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Sunday, April 5, 2020

James Bond 1-24 Rewatched and Re-rated:

In preparation for James Bond 25, I rewatched the entire series.  Upon rewatching, I discovered a lot of my old rankings of their relative quality were wildly off, and re-did them into a more proper form.  The new rankings look like this:

1.  The Living Daylights
2.  The Spy Who Loved Me
3.  Thunderball
4.  Diamonds are Forever
5.  On Her Majesty's Secret Service
6.  Goldfinger
7.  The Man with the Golden Gun
8.  Octopussy
9.  You Only Live Twice
10.  For Your Eyes Only
11.  From Russia with Love
12.  A View to a Kill
13.  Dr. No
14.  Tomorrow Never Dies
15.  The World is Not Enough
16.  Moonraker
17.  Casino Royale
18.  Goldeneye
19.  Live and Let Die
20.  License to Kill
21.  Die Another Day
22.  Quantum of Solace
23.  Skyfall
24.  Spectre

Currently I rate 1-18 as great movies that should be watched.  But I don't really feel that way.  If I could find two other good movies I'd gladly replace Goldeneye and Casino Royale as well.  Hopefully once some of the movies slated to come out come out, like Ant Man 3, I can jettison these losers too.  Only the top 16 Bond movies are actually worth watching.  Still, 16 movies is pretty darn good.  This is one of the top movie franchises of all time, and I found a lot of charming new details about these movies to like even though this is my umpteenth time rewatching them.

Meanwhile, I updated '100 Waifus' Chapter 17's physical appearance descriptions to take into account 4 girls whose breast sizes change as they age.  Now it reads like this for them:

Aruru -- Hair color: Black -- Eye Color: Brown -- Hairstyle: short length two ties front with kemonomimi -- Breast Size: Tiny/Medium (depending on age)

Nanoha Takamachi -- Hair color: Brown -- Eye Color: Purple -- Hairstyle: short length twintails -- Breast Size: Tiny/Medium (depending on age)

Fate Testarossa -- Hair color: Blonde -- Eye Color: Red -- Hairstyle: long length twintails -- Breast Size: Tiny/Large (depending on age)

Wakaba Tsukishima/Akane Takigawa -- Hair color: Brown -- Eye Color: Brown -- Hairstyle: short length loose -- Breast Size: Tiny/Medium (depending on age)

Physical appearance descriptions need to be accurate or there's no point.  With this change people can get a better mental picture of what they're looking at and why.  Obviously growing girls won't always have the same breast size across time.  I should have fixed this a long time ago.

As you can see, my 20th re-read and re-edit is currently up to chapter 18.  Still a long ways to go before I can give the book a complete bill of health.  But once the editing is complete, what an amazing book this will be.

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