I think my issue with the CR gunbarrel, is that it looks too computer generated. Which yea, I suppose fits with the main title sequence, but is a little underwhelming after the excellent CG gunbarrels of the Brosnan-era (excluding DAD). Though, the best gunbarrel of the series, IMO, is still Licence to Kill.
Yes the CR version works very well.
I think the SP version, only looking at Craig, is the best one and the most ānormalā, with the other two, QoS and SF, somehow Craig looks weird, what I said: it seems rushed.
The gunbarrel of Licence to Kill is exellent, also with a great score of Kamen. One of the best gunbarrels!
Itās short and sweet, but the Octopussy backgammon encounter with Bond and Khan is my favourite ācasinoā scene in the franchise. Love how Bond raises the stakes then brings out the egg when it seems like heās absolutely going to lose. Balls of steel and absolute class.
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Roger at his absolute bestā¦ itās not all in the wrist you know!
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Of course, I still canāt get over how the Major cannot figure out that Khan is cheating.
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He has multiple dice, not just the loaded ones, so presumably he wasnāt always using his double sixes set. You can see them on far back shots, but (oddly) not on the close ups. The closest the film gets to saying he has multiple dice is the major saying he only gets double sixes ājust when (he) need(s) themā
Yea I get that. Itās more that, the Major never seems to suspect that something is amiss. Iām pretty sure any reasonable person would suspect something in a game of chance like that was off if one person had such a lucky streak like that. Iām not saying itās impossible, just highly HIGHLY unlikely. The Major should have suspected something and didnāt.
I imagine heās like Marcus Brody or Nigel Bruceā Dr Watson, Two others who seem to be lacking the necessary knowledge for their professions.
I really donāt understand the love for āGoldfingerā.
Itās way down the bottom on my Bond ranking 
Could you give us an explanation?
Itās the price of being the first to nail a formula. Everything that follows tries to replicate it and with each facsimile the original seems that much more unoriginal.
Evolution depends upon mutation.
Which may explain my love for MOONRAKERāa most successful mutation responding to the environment of its time and the organism (Roger Moore) at its center. (It was also an evolutionary dead end for many viewers).
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This is what makes the Bond series so flexible: up to a point it can adapt to any given trope and fad - but always for just one film, the reset button already comes with the end titles.
When other genre pieces usually withstand āupdatingā - like The Spy Who Came in from the Cold will always be a 60s story and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy a 70s one* - the Bond folklore can be arranged around any topical theme and still play out fashionable.
But it stands to reason the reset is needed so as not to drive the series too far in any direction. After MOONRAKER, the logical next step might have been to add even more of the sf element - Star Wars was still going strong in 1980 - but that might have overreached the Bond template. So Bond hunting villains in outer space will for the foreseeable future remain a niche only fanfic writers can explore.
*And it hiccups badly when one tries to inject these stories with modern topics that just didnāt exist at the time.
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It makes Goldeneye 2010 the game feel weirdly anachronistic and Trevelyan loses his motivation for attacking the British.
Do they ever bother giving Trevelyan a new motive?
Itās a flimsy, super time specific one.
Start at 42:43. He basically claims that the government allowed the bankers to profit from the wars of the 2000s and the financial meltdown. So I guess heās fighting back against that? But its a weak motivation at best.
So in revenge for a financial meltdown, he causes a āworldwide financial meltdownā (to use the filmās actual words)
Has anyone in Activision actually watched the film?
Yea, itās pretty bad.
Quantum Of Solaceās my favourite Bond movie
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