Bond 50: The Complete 22 Film Collection [Blu-ray]

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The blu-ray box edition of the Bond films cant be beat. Anyone who even likes, let alone loves the Bond films, are in for a treat, especially if one has a nice home theatre system...wide screen, surrond speakers and a top notch blu-ray player. As for the films themselves, there isnt a loser in the bunch. While some are obviously better than others, they all have some wonderful qualities, be it story, actors, sound, theme music, scenery...or all of the above. No sense giving run down of plots, but I DO have my favorite Bonds and titles after viewing the entire collection!!! My favorite Bond is....are you ready for this? Yes, ROGER MOORE. He brings something that no onther actor does to the character. Sure, hes a bit tongue-in-cheek and times, but thats what makes his portrayal so wonderful. His best is FOR YOUR EYES ONLY and SPY WHO LOVED ME. Worse MOONRAKER Second favorite Bond is Sean...Hes the orginal, if you dont count the TV version...and excelent as Bond. His best; GOLDFINGER; FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. His worse: DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER. Third best: Pierce Brosnan. More like Sean, but a glimmer of Roger and just the right age. His best: GOLDENEYE; WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH. Worse: DIE ANOTHER DAY Fourth: George Lasenby. Granted he didnt make more than one Bond (a pity), but he was very good in ON HIS MAJESTYS SECRET SERVICE. fifth/sixth: Tied for the bottom of the barrel as Bond. Both Daniel Craig and Timmothy Dalton are much too dark as Bond. Much too serious. No fun with them. I know most people like the serious Bond, but not I. Best of Dalton; LIVING DAYLIGHTS. Best of CRAIG..None!!! Even in SKYFALL he fails as Bond. Too bad. If either Brosnan or Moore were in the Craig/Dalton films Id rate CASINO ROYALE as the best. Having said all that, its still a treat to have all the Bond films and I will indeed add SKYFALL to my collection when available. Happy viewing!!!

Based on my experience with this box set so far I wanted to address some of the general concerns Ive seen on other reviews and comments: - Received the Limited Edition with the posters book as expected. (The Exclusive Excerpted Edition as promised by Amazon to early customers) - Although I pre-ordered when the price was higher, I was charged $149.99 thanks to Amazons Pre-order Price Guarantee - All Blu-ray discs are on pristine condition, no finger prints and/or scratches of any kind (I checked all 23, one by one) - Received all movies, No duplicates or missing discs. - The posters book is not inside the Blu-ray book case but they are packaged together on the same shrink wrap and have a golden sticker that says Limited Edition - All discs up until The Living Daylights include the PG version of the movie. From Licence to Kill onwards they are all PG-13 versions, no uncut or unrated versions included. - No Digital Copy or Ultra Violet code is included with this set. (No way to play these movies on iPad, iPhone or Portable device) Packaging: The Blu-ray books are spectacular and make for a great presentation and a really high-end feel for this box set. I can see why people complain about getting the discs out, Its certainly difficult the first few times, but once you get the hang of it, you can get them out with less hassle. Blu-ray restoration quality: This is for hard-core videophiles, most fans wont even notice (or care) about the Blu-ray restoration. Bottom line is, these movies look and sound way better than they ever have before. But for those concerned about DNR (Digital Noise Reduction) and EE (Edge Enhancements) I have now watched several of the movies on this set, specially those that havent been previously available on Blu-ray and I have to report that although picture quality is greatly enhanced, they do suffer from mild DNR (Digital Noise Reduction) and sometimes heavy Edge Enhancements. The DNR is very mild and not as bothersome as on some other Blu-ray restorations from MGM (Thanks FOX!), but the overuse of Edge Enhancement really shows on some scenes, where the edges of certain objects/characters seem fuzzy against the background. Again, nothing to be concerned about and totally in line with earlier 007 Blu ray releases like Dr. No or From Russia with Love, just nitpicking. Summary: Overall a great box set and highly recommended for any 007 fan (Hard-core or n00b). Its one of the better box sets Ive seen recently, not just on the movie content (and quality) which is undeniably great, but also on the packaging and presentation.

If you are a fan of James Bond, this is a great collection to own. These include all official movies made by Eon Productions up through Quantum of Solace. While Skyfall is not included, there is a space for the disc to be housed when it comes out on DVD. The whole set is like a coffee table book, which I love. Each movie has a Bond girl from the movie by the disc slot. The special features on making the movies are great as well (if you are into that sort of thing, which I am). Overall I love the set. I only have two issues: 1) On the DVD menu, to start the movie you must select Initiate Mission. Its cute, but when I first popped a disc in, took me a few minutes to figure out which option started the movie. Just a play option would have been fine. 2) the slots the discs are held in arent very good and have no padding. As the whole thing is made of cardboard, you have to be careful taking out the discs to ensure they do not scratch.

Ive always loved the Bond films. Now the Complete Blu-Ray Set of virtually all the Bonds. Packaged good for holding 22 discs. This set I believe can sell itself to any Bond fan. You wont get all the new individual movie case covers pictures for the discs that are out now individually but those discs are exactly the same and its amazing to fit all the films in this condensed package for taking up much less space. It even has a blank spot in the case for the new Bond Skyfall DVD which comes out in approximately 2 weeks. Inside the case you do get various pictures that are not in the individual DVD cases. Please note that for those who do not know: A Bond rival film titled NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN is not included in this set because it was not an Albert Broccolli Bond film. It was actually a rival Bond Film and some other source books and fans say it was a remake of Thunderball. The film came out in 1983 at the same time as Octopussy did, so Connery and Moore were both out in the movies at the very same time. NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN was a Kevin McClory production, a Talia Shire Film, and at the time I think Warner Brothers released it. Anyway since its not included in this set-and its Connery as Bond, people have been wanting it and unfortunately its currently out of print and mostly out of stock for people trying to get it to complete their Bond sets. When you look on Amazon here or even sellers from eBay sources the ones being sold are for unbelievable prices. Iam sure it will be re-released in the near future and the price will come down to normal. One dissapointment I do have I would like the Bond DISC-MAKERS to know about: Every Bond film on Blu-Ray is perfect picture wise-with the best menus and best extras I have ever seen. For most of the movies the sound is great too, but I have noticed this before this set came out: I did an audio comparison of THUNDERBALL: The 2006 MGM Ultimate Edition first remastered Lowery film restored Thunderball standard DVD audio version versus the audio playback of the first remastered Lowery film restored BLU-RAY DISC that was in the Metal BLU-RAY Case also from 2006-those first releases. I notice that the voices on the BLU-RAY VERSION are much lower where the sound effects blow you out of your chair especially during that opening pre-credit fight sequence. You have to turn it up quite a bit at the beginning of THUNDERBALL BLU-RAY to hear what Bond and the girl are talking about and when Bonds first fist hit comes with the music its so loud you jump to turn it down. When you play the STANDARD Thunderball it is the same film remastered by Lowery but the sound is perfectly balanced where this does not happen. It sounds better actually because its balanced and you dont have to make any adjustments. The talking aspects are much more distinct and full throughout the entire standard disc and I even hear more background sounds on this Standard Disc versus the BLU RAY Thunderball. Iam going by the first Lowery remastered released Thunderball set Ultimate Edition 2006 MGM 2-disc set which has the louder & more distinct talking vocals which was sold separately or found in Volume 2 out of the 4 James Bond Ultimate Edition Sets. In these volume sets the cases were slimlined cases, the cover art was designed black-boarded with Connery holding a speargun and the single sold 2-disc Ultimate Edition set had the same covers but all were not slimlined cases. I dont know if the new 2013 standard is the same or not, but you will notice the audio difference on the Black-bordered 2006 Lowery Standard Edition 2-disc set. I have not noticed any other Bond film with this audio problem. All other BLU-RAY versions are perfect or near exact audio wise to their standard Lowery DVD remastered counterparts. This new 2013 BLU-RAY entire set still has the overloud audio on the sound effects versus the lower talking audios on the current 2013 Thunderball-Blu-Ray in this new set. So I hope the BOND DISC-MAKERS READ THIS TO FIX FUTURE PRINTS OF THUNDERBALL AUDIO BLU-RAY. Check it out if you dont believe me. Its not an equipment setting- and it does not matter if your playing your audio 5.1 or 7.1 or no matter how you try to adjust your sound on your equipment-- its the way the disc audio is balanced , remixed and encoded on the BLU-RAY. Still I give this set 5 stars for what you actually get is great: well packaged, complete, great menus, great picture quality, and all in one box.

This review is by a fifty-something male who has watched all the Bond shows previously. Some salient points Id make are: 1. I bought the DVD collection for about $100, so the cost per movie seemed acceptable. 2. Show quality was good. 3. Nice to have them all together, even the Roger Moore ones. 4. Interesting to watch through the series how the Bond character evolves from the suave, rump-spanking chauvinistic character of the sixties (Connery) to the damaged-goods sensitivity of the new millenium Bond (Craig). 5. The singular irritating thing that the producers of the DVD did was to make the audience endure a short commercial touting the Bond series, as well as the FBI warning. You cant bail out early. How f_______ irksome! Why advertise what we have already bought? 6. Id still recommend the purchase despite the forced commercial.

I found this collection to be just what I wanted. I know there are people who are critical about some of the films; however, as someone who first saw Dr No in the theater, this puts all the films into one neat package with a quality that is really good. A few things about watching these films: it is fun to watch the technological advancements from film to film; watching the Bond cars progress from a Sunbeam Alpine to the DB5 to todays cars brings back memories of all those neat vehicles; and seeing the gadgets Q provides can make you smile. If you are a Bond enthusiast, this is for you. If you want the perfect reproduction like you saw in the theater, you might want to find a copy of the original film and use a projector. As long as your firmware is up to date, you should have no problems with any of these disks. Enjoy all the pluses and minuses . . . but ENJOY these films!

My only beef with this set is the book. I paid the full 180 for this with the book instead if the 150 discounted price that didnt have e book with it. The book is only 70 pages and abridged. The full book is less than 30 bucks and I could have had both if Id just canceled my order and got the cheaper set and book seperately. Other than that I have no complaints. The case is sturdy and, with a little practice I can get the discs out of the sleeves unharmed. I like having the slot for Skyfall but dont know if I want to really use it when the film comes out. The movies look excellant in HD. Ive already watched all the ones previously available so I am starting with You Only Live Twice and the video quality and sound are first rate. If you have all the previous Bond Blu-rays sell them to get this set (except for Casino Royale 2disc Blu as it has some features not found here). This is well worth the purchase and a welcome addition to my collection.

Since people are asking about which movies are included, I did some internet research. The list of movies is: 1. Dr. No* 2. From Russia with Love* 3. Goldfinger* 4. Thunderball* 5. You Only Live Twice 6. On Her Majestys Secret Service 7. Diamonds Are Forever 8. Live and Let Die* 9. The Man with the Golden Gun* 10. The Spy Who Loved Me 11. Moonraker* 12. For Your Eyes Only* 13. Octopussy* 14. A View to a Kill 15. The Living Daylights 16. Licence to Kill* 17. Goldeneye 18. Tomorrow Never Dies 19. The World is Not Enough* 20. Die Another Day* 21. Casino Royale* 22. Quantum of Solace* *Already available on Blu-Ray Never Say Never Again is not included since it is not part of the series, being produced independently. Likewise the David Niven spoof of Casino Royale. Also, there was a British TV version of Casino Royale that is not included.

When I got this set, I thought I was going to win Wife of the Year. My husband and I are huge Bond fans. These do NOT disappoint from the quality of the DVDs to the art. Every movie has its own disc as well. I even got it for a third of the usual price in pristine, unused condition because someone else bought it for the digital version. They kept the codes and resold it, so I purchased it secondhand at a DEEP discount. It is worth full price though. This is an investment in your entertainment library that is sure to please for decades to come. It is extremely giftable as well! ** If you like my review, please hit Helpful to motivate me to write more. **