Daniel Craig Tries To Explain What A Quantum Of Solace Is

Still trying to work out why anyone on Earth would want to call anything - let alone a movie costing hundreds of millions of dollars - A Quantum Of Solace?

Us too. It's been almost a week since the new James Bond movie was officially given the title A Quantum Of Solace, and it hasn't got any less rubbish in the interim.

But fear not, because Daniel Craig has started to do interviews about A Quantum Of Solace in the hope that people will start saying "A Quantum Of Solace" so much soon that it'll lose all meaning and everyone will forget how godawful it actually is.

Since Bond 22 became A Quantum Of Solace last week, there's been an awful lot of head-scratching and knuckle-biting going on. Aside from the impenetrably crap name, we've had to deal with rumours that cacky 1980s dullards The Police are going to perform the theme-tune. And it was written by the writer of Million Dollar Baby! And it's got a serious director!

At this rate, James Bond wont even get to have sex with a woman whose name is a slightly Russian-sounding euphemism for anal sex in A Quantum Of Solace. And that'd be a disaster.

But mainly there's that title. A Quantum Of Solace. That sounds like something you'd ask a chemist for, not a two-hour blockbuster about a suave man shooting eastern Europeans in the forehead.

"Oh, but it's based on the title of an original Ian Fleming short story," the traditionalists cry, "That means it's keeping with the original artistic vision." Rubbish - if A Quantum Of Solace was anywhere close to being based on Fleming's vision of Bond then it'd feature Daniel Craig strutting round kicking pregnant women in the stomach and fantasising about rape and the exotic avocado fruit in equal measure.

But forget all that because A Quantum Of Solace is what we're stuck with. And, as the face and underwear of James Bond these days, it's fallen to Daniel Craig to try and make sense of the bloody thing and feed it back to stupid cattle like us who don't understand what a challenging title it is. Daniel Craig told IGN:

It's been going around for a while, we've been discussing it quite a while. We could have found a nippy title – we had plenty of suggestions that would look good on the poster. But we made a lot of effort last time around to take the film to a new place, and we want to continue to do that. So this title is meant to confuse a little. It's meant to make you wonder, and that's what we want – we want people thinking as they come into the film. When we first came up with the title I wasn't sure, but I've been re-reading the Fleming books, which I do when we start shooting because it passes the time. Fleming always has a very emotional line to his books, and that's where we kind of left the last movie.

And, to be fair, A Quantum Of Solace has made people think. It's made them either think "How am I supposed to be able to look people in the eye when saying the title of this movie?" and it's made them try to think of rhymes for the word 'solace' to go into the theme-tune.

And if that little explanation isn't enough, ComingSoon has a video filmed on the set of A Quantum Of Solace for you to watch. What secrets does it give away? Well, James Bond talks to a secretary, swings on a rope and walks around in the snow for a bit. Christ, we can't wait!

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Quantum of Solace Set Visit - IGN