If you are a 007 fan you would love the 3 boxsets standard dvd (5.0)

I had the whole collection on standard dvd, now would like to get it all in Blu Ray. If you are a 007 fan you would enjoy the whole 3 boxsets that are available on dvd.

Daryl

not as described (3.0)

my box set did not contain "the spy who loved me,"licence to kill", or "tommorow never dies'.

Defective "Tomorrow Never Dies" DVD (2.0)

"Tomorrow Never Dies" disk has a small camera icon followed by 1/2 that is present on screen during the entire movie. No explaination and have never seen it before on a commercial dvd. Does not appear on previews or other disk displays. Whatever, it makes the disk unviewable. Not found on other disks in set.

Was OK but didn't come with right movies. (3.0)

I recieved this and the box wasn't even the one shown and the 7 movies that are included where scratched up and the movies weren't the right ones the movies should have been Dr. No Goldfinger, Man With the Golden Gun, The spy who loved me, License To KIll, Goldeneye and Tommorow Never Dies. The ones That I got where Goldfinger, Thunderball, Live and let Die, For two eyes only, License to kill and Tommorow never dies and goldeneye. I was mad.

oh sean,sean,where have you been? (1.0)

i don't know if anybody mentioned this(ihaven't read all the reviews)but why is it these movies aren't released in box sets according to the indiviual actors who played the secret agent?you know,a sean connery set,a roger moore set,etc.for years i've been yelling for a connery set(whom i consider the best,though they're all good)but to no avail.as many times as they've released these,you'd think they would've done so.therefore i was dissapointed when these collections came out.please give us a chance to pick the bonds we like,without throwing them all together.

007 You Only Live Twice (1.0)

I am not happy at all with seller of this movie. Its paid for,in full including shipping. And three week later it still not here,no word from seller as to its whereabouts, and somehow it can't be tracked. I will not buy from this seller again,nor will I recomend them either.

One of the weaker of the series but still 60's Bond with Connery (2.0)

I am big James Bond fan. I love From Russia With Love, Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever. Dr. No and Thunderball, while not as strong to me, still bring that 007 zest. This one however is a dud. The plot drags, the characters look bored and are uninteresting. Donald Pleasance as world destructor du jour Blofeld overplays his part. Bond going Japanese is just damn offensive. I actually enjoy Kissy Suzuki though. She relates well to Bond. Karen Dorr as Helga Brandt is just a rehash of Fiona Volpe's character in Thunderball, albeit not as good either. This movie has some cool set pieces like the Volcano layer, magnificently designed by Ken Adam. At the end of the day, it still is a James Bond movie from the 60's starring Sean Connery, which is still a joy to watch. So I give it 2 stars, maybe even 2 1/2, but the movie just fails on so many levels that I have to call it out as one of the weaker of the series. See this if you've never seen a James Bond movie and want a laugh for how much the Austin Powers series borrowed from this movie.

You Only Live Twice, James Bond (5.0)

This is a hard to find DVD as a single movie. I could only find it at Amazon. It may exist somewhere else but Amazon made it easy.

Once Lived, Twice Shy -- Excellent Connery Classic (4.0)

Sean Connery's You Only Live Twice, the first Ian Fleming adaptation that really used just the title and not much more -- completely different from the novel.

Basically, space capsules from the USA and USSR are being snatched by an evil guy played by Donald Pleasance (see the Austin Powers parody on this guy, Dr. Evil) as he pets his pet Persian and plots the demise of the USA and USSR. His clients want them to destroy each other then pick up the pieces.

But they did not have a plan for Bond. James Bond.

Bond goes through Asian women (which actresses, several look like Caucasian women with eye make-up), baby helicopters, Moneypenny's flirting and even fakes his own death.

Despite the Bond girls, the artful music, and the shooting and chase scenes (with helicopters no less), a bit above average Bond flick, but no means as well made as Dr. No or Goldfinger..

Recommended for a rental.

Other Bond Flicks:

James Bond Ultimate Collector's Set
James Bond Ultimate Edition - Vol. 3 (GoldenEye / Live and Let Die / For Your Eyes Only / From Russia With Love / On Her Majesty's Secret Service)

Good movie (5.0)

Great movie. A little slow getting to me though, but still within the estimated time frame for delivery!

SEAN! (5.0)

SEAN!
The "original" Bond film.
Great fun with Ursala UNdress!
This is the film that launched the series and his career!

Bond on Blu-ray... Outstanding! (5.0)

I just purchased Dr. No & Goldfinger on Blu-ray, and the sound, resolution and colors are better than the original movies shown in theaters. It is the finest version of these two movies I have ever seen. Dr. No was scanned from the original negative, which was in very good shape despite its years of handling and use.

I distinctly remember reading an article in one of the men's magazines, probably True, back in the late 1950s titled, "The Nude of Crab Key." I cannot find any online references to this article, but it must have been done by Ian Fleming as an excerpt from his novel. It would be fun to chase this lead down.

A true original (5.0)

This was Bond as it always should be. The first few Bond movies were quite close to the original Fleming novels, and Dr. No led it off.

Bond is cool, sexy, and somewhat cold, as when he goes to bed with a female foil and then amusedly hands her over to the local cops.

Somehow, Bond is mis-identified as a 'secret' agent, because I can't recall too many situations where his status as an agent remained unidentified for long. Dr. No is no exception. The bad guys have a line on him as soon as he arrives on the island, literally, and it never stops from there.

Some of the younger 'video game movie' set may find Dr. No somewhat tame for their tastes. But oh, what they are missing. :-)

007 Dr No (5.0)

Its an old movie for a collection. It came to us on time as promised. Timly deliver is very important to me,it tells me the seller knows customer service is a must and I would buy from them again.

You need to see this! (5.0)

If you haven't seen the remastered editions of the James Bond series, then you really don't know what you are missing. They've been restored so beautifully, that sometimes I focus too much on how good the movie looks and miss some of the story. Not only are they restored, but the original prints have even been cleaned up, so even if you saw this film at the theater when it came out, this print looks better. It looks as if this movie was filmed yesterday, and trust me, that actually makes a world of difference. Get it and see for yourself. You won't be disappointed.

TERRIFIC!!! (5.0)

You get more bang for your buck with this movie. I got a single DVD with the same cover picture from a $5 bin at Walmart. I wasn't sure I was going to like it, since I have been 99% disappointed with my compulsive DVD buys from Walmart bins. However, I am thrilled with this purchase to say the least. The DVD is really really really clear, and MGM is taking strides in James Bond DVD excellence (GREAT JOB MGM!), the story is exciting to say the least--and very action-packed and fun. You get so much more than you expected--60's sophistication (the 60's was in many ways more glamorous and sophisticated than today), fabulous 60's cars including European models, gorgeous girls in 60's make-up & fashion, sophisticated European ways.

In this movie, Bond travels from Europe to Nassau on an exciting adventure. The movie is so much more than just a FIRST-RATE James Bond movie which it is! You should see this film several times to really soak it all in--the cars, the beautiful women, a young Sean Connery as James Bond, the subtle humor, suspense, classy places, classy 60's cars, classy 60's make-up, the best of the 60's fashion, the best technology of the times (you will be astonished!), AND NO CEL PHONES-WHEEEEEEE!--The one-&-only classic ring of a "real" telephone! Ahhh what a superb movie!

I will certainly put a collection of James Bond movies on my wish list. Awesome film!

NOT one of the best, but still good (3.0)

As far as a follow up to a classic film like Goldfinger, Thunderball delivers on many levels. The world threatening scheme is bigger and more menacing than it had been. We really get the impression that the fate of the world is at risk. We are also sent to a vast tropical paradise in the Bahamas, complete with sunshine, snorkeling for exotic fish, and sipping a cocktail under a palm tree on a warm carribean night. I don't think any other Bond film ever gave us such a breezy vacation feel as Thunderball.

Then there is the man himself, Bond, James Bond smoothly played by Sean Connery, bedding a hospital nurse here, an enemy agent there, taking off on a jet back, descending in the crystal blue waters from a helicopter, brawling a guy on a speeding motor boat. What doesn't he do in this movie? Sean Connery oozes so much confidence in this performance, you begin to feel like he doesn't even have to try.

There is plenty of high speed action to behold, such as the impressive underwater battle scenes (which are enjoyable and suspensful to watch if you ask me) Largo is also a pretty despisable main villain. Lastly there are sharks, albeit not with lasers, but there in there and that's still pretty cool...

So it sounds like I think this is film is pretty good, right? Well, yes and no. My reasons above may be everything some fans are looking for--action, chicks, martinis, cars, and great locations. For me, this is not enough--and I am a huge fan of this series. While the plot starts out interesting in the beginning, it just devolves into the lazy, let's turn this into one big chase movive. In this case, it's Bond tracking down Largo and attempting to board his Disco Volente ship. While this works great for a video game it starts to get boring in an over 2 hour long film.

My other big complaint is the casting of the lead Bond girl. First of all, Claudine Auger, while French and hot, has absolutely no acting ability and dimension to her character whatsoever. I don't care about her character and I don't know much about who she is either. It seemed like the producers were trying to put in another Honey Ryder (Dr. NO), what with the collecting sea creatures and all...But Honey Ryder, while played pretty dumb-faced by that actress, at least had some back story and reason for being where she was. On top of this, Bond has zero chemistry with this character, so any romance in this is completely unconvincing. My other problem with this, is that the other "Bond Girl" Fiona Volpe, in this movie is MUCH more interesting and much sassier. Why is she not the main Bond girl and worse, *Spoiler alert* why is she killed off so early in this movie? Her relationship with Bond as being an agent on the other side, made their romance all the more intriguing.

While this movie has all the great Bond ingredients, and probably some of the best in the series--Sean Connery as Bond in the Bahamas (really, what more do you need), it falls short on two fundamental areas that make a film good: interesting plot AND and an interesting supporting lead character. You need a plot that keeps you following the movie AND you need an interesting supporting lead to interact with the protagonist to make the plot interesting! I don't care how many chase scenes, sex scenes, drink scenes, kill scenes, or shark scenes you have, if the two foundational indredients are not there, then well...you don't have a cake...or a movie.

I don't think Thunderball is quite that bad; I find it quite enjoyable in fact. It just is missing some important elements that would make this a classic 007 film. For that, yes this film is over-rated, but certainly one worth checking out.

Balls Of Thunder! (3.0)

A Ball Of Thunder...

The porno industry would have been in uproar had Balls Of Thunder been the actual title. 1965 and for the fourth year in a row another Bond film hits the screens, again directed by Terence Young, the original Bond director. The Bond franchise had turned into a phenomenon, thanks to Goldfinger, making this one of the most eagerly anticipated movies of the year. It starts in a small way with Thunderball that Bond starts to transcend it's own boundaries of story and earthiness becoming more fantasy than spy thriller, living up the expectations of being a bigger and bolder movie than it's predecessor and to stand out against the number of imitator spy films popping up, in doing so it loses a little of it's soul. Terence Young's direction at least steers this adventure with the right look and feel maintained from the first few films. But it does suffer story and character wise trying to top previous entries. The bigger budget is obvious, there are more gadgets, girls and exotic locations than before and Sean Connery is still in his element with a nice enhancing hairpiece as his was starting to thin down by this picture and whose wouldn't when being pursued by paparazzi twenty four seven? Bond is ever more the womaniser, drinker and quipper although perhaps notable predicting the future this is the first film where we don't see the character smoke on screen. Plus the simple blockbuster plot groundwork is cemented for the series in this film. SPECTRE return with their most audacious plot, hijacking two atomic bombs and holding the world to a billion dollar diamond ransom or two Western cities will be destroyed. A similar plot would crop up again in future Bond pictures, even to Thunderball itself being remade as 80's Connery Bond `Never Say Never Again'. Good to see this is where the storyline originated. Italian actor Adolfo Celi plays the brutish, silver haired, eye patch wearing Number two of Spectre, Emilio Largo surrounded by a bevy of assassins a standout of which is Luciana Paluzzi playing Bond femme fatale, Fiona Vulpe, one of four woman Bond beds down as he lurches from one action set piece to another. Bond is numerically getting closer to Number 1, who is still frustratingly shown as a cat patting silhouette dishing out orders and frying the minions who have failed him, shades of Dr. Evil in years to come. However the simple plot is made up for with the rocket like pace for a film made in '65. Though it does drag a bit with the amount of underwater sequences the jet fighter hijacking and underwater theft being the most obvious. As far as the underwater photography goes though, the cinematographer, Lamar Boren, strikes gold with the clarity of these aquatic shots choreographed by Ricou Browning especially with Bond's underwater searches of Largo's yacht and the brutal underwater fight scene between the good guys and Spectre which benefits a lot from the crystal clear remastering and transfer to DVD. This Bond entry leaves no room for subtle brush strokes as he tracks down the dead pilot's sister froma Health farm in England to the Bahamas. `Domino' or Dominique is played by Claudine Auger, a former Miss France who is a passable Bond girl and it's here through no fault of hers Bond girls really begin to become bland in character. Bond and Largo play a game of cat and mouse totally lacking the finesse of encounters with previous Bond villains. Q makes his first appearance in the field to give out some gimmicky gadgets and Rick Van Nutter plays the third version of Felix Leiter. There's little doubt of the film's outcome about the only drama being when Bond suffers a minor bullet wound during a mid movie chase scene. More drama was happening leading to the film's prodcution, including the plagiarism court case surrounding the novel and screenplay initiated by Kevin McCLory against creator Ian Fleming which led to the former being given an on screen Producer credit. But despite this and the increasingly strained relationship between Connery and the press as fame overtook him, the film won an Academy Award for visual effects and adjusted for the 2010 box office is still the most financially successful Bond entry ever made. But as the pre credits sequence complete with massive fistfight and rocket pack shows the franchise was starting to head into the realms of absolute spy fantasy rather than spy thriller. However the DVD release covers the Thunderball phenomenon in a documentary and its impact on the way action films were heading and how the spy culture was creating many imitators on both film and television from films such as In Like Flint and The Ipcress File to Get Smart, The Avengers and the Man From U.N.C.L.E. Not only is this the cleanest looking remaster of 60's Bond's it's also the first that got the 5.1 surround sound treatment in it's first release, not that the powerful Tom Jones opening song needs that. Titbit - this is the first film to feature Connery in the famed gun barrel opening sequence, previously it was stuntman Bob Simmons in his hat.

Bond thriller (4.0)

Since being a S.Connery fan, I would probably purchase just about anything this artist performed. He brings his characters to life especially his Bond character with lady villains. Even though he is prompted to do his portrayal, he signifies great expertise in entertaining the product to the public.

Great Bond History (4.0)

I wanted to watch the original early films of Bond, beginning with Dr. No. It's great to see Sean Connery evolve from film to film to become, I feel, the best Bond there ever was. I'm progressing in order from Dr. No, to From Russia with love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You only live twice, Diamonds are forever, and the later semi-Bond "Never say Never again". I know many fans of Bond dislike the last film Connery did, but perhaps they were expecting too much from a then, pretty weathered, franchise. I still have to watch the final two Connery films and am not expecting too much from "Diamonds" and even less from "Never". But that doesn't take away from the talent and artistry of Sean Connery and I'm more into those last films to simply watch how he slowly bows out of the James Bond role forever. It's sad film history to watch sometimes, but I'd rather watch these first Bond films again and again than to tolerate the works of Roger Moore and the others. Daniel Craig is a fresh approach to the role, but he lacks the warmth and humor that Connery brought to the role. I'd love to see one final film where Sean Connery has taken over the position of "M" and guides newer agents along, making them the best they could be. Sort of like an episode of "NCIS", I know, but it would be entertaining to see, none-the-less.

Spy story extradinaire (5.0)

The second Bond movie is possibly the best true spy story of the series. There is a little bit of mystery, a lot of double dealing and spy-counter spy plotting, and enough action to satisfy even modern day action junkies.

However, the action doesn't get as out of hand and absurd as in more recent films.

Connery was fully into the role even in the first installment, Dr. No, and by this movie he moves and acts like a spy ... even more so than in some of his later ventures into the role where Bond movies were already becoming somewhat of a parody of themselves.

The apex of 007 (5.0)

Purists may have to get over how far (and how quickly) the Bond franchise moved away from the template of this foreboding, deliberate spy adventure that has always ranked as one of the very best films in the series. "From Russia With Love" was probably always going to be an anomaly: more realistic than "Dr. No", though just as creepy; as intense as "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" though not as tragic, the film exercises a deliberateness and severity that make it splendidly enjoyable in a different sense than most other Bond films are. It's delicious viewing, but not exactly "fun" in the way, say, "You Only Live Twice" or even "For Your Eyes Only" might be. It was always going to be easier to spin another version of "Goldfinger" than it would be to mint "From Russia With Love", and so the 3rd film became the model.

Like the "Godfather" films, this is a movie where you have that disturbing sense, no matter how many times you watch it, that anybody could die at any moment. The Istanbul locations exude menace, creeping into the very pores of the celluloid. By the time we're aboard the Orient Express, we're immersed in the most frightful and tingling 3rd act in the series. Never has a Bond film played things more "straight", nor has Bond ever got caught more closely in a mousetrap than he does here.

The heavies in this film are uniformly splendid (including Blofeld's Cat). Part of the film's mystique surely rests upon the highly ruminative dialogue bestowed upon them: Blofeld's contemplations upon his "brave but on the whole stupid" Siamese fighting fish; Kronsteen's wry intellectual hubris; Col. Kleb's workplace harassment-- and then of course Red Grant's Garboesque silence, broken by his unsettlingly all-too-easy banter.

But poor Daniela Bianchi's (and voiceover artist Barbara Jefford's)Tatiana may be the film's most unheralded treasure. Romantic, sweet and girlish, she is played and preyed upon by SPECTRE to perform dirty deeds for patriotism. Which, poor girl, she does, and convincingly. So much so that Bond doesn't know what to do with her and, indeed, he resorts to some ungentlemanly manuevers to get the truth. We feel how tenderness surprises and overtakes her the longer she stays in Bond's company, and we feel how excruciatingly her fantasy life bursts when Kleb returns on the scene in Venice, reminding her of her almost-forgotten "duty." So much so that, for all we can tell, until the last moment when she fires she may not have known what she would end up doing. Even at the end, as Bond tosses the "incriminating footage" (oh, but hardly by the standards of the present age!) into the canal, we feel, as the series has never bothered to underline since, how short may be Tatiana's time on the arm of her dream man. But such time as they share onscreen is among the most genuinely erotic, tense, and affecting companionship we've seen in a Bond picture. Minus the great Diana Rigg's Tracy ("On Her Majesty's Secret Service" always commands special privileges) Tatiana may be the most luminous and satisfying of all Bond's onscreen companions.

Connery, of course, is at his best here. A masterful thriller, ceaselessly sexy, suspenseful, and exciting.

From Russia With Love Blu-Ray (5.0)

This is my favorite Bond film and even though I've purchased it in all formats over the years this is without a doubt the best visual version I've ever seen...it is sharper than the movie theatre version I saw in 1964...yeah, I'm an old guy...I also purchased Dr. No, Goldfinger, and Thunderball and I have to say that all four are so sharper and clear they make your eyes bleed...very good re-mastering job...I'm not really going to review the movie, however if you're new to Bond or have lived in a bucket all your life, this is the truest Bond movie made to the tone of the books...if you have been sucked into HiDef and you want to see the old Bond movies looking better than the movie theatre get these discs...they are worth the money...

From Russia with Blu Love (5.0)

The movie speaks for itself. It's the second Bond film and it is still too early in the series to become contrived and yet, can be quite brutal for it's time. Hansome production and top of the line acting all around. All this and the first showing of our beloved "Q".
As far as the Blu goes- this is one great looking picture. The images are sharp and the sound (once mono) is boosted to surround. What's not to enjoy?

A Blu-ray question: was it Savile Row? (5.0)

From Russia with Love, the second Bond film, is a favorite, second only to Goldfinger in my view, if only because it has absolutely no outrageous gimmickry, though I may be biased to Goldfinger because I spent many of my youthful days, on both sides of the filming at the Fontainebleau Hotel's pool and beach, thus the movie reflects those happy days, when getting on a plane was as easy as firing a Walther PPK. Painting girls wasn't that easy. From Russia has good villains though, which is very important and often not properly cast, as in Connery's space movie, Outland, where the lack of a good villain sort of ruined the flick. From Russia also has a gypsy cat fight and perhaps the best fight to the death in cinema. The Lowry Digital Imaging restoration and upgrade to Blu-ray shows off Bond's impeccably tailored suits nicely, and the Dolby 5.1 transformation from the original mono track is also very well done. Worth the upgrade cost, the re-watching is definitely enhanced.

SEAN! (5.0)

SEAN!
The "original" Bond film.
Great fun with Ursala UNdress!
This is the film that launched the series and his career!

Bond on Blu-ray... Outstanding! (5.0)

I just purchased Dr. No & Goldfinger on Blu-ray, and the sound, resolution and colors are better than the original movies shown in theaters. It is the finest version of these two movies I have ever seen. Dr. No was scanned from the original negative, which was in very good shape despite its years of handling and use.

I distinctly remember reading an article in one of the men's magazines, probably True, back in the late 1950s titled, "The Nude of Crab Key." I cannot find any online references to this article, but it must have been done by Ian Fleming as an excerpt from his novel. It would be fun to chase this lead down.

A true original (5.0)

This was Bond as it always should be. The first few Bond movies were quite close to the original Fleming novels, and Dr. No led it off.

Bond is cool, sexy, and somewhat cold, as when he goes to bed with a female foil and then amusedly hands her over to the local cops.

Somehow, Bond is mis-identified as a 'secret' agent, because I can't recall too many situations where his status as an agent remained unidentified for long. Dr. No is no exception. The bad guys have a line on him as soon as he arrives on the island, literally, and it never stops from there.

Some of the younger 'video game movie' set may find Dr. No somewhat tame for their tastes. But oh, what they are missing. :-)

007 Dr No (5.0)

Its an old movie for a collection. It came to us on time as promised. Timly deliver is very important to me,it tells me the seller knows customer service is a must and I would buy from them again.

You need to see this! (5.0)

If you haven't seen the remastered editions of the James Bond series, then you really don't know what you are missing. They've been restored so beautifully, that sometimes I focus too much on how good the movie looks and miss some of the story. Not only are they restored, but the original prints have even been cleaned up, so even if you saw this film at the theater when it came out, this print looks better. It looks as if this movie was filmed yesterday, and trust me, that actually makes a world of difference. Get it and see for yourself. You won't be disappointed.