Articles tagged with: james bond
Harry Potter has a lot to answer for - now he's magically caused Quantum of Solace to be pushed back. Not content with ruining the dreams and emotions of a billion little kids and a lot of adults who probably should know better, Daniel Radcliffe and company's decision to move the new Harry Potter film to next summer has prompted Sony to push the upcoming James Bond flick - the one with the funny name - back. Alright, so it's only a week, with the film being pushed from November 7th to the 14th, but still - come on. Give us a break here. The reason for the move was given as a simple one: 'we want more money'. Technically not what they actually said, but 'moving it closer to the Thanksgiving/Christmas market' is pretty transparent when it comes to reasoning.
Oh, we're so disappointed. The Bond theme for Quantum of Solace has been announced, and it's not even called Quantum of Solace. How rubbish is that? We'd even written a demo called Quantum Of Solace in case we were asked - it goes "Hello there, I'm a quantum of solace/ I want to buy a blouse, can you direct me to Wallis?" - but no. You had to go and call the Quantum of Solace theme Another Way To Die, didn't you. Also, the Quantum of Solace theme tune is going to be a duet between Alicia Keys and Jack White from The White Stripes, so it's bound to sound like an angry little witch trapped in an upturned metal dustbin. And Alicia Keys, naturally. Just so you know.
You might have been wondering what the new James Bond move Quantum Of Solace will be like - surely it can't be as bad as the title, right?
Well, get ready to find out. The first footage from Quantum Of Solace has appeared online, and it gives a dead-on indication of what the finished movie will be like - it'll be ten seconds long and mostly about James Bond trying to kick a man's jaw off.
OK, so the online footage of Quantum of Solace isn't particularly revelatory - in fact watching it feels a little bit like listening to a toddler's breathless description of a petrol station blowing up - but we do have the video after the jump, and it's not something that any ADD sufferers who haven't got bored of endless parkour scenes in movies yet will want to miss.
As far as James Bond is concerned - a license to kill is a license to thrill. And what better way to exemplify that fact then to look back through all the James Bond movies and pick out the most memorable and gory death scenes. Now, we realise some of you might think such a list to be slightly in poor taste. We know your type. You believe all killing is wrong - even if it means wasting a homicidal maniac who is hell-bent on world domination - and glorifying it only adds to the problem. Well, frankly it's only a bloody movie. It's all just make-believe and we are having a bit of fun. We bet you are the kind of people who think there is something wrong with beating innocent bystanders to death with a baseball bat in GTA IV. It's a game, duh! And you think we are the strange ones!
Violence in movies – terrible, isn't it. No! We all like to see a good old-fashioned scrap once in a while. Don't even try to deny it. You may try and act like you abhor violence in movies, but deep down the sight of two people kicking the crap out of each other really gets you going. Well, hecklerspray understands. There's been many a time when we have pictured ourselves beating Sting to a bloody pulp. See kids, violence is fine as long as it's in your mind, not on the streets. Anyway, to celebrate the fact that we all love to see someone evil get a good hiding, we have come up with our 10 favourite fight scenes in films. And if you disagree, we'll come around your house…
The planned Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson Bond-theme has been cancelled because, according to Ronson, when it comes to her current mental state, Amy can’t find a quantum of solace anywhere. However, a spokesman for Winehouse has said that this isn’t the case and that the real reason is to do with a clash of interests regarding the development of the song, of which Amy had "other ideas". Is Amy telling the truth, or is it Mark? Who knows? As far as that argument goes, it’s probably best to live and let die. It’s a terrible shame for all things Bond as, when it comes to musical collaborations, nobody does it better than Winehouse and Ronson.
Don't worry if you can't stand the fact that the new James Bond movie is called A Quantum Of Solace - turns out that God's not such a fan of it either. That's because, just a few weeks after a crazy South American mayor drove his car through a set during filming in a vicious rage, a James Bond stuntman has accidentally plunged a £120,000 Aston Martin off a road into a massive Italian lake and knackered the bastard to pieces. What's more, it's been reported that the Aston Martin was the only one available to the crew for the film. That leaves A Quantum Of Solace in a bit of a quandary - it could shell out for a new one at huge expense to the movie, or it could patch together a workaround. Which isn't too bad, because frankly we've waited too long to see 007 bring down SPECTRE with a Segway, some rollerblades, an Oyster card and a hotwired forklift truck.
British mayors have the best job in the world - getting paid to wear some Mr T-style bling while women's institute members give you slices of cake? How is that not brilliant?
But Chilean mayors have it even better. Not only do they get the requisite bling/cake combo - we assume - but they also get to try and mow down iconic movie characters in their mayoral 4x4. On purpose.
Don't believe us? Then look at Carlos Lopez, mayor of Baquedano. He's been arrested for driving a car at James Bond star Daniel Craig during a scene as some form of protest. Lopez was either protesting about the heavy-handed nature of the Bond crew during filming or because he just thinks that A Quantum Of Solace is a really, really shitty name. Either way - mad props, you mental South American public official.
