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They were actually released in 2000 (I'm nitpicking). They were released individually at first, followed by the boxset release. I remember buying them all individually at around £20 a time, which was very expensive. The only previous releases in the UK were GE and TND which cost me about £25 each, again very expensive.
Not to sound like a prick, but anyone who hasn't bought the Blu-Ray boxset, and can afford it, is an idiot. Even if you can't afford it, it's worth saving. For the price, it's more than a bargain and I would highly recommend busting your nuts to get it. The quality, particularly regards the early Connery's, is exemplary. Get buying people.
I have to confess I too did that last year :-S
Although I do have several on Blu Ray including DN, FRWL, TB, GE, CR and SF.
Personally I think most of them are perfectly fine on DVD. I'd say the early Connery's, GE, CR and SF are MUST's for Blu Ray though (although I suspect OHMSS and MR are good too).
They're more colourful than a lot of the subsequent films photography-wise.
That's one of the reasons. They all nearly look as great as each other. Like they were shot yesterday.
I was told yesterday that you can't hook up a blue ray player to a laptop because the HDMI ports on both the laptop and the blue ray player are outs. Two people previously told me that I could do this. So, unless I buy a whole new laptop that plays blue rays then the Bond blue's just aren't an option for me unfortunately.
That they do. I'm still upset I spent a grand on a MacBook Pro and it doesn't play blu-rays.
It might also have to do with the film stock used at the time. I am not an expert on these matters but I did read once that film stock in the 1970s and 1980s was far inferior to film stock used during the 1960s. So this might well be one of the reasons that the Connery Bonds look better on blu than the later ones during the 1970s and 1980s.
I've watched at least one a week, sometimes as many as seven a week for about 25 years. I never get bored of them. I guess it depends if you're one of those people who can handle repeat viewings. My better half doesn't like watching films for years at a time. I'll sometimes watch the same film two or three times in a week. When I was a kid I'd watch some Bond movies three/four times in a row while I sat drawing comics.
I used to watch the same Bond film four or five times a day/week when I was a kid, but now, I've grown to let my anticipation for one build up, I'll watch it, then I spread out the other over a period of weeks/months. I want to get into watching more of them weekly. I own all 23 films separately, and it doesn't really ever bother me. I'm just glad that I own them.
Everyone has their favourite Bond films and have different ideas obviously as to what makes a good Bond flick. By this rationale, the restoration team should make sure the that the quality is the same on all of them...even the Brosnan instalments. ;)
In a perfect world maybe, but we aren't living in one. I have heard that gems like the Connery films look tip top in the format, while others in the franchise seem to display much less restorative care.
This is a very good point and the reason that I went a year without watching a single Bond film a few years ago as I was starting to get sick of them as I am again now. Still, there are many movies out there that lend themselves to repeated viewings including the Bond films so I do like to own the films.
To this day I still only own the Bond flicks on VHS, with the exception of SF and NSNA that I have on DVD (I have CR on DVD but no longer watch it as it gets messed up in the scene where Bond is in M's apartment. Maybe it just needs to be professionally cleaned though). Characters, dialogue and story are more important to me than picture quality although having said that I have gone so long now without watching the Bond films with a better quality picture albeit I have hired out the odd Bond DVD from the video store in the past. In terms of box sets, I want to get the first six original Star Trek films, the original Pink Panther movies with Peter Sellers and maybe the Die Hard films too, although I don't really care about owing the latest one. :) I haven't seen these films anywhere near as often as the Bond movies though so I will hold off buying the Bond DVD's or Blue Rays for at least another year.
That's pretty bad really. It's not acceptable to think that they're not putting in an equal amount of effort on all of them. I love the Roger Moore ones too and these also feature some good exterior shots of beautiful locations unlike the Brosnan movies.
Damn! You have me beat on that one!
I'll watch YOLT, LALD, TLD, LTK and maybe SF again, then take a break from watching any of them for a while again.
Of course, what some have apparently disguised as a lack of hard work on restoring some of the films could in fact be something else entirely. The 60s films look brilliant not only for the great restoration, but also because they are the oldest and therefore the big differences in picture quality are much more noticeable, while the more recently made Brosnan films wouldn't show the same amount of improvement because of that factor.
It's better to have it and not want to watch it than to not have it and want to watch it.
Yeah, this makes sense. It's always when the Bond films are available for free streaming on Netflix, that I am never in the mood to watch them, but when I have a craving to watch something like say, FYEO, I don't have it.
I think I'll wait until Cyber Monday to see if I can scoop up a copy for a bargain.
It's also on gohastings.com for $113 used, and with a 30% off coupon that'll place it at roughly $80, but it's sold out so you'd have to keep your eyes peeled for when/if it restocks. So many great deals are going on there right now, but pretty much everything is sold out right now.
Out of curiosity, which films do you dislike and why did you decide they offered likeable qualities once you owned the box set?