@@mck-qt7hu I'd like to sue as Diamonds Are Forever doesn't feature scubadivers, as shown on the poster. I would have liked the film had it not been for the discomfort I had waiting for scubadivers.
Calvin you've managed to twist my arm and now i've made plans to invest in a huge canvas print of that Moonraker poster so THANK YOU FOR THE NUDGE! IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL!!
Woohoo! I'm always happy to be spreading Moonraker love! :D That poster has followed me from place to place since I moved to London. Always the first thing to go up on the wall whenever I have to move!
I'd love to see a return to the illustrated posters. Hopefully see one for Indy V. Also call out to some of the On Her Majesty's Secret Service posters, Lazenby cuts an iconic figure and pose!
I really hope they're able to get Drew Struzan to come out of retirement to draw at least one teaser poster for Indy 5, like he did with The Force Awakens. If not, hopefully they get an artist like Mark Raats to draw the posters for Indy 5. There's literally no excuse to not do classic illustrated posters for Indy 5, and I'm still hoping we get at least one special or exclusive hand drawn poster for No Time To Die.
Check out the posters for _Baby Driver, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Deadpool 2, The French Dispatch, Glass, One Child Nation_ and the TV shows _Timeless_ and _Stranger Things_ for example.
I think Octopussy’s poster deserved a spot.. her arms showing different sides of who she is makes it so compelling, is she a bond girl? Does she want to kill bond? It adds mystery and intrigue. Then you have all the action shots around and to top it all of the graphic artstyle juste makes the whole thing beautiful.
I had the Casino Royale poster with Bond in the foreground and Eva Green looking on in the background. Got as part of getting the cinema job I had in my senior year of high school. I was so happy that I framed it the following weekend and had it hung up in college dorm. I lost it some time ago but I'm hoping to find another copy or a displate of it in the future. Great work as always, Calvin!
In the spring of 1967 my cousin and I were walking through Times Square when we were brought up short by the sight of the biggest billboard in the world featuring the three panel artwork for the upcoming release of You Only Live Twice. It had been two years since Thunderball and in that time were inundated with all the countless imitators. But now Bond was back and bigger than ever. And while I love the film, the artwork had a lasting impact - most particularly the image of the volcano crater. Hardly subtle but awe inspiring for all of that.
The Live and Let Die poster has to be my favourite, the crocodile, the speedboat, tarot cards and explosions make for a true work of art. An honourable shoutout has to go to the Man with the Golden Gun poster, which I proudly own on my wall.
Definitely agree. It's unique, simplistic, uncluttered, introduces the new Bond, has the barrel gun connection and it's almost photographic with beautiful lighting through the dress. Whoops which version are we talking about. I am referring to the simpler one with the bluish tones. I do however still really appreciate the action version.
I'm sorry Calvin, you may have figured you were taking "a leaf out of Q's book in 'Thunderball'" however, and it may just be me, but it seems more like you are taking "a leaf out of Boris' book in 'Goldeneye'" xD Love your content though, please keep it up :)
The casino royale poster is just beautiful, and ominous. It’s hands down my fav, but I have to admit I always loved the US version of the world is not enough poster lol great video as always.
Back in the mid 70s, the manager of my hometown movie theater had told me that I could go up to where the posters were stored & take all the Bond posters I wanted. Sadly the theater had a major fire before I could get up there.
I have the GoldenEye teaser poster with Brosnan's eye and the gun barrel pointed at us with no title, the 007 logo, Christmas '95 at the bottom, and the tagline: "There is no substitute." Simple, iconic, and it takes us to a new era of Bond. Great list and video as always.
Ironic that you just posted this video about bond posters, since I just got the James Bond: 50 Years of Movie Posters book for my birthday, which I really like and would highly recommend!
I really-really like that "Thunderball" poster(or more like a VHS/DVD cover picture?), where Sean Connery holds the harpoon and far behind him is a nuclear explosion! Brilliant!!! *** YOLT, TSWLM, MR, FYEO, TLD, GE, TWINE: They are all great!!!
The US version of the FYEO poster you featured is my first concrete 007 memory. I suppose I must’ve had some James Bond exposure before, what being alive and all, but I remember laying eyes on that poster when the movie came to a local cinema, and six-year-old me was absolutely transfixed. One of my favorite posters was the Goldeneye teaser. Just a gold/sepia-toned extreme close up of Brosnan’s eye and the barrel of his gun - no extended mouth.
Quite an enjoyable episode Mr. Dyson. The Roger Moore era of painted posters was indeed stellar. My favourite is the Spy Who Loved Me poster, and the ones drawn by Robert E. McGinnis for Sean Connery and Roger Moore.
As much as you blew away the Craig posters as being too plain, these were my favorite because the character who is playing Bond (Craig) is right there front and center where like you stated in some of the other posters, Dalton and some of the Connery posters, 007 seems a bit small compared to the rest of what is put on the poster. With Craig front and center, it puts 007 right in your face. I absolutely love the Casino Royale poster with Eva Greene in the background and actually I love the Spectre poster with the skull face in the background and Craig in his white tux. I can’t say the same about Skyfall or the Quantum posters (can’t say much about the movie Quantum either) but I preferred the Skyfall poster with Bond standing on the rooftops and London to the side (don’t know if this was an official Bond poster or not). If I had a Moore poster that I would have preferred, it would have been Live and Let Die - Moore was a badass in this movie and wielding that 45 made it like a Clint Eastwood movie - Go Ahead Make My Day - can you envision Bond saying that to any of the Bond villains? 🤪
I always found the US Licence to Kill poster funny because the two Bond girls are posing together in a box and it always gave the impression that they were a deadly duo villain henchmen that Bond had to face off and vanquish 😂
All the 2012 covers are awful. Because Skyfall was the new film [and very popular] pretty all the covers are just the Bond actor looking serious [hilariously including films like Moonraker] and alone [most previously had the lead Bond Woman]. Reminds me when they re-issued the Adam West Batman film with a solo Batman [no Robin] looking serious so it tied in with the Dark Knight!
@@Hudpix16 true. The producers must have noticed this too and put things in front of his legs in other versions of the poster too to hide his long legs. 😝
The recent Craig posters are utterly lifeless. Does MGM have a marketing department anymore? I do disagree with the View posters...I thought they were great, though I do wonder how Tanya Roberts isn't falling to her death. Her feet aren't on that cable!
My Personal Top 10: 1. The Living Daylights 2. The Spy Who Loved Me 3. The World Is Not Enough 4. Octopussy 5. You Only Live Twice 6. Live and Let Die 7. GoldenEye 8. Moonraker 9. From Russia With Love 10. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
I've seen The Living Daylights and License to Kill in the cinema over the past fortnight, including with my bro - who had with him some of the prop money from License to Kill. Happy cheesy days!
The living daylights poster is fantastic , its like an old fashioned cartoon poster! Those that are packed with images seem to work the best. The moonraker poster is beautiful too, the colours esp the silver and greys and bond in a spacesuit works so well! Moonraker is one of my fav films with the never ending action and location settings from venice to s.america! Leeds lad here so always love the leeds mention in octopussy
The Moonraker poster is amazing. It sells 'James Bond is Space' even better than the actual film does. lol I also really love Goldeneye poster as well. Though it being used on the N64 game box art might have added some nostalgia.
You Only live Twice had the most ridiculous Bond poster. It's the one where Connery is depicted in his classic Bond pose- tuxedo, arms folded, gun in hand- but he's flying "Little Nellie (?!).
I have a couple of the Sean Connery quads,all the Moore quads,both Daltons,all the Brosnan's,and the first 2 Craig's,but my favourite would be the Diamonds are Forever quad,and The Spy Who Loved Me is up on my wall right now looking great.
Top 5: 1. A View to a Kill: Golden Gate Bridge 2. Octopussy: Thirteen James Bond’s in a row 3. Moonraker: Bond floating in space with the Drax girls 4. The Man with the Golden Gun: Previous villains 5. OHMSS: Bond and Tracy on skis
Inspiring choices! Knew you'd pick Moonraker and some variant of For Your Eyes Only, but they're really good! Two of my absolute favourites you didn't mention: the red Tomorrow Never Dies one, I love the double Carver on top, the double 007 logo at the bottom and the use of actual still frames from the movie in the background. The film is about television and media, after all. And the teaser poster for Casino Royale. Craig is beautifully photographed here, half draped in shadows, gun in hand on the poker table, the look he gives... Just great for a fresh, grittier Bond.
The MGM VHS release in 1992 comes with some of the original artwork and is a beautiful set. One of my favourite posters was the coming soon version of Living Daylights, " his bad side is a dangerous place to be."
The Living Daylights is definitely one of my favourite posters (and film, 1st one I saw at the cinema) I also love On Her Majesty's Secret Service poster
I agree that the Rog era was the best for posters. I have so many memories of classic 70s posters from travelling around on the tube as a kid,,and the Live and Let Die one with the 4 cards of “Devil, Death, Lovers and Fortune” is a very strong memory, and the following years , very busy, Golden Gun poster. They may have been the strongest pull for me as a lad seeing them station after station that got me hooked on Bond in the first place !
0:53 for a minute I thought you were doing a Boris Grishenko outfit, I think it was the round glasses that threw me off lol Tough list but, here are My top 5 favorites: The Living Daylights (either version) For Your Eyes Only (spread version) Live and Let Die Diamonds are Forever The World is Not Enough (it’s the first bond movie I ever saw so I have a lot of Nostalgia for it) Great review as always Calvin, keep it up
Favourite Connery is Thunderball Favourite Moore is Octopussy Favourite Dalton is TLD obviously Favourite Brosnan is GoldenEye Favourite Craig is Oh Dear what happened ??? I also like The Flint film posters too with their 60s psychedelic 007 feel
re, the "for your eyes only" poster the legs are a composite of two models, one for the legs, and another for the crossbow also the bikini bottom is on backwards
When you see these 007 posters all set up back to back like this - it really is incredible that in this World with absolutely amazing advancements in Digital Technology- The very worst posters of them all are the ones released over the last 20 years. Those early painted Bond posters are just MAGICAL and really capture the action and excitement of the films perfectly. In fact, in some cases - -such as Diamonds are Forever- The Poster is much bigger and more exciting than the actual film! My personal favorites are Thunderball and You Only Live Twice - But I would actually put Moonraker right alongside those! Hopefully someone in Amazon’s Marketing division is watching this and will immediately commission a No Time To Die painting in time for the film’s release! There is NO ONE who can reasonably argue that these new posters are even in the same universe as those old classics!
my top 5: Thunderball's 3 panel poster Living Daylights' gunbarrel For Your Eyes Only Skyfall's gunbarrel teaser You Only Live Twice's volcano poster ...and I gotta say, we gotta get that Sean Longmore guy making the next movie posters. Great guy.
Fantastic idea! He could come up with a more exciting poster than what we have before he even wakes up and has his cup of morning Coffee! ( or Earl Grey!)
Curiously "Casino Royale" ... Both the Daniel Craig one and the David Niven/Peter Sellers one form the 1960s hits as 2 of my favorite. Side note - 1960s Casino Royale is a guilty pleasure for being kind of odd and unique. A wildness to it that was appealing when I first saw it in the big screen. My favorite poster is You Only Live Twice....which held the promise of excitement. And I loved Moonraker's poster for that same reason. This was fun. Thanks for sharing.🎇🎆✈🚙
Calvin, why, just why would you do that, now all I see when I look at that poster is Pierce Brosnan having a stroke, and the poster is my screen saver 😂😭
3:58 IIRC, they were doing a photo shoot for FRWL and forgot to bring the PPK. The photographer had the air pistol so they used that, the long barrel image worked so well it was used for years afterwards.
I think the Licence to Kill posters were hastily redesigned because of the title change late into production, which might explain the more simple poster designs
I'd love for you to do a video for the cinema Trailers. GoldenEye's teaser and trailer always send shivers down my spine :). "You can still depend, on one man" !!
@@calvindyson ahhhhh yes agreed :), good ol Starr Parodi & Jeff Eden Fair . If only that music piece was in the gun barrel for the actual movie aswell. someone should do a redubb video of that opening with that music
I'm gonna get flak for this: I love the Spectre poster. There's something about the way Bond is standing, and his slick white suit with the gun, that's just so inherently badass to me.
I personally love the Connery-Era Posters in which he is always painted in the most ridiculous poses… like him walking aroubd the edge of Blofelds Volcano in disregard of Physics and with his arms crossed… It looks so professionaly painted and yet so ridiculous in its execution!
@@calvindyson I always do a Connery Bond impression to my kids who are now early 20s. Throw at them a "Good Morning Moneypenny" in mid conversation. They look at me like they are ready to drop me off at the old people home. My impression of Connery sounds more like a Daryll Hammond from SNL than a Connery. Especially when I start doing random The Rock quotes.
Great video, Calvin! Quite agree about the "legs". The daisy dukes slapped over Melina's sit-upon were a disgrace. A personal favorite is the poster for "Live and Let Die" with the tarot cards representing the different characters.
It might be because I'm doing minimalist photography at the moment, but I adore some of the later Craig posters. It creates some intrigue and keeps me hyped while never feeling cluttered, however, the 60s posters used the space perfectly. The yolt one being my personal favourite, just such a phenomenal piece of over the top fun.
As a teen I had the FYEO, SWLM and Moonraker (your top favourite and mine!) posters in my bedroom. Basically I love the classic look of illustrated posters with lots of improbable action: Bond standing sideways on the lip of Blofeld's volcano; Bond and Tracy skiing away from Piz Gloria; AVTAK with Bond and Stacy atop the Golden Gate Bridge. Agree that TLD poster is fantastic! Loved the video, thanks!
Halle Berry in the Die Another Day posters trying to be an equal to 007 reminds me of an unstable, domineering in-law who insists on standing or sitting in the dead middle of every family photograph!
When I think "James Bond poster," my mind goes to DAD, TWINE, and the VHS cover for Thunderball. They were the Bond covers of my childhood. Yes, I prefer the version of the DAD poster where the background is blue instead of the ice explosion. I stared at the TWINE VHS cover for SO long as a kid. Yes, I realize that Connery's Bond never swam while an explosion was happening on an island behind him at night.
I like your choices. The Living Daylights and all of the Moore films had great posters. I was bored with the boring absence of artwork on the blu Ray set so I designed my own covers using these old posters
Agreed on the first poster of The World Is Not Enough. The Japanese laserdisc has that exact cover and I’m trying my hardest to find a copy, but it’s one of the more expensive releases which isn’t helping in my search.
The teaser poster of SPECTRE was pretty good (black background with bullet-hole through glass, with the glass shattered in the shape of the SPECTRE-logo.)
I like that one too. I always thought the bullet hole was supposed to be symbolic because that is usually where James Bond poses for the gun barrel sequence.
Nice list! I think Craig on the teal wall is my favorite of the standalones this go around, though I do like some of the Matera ones. What made you get the sweater one? To have something relevant? Pairs nicely with the Funko haha. Well done on this vid, as always.
Thanks, Adam! You know, I dunno what made me get the sweater one… I guess I kind of prefer Craig’s badass pose in it more than the teal wall one? I might upgrade to the full multiple character poster one someday but we’ll see 😁😁
I think that Bob Peak's unused poster for License to kill is much better than the official posters used. Other favorites are Robert Mcginnis egg tempera posters (like the one for thunderball and live and let die). Great vid
I was gutted that Bond never faced off against a 50ft woman with a giant crossbow. That poster was false advertising!
Someone would probably sue nowadays
@@mck-qt7hu I'd like to sue as Diamonds Are Forever doesn't feature scubadivers, as shown on the poster. I would have liked the film had it not been for the discomfort I had waiting for scubadivers.
Albert R. Broccoli presents Roger Moore as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in "From Amazon With Love"
After seeing the poster I went into Octopussy expecting a Sharktopus style hybrid monster as well as a man with super long legs.
Mate, your Boris cosplay is impeccable!
Fr lol
Invincibly dapper.
He truly is *invincible*
5:48 Daniel Craig is Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in "Fuck It That'll Do"
I love the Living Daylights poster with Dalton in the middle and action all around him in a gun barrel! Have had that on my wall for years.
Completely forgot about the Golden eye poster meme but you had to remind me LMFAO
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Calvin you've managed to twist my arm and now i've made plans to invest in a huge canvas print of that Moonraker poster so THANK YOU FOR THE NUDGE! IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL!!
Woohoo! I'm always happy to be spreading Moonraker love! :D That poster has followed me from place to place since I moved to London. Always the first thing to go up on the wall whenever I have to move!
It is!!! I also bought the Moonraker book today
Good choice. I've got that one on my wall. I rotate a lot of my posters but never that one cos it looks so good.
Love the idea of rotating posters! Please give me a hint or two. 😊
I'd love to see a return to the illustrated posters. Hopefully see one for Indy V.
Also call out to some of the On Her Majesty's Secret Service posters, Lazenby cuts an iconic figure and pose!
I really hope they're able to get Drew Struzan to come out of retirement to draw at least one teaser poster for Indy 5, like he did with The Force Awakens. If not, hopefully they get an artist like Mark Raats to draw the posters for Indy 5. There's literally no excuse to not do classic illustrated posters for Indy 5, and I'm still hoping we get at least one special or exclusive hand drawn poster for No Time To Die.
Check out the posters for _Baby Driver, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Deadpool 2, The French Dispatch, Glass, One Child Nation_ and the TV shows _Timeless_ and _Stranger Things_ for example.
The new The Suicide Squad has som nice illustrated posters :)
I think Octopussy’s poster deserved a spot.. her arms showing different sides of who she is makes it so compelling, is she a bond girl? Does she want to kill bond? It adds mystery and intrigue. Then you have all the action shots around and to top it all of the graphic artstyle juste makes the whole thing beautiful.
The Octopussy poster gives Moore weirdly long legs.
Q 😂 I thought you were Boris for a moment 🤣.
I had the Casino Royale poster with Bond in the foreground and Eva Green looking on in the background. Got as part of getting the cinema job I had in my senior year of high school. I was so happy that I framed it the following weekend and had it hung up in college dorm. I lost it some time ago but I'm hoping to find another copy or a displate of it in the future.
Great work as always, Calvin!
In the spring of 1967 my cousin and I were walking through Times Square when we were brought up short by the sight of the biggest billboard in the world featuring the three panel artwork for the upcoming release of You Only Live Twice. It had been two years since Thunderball and in that time were inundated with all the countless imitators. But now Bond was back and bigger than ever. And while I love the film, the artwork had a lasting impact - most particularly the image of the volcano crater. Hardly subtle but awe inspiring for all of that.
I've always loved the US one-sheet for THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS. It has mystery, suspense, intrigue, sex, and simplicity.
The Live and Let Die poster has to be my favourite, the crocodile, the speedboat, tarot cards and explosions make for a true work of art. An honourable shoutout has to go to the Man with the Golden Gun poster, which I proudly own on my wall.
I’m a big fan of the Skyfall one - I’ve got a lot of memories of seeing it on the side of London buses circa 2012
They had a huge one wrapped around the BFI Imax.
wrap-around billboards are fun and retro! 😊
The Living Daylights poster is perhaps my favourite poster art of the Bond films.
Mine too. It's a shame the following poster for Licence To Kill is so bland and generic.
Very cool I've go an original UK Quad and it's a beaut!
Definitely agree. It's unique, simplistic, uncluttered, introduces the new Bond, has the barrel gun connection and it's almost photographic with beautiful lighting through the dress. Whoops which version are we talking about. I am referring to the simpler one with the bluish tones. I do however still really appreciate the action version.
I liked the one with Brosnan's nose on Natalia's neck with the gun in his hand. Really set the scene that this is a new Bond; charismatic and cool.
That’s a great one
You mean his lips right 😂
0:53 YES I AM INVINCIBLE
5:45 brilliant! Great editing Gavin
Such a relief you put FYEO in one of the 'best slots' and I'm so glad you love the one sheet - it's the one Bond poster hanging on my wall!
6:29 - Wow, that's the least wooden I've ever seen Daniel Craig acting since Casino Royale!
Agreed with all of your picks! Roger really had the best posters. LALD is right up there with the Moonraker one as well.
I'm sorry Calvin, you may have figured you were taking "a leaf out of Q's book in 'Thunderball'" however, and it may just be me, but it seems more like you are taking "a leaf out of Boris' book in 'Goldeneye'" xD
Love your content though, please keep it up :)
I’m glad I’m not the only one thought the same lol
@@victoriamaypickford3813 lol me, too
The Moonraker poster is fucking awesome.
It’s very accurate likeness of the actress too.
The casino royale poster is just beautiful, and ominous. It’s hands down my fav, but I have to admit I always loved the US version of the world is not enough poster lol great video as always.
A follow up video I’d love is where you rank all of the covers of the ‘90s VHS/Special Edition DVDs!
Great picks by the way!
The Never Say Never again bit was great
Back in the mid 70s, the manager of my hometown movie theater had told me that I could go up to where the posters were stored & take all the Bond posters I wanted. Sadly the theater had a major fire before I could get up there.
The Casino Royale (1967) poster with the "illustrated woman" is pretty good, even though the movie is not
Octopussy was always my favorite poster. The six-armed Maude Adams was such a great visual.
I would have never thought of this, but I’m sure as hell happy you did
10:20 Oh god, this one looks like some teenager made it in their GCSE graphic design class
I have the GoldenEye teaser poster with Brosnan's eye and the gun barrel pointed at us with no title, the 007 logo, Christmas '95 at the bottom, and the tagline: "There is no substitute." Simple, iconic, and it takes us to a new era of Bond. Great list and video as always.
Love it, really creative video!
Thank you! Happy you enjoyed it 😁
Ironic that you just posted this video about bond posters, since I just got the James Bond: 50 Years of Movie Posters book for my birthday, which I really like and would highly recommend!
I really-really like that "Thunderball" poster(or more like a VHS/DVD cover picture?), where Sean Connery holds the harpoon and far behind him is a nuclear explosion! Brilliant!!! *** YOLT, TSWLM, MR, FYEO, TLD, GE, TWINE: They are all great!!!
The US version of the FYEO poster you featured is my first concrete 007 memory. I suppose I must’ve had some James Bond exposure before, what being alive and all, but I remember laying eyes on that poster when the movie came to a local cinema, and six-year-old me was absolutely transfixed.
One of my favorite posters was the Goldeneye teaser. Just a gold/sepia-toned extreme close up of Brosnan’s eye and the barrel of his gun - no extended mouth.
Quite an enjoyable episode Mr. Dyson. The Roger Moore era of painted posters was indeed stellar. My favourite is the Spy Who Loved Me poster, and the ones drawn by Robert E. McGinnis for Sean Connery and Roger Moore.
As much as you blew away the Craig posters as being too plain, these were my favorite because the character who is playing Bond (Craig) is right there front and center where like you stated in some of the other posters, Dalton and some of the Connery posters, 007 seems a bit small compared to the rest of what is put on the poster. With Craig front and center, it puts 007 right in your face. I absolutely love the Casino Royale poster with Eva Greene in the background and actually I love the Spectre poster with the skull face in the background and Craig in his white tux. I can’t say the same about Skyfall or the Quantum posters (can’t say much about the movie Quantum either) but I preferred the Skyfall poster with Bond standing on the rooftops and London to the side (don’t know if this was an official Bond poster or not). If I had a Moore poster that I would have preferred, it would have been Live and Let Die - Moore was a badass in this movie and wielding that 45 made it like a Clint Eastwood movie - Go Ahead Make My Day - can you envision Bond saying that to any of the Bond villains? 🤪
I always found the US Licence to Kill poster funny because the two Bond girls are posing together in a box and it always gave the impression that they were a deadly duo villain henchmen that Bond had to face off and vanquish 😂
Do a video about the worst bluray/DVD covers!
Personally I'd go with the covers from the Special Edition DVDs.
All the 2012 covers are awful. Because Skyfall was the new film [and very popular] pretty all the covers are just the Bond actor looking serious [hilariously including films like Moonraker] and alone [most previously had the lead Bond Woman]. Reminds me when they re-issued the Adam West Batman film with a solo Batman [no Robin] looking serious so it tied in with the Dark Knight!
Great pics. The Legs Poster is the most iconic and I do think I had that poster as a kid? Good stuff.
FYEO's poster is extremely iconic
No love for Octopussy? The 8 arms of Octopussy around Bond with her holding an assortment of different lethal weapons is pretty damn great.
I find James’ legs in that poster way too long, very disproportionate, almost comical. Not the best Bond poster but interesting.
@@Hudpix16 true. The producers must have noticed this too and put things in front of his legs in other versions of the poster too to hide his long legs. 😝
Hell yea that was the first Bond movie I ever saw. My friends Dad rented it for his birthday party/sleepover. I thought it was great.
The recent Craig posters are utterly lifeless. Does MGM have a marketing department anymore? I do disagree with the View posters...I thought they were great, though I do wonder how Tanya Roberts isn't falling to her death. Her feet aren't on that cable!
That US/one-sheet from The Living Daylights is fantastic... probably my favourite. On a side note - I'm loving the impressions, Calvin! 🤣😎
My Personal Top 10:
1. The Living Daylights
2. The Spy Who Loved Me
3. The World Is Not Enough
4. Octopussy
5. You Only Live Twice
6. Live and Let Die
7. GoldenEye
8. Moonraker
9. From Russia With Love
10. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
I've seen The Living Daylights and License to Kill in the cinema over the past fortnight, including with my bro - who had with him some of the prop money from License to Kill. Happy cheesy days!
Excellent 👍🏻 "well done Gavin my boy" 🤣
The living daylights poster is fantastic , its like an old fashioned cartoon poster! Those that are packed with images seem to work the best. The moonraker poster is beautiful too, the colours esp the silver and greys and bond in a spacesuit works so well! Moonraker is one of my fav films with the never ending action and location settings from venice to s.america! Leeds lad here so always love the leeds mention in octopussy
TWINE is my personal favorite! I may be biased though because that's one of my all-time favorite films as well
Sir Rodger Moore’s era definitely had the best poster art!
The Moonraker poster is amazing. It sells 'James Bond is Space' even better than the actual film does. lol
I also really love Goldeneye poster as well. Though it being used on the N64 game box art might have added some nostalgia.
Yeah, it made such an impression on me when I first saw it as a newspaper ad back in the day!
You Only live Twice had the most ridiculous Bond poster. It's the one where Connery is depicted in his classic Bond pose- tuxedo, arms folded, gun in hand- but he's flying "Little Nellie (?!).
I have a couple of the Sean Connery quads,all the Moore quads,both Daltons,all the Brosnan's,and the first 2 Craig's,but my favourite would be the Diamonds are Forever quad,and The Spy Who Loved Me is up on my wall right now looking great.
Top 5:
1. A View to a Kill:
Golden Gate Bridge
2. Octopussy: Thirteen James Bond’s in a row
3. Moonraker: Bond floating in space with the Drax girls
4. The Man with the Golden Gun: Previous villains
5. OHMSS: Bond and Tracy on skis
Calvin you are INVINCIBLE with your Boris cosplay
Inspiring choices! Knew you'd pick Moonraker and some variant of For Your Eyes Only, but they're really good!
Two of my absolute favourites you didn't mention: the red Tomorrow Never Dies one, I love the double Carver on top, the double 007 logo at the bottom and the use of actual still frames from the movie in the background. The film is about television and media, after all. And the teaser poster for Casino Royale. Craig is beautifully photographed here, half draped in shadows, gun in hand on the poker table, the look he gives... Just great for a fresh, grittier Bond.
The MGM VHS release in 1992 comes with some of the original artwork and is a beautiful set.
One of my favourite posters was the coming soon version of Living Daylights, " his bad side is a dangerous place to be."
Daniel Craig: worst gunbarrels, worst posters, worst films(especially Spectre & NTTD).
You could honestly put the Spectre poster together yourself ten minutes in Photoshop.
Love the Living Daylights US poster.
The Living Daylights is definitely one of my favourite posters (and film, 1st one I saw at the cinema) I also love On Her Majesty's Secret Service poster
I agree that the Rog era was the best for posters. I have so many memories of classic 70s posters from travelling around on the tube as a kid,,and the Live and Let Die one with the 4 cards of “Devil, Death, Lovers and Fortune” is a very strong memory, and the following years , very busy, Golden Gun poster. They may have been the strongest pull for me as a lad seeing them station after station that got me hooked on Bond in the first place !
0:53 for a minute I thought you were doing a Boris Grishenko outfit, I think it was the round glasses that threw me off lol
Tough list but, here are My top 5 favorites:
The Living Daylights (either version)
For Your Eyes Only (spread version)
Live and Let Die
Diamonds are Forever
The World is Not Enough (it’s the first bond movie I ever saw so I have a lot of Nostalgia for it)
Great review as always Calvin, keep it up
Favourite Connery is Thunderball
Favourite Moore is Octopussy
Favourite Dalton is TLD obviously
Favourite Brosnan is GoldenEye
Favourite Craig is Oh Dear what happened ???
I also like The Flint film posters too with their 60s psychedelic 007 feel
That’s practically my opinion!
Bob Peak did the Flint poster. He went on to do the poster for The Spy Who Loved Me and I think the posters for the three previous Bonds.
You spoiled the fun for all of us, Calvin. Thanks
Speaking as a diehard Bond fan, your content is solid GOLD(eneye).
The GoldenEye teaser poster was really cool as well. Simple yet effective with Pierce's eye and the gun.
re, the "for your eyes only" poster
the legs are a composite of two models, one for the legs, and another for the crossbow
also the bikini bottom is on backwards
When you see these 007 posters all set up back to back like this - it really is incredible that in this World with absolutely amazing advancements in Digital Technology-
The very worst posters of them all are the ones released over the last 20 years.
Those early painted Bond posters are just MAGICAL and really capture the action and excitement of the films perfectly.
In fact, in some cases -
-such as Diamonds are Forever-
The Poster is much bigger and more exciting than the actual film!
My personal favorites are Thunderball and You Only Live Twice -
But I would actually put Moonraker right alongside those!
Hopefully someone in Amazon’s Marketing division is watching this and will immediately commission a No Time To Die painting in time for the film’s release!
There is NO ONE who can reasonably argue that these new posters are even in the same universe as those old classics!
I love the '67 Casino Royale Poster with the tattooed redhead saying it's all too much for one Bond.
The YOLT poster is my favorite.
my top 5:
Thunderball's 3 panel poster
Living Daylights' gunbarrel
For Your Eyes Only
Skyfall's gunbarrel teaser
You Only Live Twice's volcano poster
...and I gotta say, we gotta get that Sean Longmore guy making the next movie posters. Great guy.
Fantastic idea!
He could come up with a more exciting poster than what we have before he even wakes up and has his cup of morning Coffee!
( or Earl Grey!)
13:38 The US, one sheet of “For Your Eyes Only” adorned my bedroom wall as a teen. 🤣❤️
Curiously "Casino Royale" ... Both the Daniel Craig one and the David Niven/Peter Sellers one form the 1960s hits as 2 of my favorite. Side note - 1960s Casino Royale is a guilty pleasure for being kind of odd and unique. A wildness to it that was appealing when I first saw it in the big screen.
My favorite poster is You Only Live Twice....which held the promise of excitement. And I loved Moonraker's poster for that same reason. This was fun. Thanks for sharing.🎇🎆✈🚙
Calvin, why, just why would you do that, now all I see when I look at that poster is Pierce Brosnan having a stroke, and the poster is my screen saver 😂😭
3:58 IIRC, they were doing a photo shoot for FRWL and forgot to bring the PPK. The photographer had the air pistol so they used that, the long barrel image worked so well it was used for years afterwards.
The American poster of Licence to Kill was done minimally because of the film name change
I also hated the lighting on the two actresses. It's too blown out and looks cheap.
I think the Licence to Kill posters were hastily redesigned because of the title change late into production, which might explain the more simple poster designs
I'd love for you to do a video for the cinema Trailers. GoldenEye's teaser and trailer always send shivers down my spine :). "You can still depend, on one man" !!
The music for that trailer is yet to be topped by any other Bond trailer I'd say!
@@calvindyson ahhhhh yes agreed :), good ol Starr Parodi & Jeff Eden Fair . If only that music piece was in the gun barrel for the actual movie aswell. someone should do a redubb video of that opening with that music
The Licence to Kill promotional material to be fair was rushed as the original title was Licence Revoked.
I'm gonna get flak for this: I love the Spectre poster. There's something about the way Bond is standing, and his slick white suit with the gun, that's just so inherently badass to me.
I personally love the Connery-Era Posters in which he is always painted in the most ridiculous poses… like him walking aroubd the edge of Blofelds Volcano in disregard of Physics and with his arms crossed… It looks so professionaly painted and yet so ridiculous in its execution!
Agreed
The impression of Roger Moore losing his glasses is worth subscribing alone! Hilarious!
Thanks very much, Michael! Nice to know my teen years weren’t entirely misspent trying to do my best Roger Moore voice 😂😂
@@calvindyson I always do a Connery Bond impression to my kids who are now early 20s. Throw at them a "Good Morning Moneypenny" in mid conversation. They look at me like they are ready to drop me off at the old people home. My impression of Connery sounds more like a Daryll Hammond from SNL than a Connery. Especially when I start doing random The Rock quotes.
Dream poster would be From Russia with Love…. It’s superb.
Great video, Calvin! Quite agree about the "legs". The daisy dukes slapped over Melina's sit-upon were a disgrace. A personal favorite is the poster for "Live and Let Die" with the tarot cards representing the different characters.
There was a minor controversy at the time over the original poster being immoral.
I've been working in commercial art for nearly 40 years. I agree with almost all your opinions on these. Modern posters can be so dull.
It might be because I'm doing minimalist photography at the moment, but I adore some of the later Craig posters. It creates some intrigue and keeps me hyped while never feeling cluttered, however, the 60s posters used the space perfectly. The yolt one being my personal favourite, just such a phenomenal piece of over the top fun.
As a teen I had the FYEO, SWLM and Moonraker (your top favourite and mine!) posters in my bedroom. Basically I love the classic look of illustrated posters with lots of improbable action: Bond standing sideways on the lip of Blofeld's volcano; Bond and Tracy skiing away from Piz Gloria; AVTAK with Bond and Stacy atop the Golden Gate Bridge. Agree that TLD poster is fantastic! Loved the video, thanks!
I love those view to a kill ones, but my fav is probably living daylights. Really wish we'd get some better ones for the modern Bond...
I wish they would go back to making From Russia With Love looking posters in the future.
Halle Berry in the Die Another Day posters trying to be an equal to 007 reminds me of an unstable, domineering in-law who insists on standing or sitting in the dead middle of every family photograph!
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it! :D
Great Job Calvin 👏
When I think "James Bond poster," my mind goes to DAD, TWINE, and the VHS cover for Thunderball.
They were the Bond covers of my childhood.
Yes, I prefer the version of the DAD poster where the background is blue instead of the ice explosion.
I stared at the TWINE VHS cover for SO long as a kid.
Yes, I realize that Connery's Bond never swam while an explosion was happening on an island behind him at night.
I like your choices. The Living Daylights and all of the Moore films had great posters. I was bored with the boring absence of artwork on the blu Ray set so I designed my own covers using these old posters
Wow!
Agreed on the first poster of The World Is Not Enough. The Japanese laserdisc has that exact cover and I’m trying my hardest to find a copy, but it’s one of the more expensive releases which isn’t helping in my search.
The teaser poster of SPECTRE was pretty good (black background with bullet-hole through glass, with the glass shattered in the shape of the SPECTRE-logo.)
I like that one too. I always thought the bullet hole was supposed to be symbolic because that is usually where James Bond poses for the gun barrel sequence.
Dude when is the view to a kill review coming I’ve waited 3 months
Nice list! I think Craig on the teal wall is my favorite of the standalones this go around, though I do like some of the Matera ones. What made you get the sweater one? To have something relevant? Pairs nicely with the Funko haha. Well done on this vid, as always.
Thanks, Adam! You know, I dunno what made me get the sweater one… I guess I kind of prefer Craig’s badass pose in it more than the teal wall one? I might upgrade to the full multiple character poster one someday but we’ll see 😁😁
I think that Bob Peak's unused poster for License to kill is much better than the official posters used. Other favorites are Robert Mcginnis egg tempera posters (like the one for thunderball and live and let die). Great vid