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[S K Y F A L L]

I'm just curious if anyone else would like the return of a ending credits song? 

[tdalton]

I would be up for one if it were guaranteed to actually be good, but considering that EON can't even crank out a good title track anymore, I'll have to say no.  

[Guy Haines]

In general, agree with tdalton on the end title song - not necessarily on the title songs though as some recent ones aren't bad. But a separate end of film song isn't a long standing tradition - they only started doing them on a regular basis during the Dalton and Brosnan eras. Maybe to see the Craig era out in two or three year's time, as a one off, but as tdalton says, it would have to be good.

[Surrie]

I wouldn't mind seeing them return - but I was brought up through Brosnan's era so I'm used to them. I like the idea of EON bringing the end credits song back for Craig's last outing, but as everyone else has said, it would have to be good... and fitting. 

[Professor Pi]

QoS should have ended with Shirley Bassey's David Arnold theme "No Good About Goodbye" playing as the camera fades on Vesper's necklace in the snow, but since the gunbarrel was at the end, that didn't happen.  TLD and TND had better end title songs than main ones.  "If You Asked Me Too" fit in nicely with the scripted dialog, but wasn't built into Kamen's LTK score.  GoldenEye is one of the few where it would have been better to have the Bond theme instead of "The Experience of Love", sung by Eric Serra but oddly not integrated into his score.  Die Another Day was supposed to have an Arnold penned "I Will Return" but the producers inexplicably went for that Madonna remix.  Ugh.  I get why TWINE didn't have its end title song over the credits, but "Only Myself to Blame" is nonetheless a nice song.

 

I do miss the good end title songs and prefer them over what we've gotten since 2008.

[Grard Bond]

I just want a reprice/repetition of the title song, like they did most of the sixties, seventies and eighties.

Edited by Grard Bond, 13 December 2015 - 04:13 PM.

[AMC Hornet]

I just want a reprise/repetition of the title song, like they did most of the sixties, seventies and eighties.

So, you want to hear WotW twice?

[tdalton]

I didn't even want to hear it once.  

[Surrie]

 

I just want a reprise/repetition of the title song, like they did most of the sixties, seventies and eighties.

So, you want to hear WotW twice?

 

 

 

I didn't even want to hear it once.  

 

Me either!

[AMC Hornet]

Another Way to Die it is, then.

[Guy Haines]

QoS should have ended with Shirley Bassey's David Arnold theme "No Good About Goodbye" playing as the camera fades on Vesper's necklace in the snow, but since the gunbarrel was at the end, that didn't happen.  TLD and TND had better end title songs than main ones.  "If You Asked Me Too" fit in nicely with the scripted dialog, but wasn't built into Kamen's LTK score.  GoldenEye is one of the few where it would have been better to have the Bond theme instead of "The Experience of Love", sung by Eric Serra but oddly not integrated into his score.  Die Another Day was supposed to have an Arnold penned "I Will Return" but the producers inexplicably went for that Madonna remix.  Ugh.  I get why TWINE didn't have its end title song over the credits, but "Only Myself to Blame" is nonetheless a nice song.
 
I do miss the good end title songs and prefer them over what we've gotten since 2008.

QoS should have started with Shirley Bassey's "No Good About Goodbyes"? ;-)
I would have liked TB to have ended with the vocal version of Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, given that the tune weaves its way through the score. But, would either Shirley Bassey or Dionne Warwick have been happy to have the song at the end of the movie when the punters are on their way out? Reputedly the family of Matt Monro weren't too chuffed that his vocal of FRWL was left to the end of the film.

[DaveBond21]

I sometimes wonder if an end titles song would be better than the mood music we have had at the end of the last three.

[Double-Oh Agent]

QoS should have ended with Shirley Bassey's David Arnold theme "No Good About Goodbye" playing as the camera fades on Vesper's necklace in the snow, but since the gunbarrel was at the end, that didn't happen.  TLD and TND had better end title songs than main ones.  "If You Asked Me Too" fit in nicely with the scripted dialog, but wasn't built into Kamen's LTK score.  GoldenEye is one of the few where it would have been better to have the Bond theme instead of "The Experience of Love", sung by Eric Serra but oddly not integrated into his score.  Die Another Day was supposed to have an Arnold penned "I Will Return" but the producers inexplicably went for that Madonna remix.  Ugh.  I get why TWINE didn't have its end title song over the credits, but "Only Myself to Blame" is nonetheless a nice song.

 

I do miss the good end title songs and prefer them over what we've gotten since 2008.

I totally agree except for The Living Daylights--a-ha's version was better. I also wish we would have gotten an I Will Return song. It's a fitting one to end a Bond film. One of the great what-ifs in Bond cinematic history. David Arnold was perfect for me in writing a Bond theme (Surrender, The World Is Not Enough, No Good About Goodbye...I even liked Only Myself To Blame) so I would have been glad to hear him do another one.

 

I sometimes wonder if an end titles song would be better than the mood music we have had at the end of the last three.

I love the James Bond Theme but rehashing it over the end titles just doesn't do it for me. It was acceptable for Casino Royale since we never got a full James Bond Theme in that film, but it's just too repetitive and unoriginal in the following films. I'd rather have either a return of the main theme or a new secondary theme over what we've gotten lately for the closing credits.