What was the most incomprehensible tragedy of the past week: the death of Heath Ledger or the announcement of Quantum of Solace as the title of the new James Bond film? I didn’t have a chance to weigh in on the title at the time, but it’s better than Gallons of Thai Cum. If only because it’s shorter.
To compound the disaster Sony has released a teaser poster for the film. My impression is that this poster is not meant to be used in theaters or anything, but was released to the Daily Mail in conjunction with last week’s press conference and title announcement (JoBlo got their hands on a bigger version) – which is just as well, as this poster stinks on ice. There’s too much text at the bottom, including the baffling branding of Marc Foster’s Quantum of Solace.
The big question now is: will future Bond films continue this naming convention? If so, expect Tesseract of Moistness in 2011.
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chud has comments now?
always thought it was nice to not have to notice peoples bitching. or is this bitching? Damn.
It's really an awful title. It sounds like a Land Before Time Film.
Is it just me, or does that look more like a second-rate Daniel Craig impersonator?
Yeah, the title is pretty terrible, but Casino Royale was good enough to keep my interest high.
As for that poster…DAMN, that thing stinks.
It's not that bad. Nobody will care.
is bond fighting dr. frankenstein at castle dracula in this film, or what? what's the point of having a promotional piece that's this lazy and bad?
The other day Nick was bitching at people making fun of "Midnight Meat Train" because it's the name of the story it's based on. Same deal here, and this title's not nearly as bad.
Except that this movie just uses the title and not the almost totally Bond-free plot of the story.
I'm actually quite anticipating this film as I saw Casino Royale in theaters 6 or 7 times.
One of the best movies of last year and I hope this one is on par.
Foster should have used "Risico" instead. Better title and story in the compilation.
"Quantum of Solace" sounds like a Merchant Ivory film.
that definitely doesn't look like Craig. i'm calling shenanigans.
Wow. That looks horrible.
But the "Gallons of Thai Cum" can also use the letter 'o' to 007 logo. And that's what counts.
If they used Tesseract of Moistness as the title it would probably be a better sell than Quantum of Solace, which sounds like a name for a Star Trek sequel.
So they're no longer putting Ian Fleming's name on Bond movies?
shomer fucking shabbos
That's a pretty callous thing to jokingly put Heath Ledger's death on the same level as James Bond news.
The movie's going to be great, so long as they stick to the serious side of things and don't make a damn mockery of the franchise the way Brosnan hammed it up.
He looks like Simon Pegg on a parody poster. The framing is bad too, the disney castle destroys his sillouette.
Is it just me or have the maker's of the franchise mnissed out on a massive publicity stunt by not releasing one of these movies in 2007. If they'd have waitedtwo more moths with Casino they would have had 007 2007. Instead they've got 2006 and 2008. Dicks. Or am I just overthinking it.
Having comments is good.. but it'll turn into a bitching/flaming booth soon enough..
I like the title, yeah it's taken from a short story that is just Bond being a shit at a dinner party, then being told why the hosts are a bit more interesting than he thought. But if the story reloves around him investigating Mr White's organisation, and finding out Vesper wasn't just fucking him over, and gaining some amount of comfort from that "or a Quantum of Solace". I can see the sense. Hopefully the title won't go the Harry Potter route, and tranlate it for the American audience, "Small amount of comfort" is even worse than "Harry Potter and the Magic Rock" or what ever they ended up calling the first book…
It's a great title; doesn't have 'kill' or 'die', but directly references both Ian Fleming and what is likely a key aspect of the plot. Namely, Bond's attempt to deal with the betrayal and death of Vesper. This classy and literate title is a clue that the filmmakers will not dumb Bond down, which is a concern as EON don't have a great track record for keeping up a 'back to Fleming' vibe over several films.
And that poster is a fake, I'll bet. Looks amateurish. Plus the Bond films NEVER reference the director in the poster. Yeah, it's a phony. I'm surprised CHUD fell for it.
Looks like Myers87 found work making movie posters after all.
whoah Devin, relax. your flipping out about a james bond movie title, they are mostly awful, die another day, tomorrow never dies, dude at least this sounds a little different, and its an actual title from an ian fleming story too, i think your just a little cranky today, bad post.
Poster's fake. The giant "Digitally Processed" logo isn't something people use for films- it's used on old Columbia VHS videos. Also, if it's for use in Europe, it wouldn't have "NOT RATED" on there, it would have "Not Classified" or, more likely, nothing.
Total and complete fake, calling it now.
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