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How many James Bond films are there?

November 23rd, 2006

Wow, I just noticed the complete list, there are 21 completed James Bond fims! (source: wikipedia)

The strange thing is, I’ve seen them all and I never realised there were that many – I always figured there was maybe 10 or 11 of them. They’re all so similiar in a, err, James Bond type of way. And check out those $ figures, $3.8billion+ in total box office (to date) from a combined budget of < $800million, and that's not counting the TV re-run revenue. No wonder they keep on pumping them out!

  1. Dr. No
  2. From Russia with Love
  3. Goldfinger
  4. Thunderball
  5. You Only Live Twice
  6. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
  7. Diamonds Are Forever
  8. Live and Let Die
  9. The Man with the Golden Gun
  10. The Spy Who Loved Me
  11. Moonraker
  12. For Your Eyes Only
  13. Octopussy
  14. A View to a Kill
  15. The Living Daylights
  16. Licence to Kill
  17. GoldenEye
  18. Tomorrow Never Dies
  19. The World Is Not Enough
  20. Die Another Day
  21. Casino Royale
  22. Quantum Of Solace
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Amazon Unbox download service.

September 15th, 2006

BoingBoing have a great expose on the Terms Of Use that apply to (US only)Amazon Unbox service.

This puts my recent gripe about iTunes DRM in the shade. I find it truly astonishing that a global brand would risk their reputation by releasing something with an agreement like that attached. They obviously must have calculated the risk of a Sony rootkit backlash and decided first-to-market was more important (they beat Apple by one week – no coincidence on the launch date there).

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App Of The Week: Democracy

July 28th, 2006

This just blows me away – grab Democracy from the folks at the Participatory Culture Foundation, browse the various RSS feeds and end up watching content like this or this (yes, Democracy loads torrents too).  Then check out their sister site Video Bomb and if have your own content set up a Broadcast Machine or your own.

Awesome stuff, with quality free software and content like this, who needs broadcast TV?

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They’re Made Out of Meat

June 12th, 2006

Great to see a great short story translate into an award winning short film directed by an Irishman, Stephen O’Regan.  (via Terry Bisson’s site)

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Stealth – be warned.

August 2nd, 2005

The movie, Stealth is bad. Not just bad but terrible, apparently. Just in case you were tempted by the flashy trailer. And that’s a pity, I really like Jamie Foxx.

Aside, it is almost comical to note the varied, yet predicable, reviews collated by Metacritic. No surprise that Premiere gave it a high score – Premiere have to promote films no matter how bad. Yet back in the real world of the Washington Post and the Boston Globe an anternative view exists.

Hmmm, I wonder which I’ll believe?!?!

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A Big Fan.

January 19th, 2005

There’s a bloke in Seattle who is already queuing for the last Star Wars film, not due to open until May 19th. Oh, and he’s got a blog.

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