James Bond intros

[bigred760]

Okay, for the longest time - during Connery's and Moore's stints - the introductions to the Bond movies had nothing to do with the actual plot to the movies. You'd get these cool action sequences, the opening credits, then the actual story started. That all changed with License to Kill. Why? The Pierce Brosnan movies all had the intros start the movie off.

I prefered it the old way, myself. What do you schmoes think?

[Ted Pikul]

Yeah, those intros were almost mini movies in & of themselves.

Like 2 Bond films spliced together.

Maybe they'll bring that feature back for Casino Royale.

[KevinthePRF]

I might be wrong, I think "A View to a Kill" was tied in with the rest of the plot.

[max zorin]

Originally posted by KevinthePRF
I might be wrong, I think "A View to a Kill" was tied in with the rest of the plot.

It was the Roger Moore films that started tying the opening sequence to the story of the rest of the movie...think about it for a moment. Live and Let Die...shows three agents killed in the first sequence, revelent to the rest of the movie, The Spy Who Loved Me...one of my favourite openings by the way, has Bond killing triple X's boyfriend before skiing off the cliff. I love that opening... ties in with the rest of the movie...

There are other Roger Moore Bond films where the opening sequence has little or nothing to do with the story of the film...Moonraker and For Your Eyes Only come to mind. So it's six of one or half a dozen of the other.

Everyone loves the action sequence, the death defying stunt that blows away the other movies...future Bond movies should go back to that kind of opening....sometimes it was the best part of the whole film.

[bob]

Even in the Brosnan films, it's always been an action scene that sets up the main plot, but isn't directly involved in it.

But yeah, the old ones are still the best. Who could forget Connery in a cleanly pressed suit underneath scuba gear in Goldfinger?

[ChrisWalken]

Open-title sequences that have NOTHING to do with the movies plot:

Goldfinger
Thunderball
The Man with the Golden Gun
For Your Eyes Only
Octopussy

All the other films, with the exception of Dr No (which has no pre-title sequence) has a pre-title sequnce that is part of the films plot, or is reffered to later in the movie.

On another note, 1967's pre-title seqeunce had nothing to do with the plot either, I think. I only rememebr it being about 12 seconds long.