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[Hockey Mask]

We have had 7 Bond movies in the last 17 years.  Roughly one every 2.5 years.

 

The average man lives to be 75.5 in the U.S. (77.5 in the UK) and woman lives to be 80.5 in the U.S. (81.5 in the UK).

[I rounded to the nearest 1/2 year. Other countries can be found...http://en.wikipedia....life_expectancy]

 

So for me...

 

75.5 (Life Expectancy) - 45 (Age) = 30.5 / 2.5 (Bond Release Rate) = 12.2

 

At best, I only have 12 more Bonds.   Hopefully my future Bonds are filled with Goldfingers, Casino Royales and Skyfalls and not TMWTGGs, MRs and DADs.

 

How many Bonds do you have left?

[QOS4EVER]

As much as you may like the series. Don't define your life by the no. of Bond movies left

[Hockey Mask]

As much as you may like the series. Don't define your life by the no. of Bond movies left

Definitely not defining my life but tracking my life. I'd rather track my life with Bonds than Januarys.

[thecasinoroyale]

Well all going well, I have 20 more Bond adventures left! That should easily complete Craig's run and maybe 2/3 actors taking up the mantle!

 

What a depressing thought. BUT at least I'll make the 75th Anniversary!

[Hockey Mask]

Well all going well, I have 20 more Bond adventures left! That should easily complete Craig's run and maybe 2/3 actors taking up the mantle!

 

What a depressing thought. BUT at least I'll make the 75th Anniversary!

Congratulations and good luck.

[Professor Pi]

I remember reading about singer Warren Zevon who had a terminal disease in 2001 and he was saying he hoped to live long enough to see the next Bond movie.  He did, but it was Die Another Day.

 

As for me, coincidentally, the most depressing times in my life (career challenges, financial struggles, breakups, divorce) have happened to coincide with long gaps between Bond films.  But I always come back to Bond--movies, books, music--on the way to my 'resurrections'.

 

I find solace that there has always been Bond in my life since I was 10--no matter where I live, who I'm with, what job I work--and hope there always will be til the end.  TSWLM was my first, TLD was the first I saw with a date (she even had a Bond type name!), TWINE the first I took my stepson too, QoS the last I took both my parents too (my mother died the day before Skyfall opened), and I took my dad to see it last Thanksgiving. 

 

Bond's a few years my senior (though I'm older than Craig), so I hope we both make it to the 75th anniversary, if not the 100th!

[PPK_19]

I have a good 20.8 Bond films left! I'm happy with that!

[seawolfnyy]

I have 22-23 films left, depending on if I make it to 75 or 76.

[The Dove]

Check out this site..www.deathclock.com

According to this, I will pass away on Monday, December 19th, 2050 (so no point in me going Christmas shopping then) at the ripe old age of 72 years old..Bond film wise, assuming we get a Bond film every 2 years for the next 37 years, which would roughly be 18 more films..so hopefully I could hang on just long enough to see Bond 41 before I snuff it!
 
Just copying one of my posts from the "Random Thread of Randomness" thread...

[Major Tallon]

At my age, I'll be lucky to make it to the next one. 

[Pussfeller]

This thread isn't nearly depressing enough. These calculations are quite optimistic, and ignore the fact that the average interval between Bond films has been increasing over time. In the sixties, you had to wait on average 1.4 years between films, in the seventies and eighties you had to wait on average two years, and in the last two decades the average gap has been slightly longer than three years. The rate of output has been decelerating by something like six months per decade. If this trend continues, the first half of the 21st century will yield no more than a dozen new Bond films in toto.

 

By the time of the centennial of Dr No, the Bond series will have grown to perhaps thirty-five titles, of which several will merely be clip shows narrated by the disembodied head of Patrick Macnee. 170 years from now, our stunted, irradiated descendants will finally see the premiere of the fiftieth Bond film. By that time, Bond will have gradually evolved into some sort of wisecracking cartoon rabbit, and Ian Fleming will be remembered chiefly as the wacky neighbor of Noel Coward on the short-lived holo-sitcom The Queen of Kingston. All Korea will be ruled from the north, NATO will counterattack with nuclear weapons, and the entire gold supply of the United States will be radioactive for 57 years. 

[plankattack]

Crikey - this is the most depressing thread ever........

[AMC Hornet]

Look on the bright side - we'll all have at least twice as many Christmases to look forward to.

[seawolfnyy]

Thanks pussfeller.

[Iceskater101]

I am not even going to calculate this, I just know I have a ton of Bond movies left to watch..

[Dustin]

I remember reading about singer Warren Zevon who had a terminal disease in 2001 and he was saying he hoped to live long enough to see the next Bond movie.  He did, but it was Die Another Day.

 

Sorry, but I really had to laugh out loud about this. The gods of farce must have had a field day there.

 

 

As for me, coincidentally, the most depressing times in my life (career challenges, financial struggles, breakups, divorce) have happened to coincide with long gaps between Bond films.  But I always come back to Bond--movies, books, music--on the way to my 'resurrections'.

 

I find solace that there has always been Bond in my life since I was 10--no matter where I live, who I'm with, what job I work--and hope there always will be til the end.  TSWLM was my first, TLD was the first I saw with a date (she even had a Bond type name!), TWINE the first I took my stepson too, QoS the last I took both my parents too (my mother died the day before Skyfall opened), and I took my dad to see it last Thanksgiving. 

 

Bond's a few years my senior (though I'm older than Craig), so I hope we both make it to the 75th anniversary, if not the 100th!

 

That's the spirit!

 

Personally I don't think much about such matters. In fact my own main aim is more to read as many of the books I have in my library than anything else. Whatever fine films come my way are welcome, but I don't lose sleep (or time) over it. 

[Double-0-Seven]

I'm 20 now, and if I make it to 80 say, then that's 60 years worth of Bond left. I'll see the 75th Anniversary, the 100th, and have potentially 30 films to go if they crank them out every two years.

[Walecs]

I have about 60 years left as well (One every two years = 30 movies? WOW). I should make it with no problems for the 100th anniversary, even though I'd be 66 in 2062.

 

Think that Fleming had only 2 Bond movies left! I'm pretty sure wherever his soul is, he's able to watch Bond movies, as we'll be when we won't be on this earth anymore.

Edited by Walecs, 23 February 2013 - 10:43 AM.

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

Argentina's life expectancy - 71. I'm 22, so 49 years left. Damn, will die one year before Bond's 100th!

 

If they keep with the two years gap like in the old times, I'll have around 24 movies left!

[Professor Pi]

I have about 60 years left as well (One every two years = 30 movies? WOW). I should make it with no problems for the 100th anniversary, even though I'd be 66 in 2062.

 

Think that Fleming had only 2 Bond movies left! I'm pretty sure wherever his soul is, he's able to watch Bond movies, as we'll be when we won't be on this earth anymore.

 

Yes, well if the Casino Royale I'm watching in the afterlife is from 1967 instead of 2006, I'll have some serious soul searching to do.