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

I dont consider myself a huge fan of James Bond but I do like the movies. Therefore, I never considered buying any of the movies before. Once I saw this package was announced I kept monitoring it until the price went down to $150. Since I always wanted to watch all the Agent 007 movies, I decided this was a good buy for my. I just got the product (still need to watch all the movies) but here is what quick review of the product (not the movies): Here is what I like: - Elegant packaging - Movies are organized in chronological order - Only the necessary amount of disks (only one bonus disk) - Pictures of the movies within the packaging - Older movies were re-mastered Here is what I dont like: - Getting the disks out of the built-in sleeves inside the packaging might be difficult. - I think the packaging is a little bit bulky, it could have been smaller. In overall, Im very happy with this box-set. It is perfect for anyone wanting to watch all the movies or for any Bond fan not caring that much about extras.

9/26/2012 Received Bond 50 and I knew when I took the box from the UPS driver that it was heavier than yesterdays package. It does indeed include the book. These have 007 with a gun and Blu-Ray disc on each. There are no scratches or fingerprints on anything and each disc actually says Blu-Ray. I seriously think what I had yesterday was either a bootlegged copy with cheap DVD discs or a warehouse picker just sent me the regular DVD edition except it appeared that each DVD cover or whatever you call it, was bland and only had the title on it and all the DVDs had prints and scratches on them. I followed the Customer Service link today and rated all below as 5 stars (See, I *can* be a nice guy if I have enough sleep!): Ease of working with Amazon on your issue Excellent Quality of our service representative Excellent Amazons policy on this issue Excellent Now I get to watch them and will update how well they play on my 47 3D LG TV. 9/25/2012 I pre-ordered on September 12 WITH hardcover book. I have the original link that now re-directs to the no book page. Thats alright as I will include the original link in my return request. UNFORTUNATELY, there is no book in the package. Surely there are many people with this problem. The packaging is as shown, mostly. The flimsy case (on the left) holds the 2 DVD cases that come in it and it is is just a flimsy piece held together with the actual box containing the DVDs1. Most will discard this. You can see how the DVDs fit tightly but there is a small finger hold to slide your finger to get under it to slide the DVD out. This would not be an issue with true Blu-Ray discs. With these, they all had fingerprints and scratches on them and there were scratches on the inside of each of the 2 DVD holders. Pretty lousy packing; not taking precautions to put the discs in carefully. How can this possibly be used if it was just released today? Sending back without playing even 1. Should they send me a completely new package including book, I will update this review. They have acknowledged my return and apologized. The CS rep who replied advised that they would investigate what happened and a new one sent immediately.

] This is a wonderful transfer to Blu-ray for this great series. There is no doubt that this Blu-ray package represents the very best picture for these movies since their original theatrical release. I have owned this James Bond series on every medium released. VHS, Laser Disc, DVD and now this Blu-ray release. There is no comparison. This has stunningly exceptional video quality. The sound is also excellent. There are only a couple of the films where the sound mix levels were a little uneven (dialogue volume versus background music) but these are just a few instances and therefore quite negligible. Particularly at this price, I highly recommend the purchase of this Blu-ray set. I have just one complaint which is why my rating is a 4 and not a 5. The book that the Blu-ray discs are housed in, does not have the conventional center clasp that securely holds the Blu-ray disc in place. Instead, the discs are housed in a slot that you have to slide them in and out of. This is quite poor because of the risk of damaging the discs. I think that springing for the additional expense of proper disc holders within the book would have been worth it, even if it meant charging a little bit more for the product.

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.

I have been waiting a Looooooong time for something like this to come out, and Im so glad that I did, this box set is like a dream come true for any James Bond fan !! The Box itself is built pretty good, but I am not a big fan of the slide outs of the discs (Finger Prints) !! As far as the picture quality, its fantastic !! I grew up watching James Bond since I was a kid. I have seen all the movies in just about every format that it came out in (TV,VHS,DVD) !! And I got to say. this Blu-Ray collection just blew me away!! to compare the old versions to this Blu-ray collection, its like holding a candle to a spot light !! Its that dramatic !! I read some reviews on here before I bought it, and they were nitpicking about the quality of the picture, trust me, it looks fantastic !! I think my only beef is that the older films are in the Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 (no bars) and the newer Bond films are in the Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1 or 2.40:1 (Bars) !! Im not a big fan of the BARS!! I just feel that if you got all that space on a Blu-ray disc, use it, I dont care if you filmed it that way, give the customer a full picture !! (OK, I am done with my rant)!! All I am saying is that this is a gorgeous box set that you will enjoy for years to come, so just buy it, you not regret it !!

Lets start with the good first. The movies themselves are all excellent quality, great picture and sound on all I have watched so far. I am about 3/4 of the way through the collection now. No problems yet with the quality of the discs themselves or with the picture and sound as others have said. If it was just the quality of the movies that influenced my rating, it would be a 5 star rating. But there are 2 other issues that bring the rating down, one of them a major issue for me. The biggest issue for me with this collection is the on disc software that controls the playback of the movies. Unlike every other Blu-ray or dvd I own, this set will not let you stop the movie and then resume it later. You cannot pause the movie for too long, if the player times out and powers off from inactivity you lose your place in the movie. Every other disc I have, you can press stop once to stop the movie, but then press play and pick up where you left off, or press stop twice if you want to stop completely. If you pause any other disc and the player powers down, you can start it back up and resume where left off. But not with these. If you press stop, it stops the disc entirely and you have to start at the beginning and watch all the legal crap and preview and then try to navigate to close to where you thought you were when you stopped. And the chapter menu is not well laid out well, nor is it informative. The same if you pause and the player powers down, you lose your spot and have to start up fresh again and try to find your spot. I hardly ever manage to sit long enough to watch a long movie in one sitting, so this glaring omission with the disc software kills the whole set for me. It is a major pain to watch all the legal crap while the disc is booting up and then have to try to search the chapter selections for where I left off when all I should have to do is sit down, press play and watch the rest of the movie. The second issue is the packaging. For a collectors set, the packaging is very bad for discs. It looks nice on the outside, and inside. Good graphics, nice and shiny. But 2 things wrong with it, first and foremost is the way the discs are held in the package. The packaging is like a large hardback book with cardboard pages. The cardboard pages are 3 layers of thin paperboard with a slot cut into the outer layer on each side. the Discs are then just shoved between the cardboard. To remove the discs you have to put your finger under the disc and touch the data surface so you can pinch the disc to pull them out. No excuse for that type of packaging. The other gripe with the packaging is the size. I want my discs to be all fairly uniform in size so they can all fit on the shelves together. This however is huge and not suitable at all for shelving with other discs being in a board game size box of 11x7x2. It should be packaged in more reasonable disc holders with plastic trays that have a button in the middle to hold the disc.

Box set is beautifully designed (like a story book) with nice pictures of the Bond actors and villains. Movies are in order by year with the Bond girls next to their corresponding movie. My only problem is the packaging. The movies are slipped into cardboard slots wrapped in plastic, so youll end up with scratches and marks on your movies when you take them out. My copy of Octopussy was skipping at certain parts, so I had to stop watching it. There should be plastic tray holders instead of dvds wrapped in plastic. Would rate 5 stars if it werent for the horrible slot packaging. My copy actually came with Skyfall, so you dont need to order that movie separately.

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 Blu-ray collection of 22 James Bond movies allows the fans of 007 to view and compare the movies. After doing so, most fans would agree that Sean Connery IS James Bond. I think Connery best personifies Ian Flemings 007. Among the movies themselves, I rate Connerys movies as the best, with GOLDFINGER being the #1 Bond movie of the entire franchise. GOLDINGER established the Bond movie formula which was adhered to through most of the franchise until the remake of CASINO ROYALE. YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE and THUNDERBALL are right behind GOLDINGER as being among the best Bond movies. ON HER MAJESTYS SECRET SERVICE is rated by many as one of the best Bond movies with its only real minus being George Lazenby who, fortunately, didnt return after his one appearance as Bond. Roger Moores THE SPY WHO LOVED ME is the best of the Roger Moore 007 movies. I like Moores portrayal of Bond and think much of the criticism directed at him is undeserved. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS is the better of Timothy Daltons two Bond movies, although both of his movies were subpar compared to the rest of the franchise. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS is also composer John Barrys last Bond movie (Barry has a cameo at the end of the movie). With Barrys absence, the music for the Bond movies went into a downward spiral. Its fitting that the theme for DIE ANOTHER DAY is sung by a group called Garbage. SKYFALLs theme won an Oscar---so Barry should have won Oscars for GOLDFINGER, YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER and HER MAJESTYS SECRET SERVICE---their themes are clearly superior to the SKYFALL theme. Among Pierce Brosnans movies, I rate TOMORROW NEVER DIES, a dart at media moguls like William Randolph Hearst, et al. as the best of his group. CASINO ROYALE is Daniel Craigs best Bond movie, and its one of the best in the franchise. Although SKYFALL (not included in this particular collection, but included in the later version) earned over $1 billion in box office receipts and received much critical acclaim, to me its a Bond movie in name only. Director Sam Mendes said hes been a Bond movie fan since he was a boy and even had a model of Bonds Aston Martin DB5 (like me) introduced in GOLDFINGER. So in SKYFALL, he resurrected the DB5-----and blew it up. With fans like Mendes, who needs enemies. Among the collection are the really bad Bond movies including A VIEW TO A KILL, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH and DIE ANOTHER DAY. The collection does not include the original CASINO ROYALE and Sean Connerys last Bond movie, NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN, both of which are not official Bond movies from Eon Productions. The collection has stunning remastered video (especially GOLDFINGER) and many extra features, including very good commentaries by Roger Moore for his Bond movies. The one minus in the special features is the absence of Sean Connerys commentaries. Among the collections negatives is the deletion of the informative pamphlets for each movie that are included with the Ultimate Edition dvd sets. Another negative is the collections packaging----each Blu-ray disc is inserted into a page-like enclosure. To remove and return the disc to the enclosure, you have to put your fingers directly onto the discs surface which is taboo among dvd donts. Although Bond fans can buy the movies individually to avoid the bad ones, by buying the entire collection, you can compare and rate all of them. Viewing the bad Bond movies gives the fans a greater appreciation of the good Bond movies. Overall, the collection is highly recommended.

I bought this set for $177.00 the day it was released on Amazon, and now its a sale price of $238.00 ???? LOL.Merry Christmas sucker. Love amazon. The set is nice but I dont feel they really did that great of a lob on the transfer and because of the packaging there is no way to get the disc out with out touching it. Ive had a couple freeze up and had to clean them to get them to play. They were actually kind of stuck to the packaging slot they store in. Maybe to keep them from slidding around during shipping??? The packaging does suck but is very nice looking. Storing it with your other videos presents another issue if you like to be organized. Very awkward design. Pretty sure Q didnt design this set. Hope I dont have any other problems with the rest that I havent watched. This product deserved to be presented in a more fitting fashion for 50 years of bond. I had a couple of the single discs and these are the exact same as those. They did nothing to make them any better (and they could have used some improvement). In all I had all 22 movies in the latest dvd upgrade and these really are not that much of an improvement but they are better. The special features??? really dont feature anything new. Unless you just gotta have it in blueray then buy it but wait for the price to go back down after the holidays. Personally I could have lived with the latest digital upgraded dvd set and been wiser for it and $177.00 richer. but Im a bond nut what can I say.