Top Ten Pre-Credits Sequences & Main Title Designs

BIG TAMBIG TAM Wrexham, North Wales, UK.Posts: 773MI6 Agent
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Bond opening sequences are a blast for me as I'm sure they are for one & all. The fact the last two haven't really had proper ones has no doubt caused many to seek gas & air (myself included)! :)
As a bit of fun, here are my listings:-

Top Ten Pre-Credits Sequences:
1. The World Is Not Enough
2. The Living Daylights
3. The Spy Who Loved Me
4. Tomorrow Never Dies
5. Moonraker
6. Octopussy
7. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
8. Goldeneye
9. Goldfinger
10. Thunderball

Top Ten Main Title Designs:
1. Casino Royale
2. Goldeneye
3. Tomorrow Never Dies
4. The Spy Who Loved Me
5. For Your Eyes Only
6. Live & Let Die
7. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
8. The World Is Not Enough
9. Die Another Day
10. Thunderball

Comments

  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Top Ten Pre-Credits Sequences:
    1. The World Is Not Enough
    2. The Living Daylights
    3. Tomorrow Never Dies
    4. Diamonds Are Forever
    5. Goldeneye
    6. The Spy Who Loved Me
    7. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    8. Octopussy
    9. Goldfinger
    10. Thunderball

    Top Three Main Title Designs:
    1. DAF
    2. LALD
    3. GE
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • GoldenEye85GoldenEye85 Posts: 278MI6 Agent
    My top ten opening sequences are:

    10. License to Kill
    9. Goldfinger
    8. A View to A Kill
    7. Tomorrow Never Dies
    6. The Man with the Golden Gun
    5. Live and Let Die
    4. Die Another Day
    3. Casino Royale
    2. The World is Not Enough
    1. GoldenEye

    As for logos for the movies there are only a few that I like, not enough to make ten. But I like GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, World, and Die Another Day. As Much as I like Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, I hate how they did the 007 logo in the main one. I am so glad that Skyfall doesn't have that.
    1, GE 2, CR 3, SF 4, TWINE 5, Spectre 6, TMWTGG 7, DAD 8, LALD 9, AVTAK 10, LTK 11, Octopussy 12, Moonraker 13, TLD 14, GF 15, QOS 16, Tomorrow 17, FYEO 18. TSWLM Not seen much: Dr. No, Russia, Thunderball, Twice, Majesty.

    1: Brosnan 2: Craig 3: Moore 4: Dalton 5: Connery and 6: Lazenby
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Jamesbond007571985 wrote:
    My top ten opening sequences are:

    10. License to Kill
    9. Goldfinger
    8. A View to A Kill
    7. Tomorrow Never Dies
    6. The Man with the Golden Gun
    5. Live and Let Die
    4. Die Another Day
    3. Casino Royale
    2. The World is Not Enough
    1. GoldenEye

    No love for the Living Daylights PCS? I thought it was one of the best.... kicking the window out to create the air flow needed for the parachute escape was an amazingly excellent touch IMO!
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • Smiert-SpionamSmiert-Spionam Posts: 318MI6 Agent
    My top 10:

    1. The Living Daylights
    2. Thunderball
    3. Casino Royale
    4. Goldeneye
    5. Tomorrow Never Dies
    6. From Russia With Love (was this actually a PTS? I'm thinking of the Red Grant vs SPECTRE agent dressed as Bond in the maze).
    7. Goldeneye
    8. Diamonds Are Forever
    9. Octopussy
    10. Moonraker
    Smiert Spionam
  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    Wow! The PTS for Goldeneye was so great you had to list it twice, huh? :)) (I'm guessing you meant to put Goldfinger in there someplace - to me that's the quintessential Bond PTS)
    Smiert-Spionam wrote:
    My top 10:

    1. The Living Daylights
    2. Thunderball
    3. Casino Royale
    4. Goldeneye
    5. Tomorrow Never Dies
    6. From Russia With Love (was this actually a PTS? I'm thinking of the Red Grant vs SPECTRE agent dressed as Bond in the maze).
    7. Goldeneye
    8. Diamonds Are Forever
    9. Octopussy
    10. Moonraker
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • Smiert-SpionamSmiert-Spionam Posts: 318MI6 Agent
    Blackleiter wrote:
    Wow! The PTS for Goldeneye was so great you had to list it twice, huh? :)) (I'm guessing you meant to put Goldfinger in there someplace - to me that's the quintessential Bond PTS)
    Smiert-Spionam wrote:
    My top 10:

    1. The Living Daylights
    2. Thunderball
    3. Casino Royale
    4. Goldeneye
    5. Tomorrow Never Dies
    6. From Russia With Love (was this actually a PTS? I'm thinking of the Red Grant vs SPECTRE agent dressed as Bond in the maze).
    7. Goldeneye
    8. Diamonds Are Forever
    9. Octopussy
    10. Moonraker

    Ha that's exactly what I meant. Good spot BlackLeiter :))
    Smiert Spionam
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,467MI6 Agent
    I'd find it easier to list the ones I don't like, though a lot of the Brozzer ones lacked charm imo. And a lot I just happen to personally dig, such as DAF and MR, I just love the sign off on the former 'Welcome to hell, Blofeld!' Sometimes that's all it takes. :)
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    Too much time on my hands! :)) By the way, does Goldfinger go in your 4 spot or your 7 spot?
    Smiert-Spionam wrote:
    Blackleiter wrote:
    Wow! The PTS for Goldeneye was so great you had to list it twice, huh? :)) (I'm guessing you meant to put Goldfinger in there someplace - to me that's the quintessential Bond PTS)
    Smiert-Spionam wrote:
    My top 10:

    1. The Living Daylights
    2. Thunderball
    3. Casino Royale
    4. Goldeneye
    5. Tomorrow Never Dies
    6. From Russia With Love (was this actually a PTS? I'm thinking of the Red Grant vs SPECTRE agent dressed as Bond in the maze).
    7. Goldeneye
    8. Diamonds Are Forever
    9. Octopussy
    10. Moonraker

    Ha that's exactly what I meant. Good spot BlackLeiter :))
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • Smiert-SpionamSmiert-Spionam Posts: 318MI6 Agent
    edited August 2012
    Goldfinger sits at Number 7. Goldeneye is so big, overblown and exciting that it deserves the number 4 spot IMO. Plus the fact that the 'diving into a falling plane' stunt is the one I most remember from my childhood days of watching Bond films on VHS :)
    Smiert Spionam
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    1. The Living Daylights
    2. Moonraker
    3. The spy who Loved Me
    4. Goldeneye
    5. The world is not Enough
    6. For your eyes Only
    7. Goldfinger
    8. Tomorrow never dies
    9. Die another Day
    10.Octopussy
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  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    6. For your eyes Only
    I'm afraid I'd like to hear an explanation for that one... :)) :))
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • DutchfingerDutchfinger Holland With LovePosts: 1,240MI6 Agent
    chrisisall wrote:
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    6. For your eyes Only
    I'm afraid I'd like to hear an explanation for that one... :)) :))

    He obviously picked it because of the delecatesse in stainless steel!

    I find it pretty hard to accuratly rank these, but I'll name my favorites:

    1. The World Is Not Enough (The Q-boat chase is proberbly the best action scene in the movie. Longest PTS so far as well.)
    2. Octopussy (That plane and Roger Moore's 'fill her up please' make this an opening to really leave you with a smile)
    3. Tomorrow Never Dies ('Ask the Admiral where he would like his bombs delivered')
    4. Goldeneye (The Jump from the dam, and even the over the top completly unrealistic jump after the plain make this pretty exciting, I guess PB is thé most exciting PTS Bond!)
    5. The Spy Who Loved Me (That British parachute - And I'm not even British, but puts up a smile on my face everytime!)
    6. Moonraker (Remember being very amazed by the skydiving as a kid, it was the first Bond I remembering seeing, and proberbly the first time I heared the Bond theme as well...)
    7. Quantum of Solace (Though the filming was done so fast, which is the downside but I loved seeing Alfa Romeo's in a Bond movie for only the second time ever! ( It's a personal thing :D ) remember being really excited about this scene when first seeing it in the theatre, though I was dissapointed that it didn't start with a gunbarrel...)
    8. Die Another Day (I guess all of PB's movie's atleast have very exciting PTS's)
    9. Goldfinger (Just a classic, 'lets have some fun and warm you up for a grand Bond adventure' type of opening )
    10. License to Kill (All in all a pretty descent opening to a Bond movie, quite a unique way to enter a wedding)
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I know the PTS of FYEO has a few faults. :))
    But, I love stunt work and think Martin Grace did a fantastic Job
    clambering about the helicopter. -{
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
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