Product Details

• Actors: Roger Moore, Sean Connery
• Format: Box set
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: MGM
• DVD Release Date: October 21, 2008
• Run Time: 364 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001CXYEVA
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,070 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Theatrical Aspect Ratio: Disc 1 & 3 Widescreen: 2.35:1, Disc 2: Widescreen: 1.68:1

Customer Reviews

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25 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor packaging, November 6, 2008

By	ROKman (Aiea, Hi United States) - See all my reviews

This review is not based on the movie itself or the quality of the Blu Ray disk. Rather it is a warning to those considering buying this multipack of the absolutely horrible packaging of this expensive set. My three pack arrived today and I just open the box and was horrified at the package. I have purchased many multi packs of movies/TV shows and every other time the disks were held on a separate page in a plastic reinforced page with a plastic spindle in the middle. This set came in a "book style "package with a foam rubber type spindle to hold the disk in place. Well on disk two "From Russia With love" the foam spindle was missing!! The disk had bounced around so much it was scratched and looked like an old scratched disk !!!! Regarding disks one and three the foam spindles were half torn off and surely after one play the foam spindle will certainly fall off. Disgraceful - A pox on MGM.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Showcase Blu-ray Release, November 25, 2008

By	A. Dent "Aragorn" (Minas Anor, GD) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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.

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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.
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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.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great remastering, very poor packaging, January 31, 2009

By	J. Trow (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I agree wholeheartedly with the poor marks for packaging. It's odd really, they probably spent an incredible amount of money on the clean up and archiving to HD, yet the packaging is the cheapest I've ever seen for movies. Those foam tabs are really the worst - half of them were broken or came unglued. When I opened up the first volume, two disks just fell to the floor. Quality. Not to mention that the package detail on the inside covers is minimal. They might as well have saved an extra dollar on packaging and just put them in shrink-wrapped jewel cases.

The one saving grace here for you readers who are considering buying these volumes, is that the price on Amazon is way lower than buying at stores. Had I not made an impulse buy and got these for $45 instead of $75, I'd feel better. Then again, I did use gift cards. ;-P

Otherwise, the actual movies are incredible... the clean up really brings the older Bond films to life and the color and detail really pop. On my 46" 1080p they look fantastic! Audio is of course likewise excellent. commentary and extras are pretty informative as well.

Packaging drops this from a 5 to 4 star rating IMO. All in all though, the movies are the product and they are excellent.