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How many James Bond films are there?

aehso — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:53:21 +0000

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!

Dr. No
From Russia with Love
Goldfinger
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Diamonds Are Forever
Live and Let Die
The Man with the Golden Gun
The Spy Who Loved Me
Moonraker
For Your Eyes Only
Octopussy
A View to a Kill
The Living Daylights
Licence to Kill
GoldenEye
Tomorrow Never Dies
The World Is Not Enough
Die Another Day
Casino Royale
Quantum Of Solace

Amazon Unbox download service.

aehso — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:44:55 +0000

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).

App Of The Week: Democracy

aehso — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:50:42 +0000

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?

They’re Made Out of Meat

aehso — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:21:37 +0000

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)

Stealth – be warned.

aehso — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 12:12:00 +0000

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?!?!

A Big Fan.

aehso — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:03:00 +0000

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.