007 & Chris Cornell

[Meriphew]

Saw the new 007 movie yesterday. Really good. The new guy is the best Bond since Connery. Chris Cornell did the vox on the title song, The vocals sound MASSIVE. Cool song too.

[chadly]

I agree with the Cornell thing! I saw him do the track live on Leno the other night. Pretty cool! Bondy yet still Cornell.

[Curve Dominant]

F&cking great 007 film man!!!

The opening credit sequence w/Cornell was the trippiest thing...good thing I smoked a J before attending.

[Meriphew]

Originally Posted by Curve Dominant

F&cking great 007 film man!!!

The opening credit sequence w/Cornell was the trippiest thing

Yeah! It was swella good!

[kudzu]

Sorry, new bond theme tune doesn't work 4 me ... pretty weak song ... corny rhythm track ... over worthy vocal performance ... ROCK ! ... should've got Radiohead 2 do it ... film's good tho.

[the russian]

Why won't this series just die?

[dreamsongs]

The film was decent, the C. Cornell song was average at best...

[warhead]

I believe they expect him to die, or so he's been told. It just never happens.

I want to see this flick, glad to hear the good reports.

Last flick I saw: The Prestige

Highly recommended, if you like Memento.

The Departed rocks too.

Cornell doing the theme song...seems strange but cool.

War

[Jonboy79]

Just saw the new 007. It's the first time in 3 bond flicks that I haven't gotten up and left the theater, very good flick. Definately best bond since Connery.

[illiummusic]

Got to agree with Warhead, The Prestige is a great movie
Gets the brain going which I'm a fan of.

Not to big on the Cornell song though.
Like Dreamsong said, average at best.
Cool note though, On the Leno performance
Ken Andrews was playing guitar and doing bg vox.
Wonder if he co-wrote the song?

[u b k]

gotta watch out, EVERYTHING sounds huge in a movie theater. the speakers are 40 feet apart, and you got the huge room sound on everything, and the big screen in the middle makes the music seem even wider.

every time i get a song i first hear in a movie, or even on a good home theater, i am always disappointed by how it sounds without the context of the video.

music and film have a synergy, when it works it's amazing.


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[GregP]

GF and I had to choose between Borat and Bond tonight. Borat meant less of a wait for the movie to start. Ah well, there's next week.

I didn' t know Cornell did the song and I haven't heard it. But on the way home, Audioslave's "Original Fire" came on the radio, and all I could think was how badly they butchered the vocal production. I muttered something out loud about it, and my girlfriend just smiled and nodded.

Greg

[dreamsongs]

Originally Posted by GregP

GF and I had to choose between Borat and Bond tonight. Borat meant less of a wait for the movie to start. Ah well, there's next week.

Borat !!! Now, there's a movie that made me laugh...

I laughed so hard I almost threw up...no kidding !

I highly recommend it for something different and extremely funny. And the soundtrack fits perfect for the movie...

I can't imagine anybody not laughing in this movie...

[warhead]

OK maybe Borat was the last flick I saw now that I think of it...definitely one of the funniest movies I've seen in the past year...!

That naked chase scene....ugh...so sick but so funny...actually put Jackass to shame in a way!

War

[mr.gefell]

i amwas a bit worried at the first scenes were he brutally beats up a a bad guy, it made 007 look like one of the bad guys really

[eligit]

Originally Posted by mr.gefell

i amwas a bit worried at the first scenes were he brutally beats up a a bad guy, it made 007 look like one of the bad guys really

i think that's kind of the point of the film. bond is one ruthless SOB like he is in the books...

song is ok...saw it live on len...some interesting spots but....did not blow me away.

[six_wax]

loved the "retro" feel of the movie. minimal special effects and technological mumbo jumbo, more focus on the story and intrigue.

but 007 tooling around in Fords and Olsmobiles? gotta be kidding...

[84K]

Great movie... horrible Bond. Too young, too muscular, too different.

I am a huge Chris Cornell fan, but I don't like the song and I HATE it for a Bond movie... One of the weakest Bond songs ever. Neither did Duran Duran when they did theirs.

[hurricaneE]

38 is too YOUNG to play a one-man killing machine?! At what point are you too OLD to take on an entire embassy security force on your own?

And Chris Cornell? That's gotta be the worst choice for a Bond theme ever, and I'm including A-Ha; he's the ANTITHESIS of James Bond. Having said that, I would've expected worse had I known he was going to be doing the theme.

What happened to the cavorting naked women during the theme?

I did dig Duran Duran's song, but some (all?) credit's gotta go to the great John Barry for the co-write. -E

PS Forgot my whole reason for posting: The song actually sounded murky as hell in the theater.

Originally Posted by 84K

Great movie... horrible Bond. Too young, too muscular, too different.

I am a huge Chris Cornell fan, but I don't like the song and I HATE it for a Bond movie... One of the weakest Bond songs ever. Neither did Duran Duran when they did theirs.

[KingUgly]

Greatest Bond flick in at least 20 years, hands down. Great Bond girl, sexy as hell, and Daniel Craig is a total badass.

As for the theme song, it may not go down as one of the greatest Bond songs ever, but it's a solid effort and a lot less grandiose and schmaltzy than previous entries.

[Jonboy79]

Originally Posted by six_wax

loved the "retro" feel of the movie. minimal special effects and technological mumbo jumbo, more focus on the story and intrigue.

but 007 tooling around in Fords and Olsmobiles? gotta be kidding...

Guess you missed where he was driving a classic Aston Martin and then when he was driving one of the new bada** ones.

[astronmr20]

Originally Posted by Jonboy79

Guess you missed where he was driving a classic Aston Martin and then when he was driving one of the new bada** ones.

Yes; it was a story of "firsts" for the new 007 agent. He first is driving a ford rental car, but quickly wins an Aston Martin DB5 in a poker game, then is given a DB9 by the British Government; with no more gadgets on it than a defribulator in the glove compartment.

I have not even remotely liked a bond movie since Goldeneye... and I have to say this was the best I've seen since then, and is perhaps in the top 2.

Chris Cornell theme did nothing for me.

It was raw and gritty; no gadgets or rediculous space technology; just badass spy vs. spy shit.

[warhead]

I liked the "View to a Kill" theme...

War

[Blast9]

This tune is a real departure for David Arnold, and CC for that matter.

Prefer when DA does more... umm.... cinematic stuff.

[jindrich]

haven't seen the movie yet, but the Chris Cornell song is ABSOLUTELY AWFUL. I cannot believe the producer listened to that cr*p before aproving it. Such a lame, boring, outmoded, conventional and bad song that it's just unbelievable.

I'm convinced The Beasty Boys or Madonna or Prodigy or Radiohead or MUSE or even Moby would have made a way better one while musically matching the new Bond rawness. Sadly a lost opportunity. Maybe next time.

[Brent Hahn]

My 12 year old son's real-time play-by-play of the opening:

"Nice animation - like an ipod commercial but better. Dumb song. Great singer."

[StringMike]

...the movie is pretty cool - nothing spectacular, but good, efficient entertainment. I liked the fact that this one was not about an insane bad guy that just wants to wipe out the world with a silly device. Just a bad guy that want more money - and wants to survive.
Anyway, I really dug the Cornell song - maybe it was the THX speaking, but I just found it really cool that CC did a Bond song. And I think the vocal sound and performance ROCKED.
Need to listen to it again, tho.

[Sebastian]

Interesting to read everyone's comments. I thought this was the best Bond film I've seen in a long time, and I'm a fan of the franchise. Inspired casting, though I wasn't sure going in. Bond had become a bit of a cartoon, so this grittiness was a relief. Loved the girl, too.

Also a relief, I agree with the last poster, was the lack of a bad guy who wants to blow up the world with a "silly device". And the lack of superspecialeffects, another relief--I enjoyed the gymnastic free climbing chase near the beginning.

As for the song, so-so. It sounded huge in the theater (and my local hippie granola theater just went stadium-seating, so it was super-huge), and I think CC has a fine singing voice, but...I wish I could be more articulate than "so-so". I expect bombast and indelicate grandeur in a Bond song, there was that, but...so-so.

Would have preferred female silhouettes to the fractured men in the intro sequence.

[84K]

Originally Posted by Brent Hahn

My 12 year old son's real-time play-by-play of the opening:

"Nice animation - like an ipod commercial but better. Dumb song. Great singer."

I completely agree. Although, sometimes it sounds like it hurts to hear Cornell sing these days. One of my all-time favorite singers, but his throat sounds like it hurts sometimes when he is singing (not so much the screaming).

[blaugruen7]

good action film. forget about the dialoges.
much more violence than other bonds.
imagine a blooding sean connery? NEVER!!!
but i really was surprised.
i expected the global bullshit, but it was indeed really exciting.