James Bond Blu-ray Collection: Volume Two (For Your Eyes Only / From Russia with Love / Thunderball) [Blu-ray], starring Roger Moore, Sean Connery: DVDNear.com

James Bond Blu-ray Collection: Volume Two (For Your Eyes Only / From Russia with Love / Thunderball) [Blu-ray]

List Price: ~~$69.99~~
Our Price: $33.96
You Save: $36.03 (51%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $11.30 (click here)
Category: Blu-ray
See more DVD releases

Compare Prices for James Bond Blu-ray Collection: Volume Two (For Your Eyes Only / From Russia with Love / Thunderball) [Blu-ray]

Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada

DVD Cover Information

Actor: Roger Moore, Sean Connery
Brand: Sony
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Box set
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 364 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2008-10-21
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: MGM

Movie Reviews of James Bond Blu-ray Collection: Volume Two (For Your Eyes Only / From Russia with Love / Thunderball) [Blu-ray]

Movie Review: A Showcase Blu-ray Release
Summary: 5 Stars

Let me first state that I was completely unaware of the problems with playing these movies until I browsed through the Amazon reviews. It is disturbing to constantly hear of people who paid good money for their expensive players not being able to fully enjoy movies that are expected to play on them. However, I have not experienced any problems playing a Bluray movie ever and this review is only discussing my personal experience with this specific package.

THE GOOD:
- Incredible video quality, better than what the audience saw on release date on some of the older movies.
- Lots of extras, most of them worth watching or listening to.
- Beautiful packaging.

THE NOT SO GOOD:
- The sound restoration not as good as the video.
- Some of the 'extras' sections would benefit from a 'play all' option.
- The box could be a bit slimmer.
- May require upgrades on certain players.

The overall impression is of quality, inside and out. The box could be a little smaller but the packaging is exquisite. There's a transparent plastic slide cover over a solid cardboard box holding a small binder on which the 3 individual movie disks are pages. Each movie comes on one disk, holding the movie itself and in incredible amount of extras.

The menu interface is well organized and there's is even some humor in labeling. For example, the option that plays the movie is labeled 'The Mission' while the historic promotional material is found under 'The Propaganda'. Depending on which section you may be, menu options branch into further sub-menus.

The extras are numerous and, for the most part interesting. The From Russia with Love disk, for example, has 3 fascinating interviews with Ian Fleming, including one where Fleming and Chandler discuss their work and their heroes, the Propaganda sections show contemporary trailers, even radio commercials.

The sound options include the original sound which, in the older releases is 'mono' but all movies have surround 5.1 as the default. The sound wasn't upgraded and improved to the degree that the picture was but, it's understandable. Going from mono to 5.1 surround would be the equivalent of upgrading from black and white to full-color 3-D in the world of images. The area where some of the older installments show their age is the sound.

When it comes to the pictures, the best that I can say is that you've got to see it to believe it. The restoration of the older movies started with the actual original negative, which is the one copy that's almost never touched. Once the copy was digitized as a 4000 lines resolution digital copy (Bluray is 1080) every frame was reprocessed to eliminate any possible defects from 'dirty optics', such as the proverbial hair that we sometimes see on the older movies to scratches, bad exposure, color brilliance. The restorers' goal for the end result, and this concerns the video only, not the sound quality, was to deliver what would appear to be a contemporary movie with a 60's or 70's theme rather than a 60's or 70's movies. In my view, they succeeded.

My overall rating is a solid five-stars. Just about everything in this release is superlative: the physical packaging, the interface design, the extras, the video quality. The sound is not so good on the older movies but, given the state of sound restoration technologies, I did not feel compelled to remove a star because the old movies sounded more or less like they did on release date.

Please note that and I am not factoring in player issues because, sooner or later, those are going to be addressed.

Write your own review

More James Bond Blu-ray Collection: Volume Two (For Your Eyes Only / From Russia with Love / Thunderball) [Blu-ray] reviews:
1 2 3 4 5

Summary of James Bond Blu-ray Collection: Volume Two (For Your Eyes Only / From Russia with Love / Thunderball) [Blu-ray]

JAMES BOND COLLECTION VOL 2 - Blu-Ray Movie

Similar DVD Movies

Live and Let Die [Blu-ray]
Sony; Release date: 2008-10-21; Published: 2008-10-01; Blu-ray
Best price: $7.21
Price in other shops: ~~$34.99~~

Dr. No [Blu-ray]
Sony; Release date: 2008-10-21; Published: 2008-10-01; Blu-ray
Best price: $7.55
Price in other shops: ~~$34.99~~

Quantum of Solace [Blu-ray]
Sony; Release date: 2009-03-24; Blu-ray
Best price: $12.00
Price in other shops: ~~$29.99~~

Never Say Never Again [Blu-ray]
Release date: 2009-03-24; Blu-ray
Best price: $31.99

Goldfinger [Blu-ray]
Ultimate; Release date: 2009-03-24; Blu-ray
Best price: $6.48
Price in other shops: ~~$34.99~~

Casino Royale (Two-Disc Collector's Edition + BD Live) [Blu-ray]
CRAIG,DANIEL; Release date: 2008-10-21; Published: 2008-10-01; Blu-ray
Best price: $29.06

Licence to Kill [Blu-ray]
Sony; Release date: 2009-05-12; Blu-ray
Best price: $6.72
Price in other shops: ~~$34.99~~

The Man with the Golden Gun [Blu-ray]
Sony; Release date: 2009-05-12; Blu-ray
Best price: $8.11
Price in other shops: ~~$34.99~~

James Bond Blu-ray Collection: Volume One (Dr. No / Die Another Day / Live and Let Die) [Blu-ray]
Sony; Release date: 2008-10-21; Blu-ray
Best price: $33.00
Price in other shops: ~~$69.99~~

James Bond Blu-ray Collection: Volume Three (Moonraker / The World is Not Enough / Goldfinger)
Sony; Release date: 2009-03-24; Blu-ray
Best price: $29.97
Price in other shops: ~~$69.99~~

James Bond Blu-ray Collection: Volume Two (For Your Eyes Only / From Russia with Love / Thunderball) [Blu-ray]