Does anyone have James Bond DVDs or Blu-rays?

[Captain Comics]

I may have asked this before, but I'd like to ejjimicate myself on the Bond movies. The way I envision doing so is to buy Blu-rays with some extras, so I can watch the movies (in order, naturally) and learn about each one in the process.

As it happens it won't be completely a "let's review" situation, as there are a few Bond movies I haven't seen. I haven't seen most of the Roger Moore vehicles, and none starring Pierce Brosnan. Yeah, those are probably the weakest of the lot, I know. But they're on my bucket list.

So my question is: How can I find what I want? Amazon has a couple of collections on offer, but it doesn't tell me much about them. There's one collection that's all of the Broccoli movies through the first Craig outing, and then a bunch of sets separated by actor. All very nice, but what about extras? 

Also, when I Google some of the DVDs, it turns out they're European and won't work on American players. Maybe you should mention that, Amazon!

If anybody owns any Bond movies, advice would be most welcome. I'd rather not buy each movie individually -- the most expensive way to collect them -- but I'm almost certainly going to have to get Never Say Never Again that way, and also the David Niven Casino Royale if I decide to get it. Maybe On Her Majesty's Secret Service, too, if I go the collection-by-actor route, since George Lazenby just had the one.

But right now I have no idea what to do, so I turn to the Legionaires. Help me, fellow fans, you're my only hope!

(Oh, right, wrong franchise.)

[doc photo]

With A Mind To Kill.

Good timing Jeff !  I started reading Horowitz' latest Bond entry a couple days ago and it is a good one. It pulled me in right from the start with M's funeral. Love all the references to the early Fleming novels. Bond's mission seems like the most hopeless one he has ever been given. At this point in his career 007 seems to be near the end of the line mentally and physically. Unlike the movies where Bond is portrayed as nearly super human, the novels show us a Bond who has his limitations and Horowitz is highlighting those limitations, making the mission seem all the more challenging.

[Captain Comics]

I think I have watched or gone to see a James Bond movie with every girl I have ever dated. I don't remember any of them really liking them. (That should have been my first clue.) Tracy's been a pretty good sport about it. Shortly after we we married, I subjected her to every James Bond movie there was at the time.

That goes beyond "good sport." Fall on your knees and beg forgiveness.

Cubby Broccoli and Eon Productions introduced a woman character who was an actual rocket scientist. That character's name? "Holly Goodhead." Score one for feminism.

The one that got me was Christmas Jones. Not that it was a ridiculous name (which it was), but because I was asked to believe that Denise Richards was a nuclear scientist.

I read an article just recently that the actress who played "Holly Goodhead" explained to her mother at the time that the name was a reference to the character having "a good head on her shoulders."

In the 1967 Casino Royale, Jacqueline Bisset was Miss Goodthighs.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Cat got your tongue?

[Jeff of Earth-J]

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With A Mind To Kill.

Good timing Jeff !  I started reading Horowitz' latest Bond entry a couple days ago and it is a good one. It pulled me in right from the start with M's funeral. Love all the references to the early Fleming novels. Bond's mission seems like the most hopeless one he has ever been given. At this point in his career 007 seems to be near the end of the line mentally and physically. Unlike the movies where Bond is portrayed as nearly super human, the novels show us a Bond who has his limitations and Horowitz is highlighting those limitations, making the mission seem all the more challenging.