The Room 102 thread - for things you love or just having a bloody good praise!

[Animalmother]

All the Craig posters look like they were knocked out on a friday afternoon before going home. With Brosnan, they just went with the formula of Bond holding gun, 2 women behind him and explosion in foreground. The older posters are works of art in comparison.

[Wrathbone]

I've never particularly liked many of the Bond movie posters - they frequently seem like they're trying to cram in as many set pieces from the film, and they just end up looking a mess.

The early ones are totally nonsensical and speak of a simpler time where fancy cars, fancy suits and shooting baddies was the order of the day, but I like their ecclectic nature. There's a dumb innocence to them. The summary of The Man with the Golden Gun says it all when it begins with "Cool government operative James Bond..."

Hey everyone, look how cool Bond is, sauntering around drinking martinis and making post-mortem one-liners! Oh man, he's got a car that goes underwater and has ejector seats! Maybe he'll go into space or use a jetpack! So cool.

Part of me wishes we could go back to that. Minus the wanton misogyny, of course.

All the Craig posters look like they were knocked out on a friday afternoon before going home. With Brosnan, they just went with the formula of Bond holding gun, 2 women behind him and explosion in foreground. The older posters are works of art in comparison.

Agreed. There aren't any great alternatives for the Craig posters, unfortunately.


EDIT - I think I may have found the silliest one of all. Bond flying into space like Superman, wearing a spacesuit without a helmet. Can't get cooler than that.

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[Rusty]

ooh, good chance for AI to jump in and see if it can produce something half decent....

[Wrathbone]

I tried it and it upgraded Bond to Triple-oh-Seven.

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[Raid]

EDIT - I think I may have found the silliest one of all. Bond flying into space like Superman, wearing a spacesuit without a helmet. Can't get cooler than that.

Good grief

I can appreciate the simplicity of the Craig posters, even if they are a bit lifeless compared to the Moore / Lazenby / Connery ones.

When I was googling for a higher-res version of the View to a Kill poster, I did come across this one that I quite liked. It's simple, obviously eye-catching, and it's one of the few Bond posters that seems to have Bond in an actually half-decent pose. I know they always wanted to put Bond in that iconic, gun-raised pose, but half of them end up looking ridiculous because while his top half is doing his casual gun-raised smirking pose, his legs and his other arm are often water-skiing or operating a gyrocopter. You do need to account for the misogyny of putting Bond in a full tux with Mayday having almost an entirely opposite clothing-skin ratio, and I can't say the proportions of the artwork are particularly realistic, but at least it isn't trying to cram 5 different scenes in.

[Mantis]

Incredible. Alongside the outrageously proportioned limbs, they also drew Mayday's torso in a standard perspective whilst somehow her shoulders are behind Bond and her buttocks are in front of him.

[Raid]

I hadn't even noticed that

I will say that I actually ended up checking this in photoshop. Bond's a little under 8 heads tall, which is considered the ideal for that style of artwork if you look at a text like Loomis (basically the bible for this style of illustration in latter 20th Century America), but he still looks about 9'6''. I did wonder whether they'd artificially shrunken Mayday to make Bond look more heroic, as the image in my head is that Grace Jones was an enormous woman and Moore fairly average height, but it's actually not that far off the real actors' height difference I got from Google.

[Snowy]

I approve of the Bond discussion! I have chuckled mightily at the last few posts.

[Animalmother]

Is it sacrilege that I prefer the Moore Bonds to the others? They managed to blend the outrageous (real) stunts with silly Bond stuff.

[Raid]

I wouldn't worry about it. The series has been going for more than 60 years, and has fit into too many styles for there to really be a definitive answer to that question. I love the majority of Roger Moore's films just as much as I love the majority of Connery's and Craig's, just for different reasons. I've mentioned A View To A Kill a few times already, partially because it's one of my favourites - I have absolutely no idea whether it's considered a good James Bond film in the grand scheme of things, but I feel like these things were such a staple for most of us growing up that it wouldn't really matter either way.

[Wrathbone]

Is it sacrilege that I prefer the Moore Bonds to the others? They managed to blend the outrageous (real) stunts with silly Bond stuff.

I'm not sure I have a favourite Bond, thinking about it - all of them have at least one good film. If I had to pick one, though, it'd be Connery. I reckon if Lazenby had done more than one film, he could have been the best.

[Mantis]

Moore has always been my favourite Bond. I've always thought of Connery as my joint third favourite alongside Craig with Brosnan coming second. Sacrilege to most diehard fans of the series I imagine.

[Animalmother]

I can't stand the Brosnan Bond's

[Wrathbone]

Moore has always been my favourite Bond. I've always thought of Connery as my joint third favourite alongside Craig with Brosnan coming second. Sacrilege to most diehard fans of the series I imagine.

If we're doing sacrilege... I think Tomorrow Never Dies is a great Bond film and is far superior to Goldeneye.

[Raid]

If we're doing sacrilege... I think Tomorrow Never Dies is a great Bond film and is far superior to Goldeneye.

Nah, I'm mostly with you on that. Not sure I'd go as far as saying far superior, I think some of the individual set pieces in Goldeneye are more entertaining (the tank chase is one of the best sequences of the series), but Tomorrow Never Dies is the better whole.