I find quite a lot of stuff about the Bond franchise surprising...

1. I bought the collection boxset (up to Casino Royale), thinking there were maybe half a dozen I hadn't seen...it turned out to be half a dozen I HAD seen!!!

2. How my preferences have changed over the years - Connery was the best, then Brosnan, now Craig.

3. When I watched my DVDs I was surprised how much I enjoyed Living Daylights and On Her Majesty's Secret Service...not so much on blu. No idea why.

4. Definitely get better with each passing film; but I really get excited when I hit Goldeneye. But, in tone, I think the Moore ones are more consistent.

All in all a brilliant franchise, well deserving of the fan adoration!

Some are good some are really really bad.

Bluray makes thing too clean sometimes. As an example is SC's lipstick or what ever they used on his lips, it may look ok maybe on a DVD but on bluray its kinda jokerish.

I was surprised how much I like On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I have a whole new appreciation of the Austin Powers movies after watching the Bond collection :D

I think they progressed well, getting things more and more refined in the product. Production values get better and they put more into better editing and fight choreography.

I like each bond for different reasons aspects, but PB is the leader in my book even if a few of those movies were not the best. I like the take of DC on Bond and the relationship with M. Something else I have always like was the M was a consistent as well as Moneypenny for many many movies.

I crashed kinda late last night so I didn't get through From Russia w/ love I'll finish that tonight and get 1 or 2 more watched.

-R

Recently bought 13 titles of 50th anniversary repackaged Bond Blu-Rays over the last two days from a couple of local stores.   The only problem is that I can't put them with the rest of my movie collection until I get the 9 remaining films. Too much to arrange and then rearrange. Love the Bond films as a whole, Brosnan will always be one of my favorites just because his films were the only Bond films that I had seen until High School, even then I had only been able to see the Classic Bond (60s-80s) films once. Until I complete my collection that is, then I can see them anytime.

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Quoting Guyver2005:

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Recently bought 13 titles of 50th anniversary repackaged Bond Blu-Rays over the last two days from a couple of local stores.   The only problem is that I can't put them with the rest of my movie collection until I get the 9 remaining films. Too much to arrange and then rearrange. Love the Bond films as a whole, Brosnan will always be one of my favorites just because his films were the only Bond films that I had seen until High School, even then I had only been able to see the Classic Bond (60s-80s) films once. Until I complete my collection that is, then I can see them anytime.

I created a manual profile, 'James Bond' and put all the bond films under it as child profiles.
Then for each bond film, set the sort title as such:
James Bond  1: Dr. No (note the extra "space" for numbers 1 thru 9)
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James Bond 23: Skyfall

That's cool, probably saves space in your Profiler. I've noticed though when it comes to using numbers to keep a franchise in order I have to list the films as Title 01-10, otherwise everything starts mixing. Maybe I didn't word myself correctly, I was talking about how arranging and rearranging my physical movies on my shelf-case can be a pain, doing the same in my Profiler is easy when I initially forget to use the sort title feature. So I'm not going put the few Bond films I have on my shelf until I get the rest of them. Which shouldn't be too much longer.

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This is another thing that I don't understand. Why would DVDP users wan't to keep physical discs in alphabetical, or in any order for for that matter, since DVDP has location field. Getting rid of arranging discs over and over again was one of the main reasons I started to use catalog software in first place. All my films have running collection number and last purchase goes last to shelf. I have small stickers attached to shelf which tell me the ball park (1000, 1050, 1100 etc.)

I like there to be some order that way I don't feel like I'm at a library. Though I am thinking about reorganizing my movies with franchises and genres instead of just by alphabet.

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Why don't you just reserve empty spaces in your shelf for those future purchases?

True, I just hate seeing gaps in my collection when there doesn't have to be. Just a quirk.