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We watched The Thursday Murder Club last weekend on Netflix.  It has Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, and Ben Kingsley.  Also David Tennant has a small role.  I have pretty much the same review of it as Agatha Christie's Seven Dials I last reviewed.  I wouldn't say drop what you're doing and go watch it, but if you need a fun way to kill a couple of hours, give it a try.  

Eh. As someone who says they're "not big on rewatching movies in general", why would investing in both physical media and hardware to play it back, be all that important?

The key word is movies.  I have frequently rewatched TV shows I loved, and will probably continue to do so in years to come.  I get tired of "comfort shows" I like to kill time with disappearing and not being available as their contract with one streamer expires, and the next one waits to begin....if it ever does, and who knows when that will be.  Content switches homes too much--or is homeless--and as content housing becomes bifurcated with each new streaming service that pops up, I'm not willing to have subscriptions to everything I would ideally like.  

There are a few things here and there I rewatch frequently, and may well continue to do so.  It's best if they're available to me no matter if or where they live online, and no matter if the internet decides to go out. 

The other key word is me.  My wife has gobs of movies on DVD she claims she would like to rewatch, though she rarely does so.  Eventually I'm gonna try to load them all up on the server, when I finally get it fixed.  

Another thing is, around holidays and long weekends you can almost always find movie marathons showing LOTR, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Marvel, and James Bond, on the various channels associated with the studios like FX, USA, TNT, etc.  If you get ahead of the game you can just set them to record off your YTTV or cable service if that's what you're using.

Of course, even they say that the length of time they'll hold your recording is finite, and they could abruptly terminate your recordings if they feel like it.

I enjoyed the first couple of Mission Impossible movies and then they were just all kind of the same.  I think I stopped after #4.  Same thing with the Jason Bourne movies, although actually I think I stopped after #2.  I liked them, but after a couple, I'd seen enough.

I can also understand people, and especially kids, not getting into Bond.  It suffers from the same problem, and if you're watching chronologically, it also suffers from being quite dated in its oldest incarnations.

For me, I watched all but the very oldest Bond movies live in real time, rather than as some vintage movie marathon.  One of the things I like best about them is that each few movies, each generation of Bond, kind of acts like a cinematic time capsule.  The clothes, the cars, the sets, the scenery, the acting, the direction-- all capture their specific moments in time in what I consider to be an interesting way, but all tied together by the over-arching character that is James Bond 007.

And I think being a Cold War kid also helps with the appreciation of the earliest installments of the series.

I think it was TNT that used to do the "__ Days of 007 every years at Christmas".  They showed 2 a night, and with commercials it was 5 hours of must watch.

My brother's big Christmas gift one year was all of them...on VHS

I had seen all the MIs, but my take was largely yours.  I remember really enjoying them, and then never rewatching them, with the exception of 3, where Phillip Seymour Hoffman maybe saved the franchise.  But I also didn't really remember the overall plot line, and it also never seemed to matter.  But watching them all in a row over Christmas, I found it quite enjoyable.

Granted I was also enjoying James Bond.  And getting back to the original question, Dr. No is fine.  From Russia With Love might be my favorite.  So there's another example

Well it's not another example, it's the first example, because of course original Star Wars is the best movie in the franchise.

But I do agree, From Russia With Love is better than Dr. No.

Oh and I did really enjoy Phillip Seymour Hoffman's performance in MI3.  He was chilling.  It's the first time I really noticed his greatness, before that I just considered him to be a good character actor and most notably, the doofus wearing a Sooner hat in the movie Twister. 

In fact his performance in MI3 is probably the reason I bothered watching MI4 before giving up on the series.