10 Greatest James Bond Movie Opening Title Sequences

If Duran Duran were a strange choice for the Bond theme song, ex-Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell was perhaps even weirder, especially when so much was hanging on getting this reboot right. But every ounce of faith was repaid in full, with a song that felt modern and gritty, much like Daniel Craig's new double-0 agent.

Cornell's hard rock hit You Know My Name is a rare (though not unheard of) departure from a theme song named for the film's title - something the Craig Bond films would make their own, in three out of his five entries - and spoils the audience with a blend of strings and guitars managed by the man himself and the soundtrack's composer, David Arnold (who scored three out of four of the Brosnan-era films).

The barrel sequence drops a wall of blood, ushering in a two-dimensional, playing card-style title sequence that doesn't feature a single female form. Innovative and conscientiously creative, Daniel Kleinman's rotoscoped male figures and weaponised jacks, hearts, clubs and, you guessed it, diamonds, are embedded amongst intricate geometric structures rendered in a bold and basic colour palette.

Not an inch of this design, nor second of opening, goes to waste.