"who remembers the real bad guy of Moon Raker"? Literally every French in the room! That was Michael freaking Lonsdale! A hero in the hexagonal cinema scape!
The image of Maud Adams as Octopussy with her multiple arms offering as you say an enigmatic range of options references the eponymous sea creature but also the goddess Kali, as the film is set largely in India.
Absolutely. The best are from THUNDERBALL to THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS. It’s downhill from then on. For me the finest are OHMSS, YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, LIVE AND LET DIE and THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS.
The teaser poster for Die Another Day illustrates something I've realized for a while. The teaser poster are better than the actual film posters nowadays.
1 From Russia With Love 2 For Your Eyes Only 3 Casino Royale 4 License To Kill 5 You Only Live Twice 6 The Spy Who Loved Me 7 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 8 The Living Daylights 9 Dr No 10 Spectre Those are my top 10 Bond
Great work as always. Thank you so much, guys. But I have to admit, I would have loved to see the posters of 'Never Say Never Again' and 'Casino Royale' (1967) included at least as a point of comparison or popcultural reference - and what you'd make of it.
@@DarkCornersReviews Then I suppose, I have no choice or excuses anymore. But by the way, may I draw your attention to the film 'STAR CRYSTAL' ? A 1986 'ALIEN' rip off that begs screaming for your treatment.
That TLD(1987) poster you showed is THE BEST JAMES BOND MOVIE POSTER EVER!!! It's brilliant!!! *** I'm not a fan of that other TLD(1987) poster(with a woman in a white dress)! That's too sexual/aggressive! *** And yes, everything went downhill since 1989... *** By the way, my personal favourite is that Thunderball(1965) poster(or was that a VHS/DVD cover image?), where Connery holds the harpoon and far behind him is a nuclear explosion! Great image!
I do have a soft for the Moore era Bond.Its the one I grew up with so definitely playing the nostalgia card. With that in mind.I think The Live and Let Die poster heralded the arrival of a new Bond capturing the primary colours camp & for it's time the jaw dropping action sequences.And of course what "Moore" could be said regarding the For your Eyes only poster.Classic.
I had initial doubts that a documentary of movie POSTERS was going to be at all interesting -- but I apologize for underestimating your powers of analysis, editing, and presentation. As fascinating as any of your other videos! I thank you.
I really liked the Casino Royale posters, not the one studied here, but the moody teaser that would've looked great as the book cover, and the main one emphasising Bond and Vesper moving apart. Likewise I like how the main Quantum of Solace poster depicts Bond and Camille as equals both rising out of the desert like giants, and the IMAX Skyfall one of Bond with the Aston Martin against the Houses of Parliament that reflects the film's theme of remaining true in an everchanging world. But yes, overall poster art does seem like lost in a world where you can splash a billion character posters around in online ads.
I truly appreciate this video for a multitude of reasons. Usually only diehard film art fans wax poetic about Bond posters but their artistry is what makes them so iconic, collectible and extremely expensive. I would point out that since you’re mostly using the UK Quad art that some images were more composed for the traditional one sheet dimensions. Some films are better known for their USA one sheets than the UK artwork. The Spy Who Loved Me poster you featured is actually the rare half sheet variant with different art and composition. It’s the only original 70’s Bond original I own. The standard poster has Bond and Anya on the top and is vertically oriented. I agree the likeness of Roger isn’t very good and certain territories changed the face. The AVTAK you mentioned is more of a promotional advance poster and the primary one is the Golden Gate Bridge. I’m absolutely with you on the Brian Bysouth TLD poster. I’ve always felt it was the definitive poster but the rest of the world knows only the iconic USA poster. Then starting on LTK those in control insisted on switching to modern approaches and that cut down drastically on quality. The Brosnan era are served best by their amazing teaser posters. The best of the one sheets is Goldeneye but I prefer the USA World is Not Enough one sheet to The UK one. All the modern reboot era posters are absolute crap. Crap. Soulless image mishmashes and in that way they do represent the empty films well.....
There are many posters for each film and we tended to pick the most interesting, so sometimes we used the teaser, sometimes international, sometimes lobby card style. I love some of the hand-drawn posters from obscure countries that are totally bonkers and don't reflect the film at all. I certainly regret not crediting the artists like Brian Bysouth for their fabulous work.
Dark Corners Reviews that’s totally understandable for condensing down such a history into a single video. The reason I mentioned quad posters is that on some you mention space and composition which was different on the standard one sheet they were originally designed for. It’s really interesting how they seemed to flip flop on what was the first poster design UK quad or US one sheet before designing the other with the same art. Ultimately the real hero is the original United Artists marketing department who came up with the concepts and pulled off amazing campaigns with posters, radio spots the works.
Best part of For Your Eyes Only .. the NEWTSUIT... developed in Vancouver BC by Phil Nutoyen.. 40 years later, the company still defines the state of the art of deep-sea work...
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If I ever get a Bond poster for my den (and I'd have to make room for it), I figure it will be "For Your Eyes Only." It's not my favorite (though I like its return to roots approach), but the poster does indeed sum up 007.
The Thunderball poster you showed isn't the actual poster that was outside cinemas in 65, it was an unused design that only surfaced many decades later. The same goes for The Spy Who Loved Me, it wasn't the actual official poster design but one of the many substandard minor posters. And that's the problem with your critque of the Bond posters: they used multiple posters for each Bond movie campaign, but your review doesn't take that into consideration very much, certainly not with the earlier 007 movies from Dr No right up to YOLT. Therefore I'll give your critque a C- for effort but you must try harder next time.
Excellent list but you should have included the other LIVING DAYLIGHTS poster with Bond and an unseen, armed femme fatale with a white semi-translucent dress.
Two of the best bond movies ever, both performed by a great actor, who was also a fantastic bond, I will not listen to anyone who puts down either of these great movies.
I think the first poster was so confident because they were trading on an established literary franchise. "The first James Bond film", was technically correct. To that point, all that existed was one TV adaptation of "Casino Royale" and a string of books. Fairly well-received books. BTW, you skipped the spoof "Casino Royale". . . understandably. However that film gave us what some fans had wanted even pre-Connery--- David Niven as Bond, although many years too late.
Dark Corners Is The Channel With The Midas Touch! Golden Words They Will Pour In Your Ear! I very much enjoyed these Bond Videos when they debuted, and it's great to see this compilation. Vladvent on the horizon? Favorite Bond Film: You Only Live Twice Favorite Bond: Pierce Brosnan Favorite Bond Poster: The Living Daylights (The White Dress version shown near the review's end) Favorite Bond Villain: Christopher Lee Favorite Bond Girl: Caroline Munro
Dalton's two bond films have actually stood up better than brosnan's last 3 and quite a few of Connery's and Moores films. Brosnan had Goldeneye and that was it, Dalton was the real dangerous bond and to shrug him off is a mistake, he was the right bond but for the wrong time. The Living Daylights did better financially and critically than moore's previous 2 films, its only weakness is the villains. Licence to Kill was a great bond film with a solid villain, that suffered due to last minute marketing changes and stiff competition in 1989, Batman, Indiana Jones 3 and Lethal Weapon 2 and more were all released that time. Brosnan was good as bond but a bit soft, I didn't quite believe him as a calculating spy, with Dalton I did .
Even at Dark Corners HQ we disagree. One hates Quantum of Solace, one is more forgiving. Bond just has a little for everyone and everyone has their Bond.
Say what you will about the films but Roger Moore had a run of some fine women - from a young, winsome Jane Seymour to Britt Ekland to (my personal favorite) Barbara Bach to Lois Chiles to Carole Bouquet and finishing with Maude Adams.
19:15 "But who remembers him" LOL That's really why Moonraker falls flat with me. It's not a terrible film, but they just had the wrong actor. Or rather, that Actor is a good actor, but he gave a terrible performance. I have often wondered if he was sick during production. He looked physically weakened and pale, as if he was getting over a severe illness. And yet I have seen him in other works where he was amazing and looked very healthy.
A good video, but a couple nitpicks: not sure how you can’t mention the inspirational Star Wars poster when talking about Moonraker, and Timothy Dalton isn’t coming out of an iris of an eye, but the iconic gun barrel.
i find it interesting to see these images, considering in america, the posters were all vertical, instead of horizontal...many of the designs were either slightly different or completely different than what you showed here....and by the way...licence to kill has a great poster here as well as being a great movie...
It's worth noting that Ian Fleming tacitly approved of Sean Connery enough to work elements of the actor's biography into the character's. Other's have had their moments, but as to fitting into the world the books created no one surpassed Connery.
Michael Burgess That’s disingenuous because Fleming died before anyone else ever played 007.
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One single beef with the earlier Connery/Bond painted posters.That long black weapon,with the extended barrel, with or without the silencer,NEVER appears in the entire series,that I could see.Yet it seems like Bond's signature firearm.Anyone know what gives?
How long until there is a crossover with other similar franchises like Jason Borne or Mission Impossible? I mean, its only a matter a time and thats all the rage nowadays.
Quick question - Why do the Bond film names on the posters (up to Moonraker I think) appear in inverted commas? Was this the done thing at the time or just in the Bond series?
I wonder it comes from it being James Bond first, the film second. Why they stopped is a mystery. It could be that Moonraker, although sharing the name with an Ian Fleming novel, is so different a second novel was written by Christopher Wood.
Wow. You don’t like OHMSS at all. For many, myself included, the film and poster are simply perfect. It’s everything I want from Bond - with zero stink (and not sure why or where you came up with that). Plus OHMSS wasn’t a “failure” at all. Though not as big a success as Connery’s films, that would have been tough, it was a commercial success. As for the posters, where you see “silly” I see style.
I have the original Living Daylights poster framed, even though I raged when Pierce Brosnan was denied it, it's definitely the best poster of all..the new ones are soulless in comparison...When Craig's time is up, reboot again and reintroduce the artists poster
Hey, while we’re in the subject of posters, what do you think of Josef Fenneker’s work? He did a ton of pretty eye-catching stuff in the German expressionist era.
@@DarkCornersReviews Okay, confession time: part of the reason I posted that was in the hopes you might make a video on his work. And yes! I wish I knew where to find good quality prints of his stuff, I'd definitely be interested in hanging some, myself.
You didn't remember the croc?! One of Bond's best 1 liners comes from it!!! ;) But yeah Live and Let Die is a strong entry for Roger Moore. However, I freaking HATE the song!!! Paul dropped the ball on it. I think the best Roger Moore movie theme is from his worst entry: View to a Kill. I f'ing LOVE it! HATE the movie though.
I was hoping someone would do a video on the 007 movie posters. I agree they have gotten boring, dull and unimaginative. Licence To Kill is my favorite Bond film and no the poster for it isn't really good. And that's were it seemed to go downhill at that point for the quality of the movie posters. Just showing the 007 logo and the lead actor holding a gun is lazy.
You seem to have picked the worst versions of the posters for these films. Specially the later Moore and Dalton film? Why not the pimary US 1-sheets? Were the ones you chose the primaries for the UK market? I've never even seen that Casino Royale poster. The one I have in my office I swiped from MGM.
I’ve seen that poster before but I think that is one that was used primarily in the UK. If you don’t mind me asking which Casino Royale poster do you recommend ? I personally like the one that has Vesper Lund in the background, but I know the one that most people seem to like is the one that has the entrance to the Casino in the silhouette of a woman.
@@cooperwolfe5478 I prefer the one w/ Bond in the foreground leaving the casino, tie undone, and Vesper in the background. I'm fairly certain that one was the primary one-sheet for the US market. IIRC, silhouette version was the advance teaser poster.
@@phluphie thanks I was thinking the same thing because on the one you preferred it has a specific date on it. Are there are any other Bond movie posters that you recommend?
@@cooperwolfe5478 My favorites are the teaser poster for "Living Daylights" w/ the tag line, "The most dangerous Bond. Ever." And the US one sheet for "Eyes Only". The PHOTO of Moore w/ the woman standing over him. The variation that's a painting and has the traditional collage of all the action scenes in the movie on either side of her legs... I hate that. one.
@@phluphie Thanks. Yeah I try to make sure when I buy posters that they aren’t paintings. I usually by posters on Amazon and when you zoom in on a poster usually I can tell if it’s a painting, and if I can’t figure out which one it is then I won’t buy it. I just bought two posters the other day. I bought On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and American Graffiti.
All Daniel Craig Bond movie posters sucks..no taste or homage to the aura or fantasy...we missed the days of the poster being a work of art plus an enticement to see the movie.
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For Your Eyes Only's poster is extremely iconic
From Russia with Love, the film and the poster......the best ever! Well done ol mate 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
That's not Russia in the From Russia with Love poster. It's Istanbul.
D'oh!
It's not Istanbul. It's Soviet Russia.
@@SnakesGames no, its the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul... where most of the Movie takes place
@@salud7432 which was part of Soviet Russia when the film takes place.
@@SnakesGames ......er......not it was not......ever.
"who remembers the real bad guy of Moon Raker"? Literally every French in the room! That was Michael freaking Lonsdale! A hero in the hexagonal cinema scape!
William Bailey He was brilliant. And the line about Bond reappearing like an unloved season is one of the best lines in the whole franchise.
The image of Maud Adams as Octopussy with her multiple arms offering as you say an enigmatic range of options references the eponymous sea creature but also the goddess Kali, as the film is set largely in India.
I can’t be the only one that prefers the older movie posters before photoshop, right?
Absolutely not. The 30s-2000s were the best.
Absolutely.They were works of art.
@@ForceMaximus84 What have you got against the 1910s-20s?
Absolutely. The best are from THUNDERBALL to THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS. It’s downhill from then on. For me the finest are OHMSS, YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, LIVE AND LET DIE and THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS.
Whenever I make a poster digitally, I will intentionally emulate an older style. Might just be my personal bias toward classic hand-painted posters.
43 minute video, but nothing about the artists or the designers who made the posters?
This is a very big regret.
Live and Let Die has always been my favorite Bond poster!!
The old prints of the Flemming books had these posters as covers too...
Wish you would have considered the much more dynamic Golden Gate Bridge View to a Kill poster.
"James Bond does it everywhere" sounds accurate though.
The teaser poster for Die Another Day illustrates something I've realized for a while. The teaser poster are better than the actual film posters nowadays.
Andres Schiffino There’s no film called Live to Die Another Day.
@@thefonzkiss You're right. It seems like I had the song lyrics stuck in my head. I made the correction.
It's not an opening iris, but looking down the barrel of a gun.
Me who thought Goldfinger was the second film, not the third, in the franchise! I am flabbergasted.
William Bailey Cool story bro.
1 From Russia With Love
2 For Your Eyes Only
3 Casino Royale
4 License To Kill
5 You Only Live Twice
6 The Spy Who Loved Me
7 On Her Majesty's Secret Service
8 The Living Daylights
9 Dr No
10 Spectre
Those are my top 10 Bond
Agree with your number 1. I would love the next reboot to jump back to the 60s and made as period pieces like this.
Great work as always. Thank you so much, guys.
But I have to admit, I would have loved to see the posters of 'Never Say Never Again' and 'Casino Royale' (1967) included at least as a point of comparison or popcultural reference - and what you'd make of it.
We made those available for Patreons, for the low low price of a dollar you can see them and an exclusive review. ;)
@@DarkCornersReviews Then I suppose, I have no choice or excuses anymore.
But by the way, may I draw your attention to the film 'STAR CRYSTAL' ? A 1986 'ALIEN' rip off that begs screaming for your treatment.
That TLD(1987) poster you showed is THE BEST JAMES BOND MOVIE POSTER EVER!!! It's brilliant!!! *** I'm not a fan of that other TLD(1987) poster(with a woman in a white dress)! That's too sexual/aggressive! *** And yes, everything went downhill since 1989... *** By the way, my personal favourite is that Thunderball(1965) poster(or was that a VHS/DVD cover image?), where Connery holds the harpoon and far behind him is a nuclear explosion! Great image!
I do have a soft for the Moore era Bond.Its the one I grew up with so definitely playing the nostalgia card. With that in mind.I think The Live and Let Die poster heralded the arrival of a new Bond capturing the primary colours camp & for it's time the jaw dropping action sequences.And of course what "Moore" could be said regarding the For your Eyes only poster.Classic.
Roger Moore rocks
I had initial doubts that a documentary of movie POSTERS was going to be at all interesting -- but I apologize for underestimating your powers of analysis, editing, and presentation. As fascinating as any of your other videos! I thank you.
I really liked the Casino Royale posters, not the one studied here, but the moody teaser that would've looked great as the book cover, and the main one emphasising Bond and Vesper moving apart. Likewise I like how the main Quantum of Solace poster depicts Bond and Camille as equals both rising out of the desert like giants, and the IMAX Skyfall one of Bond with the Aston Martin against the Houses of Parliament that reflects the film's theme of remaining true in an everchanging world. But yes, overall poster art does seem like lost in a world where you can splash a billion character posters around in online ads.
I truly appreciate this video for a multitude of reasons. Usually only diehard film art fans wax poetic about Bond posters but their artistry is what makes them so iconic, collectible and extremely expensive.
I would point out that since you’re mostly using the UK Quad art that some images were more composed for the traditional one sheet dimensions. Some films are better known for their USA one sheets than the UK artwork.
The Spy Who Loved Me poster you featured is actually the rare half sheet variant with different art and composition. It’s the only original 70’s Bond original I own. The standard poster has Bond and Anya on the top and is vertically oriented. I agree the likeness of Roger isn’t very good and certain territories changed the face.
The AVTAK you mentioned is more of a promotional advance poster and the primary one is the Golden Gate Bridge.
I’m absolutely with you on the Brian Bysouth TLD poster. I’ve always felt it was the definitive poster but the rest of the world knows only the iconic USA poster. Then starting on LTK those in control insisted on switching to modern approaches and that cut down drastically on quality.
The Brosnan era are served best by their amazing teaser posters. The best of the one sheets is Goldeneye but I prefer the USA World is Not Enough one sheet to The UK one.
All the modern reboot era posters are absolute crap. Crap. Soulless image mishmashes and in that way they do represent the empty films well.....
There are many posters for each film and we tended to pick the most interesting, so sometimes we used the teaser, sometimes international, sometimes lobby card style. I love some of the hand-drawn posters from obscure countries that are totally bonkers and don't reflect the film at all. I certainly regret not crediting the artists like Brian Bysouth for their fabulous work.
Dark Corners Reviews that’s totally understandable for condensing down such a history into a single video. The reason I mentioned quad posters is that on some you mention space and composition which was different on the standard one sheet they were originally designed for. It’s really interesting how they seemed to flip flop on what was the first poster design UK quad or US one sheet before designing the other with the same art.
Ultimately the real hero is the original United Artists marketing department who came up with the concepts and pulled off amazing campaigns with posters, radio spots the works.
Loving the outside shoots and the casual but insightful analysis of all the posters!
Best part of For Your Eyes Only .. the NEWTSUIT... developed in Vancouver BC by Phil Nutoyen.. 40 years later, the company still defines the state of the art of deep-sea work...
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In my opinion Thunderball and Moonraker posters are the best.
26:22 "Opening Iris" well better than my dad calling it a shutter
If I ever get a Bond poster for my den (and I'd have to make room for it), I figure it will be "For Your Eyes Only." It's not my favorite (though I like its return to roots approach), but the poster does indeed sum up 007.
The Thunderball poster you showed isn't the actual poster that was outside cinemas in 65, it was an unused design that only surfaced many decades later. The same goes for The Spy Who Loved Me, it wasn't the actual official poster design but one of the many substandard minor posters. And that's the problem with your critque of the Bond posters: they used multiple posters for each Bond movie campaign, but your review doesn't take that into consideration very much, certainly not with the earlier 007 movies from Dr No right up to YOLT. Therefore I'll give your critque a C- for effort but you must try harder next time.
That's fair.
1) TLD
2) FYEO
3)TND
4)TB
5) OHMSS
You could’ve used more foreign variants honestly AND added another 1/2 hour plus to this to be WAYYYYYY more definitive eh???
I’d STILL watch it too!
Things really were better in the olden days:/
“Random iguana” I don’t know but 😭😭😭😭😭
Excellent list but you should have included the other LIVING DAYLIGHTS poster with Bond and an unseen, armed femme fatale with a white semi-translucent dress.
Thanks for a wonderfully entertaining and insightful review. Clever, funny, and thorough analysis. Great!
Glad you enjoyed it!
It’s not an ‘opening iris’ in the poster for Casino Royale, the spiral is the rifling in the barrel of a gun!
"The Man with the golden Gun": Well Christopher Lee is in the poster...he's the on behind the solar gun on the left side.
Very nice list. Another poster history for another franchise would be great.
Did you just trash The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill? Bro. Take it back.
License to Kill is the best Bond film ever.
Living Daylights is up there too.
And Dalton is the second best Bond after Connery.
Living Daylights is fantastic! A top 5 bond movie for sure.
I think License to Kill is too mean spirited and graphic, but I get why people like it
Two of the best bond movies ever, both performed by a great actor, who was also a fantastic bond, I will not listen to anyone who puts down either of these great movies.
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I think the first poster was so confident because they were trading on an established literary franchise.
"The first James Bond film", was technically correct. To that point, all that existed was one TV adaptation of "Casino Royale" and a string of books. Fairly well-received books.
BTW, you skipped the spoof "Casino Royale". . . understandably. However that film gave us what some fans had wanted even pre-Connery--- David Niven as Bond, although many years too late.
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Favorite Bond Film: You Only Live Twice
Favorite Bond: Pierce Brosnan
Favorite Bond Poster: The Living Daylights (The White Dress version shown near the review's end)
Favorite Bond Villain: Christopher Lee
Favorite Bond Girl: Caroline Munro
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Dalton's two bond films have actually stood up better than brosnan's last 3 and quite a few of Connery's and Moores films. Brosnan had Goldeneye and that was it, Dalton was the real dangerous bond and to shrug him off is a mistake, he was the right bond but for the wrong time. The Living Daylights did better financially and critically than moore's previous 2 films, its only weakness is the villains. Licence to Kill was a great bond film with a solid villain, that suffered due to last minute marketing changes and stiff competition in 1989, Batman, Indiana Jones 3 and Lethal Weapon 2 and more were all released that time. Brosnan was good as bond but a bit soft, I didn't quite believe him as a calculating spy, with Dalton I did .
Amen!
Hello, thank you very much. Magnifiques posters de nos James bond tant aimés
While your choice of the best posters are spot on, but we will agree to disagree on the films (especially The Living Daylights) excellent video.
Even at Dark Corners HQ we disagree. One hates Quantum of Solace, one is more forgiving. Bond just has a little for everyone and everyone has their Bond.
Excellent video and edit
You made me care about a franchise I don't care about... How cool is that?!
@Big Al Anyone can write a Bond script and by the looks of it anyone is doing it. Greatest franchise? Hardly...
@10:10 You had to watch the movie for the bobsled to make sense. Maybe that's what they had in mind - that was a tease to make you go watch the movie!
Disagree big time on the OHMSS poster. I LOVE IT! Yes, it's incredibly silly (unlike the film), but it just exudes confidence to me.
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Crap, this video definitely gave the itch to go back and marathon the series
And hell, no time like quarantine to do so!
Pretty much once they moved from painted artwork to photo stills of the actors is when the posters sucked.
Say what you will about the films but Roger Moore had a run of some fine women - from a young, winsome Jane Seymour to Britt Ekland to (my personal favorite) Barbara Bach to Lois Chiles to Carole Bouquet and finishing with Maude Adams.
Very nice piece
19:15 "But who remembers him" LOL That's really why Moonraker falls flat with me. It's not a terrible film, but they just had the wrong actor. Or rather, that Actor is a good actor, but he gave a terrible performance. I have often wondered if he was sick during production. He looked physically weakened and pale, as if he was getting over a severe illness. And yet I have seen him in other works where he was amazing and looked very healthy.
A good video, but a couple nitpicks: not sure how you can’t mention the inspirational Star Wars poster when talking about Moonraker, and Timothy Dalton isn’t coming out of an iris of an eye, but the iconic gun barrel.
Excellent vid!
i find it interesting to see these images, considering in america, the posters were all vertical, instead of horizontal...many of the designs were either slightly different or completely different than what you showed here....and by the way...licence to kill has a great poster here as well as being a great movie...
I have never watched a James Bond movie, but found your critique of the posters quite interesting, and and educating. Thank you.
@Big Al I never had an interest in James Bond.
You made a mistake when talking about "From Russia With Love" The background doesn't show Russia but the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.
Don't dismiss the gadgets! As Q once put it if it wasn't for them 007 would be dead already. They are his backup when he's by himself.
Am I the only one who thought the fan made Casino Royal poster looked much worse than the real one?
Really interesting analysis and insight! Personal opinion: that BGM is bizarre and distracting.
I'd rather have that than silence tbh
It's worth noting that Ian Fleming tacitly approved of Sean Connery enough to work elements of the actor's biography into the character's. Other's have had their moments, but as to fitting into the world the books created no one surpassed Connery.
Michael Burgess That’s disingenuous because Fleming died before anyone else ever played 007.
One single beef with the earlier Connery/Bond painted posters.That long black weapon,with the extended barrel, with or without the silencer,NEVER appears in the entire series,that I could see.Yet it seems like Bond's signature firearm.Anyone know what gives?
Oh that Lazenby!
I miss painted posters. Drew Struzan 4EVA
I would like to see the US posters for Bond movies.
The alternate poster for View to a kill was better. I never saw the one you showed.
How long until there is a crossover with other similar franchises like Jason Borne or Mission Impossible? I mean, its only a matter a time and thats all the rage nowadays.
I think after Craig the bond cinematic universe is a real risk.
Quick question - Why do the Bond film names on the posters (up to Moonraker I think) appear in inverted commas? Was this the done thing at the time or just in the Bond series?
I wonder it comes from it being James Bond first, the film second. Why they stopped is a mystery. It could be that Moonraker, although sharing the name with an Ian Fleming novel, is so different a second novel was written by Christopher Wood.
Wow. You don’t like OHMSS at all. For many, myself included, the film and poster are simply perfect. It’s everything I want from Bond - with zero stink (and not sure why or where you came up with that). Plus OHMSS wasn’t a “failure” at all. Though not as big a success as Connery’s films, that would have been tough, it was a commercial success. As for the posters, where you see “silly” I see style.
I know I'm showing my age, but I prefer Sean Connery and the posters that advertised his films.
9:47 He looks more like hes dancing. lol
James Bond is a great character but he doesn't give a candle to Sherlock Holmes, BATMAN, Shadow and Knight Rider
You missed out Moonraker!
18:35
That was weird - i didn’t see this at all! I hadn’t even popped out for a wee!
I have the original Living Daylights poster framed, even though I raged when Pierce Brosnan was denied it, it's definitely the best poster of all..the new ones are soulless in comparison...When Craig's time is up, reboot again and reintroduce the artists poster
Poster art in general has gotten worse following the 2000s. This includes Bond posters, unfortunately.
At least 2 to 3 posters better than the movie
Lol... diamonds are Forever and on her Majestys Secret Service are the best Bonds
Salud 74 DAF is a joke start to finish.
No
Octopussy is the best poster (and movie!)
Die another day poster gives bond the wrong gun wtf
Hey, while we’re in the subject of posters, what do you think of Josef Fenneker’s work? He did a ton of pretty eye-catching stuff in the German expressionist era.
Would love some his work on my walls. Gives me a good idea for another poster series.
@@DarkCornersReviews Okay, confession time: part of the reason I posted that was in the hopes you might make a video on his work. And yes! I wish I knew where to find good quality prints of his stuff, I'd definitely be interested in hanging some, myself.
It felt like an eternity waiting for Goldeneye as a kid!
Devolution is more like it.
A very entertaining and informative look at the Bond posters. Thanks for making "sheltering in place" fun!
But what happened to the iguana?
2:18 "Russia in the background..."
You serious?
We fucked up, we know.
You didn't remember the croc?! One of Bond's best 1 liners comes from it!!! ;) But yeah Live and Let Die is a strong entry for Roger Moore. However, I freaking HATE the song!!! Paul dropped the ball on it. I think the best Roger Moore movie theme is from his worst entry: View to a Kill. I f'ing LOVE it! HATE the movie though.
Michelle Yeoh. Not Meechel. Who says Meechel?
Where the bloody hell is Never Say Never Again?
On patreon with the original casino Royal ;)
There's also a good article online regarding the random massive cannon (ooer) that appears on the fantastic Live and Let Die poster.
*cough cough Kingsmen cough*
uhmmm, that's not Russia in the background.....that's Istambul
I was hoping someone would do a video on the 007 movie posters. I agree they have gotten boring, dull and unimaginative. Licence To Kill is my favorite Bond film and no the poster for it isn't really good. And that's were it seemed to go downhill at that point for the quality of the movie posters. Just showing the 007 logo and the lead actor holding a gun is lazy.
You seem to have picked the worst versions of the posters for these films. Specially the later Moore and Dalton film? Why not the pimary US 1-sheets? Were the ones you chose the primaries for the UK market? I've never even seen that Casino Royale poster. The one I have in my office I swiped from MGM.
I’ve seen that poster before but I think that is one that was used primarily in the UK. If you don’t mind me asking which Casino Royale poster do you recommend ? I personally like the one that has Vesper Lund in the background, but I know the one that most people seem to like is the one that has the entrance to the Casino in the silhouette of a woman.
@@cooperwolfe5478 I prefer the one w/ Bond in the foreground leaving the casino, tie undone, and Vesper in the background. I'm fairly certain that one was the primary one-sheet for the US market. IIRC, silhouette version was the advance teaser poster.
@@phluphie thanks I was thinking the same thing because on the one you preferred it has a specific date on it. Are there are any other Bond movie posters that you recommend?
@@cooperwolfe5478 My favorites are the teaser poster for "Living Daylights" w/ the tag line, "The most dangerous Bond. Ever." And the US one sheet for "Eyes Only". The PHOTO of Moore w/ the woman standing over him. The variation that's a painting and has the traditional collage of all the action scenes in the movie on either side of her legs... I hate that. one.
@@phluphie Thanks. Yeah I try to make sure when I buy posters that they aren’t paintings. I usually by posters on Amazon and when you zoom in on a poster usually I can tell if it’s a painting, and if I can’t figure out which one it is then I won’t buy it. I just bought two posters the other day. I bought On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and American Graffiti.
Bond posters were awesome👌 right up till the Daniel Craig ones, they were Boring as Hell🤔
The gradual level of snark through the posters is concerning though understandable.
Excellent video! I still like On Her Majesty's Secret Service even though I should know better. It's the last good 007 film until Daniel Craig.
I grew up with the Roger Moore films, but I am just not inspired to go back and rewatch.
Buzza Wuzza OHMSS is certainly top 5.
Living Daylights and Goldeneye
However the Billie Eilish theme makes up for the Sam Smith rubbish
All Daniel Craig Bond movie posters sucks..no taste or homage to the aura or fantasy...we missed the days of the poster being a work of art plus an enticement to see the movie.
Salam Wati They suck much like his films largely do.
My god you have no idea what you are talking about. Quality not quantity pal.