Best and Worst Bond film title
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Best: From Russia With Love
Has a spy/crime sound to it.
Honourable Mentions: On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Living Daylights
Worst: Die Another Day
Sounds like any other forgettable action film, not much of a Bond title.
Dishonourable Mentions: The Man With The Golden Gun, Licence to Kill
Has a spy/crime sound to it.
Honourable Mentions: On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Living Daylights
Worst: Die Another Day
Sounds like any other forgettable action film, not much of a Bond title.
Dishonourable Mentions: The Man With The Golden Gun, Licence to Kill
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You Only Live Twice
It has the Element of Mystery to it
Honorable Mentions - License To Kill , For Your Eyes Only
Worst
Die Another Day
The same Reasons as yours
The Spy Who Loved Me
honourable mentions - from russia with love, casino royale, for your eyes only
Worst
Die another Day
for the true stinker it was
and Tomorrow Never Dies
Surprisingly, the one-word titles seem the most insipid: Goldfinger, Thunderball, Octopussy and Goldeneye all appear to range from the comic to the downright pornographic. Only Moonraker sounds like it holds any promise (shame it didn't).
I agree that Die Another Day is about the worst the series got, title-wise.
1 - Moore, 2 - Dalton, 3 - Craig, 4 - Connery, 5 - Brosnan, 6 - Lazenby
Whereas for me Tomorrow Never Dies and Die Another Day sound like any other action film.
Worst: On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Tomorrow Never Dies, Die Another Day
Worst: (easy,) the utterly nonsensical Tomorrow Never Dies
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I think it's because films don't need to rely on titles to get people to see them, whereas books rely partly on titles to get people to want to read it. I guess it also has to look good on a book cover as well, whereas if you're making a film poster all that matters is having a memeorable image.
One thing someone made me think about when talking about DAD is that Die Another Day sounds like a Die Hard sequel!
That would have to be On Her Majesty's Secret Service. It sounds classical, British, intriguing, alliterative, fitting.
Worst title?
That would have to be Licence to Kill. It's obvious and literal.
Die Hard Another Day?
Live and Let Die Hard?
Tomorrow Never Dies Hard?
It's not even literal because Bond does not have his licence to kill in that film.
And I've always personally found the Title straight to the Point -{
Are you even a fan of The Hildebrand Rarity?
That one and especially 007 in New York might not make such great film titles.
Well, a few years ago I'd have bet against "Quantum Of Solace" ever being used as a film title- you genuinely never know!
Good film titles, perhaps 007 in New York could be used as a secondary title I.e.
" live and let die : 007 in New York" ?
I guess I will start here:
I like Casino Royale, Thunderball, The Living Daylights and On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
I am not so keen on Octopussy (it just sounds odd to me, even though I get the concept) and The Spy Who Loved Me.
Risico is also interesting, but from what I understand from the story it is just a guy with a Greek accent saying the word "risk" in English?
PS- In the story "Risico" Kristatos is Italian, rather than Greek.
The Property Of A lady would have been a good Title for Dalton's third Film -{
However a Fleming title that doesn't work as good as the others for me would have to be The Man With The Golden Gun. Just "The Golden Gun" would have maybe been more powerful.
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I like Property of a Lady and The Hilderbrand Rarity. 007 in NewYork sounds like a foreign title of Lve And Let Die, you know when the change the title?
I think e weakest of his titles besides 007 in New York was the Man With The Golden Gun. I don't know why, but I just imagine if you replace the word Gun with Sword and it would sound like a forgotten samurai movie.
It's funny how I posted the exact same thing just a few second earlier than your post!
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The man is what's important, not the gun. A book or film called "The Golden Gun" would make me think it's something Indiana Jones is trying to find. James Bond is after the man, not the gun.