It's 2027. The teaser trailer for the new Bond film has been released. Calvin: "Good evening Mr. Bond fans, in this video I'll be watching and reviewing the brand new Bond teaser. This is the first time I've watched it, so I'm excited to experience it for the first time. I hear they've done something very interesting with this one that the fans have responded to pretty positively. Let's take a look!" * 1962 Bond theme plays * Calvin: 😑

To fans who watch a lot of Bond films the 1962 Bond theme may be ‘the 1962 Dr No Bond theme’ but to the average person on the street it is THE Bond theme. It is the instantly recognisable Bond theme that the average cinema goer thinks of as the iconic theme which they also think is used in all the Bond films. In a trailer they only have a minute or two to hook the interest of the viewer so I think they used to lean heavily on the classic Bond theme as a quick, shorthand reference to remind the viewer of previous Bond films and give them an idea of what to expect from a new Bond film. It creates excitement and anticipation. I think this was especially important in Octopussy where they’re tying the film to the rest of the franchise and pointing out that this is the legit franchise which made all the previous Bond movies compared to Never Say Never Again which couldn’t use the Bond theme.

Calvin during Spectre: why do they keep playing David Arnold’s Bond theme? Have some new music!! 80’s Bond trailers: Hold my beer

"Bit of a spoiler alert, kicking the car off the cliff" (Ignores movie giving away identity of twist villain)

Interesting that they say Connery was playing “Ian Fleming’s James Bond” in the NSNA trailer, because the opening credits for NSNA only credit Fleming in the “based on an original screenplay by” credit - nowhere is he credited as creating the character. Indeed, I assumed Sean Connery was playing Kevin McClory’s James Bond in NSNA - after all, Kev did attest he created the filmic character James Bond.

By the time Timothy Dalton was cast as Bond, action cinema had gravitated towards the Stallone/Schwarzenegger/Willis/Gibson R-rated action era, so the trailers for the Dalton films definitely had to match the momentum for those kinds of films at the time, especially LTK

The License to Kill definitely is my favourite trailer absolutely. Timothy Dalton definitely deserved more outings as 007 👍👍

I believe the padding on For Your Eyes Only was in part due to the intended shift back to reality. That movie was the first to follow Moonraker after all. It was likely intended to show how much cool stuff you can do back on Earth.

The continuity of the Moore trailers is something the film series could only dream of!

The voice of 'The Man in the Wheelchair' in the FYEO trailer was actually that of Maurice Binder (who was also presumably in charge of compiling the footage for the trailer)

Fun fact about the Licence To Kill teaser trailer: for that very dramatic reveal shot of Dalton, they put Tim on an office chair and spun him around. Yes, really. Not very cool anymore, right? ;)

I don't care what anyone says, the editing of Walken to laugh and wave at Bond at the end of the AVTAK trailer is fucking fantastic.

The for your eyes only trailer shows pretty much the whole movie!

Finally something from daltons films at the top of a ranking list, Dalton fans rejoice 🙌🏻

If you think kicking the car off the cliff was a spoiler in the FYEO trailer, how about revealing Kristatos as the villain?

20:09 doesn't hurt that Living Daylights has one of the strongest Pre-title sequences in the whole series.

People didnt give a monkey's about spoilers in the early 80s, you'd frequently see money shots from movies in the trailers, spoilers would be revealed in chat shows and I had the Marvel Marvel Comics adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back months before it was released in the cinemas imagine having THAT reveal being spoiled before the film came out it would cause an uproar today!

Licence to Kill and that hair. oh my! i do love Timmy and his wolfness

I forgot how awesome the teaser was for LTK... good memories of seeing and getting pumped for that movie to come out. Much like the QOS hard edge energy

A View To A Kill! A View To A Kill! .... A View To A Kill!

I suppose the original rendition of the Bond theme is the most iconic, that guitar riff and the blaring brass are instantly recognisable as the Bond sound, and the marketing department probably wanted to capitalise off of that. John Barry’s offerings around this time, more lush and orchestral with heavier use of strings, wouldn’t have worked quite as well I think. Don’t get me wrong, I love Barry’s 80s scores (along with everything else he wrote), but if you’ve only got 2 minutes to sell someone a Bond film, a violin won’t do - you’ve got to break out the electric guitar and play that surf riff. Also, the repetitious nature of using the same Bond theme rendition in each trailer wouldn’t be noticeable to a cinema audience watching these trailers every two years, so I suppose you can cut them some slack.

My favorite trailer from this decade is the teaser "License to Kill". The footage they shot just for easer is really cool. Love the electric stop watch Dalton has on and it then later turning into the title for the movie. Then my second favorite is the theatrical trailer for "A View To A Kill". Yes, the Duran Duran theme song does a lot of the heavy lifting, but its capped off with the questions it asks its audience, "Has James Bond finally met his match?" With AVTAK being the last of the Moore era, that really ramps up the excitement for its viewers. Love 1980's movie trailers, they certainly don't make them like they used to anymore.

Note the alternate take of the scene when Bond says "I hope you have a car" in the FYEO Trailer. He didn't toss the key away.

Yeah trailers were different. People only saw them once or a couple times and rarely would recall them in great detail. I was working as an usher from 77-84 so I saw them (and the movies) over…and over..and over again!

you can certainly see the early 80's trailers still have that left over 70's feel and not just from Bond trailers but in all 70's trailers in general where they just show you random action bits with words over laying them and using a british narrator rather than American. By the time you get to the late 80's (and certainly in the 90's) they start slow and then build up to the exciting action moments by the end and they use (i don't know trailer mans name) an American narrator and they certainly have a alot more thought in their marketing for teasers and trying to be more up to date and with the times of other action movies. Tim Daltons delivery for his bond james bond and "better make that 2" is a better take i feel than what we got in the film. According to Oliver Harper you would get TLD and License to kill trailers on the warner home video cassettes a lot, especially with superman 4 and batman. Not sure if you already knew this man, but an unused Tim Dalton gun barrel part was used for the German trailers and it certainly has a Bob Simmonds feel to his jump :) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kMl0gduas5yXgoU.html. its a lot more clear here ofcourse kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o9SkoZCkssrYdoE.html Does David Zaritsky have that black digital wrist watch timer thingy that Dalton has in the LTK teaser do you know??? I hope you get to do 007 VHS/ DVD/ BLU RAY trailers one day man :), especially the one we got on the 1996 goldeneye VHS. great as always :)

Alternate title: Calvin listens to the 62 Bond Theme for 33 minutes

Opinions On The Trailers and Teasers: For Your Eyes Only- A little bit too long and over indulgent Octopussy- Very Actiony and entertaining A View To A Kill- The Teaser was very bad but the trailer was way better The Living Daylights- Really enjoyed both the teaser and trailer, makes me want to watch the movie soon afterwards License To Kill- Cool, Slick and Actionry in all the right places Never Say Never Again- This music is ugh and the trailer is okay at best

Thanks for posting this. Have such massive nostalgia for the living daylights trailer being played on Saturday morning tv as a child. Particularly the two successive lines… “eliminate him”… “kill him!!”. Hearing that I’m instantly transported back to being 8 years old.

Love how the trailer didn't even try to hide the fact Julian Glover was the villain of FYEO

As a kid, I would devour all of the behind the scenes stuff on the Bond DVDs and when I came to watch the trailers for For Your Eyes Only, I was frightened by the sight of the woman's eyes. Even watching this now, I got a slight chill down my spine from watching the opening to that trailer.

Bloody hell Dalton's trailers are good. They feel very modern, where's Moore's feel very "of their era", even still feeling very '70s in A View to a Kill. Hell, Dalton's trailers feel more timeless than Brosnan's, which are quite hard to separate from the '90s. Can't wait to see your thoughts on the '60s trailers!

Tim's reading of "better make that two" is different in the trailer as well. I think I prefer the trailer version. Reminds me of the different version of the "part time" line in the "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" teaser.

23:00 Take me Calvin! I’d even dress up for the occasion! 🤣 But seriously, even though I stand atop my AVtaK pedestal to this day, those trailers were not fleshed out well. The Dalton ones jumped them a decade plus forward, but still felt totally the best of 80’s (major win). The 60’s bond theme did seem a bit outdated though, even by FYEO, and hearing it as late as the 90’s did give young me a little bit of the “what is this old music and what am I watching?” Vibe. And NSNA?… I need a shower. 😳 I didn’t know I got tickets to a sleazy 80’s Bond skinflick. I like the movie, but I may not have if I saw that trailer first…. Looking forward to the next trailer reviews!

13:15 I THINK the rationale behind using Roger’s early 70s gun barrel is because it was slightly timeless looking compared to the TSWLM era gun barrel which was dated since Roger’s flared trousers immediately dated it to the disco era - another subtle attempt at hiding his age since he was almost 60 around A View to a Kill’s release.

I love these trailer countdown videos. Glad you are going to do more of them. My favourite is the LTK teaser, I love the look and the seriousness of it all (also it is a biased choice) However I love that Octopussy teaser also with Moore goofing about… also the FYEO trailer… Wow a PG rated (or A rated) trailer that featured nip slippery from Mrs. Brosnan. For Our Eyes Only Indeed😉

I love in the Licence to Kill teaser, at 24:14 the shot of Talisa Soto doing the card shuffle(?) syncs so well with the music. Trailer editing conventions are so interesting, especially when you see the hard juxtaposition of the A View to a Kill trailer vs The Living Daylights only two years after. 90s had the narration phase, and now we have the "trailer before the trailer" for the online debuts with the rapid-fire action montage to tease you before the trailer starts.

I can certainly tell for once that the 80s Bond trailers are the most far more interesting experiences that any 007 fan like me and Calvin can absolutely crave for in such a long long time. This is so awesome that this is best video I have personally ever seen. In fact, I believe the Roger Moore trailers should be the best ones ever in 007 history.

With Octopussy not just the nostalgia to sell it against Never Say Never Again… but also it says Roger Moore IS James Bond whereas before he was in the trailers as Roger Moore AS James Bond. Sends a message that Roger is JB and Connery isn’t at this point!

Those of us of a certain age loved the 70s & 80s trailers as you could buy them on Super 8 film and play them at home long before you could rent or buy VHS copies of the films. The fact that the trailers had plenty of spoilers was a good thing for us then as it was the only way to see and own Bond apart from cinema re-runs and event TV when ITV started to screen the Connery movies. Hard to believe for you youngsters but our generation used to record the movies to cassette tape or reel to reel so that we could listen to the recordings and picture the scenes in our minds. Oh what a godsend VHS was! Streaming, 4K, Blu-ray… it’s so easy to access and enjoy Bond these days.

I can’t wait for the 60s episode considering the early Connery films have trailers that show 90% of the film and tell you 90% of the plot beating you over the head with the fact that this man is “secret agent James Bond 007 killing whom he pleases when he pleases” 😂

I'm old enough to remember seeing the Dalton trailers in theaters as a kid. I can testify to how much excitement they built.

Thank you Calvin!! Not only did this make my Sunday but it brought back all my memories of the DVD releases of the bond films from the early 2000‘s when I would get so excited for the documentaries and bonus features!!

Some of those Roger Moore 80's trailers are so directionless and meandering, just minutes of random pieces of footage ultimately. Trailers have come a long way, though the Dalton ones were marvellous.

That music for the NSNA trailer sounds like it comes from a late 70s porn film.

Honestly I think the only reason they keep using the '62 Bond theme is so that they can cut to the "Coming Soon" (or to the credits card) on that iconic Vic Flick guitar chord at the end.

I see you with that Quantum typeface, Calvin ;)

I love the 60s Bond theme. In fact I think it should have been used over the ending of Casino Royale.

It is amazing how EVERYTHING music related to NSNA just hurts so bad. For anyone interested, Rich Douglas on his channel offers a beautiful alternative music concept for the film.

Yes! Love your channel btw!

To be fair I like to point Never Say Never Again good points 1 Sean Connery look better than he did in Diamonds and acted better than both Twice and Diamonds 2. Fatima Blush is Sadistic Evil and Hot and her death is absolutely fantastic 3. Few really good supporting characters Alec McCowan (Q) Bernie Casey (Felix Leiter ) Recurring Indiana Jones Henchmen Pat Roach ( Lippe) and Even Rowan Atkinson ( Nigel Smallfawcet) Well That's all I Got

Always a good day when Calvin uploads

"Two tickets? Who else are you taking, Calvin?" I will buy you a large popcorn AND pick n' mix. From the cinema, too, not smuggled in.

Love that Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime is the one narrating the theatrical trailer for A View to a Kill.

From what I remember from back then is that most people would know about a movie coming out from a TV spot, not a trailer, and then if it looked good everyone would be talking about it, and when it came out everyone would go and see it. Most people would never see the trailer, and if they did, by the time the movie came out it would have been so long since they saw the trailer that if there were any kind of spoilers nobody would have remembered it.

Gotta love Bond '77 Great video as always, these are a fun run through of trailers. On NSNA, the score is a problem throughout. It's a pale comparison to Octopussy!

I love the edit in the AVTAK teaser where it looks like he jumps off the bridge and lands in the hot tub LOL

The '62 theme in the Licence to Kill trailer feels like the filmmakers panicking about the tonal shift

Thanks Calvin for This and Many fun videos! Looking forward to follow your channel!

I love your channel!! Amazing (and fun) stuff of Bond 🙂

Wow the octopussy trailer really screams no no watch us we are the real James bond series.

Love this why has it took me so long well done top review

The Timothy Dalton trailers were so good. I like that they used different voices in the trailers. The Dalton turn around in LTK is epic. Dalton is Dangerous.

I think Trailer voiceover man in For Your Eyes Only I think was Patrick Allen who was in The Sea Wolves and The Wild Geese with Roger. He was also the narrator for the UK Government nuclear emergency broadcasts “Protect and Survive” which he replicated on the Frankie Goes to Hollywood hit Two Tribes.

Notice how it goes from Roger Moore as Ian Flemnings James Bond. To Roger Moore is James Bond

"The animated tentacles are really nice" - Calvin Dyson 2022. Love these videos keep them up! I always love how these old trailers would show entire scenes without context

These trailers do seem to re-use the 1962 version of the James Bond theme quite a bit, but then again, this is the version everyone knows best. So maybe it's sort of a shorthand for "no matter how old the actor gets, or if we swap actors after a few years, it's still the same James Bond."

Great video! I love that Thee Living Daylight teaser tells the story of pre-credit action. Dalton is so good in those trailers, If his hair had been more ... timeless (and his second movie had attracted more Americans) I think we would have had a very different Bond history,

I appreciate extra candid calvin at the end with NSNA commentary. Quite amused

Looking at old trailers is wild in general, the style of trailers changes so much over the years.

Loved the “…barely…” quip, another great video 👍

Another great vid 👍 I watch your debates on The Bond Experience always a good laugh

“All two of you out there.” Savage 😂😂😂

The 30 second - 1 minute TV trailers would get me excited.

The AVTAK teaser deserves a little credit for the cool Maurice Binder special material at the very beginning. But agreed, The Living Daylights gave us the best of the full-length/theatrical trailers.

Great breakdown! Agree with your assessment and rankings. And yes "woofff" at Never Say Never Again 🤦🏻‍♂️🤣🤣

25:40 Felix's wedding really cost him an arm and a leg.

There’s a Never Say Never Again trailer that has the Bond theme in it!! Me and my dad were so confused when we watched it for the first time, as we thought NSNA wasn’t allowed anything to do with the proper Bond series!

Those licence to kill trailers were the best. I’m surprised the movie didn’t do well. Great video! I love this series. Keep up the great work!

Never noticed this in the actual film before, but in the bit in Octopussy where Bond flies through the hangar in the jet, is that Gogol's helicopter from For Your Eyes Only lurking outside in the background?

Talking about trailers the best one on my Warner Brothers Ex Rental A View to a Kill video was always The Goonies and Cobra. They really knew how to sell the movies back then.

I recall in your Licence To Kill debate with David, he said the marketing was Terrible. I honestly don’t see it, that teaser was awesome. But I pretty much agree with your opinions.

my favourite from these movies is probably the living daylights so underrated great vid calvin

Even before looking at the video, I certainly know, that it'll be No Time To Die for me. It's just one of the most epic trailers, I've ever seen. Visually stunning, and you'll have goosebumps from Hans Zimmer's soundtrack.

Hey Calvin. I gave you a shoutout in a superchat on the Critical Drinker’s most recent livestream. I suggested that the 2 of you do a live stream for one of the Bond movies. I think that the 2 of you collaborating would be pretty enjoyable!

Calvin, you should do your own retro trailers for some of the newer Bond films. For instance, a QoS trailer where you just repeat “Quantum of Solace!” over and over again, in various ways.

Interestingly enough, there is another version of the ‘The Living Daylights’ trailer with the 60s music and Patrick Allen narrating: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibViktx-xNapYGQ.html I think the one you saw was for America and the other was for the UK. I think I prefer the US version myself - Patrick Allen’s delivery sounds a bit too formal and old-fashioned, and the George Martin Bond theme works better (hopefully it’s not too sacrilegious to say I prefer the George Martin rendition to the classic Monty Norman/John Barry rendition!)

26:24 the moment he realized its 62 Bond theme once again after big relaxing thinking it won't return on Dalton's trailers

16:20 The guy that Bond ejects from taxi looks like the guy who is actually driving it when the roof comes off.

As I’m sure others here might’ve said, I love how they were able to get Peter Cullen; best known for providing the voice for Optimus Prime in Transformers, to do the U.S. trailer for A View to A Kill; especially when he says “Title song performed by Duran Duran”. Also, if I remember correctly, Roger Moore announced his departure from Bond after the release of A View to A Kill. So when it came to marketing and making these trailers, no one knew that it was going to be Moore’s last Bond. So they just stuck to the same trailer format they had done previously.

That music used in the Never Say Never Again trailer is soooooo 1983. As is the slow mo shots edited to it. I actually like it, it sounds quite Spandau Ballet. I think it's part of Michel Legrand and/or Herb Alpert's score.

Calvin you seriously cannot complain about the Bond theme from 1962 showing up in the trailer :) That music is incredible. But yes I know that Moore's movies have used a different version of Bond theme.

I think the 62 Bond theme works for all the official Connery movies and OHMSS but not the others.

For your eyes only is my favorite bond film I just love it.

Omg the bloody 1962 Bond theme all the time! I'm genuinely half jokingly/half seriously beginning to think it's something to do some 25 year clause by Monty Norman or something. As if it's written in black and white somewhere that they MUST include his version of the Bond theme for promotional material. It's fascinating watching you react to these trailers! I think seeing them all back to back just really hammers home the fact that EON productions has needed a desperate overhaul of their marketing department for over 50 years now...

I think I have the 60’s bond theme engraved in my head now after those trailers. However I noticed the scene used with bond in the jungle in octopussy was extended with him going through spider-webs.

Bond fans knowing the gun barrel minutiae is love.

I'd probably rank those trailers the same. I saw TLD teaser trailer back in December of '86 and loved it. Tim looked great and I always loved the LALD version of the Bond theme. The music in the NSNA trailer is pretty funny. I remember it from the TV spots as well. I have a soft spot for both OP and NSNA. I became hooked on Bond that year and got to see both films in the cinema. I have vivid memories of seeing those two films with my folks and our reactions. Great time to be a Bond fan I must say.

The Never Say Never Again trailer definitely was very weak, esp the music, but I still enjoyed the movie. I loved Babara Carrera as Fatima Blush. Her going down the stairs after getting the OK to kill Bond is one of my favorites. She exudes a sexuality there that few Bond females did. Klaus Marie Brandauer was the better Largo. Something interesting bout a lot of the 70s & 80s trailers with the gun barrel logo, they used blue instead of red for some reason.

They are playing the Bond theme as this is synonymous with James Bond. You have to remember this was a time when a theme tune to a character or film automatically made you think of that brand, like the Jaws theme tune made you think of sharks, the Bond theme tune automatically made you think of Bond. I don't think anyone differentiated that it was 'Dr No'.

The difference between the humdrum "A View to A Kill" teaser and that thrilling "License to Kill" teaser is night and day. What a difference 4 years and a new lead can make.