It's because Licence to Thrill sounds more like Licence to Kill than From Russia With Love does to it's From Russia With dud. Although the second one did make me laugh >_>

If only you'd thought of a poll with snappy answers, maybe there would have been a different reaction!

This and other anagrams at

http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=quantum+of+solace&t=1000

Does anyone actually care what ~8000 people think of a film title?

(It's 89.87:10.13 now anyway)

I voted only an hour or two ago and it was a 50/50 split...

The Beeb thinks what bloggers think is news.

Now the Reg thinks what the Beeb writes about what Bloggers think is news.

If the Beeb does a story on the Reg writing on the Beeb writing on the opinion of Bloggers I'm going to explode in a mess of bloody recursion.

When I saw it yesterday it was 56% nay and 44% yea. Perhaps some Bond fans have been spending a little too much time clicking yes?

Why did you choose that particular anagram? "Macaque's fun tool" is soooooooooo much funnier

Talk about dumbing down. That's straight out of the red-top (no offence) tabloids' ideas locker*, right down to the strained title puns. All that's missing is the 0898 number to 'phone your vote in on.

Fsckwits.

* Less of a locker really, more a sort of small rusty cake tin with the lid missing.

So there.

Jolyon

I can't understand why this is such a big deal? They unveil the title - the title, for sod's sake! - and it gets headline national news, they run polls on what people think of it, etc, etc. Geez.

The Bond films are rubbish anyway. How about simply labelling it "More Garbage"?

I voted From Russia with dud yesterday and the results were 48% for and 52% against. I find it suspicious that the results could change so rapidly in less than 24 hours...

Bond fans, or some interns and runners employed by the film company?

Bond fans all resemble Alan Partridge, and are also posessed by his tasteless penchant for the stupid title?

Quantum of Solace is just so right in the middle of the Robert Ludlum shelf it's hilarious.... and as Greg points out, "More garbage" is close3r to the point... though I'd suggest "more shiny garbage, and tits" myself.

The answer is, er, sort of easy.....

We're nerds here and the joy of being anal about the film title is just too much to resist.

The Beeb voters are all hoping to get extras castings

They're already planning the Christmas telly schedule and so the bidding for screening rights is underway

Yesterday afternoon it was 48% for and 52% against...Can the opinions of the masses change so drastically in less than 24 hours?

It's not news. It's "ennertaynmunt". Hype and fluff on flash and flimflam. It's truly a measure of our decadence.

... that the BBC could even spell the title correctly given the recent number of speeling mistooks in it's website news articles.

but you can't really complain - most of the articles here on the register are often spelt right, because they've at least run a spell checker past them, but it's the wrong word they've used. "to" instead of "too" and the like.

for what it's worth - i like the new film's name. it's better than Die Another Day

Who cares what the public thinks of it -it's got everyone talking about it. At least they're getting away from 'James Bond: Pussy McHairy'-esque titles as well.

"A Particular Amount of Something That Gives Comfort"

The anagram Coma Equals Futon actually makes more sence than Quantum of Solace.

What in gods name does that even MEAN?!?

I refer you to the 9506507080 comments above explaining just that.

Now I just have to decide whether to reject all the comments wherein your ass is handed to you for that. Hmm. Do I feel magnanimous today?

I remember the days before the Beeb website got too clever, back when it ignored multiple votes from the one IP address...

You could go to one of their polls, tab over the most ridiculous alternative and then put your phone or any other heavy implement on your desk on the enter key. Quite easily racking up 5000 votes over a lunchbreak...

No Factual Mosque

Unequal Foot Scam

Safe Column Quota

Quotes Of Anal... err.. The list goes on...

Right, or indeed the one comment above with the "alternative title" as opposed to the, uh, NO comments which preceded it, and which, due to the Mods lax attitude, hadn't been approved and therefore was not visible when I posted the question.

Although I dont expect this will get posted, but we'll see.

Your article said:

"Vulture Central are seriously out of whack with popular feeling. Hmmmm"

Perhaps the majority of the people who commented were the people who didnt like it the title leaving the silent majority not to give two tugs of dead dogs ****.

I personally have no issues with a Bond Movie being titled after a Flemming Story given that he invented Bond.

A. Coward

PS: Didnt you resign anyway over that donation, its hard to keep up these days. Then again i suppose Tyrants don't resign they just get "retired".

P.P.S I tried hard with nemesis post / flame but my hearts just not in it, sorry.

Strange the last Bond film I went to see was with Peirce Brosnan after that and Sean Connery series the genre lost touch with the real world and just kept on getting like a bull with five legs and two heads walking in an endless circle of mediocrity in it's field of self made fertilizer !

Alas well past the time for the old boy to bite the shark !

Paris is chosen as she is an excellent example of some thing that should bite the shark too !

After all of the negative comments I have read both on the Reg and elsewhere, there is NO TITLE that would appease these typical internet trolls.

Get a life people. It's a movie. And, even if it truly had a pathetic name, I would still watch it just like most of you will.

this new bloke looks like a bouncer, a thug in a dicky bow.

bring back something we can aspire to please.

I looked at this yesterday, at which point the vote was firmly against. Since then the vote has swung the other way, possibly something to do with ~7000 votes vanishing.

None of the BBC votes ever make sense anyway given they all seem to have the vote numbers shift up & down over time by large amounts varying the outcome, I guess the underlying system is thoroughly borked. Or someone adjusts the counts to get the 'right' results.

the same survey on the bbc NEWS site was:

55% +

44% dud

So they don't even need to be making money on premium rate phone lines to have pre-decided the result!

At least the writers strike in America means that we get an interesting title, not something dumbed down to the nth degree - I happen to like it, and for all of the 'it doesn;t make sensers' out there sew your eyes back onto your teddies (better get an adult to help) - I believe that it was one of Fleming's titles anyway.

Re: A Squat Colon Fume.

Picked that because I felt it described the effect of the actual title. It's sh*t, it stinks!

There are indeed much funnier ones.

Surely "Soupçon of solace" would be better?

At least we know he is qualified.