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It's so entertaining and so much fun. I love it.
Pierce Brosnan is perfect in it.
But I own all of the films up to TND on LaserDisc.
I regularly put in GoldenEye (and the GoldenEye special) for nostalgic reasons until my bloody LaserDisc player broke...
VHS has a nostalgia for me, renting the Connery and Moore Bonds when I was a kid. I always liked the colors on the '80's CBS/FOX video transfers. I may start collecting the Bonds again on VHS.
I have the 1995 collection on VHS. I love the artwork on those cases.
I have a few of those, too. The LALD artwork was my favorite of those. I had bought them all in '95 replacing my 1992 editions. Eventually replaced by the SE DVDS. For my birthday this year my Dad had found a box set of the '95 collection so it's nice to have a few of those again. Brings back memories.
That film is just a big mess. Bond plots don't bother me unless they are completely off the deepend like skyfall and thunderball
The 95 "James Bond 007 Collection" are the sets I have. I also ended up buying copies if the Brosnan films on VHS for the full 20.
I have up to TWINE, which is still sealed.
Mine was FRWL, they all had superb artwork. I also have the 2003 Special Edition DVD collection, which is pretty much the same artwork.
Some of the R4 DVDs have a gunbarrel-shaped frame, like in the photo, but others have a square-shaped frame (couldn't find an image of those). The latter weren't sold with booklets.
Anyway, the artwork is, as you say, splendid. They haven't matched it since. The only one that strikes me as a bit weak is Octopussy's, with noticeable airbrushing in the explosion and Roger Moore's face. My DVD copy has different and better artwork (save for the frame, of course). It's this one:
What's there to say that hasn't been said already? The film starts off great but once we're treated to Iceland and the DNA therapy side plot, the film takes a nosedive faster than you can say Kil's name. I wanted to enjoy this one more but I can't rank it any higher than where it is.
1. From Russia With Love
2. Casino Royale '06
3. Dr. No
4. GoldenEye
5. Octopussy
6. The Spy Who Loved Me
7. For Your Eyes Only
8. Quantum Of Solace
9. Live And Let Die
10. You Only Live Twice
11. SPECTRE
12. The World Is Not Enough
13. The Man With The Golden Gun
14. A View To A Kill
15. Moonraker
16. Die Another Day
17. Tomorrow Never Dies
18. Never Say Never Again
Same here. Up to the pyramid scene.
Why do you have twine 6 times?
TND is worse then DAD?
Moore really doesn't look like himself here. Have they flipped the image of him horizontally?
I enjoy the first hour of Die Another Day. Once the invisible car is introduced, the film decides to throw everything out the window and become a DAF rehash. But there is still some good stuff - Bond getting captured, the scenes in Havana, Bond using that schlep from the bar to get into the clinic, the Blades fight sequence. Rosamund is great as Frost - the little she is given to do.
I believe TND goes downhill when Bond arrives in Hamburg. Very generic and they don't even attempt to try to do anything different. Along with a weak PTS, subpar action direction and cinematography, and an even worse performance by Brosnan are why I would rank TND lower.
This particular VHS cover is from North America. I found it here: 007homevideo.com/vhs_usa_07_hands_index.html Scroll to the right through the list of covers on the upper right and you'll see it.
The cover is indeed flipped. I don't understand how that works. The front side is on the left, instead of the right. Doesn't make sense, unless the images were edited to switch the front and back sides. Paging @007homevideo!
The cover's not flipped, they just cut off the side most people keep outward when they line things up.
The movie's only weaknesses are a bland villain and a wooden Bond girl. Almost everything else about it is iconic (heck, even Amasova is pretty famous), from the plot to Jaws to the Lotus and the chase to the theme song to that incredible jump. The movie is also the first one since at least OHMSS to even mildly examine Bond's internal life, his feelings about his job and his memory of his wife. This is obviously a tendency that would increase markedly throughout the series, with some mixed results, but here it works just fine in a limited dose. The only criticisms, again, are the nothingness of Stromberg and Barbara Bach's horrendous performance as Anya Amasova. Perhaps with those two problems resolved it would be one of the very best Bonds, instead of merely(?) a top tier one.
All in all, an excellent viewing experience every time, and its flaws, while irritating in theory, do little to hamper the fun.
I caught "Thunderball" recently as well.
I am so in love with this film. It's one of six films of my three beloved franchises.
The Living Daylights
GoldenEye
Star Trek The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek First Contact
Batman 1989
Batman Begins
GoldenEye is maybe the Bond film that is best structured. I view it as perfect really.
Everything makes sense and the cast is fantastic. Just look who many future stars it brought out.
Even the score is great overall. So many iconic moments.
Brosnan's introduction is the best since Connery's in DN. So many iconic images within a few minutes only. Campbell knew how to present Brosnan to the public.
I have seen this film, I don't know, must be over 50 times. Same for TLD.
Doesn't matter, I watch it about three times a year, same for TLD.
It never gets old, it never gets boring, it stays funny, exciting and I'm tempted to say it's the most important film of my adult life.
I was 14 when TLD hit the theatre.
It's fantastic how 22 years later you see actors like Famke Janssen, Sean Bean, Judi Dench, Robbie Coltrane and Alan Cumming still going strong, stronger than ever in some cases.
Six of the best films ever made.