Skyfall's faux pas

 From Daniel Craig’s lace-up shoes changing to slip-ons during a train fight to shades that appear and disappear, the latest Bond film Skyfall is full of gaffes.The other mistakes in the movie include, Eve — played by Naomie Harris — knocks out a car windscreen in one piece, then half of the glass is back in the frame, the Sun reported. 

Other blunders in the movie are, Bond’s boss M’s bag vanishes after she puts it on the floor, a car following Bond in London changes from white to black to white, the paper said. 

In another scene, Bond puts a radio transmitter in his right pocket – but later takes it out from his left. Another goof up in the movie is that Embankment Tube station is missing on a trip from Temple to Westminster when it should be there between the two stops, the publication added. Another faux pas happened when Javier Bardem’s villain Silva puts a full glass of whisky on a Bond girl’s head but the level varies during the scene.

Twilight cast bids farewell at final premiere

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LOS ANGELES:Thousands of screaming fans lined the black carpet late on Monday for the final "Twilight" film premiere as the cast of "Breaking Dawn - Part 2" bid farewell to the franchise and its loyal followers.

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and other cast members greeted fans known as "Twi-hards," many of whom had camped out for days in downtown Los Angeles to catch a glimpse of their favorite actors and see the film before it is released in theaters on Friday.

Breaking Dawn - Part 2 will see the love story of human Bella Swan (Stewart), vampire Edward Cullen (Pattinson) and werewolf Jacob Black (Lautner) come to a tantalizing end, when Bella and Edward are forced to protect their child from an ancient vampire coven.

Stewart, who was finally able to embrace her wild side by playing Bella as a vampire, hoped people would enjoy the ultimate transformation of her character in the film.

"Bella has worked pretty hard to get to the point where they can have it all, and it's fun to be there. She's always been human, but now that she's not, you're just in full blown vampire land and it feels funny in a great way," Stewart told Reuters.

More than 2,200 fans from all over the world came to camp out on a concrete plaza in downtown Los Angeles last week, where Twilight movie studio Summit laid out activities and marathon screenings of the previous movies.

All of the film's main actors spent time signing autographs and posing for photographs with the loyal fans who had camped out in chilly November weather over five days.

Pattinson, who plays vampire Edward Cullen, said he hoped the fans would like the franchise's swan song.

"I hope they feel it kind of respects them, because I think in a lot of ways that's what we were thinking when we were making it," the actor said.

Lautner, who plays werewolf Jacob, said he'd be sad to say goodbye to the films and his character and hoped fans would be happy with the conclusion of the final film.

"I'm feeling fantastic, sad, emotional, there's a lot of things going on inside of me right now but I'm just trying to soak up every moment because this means the world to me," Lautner said.

The three lead stars were joined by fellow cast members including Nikki Reed, Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz, Jackson Rathbone, Michael Sheen and Dakota Fanning, as well as director Bill Condon and author Stephenie Meyer, whose Twilight novels kicked off the franchise and phenomenon.

Meyer said she would miss watching the three lead cast members evolve as actors and characters in the films.

"It's really been great to watch them grow up, particularly Kristen because her character gets to evolve so much in this film, and to watch her be all powerful and really get to where the character was always meant to go, to be the fiercest of the fierce, was really rewarding for me," the author said.

Breaking Dawn 2 justifies all the end

An epic saga that began with the romantic love story of vampires and human beings has finally come to a close. The astonishing conclusion to the series, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2, illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has enthralled millions.

The story continues from where it ends in the last series where Edward (Robert Pattinson) brings Bella (Kristen Stewart) to life and she begins her new life as a vampire and mother to Renesmee (Mackenzie Foy), who grows at an accelerated rate. But when Irina (Maggie Crace), a member of the Denali coven, mistakenly reports Renesmee as a human who has been transformed into a vampire to the Volturi, they set out to battle to destroy the Cullens for breaking the vampire law. To prove Renesmee is not an immortal child, the Cullens gather foreign vampire clans, to stand as their witnesses to the Volturi. Aro (Michael Sheen), the Volturi leader, has ulterior motives for battling the Cullens, however. With their vampire allies and the wolf pack, the Cullens defend themselves against the Volturi.

Although, Breaking Dawn Part 2 includes the ultra-romantic encounters between Edward and Bella, the overall experience is a straightforward and indulging one with the right balance between sentimental side and some entertaining changes. Bella experimenting with her new found powers, and the international cast of vampires and the final battle scene is a treat where the Cullens, Volturi and their respective allies engage in a huge battle.

Out of the five series, this includes a straightforward plot and manages to deliver a ‘war’ story complete with a fiery climax.

It could be said that audience who are not fans of the Twilight series will not enjoy the film as it contains the usual staples of the series. You can call it the perfect ending among the others of the series for those who are fans of the books, but for the rest it is a little overdone and confusing. Even for a franchise that is horribly light on drama, nothing at all happens here. And so it ends better than it started.

This film is supposedly a final chapter in the Twilight Saga and a welcome relief from all of the pomp and circumstance surrounding it. The final battle scene is what saves the movie.

If you are a fan of the Twilight series, go watch it; if you are a first timer, you will have some difficult time understanding the characters given the amount of ties to past events but overall will be a pleasant movie experience.