Newswheel staff :: 17 November 2006 :: Filed under Aston Martin, Aston Martin DBS
What to make of the latest Bond flick, Casino Royale, which opened yesterday at cinemas across the UK? With the usual broadsheet, tv-based and online suspects already on record with a largely uniform line of raised thumbs, and with the prospect of plenty of Aston Martin-branded car porn, Newswheel tooled into town with high hopes. Gritty, emotional, gripping, even realistic. 007 for grown ups, in other words, was the pre-show buzz.
Of course, the usual format for a film review typically involves carefully crafted prose, peppered with witty and insightful observations and building inexorably to a subtly argued conclusion. But frankly, this gruesome movie doesn’t deserve that sort of treatment. The high profile critics couldn’t have got it more wrong. Casino Royale is garish, boring, loud, stupid, excessively lengthy, clunky, cheesy, incompetent, crass, disjointed, cynical, mercenary, misguided, amateurish, clichéd and formulaic. And contrary to expectation, it’s recognisably Bond. But for all the wrong reasons. If you must know why, read on…
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Newswheel staff :: 11 September 2006 :: Filed under Coupe, Aston Martin, Aston Martin DBS, Europe & UK
We’ll have to wait until November 17th when cinema audiences get their first taste of Casino Royale to find out whether Daniel Craig’s cheese-free and back-to-basics Bond is a goer. For now, may we suggest you supp on the latest, more revealing trailer which includes full footage of unspeakable acts done to an Aston DBS in the name of Queen and country…
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Newswheel staff :: 08 May 2006 :: Filed under Coupe, Front engine sportscar, Aston Martin, Aston Martin DBS, Europe & UK, US,
Better late than never: Aston Martin fired off the first salvo of its DBS marketing assault last week with images of the upcoming Bond-branded coupe. Belatedly, and in the interests of completeness, we present them to you. Just don’t get too excited. The car appears to be a wide-bodied rehash of the existing DB9 model…
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Newswheel staff :: 22 February 2006 :: Filed under Front engine sportscar, Aston Martin, Aston Martin DBS, Europe & UK, US
File this one under unconfirmed-but-very-plausible and then batten down the hatches. An image purporting to show the upcoming Aston DBS coupe has leaked onto the great interweb…
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