James Bond: Hollywood, Addiction, Ethics and Video Games

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Olga and Olyphant making good money from addiction!
Olga and Olyphant making good money from addiction!
Talented and beautiful Bond lass, Olga Kurylenko, has told Entertainment Weekly some fascinating titbits regarding her outlook on video games, her work and the way that business works.

Speaking about video games she tells the Hollywood outlet, "A lot of people love videogames and they play them. I know how addictive videogames are — I have friends who can't get up off the couch because they're so hooked."

So, she's got friends who "can't get up off the couch because they are so hooked", which makes them sound very much like crack victims. But she appeared in the Hitman and Max Payne movies and she appears in the Quantum of Solace game.

Strange outlook on life really, but as she's got her reasons: "If you make movies based on games, people will go. Hollywood knows it's a good commercial opportunity."

In terms of her friends' addictions, she also spills the beans on game-crack, "My friends play different games...

"...Some of them play Wii Tennis, which is just like playing tennis in real life. There's also The Sims, where you go and construct towns and play with people's lives. And there’s one game, Brain Age 2, where you can compose music on Nintendo DS. That was interesting."

You have been warned kids, if you don't want to waste your life on your couch, all goggle-eyed and hooked, avoid The Sims, Wii Sports and Brain Age 2!

Source: Entertainment Weekly

Comments

OptimusP 6 Nov 2008 11:12
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Hollywood confirms: WiiSports, The Sims and Brain Age are the HARDCOREZZZXXXXTREME!!!

Ofcourse, the question that should be asked is, how and why are these perceptions created, spread and maintained.

Screw the console war, we need definitions battles.
mrAnthony 6 Nov 2008 12:46
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everyone plays wii tennis standing up, come on now...
the sims? PC game? who works/plays whatever on their PC on the couch (says me, sitting on a sofa with a laptop)
and brain age? isnt that a DS game, shouldn't they be playing on the bus or something. i dont care what fern cotton and the silver haired fox do on those ad's.

na wha i mean.
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