Saul Bass would be working in an Amazon warehouse today.
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Sprung for the NTTD Gift Box with the die cast DB5. It’s very cool to have a numbered copy (669 of 700!). Played the film on my short throw projector last night, too. I guess that’s properly journey’s end on the Craig era. What a ride.
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Looking at the blu ray of NTTD on my shelf, leaning against the other Bond films, it just hit me:
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Until September we could not be sure whether this film would again be delayed.
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We finally got a new Bond film this year.
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We will never get another Craig Bond film.
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A new era is about to start.
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None of this matters really in our every day life. But maybe it does a little bit, since Bond accompanies us through every day, sometimes even helping us through the tough moments, hours and days.
So… I am also grateful for that.
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Exactly my thoughts! That´s why I bought the steelbook this time…
will look good on the shelf, standing in front of the amaray cases of the other ones…
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I’m currently in a scavenger hunt for steel books of Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. Skyfall and Spectre had their best posters as steel books, so were bought immediately, NTTD has one of its best and was also the earliest able to pre-order.
Getting the other 2 of Craig’s run seemed natural.
The fact I think Casino Royale is a masterpiece is neither here nor there
EDIT: My better half has already pre-ordered the new steel book complete with poster and poker chip…one more to go…
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“Being James Bond” has been added as an extra to the iTunes copy…
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I might be late on this. But why didn’t the U.S. release, whether it a store exclusive or not. Why didn’t they use one these posters as the cover art.
They look nicer and cooler. What they consider to be official movie poster, it good. But not as great as those two poster.
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On a thumbnail the main poster works well and enough.
Craig.007. That’s what people need to see to buy.
Aesthetics do not really factor in.
Ha! I never noticed that before.
Yes, things like that happen when they all go to the same agency that has five basic designs, three of which are based on the man-and/or-woman-in the-middle principle…
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I know someone who got a DVD / Blu-ray with that as the cover art. They’ve not gotten back to me yet on where they bought it from.
That’s a fairly succinct summation of the last couple decades of Bond poster art.
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I wish they would make/use the painted posters again instead of posters with one or more photographs.
The posters from the sixties, seventies and eighties looked so much better.
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I can tolerate the modern posters from the GE-CR period. But after that? Uninspired.
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Agreed. Some of them, for what they were, weren’t that bad. I remember at the time quite liking the TWINE poster (both the teaser and the theatrical ones) as well as the smoking gun on ice teaser for DAD. Then they put out that absolutely brilliant CR teaser poster, and it’s been all downhill since.
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I thought the QoS teaser with Bond’s silhouette from the end of CR over the desert was great too - when they got to skyfall everything just became Craig on a plain background with the 007 logo
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Poster art for movies has not only stopped being art for Bond.
Show me a recent truly great movie poster.
Posters have been rather bad across the board, there’s no questioning that. But I think it can be argued that the Bond posters post-CR haven’t even been up to that particularly low standard.
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Unfortunately, poster art has reached its end (of effectiveness).
Gone are the days of huge displays of the poster. Now it´s really just the thumbnails, mostly photos of the main actors and the title. More is not needed to sell the movie.
In that regard, just Craig in a tuxedo, with only the 7 of the 007, and even that barely seen - that’s minimalism at its, well, finest.
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