@@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.
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.
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'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 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!
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.
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!
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!!!
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? 🤪
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.
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.
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!
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
@@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. 😝
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!
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
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.
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!
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'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
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
The View to a Kill posters aren't really focused on "landscapes", are they? They're meant to show Bond precariously positioned on very tall landmarks. And how better to illustrate how high up he is but by having the background be huge? Anyway, posters are stupid for the most part. I mean, why are they all standing there staring at us? While doing their best poses, no less! It's ridiculous.
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 😂😭
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.
A few observations, in no particular order: 1) I actually really like the just Daniel Craig, Spectre poster. I'm not generally a fan of busy images so maybe it's that. 2) The Eiffel Tower Grace Jones poster is one of the worst things I have ever seen. 3) The Moonraker poster kind of reminds me of Flash Gordon. I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying that a flying Brian Blessed wouldn't have seemed all that out of place. 4) There must be pretty broad agreement that the 'For Your Eyes Only' is the best of all Bond's posters.
I really Bond posters that show images from each film. Images related to what happened in each Bond adventure! You should've show the Tomorrow Never Dies posters!
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!)
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.
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
Whilst Licence To Kill is in my Top 3 Bond films, I must agree that the poster for the film really is one of the worst. Came to mind before watching the vid.
i get why modern ones are much more basic and stripped back, but i don't get why they can't make a bunch of those as well as a couple of more intricate ones for the fans who want them
Kind of amazing how they spend $250 million dollars on making the film and then invest perhaps a couple of hours photoshopping the posters. They need a new Robert McGinnis to bring a consistent, stylish look to the posters.
Never Say Never Again UK poster always annoyed me SO much with Barbara Carrera's weird leg-crossover pose and if you look closely, she's literally got 2 left feet!
I always liked NSNA because of Connery’s return as Bond. Not all posters of this film are bad. One thing I didn’t like was the girls in the poster barely resemble the actresses who play them. But there are many variations of the poster. Some of the look quite good with Connery smiling and the girls looking a bit more like in the movie and less drawn.
Absolutely - given that Gavin goes outside of EON with Never say never again, I expected this one to show up. For my money, it has always been the standout Bond image bar none.
Favourites: From Russia with Love Live and Let Die (personal fave) For Your Eyes Only The Living Daylights GoldenEye I actually quite like the Spectre and most of the No Time to Die ones despite the lack of effort, Craig looks bad ass on most of them and in some cases, thats enough
Dan in the classic black turtleneck for Spectre is my favorite Bond image ever and it's a crime that you didn't even mention it. Maybe it's not a "poster" but come on, its a promotional still.
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 !
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.
'The Incredible World of 007' by Lee Pfeiffer and Philip Lisa has several non-English posters included. Probably the worst is an Italian poster for 'Diamonds are forever' which has a large picture of Plenty O' Toole rather than Tiffany Case, the 'mud pie' hole Bond puts Blofeld in at the start and most inexplicably Bond and the Spacemen!
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.
@Calvin Dyson Best Posters; The Living Daylights (international) GoldenEye (color face version) From Russia With Love (original) The World Is Not Enough (teaser poster) You Only Live Twice (Little Nelly version) Worst Posters; Spectre (Booooring and unimaginative) Licence to Kill (Cheap Cutouts) Die Another Day (generic Fast and Furious poster with ice) The Spy Who Loved Me (too messy) A View To A Kill (peekaa-boo Walken)
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!
While I agree that the Craig era has by far the weakest Bond posters in the series, I'll always have a soft spot for the Quantum of Solace teaser posters. It was the first new bond film I remember coming out, and I always thought the posters of him posing with that gun in the desert just looked cool. I also honestly don't mind the teal and gold character posters for No Time to Die. I just think it's cool to finally see character posters for pretty much the entire cast, and the teal and gold color palette helps them stand out at least a little bit. But my favorite Bond poster of all time is probably the From Russia With Love one you mentioned. That Illustration of Connery is just perfect, and I really like the For Your Eyes Only poster too.
@@jamesatkinsonja I know, most of the Brosnan era and Craig era Bond films have character posters, but they usually just highlight the main villain or the bond girls. I was referring to character posters for more of the james bond characters than just the main cast (like Felix, Bill Tanner, Q, etc.) But to your point, a poster of Rosamund Pike in a sports bra can be a pretty effective way to sell the movie 😁
Licence to kill is in my top 5, but ok. Otherwise good video. I give like. 1# The world is not enough 2# The living daylights 3# Licence to kill 4# Moonraker 5# For your eyes only
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 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.
Completely forgot about the Golden eye poster meme but you had to remind me LMFAO
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5:48 Daniel Craig is Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in "Fuck It That'll Do"
Mate, your Boris cosplay is impeccable!
Fr lol
Invincibly dapper.
He truly is *invincible*
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.
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.
I've always loved the US one-sheet for THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS. It has mystery, suspense, intrigue, sex, and simplicity.
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. 😊
Q 😂 I thought you were Boris for a moment 🤣.
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.
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! 😊
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!
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.
Agreed with all of your picks! Roger really had the best posters. LALD is right up there with the Moonraker one as well.
Octopussy was always my favorite poster. The six-armed Maude Adams was such a great visual.
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!
The Casino Royale (1967) poster with the "illustrated woman" is pretty good, even though the movie is not
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!!!
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? 🤪
The Never Say Never again bit was great
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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!
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 😂
10:20 Oh god, this one looks like some teenager made it in their GCSE graphic design class
It is more fun when you include foreign posters....some are shocking
The YOLT poster is my favorite.
TWINE is my personal favorite! I may be biased though because that's one of my all-time favorite films as well
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.
Dream poster would be From Russia with Love…. It’s superb.
Love it, really creative video!
Thank you! Happy you enjoyed it 😁
You could honestly put the Spectre poster together yourself ten minutes in Photoshop.
Love the Living Daylights US poster.
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
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.
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!
FYEO's poster is extremely iconic
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!
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'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
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
Sir Rodger Moore’s era definitely had the best poster art!
5:45 brilliant! Great editing Gavin
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 View to a Kill posters aren't really focused on "landscapes", are they? They're meant to show Bond precariously positioned on very tall landmarks.
And how better to illustrate how high up he is but by having the background be huge?
Anyway, posters are stupid for the most part. I mean, why are they all standing there staring at us? While doing their best poses, no less! It's ridiculous.
Daniel Craig: worst gunbarrels, worst posters, worst films(especially Spectre & NTTD).
I’m sure that I’m in the minority but I love the poster for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
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 😂😭
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!
A few observations, in no particular order:
1) I actually really like the just Daniel Craig, Spectre poster. I'm not generally a fan of busy images so maybe it's that.
2) The Eiffel Tower Grace Jones poster is one of the worst things I have ever seen.
3) The Moonraker poster kind of reminds me of Flash Gordon. I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying that a flying
Brian Blessed wouldn't have seemed all that out of place.
4) There must be pretty broad agreement that the 'For Your Eyes Only' is the best of all Bond's posters.
I wish they would go back to making From Russia With Love looking posters in the future.
I really Bond posters that show images from each film. Images related to what happened in each Bond adventure! You should've show the Tomorrow Never Dies posters!
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!)
The Licence to Kill promotional material to be fair was rushed as the original title was Licence Revoked.
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.
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
Whilst Licence To Kill is in my Top 3 Bond films, I must agree that the poster for the film really is one of the worst. Came to mind before watching the vid.
That US FYEO poster with the photoshopped shorts looks hilariously bad. If they had to be Puritan about it why not crop the buttocks out of the photo?
Twines poster is great tbh
6:29 - Wow, that's the least wooden I've ever seen Daniel Craig acting since Casino Royale!
How can you not mention the upside down volcano poster from You Only Live Twice?
i get why modern ones are much more basic and stripped back, but i don't get why they can't make a bunch of those as well as a couple of more intricate ones for the fans who want them
Like all real bond fans I LOVE License to Kill but yeah the posters were lame
Oh yeah, Licence to Kill takes my top spot as a movie.
The poster is terrible.
Dude when is the view to a kill review coming I’ve waited 3 months
Kind of amazing how they spend $250 million dollars on making the film and then invest perhaps a couple of hours photoshopping the posters. They need a new Robert McGinnis to bring a consistent, stylish look to the posters.
Alex Ross would be a good choice in my opinion.
Never Say Never Again UK poster always annoyed me SO much with Barbara Carrera's weird leg-crossover pose and if you look closely, she's literally got 2 left feet!
I always liked NSNA because of Connery’s return as Bond. Not all posters of this film are bad. One thing I didn’t like was the girls in the poster barely resemble the actresses who play them. But there are many variations of the poster. Some of the look quite good with Connery smiling and the girls looking a bit more like in the movie and less drawn.
The GoldenEye teaser poster was really cool as well. Simple yet effective with Pierce's eye and the gun.
Speaking as a diehard Bond fan, your content is solid GOLD(eneye).
My personal favorite poster is actually the 1967 Casino Royale poster. I love the psychedelic silhouette of the lady.
Absolutely - given that Gavin goes outside of EON with Never say never again, I expected this one to show up.
For my money, it has always been the standout Bond image bar none.
Favourites:
From Russia with Love
Live and Let Die (personal fave)
For Your Eyes Only
The Living Daylights
GoldenEye
I actually quite like the Spectre and most of the No Time to Die ones despite the lack of effort, Craig looks bad ass on most of them and in some cases, thats enough
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...
Russia from - looks like a unfinished sketch design poster. Never say looks terrible. MoonR is too busy. Goldfinger is the best
Agreed, I kind of dig the roughness of it though
Dan in the classic black turtleneck for Spectre is my favorite Bond image ever and it's a crime that you didn't even mention it. Maybe it's not a "poster" but come on, its a promotional still.
Excellent point, I cannot believe no one agreed in two whole years.
Timothy Dalton and the Temple of Doom
Does anyone realise he's dressed as Boris Grishenko
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 !
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.
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.
The Robert McGinnis posters.
'The Incredible World of 007' by Lee Pfeiffer and Philip Lisa has several non-English posters included. Probably the worst is an Italian poster for 'Diamonds are forever' which has a large picture of Plenty O' Toole rather than Tiffany Case, the 'mud pie' hole Bond puts Blofeld in at the start and most inexplicably Bond and the Spacemen!
Dissing Living Daylights? Boo to you, Dyson. a-boo! a-boo! (I quite like it)
Octopussy! Maud Adams behind Roger Moore, with all the arms wrapped around him. One has a knife, another has the Faberge egg, It's my favorite.
How do you get over the ridiculously long legs they give Roger Moore in that poster? It looks funny rather than serious.
Funny how you like so many American versions. As an American, I’m a bigger fan of the UK variants
Excellent 👍🏻 "well done Gavin my boy" 🤣
The worst poster by far is from the video game 'Blood stone'
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.
@Calvin Dyson
Best Posters;
The Living Daylights (international)
GoldenEye (color face version)
From Russia With Love (original)
The World Is Not Enough (teaser poster)
You Only Live Twice (Little Nelly version)
Worst Posters;
Spectre (Booooring and unimaginative)
Licence to Kill (Cheap Cutouts)
Die Another Day (generic Fast and Furious poster with ice)
The Spy Who Loved Me (too messy)
A View To A Kill (peekaa-boo Walken)
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 myself own the GoldenEye and Die Another Day posters, they're on my living room walls :)
When it comes to Brosnan I'm a TWINE poster fan, myself!
@@calvindyson I've always liked the Tomorrow Never Dies posters.
@@calvindyson Goldeneye for me, Brosnan Bond movie and Brosnan Bond poster.
The Living Daylights is my favourite poster out of all the other bond posters.
My favourite posters:
- The Living Daylights
- GoldenEye
- Casino Royale
My least favourite posters:
- Dr No
- From Russia With Love
- Moonraker
While I agree that the Craig era has by far the weakest Bond posters in the series, I'll always have a soft spot for the Quantum of Solace teaser posters. It was the first new bond film I remember coming out, and I always thought the posters of him posing with that gun in the desert just looked cool. I also honestly don't mind the teal and gold character posters for No Time to Die. I just think it's cool to finally see character posters for pretty much the entire cast, and the teal and gold color palette helps them stand out at least a little bit. But my favorite Bond poster of all time is probably the From Russia With Love one you mentioned. That Illustration of Connery is just perfect, and I really like the For Your Eyes Only poster too.
They did do character posters for the main cast for Die Another Day [with Rosamund Pike in the sports bra from the end!].
@@jamesatkinsonja I know, most of the Brosnan era and Craig era Bond films have character posters, but they usually just highlight the main villain or the bond girls. I was referring to character posters for more of the james bond characters than just the main cast (like Felix, Bill Tanner, Q, etc.) But to your point, a poster of Rosamund Pike in a sports bra can be a pretty effective way to sell the movie 😁
Licence to kill is in my top 5, but ok. Otherwise good video. I give like.
1# The world is not enough
2# The living daylights
3# Licence to kill
4# Moonraker
5# For your eyes only
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.