45 Years of Bondage: Every Single James Bond Credit Sequence Ever
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James Bond films are always known for their action, sex appeal, explosions, guns, vehicles, Bond girls ... and the opening credit sequences. I still remember being about twelve years old and seeing Octopussy (I'm really dating myself here). My friend and I were like, "Holy crud. You can almost see naked women!" Yes, when you're twelve years-old and living in Texas, that's some pretty exciting stuff. Although these were the days before the Internet was invented, so that's probably all changed now. Believe me, it was hard enough convincing my mom to let us go see a movie called Octopussy.
The point is that the Bond film openings are meant to ooze sex and mystique. They all do an extremely good job of that, except Dr. No which is all wacky flashing lights until about halfway through, and then it morphs into a semi-sexy "Samba Lessons for Adults" sequence, and then jumps the shark into bizarro-land with a Jamaican version of "Three Blind Mice" ... we kid you not. They figured it out by From Russia With Love, and every Bond movie has had a similar opening sequence ever since.
Since we brought you every Bond movie trailer imaginable on Monday, you can find every Bond opening title sequence after the jump. YouTube user jmkaos, if you're out there reading this, thanks for all your hard work. The first martini is on us. (We can expense those, right?)
Dr. No
From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Diamonds Are Forever
Live And Let Die
The Man With The Golden Gun
The Spy Who Loved Me
Moonraker
For Your Eyes Only
Octopussy
A View To A Kill
The Living Daylights
Licence To Kill
GoldenEye
Tomorrow Never Dies
The World Is Not Enough
Die Another Day
Never Say Never Again -- sure it's not an "official" Bond film and doesn't have a sexy opening with topless women bouncing on trampolines through exploding hoops, but it's got a snappy song. Humor us.
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11-15-2006 @ 2:45PM
marty fitzpatrick said...
Looking through all of those credit sequences ( I know.....I need to get out more) I am amazed given the level of talent that has provided Bond with his theme songs over the years that it is Sheena Easton who manages to have her face appear in the credits sequence while the likes of Madonna, Paul MacCartney, Duran Duran, Carly Simon, A-ha etc could only be heard and not seen. Anyone got any answer as to how La Easton managed to wrangle this?
Some cracking songs in among that lot including some I haven't heard in many a year.
As a side note.....if anyne wants to see a perfect Bond title sequence not used in a Bond film keep an eye out for the video to the Scissor Sisters song Land Of A Thousand Words.
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11-15-2006 @ 6:37PM
Beeslo said...
GoldenEye had definately one of the most odd, erotic and titilizing opening credits of any of the films. I personally think its the last better than decent theme (almost reminiscent of the Bond themese of old) and features images that go from the childish "Whoa, a naked woman" to "Freud destroys communism...with a chick swinging a sledge hammer."
I loved this movie and the sequence was one of the best.
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