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[Shrublands]

Yes, we need a new poster. Can we have it next week please? So it can go out to cinemas along with the new trailer.

And, yes, please, please can it be better than Skyfall's?

[univex]

Yes, and please make it a million times better. SF´s was disgraceful. They have such nice elements to put together a wonderful poster. The skulls, snow, rome, three Bond girls, a sinister villain. What more does the art department want? And draw the thing, don´t just do a composite on photoshop or whatever. 

[Shrublands]

I'd love the poster to have Bond in the ivory dinner jacket, with the red carnation. But with something interesting and dynamic going on around him, not badly superimposed onto a black & white 007 logo or the suchlike.

[DamnCoffee]

It might just be my eyes playing up, but I could swear the carnation is black? 

 

Echo the thoughts for a better poster this time around. I've been quite impressed with the SPECTRE campaign so far. Saying that though, at the time I was with Skyfalls up to this point. Didn't really mind the lying down image as the second teaser, and it made a hell of a beautiful Blu Ray cover. The final poster though. Ugh. Dreadful. 

Edited by DamnCoffee, 23 July 2015 - 07:24 PM.

[rubixcub]

I like that the action seems larger than the last one.  SF had cars, motorcycles, construction equipment and a train all in one sequence, but most of the other action sequences were smaller, hand-to-hand combat sequences (esp. the Shanghai / Macau scenes), and even the finale was a trifle diminished.

 

Now, with SP, we have a helicopter sequence, a car chase, a plane chasing a car, a fight on a train, and a boat chasing a helicopter.  Hopefully this will yield big returns.  (Then again, CR & SF both had action sequences that were mostly hand-to-hand combat, while QOS for the most part had "larger" action sequences that IMO didn't work out as well.)

 

Dave

[Guy Haines]

Anyone notice the note of pride Q has in the DB10? "Magnificent, isn't she? 0 to 60 in 3.2 seconds." From "were you expecting an exploding pen? We don't do that any more" to something like dear Desmond Llewellyn in.......3.2 seconds? ;-)

[DaveBond21]

Anyone notice the note of pride Q has in the DB10? "Magnificent, isn't she? 0 to 60 in 3.2 seconds." From "were you expecting an exploding pen? We don't do that any more" to something like dear Desmond Llewellyn in.......3.2 seconds? ;-)

 

Yes, I enjoyed that too. And the "make me disappear" line aswell. 

[Blofeld's Cat]

 

Anyone notice the note of pride Q has in the DB10? "Magnificent, isn't she? 0 to 60 in 3.2 seconds." From "were you expecting an exploding pen? We don't do that any more" to something like dear Desmond Llewellyn in.......3.2 seconds? ;-)

 

Yes, I enjoyed that too. And the "make me disappear" line aswell. 

 

It's an interesting scene when he asks Q to do that. They're not in a dark corner being conspiratorial at all, but almost jovial out in the open in front of everyone. Obviously things are peachy up to then, but Bond has things to do, places to go, people to kill perhaps. All "off-book" as they say.

[Alexedward]

I am convinced with this SPECTRE trailer, it has everything from action moments to thrilling chases and bit romance . Tom Ford has done a great job with three piece suit Craig attired during DB10 car chase and Ivory tuxedo which he might wore in Morocco train. I am looking forward for this movie, it may summarize the whole Craig Era of Bond!    

[DamnCoffee]

Spectre trailer made me do a thing!

 

[Hockey Mask]

Very nice!

[Double-Oh Agent]

Seconded! And please, please make it a better job than Skyfall's!

Totally agree. It couldn't be hard. Skyfall's final poster was very uninspiring.

 

I've got one question. Why do the big anniversary films (40th -- Die Another Day [American version anyway] and 50th -- Skyfall) have the worst posters in the series? Shouldn't they be playing up Bond and his unique character/style rather than making them just run of the mill B movie posters. Actually, that's an insult to B movie posters. Make that bargain basement posters. Licence To Kill was terrible and started this lackluster poster trend and Quantum Of Solace was pretty poor as well. That makes 4 of the last 8 final posters (50 percent!) that have not risen to the level of mediocre, and I would go so far as to say not risen to the level of bad. And 3 of the other 4 have been ok to above average. I'd say only GoldenEye has had a really good final poster in the last 26 years. 26 flippin' years! Bond films used to have great hand drawn artwork that were instant classics and easily captured the action and style of Bond. Not so the last quarter century. Shoot at this point I'd almost settle for a Marvel-style poster. At least that would be an upgrade. What have the EON/MGM promotional poster people been up to? Not enough apparently--certainly not on any creative level. More's the pity and we the fans have suffered for it.

 

I will admit though that for the most part EON/MGM's teaser posters during this same time period have been pretty solid. But for whatever reason something goes off the tracks between the teasers and final posters. Hopefully they will get that fixed for SPECTRE.

[Chief of SIS]

Good to see Daniel is back in hand-in-pocket form...

 

 

[Jim]

That Live and Let Die-esque teaser poster - so where does that costume come in, then?

[antovolk]

I know we didn't get this for Skyfall, but a lot, or actually, most recent blockbusters now have a third 'final' trailer released around a month or two before the film's released. Do you guys think we should get one for SPECTRE?

My opinion is that I hope so, given that by today's terms, it's a bit early for this new trailer to be the last trailer for the film, and Sony/Columbia have a good launch platform for it with their next upcoming major release that is The Walk, which is released on September 30 in IMAX cinemas and October 9 everywhere else. Plus with the final trailers, the editors are usually more creative and intriguing, given the main sell was with the theatrical trailer.

For reference: here are the theatrical (released end of July) and final (released end of September) trailers for Interstellar, which came out on SPECTRE's release window (first weekend of November) last year.

[Simon]

That Live and Let Die-esque teaser poster - so where does that costume come in, then?

 

Now there's a question for after the film's release....

 

But if this costume doesn't make an appearance in the finished film, this ethos would only mirror that of the original LALD poster which also carried something not in the final film.  That of Moore behind the Bofors gun (or whatever it was.)

[univex]

I reckon stuff like the LALD costume and the OHMSS theme won´t show up in the final product - unfortunately on both cases. Just details to surreptitiously let us know they´re venturing into classic Bond territory. Mind you, I would love it if they kept that particular philosophy for the final poster.

[sharpshooter]

That Live and Let Die-esque teaser poster - so where does that costume come in, then?

So far, I'm sure the only attire similar to the poster is seen during the boat sequence in London. 

[dtuba]

I'm not sure I see where all of this LALD inspiration coming from, frankly. Is it the black turtleneck in the teaser poster? Because you could make a case where it is inspired by Archer as much as it is LALD (Black turtleneck, or slightly blacker turtleneck.)

 

Is it the Dia De Los Muertos sequence in the PTS? (supernatural, etc.)

 

I definitely see hints of TB and OHMSS thus far, but several posters/threads have mentioned LALD and I don't specifically see it.

[DamnCoffee]

Well there is that. Not to mention...

 

• The wings being taken off a plane during the piece in Austria
• Moneypenny visiting Bond at his flat
• Not just the Day of the Dead festival, but Bond also resembles Baron Samedi whilst in disguise.
• I can completely see the shades of TB, MR and OHMSS with the junkanoo sequence etc, but Massive skulls? Come on! I see Live and Let Die all over Spectre and I'm loving it.
• The turtle neck clearly is inspired by Moore's look as well. Right down to the shoulder holster.

Completely makes sense, considering it's both Mendes AND Craig's favourite Bond film. I think it's intention definitely is to echo the old classics. Especially OHMSS, Thunderball, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, The Spy Who Loved Me even (train fight), but there is definite shades of Live and Let Die in there, even more so than other films.

[dtuba]

Hmm, I did not catch the resemblance to Baron Samedi.

 

Guess I'd better watch the trailer again!

[Guy Haines]

In terms of influence I'd say it'sas much OHMSS as LALD, with little bits from the other movies thrown in, particularly the 1960s films. Admittedly, two and a half minutes is not much to go on, but what little we have seen points to a reworking of elements from the classic era set in the modern day.

[Shrublands]

It might just be my eyes playing up, but I could swear the carnation is black? 

 

 

Yes, it does look black. But I think that's just the lighting and the desaturated look of the film.

Anyway, if you look in the background, you'll see that the other tables in the dinning carriage have red carnations in little vases. I suspect that Bond has seen them as part of the table layouts and pinched one for his buttonhole.

Well, I'd really like that to be the way it plays out, it could be quite a moment.

[Blofeld's Cat]

 

It might just be my eyes playing up, but I could swear the carnation is black? 

 

 

Yes, it does look black. But I think that's just the lighting and the desaturated look of the film.

Anyway, if you look in the background, you'll see that the other tables in the dinning carriage have red carnations in little vases. I suspect that Bond has seen them as part of the table layouts and pinched one for his buttonhole.

Well, I'd really like that to be the way it plays out, it could be quite a moment.

 

And if it IS black could it be yet another reference to pasts bond movies? The black orchids in Moonraker?

 

Doubt it, but we fans are having so much fun trying to turn SPECTRE into a Die Another Day homage fest. 

 

LOL!

[Vauxhall]

I reckon lots of the apparent homages are coincidental, but that's always likely to happen after 50 odd years! Still fun to spot them though.

[stromberg]

See it to believe it 

 

[Double-Oh Agent]

See it to believe it 

 

That was awesome! Makes me wish even more that Pierce Brosnan would have gotten to do a fifth 007 film. He (and we) was robbed!

 

But seriously, that was some amazing editing that that guy The Unusual Suspect did. If you didn't know better you wouldn't have too hard a time believing that that was an upcoming movie. Great job.

 

Thanks for posting that Stromberg.

[thecasinoroyale]

Good creativity for sure BUT still makes me see Brosnan had hit his peak with 'DAD' age-wise, he did start to look a bit worn for 007 by that point.

[SecretAgentFan]

Well, it certainly makes me want to see "The November Man" again...

[Fairbanks]

That's really well done.