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Learn Who Warbles James Bond’s QUANTUM OF SOLACE Theme Song!!
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Jack White and Alicia Keys have collaborated on “Another Way To Die,” the theme song for the Nov. 7 James Bond adventure “Quantum of Solace.”
They follow in the footsteps of Shirley Bassey ("Goldfinger," "Diamonds Are Forever," "Moonraker"), Tom Jones ("Thunderball"), Nancy Sinatra ("You Only Live Twice"), Paul McCartney ("Live and Let Die"), Lulu ("The Man With The Golden Gun"), Carly Simon ("The Spy Who Loved Me"), Rita Coolidge ("Octopussy"), Duran Duran ("A View To A Kill"), a-Ha ("The Living Daylights"), Gladys Knight ("Licence To Kill"), Tina Turner ("GoldenEye"), Sheryl Crow ("Tomorrow Never Dies"), Garbage ("The World Is Not Enough"), Madonna ("Die Another Day") and Chris Cornell ("Casino Royale").
Read all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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... ASS!
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Almost popped my 'First!' cherry. Oh, well. Dignity wins another round.
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actually interested in seeing how this ends up working out. Huge White Stripes and Raconteurs fan, not so much Keys, but maybe it can work
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portishead.
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...Madonna
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White has enough energy to pull it of and Keys has a great voice.
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Oh yeah, I forgot. People don't like good music anymore.
Here you go:
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for the edit...
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Jul 30, 2008 1:39:22 AM CDT
It's weird. I'm not a fan of either of these individuals...
by flickchick85
But this collaboration is so odd, it could be inspired. I look forward to hearing it.
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Jul 30, 2008 1:39:53 AM CDT
Interesting, but I would have preferred Muse or Depeche Mode
by superunknown85
I hope it's as good as You Know My Name.
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WTF?!
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This, however, should be...interesting. Good interesting, or bad interesting? YOU decide.
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is what these are turning into, soap operas with a 'troubled' bond and his feminista boss and whats up with the bond girl equals everyhwere? fuck this shit. fuck what that loose cunt barbara broccoli has turned this series into after she took over from her pops.
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She was practically born to do this.
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You know it makes sense. Supermassive Bond Hole.
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is Dr. No's song. The "James Bond Theme" is the song you here in Thunderball during the underwater battle and in YOLT while he's in the mini helicopter. Weird huh?
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Was she taking the morning train and then bought 4 eyes only or something like that
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... is certainly gorgeous enough to be a Bond girl! Hope she shows up in the flick.
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Speaking of Bond singers, does anyone know if Ms. Bassey has ever been offered a third time to sing for a 007 movie? As far as I know she's still around, doing the nightclub circuit.
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should read: "is the song you HEAR" Goddamned, lousy lack of a fucking edit button, piece of shit.
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All this song title needed was a reference to "gold" and "never" and it would have been perfect.
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That's a wierd, wierd choice for a collaboration. Gotta give them credit for thinking outside of the box.
And even more credit for not going for Leona-fucking-Lewis. THAT would be a warble. -
"My orders are to kill you and deliver the Lecter. How I do that is my business."
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...picking a singer or group with a star status slightly on the slide and getting them to sing a theme. The best example is when they unceremoniously elbowed kd lang out of the way for Sheryl Crow; the lang song was a masterpeice and Crow's was Godawful. We hope that this one will be good, but one could only speculate what could have been if Amy Winehouse hadn't have been so fucked up that she was incapable of doing the theme...
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and I thought Cornell was scraping the bottom of the barrel...
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And her track "Like you'll never see me again" has special memories for me.
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Actually sounds like an interesting cocktail. They might go together like Rum & Coke! Or end up producing something undrinkable like Blue Curacao & Tomatoe Juice. Hmmm, nice drink analogy... time to hit the bar
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Get the cocktails in. I'll take mine shaken, stirred and surprised !
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That's all I really wanted to say.
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Madonna's Bond Theme for Die Another Day was just ass-rapingly bad.
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What about Matt Monroe "from Russia with love" the first true bond song...ya missed that one...also to answer a question...yes Shirley Bassey did get asked to sing a third bond song...she recorded "kiss kiss bang bang" for "Thunderball" but it was dropped because the producers wanted a song with the movies title...Shirley did record a version but they went with tom Jones...there is a bar in "from Russia with love" called "the kiss kiss club" which was put in the movie to try and link it to the Bassey song.
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I didn't care for that Whinehouse gal; but White & Keys is a very interesting item. Let's hope the song rocks.
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oh crap my nerd hat slipped..."the kiss kiss club" is in thunderball
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White said that he wrote seven nation army as a bond song but thought that he would never get asked to do one!!!
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oh my god im wrong again..."kiss kiss bang bang" would have been the second bond theme Bassey did..the third she recorded was "diamonds are forever" which is the third Bond song she recorded...THIS IS MY FIRST TALK BACK POSTING AND ITS ALL GOING WRONG...DAWN YOU LUCAS.
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Jul 30, 2008 4:27:03 AM CDT
It's appropriate that Garbage did The World is Not Enough
by cornponious
because it was garbage. I was so stoked when Brosnan was brought in to be Bond, but then the quality just wasn't there.
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is awesome. With you on that one futureboymaddog.
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...is a fanny. A sell-out fanny to boot, working with pish like Alicia Keys.Give it to Amy Winehouse, Portishead, or better still PJ Harvey.
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Hell, "Standing Next To Me" is practically a Bond song already.
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This sounds like the perfect vehicle for Buster Poindexter.
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... sounds more like a Bond film name than Quantum of Solace!
Like futureboymaddog and kwisatzhaderach said, The Living Daylights is still the best Bond theme ever. -
"For Your Eyes Only"...
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I thought it was Winehouse and Ronson then Duffy, then Lennox. Guess it was just PR. Would happily see a Bassey number again but whatever they're doing will be good.
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doesn't look like any one has even a clip of the song yet. would like to hear some of it.
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The World Is Not Enough was an awesome song and one of the best of Bond. Goldeneye was the best ever though.
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She's not doing the nighclub circuit, she's practically royalty here in Wales (come to think of it, as she's now a Dame I guess she is literally kind of royalty). Still sings the national anthem at international rugby matches from time to time and she did a cover of Pink's Get This Party Started or whatever recently in a big bombastic Bond type style which seems to get some airplay and was on a TV ad. I mean, it's not something you'd buy but she does still seem to have the voice so I guess she could handle a Bond track easily enough.
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Should have been him doin it.
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The only problem i had with that movie was the beginning. No way Bond could have fell fast enough to catch the plane. AND then climb in. AND THEN pull the plane out of that dive. Just sayin!
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Winehouse would have been ab-so-lu-te-ly perfect for this. :-(
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1) "Nobody Does It Better" from "The Spy Who Loved Me" ... simply iconic; 2) "Thunderball," love when that dude holds the Thunderb-a-a-a-a-a-ll note; 3) "Live and Let Die," great 007 song ... even the Guns n Roses cover was cool; 4) "The Living Daylights," really underrated track; 5) "For Your Eyes Only," only Bond song where the singer appeared in the opening credits sequence ... damn, Sheena Easton had the best mouth for doing unholy things to back in the day.
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Duran. Ironic in that View to a Kill had the ugliest bond girl.
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But view to a kill was damn good song but had tranny as a bond girl
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That movie sucked, but the song by Duran Duran gets my vote for the best in a Bond film. Other good ones: Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (not the song, but the theme by John Barry played over the opening credits), Live and Let Die, and Goldeneye. The worst has to be Die Another Day. The Man With the Golden Gun is a terrible song, but it does have some schlock value.
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Well not personally, but I hate her music. I think it has to do with the fact that everytime I go to a restaurant they play some crap where she sings "Every thing's going to be all right, oh, oh, oh blech." It's that safe sort of crap music that they'll even play at a funeral.
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#7 On Her Magesty's Secret Service (John Berry) #6 The World is Not Enough (Garbage) #5 Goldfinger (Shirley Bassey) #4 Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney) #3 Thunderball (Tom Jones) #2 The Spy Who Loved Me (Carley Simon) #1 GoldenEye (Tina Turner)
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wings ftw
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I know the Beatles were a long time ago and you're due. But every pretty voice or bratty band that comes along must you tout as the second coming? You dismissed Radiohead when they first came out too. And now you get behind this impersonator? We knew Billy Holiday. She aint Billy Holiday.
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Cornell's theme. Just bad ass through and through.
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wicked song.
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1. "You Only Live Twice" by Nancy Sinatra
2. "The World is Not Enough" by Garbage
3. "Goldfinger" by Shirley Bassey
4. "You Know My Name" by Chris Cornell
5. "Live and Let Die" by Paul McCartney and Wings
6. "Thunderball" by Tom Jones
7. "The Living Daylights" by a-ha
8. "A View to a Kill" by Duran Duran
9. "For Your Eyes Only" by Sheena Easton
10. "Tomorrow Never Dies" by Sheryl Crow
WORST BOND SONG EVER: Madonna's "Die Another Day"
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...and he said:"Hey, you know who would come up with a better Bond theme than Amy Winehouse?""No, Norm...who?""A CRACK WHORE!"And.....scene.
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Yeah ok, I'm glad the Winehouse was deemed to much of a fuck up to do it, but my money was on BOBCAT GOLDTHWAITE & SARAH SILVERMAN. Damn.... lost my rent money again!
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Just like it says above! Nuff said.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Cossey -- because that's how Roger Moore rolled. Sorry but Grace Jones, shockingly, has a vagina.
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Whiney shithouse is so fucked up.. that even if she got as far as actually recording the track { which is very doubtful}...she'll be dead before the movie comes out.She is actually *rotting on her feet* like some sort of zomb
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They're a band that just stepped out of the same freezer as Austin Powers. they would do one hell of a bond theme.
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I'm not seeing it (or hearing it) guys. And Portishead? Way too simplistic. This isn't 1997 anymore. $10 says that the title for this song was the original title for the movie. You Only Live Twice by Nancy Sinatra is still my personal favorite.
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An overrated musical minimalist and part time fashionista who's claim to fame is having a questionable relationship with his uberhot giant titted drummer...
And a piano playing, AK-47 pendant wearing Chanteuse who believes that Tupac and Biggie Smalls were modern day Malcom Xs and the government had them murdered becuase thier "Black Power/Pride" message was so strong.
And here I though Sheena Easton was a bad choice....Hows about just making a movie worth a damn and FUCK the usually silly song.. -
Shirley Bassey actually has already sung three Bond theme songs - "Goldfinger", "Diamonds Are Forever", and "Moonraker". I would certainly be up for hearing her do a fourth, though.
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I wanted them to do away with the opening pop song when they rebooted the franchise, but once again no one listened to me. Granted, I like the White Stripes and all and Alicia Keys is slightly more talented then other vapid pop singers, but I guarantee their song will have to conform to some sort of spy sound.
By the way, Portishead just released a new album so it may not be 1997 but why let that get in the way of exposing an underrated band. Of course, they never go down the path less traveled for songwriters. -
Jack White can slip into just about any genre and make good music and alicia keys can sing. This is better than Winehouse, better than Cornell by a mile and a half.
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...if you want to count her recording of the unused "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" song intended for Thunderball. You can even hear it on the DVD, synched up to the opening titles!
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Jul 30, 2008 11:59:15 AM CDT
Winehouse would've been perfect for an actual Bond movie
by spandau belly
But this Daniel Craig garbage has no soul so why should it get a soul singer?
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Jul 30, 2008 12:06:45 PM CDT
Anyway, it can't be worst than the recent collaboration...
by rbatty024
between Chris Cornell and Timbaland. If Audioslave wasn't enough then his new album should definitively prove that Cornell has lost it.
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by Daniel Craig? The last Bond movie was the best Bond film since Sean Connery. In fact, it was better than a lot of early Bond films (maybe it's not as good as Dr. No or From Russia With Love, in my opinion the best of the bunch, but the rest is debatable). Casino Royale was hands down the best action film in a long, long time. Hell, it was even better than the Bourne movies. Thank God the studios didn't listen to those bitches whining about Bond's hair color.
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Alicia Keys = Bad...
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SSOOOOUUUUUUULLLLLLL-AAASSSSSSSSssssCheck check. 1,2 1,2.We need Le Vicious Fishus to work on a real QoS title song!
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Jul 30, 2008 12:48:50 PM CDT
rbatty024, yes there are people who still don't like Craig
by spandau belly
And I'm one of them. I'm not saying Casino Royale was a terrible movie, but it was a forgettable and bland mishmash of the current action-espionage movie landscape, not a distinct movie with its own personality like a real James Bond movie. Craig's Bond will continue to deliver bland movies with some cute stunts that are fine to watch once and that you won't recognize in a few years. There's nothing wrong with creating disposable entertainment, but I'm not going to acting like these films are in any way significant or even distinct.
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Aren't all James Bond movies supposed to have TITLE tracks? Shouldn't the song be called Quantum of Solace?
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I doubt most talkbackers would even consider any African-American singing a Bond theme. The first suggestions are always a white artist
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And GOOOOOLD-FINNGGAAAAAAA... is the best Bond song ever...
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From Chris Cornell to those two? I need to know who made that decision so I know who to slap if I see them on the street. I like the Muse idea that is being tossed around on the forum.
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In fact, what you just described reminded me of the rote, dying franchise that Bond was ever since Connery left. I like Connery's movies a lot but, with the exception of the first two Brosnan films, I never really liked the Bond franchise after Connery left. He became a less and less interesting character. Finally, Casino made Bond flesh and blood again, and the scene in Venice was a bit of genius. The structure of that film is awfully brave for an action movie.
Ravenlord, Chris Cornell hasn't done anything of significance since Soundgarden. Granted, I fucking love Soundgarden, but all of the shit he's done since then has called into question his artistic integrity. These days Jack White is ten times what Cornell is. Remember, Cornell is recording his next album with Timbaland. If that isn't a pathetic attempt at pop culture relevance I don't know what is. -
They shoulda got Jack Black!
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Leona Lewis. Period. She friggin' even LOOKS like a Bond girl and woulda' easily added to the box office numbers if Lewis would've been cast as one. She's hot and she's the singer around right now.
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. . . sorry I missed that. Kudos to you, SergioGiorgini.
I mean, with lyrics like, "you cut me open and I . . ." AND Lewis being the best pop act out of the U.K. since Duran Duran, how the HELL did they miss this? -
Why do I get the feeling that "Another Way To Die" was on the filmmakers' short list of potential film titles?
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. . . sigh . . . I really gotta learn to read. OK, I said it first, that they shoulda' got Leona Lewis to do the theme.
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But it really, really sucked. It was "Three Blind Mice." Check it out, you'll find I'm right.
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The unreleased version U2 recorded is much better than the Turner version.
3 best Bond songs --
A View To A Kill
The Spy Who Loved Me
Live And Let Die
For Your Eyes Only
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Technically you're right, Shirley Bassey did sing "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", but it was never used as a theme song, so I didn't count it. Dionne Warwick also recorded a version of that song, which also was also never used.
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as in one of my favorite bands ever? Cool!
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fucking loved it when those little slug things were singing that song in the animated movie flushed away. With the rats? In the British sewer system? I'm gonna take a nap now
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shut the fuck up with "personal" favorite. you're acting like you're the only one who likes YOLT's song the most. fucking prick.
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who thought You Know My Name was a good song. Aw.
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Isn't the new Bond emo? It's re-imagined, ain't it? Updated? Rebooteded, with a whole new take on it for a younger and hipper generation. Yep, he better be emo, or I. Wont. Watch.
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Hard to tell... It's a three-way tie between LIVE AND LET DIE, A VIEW TO A KILL, and NOBODY DOES IT BETTER (THE SPY WHO LOVED ME). As much as I love A-ha!, the version on the album STAY ON THESE ROADS kicks all sorts of ass, but the opening credits version is kinda lame with all the orchestration, which is what usually fucks it all up. When you're getting a band that does 80's synth-pop, you should NOT have a big orchestra.
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I honestly don't know why they aren't calling these BOURNE films, because the reboot/retcon proves that they are so obviously inspired by the BOURNE films, and for good reason. Does anyone think that the trailers for QUANTUM OF SOLACE and THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM look and sound kinda similar? "Find Bond!" "Find Bourne!" And here comes the big cool motorcycle jump! As much as I loved CASINO ROYALE, you could just smell the Bourne.
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License to Kill is a great song. I totally forgot about it since it accompanies a Dalton. Also Annie Lennox or Depeche Mode would be awesome since half their respective catalogs sound like Bond songs. "It's No Good" and "A Pain That I'm Used To" practically are Bond songs.
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The Bond franchise finally stepped up its game with CASINO ROYALE and Bond fans are actually looking forward to the next movie for a change instead of dreading it. That's a GOOD thing.
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They should get the Super Furry Animals to do the theme. Now THERE's something out of left field...
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