Last week the producers of the James Bond franchise announced the title of the 22nd Bond adventure would be Quantum of Solace. At first, my reaction was much like that of comic Tom’s and I think most people with an average vocabulary were probably left scratching their head. Personally, I found the somewhat brainy title to be incongruent with the gritty, real-world, back-to-basics style the series had adopted with it’s relaunch with Casino Royale. I mean, it does kind of sound like a math problem, doesn’t it?

But now that I’ve had a few days to let the name roll around inside my head for a little bit (and after looking up the contextual definition of “quantum” and “solace”), I find the title to be somewhat poetic and certainly less literal about the danger-plus-sex Bond mythos as titles like Thunderball and Octopussy.

The title was actually taken from Bond creator Ian Flemming himself in a collection of short stories called For Your Eyes Only. Of course, any resemblance between Bond’s 22nd screen adventure and the original short story will be purely incidental. The movie is filming now and will be released by November.

Not a lot to tell you right now. I didn’t get a chance to see any movie this weekend, although I was hoping to have found time to see Rambo. Didn’t work out.

I’m certainly shocked to have learned that Meet The Spartans edged out Rambo for the top spot at the box office this week. I mean, Meet The Spartans? Seriously? That movie has stupid written all over it. The movie comes from the same people who made Epic Movie which was probably one of the worst spoof films I’ve ever seen. The jokes and references were horribly dated. Meet The Spartans sense the same vibe with its unimaginative title. Spoofing Meet The Parents which came out, what? – eight years ago? Even if they were aiming to reference Meet The Fockers, that was four years ago.

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