QUANTUM OF SOLACE?

Wow, that is easily the worst title of the entire series.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/...m.ap/index.html

Shirley Bassey would've sang the hell out of that one.

Hey, who couldn't use some solace... and plenty of it?

I was sorta hoping they'd go with GIALLO.

At least the title originates with Fleming--it comes from the 'For Your Eyes Only' collection. I think I actually read the short story a million years ago, but I doubt the film will have anything to do with it anyway. I have the strangest feeling it's going to grow on me.

Sounds like a character from Star Trek. I wonder how that's going to translate into other languages.

Not sure there are many rhymes for it though. 'Wallace'?

With my eyes full of tears
The answer to it all is
A final embrace and
A quantum of solace...

If I were Popeye, I'd rhyme it with 'Mollusks'.

But, I yam what I yam - and sadly, that's all that I yam.

Quantum of solace,
What will befall us.
A plate full of oysters
and some hot buttered mollusks.

Gah geh geh geh goh!

It will never happen. If MGM refused to release LICENSE REVOKED, because it believed Americans were too stupid to know what "revoked" means, no way QUANTUM OF SOLACE will ever see the inside of a U.S. theater.

Ironically, I have no idea what "quantum of solace" means.

My poetic translation would be:

"A glimmer of hope"

:rolleyes:

So the next 007 movie is a chick flick?

Let's just call it KISS THE GIRLS AND MAKE THEM DIE.

As a title, I'm dubious, but as a jumping-off point for a darker Bond, read on. DIVING BELL...star Mathieu Amalric as the villain is good casting.

It is a Fleming title, but as Fleming titles go, they'd be better off using THRILLING CITIES.

I can imagine Shirley Bassey singing this:

We're running on a razor's edge
Hanging on with just a prayer and pledge
As black and white converge in gray
Whatever may befall us
A quantum of solace
Is only a bullet away.

Who knows, it may work.

Hmmm... my title idea woulda been The Algerian Knot considering that the plot is connected to Vesper's mysterious Algerian boyfriend, the one who gave her that necklace she sported in Casino Royale. Then I figured, naah it's not exciting enough of a title, people won't get the reference, Algerians will protest, etc etc.

Now, I think it sounds brilliant in comparison.

I like it!

I like it, too. As a fan of Fleming's books, I'm happy to at least see one of his actual titles used (even if the plot goes elsewhere, as it so frequently does), as opposed to something spit out from the "Bond Random Title Generator" like TOMORROW NEVER DIES.

Really? Because I'm just the opposite. At this stage, I'd rather have a "fake" Fleming title that sounded cool instead of something like QUANTUM OF SOLACE, which sounds like a "Star Trek" script from an unfilmed season. ("In this episode, Kirk gets busy with some alien chick and Spock learns what it means to cry! Tune in!")

I think it's because, when all's said and done, I prefer the movies to the books. I think Fleming is an interesting writer and worth reading -- his contribution to popular culture is undeniable. But IMO he's not even the best spy writer of his era (I'd probably pick Eric Ambler or maybe Donald Hamilton), let alone somebody for the ages.

doug

Mind if I offer an alternative (with apologies to "Moonraker")


What is it?
What does it mean?
What is this silly title
That's splitting my seams?
Just like a title revoked it
knows not what it seems to mean
I search for cash, quantum solace in cash receipts.
They'll make me smile as they line the streets
And try to know what this title means
It's funny
It's fun-ney

From the "Bond Random Title Generator"

MOONFINGER
FOREVER IS FOREVER
NEVER SAY NO TOMORROW
THUNDERPUSSY
FROM A VIEW WITH LOVE
NEVER LIVE FOREVER

(I know. I buried my headline.)

Is there some hidden legal or financial reason why they still keep going with any unused Fleming Bond titles? Just how much of their potential audience really would notice or care that Quatum Of Solace is from Fleming?

I can't really see your average moviegoer taking a date or the family out for a entertaining evening at the movies over Thanksgiving weekend... and blowing $20-$50 on a title like Quantum Of Solace. If you owned a theater, would you put that on your marquee? Or simply James Bond 007 or the like, much like with the Star Wars prequels?

Anyone see a more sh*t-kickin' title surfacing before summer's end?

I've already grown to like the title, and with James Bond 007 and Craig's name on the marquee it makes no difference. And I somehow doubt it will surface in the song, not that you haven't given it a shot. :) Moby could probably make something of it, bt he's already BOURNE-associated.

Thinking about this, the titles of CASINO ROYALE, OCTOPUSSY, and OHMSS don't figure in their songs, either.

...although a little known British film composer did come up with these little numbers....

Stanley Rogers, Film Score Composer

I like the title, unwieldy as it is. I wish it had been used in the first cycle of Bond movies in the '70's, just so that I could have heard Ernie Anderson announce it on the ABC Friday Night Movie ("007 James Bond returns in QUANTAM OF SOLACE! Parental Discretion Advised...")

As a sidebar, am I the only person who thought it was a sensible idea to not use the title CASINO ROYALE in its theme song? Am I the only person who even liked Chris Cornell's "You Know My Name" as the theme song? It had the right mix of old-Bond bombast and new-Bond teeth for my taste. I always thought the better Bond themes didn't use the title, at least not as a chorus ("Nobody Does It Better," "We Have All the Time in the World").

That being said, if they do try to write a song called "Quantam of Solace," I think they should go way out of the box and recruit Sharon Jones to sing it: she's got the deep pipes that recall Bassey.

I still like it.

The real trick with QUANTUM is that James Bond isn't in the story. Well, he shows up for a page or so at the beginning, and on the last page, but the rest of the story has nothing to do with Bond and is more of a romantic drama.

I'd argue that Dionne Warwick's "Mister Kiss-Kiss Bang Bang", the song that was replaced at the last minute by Tom Jones' "Thunderball," would have been the 2nd greatest Bond title song of all time, right after "Goldfinger." And it doesn't use the title.

The teaser poster for Quantum Of Kickass is out, sans title, and can be seen here at CHUD.

Fans of Casino Royale's final moment should dig it.

EDIT: Or, if you prefer, the Large High-Def Version or the Desktop Wallpaper Version! Viva Marketing!

The first trailer for QUANTUM LEAP OF SOLACE has appeared:

http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/bond-is-ba...solace-trailer/

As one of the people who left a comment about the trailer at TWITCH said, the trailer is certainly evocative of CASINO ROYALE, and that's a good thing.

I've never been much of a Bond fan. But though he's barely shown in the trailer, the great Mathieu Amalric as the/a villain would be reason enough to check this out, even if it weren't for all the great things I've heard about Craig and CASINO ROYALE. (Guess I'll be renting that, since I never got around to it in theaters.)

And for the record, after an initial Scooby Doo-ish "Rwhaaaa?!", I kinda dig the title.