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Summary: Sensational Effort
Review: Firstly i'd have to say that if i weren't for the huge special features contained on each disc i'd have only given the pack a 4. Only one movie out of the 5 is in True Dolby Digital 5.1 and the rest are stereo with Dr No being Mono. Still i believe this captures the spirit of the original title and if indeed all had been in the 5.1 format it would have spoilt the originality of the movies. I personally want to view them as close as possible to how they were originally made. The special features is where this box set gets the extra points. The makings of and other bit and pieces provid the viewer with involment in the movie that other titles should offer. Seeing how the stunts were performed and how they did certain special effects is great and still gives you something to watch if you haven't got time to sit down infront of the whole movie. Perhaps the only title i would have changed was OHMSS. This could have waited till the last set so a more popular title could be inserted. The other movies that are due for the last set will definately be worth waiting for with "from Russia with love" being a personal favorite. The extra space for the newest addition TWINE is also a great idea. If you are a fan you would have to be crazy not to pick up the set. A truly fantastic job by MGM and i'm definately looking forward to the last set later in the year.
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Summary: Perfect!
Review: I am a big James Bond fan, so this collection was a godsend for me! I loved all 5 of the movies included in the collection. "Dr. No" is a great beginning to the series, with Sean Connery giving his best performance as Bond. "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" features the ill-fated George Lazenby, and had Connery done it, this might have been my favorite Bond movie. "The Man With the Golden Gun" is goofy but fun, with a great villain played by Christopher Lee. "The Spy Who Loved Me" is Roger Moore's best movie and one of my Top 5. Finally, "Moonraker" is another Moore movie which is very good (at least until the space part). Definitely worth the money!
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Summary: Problems w/ Golden Gun & RCA
Review: Another great Bond set. But I have an RCA player and went through two different copies of Man with the Golden Gun so far with both not working. Sort of turns into little green boxes about an hour in to the movie. Also same problem with my PC DVD player. Contacted MGM/UA online tech support and they said that Golden Gun "has problems with RCA players" and that I need to update my PC DVD drivers. Can someone validate/invalidate this? Has this happened to anyone else at all?
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Summary: The collection to miss
Review: The first James Bond Set include some great Bonds (Goldfinger, Goldeneye, Thunderball, License to Kill), it was a great buy, but this one, its not worth the plastic its wrapped in. I only wish that the two good ones in this set (The Spy Who Loved Me, Dr. No) were replaced with A View to a Kill and Octopussy, so that all of the bad Bond films were together in one set. That way anyone but the most diehard fan who wants all the films could pass on this set. Imagine how nice it would be if there were two sets with great Bonds, and another set with the bad ones. It would be great!
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Summary: James Bond is the Best
Review: James Bond is the best, and the James Bond movie giftset 2 proves it. It has all of the great movies we didn't see in the first one, and then some. James Bond rocks!
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Summary: For collector's eyes only.
Review: Frankly, I was not that impressed by this box (the first box was top notch, however). In my opinion, MGM rushed this box (and TWINE) out of the door, at the expense of quality. TMWTGG refused to play the 2nd layer, but thank you, Amazon, for replacing it. The picture quality of the other movies is excellent, but none of the movies feature a 2nd audio commentary, as opposed to 6 of the 1st box. On the bright side, the movie that started it all is included, as well as Lazenby's only flic, which compensate for Moonraker. IMHO, you might as well get OHMSS or whichever movie you like best, and forget the rest, unless you're a die-hard JB fan.
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Summary: I would have preferred more variety
Review: The second DVD James Bond Gift Set is even more oddly made up than the first set. Perhaps one more Connery entry would have filled the bill (at least the third set will have all John Barry scores!). And why Pierce Brosnan's photo is on the box is a mystery - not one of his 3 films are included here, although as others have mentioned there is a space to put THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH in the box. The audio commentaries for THE SPY WHO LOVED ME and especially MOONRAKER are very disappointing (didn't some of the first set films have 2 audio commentaryes?), but I cannot praise enough the John Cork produced commentaries and little documentaries included. Many Bond fans (myself included) consider ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE the best film in the series, and it is nice to see it here. I hope newer fans who have never seen it give it a chance. And as for all those other reviewers - well, everybody has their own opnion, and several people have come to Bond at different times. Try not to say something is bad, but rather that you didn't care for it. Wouldn't that be more realistic? After all - we're all fans.
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Summary: Four Good Bonds out of Five
Review: MGM's James Bond Collection #2 provides the Bond fan the an assortment of the "middle" Bond movies (On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, and Moonraker, along with the first Bond movie, Dr. No), with an assortment of the extra accompliments that DVD lovers have come to expect in the the format: audio commentary, a documentary "Making of" or "Inside," along with original ads and trailers.For action, Dr. No and Her Majesty's Secret Service are two of the best of the series. The Spy Who Loved Me and The Man with the Golden Gun offer two of the most stylish of the series, with lavish sets and larger than life villians. This set would have received five stars had it not included "Moonraker," one of the two weak Moore movies (the other being "A View to A Kill") and the Bond producers response to "Star Wars;" however, since "For Your Eyes Only" had been issued on the previous set, that was not possible. At Amazon's price, this set is a must for Bond, and other action, lovers, and I'd recommend it.
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Summary: Top-Notch Extras for Bond Fans
Review: This second wave of Bond DVD's (the remaining Bond titles will be released this fall) features the usual DVD features (audio commentaries, trailers, photos, excellent picture and sound quality), plus some great bonus features for long-time fans of the series. In addition to new "making of" documentaries on the features, there are additional features on various facets of the Bond films. The OHMSS DVD, for instance contains a warm tribute to the late Desmond Llewellyn, who played gadgetmaster Q in all but two entries in the series. The Man with the Golden Gun disc includes a feature on the stunt performers (it's dizzying, but hardly surprising, to find out just how many people "played" Bond during the various action sequences). Other discs include features on special effects, production design, and director Terence Young, who helmed three of the first four films and was integral in establishing the formula for the series. So why does the set only rate four stars? Because the films themselves, spanning 17 years and featuring three different lead actors, are wildly divergent in tone, dialogue, and overall entertainment value. Dr. No, Bond's film debut, seems particularly dated and low-budget, but Sean Connery's cooler-than-cool demeanor is still riveting. Golden Gun is wildly uneven, but features great performances from Christopher Lee and, yes, Roger Moore, who rivals Connery himself in charm, ruthlessness and sex appeal--his best turn as Bond, in my opinion. The Spy Who Loved Me is, overall, the best of the Moore outings, with the best Bond song since Goldfinger, Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better." And Moonraker is, well, Moonraker--audiences flocked to it (until GoldenEye was released, it was the highest-grossing Bond film in history), but most Bond fans would prefer to forget it ever existed. Finally, there's one-timer George Lazenby in OHMSS, the longest and most controversial entry in the series. It's not a classic, but it was underrated in its initial release and deserves another look. (Interestingly, the creased,gray-haired Lazenby of today is better-looking than he was thirty years ago. Watch the documentary and see for yourself.) Devotees and completists, of course, will want to snap them all up (yes, I'm both). More casual fans may prefer to pick and choose the titles individually.
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Summary: James Bond does it again
Review: Another gift set - another great bunch of 007 movies. I admit,I love all the James Bond movies but this set included 2 of myfavorites. Dr. No and On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The sound is great and the picture is better than I remember even in the theater (thanks to not having screaming kids and roudy jerks all around me). I only wish they would get on the stick and release them all - it's hard waiting months to get my Bond fix. Buy them - enjoy them - enjoy them again.
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