the sequence as well by the looks of it, pointing a gun behind Bond's back.

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Posted 16 November 2012 - 02:18 PM

Yeah, Silva turning against Bond with his gun is a great moment, just making him out from the shadows with the dramatic brass cue in the music.

A very well thought out sequence.

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Posted 16 November 2012 - 03:44 PM

After viewing Skyfall for a second time, I spotted something during the title sequence that blew my mind. In this scene we see two zooming shots of Bond's face... but they are not the same. In the first one Craig's face is younger, he looks like an adolescent, instead in the last one he's older. We see the first glimpse of child-Bond!!!! That's fantastic!!

#75 Ernst Stavro Blofeld Jr.

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Posted 16 November 2012 - 09:39 PM

Clearly you didn't read the last three pages.


Its nice to see that these have leaked, though I'd have love for Casino and Quantum to be released textless as well.

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Posted 16 November 2012 - 09:43 PM

The previous one was taken down but here is another one



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Posted 17 November 2012 - 04:51 AM

The previous one was taken down but here is another one

http://vimeo.com/53618018

Notice between 2:53-2:55, Bond's shadow is mysteriously cut off before the top of the screen.

I found Skyfall's titles to be superb. Feels like TB meets TND, with two blatant references to LALD and TLD.


Regarding QOS, I really wish there was a textless version available. The imagery I didn't mind, Even though it wasn't Kleinmann, it worked well. It kind of felt like a cross between TWINE and YOLT. But the one think I absolutely HATED about QOS was the font they used for the opening credits. The incredible thick, round font, and all lower case titles were too much of a variation. Almost all movies have used a simple gothic-based fonts with slight variations (YOLT the biggest variation as it seems to be an oriental gothic style font, but the font they use, along with the repeating dot motif, is so insanely distracting that it doesn't feel that it's an Albert R. Broccoli's Eon Productions production. That facet is primarily what drags QOS down the most for me, even more so than the frenetic editing and its unusual brevity.

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Posted 21 November 2012 - 03:47 PM

The previous one was taken down but here is another one

http://vimeo.com/53618018


Now that one's been taken down too. Does anyone else have it?

Regarding QOS, I really wish there was a textless version available. The imagery I didn't mind, Even though it wasn't Kleinmann, it worked well. It kind of felt like a cross between TWINE and YOLT. But the one think I absolutely HATED about QOS was the font they used for the opening credits. The incredible thick, round font, and all lower case titles were too much of a variation. Almost all movies have used a simple gothic-based fonts with slight variations (YOLT the biggest variation as it seems to be an oriental gothic style font, but the font they use, along with the repeating dot motif, is so insanely distracting that it doesn't feel that it's an Albert R. Broccoli's Eon Productions production. That facet is primarily what drags QOS down the most for me, even more so than the frenetic editing and its unusual brevity.


Its weird that they didn't just make the CR and QoS re-releases UEs, complete with UE menus and textless titles. :-\

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Posted 21 November 2012 - 03:51 PM

I noticed on my viewing last night another skull, this time in the form of the riverbed when 'Skyfall' appears on screen, and the mouth is opening drawing Bond down/in.

I thought that was anothing chillingly nice touch.

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Posted 21 November 2012 - 06:22 PM

I noticed on my viewing last night another skull, this time in the form of the riverbed when 'Skyfall' appears on screen, and the mouth is opening drawing Bond down/in.

I thought that was anothing chillingly nice touch.


Just now noticed that, chilling indeed!

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Posted 21 November 2012 - 06:24 PM

I noticed on my viewing last night another skull, this time in the form of the riverbed when 'Skyfall' appears on screen, and the mouth is opening drawing Bond down/in.

I thought that was anothing chillingly nice touch.


I had noticed that also. I like some of the small touches in Kleinman's titles, like in the Casino Royale titles when the blood of one of the men makes the letters CR.

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Posted 23 November 2012 - 12:28 AM

Seeing it in the theatre only confirmed it for me - I think CR and this are definitely Kleinman's best work. There are Binder touches, but he's not trying to ape Binder at all, and that's wise. And I really just love the bit with the middle 8. As great a syncing of song and visual as I can remember in a Bond title sequence.

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Posted 23 November 2012 - 02:17 AM

Beautiful. Looking forward to watching them again.

I was very critical of Kleinman's TND and TWINE work, especially TWINE (though he's hardly Robinson Crusoe when it comes to bad work on TWINE), but he's really come into his own with CASINO ROYALE and now SKYFALL.

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Posted 23 November 2012 - 02:22 AM



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Posted 24 November 2012 - 07:55 AM

The titles were great. Up there with Kleinman's work on Goldeneye and Casino Royale. First of all, they look good, secondly they draw on a bunch of thematic material and lastly the song works a treat.

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 04:53 PM

Whichever poster asked about Kleinman's font that I'm too lazy to go back and look for, it's some variant on Helvetica, slightly more narrow than what Binder used to use.

Fabulous titles; agreed with Harms and sharpshooter that they're his best work along with CR and GE.

As "worthy" a successor he is to Binder, I'd say even moreso to Bass, to whom they both owe much.

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 04:57 PM

Whichever poster asked about Kleinman's font that I'm too lazy to go back and look for, it's some variant on Helvetica, slightly more narrow than what Binder used to use.


Century Gothic is the font.

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 04:58 PM


Whichever poster asked about Kleinman's font that I'm too lazy to go back and look for, it's some variant on Helvetica, slightly more narrow than what Binder used to use.


Century Gothic is the font.


Same of CASINO ROYALE logo.

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 10:33 PM

The titles were good...a bit dark and morbid though.

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Posted 27 November 2012 - 12:18 AM



Whichever poster asked about Kleinman's font that I'm too lazy to go back and look for, it's some variant on Helvetica, slightly more narrow than what Binder used to use.


Century Gothic is the font.


Same of CASINO ROYALE logo.

Oh, thought we were talking about the rest of the credits, not the title logo itself. Right, bolded Century Gothic.