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James Bond Blu-ray Collection Six-Pack (Dr. No / Die Another Day / Live and Let Die / For Your Eyes Only / From Russia with Love / Thunderball) (Amazon.com Exclusive) [Blu-ray]
Dr. No
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Released in 1962, this first James Bond movie remains one of the best, and serves as an entertaining reminder that the Bond series began (in keeping with Ian Fleming's novels) with a surprising lack of gadgetry and big-budget fireworks. Sean Connery was just 32 years old when he won the role of Agent 007. In his first adventure James Bond is called to Jamaica where a colleague and secretary have been mysteriously killed. With an American CIA agent (Jack Lord, pre-Hawaii Five-O), they discover that the nefarious Dr. No (Joseph Wiseman) is scheming to blackmail the U.S. government with a device capable of deflecting and destroying U.S. rockets launched from Cape Canaveral. Of course, Bond takes time off from his exploits to enjoy the company of a few gorgeous women, including the bikini-clad Ursula Andress. She gloriously kicks off the long-standing tradition of Bond women who know how to please their favorite secret agent. A sexist anachronism? Maybe, but this is Bond at his purest, kicking off a series of movies that shows no sign of slowing down. --Jeff Shannon
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This first in the series of james bond flicks pits 007 against a dabolical master criminal with plans to conquer the world. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 09/04/2007 Starring: Sean Connery Joseph Wiseman Run time: 110 minutes Rating: Pg
Die Another Day
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The 20th James Bond adventure, Die Another Day succeeds on three important fronts: it avoids comparison to Austin Powers by keeping its cheesy humor in check, allows Halle Berry to be sexy and worthy of a spinoff franchise, and keeps pace with the technical wizardry that modern action films demand. Pierce Brosnan's got style and staying power as James Bond, now bearing little resemblance to Ian Fleming's original British super-spy, but able to hold his own at the box office. He's paired with American agent Jinx (Berry) in chasing a genetically altered North Korean villain (Rick Yune) armed with a satellite capable of destroying just about anything. John Cleese and Judi Dench reprise their recurring roles (as "Q" and "M," respectively); they're accompanied by weapons-laden sports cars, a hokey cameo by Madonna (who sings the techno-pulsed theme song), and enough double-entendres to keep Bond-philes adequately shaken and stirred. With clever nods to 007's cinematic legacy, Die Another Day makes you welcome the familiar end-credits promise: James Bond will return. --Jeff Shannon
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When his top-secret mission is sabotaged, James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) finds himself captured by theenemy, abandoned by MI6 and stripped of his 00-license. Determined to get revenge, Bond goes head-to-head with a sultry spy (OscarÂ(r) winner* Halle Berry), a frosty agent (Rosamund Pike) anda shadowy billionaire (Toby Stephens) whose business is diamonds but whose secret is a diabolical weapon that could bring the world to its knees! Bristling with excitement and bursting with explosivespecial effects, Die Another Day is an adrenaline-pumping thrill-ride with "stunts and non-stop action [that] will astonish you" (Jeffrey Lyons, WNBC-TV)! *2001: Actress, Monster'sBall
Live and Let Die
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Roger Moore was introduced as James Bond in this 1973 action movie featuring secret agent 007. More self-consciously suave and formal than predecessor Sean Connery, he immediately reestablished Bond as an uncomplicated and wooden fellow for the feel-good '70s. This film also marks a deviation from the more character-driven stories of the Connery years, a deliberate shift to plastic action (multiple chases, bravura stunts) that made the franchise more of a comic book or machine. If that's not depressing enough, there's even a good British director on board, Guy Hamilton (Force 10 from Navarone). The story finds Bond taking on an international drug dealer (Yaphet Kotto), and while that may be superficially relevant, it isn't exactly the same as fighting supervillains on the order of Goldfinger. --Tom Keogh
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In moores first film as james bond 007 infiltrates a gang of narcotics smugglers leading him on a number of incredible chases. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 09/04/2007 Starring: Roger Moore Yaphet Kotto Run time: 122 minutes Rating: Pg
For Your Eyes Only
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After a ship sunk off the coast of Albania, the world's superpowers begin a feverish search for its valuable lost cargo: the powerful ATAC system, which will give its bearer unlimited control over Polaris nuclear submarines. As Bond joins the search, he suspects the suave Kristatos (Julian Glover) of seizing the device. The competition between nations grows more deadly by the moment, but Bond finds an ally in the beautiful Melina Havelock (Caroline Bouquet), who blames Kristatos for the death of her parents. The non-stop action includes automobile chases, thrilling underwater battles, and even a breathtaking tour over razor-sharp coral reefs. But all of this is merely a prelude to 007's cliffhanging assault of a magnificent mountaintop fortress. -- Robert Lynch
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James Bond is thrust into one of his most riveting adventures in this jam-packed free-for-all of outrageous stunts, passionate encounters and exciting confrontations. Roger Moore portrays Agent 007 with lethal determination in a plot that finds him racing
From Russia With Love
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Directed with consummate skill by Terence Young, the second James Bond spy thriller is considered by many fans to be the best of them all. Certainly Sean Connery was never better as the dashing Agent 007, whose latest mission takes him to Istanbul to retrieve a top-secret Russian decoding machine. His efforts are thwarted when he gets romantically distracted by a sexy Russian double agent (Daniela Bianchi), and is tracked by a lovely assassin (Lotte Lenya) with switchblade shoes, and by a crazed killer (Robert Shaw), who clashes with Bond during the film's dazzling climax aboard the Orient Express. From Russia with Love is classic James Bond, before the gadgets, pyrotechnics, and Roger Moore steered the movies away from the more realistic tone of the books by Ian Fleming. --Jeff Shannon
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James Bond 007 is sent on a mission to Istanbul to try and acquire a Russian cypher machine known as Lektor from a defecting Russian agent. However the Russians have no knowledge of this as it is a S.P.E.C.T.R.E. ploy to lure James Bond into a trap - a fitting tribute to their now- dead agent Dr. No.Run Time: 111 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:Â ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating:Â PG UPC:Â 027616066176 Manufacturer No:Â M106619
Thunderball
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James Bond's fourth adventure takes him to the Bahamas, where a NATO warplane with a nuclear payload has disappeared into the sea. Bond (Sean Connery) travels from a tiny health spa (where he tangles with a mechanized masseuse run amuck) to the casinos of Nassau and soon picks up the trail of SPECTRE's number-two man, Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi), and his beautiful mistress, Domino (Claudine Auger), whom Bond soon seduces to his side. Equipped with more gadgets than ever, courtesy of the resourceful "Q" (Desmond Llewelyn), agent 007 escapes an ambush with a personal-size jet pack and takes to the water as he searches for the undersea plane, battles Largo's pet sharks, and finally leads the battle against Largo's scuba-equipped henchmen in a spectacular underwater climax. This thrilling Bond entry became Connery's most successful outing in the series and was remade in 1983 as Never Say Never Again, with Connery returning to the role after a 12-year hiatus. Tom Jones belts out the bold theme song to another classic Maurice Binder title sequence. --Sean Axmaker
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The thrills never let up as James Bond dives into this riveting adventure filled with explosive confrontations and amazing underwater action sequences! Sean Connery brings his characteristic style, humor and magnetism to Agent 007 as he travels to Nassau
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 James Bond Blu-ray Collection Six-Pack (Dr. No / Die Another Day / Live and Let Die / For Your Eyes Only / From Russia with Love / Thunderball) (Amazon.com Exclusive) [Blu-ray]
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| User Reviews |  | Why do they keep doing this to us!!! Read more...
rating: 5
THE FIVE STARS AERE FOR THE BOND FILMS ONLY!!! Why keep screwing us Bond fans over and over.I mean,they release just 6(random!) older films,in no sort of order,get me wrong,I love James Bond films,I love Blu Ray,but this just does not take the cake,the right thing to do for the fans is release them in proper sets as follows,A Sean Connery collection,Roger Moore,Dalton,Brosnan,etc,most fans I know would like this idea MUCH better,and also release the movies seprately for those who only want certain titles!!! Heck they even did the same thing for the DVD's which were 5 random Bonds in 4 differnt collections for a total of 20,I do admit they did a great job w/ the remastering,and extras but still? And I heard that the Blu's have playback isuues w/ certain players,a Royale mess!!! I'll keep my DVD's and money until these are released properly!!! The five stars are for the films.not the way they are packaged.
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Bond is Back, Better Than Ever on Blu-ray Disc
rating: 5
With Daniel Craig back for his second turn as 007 (currently in theaters), now's as good a time as any to rediscover the classic film franchise that has become the most successful in history. And what better way to do it than on Blu-ray Disc where the films look and sound better than ever?
This six-pack provides a sampling of Bond throughout the years - a 40+ year span in fact - from the classic "Dr. No," where Sean Connery set the bar high for Bond, to Pierce Brosnan's final turn as the debonair spy in "Die Another Day."
Popping "Dr. No" into my player for the first time, my jaw practically hit the floor when I saw the luscious detailed images on a 92-inch 1080p projection screen. A 46 year old film has no right to look this good!
The main reason the films look and sound so good is that all twenty of the pre-Craig Bond films were painstakingly cleaned up and restored by Lowry Digital Images, each from the original camera negatives. The first nine films (including four of the films in this set) were all scanned in at a whopping 4K resolution, and the other eleven were re-mastered at full HD 1920x1080 resolution - a perfect fit for Blu-ray disc. While the 12 megapixel (4000x3000 pixel) mastering of the first nine films may seem like overkill, for 1080p high definition's 2 Megapixel image, the results speak for themselves.
The sound is no slouch either, with the films re-mastered in lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Surround (the original mono or stereo track is also included on each of the older films, for the purists among us). And make no mistake, this is no cheesy pseudo-surround effect. The producers went back to the original master sound reels, cleaned up the audio and re-created a truly immersive surround sound stage for each film. If you haven't seen the early Bonds before, then you're in for a treat with these Bond classic on Blu-ray.
As to compatibility, yes it is *very* important to note that some players (notably the LG BH200 and Samsung BD-P1500) currently have playback problems on some of these discs. But it's not fair to blame the Blu-ray Disc producers for the flaws of the machine manufacturers in meeting Blu-ray specifications. LG and Samsung have committed to providing firmware updates to fix any playback issues. But most of the current generation players (including the newer Panasonic and Sony players with the latest firmware applied) have no problems playing these discs. The fact is that Blu-ray is still an early adopter technology and is going to have some growing pains. But the ultimate reward to any possible frustration is the outstanding pictures and sound of which the format is capable, and nowhere is that truer than in this Blu-ray Disc set.
Full reviews of each of these discs are available on Big Picture Big Sound.
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Disc plays great on my Insignia. Everyone else's players have issues
rating: 4
It has been said there was a corrupt jar file on "For Your Eyes Only" and others have issues that can be fixed with firmware updates for the players (SPECIFICALLY THE SONY'S AND SAMSUNG'S).
All I gotta say the movies look great in High-Def and I'm laughing at people with the Sony and Samsung players! HAHA!
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BE AWARE OF THE PACKAGING!
rating: 2
These compatability issues, though iritating, are a format liability issue that will hopefully end soon. I am not sure why continuing to update would be necessary indefinitely. What I really don't like about this set is that the packaging itself presents problems if you someday hope to have a nice, clean, uniform Bond set someday. There are no hardcases for individual disks like the old DVD Bond collections. The outer case is kinda cool with slipcase, sorta fake leather texture and a nice multi-layer look into a pipe with a bond figure. However, once you open up the booklets, the holder for the discs is very cheap with just a foam knob pasted to the cardboard itself which will undoubtedly fall off over time. What one also must understand is that there are at least one or two bond films not licenced through the same studio so you are guaranteed that you will not be able to collect all the films in a similar set. The packaging will be simple blu cases on those most likely. Depending on your preferences, you should just go with the single cases to start with. For a short time after the release, you are going to get those free movie tickets(QOS)on each box anyway as long as you buy from a reputable dealer.
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Works fine on Blu Ray
rating: 4
I have played Dr. No, Thunderball, From Russia With Love Blu Ray's, on my PS3 and Sony BDP-550 without a problem ! Excellent Video and Audio !
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James Bond Blu-ray Collection Six-Pack (Dr. No / Die Another Day / Live and Let Die / For Your Eyes Only / From Russia with Love / Thunderball) (Amazon.com Exclusive) [Blu-ray]
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