12 Things You Learn Rewatching On Her Majesty's Secret Service

10. The Title Sequence Is A Clumsy Mess

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Though Maurice Binder's titles for the movie have more than a hint of Hitchcock about them, overall they're certainly one of the worst-aged title sequences of the earlier Bond films.

John Barry's operatic title theme is killer, but the visuals themselves awkwardly mix the typical silhouetted women motif with ugly, poorly-composited, blurry clips from the previous Bond films (while smartly excluding even a hint of Sean Connery).

More than anything it just doesn't suit the style of the film all that well, and while Binder was clearly playing with some cutting-edge tech here, half a century later it often looks legitimately quite hideous. A rare miss for the franchise in this regard, honestly.

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