Wednesday, September 29, 2004

007 James Bond

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1. Dr. No (1962)
2. From Russia with Love (1963)
3. Goldfinger (1964)
4. Thunderball (1965)
0. Casino Royale – Spoof (1967)

5. You Only Live Twice (1967)
6. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
7. Diamonds are Forever (1971)
8. Live & Let Die (1973)
9. The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
10. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
11. Moonraker (1979)
12. For Your Eyes Only (1981)
00. Never Say Never Again (1983)
13. Octopussy (1983)
14. A View to a Kill (1985)
15. The Living Daylights (1987)
16. Licence to Kill (1989)
17. GoldenEye (1995)
18. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
19. The World is Not Enough (1999)
20. Die Another Day (2002)
21. Casino Royale (2006)


Ultimate Collectors Edition Comments (It's the way to go)
1. New & Old Material: (See DVD Active for back covers) For the most part the new releases are flat out awesome. Digitally and tunistically fixed up, they are a perfect way to release a DVD. All the supplemental material has been provided in five categories. All the previous Special Edition bonus materials are contained under the "Mission Dossier," "Ministry of Propoganda" (Theatrical Archives, Television Broadcasts & Radio Communications) and "Image Database" categories. The last two sections may have a slight addition, switch, and one or two possible deletions (I noticed one picture missing) but as a heads up, I am not sifting through to check trailer and picture changes between the two versions. The "Declassified Mi6 Vault" section includes a wide variety of new extras. The "007 Mission Control" section contains a montage of segments for character reference.
2. Booklet Details: The Collectors booklets are overall exactly the same textually as the Special Edition releases, though they have some aspects missing (trimmed details, one or two random facts removed), they actually added some more new information to them. For the most part, many of the still shots were removed and replaced with poster images..
3. Irritations: Once again, a Sean Connery commentary has yet to be included (though it seems Bond has a bad taste in his mouth). Unfortunately, this (five discs per volume) four volume wave of releases annoyingly places the movies out of sequencial order. Because of their thin sleeves, you want to keep them in the boxes, and as a fan, it would have been nice to have the boxes list the films in their original order. While it is awesome that each movie in a double disc in a thin sleeve casing, The collectors booklets do not fit inside the case without damaging them! That is ridiculous! Especially since they could have fit in them just fine (had they thought of trimming the DVD holder button from sticking out so far)...so I place them underneath the outside cover of each film (Grrr). The Interactive Guides are nice, but an incredibly pointless addition. I will definately note differences in my comments for each film if I feel ripped off, but so far I am impressed. Die Another Day seems to be missing bonus material, and the movie jitters horribly like the prior release did (argh! Do I have to send the whole boxset just to get a new one?)

James Bond
Sean Connery (Seven) 1-5, 7, 00
George Lazenby (One) 6
Roger Moore (Seven) 8-14
Timothy Dalton (Two) 15-16
Pierce Brosnan (Four) 17-20
Daniel Craig (Two) 21-22


M
Bernard Lee (Eleven) 1-11
Edward Fox (One) 00
Robert Brown (Four) 13-16
Judi Dench (Five) 17-21

Q
Desmond Llewelyn (Seventeen) 2-7, 9-19
Alec McCowen (One) 00
John Cleese (Two) 19-20

Felix Leiter
Jack Lord (One) 1
Cec Linder (One) 3
Rik Van Nutter (One) 4
David Hedison (One) 8
Bernie Casey (One) 00
John Terry (One) 15
David Hedison (One) 16 Character Death
Jeffrey Wright (One) 22

Miss Moneypenny
Lois Maxwell (Fourteen) 1-14
Caroline Bliss (One) 15
Samantha Bond (Four) 17-20

Directors
Terence Young (Three) 1-2, 4
Guy Hamilton (Four) 3, 7-9
Lewis Gilbert (Three) 5, 10-11
Peter R. Hunt (One) 6
John Glen (Five) 12-16
Martin Campbell (Two) 17, 21
Roger Spottiswoode (One) 18
Michael Apted (One) 19
Lee Tamahori (One) 20


Casino Royale – Spoof (1967)
David Niven (some DVD releases contain the 1954 TV original with Barry Nelson)