The title is taken from one of a collection of short stories published by 007 creator Ian Fleming in 1960.
Um... really? This is not a hoax, or a journalistic blunder? This is the actual title for the next James Bond movie? Really?
I'm thinking Bond 22 would have looked better on a marquee.
On the plus side, I probably won't confuse this new film with any of the other Bond flicks the way I did with last few Brosnan efforts, The World Never Dies Another Day and Tomorrow Is Not Enough.
Another plus is that I already have a good title for my review of the film, should I write one...
"Quantity Of Suckage".
If the movie turns out to be good, I'll just have to find a way to make that title fit.
Quantum Of Solace... Really rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?
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This is the best title ever appended to any Bond work. The story was one of the finest pieces Ian Fleming ever wrote; the complexity and layers of meaning in the idea behind the quantum of solace, and the implications of making it into the title of the work, are of tremendous power; the quantum of solace is not about action, excitement or danger in the traditional sense, but rather about something that trumps all of this in its ability to affect us - the raw intensity of human emotion, as Bond himself concludes at the end of the story. They've presented themselves with a huge challenge basing a film on that story, but if they can pull it off, they'll have made the greatest Bond film of them all.
Oh, and by the way, if you don't like the film then 'Quantum of Suckitude' would be the worst title you could possibly give the review, because the meaning of that expression (insofar as it has one at all) would be 'a very, very, very small piece of something unpleasant'.
Which is, in effect, a double negative.
"Quantum of Suckitude" would have been a rather silly thing for me to say. Luckily, that's not what I said.
I stand by my original assesment of the title as a poor choice for a James Bond movie. The last thing audiences want is a pretentious popcorn movie, and that title gives just that impression.
Whether it made sense in the context of Ian Fleming's writings is irrelevant since the movies have taken on a life of their own and now bear little or no resemblance to anything Fleming ever wrote.
Haven't seen the film yet but lots of people are is more Jason Bourne than James Bond
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