The James Bond Collection, Volume 1
by Guy Hamilton, John Glen, Martin Campbell, Roger Spottiswoode, Terence Young
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Actor: Izabella Scorupco, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Pierce Brosnan, Sean BeanDirector: Guy Hamilton, John Glen, Martin Campbell, Roger Spottiswoode, Terence Young
Writer: Bruce Feirstein
Writer: Ian Fleming
Writer: Jack Whittingham
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
DVD Release Date: 1999-10-19
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Movie Reviews of The James Bond Collection, Volume 1
Movie Review: The Best Box Set Of The Three!
Summary: 5 Stars
The James Bond 007 Collection on DVD is something ALL fans MUST have! The films transfers are beautiful! The extra features are so cool! This is the best Bond set of the three, due to the wide variety of different films. I don't care if the films aren't in correct order (as I said in my reveiw of James Bond 007 Colllection Volume 2). Thus, this boxed set is a very interesting mixed bag of different Bond actors. Personally, my favorite would have to be Roger Moore. My least favorite? Without any thought, surely Pierce Brosnan. Brosnan's a great actor, but just can't do Bond to well. He's also to Pretty for me. Bond's sopposed to be tough. Well, Brosnan's NOT! But, it's nice to have his two films in this set. The World Is Not Enough is an OK entry, but II consider it a plus it isn't in here. Anyway, you get seven very good Bond films on EXCELLENT DVDs! The first is Goldfinger, directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Sean Connery as Bond. In this film, Bond must go after Auric Goldfinger, because he's smuggling gold. He comes in contact with three gorgeous woman, Jill Masterson (the golden girl), Tilly Masterson, her sister out for revenge because Goldfinger had her killed, and Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman), who's tough as nails and doesn't mind getting in a fight with Bond. Goldfinger's a great Bond film. It was the first Bond to introduce to us lots of cool gadgets and gags (watch out for the Aston Martin DB5), and was the first blockbuster hit of the series. It was followed by another blockbuster mega hit, Thunderball, directed by Terence Young and also starring Sean Connery. In Thunderball, Bond goes after Largo, an evil badboy who is planning to bomb Miami! Bond races against time to try and stop him. Full of spectacular underwater action sequences and tons of cool gadgets, Thunderball ends up being one of the best of the series. The next Bond film in the set is Live And Let Die, directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Roger Moore in his first role as Bond. In this film, Bond must fight psychotic villian Kananga (Yaphet Kotto, Alien, Freddy's Dead The Final Nightmare) who's planning to make lots of money off shipments of heroin. In this film, Bond seduces psychic Solitaire (Jane Seymour), who's powers depend on her keeping her virginity. Live And Let Die is a good, not great, entry. Some scenes are exciting, but some special effects WAY to fake (watch out for Mr. Kotto turning into a big rubber guy and popping). The next film is another Roger Moore one, For Your Eyes Only, directed by John Glen. In this exciting entry, Bond is faced with a sunken ship. He must find the device it was carrying, the ATAC, which can encode bombings anywher, anytime. Bond teams up with Melinda Havelock (Carole Bouquet) who's out for revenge because her parents were killed. This is a good entry, with some interesting twists in the plot. The next entry in this set is the very violent Licence To Kill, directed by John Glen and starring Timothy Dalton in his final role as Bond. Licence To Kill is hard edged, almost completely humorless entry, with lots of violence and gore, and a very different plot from other Bond films. Bond is enraged when he finds his best freind, Felix Lieter (David Hedison, Live And Let Die, The Fly), chewed up by a shark, and his bride murdered. Bond goes on a personal vendetta, quitting the british secret serivce and heading out to find drug dealer Sanchez (Robert Davi, Die Hard) and murder him. Licence To Kill is an interesting Bond picture, although it's a surprise that it got away with a "PG-13" rating. It really deserved an "R". The next film is Goldeneye, directed by Martin Campbell and starrin Peirce Brosnan in his first outing as 007. Here, Bond's out to stop 006, Alec Trevelyn (Sean Bean) from blowing up London and collecting all money from the banks (by computer). This is an OK film, not the best. There's some cool stunts, but the one near the beggining where Bond rides off a cliff on a motorcycle and proceeds to (without a parachute) climb onto a falling plane is so laughably unrealistic you may have less of a good time the rest of the movie. The last film in this set is the weak Tommorow Never Dies, directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Peirce Brosnan again. In this film, propably the worst in the whole set, Bond goes after media magnate Elliot Carver (Johnathan Price) who plans to (surprise, surprise) blow up London with a gigantic missile. So, Bond teams up with dull Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh) to stop him. Unfortunately, this entry relies to much on a bunch of shooting and gun fights, but you NEVER feel like Bond is in any danger. The ending, where Bond walks around like The Termonator and shoots every bad guy in sight, is clumsily executed. Bond's not exciting unless he's in danger, but Brosnan plays him like an invincible man who won't die or ever get hurt. A shame. Still, this entry does have it's high points, such as Teri Hatcher in the role of Carver's wife, Paris. Now, this boxed set is very full of extras. Each film has at least one commentary (there's two on Goldfinger, Thunderball, For Your Eyes Only, Licence To Kill, Goldeneye, and Tommorow Never Dies, I beleive) and this is what makes this set the best of the three. Two commentaries. Cool! And, there's documentaries for each movie (sometimes one, sometimes two), as well as several theatrical trailers and TV spots. There's also radio spots among other things like still gallery and music videos on the more recent James Bond films. Each film is presented with gorgeous picture and sound quality (people complaining about mono, LIVE WITH IT!!). Each film is properly presented in correct widescreen format, and you can also change languages to french, and there's english, french, and spanish subtitles.
They all come with a collectible booklet as well, and you may be able to make valuable savings with things also offered with it.
All in all, great set! This is my favorigte boxed set of the three, but I'd also recommend Collection Volume 2 and 3.
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Summary of The James Bond Collection, Volume 1
Seven films. Four Bonds. One set. This sprawling collection surveys over 30 years of James Bond skullduggery, from the cold war tensions of the 1960s to the international free-for-all of the present. Sean Connery remains the coolest of the Bonds, a ruthless agent with dry martini wit and a way with the women, and in Goldfinger his steely presence helped forge the Bond formula of tongue-in-cheek wit, wondrous secret agent toys created by Q, and megalomaniac supervillains bent on world destruction. Thunderball upped the Bond ante with the most ambitious adventure--and budget--to date. Roger Moore brought an altogether lighter tone to 007 with Live and Let Die, softening Connery's rough edges with a more romantic persona as the films became even more exotic. After a brief digression into outer space, For Your Eyes Only returned Bond to globetrotting high adventure and teamed him with his most endearing ally (Topol as a gregarious smuggler). Timothy Dalton made his second and final appearance as Bond in Licence to Kill, the toughest of the Bond films since Connery's early efforts. Though not a fan favorite, it's a sleek, solid adventure with an edge missing from the Moore pictures. Pierce Brosnan is the latest to take on 007's licence to kill, combining the best of Connery's cool and Moore's humor. GoldenEye is the best Bond film in years, a grand globetrotting adventure with lovely Bond girls and a tough new M (Judy Dench). Tomorrow Never Dies doesn't recapture that magic mix of action, gadgetry, and romance, but does feature the first Bond girl to match 007 blow for blow: Hong Kong action superstar Michelle Yeoh. Taken together, this set is a veritable cross-section of the many faces of James Bond. All that's missing is George Lazenby. Do I hear a nomination for set 2? --Sean AxmakerSimilar DVD Movies
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