What I wonder is, why doesn’t Bond wear two wristwatches? There’d be room to improve sales.
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I’m an unashamed victim… got the Spectre one, declared it my forever watch… and then saw the NTTD one… which I’m wearing now. But, in my defence, the Spectre one comes in a lovely display box🤓
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You keep this franchise alive, @MrHinx. 
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Awful, just terrible.
I really don’t like the Empire poster designs. This latest poster is basically just the Skyfall posters all over again.
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I don’t mind it. It’s a better version of the one they did for Skyfall. Would’ve liked something original…but that wasn’t going to happen with Empire design.
It looks like a promo photo for a bad Daniel Craig/James Bond impersonator trying to do the gun barrel turn.
“Hire Jimmy Bond for your special occasion. £50”
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It truly is amazing how far the posters have fallen since that CR teaser poster.
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I hope that this is just the teaser poster and not the final one–but recent track record would suggest otherwise. 
As others have said, it’s like Skyfall, MAYBE slightly better. But most anything else would be better than this. The bullet-ridden Aston Martin poster is better and the Mission: Impossible-style one is WAY better.
Since The Living Daylights back in 1987, the best poster easily remains GoldenEye. And if we limit it to just American posters, the only decent one since GoldenEye was Tomorrow Never Dies (not great, but decent). Everything else has been absolute rubbish.
I can’t understand it. The hand-drawn artwork of the '60s through the '80s was incredible. Apparently, those days are long gone, but with technology nowadays, if you’re going to “Photoshop” stuff, shouldn’t it be much quicker and easier to come up with and use ideas now than the hand-drawn artwork of the past? All you’ve got to do is take a few photos, download 'em, and arrange 'em as your poster design. But you certainly wouldn’t get that impression from looking at the lame results of the past 31 years. I don’t see why they couldn’t produce something like GoldenEye or Tomorrow Never Dies nowadays. We see “amateurs” on this and other sites that do WAAAAY better artwork all the time. If the official artists would come out with posters like the aforementioned films, that would at least show they somewhat care. Obviously, they, the marketers, and the powers that be, don’t. 
And equally amazingly, the teaser posters during this same time have often (but not always) been really, really good. How can the same company be so good on one type and equally as bad or even worse on the other?
I might have to apologize to Sam Smith. He said it only took him about, what, 20 minutes to write Writing’s On The Wall? That has to be about 19 minutes more than what we’ve gotten for the final poster for the past six films and eight out of the last 10. 
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I miss the old montage posters but I do get why they now go for this pretty dull approach. When films were every 2 years a poster would need to show what’s new and different about the next one to draw people in. With such long gaps, that’s not really an issue and do the only message that counts is that Bond is back: anything else is a distraction. I suppose we should count ourself luck that our fav is so iconic that nothing else is needed.
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Something to bear in mind as well is the context of these posters, in the older days the cinema was the place you’d check them out but now you’re seeing them everywhere, billboards, buses, tube stations. A point that my marketing MA tutor often brings up is to imagine yourself going through a tube station (and you could apply the same thing to scrolling through your social media feeds). You only really glimpse the poster for about 2 seconds or so before moving on, if not less. It needs to get across to you that a Bond film is coming - and the clearest and easiest way to do that is something minimalistic like this. If anything, something like Bond has an easier job on that front as Bond himself is all they need to push.
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I doubt it will be the main poster.
It seems to be indicative of a step backwards from the black Aston poster. No credits and very little else.
But yes, really bloody awful. So much effort goes into the making of the product which it is supposed to be promoting. But the promotions are below par, and digging.
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Interesting. I do, though, prefer the montage posters as there’s something new to see when you examine there more carefully - but you’re right, it takes longer to properly look at those.
The SF poster, with Bond just standing there and holding the gun with a crooked elbow, was the most boring of them all, and a far cry from, say, The World Is Not Enough poster where almost every action scene is represented in some way.
They’re the only two that count for me. They’re obviously not up to the standard of the 1960s/70s or even some from the Brosnan era, but I like them well enough.
I’m looking forward to the soundtrack as much as the film footage itself. I think the scores have been solid in the Craig era, with CR and SF being my favourites. If the recent trailers have indeed featured music from the final film I’m feeling optimistic it’ll be to my liking.
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Which makes me wonder if the MI-style version will still end up in being the ‘main’ release poster…?
While it seem to be officialised through the publication of the calendar, it has yet to be printed into quad form. There’s still time.
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Fingers crossed.
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Was the montage poster we saw official or unofficial?
What do you think?
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