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The name's 25. Bond 25, or rather, it's NTTD.

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  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    The problem with almost all of these is that they all sound like titles trying too hard to be Bondian; and that's how we end up with crap titles like TND, DAD, and even SF to a certain extent. Goddamned video game sounding names.

    Fleming just came up with great titles and then by definition they were Bondian. Rather than go flowery, go terse. I'm beginning to think that the only titles that will work need to spring out of Fleming in some fashion or another.

    Exactly. I always felt the John Gardner novels were guilty of the same thing!
    So...we're back to Risico or The Property of a Lady (The Hildebrand Rarity sounds more like a Robert Ludlum thriller!)
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    But whats left? I cant see them calling it 'Shaken, Not Stirred' !!
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited January 2018 Posts: 13,029
    I touched on this earlier, but I don't think classic Fleming titles would be so easily received today. From Russia With Love and many others by Fleming himself would be heavily criticized, especially if they came from anyone other than him.

    To me the remaining titles are awesome: Risicio, The Property of a Lady, and no less The Hildebrand Rarity. Match them to a great film, and they take on greatness.

    The filmmakers have done a good job with the titles over the years, I think that includes Tomorrow Never Dies and Die Another Day. And efforts to recall the books and the author with Licence to Kill, GoldenEye, The World Is Not Enough.

    And I initially took Skyfall as a jab at Craig Bond detractors--a preemptive strike for "Chicken Little" outcries that the sky was falling. The producers still have a confidence started in 2006 that's playing out.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Mathis1 wrote: »
    But whats left? I cant see them calling it 'Shaken, Not Stirred' !!

    DEATH TO SPIES
  • TokolosheTokoloshe Under your bed
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    Since it's the 25th film, I wouldn't be surprised if the title includes the word Silver.

    It would make a change from Gold, at least...
  • JamesBondKenyaJamesBondKenya Danny Boyle laughs to himself
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    Tokoloshe wrote: »
    Since it's the 25th film, I wouldn't be surprised if the title includes the word Silver.

    It would make a change from Gold, at least...

    Actually, I never thought of them bringing back gold in the title, it will have been 24 years since goldeneye, that’s enough time
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Tokoloshe wrote: »
    Since it's the 25th film, I wouldn't be surprised if the title includes the word Silver.

    It would make a change from Gold, at least...

    But silver is 25 years, not films.
  • patbpatb
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    "The Price of Hate"

    "Hell Let Loose"

    "The Dead Don't Cry"

  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    The Dead Are Alive. ;)
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    JAMES BOND ALLEGEDLY IN CROATIA
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    HA!
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    jake24 wrote: »
    HA!
    Very Fleming-esque!

    Daniel Craig as Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007 in

    “HA!”
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    Please, not another one-word.
  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    Hell Is Here. Like all good Fleming titles, it has a double meaning:

    a. A helicopter. Here in Croatia.
    b. Starring Aiden Turner.
  • BennyBenny In the shadowsAdministrator, Moderator
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    Sony are forever

    ______ are forever

    Scooby Doo and James Bond too!
  • Some_Kind_Of_HeroSome_Kind_Of_Hero
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    Benny wrote: »
    Scooby Doo and James Bond too!

    I believe that was the title Spectre was released under in Argentina.
  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    They should go for broke and call it Forever and a Day.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 13,029
    FALLOUT followed SKYFALL.

    They should go with GHOST NATION. Or ROGUE PROTOCOL. As reciprocity.

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  • WalecsWalecs On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    edited February 2018 Posts: 3,157
    RichardTheBruce wrote: »
    FALLOUT followed SKYFALL.

    They should go with GHOST NATION. Or ROGUE PROTOCOL. As reciprocity.

    We just had SPECTRE.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 13,029
    True enough, another back and forth. GHOST and SPECTRE. Now which came first?

    So they should double down on it all. Really show 'em this time. And BOND should serve up AN EVEN BIGGER HELICOPTER STUNT. Make Craig build the helicopter, THEN fly it.
  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    They can call the movie Toy Helicopter.
  • LeChiffreLeChiffre
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    "Daniel Craig is James Bond" would work for me! No one else comes close
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    ...thus confirming the codename theory and that the current James Bond's real name is Daniel Craig.
  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    echo wrote: »
    They should go for broke and call it Forever and a Day.

    Well, at least I guessed the novel's title.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    127 MINUTES
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
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    SpySpotting - in which a junkie Bond goes cold Turkey!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    HARDBOYLED
  • mattjoesmattjoes Kicking: Impossible
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    SPECFALL
    SKYPECTRE
    CASINO OF SOLACE
    QUANTUM ROYALE
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    Hmm. I bet the title won’t be one of the few remaining Fleming titles left, though I want it to be.
  • ThunderballThunderball playing Chemin de Fer in a casino, downing Vespers
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    Not a one word title, has to be a title with at least TWO separate words, and not a title beginning with the letter 'S'.

    That's all I want by this point.
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