The Importance of Being Idle

And You Thought Some Of My Titles Were Bad!

Here we go!
I was a little surprised that the news story about the unveiling the title of the new Bond movie claimed that it was "proudly announced" by the producers. Surely they meant "sheepishly admitted"? I mean "Quantum of Solace"? What the fuck is that? I know "Die Another Day" wasn't exactly genius, but Quantum of Solace? I presume this hints at a plot where a super-baddie/genius physicist/psychiatrist discovers the elementary particle of loneliness and uses to depress the world into giving him.... one.... million.... dollars? And what is this Quantum of Solace called? The Sad-on? No, the Depress Ion! I've only just thought of that, and I think it's bloody clever. Still, fucking stupid title though.
The after effects of Heath Ledgers death and just starting to ripple through the news pages of the movie world, and whilst I understand the need to clarify some of these business decisions as soon as possible, it also strikes me as remarkably tasteless that he's been dead less than 24 hours and yet people want to know what's gonna happen with the projects he's been involved with recently. Not that I don't want to see Dark Knight ('cos I do, although now it seems churlish to wonder about whether Heath got the Joker right when the man's dead!). Speaking of the Joker, I did wonder in my idle minutes yesterday if maybe he didn't take a little too much of that home with him after filming was finished. Still, I doubt we'll ever know if it was suicide or accidental, so it would only be speculation.
This isn't coming out at all coherently is it?
I'm just not used to this hard work thing, not used to it at all.

posted by BadMonkey @ 6:45 PM