This week's Amazon Blu-Ray Deal of the Week:

James Bond Blu-ray Collection Three-Pack, Vol. 1 (Dr. No / Die Another Day / Live and Let Die)- $24.99

James Bond Blu-ray Collection Three-Pack, Vol.2 (For Your Eyes Only / From Russia with Love / Thunderball)- $24.99

James Bond Blu-ray Collection Three-Pack, Vol. 3 (Moonraker/ The World is Not Enough / Goldfinger)- $24.99

That is a really good deal, I paid $64.50 11/14/2008 for the first 2 and $29.99 for the 3rd one 9/25/2009.

They are each $19.99 in-store at Best Buy right now.

I already have all of these on Blu-ray plus the others that aren't in a volume set yet (all with slipcovers) and I'm planning on tracking down the steelbooks eventually, but I'm a big enough Bond fanatic that I'm very tempted to buy these annoying volume sets. I was lucky enough to buy the first 6 individually released titles (the movies from volumes 1 & 2) for $39.94 not too long after they were released in late 2008. They also all came with movie cash for "Quantum of Solace" so I went to see that in the theatre 4 or 5 times for free. I LOVE random Amazon deals!

I say annoying in that the movies are (once again... just as they have been packaged every time they've been released in box sets) released in no particular order and that the volume sets don't have the individual artwork/separate cases for each film.

As I said, I'm tempted, but I guess I'll save my money so I can buy some Bond memorabilia or prop replicas on eBay.


(BTW, this post is coming from someone who owns 2 DVD versions of all the first 20 Bond films and 3 DVD versions of the movies that were released on THX-edition DVDs before the boxed sets: Dr. No, FRWL, Goldfinger, TSWLM, Moonraker, GE and TND... so I'm definitely not kidding about buying more copies of the movies... I'm seriously looking for CED copies of the movies and I might eventually buy some LDs, too... I have a problem)

While nothing's a guarantee, I'd expect Amazon to match BB's $19.99 price on the 3 James Bond sets... maybe in a couple days. If they do, I might get Vol. 3. If not, then I'll wait until the price is

Links to BestBuy.com

James Bond Blu-Ray Collection 1
(Dr. No / Die Another Day / Live and Let Die)

James Bond Blu-ray Collection 2
(For Your Eyes Only / From Russia with Love / Thunderball)

James Bond Blu-ray Collection 3
(Moonraker/ The World is Not Enough / Goldfinger)

These are tempting but I own one movie from each set so I think I'll pass on them. Plus to be honest I don't really like the way they're organized anyways (I understand why they have them in the order they do since certain sets wouldn't sell that well if they were in order but it still bothers me) so meh.

Shockingly I don't own any of the 3 movies from the Vol. 3 set, so I'd like to get that one. However, seeing so many cheap BDs and being overloaded by Blockbuster BDs lately, it's tough to bring myself to buy these at $19.99 + tax now. If Amazon PMs BB's price on Vol. 3 to $19.99, I'll pick that set up. If not, I'll wait.

Barnes & Noble had 2 out of the 3 for $6.99 each separately but I'd like all 3. Strangely (and I can't explain why) Moonraker is one of my favorite Bond movies (even though I never thought much of Roger Moore), and stranger yet is that I know the words to the title song (not that there are that many to begin with). Some of John Barry's Bond music was really good (You Only Live Twice being another example.) Too bad the recent Bond movies have totally mediocre and unmemorable (to me) music.