In celebration of the release of Casino Royale this Friday, our fellow denizens of the Internet have provided both the trailers and introduction sequences of every Bond film to date. Watching them all gives you a real sense of how, no matter how much the film quality, effects or actors may have changed, one thing has remained constant: the exploitation of women as purely sexual objects. The series' consistent use of the female silhouette as a design form in the intros remains the quintessential method of reducing women to the importance of basic shapes--like sexy circles or a parallelograms.
Special kudos to the intro to The Living Daylights (above) for using the music of new wave band a-ha without implementing a rotoscoped pencil sketch of Bond.
Born from a muddy CGI womb cradled amid Ghosts of Mars, 300, and a Sega CD cutscene from Sewer Shark, Riddick returns Vin Diesel to his role as a muscle-bound mole-man and drops him on a desolate, entirely Vin Diesel-colored planet. There, both bounty hunters and the even more ... / Continue →
Dancing birds. A dog's hindquarters uninterrupted by the puckered flesh of biological necessity. Have an unnecessarily loud, prolonged look at both these things with the first teaser for Blue Sky Studios' Rio 2.... / Continue →
After years wasted falling in love with time travelers and forgetting who she's in love with, Rachel McAdams has at last found her one true high-concept romance in About Time. The film stars Brendan Gleeson's son Domhnall--better known as Bill Weasley--as a young man whose fath... / Continue →
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Every Bond Intro and Trailer
\n\nIn celebration of the release of Casino Royale this Friday, our fellow denizens of the Internet have provided both the trailers and introduction sequences of every Bond film to date. Watching them all gives you a real sense of how, no matter how much the film quality, effects or actors may have changed, one thing has remained constant: the exploitation of women as purely sexual objects. The series' consistent use of the female silhouette as a design form in the intros remains the quintessential method of reducing women to the importance of basic shapes--like sexy circles or a parallelograms.\n\nSpecial kudos to the intro to The Living Daylights (above) for using the music of new wave band a-ha without implementing a rotoscoped pencil sketch of Bond.\n\nIntros here, trailers here.
