Hopefully you're celebrating Thanksgiving like I am by watching the customary James Bond marathon on the SyFy network (or perhaps on some other network, depending upon your region or country). Unfortunately, they are presently playing one of my least favorite entries in the series, Diamonds Are Forever. Sean Connery seems very bored indeed; maybe he should take up writing so he can help out the inner-city youth. Thankfully, though, I'm lucky enough to own DVD copies of my favorite 007 films, and this is a perfect opportunity to talk about the Ultimate Edition box sets put out in 2006.
These box sets, and the DVDs within them, are not ordered chronologically but they are rather shrewedly haphazard, in the sense that most of the sets contain equal measures of the best Bonds, and a few stinkers thrown in as well. But for the James afficionado, your best bet is the wonderful Ultimate Edition Vol. 3. You get three absolute classics, From Russia With Love, GoldenEye (you may recall that Goldeneye won the Code Redd Net Award for Best Bond Film a few weeks ago), and On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and even the requisite Roger Moore sleeze-fests, Live and Let Die and For Your Eyes Only, aren't too bad.
Amazon has it for pretty decent bargain, so get on it.
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