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

Half price is realistically what it should go for anyhow. Yes it is a bit cumbersome to get the discs out, I can manage but some folks certainly will have issues with that. I like the book style packaging nonetheless, and they look classy too. The book of Bond posters is a nice touch, but I wouldve really liked a detailed timeline book like the Planet of The Apes collection came with. As far as the movies, Ill only comment on the one Ive really been waiting for in blu ray, Golden Eye. Beautiful, crisp, detailed presentation well beyond what the DVD offered, and the sound is astounding too. Its been a long wait but Im reasonably satisfied with the overall package, it wouldve been nice to have a slot to put my Never Say Never disc in though seeing they couldnt included that disc.

I grew up watching these films on video borrowed from our local library. Inspite of all the re-runs and marathons on satellite TV, I hadnt seen most of these in years. Ill have to say that in retrospect, these films have stood the test of time. Aside from one really horrible CGI scene in Die Another Day (and that equally horrible theme song), Id rate this the best collection of films ever. The one drawback to this set is that all the discs have the same menu and there are no previews until you get to Quantum of Solace, which appears to be the standard Blu-ray issue. Not sure why they didnt redo it for this collection (well I am not suprised from a finance standpoint, but from a design standpoint, I dont get it at all), but I found it broke the branding of the rest of the set. The extras are kind of plain. I was expecting more out of the Bond actor interviews but the segment flew by in about 5 minutes. In any case, Id certainly recommend this set to anyone who doesnt already own more than two of the previous films, but if you do, theres not much else to draw you in to buy unless youre just trying to complete your collection.

The packaging is fine as far as looks go but its a bit of a pain to remove and replace the discs. Being cardboard you will inevitably bend or crease either the case or one of the books. One thing that I dislike about the discs is that you cannot go directly to the PLAY screen. That option should be available for any disc with another option for those that like to look at all of the other c-r-a-p that you normally have to wade through before you can watch your movie. Scour Amazon for better pricing. I was unaware that they had released a 23 disk set and found, just after my purchase, that it was the same price as the 22 disc set that I got at the time.. I already had the Skyfall Blue-ray but would have liked to have an additional disc. Today I see that the price for the 22 disc set is much less but you never know what might happen down the road so spend a few minutes extra to see whats out there. Now the long wait for the next Bond film release! Best, E

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. **

I love this box set. It sits proudly on my shelf in horizontal face-out position right between the likes of Blade Runner and Chronicles of Narnia (alphabatized by Bond) Very classy of them to include a slot for Skyfall. Even after I already bought Casino and Quantum I still thought that at $149 it was totaly worth owning every film (FINALY!) in one set, organized chronologically. Ive been watching these over and over again since I was a kid. Ive owned them both on VHS, first run DVDs, and the Lowry Remasterd Ultimates. These, while probably not considered perfect to most hardcore videophiles and Bond Enthusiasts, are definately a few steps above the Ultimates. Diamonds are Forever is my favorite transfer, and Dr. No. All of them are way better than the VHS versions, most of which were formatted, cropped, and mutilated beyond recognition. The 4K scan of Dr. No. is amazing. How they make a 60s film look like it was made last year is beyond me. In particular, costume and set details are astounding. I found myself analysing artifacts on Ms desk! They were mastered by the same company that did the Indiana Jones films. Essentially, these Blus are modifications of the Ultimates. They have almost all the same extras with a few new tidbits. The docs narrated by Patrick Macnee are always entertaining, and the presentation looks nice upscaled in HD (with nice borders around original SD frame). Whats cool is they are all on the same disc as the film so you can pop them up on the fly and drop back into the movie after. My biggist dissapointment is a lack of a resume feature which almost every FOX blu-ray has. The menus are upscaled, flashier, yet re-hashed versions of the old Ultimate discs. Sometimes they are a bit loud and obnoxious but are still classy, if not a bit old fasioned looking. They are similar in style to the Universal blu-rays. Menu on the side bar, montage of the film in the middle. I honestly would have liked to have seen a bit more creativity in the menus, especialy since this was a 50th release. Its nice they are all the same on every disc though. The box sets are nice, but the pages with the photoshopped images seem to be wasted space. Would be cool if they included factoids and liner notes about each film. Its that similar, glossy cardboard packaging that the Alien set has. I dont have complaints about these boxes (like I said, the cover looks really nice on my shelf). Its worth getting these. I love all of the Bond films in their own ways. They each own a spot in cinema history. Definately if you are a Blu Ray collector you should have this set. It will look like the crown jewel sitting on the shelf.

NB: As is their wont, Amazon have bundled the reviews for the Blu-ray and DVD boxed sets together. This review refers to the Blu-ray edition. Please bear in mind that the DVD version only includes the one-disc versions of the films, losing nearly all the extras apart from the audio commentaries. With the release of Skyfall imminent, EON and MGM/UA have finally got around to releasing the remaining Bond films that werent on Blu-ray (with the exception of non-EON entries Never Say Never Again and the 1967 Casino Royale), releasing them in a lavish boxed set thats surprisingly sturdily constructed but offers virtually nothing new for those who have already faithfully collected the Ultimate Edition DVDs. The plentiful extras have been carried over pretty much wholesale from those two-disc releases, with one exception - Casino Royale is a strange hybrid of the two-disc special edition and first single-disc release, containing most of the special editions extras but losing Martin Campbells picture-in-picture commentary, two featurettes (The Art of the Freerun, Catching a Plane - From Storyboard to Screen), the revised documentary Bond Girls Are Forever, storyboard sequence and filmmaker profile featurettes (Martin Campbell, Chris Corbauld, Phil Méheux, Gary Powell, Alexander Witt and David Arnold). The version of Die Another Day only features the extras from the Ultimate Edition, with the much better extras from the original DVD release, including the 76-minute making of documentary, still AWOL. The picture quality is for the most part very good, though its not always as convincing as you feel it should be, with the suspicion that some scenes have been scrubbed up a little too brightly compared to the way they looked on the big screen. GoldenEye thankfully corrects the overcropping of the Ultimate Edition DVD release that was particularly noticeable when cutting off letters and numbers on video displays and is now in the proper framing but it has some noticeable DNR work done on it, though its not as dramatic as some reports claim. More worrying is that the UK set doesnt offer the original mono soundtracks on the early Bond films that were previously released on Blu-ray, such as Dr No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger and Thunderball, instead offering remixed stereo tracks that often favour the sound effects a little too much. The new to BD titles do contain the original mixes, but if you want them on the earlier films youll have to buy the US set - which will cause a problem for those without multi-region Blu-ray capability since the set is a mixture of Region A-locked titles (Dr No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Licence to Kill, The World is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace) and Region-free ones (You Only Live Twice, OHMSS - thankfully the uncut version - Diamonds Are Forever, The Spy Who Loved Me, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies). As for the exclusive extras disc - well, its a huge disappointment. Rather than include any new extras from Quantum of Solace such as the deleted The names Bond. James Bond ending or any of the slew of other promos or documentaries about the series its just a brief selection of soundbites, very brief featurettes, a few video diaries for Skyfall and a collection of title sequences from the films. Theres no booklet either, but at least the book-style packaging for the films is especially strong, has a space reserved for Skyfall and is designed for repeated use - which plenty of these films will be getting

Received, today. Pre-purchased on Amazon. There is no point in reviewing the films. You either like them or you dont. You know what they are. The films, together, have 120 hours of special features, so there is enough here to take a couple of weeks of essentially non-stop viewing (with sleep, of course). Most has been released before. There is a bonus disc of new content. As others have said, the non-franchise films are not included and there is no reason to have expected them. I like the packaging. The discs are divided in two hard-back books, with stills from the films on the opposing pages. There are two discs per page, one disc per film, with a picture of a relevant Bond Girl next to the release date beside each disc. The two books are slip-cased. It is a classy looking and sturdy package. I have no trouble removing them from the pages, and have yet to have to touch the surface. None of the ones I received had any fingerprints on them, so I have no idea what the other reviewer is speaking of.

This set is packaged very nice. Two books with stiff pages that hold 2 discs each, organized by year the movie was released. Three discs were in the wrong slot when I opened the box, but no big deal. Audio and video quality is excellent.

I am one who refused to buy any James Bond films on Blu-Ray because they were just releasing these stingy little 3-fer box sets and yet you still couldnt get all the James Bond films on Blu-Ray yet. So, buying only about ten of the only available 007 James Bond discs would definitely prove to be disappointing knowing that a complete box set is inevitable. Since Dr. No came out exactly 50 years ago so, of course, they are going to release a special 50 year celebration box set of all the James Bond films on to Blu-Ray. I have over 200 Blu-Ray films and so Im pleased with myself that I refrained from buying any James Bond Blu-Ray discs because I saw this coming that a major box set was yet to come. Ive been burned before by buying pieces to a collection one by one, and then a complete collection comes out at a majorly lower price later. Well, not this time! So, bring it on, 007. To me, its all or nothing! I await the day to have it all!

I love the Bond Franchise, but I hate what they have done with this set. Yes all of them are on Blu Ray, and they all look fantastic. I drooled when I saw Dr. No when I popped in the disc. Its the way Fox packaged it that gets me annoyed. Theyre in these two big paper booklets, it gives you no information unlike the little pamphlets they gave you in the DVD Collection, and its impossible to take a disc out without ripping the ends off the page. The next thing is the special features. If you are a Bond fan there is nothing new on here. They just threw together a six minute montage of all the Actors who played Bond, they have the World of Bond which is just clips from the movie, and they have the video blogs from Skyfall that you can watch online. All the special features from the DVD are already on here. I also was supposed to receive a book of poster variants, but I never got it. I paid 150 for something that I could have gotten for 100. Amazon was nice enough to give me a refund, so to them thank you and I will return to shop here. (See what I did there =]) In any case, (I did it again!), if you just wantt to own all of them on Blu Ray and dont give a damn about the Special Features go right ahead and buy it. The transfers are beautiful like I said before.