Fifty years ago, Sean Connery first told the world he was "Bond. James Bond" and adventure movies have never been the same. Later this year, Daniel Craig is scheduled for his third outing as 007 with Skyfall, hoping to recapture some of the Casino Royale magic and swagger he squandered in Quantum of Solace.
Bond movie theme songs have set much of the tone for their movies ever since Shirley Bassey warned us of Auric Goldfinger's "spider's touch" in Goldfinger. Some have been great and some have seriously stunk up the joint. But more than one song was considered for most of the movies, and in some cases the discarded choices were very interesting. Some enterprising YouTubers set the credits of those respective movies to some of the unselected choices to give a sense of what might have been. Alice Cooper's "The Man With the Golden Gun" probably would have helped that less-than-exciting Roger Moore outing more than Lulu's version did. But on the other hand, the Johnny Cash(!) song "Thunderball" just doesn't fit with the 007 image even though it's a great song -- if Jim West and Artemus Gordon had ever made it to the big screen this one would have suited them just fine.
What? Yeah, let's just pretend you didn't say that.
(H/T Pajamas Media)
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