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[zencat]

They look pretty darn fugly. Why or why won't they use original poster art?

Even though I now have a Blu-Ray player, I'm not going to rush out and get these. I have the UEs for the extras and I'll rent the Blu-rays from Netflix to watch. I've felt a little abused with how they've released the Bonds on DVD (holding back on a monster box until the end, etc.). Going to sit on my hands for now.

Besides, the zillion different versions of Devil May Care that you've bought may have set you back a bit and emptied your bank account.

It has been a pricey year. And, remember, we still have one more book to go (By Royal Command). Gotta get my zillion copies of that one. Not to mention the usual QOS swag. Yeah, Blu-Rays can wait. Unless they release a Blu-Ray Octopussy, then it's on!

Is is sort of ironic that this news breaks on the very DAY I get my Blu-Ray player.

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

Thunderball cover:

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Bond On Blu-ray

CBn's definitive guide to 007 in hi-def

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It's a nice concept, but horribly executed.

In particular, Thunderball's Connery and Die Another Day's Halle Berry look atrocious. Even the images chosen for the centre of the gunbarrels are pretty dull.

Also, 20 of 'em run the risk of looking a bit same-y (bit like the films themselves, some might argue).

[Bondian]

Never judge a Blu-Ray Bond by it's cover.

I agree. They look like something I'd create with my limited Photoshop skills. Have seen more attractive cover art on my hemorrhoid cream tube.

Besides the better compression (and maybe sound). Is there any real bonus forking out for these?

If these are the same as the UE's, are we're still going to get the lack of imagination in some of the films? I.E., in GoldenEye the film is unnecessarily cropped etc?

Haven't got a dedicated Blu-Ray player yet, but Alex won a PS3. Just need to get the monitor at some stage.

EDIT. BTW. Anyone seen these deals?

http://www.buymobile...ihtml?fgid=1604

[Qwerty]

It's a nice concept, but horribly executed.

My thoughts exactly. I have no problem with them trying to incorporate the gunbarrel or 007 or things like that, but why do we always get the same washed out images of the actors. Too generic.

Ah well - guess it's to be expected at this point.

[Bondian]

Ah well - guess it's to be expected at this point.

Hey, Dev. You're a tall good looking geeza. Can't you pop over there and sort them out? Just mention that you're the OO7 Bond and you may get some action from them.

[Professor Dent]

I wish they'd just use the original posters as covers instead of these horrible photoshop images. If I recall correctly that's pretty much what the old VHS tapes used to have.

Agreed, but I guess what really matters is what is on the inside of the case, not the outside.

I've made peace with these already - I'm more concerned with what is on the inside as well. I do like the Brosnan pose on the Die Another Day cover but that Connery Thunderball cover shot is bad. Fortunately, I seem to be more drawn to looking at Claudine Auger anyway.

[stamper]

Anyone noticed all these movies selected are first / new beginning ?

Dr No first
FRWL first movie with the pre-titles and setting up the formula
TB first in widescreen 2.40
LALD first Moore reboot
FYEO was made as the first of the new Bond and a reboot in style for the 80's, only Moore came back.
DAD first bond of the new millenium and a Matrix style like failed reboot
CR reboot

[Mr Teddy Bear]

Anyone noticed all these movies selected are first / new beginning ?

Dr No first
FRWL first movie with the pre-titles and setting up the formula
TB first in widescreen 2.40
LALD first Moore reboot
FYEO was made as the first of the new Bond and a reboot in style for the 80's, only Moore came back.
DAD first bond of the new millenium and a Matrix style like failed reboot
CR reboot

If you wanted to you could pick and chose "firsts" from every Bond movie. It seems they just picked a few classics and a few recents. The ones that will make the most money.

[Skudor]

I've surrendered to the covers. Won't be surrendering to the price anytime soon though - it will drop and i'll pick up the Connery ones when cheaper. What will be really interesting is seeing what kind of reviews the transfers get.

[stamper]

Probably clones from the UE with a better definition.

[col_007]

Anyone noticed all these movies selected are first / new beginning ?

Dr No first
FRWL first movie with the pre-titles and setting up the formula
TB first in widescreen 2.40
LALD first Moore reboot
FYEO was made as the first of the new Bond and a reboot in style for the 80's, only Moore came back.
DAD first bond of the new millenium and a Matrix style like failed reboot
CR reboot

LALD is no reboot

[DamnCoffee]

Probably clones from the UE with a better definition.

I was looking in a magazine today. DVD and Blu Ray review I think it was called, and they had an article on the James Bond releases and apparently, they are trying to get Connery commentarys. Plus they said they are competing with the UE's so expect loads of special features.

[Skudor]

Probably clones from the UE with a better definition.

I was looking in a magazine today. DVD and Blu Ray review I think it was called, and they had an article on the James Bond releases and apparently, they are trying to get Connery commentarys. Plus they said they are competing with the UE's so expect loads of special features.

That's very good news.

[DamnCoffee]

Yes. It is rather. Isn't it!

I only had a flick through, so dont quote me on that. But I'm pretty sure that's what it said.

[sharpshooter]

apparently, they are trying to get Connery commentarys. Plus they said they are competing with the UE's so expect loads of special features.

That would make my day, hell, year. I hope it comes to fruition.

[Turn]

Probably clones from the UE with a better definition.

I was looking in a magazine today. DVD and Blu Ray review I think it was called, and they had an article on the James Bond releases and apparently, they are trying to get Connery commentarys. Plus they said they are competing with the UE's so expect loads of special features.

I don't know if I believe this at all. He would demand a mint for his time, would likely want to do a warts and all, which would not please Eon and considering how many times his own autobiography has come and gone, why bet he would want to do this?

Maybe I just expect the worst as Connery isn't nearly as entertaining as a Roger Moore is in interviews. He's okay on a talk show or something, but I just can't imagine him sitting down to comment on his Bond work.

As much as I like Connery as Bond, I'd be just as intersted to hear from the other actors. Lazenby would have a unique perspective and Brosnan's memories would be fresh, but why would he want to work on something that still probably brings up potentially bad feelings. Dalton never has that much to say, so I wouldn't expect a lot from him.

But if someone is willing to pull these together, I'd be more than happy to buy them again.

[Safari Suit]

I seriously doubt they will manage to rope Connery in for commentaries. That said, it's one of the few things that would twig any kind of enthusiasm in me for more editions.

[Skudor]

I seriously doubt they will manage to rope Connery in for commentaries. That said, it's one of the few things that would twig any kind of enthusiasm in me for more editions.

Amazing picture quality would do it for me (as I don't have the UEs) but a Connery commentary would be cool (hell will freeze over first though). Mostly I'd be excited if the genuinely try to compete with the UEs - that should raise their game. Just copying the UEs would be a little boring.

[Shaun Forever]

Never judge a Blu-Ray Bond by it's cover.

I agree. They look like something I'd create with my limited Photoshop skills. Have seen more attractive cover art on my hemorrhoid cream tube.

Besides the better compression (and maybe sound). Is there any real bonus forking out for these?

If these are the same as the UE's, are we're still going to get the lack of imagination in some of the films? I.E., in GoldenEye the film is unnecessarily cropped etc?

Haven't got a dedicated Blu-Ray player yet, but Alex won a PS3. Just need to get the monitor at some stage.

EDIT. BTW. Anyone seen these deals?

http://www.buymobile...ihtml?fgid=1604

I got my free Playstation 3 through them, had to get a Vodaphone contract, but was worth it.


As for the cover art, well it's disgusting, had they used the original poster artwork, I would have bought them, regardless of features.

[stamper]

The worst cover is the THUNDERBALL COVER. My 4 years old daughter could past up different bodies and faces of Sean Connery better than the lamentable bloke who did this joke of a sleeve.

[Qwerty]

I'd be amazed if we eventually saw Connery commentaries on these.

[tdalton]

Those covers are awful, and I'm beginning to wonder if we're ever going to get good covers for the Bond films. The Special Edition DVDs aren't particularly good looking, nor are the Ultimate Editions either, but both looks infinitely better than these covers.

As for the actual films, I'm not particularly eager to get them. Once all of the films are on Blu-ray, they'll probably turn around the next week and announce a 3-D Hollogram version of the film or a Virtual Reality version of the film in order to make the experience even better. I think that it would be better just to finish obtaining the Ultimate Editions and upconvert them on a Blu-ray player rather than shelling out the $35 that these films are surely going to cost in stores. At this point, for the price of one of the Blu-rays one could probably purchase one entire volume of the Ultimate Editions and then have some money left over towards the purchase of another volume.

[Qwerty]

Those covers are awful, and I'm beginning to wonder if we're ever going to get good covers for the Bond films. The Special Edition DVDs aren't particularly good looking, nor are the Ultimate Editions either, but both looks infinitely better than these covers.

As for the actual films, I'm not particularly eager to get them. Once all of the films are on Blu-ray, they'll probably turn around the next week and announce a 3-D Hollogram version of the film or a Virtual Reality version of the film in order to make the experience even better. I think that it would be better just to finish obtaining the Ultimate Editions and upconvert them on a Blu-ray player rather than shelling out the $35 that these films are surely going to cost in stores. At this point, for the price of one of the Blu-rays one could probably purchase one entire volume of the Ultimate Editions and then have some money left over towards the purchase of another volume.

They really are planning the release schedule of these pretty nicely to grab every single available dollar from the interested consumers. Seems like it was only yesterday that the Ultimate Editions were being released.

[tdalton]

Those covers are awful, and I'm beginning to wonder if we're ever going to get good covers for the Bond films. The Special Edition DVDs aren't particularly good looking, nor are the Ultimate Editions either, but both looks infinitely better than these covers.

As for the actual films, I'm not particularly eager to get them. Once all of the films are on Blu-ray, they'll probably turn around the next week and announce a 3-D Hollogram version of the film or a Virtual Reality version of the film in order to make the experience even better. I think that it would be better just to finish obtaining the Ultimate Editions and upconvert them on a Blu-ray player rather than shelling out the $35 that these films are surely going to cost in stores. At this point, for the price of one of the Blu-rays one could probably purchase one entire volume of the Ultimate Editions and then have some money left over towards the purchase of another volume.

They really are planning the release schedule of these pretty nicely to grab every single available dollar from the interested consumers. Seems like it was only yesterday that the Ultimate Editions were being released.

Exactly. Aside from my top 5 Bond films (LTK, FRWL, TLD, FYEO, DN), I will not even consider purchasing the other Bond Blu-rays (and I may not even get my top 5 films either). While I do enjoy most of the Bond films (DAD, TMWTGG, and DAF excluded), there's not many of them that I enjoy enough to warrant the $35 price tag that often accompanies Blu-ray discs. If they dropped the price all the way down to $20, then I might reconsider (assuming the video transfer is good).

[Donovan Mayne-Nicholls]

They look pretty darn fugly. Why or why won't they use original poster art?

Even though I now have a Blu-Ray player, I'm not going to rush out and get these. I have the UEs for the extras and I'll rent the Blu-rays from Netflix to watch. I've felt a little abused with how they've released the Bonds on DVD (holding back on a monster box until the end, etc.). Going to sit on my hands for now.

I completly agree. Problem is, with the arrival of the internet came this new breed, the "instant fan". The guy who wants to accomplish what would normally take one a good decade in say, a year. A lot of these fans who'd go compulsive about upgrading immediately but wouldn't bother to track down sat out-of-print Gardner novels. From your posts, I can see you've been a fan for quite a while and as such, one doesn't rush into rebuying things. I spent roughly half a decade in getting the whole series on vhs and skipped the SE's altogether because I knew there'd be UE's at some point in the future. BR is still in its infancy and I reckon it'll be another decade before one can truly say the upgrade's truly worthy (There's a big issue with BR's looking "fake" because they iron out all the irregularities of standard dvd's: people who've never watched a movie in a cinema think film grain is video noise).
I could understand all this if BR meant 2.39:1 tv screens where you wouldn't need letterboxing even for anamorphic prints but the truth is the improvement will only be marginal.
And the BR covers are the worst I've ever seen. I can actually understand the Bonds not sporting the original posters as a collecting should sport a unified look (and anyway, I have the posters) but this is ugglier than the SE's and that is no easy feat.

[tdalton]

And the BR covers are the worst I've ever seen. I can actually understand the Bonds not sporting the original posters as a collecting should sport a unified look (and anyway, I have the posters) but this is ugglier than the SE's and that is no easy feat.

Agreed. I can't say that I'd particularly want to see the original posters as the artwork on the Blu-rays, but I would, for once, like to see something that actually looked good on the covers of a home video release of the films.

I'll be interested to see how they go about releasing the Blu-rays. It does make sense to release them in intervals rather than all at once as the amount of money that it would take to buy all 21 films at one time would be a simply massive amount of money, but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised that if, around the time BOND 24 is released, if the process was started all over again and there was then a new Super Ultimate Blu-ray Edition of the Bond films, and the process would start all over again.

I think that what needs to be done with the Bond Blu-rays is for the production company to just release what would become the "final" home video release of the Bond films. Later, if there was some truly special bonus material that was uncovered, then it may be worth going back and re-releasing them again (but I don't see that happening), but otherwise, I would like to see several years pass by (perhaps even a decade, if not more) before the films are re-released yet again.

[Shaun Forever]

Look at this

http://www.play.com/...;searchsource=1


2 Disc ultimate editions? plus a picture of the box set.

[Problem Eliminator]

Look at this

http://www.play.com/...;searchsource=1


2 Disc ultimate editions? plus a picture of the box set.

Good find. Happily the TB cover is missing the pasted-in FRWL hand and gun featured on the previously released art. The 2 disc element sure is curious...