50 Years of James Bond

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Re: 50 Years of James Bond

Postby Kenny » Mon Oct 08, 2012 7:01 pm

I thought it was fitting too. Not fantastic though.

Funny thing about the Alicia Keys and Jack White song, I hated it when I first heard it in theaters then heard it again recently and like it better now. Not sure what happened the first time.
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Re: 50 Years of James Bond

Postby OL » Mon Oct 08, 2012 7:19 pm

Yeah, I'm not big on the Jack White one myself, despite actually liking his work for the most part. The mix of White and Alicia Keyes's voices together just never sounded right to me. Just feels like a bad pairing.
Of course, it also could have just been disappointment due to how excellent the preceding Chris Cornell one was for Casino Royale. I'm biased anyway, but I found it kind of amazing how well it fit Bond in general. And the way it sort of created a repeated melody for the rest of the movie to use was cool as well.

I like a few Adele songs myself. Not a big fan, but I don't dislike her by any means.
Not surprising to me that her Skyfall theme is actually pretty good. Her voice is naturally old-fashioned and kinda classy, so it's an easy fit for Bond. I just wish it didn't repeat the damn word "Skyfall" so many times. Always irritates me when a song repeats its title over and over.
Good tune regardless, and I can easily picture its melody repeating throughout the movie, like the one for CR.

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Re: 50 Years of James Bond

Postby Kenny » Mon Oct 08, 2012 7:23 pm

^Cornell's song is way superior by comparison. I think the last Bond song that was as cool before that was Garbage's World is Not Enough.

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Re: 50 Years of James Bond

Postby Yokosuka Martian » Mon Oct 08, 2012 7:24 pm

I thought the Skyfall theme song was real good. Definitely harks back to Goldfinger and such. But Chris Cornell's song was the best

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Re: 50 Years of James Bond

Postby KiBa » Tue Oct 09, 2012 3:19 am

Ahhh... James Bond is the coolest thing you Britz ever done.

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Re: 50 Years of James Bond

Postby Who Really Cares? » Tue Oct 09, 2012 3:26 am

Terrible song

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_pCcBm400Y[/youtube]


Film was stupid as well.

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Re: 50 Years of James Bond

Postby OL » Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:28 pm

All sounds good. Another Casino Royale on our hands, maybe?
Sam Mendes is a great director, so I was expecting that this one would come off in a classier style like CR, as opposed to the more "pop" style of Quantum. Sounds so far like that's exactly the case.
Really looking forward to it.
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Re: 50 Years of James Bond

Postby ThyDarkAngel » Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:41 pm

James Bond...

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Let me be a hater for a moment of two. :p
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Re: 50 Years of James Bond

Postby Who Really Cares? » Sun Oct 14, 2012 3:33 am

OL wrote: All sounds good. Another Casino Royale on our hands, maybe?
Sam Mendes is a great director, so I was expecting that this one would come off in a classier style like CR, as opposed to the more "pop" style of Quantum. Sounds so far like that's exactly the case.
Really looking forward to it.



I liked CR overall but i felt it dragged in certain areas, The last half hour mostly. And with QoS it was trying to hard to be like Bourne for me but i have hope for this one.

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