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Bond 50 Blu-ray
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1962-2008 | 22 Movies | 2748 min | Rated PG, PG-13 | Sep 25, 2012
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Video
Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.40:1, 2.39:1, 2.35:1, 1.85:1, 1.67:1 Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1, 2.35:1, 2.39:1
Audio
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (less)
Subtitles
Dr. NoEnglish SDH, Spanish From Russia with LoveEnglish SDH, Spanish GoldfingerEnglish SDH, French, Spanish, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional) ThunderballEnglish SDH, Spanish You Only Live TwiceEnglish SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish On Her Majesty's Secret ServiceEnglish SDH, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish Diamonds Are ForeverEnglish SDH, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish Live and Let DieEnglish SDH, Spanish The Man with the Golden GunEnglish SDH, Spanish, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional) The Spy Who Loved MeEnglish SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish MoonrakerEnglish SDH, Spanish, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional) For Your Eyes OnlyEnglish SDH, Spanish OctopussyEnglish SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish A View to a KillEnglish SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish The Living DaylightsEnglish SDH, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish Licence to KillEnglish SDH, Spanish, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional) GoldenEyeEnglish SDH, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish Tomorrow Never DiesEnglish SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish The World is Not EnoughEnglish SDH, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Spanish Die Another DayEnglish SDH, Spanish Casino RoyaleEnglish SDH, Spanish Quantum of SolaceEnglish SDH, Spanish (less)
Discs
Blu-ray Disc Twenty three-disc set (23 BD-50)
Packaging
Slipcover in original pressing Custom
Playback
Region A (locked)
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Bond 50 (1962-2008)
Bond 50 Blu-ray delivers great video and audio in this must-own Blu-ray release
The set, which marks the first time the first 22 movies will be available on Blu-ray, begins with "Dr. No" (1962) and ends with "Quantum of Solace," (2008) and also includes more than 130 hours of bonus features. For more about Bond 50 and the Bond 50 Blu-ray release, see Bond 50 Blu-ray Review published by Casey Broadwater on September 26, 2012 where this Blu-ray release scored 5.0 out of 5. Directors: John Glen, Guy Hamilton, Terence Young, Lewis Gilbert, Martin Campbell, Lee Tamahori
Writers: Ian Fleming, Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Tom Mankiewicz
Starring: Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Maxwell, Bernard Lee, Roger Moore, Walter Gotell, Sean Connery
This Blu-ray bundle includes the following titles, see individual titles for specs and details:
Bond 50 Blu-ray Review
From MGM with Love
Reviewed by Casey Broadwater, September 26, 2012
The gadgets. The guns. The girls. The exotic locales and sexy cars. The white-knuckle action sequences. The suave flirting and cheeky double
entendres. He's been played by six actorsSean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craigbut there's
only one Bond, James Bond. Every man wants to be him, and every woman wants to be with him. (Some men too, I'm sure.) He's the
epitome of super-spy cool, and for fifty years nowfifty years!he's been an indelible part of our pop-culture consciousness. In terms of universal
recognition, Bond is right up there with Mickey Mouse and Darth Vader and Superman. Everyone knows his name, knows he likes his martinis "shaken,
not stirred," and knows his favorite pistol is the compact Walther PPK. You're probably even humming or whistling the iconic 007 theme song to
yourself right now, and if you aren't, I guarantee it'll worm its way into your brain sometime in the next five minutes. Instantly, more like. Admit it, it's
playing on a loop in your head right now. Bond isn't just a franchise, it's a revered institution. Yes, there have been a few duds along the way, but over
the span of twenty-two filmssoon to be twenty-three, with the upcoming Skyfallthe series has defined the international espionage sub-
genre, all the while reflecting the cultural and political changes of its times. Sure, in one sense, these are just action moviespopcorn
entertainmentsbut for their fans, these films are the height of cinematic escapism.
If you're one of them, this is the week you've been waiting for, although I kind of feel bad for you if you've purchased the thirteen Bond films MGM has
previously put out on Blu-ray. This new Bond 50 set is a complete collectionand, at $150, a great dealthat includes every 007 movie from
Dr. No to Quantum of Solace. (Minus the independently produced Never Say Never Again.) It even has an empty disc slot
"reserved for Skyfall." Instead of a massive write-up
summarizing and critiquing each film in the series and their A/V presentations, below you'll find links to our reviews of the previously released titles
the audio and high definition transfers haven't changedand you can expect comprehensive reviews of the nine remaining movies to pop up on the
site over the next two weeks. If you have been buying the Bond films individually, you should be able to find these nine new-to-Blu titles as
standalone releases on October 2nd, split three apiece to big box retailers as timed exclusives. Walmart gets GoldenEye, Octopussy,
and Diamonds are Forever, Best Buy will have On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Spy Who Loved Me, and You Only
Live Twice, and Target gets A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, and Tomorrow Never Dies.
Without further ado, let's take a look at exactly what's included in this massive, 23-disc set:
- Dr. No: In his first mission, Sean Connery's
Bond heads to Jamaica to face off against Dr. No, setting up several of the franchises' staples in the process. Look out for Ursula Andress' Honey Ryder,
the quintessential Bond girl.
- From Russia with Love:
Istanbul! A cryptographic device! Jaws' Robert Shaw as a SPECTRE assassin!
- Goldfinger: Pussy Galore? Yes, please. Plus,
Sean Connery really came into his own in this one, which has him protecting Fort Knox and saving the world economy from collapse.
- Thunderball: Bond traipses to Nassau to
locate two stolen nuclear warheads. Lots of cool underwater sequences.
- You Only Live Twice: Bond heads to the
Land of the Rising Sun to find out what happened to an American spacecraft that disappeared in orbit. Megalomaniacal villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld
would be famously parodied in the Austin Powers series. NEW TO BLU-RAY.
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service:
One-off Bond George Lazenby goes up against Blofeld and his beautiful young "Angels of Death" in the Swiss Alps. NEW TO BLU-RAY.
- Diamonds Are Forever: Bribed back to
the franchise with a $1.25 million salary, Sean Connery returns to infiltrate a diamond-smuggling ring. NEW TO BLU-RAY.
- Live and Let Die: Roger Moore's
inaugural outing is half espionage thriller and half drug-smuggling blaxsploitation filmoddly enoughfeaturing Gloria Hendry as the first African-
American Bond girl.
- The Man with the Golden Gun
: The series took a goofy turn under Moore's tenure, and Golden Gun goes defiantly over-the-top, with kung-fu fighting and a duel
inside a neon-colored funhouse. Not a high point for Bond.
- The Spy Who Loved Me: Bond and the
sexy Agent XXXwink, winktake on a Captain Nemo-style underwater anarchist. NEW TO BLU-RAY.
- Moonraker: Yes, Bond in space. One of the
more ridiculous and campy franchise entries.
- For Your Eyes Only: After the high
camp of Moonraker, the series came back down to earth, so to speak, with the grittier For Your Eyes Only. Still, a middling, forgettable
film.
- Octopussy: With a name like that, it's a pity
Octopussy (Maud Adams) isn't one of the better Bond girls, and Roger Moore's Tarzan imitation goes down as one of the most cringe-inducing moments
in Bond history. Still, a decent adventure film. NEW TO BLU-RAY.
- A View to a Kill: This was Roger Moore's last
and least favorite Bond film, but it at least features a loony Christopher Walken as a ruthless Silicon Valley industrialist and one of the series' best
villains. NEW TO BLU-RAY.
- The Living Daylights: Timothy Dalton's
debut as Bond brought the series back to a more realistic tone, with a Cold War, sniper-versus-sniper plot that takes 007 from Vienna to Afghanistan.
NEW TO BLU-RAY.
- License to Kill: Dalton's second and final
turn as Bond goes darker still, and more violent. 007 loses his license to kill, but that certainly doesn't stop him.
- Goldeneye: Pierce Brosnan's stint as Bond starts
with the ever-popular GoldenEye, which revamped the series for the post-Cold War era. Beware of Xenia Onatopp, the cold-blooded sexual
sadist. NEW TO BLU-RAY.
- Tomorrow Never Dies: Brosnan's second
turn has him taking on an insane media mogulthink a more deranged Rupert Murdochbent on manipulating China and the U.K. into war. NEW
TO
BLU-RAY.
- The World is Not Enough:
Here's where Brosnan's Bond started to go mediocre, with an emphasis on big dumb action over plot. This one also features Denise Richards as Dr.
Christmas Jones, arguably the worst Bond girl.
- Die Another Day: Too many gadgets,
too many explosions, too much CGI. It was time for another change, which brings us to:
- Casino Royale: This is how you reboot a
flagging franchise. Like Batman Begins, Casino Royale goes rawer, realer, grittier than any of its predecessors. And despite initial
wariness on the part of Bond fans worldwide, Daniel Craig proved to be a terrific 007, steely but vulnerable, and ready for action.
- Quantum of Solace: Craig
continues to make the role his own in Quantum Solace, a direct sequel to Casino Royale. The film was maybe unfairly maligned by
those who miss the comedy of the older entries, but it's sharp, smart, and exceptionally stylish.
Bond 50 Blu-ray, Video Quality
We'll have comprehensive reviews of the new-to-Blu-ray titles up shortly, but for now, after spot-checking all nine, I can at least happily report thatfor
the most partthey look fantastic, along the same lines quality-wise as the previously released films. Clarity is much improved, color accurate, and there
are no wanton compression or encode issues. Some of you may have gotten wind that GoldenEye has been given a heavy digital noise reduction
scrubbing, and yes, you will be able to see some fairly egregious DNR at times, though it's rarely taken to that gross, waxy-face look. (It's no
Predator reissue, if that's what you're wondering.) Just skipping through the chapters, I spotted a few instances of characteristic "frozen grain"
in some of the other titles as wella bit in The Living Daylights, some slight softening in Diamonds Are Foreverbut I'm honestly not
too hung up on it. From what I've seen so far, the films appearing in high definition for the first time here are much sharper and more detailed
than their corresponding DVD editions. And minus GoldenEyewhere the noise reduction is visible from a distancewhat little DNR is
present in the other titles simply isn't noticeable once you get more than two or three feet from your screen. I'm really pleased with how these
films have turned out.
Bond 50 Blu-ray, Audio Quality
The nine new releases in the set each feature a remastered lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround track, along with the usual assortment of dubs
and subtitles. (See links to individual titles for details.) Like the picture quality, the audio seems to be in line with what we've what we've heard from the
previously released films, with effects, ambience, and music satisfyingly expanded into the surround channels. Look out for full audio reviews in the days
ahead, but buy with confidencetaking into account their respective ages, these films all sound great.
Bond 50 Blu-ray, Overall Score and Recommendation
If you're a James Bond fanaticand you haven't already purchased the thirteen previously available filmsthe Bond 50 box set is a must-buy
release. Fifty years of franchise history is here, complete with 120-odd hours of bonus material. Considering the wealth of content you're getting, and
the satisfaction of seeing these iconic films anew in high definition, the current $150 asking price is nothing. The movies do look fantasticminus the
unfortunately DNR'd GoldenEyeand the sleek, sturdy box they arrive in is quite a looker too. I have a feeling MGM will be selling lots of these
during the holidays, but if you're buying for yourself, don't wait; that priceunlike diamondsmay not last forever. Highly recommended!
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Amazon's Blu-ray Deal of the Week affects MGM Home Entertainment's Bond 50 collection. Through February 16th, Amazon is offering this package for 57% off its standard MSRP. The deal expires at 12 AM PST/3 AM EST next Sunday, February 17th.
• Bond 50 Becomes Bestselling Blu-ray Box Set of 2012 - December 13, 2012
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment announced today that Bond 50 is the bestselling Blu-ray box set of 2012 with projected worldwide sales totaling $50 million in consumer spending to date. The unprecedented 23-disc ...
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