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

I have watched two movies so far. Dr. No and Goldeneye. If you are a Bond fan and have a BluRay player you have to own this set. If you already own the previous Ultimate Bond Collection in DVD (I do) and have a decent receiver that upscales well from 1080i to 1080p (mine is an Onkyo 5009) you would be hard put to it to see a difference in the picture. The sound is a different matter. The BluRay has more detail and more surround effect. Its worth it! I did not like having to pry the discs out of their slots in this set. Looks great! Takes up little room!! But it seems easy to damage them. The album has nice pictures, but there is a dearth of written information when compared with the DVD Ultimate Collection. I havent looked for special features yet on the BluRays, but the DVDs have an extra disc for each movie. Except that I was ripped off because one of the special features discs (I think it was Goldeneye) was missing from the (new?) DVD collection and I did nothing about it. (My Bad).

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The product was exactly what my husband wanted for his birthday and he is super excited that I got this for him he wasnt expecting it- well kindof not. I ordered the item and waited in my in-box to remove the order information so it would be a surprise for him. I even made sure I picked up the package from the front door so he wouldnt have any clue about what I ordered for him. The only NEGATIVE was nothing to do with the product but with Amazons promotional department. Why? Well two days before my husbands birthday we get an email saying You bought Bond 50 you may like the following...... He did see that one and was happy about the gift but felt bad that the surprise was gone. I was super annoyed and disappointed.... Thanks Amazon for screwing the surprise up.. I guess next time I will have to make a fake email up to receive all the junk emails from Amazon if I really want it to be a surprise.

It has been great fun to own the entire collection and watch the progression of James Bond movies in sequential order. The video quality is excellent, especially for films that were made starting in 1962. The original film (not a copy) was scanned frame-by-frame in 4K resolution, then restored by hand and the painstaking effort shows. Im watching the movies using an Oppo BPD-103 Blu-ray player and a Panasonic TC-P55ST60 plasma screen. There are various extras on each disc, that range from pretty basic to excellent. The packaging is beautifully done and is as impressive as the quality of the movies. They had the foresight to include a slot for Skyfall, which had not been completed when this collection was released. I have also purchased Skyfall to complete the collection. Overall, I am very pleased with this purchase and have already enjoyed hours of entertainment.

ARRIVED ON TIME AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. MY REVIEW MAYBE LATE I HOPE CONSIDERED APPLICABLE. OUTSTANDING COLLECTION. THE MEDIA BE PACKED DIFFERENT TO PREVENT POSSIBLE DAMAGE BY USER TO ACCIDENTALLY DAMAGE IN USING THE DVDS. EXCELLENT COLLECTION OF THE EARLIER PRODUCTIONS. EVEN A PLACE FOR THE NEXT TITLE. THE QUALITY OF VIDEO IS VERY WELL COMPENSATED AND IMPROVED OVERALL AND REPAIRED GREAT MAKING A TREAT TO VIEW. PRESENTED CORRECTLY IN ACCURACY AND UNCHANGED FROM THE ORIGINAL. I LOOKED FOR A COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE OF ALL THE TITLES MADE FOR VIEWING AND THIS COLLECTION AS MY FATHER REALLY ENJOY BEING ABLE TO PICK ANY TITLE MADE. MY FATHER VERY RARELY WATCH ANY MOVIE ONLY ONCE NEVER TO SEE IT AGAIN. BEING THIS HE WILL WATCH DIFFERENT TITLES ONCE IN A WHILE WHICH I ENJOY HIS TIME WITH ME IS VERY PRECIOUS. I WILL HAVE IT IN MY COLLECTION WHICH IS SEVERAL HUNDRED IN TITLES AND IT HAS TO BE EXCELLENT IN ITS PRESENTATION QUALITY REPRESENTATION AND PICTURE QUALITY. I AM WEIRD TO WATCH MORE AND GET NEW SLANT OR ITEM IN TO SEE SO I DO FREQUENTLY. THE NEXT TITLE PRODUCED AS TO THE NEXT TITLE IS COMPATIBLE IN PRESENTATION AND STORY LINE AS NOW IS TO BE A REALLY GREAT CHANGE IN THE PERCEPTION OF THE PERSONIFICATION OF BOND!!!! .

I waited a long time for this and at a very reasonable price for all 22 James Bond Eon Productions titles. I had bought these titles on VHS, then again on their Laser Disc release, then again on their initial DVD release and then again certain titles on BD. I could not afford to buy all 22 on Blu-ray until now. We are watching each of them in order again and enjoying them even more in High Definition. The quality is superb and the sound is worth spending extra for a good theater surround sound system. The only thing this collection does not do is give you the high definition versions of the 2 remaining James Bond movies filmed. The original film version of Casino Royale (1967) and Never Say Never Again (1983) with Sean Connery reprising his iconic role as the Secret Agent. By the way, I do have these two in Blu-ray to make my collection complete (And I did not pay $400 for the latter one as quoted on the net. Look around you may find it for $12.99 like I did. If you are a dedicated 007 aficionado, dont pass this one up!.

Ive owned some of the individual releases previously, but with the new store-exclusive Blu-rays being a pain to track down I gave in and bought the set. Amazons $100 sale price was a great deal and Im glad I jumped on it. This is a great-looking set in a sturdy outer-box with two book-style inner cases to house the discs. Im not too thrilled with having to slide the discs out and back in every time I watch one, but luckily with proper care they wont get damaged. I would still rather have seen them placed on a more traditional hub-type holder though. Overall, the aesthetics of the set outweigh the questionable disc-holding design. It takes up much less space than having all the films in individual cases, and the front of the box is very stylish in my opinion. Ive only owned the Connery films that were previously available on Blu-ray, but the HD picture quality was outstanding on those. Im still floored by how good films like Dr. No and Goldfinger can look in high definition on a big tv, so Im looking forward to finally seeing all the Bond films on Blu-ray. Great set and an excellent deal from Amazon (with fast shipping) - thank you!

It is a nice set, just much smaller than I thought it would be. The books are very solid and everything is very well made. The pictures in the book are semi-glossy, but not really. You do need to almost actually touch the info side of the Blu-ray disc to get it out of its holder, I dont really care for that. Yes, Goldeneye is very heavily DNRd in some scenes. Mostly it looks decent, however the entire presentation that I skipped through seemed to have a little more DNR than it should have. Ill keep watching, but through each and every chapter that I searched though, there was DNR present. Over-all Goldeneye looks about as good as when I streamed it in HD off of Amazon Instant Watch earlier this year. But the sound is much better! It actually seems like some of the landscape scenes are a little too sharp. Really though, this is probably the best it has ever looked. Ok, as far as the menus go, all the original Bonds from Dr.No through Casino Royale have the menus that the old Blu-ray individual releases had. Quantum of Solice does have the different menu, which was the same as the original Blu-ray individual release. Over-all this is the best, most complete BOND set ever made. A very nice edition to my box set collection.

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.

Its quite a treat to have all the Bond films to date in HD, in one package. They were even nice enough to include an empty slot for the 2013 Blu-ray release of Skyfall (although a coupon for a free or discounted copy would have been icing on the cake). I bought all the MGM Special Edition DVDs back in the late 90s/early 2000s, and was impressed with the video quality even then. Well, most of these simply blow those releases away. Dr. No is 50 years old and looks like it could have been shot last year. If youve got a good home theater setup and like Bond, theres no question you must have this set. However, as others have mentioned, the packaging leaves much to be desired. It certainly LOOKS nice at first: Two hardcover DVD books in a sturdy hardcover shell. Then you open it up, and see that there is simply NO way to remove a disc without either tearing the package or getting your fingerprints on the playing side of the disc. I was further disappointed to find NO supplemental physical materials, such as an informative booklet filled with glossy photos. Even the aforementioned DVD releases had nice booklets detailing each films production. This actualy extends to an overall gripe I have with Blu-rays: Do companies really think that movie lovers who care about movies enough to invest hundreds or even thousands of dollars on home theater equipment are really not interested in knowing more about the movies we love, and possessing some physical media related to them? For those who may not have bought the DVD releases but do indeed enjoy learning more about the movies, youll be happy to know that almost all the discs have extensive bonus material relating to the individual films, and the Bond legacy as a whole. The Connery, Lazenby, Moore, and Dalton films each have nice 30 to 40-minute documentaries on the films themselves. Many, many other featurettes cover 007s girls, gadgets, guns, music, exotic locations, etc. For those with the time to explore them, its a real treasure trove. If you can overlook the packaging deficits, its a fantastic opportunity to own the very best quality copies of these films. I pre-ordered and got the set for $150, so I definitely think it was worth the money.