News Of The World - Free Bond DVD

Moore Not Less

There is a free Bond DVD included with Sunday's 'News of the World' newspaper. Featured on the DVD is the Casino Royale trailer plus an exclusive behind the scenes sneak peak. Also featured, Bond Girls Are Forever - a 45 minute dedication to the most beautiful girls to ever grace the screen alongside James Bond himself.

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/bondad.shtml

jetsetwilly

Christ, I think I'm going to have to buy The News of the Screws, because I lost my copy of Bond Girls Are Forever ages ago. Somebody get me a brandy...

highhopes

Wow -- The British media is really going all out for CR. Is that customary for Bond films? I bought the GQ-U.K. edition featuring CR on e-Bay Thursday. It isn't being sold in the U.S., and we're not getting much by way of preview material, documentaries and such.

arthur pringle

James Bond films are something of a national institution here and a bit of a sacred cow where the popular press is concerned (Die Another Day, which is apparently the worst film ever made now, got its share of cheerfully hysterical reviews from the press screening). I have countless magazines from the last three or four films and numerous tv specials on tape. We always get a Bond press blitz in the build up to a new film. This current charm offensive has washed over me somewhat. I haven't bought a single magazine or taped anything. I watched the Walliams programme on ITV and you would think a Pierce Brosnan film was coming out next week such was his shadow over the whole thing.

Alex

We got the Bond Girls free when we bought DAD. So they throw us a bone every once in a while.

highhopes

arthur pringle wrote:

James Bond films are something of a national institution here and a bit of a sacred cow where the popular press is concerned (Die Another Day, which is apparently the worst film ever made now, got its share of cheerfully hysterical reviews from the press screening). I have countless magazines from the last three or four films and numerous tv specials on tape. We always get a Bond press blitz in the build up to a new film. This current charm offensive has washed over me somewhat. I haven't bought a single magazine or taped anything. I watched the Walliams programme on ITV and you would think a Pierce Brosnan film was coming out next week such was his shadow over the whole thing.

That's understandable. Bond definitely is an institution, and in many ways informs how people think of Great Britain and the British, much like Western movie heroes have colored the way people think of the U.S. and Americans. How close either images are to reality is another story, of course (I can remember as a kid explaining to a school pal of mine in France that people in Arizona used cars rather than horses to get around ))
Britain without Bond is like the United States without -- Superman (actually, Mickey Mouse might be closer). )
I was just reading a piece in the Sunday Herald by the guy who wrote "The Man Who Saved Britain," which I'll post in its own thread if someone hasn't beaten me to it. It's about how Britain as changed since Fleming created Bond and how CR skillfully taps into that.

Alex

I just want my apple pie, you can keep Superman.

Barbel

Normally I wouldn't be seen dead buying the News Of The World (for non-Brits, it's a Sunday tabloid very much of the "Vicar caught in love nest with Mother Superior" sort- today's headline's about a pop star cheating on his girlfriend, for instance) but today I had to!

The DVD has

(1) Trailer (not the teaser).

(2) Bond Girls Are Forever- as stated above, Maryam d'Abo interviews various Bond alumni tying in with the book she wrote with John Cork.

(3) Behind The Scenes- Wilson, Campbell, Craig, etc talk about CR, we see some of the film being shot, etc. Heavy on the Venice scenes.

Edit- forced myself to look at the paper itself. There's a 5 page CR feature, including an interview with Mads and a very positive review of the film.

Mr Martini

Alex wrote:

We got the Bond Girls free when we bought DAD. So they throw us a bone every once in a while.

Looks like somebody went to Best Buy As for other stuff on the discs, I'm sure they'll be featured on the dvd when it comes out. At least I hope so. I wouldn't want to be left out on anything Bond.

Lady Rose

highhopes wrote:

Wow -- The British media is really going all out for CR. Is that customary for Bond films?

Pretty much. You cant move here for CR publicity.

arthur pringle wrote:

I watched the Walliams programme on ITV and you would think a Pierce Brosnan film was coming out next week such was his shadow over the whole thing.

I didn't think that at all. If anything it was a homage to Connery. Still, I enjoyed the programme,even though there were no surprises. Those programmes are always like watching a little montage of your favourite bits.

Tilly Masterson 007

Just bought my copy!

Bring on the Bond Girls!.................

jetsetwilly

Lady Rose wrote:

arthur pringle wrote:

I watched the Walliams programme on ITV and you would think a Pierce Brosnan film was coming out next week such was his shadow over the whole thing.

I didn't think that at all. If anything it was a homage to Connery. Still, I enjoyed the programme,even though there were no surprises. Those programmes are always like watching a little montage of your favourite bits.

I agree; in fact I thought they downplayed Brosnan a bit!

Lady Rose

jetsetwilly wrote:

Lady Rose wrote:

arthur pringle wrote:

I watched the Walliams programme on ITV and you would think a Pierce Brosnan film was coming out next week such was his shadow over the whole thing.

I didn't think that at all. If anything it was a homage to Connery. Still, I enjoyed the programme,even though there were no surprises. Those programmes are always like watching a little montage of your favourite bits.

I agree; in fact I thought they downplayed Brosnan a bit!

The scary part was I left the programme thinking Walliams would make quite a funny Q !! )

Now, off to buy my News Of The World ....

Barbel

...and there's a bland interview with DC in the enclosed magazine.

highhopes

Barbel wrote:

Normally I wouldn't be seen dead buying the News Of The World (for non-Brits, it's a Sunday tabloid very much of the "Vicar caught in love nest with Mother Superior" sort- today's headline's about a pop star cheating on his girlfriend, for instance) but today I had to!

Cheating pop stars stories: *yawn*
Vicars caught in love nests with mothers superior, on the other hand ... )

Barbel

highhopes wrote:

Cheating pop stars stories: *yawn*
Vicars caught in love nests with mothers superior, on the other hand ... )

I just forced myself to flick through it- no naughty vicars this week, sorry . I'm not going to read through any more of the non-007 stuff!

emtiem

Well the disc is pretty rubbish- no clips at all. The making of has some stuff I haven't seen before, though, and the trailer is a different version of the full-length one.

arthur pringle wrote:

I watched the Walliams programme on ITV and you would think a Pierce Brosnan film was coming out next week such was his shadow over the whole thing.

I genuinely don't know what you mean- it was mostly Casino Royale and a fairly even balance for the rest.

arthur pringle

Maybe it was just me then. I taped the programme and put it on later while I was completing a form. They had Samantha Bond on there and used the GoldenEye song in a montage as an example of how music has always been a crucial element in the series. I just remembered those bits more than the barrage of old clips or the brief Casino Royale tasters.

Moore Not Less

emtiem wrote:

Well the disc is pretty rubbish- no clips at all. The making of has some stuff I haven't seen before, though, and the trailer is a different version of the full-length one.

I wouldn't say the disc was pretty rubbish, perhaps that's a little harsh, but it was certainly nothing special.

The behind the scenes "stuff" had one or two interesting moments, but it pales compared to a programme called 'James Bond - For Real' which I saw this afternoon. It featured the preparation, attention to detail, the stuntwork and special effects that were behind the major action sequences from the construction site chase, the MIA sequence, the Aston Martin car crash, and the collapsing building in Venice. Great stuff.