James Bond Ultimate Collector's Set | 
 enlarge | Actors: Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan
Studio: MGM / UA
Category: DVD
List Price: $289.98
Buy New: $122.50
You Save: $167.48 (58%)
New (59) Used (9) Collectible (7) from $122.50
Rating:  96 reviews
Sales Rank: 83
Format: Box Set, Color, Restored, Anamorphic
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Items: 42
Running Time: 2631 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 8.1 x 5.9
MPN: M109348
UPC: 027616093486
EAN: 0027616093486
ASIN: B000V3JGI8
Theatrical Release Date: July 14, 2007
Release Date: November 6, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Tell A Friend
Add to Wishlist
Add to Wedding Registry
Add to Baby Registry
| |
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
This Ultimate Collector's Set includes 21 James Bond films, from Dr. No to Casino Royale and another 21 discs full of bonus features. This is the ultimate collection for any 007 fan.
Amazon.com
This Ultimate Collector's Set includes all 21 James Bond films, from Dr. No to Casino Royale and another 21 discs full of bonus features. This is the ultimate collection for any 007 fan.
Stills from the James Bond Legacy
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 91 more reviews...
 Looks like it is just repackaged from the 4 volumes earlier this year. November 6, 2007
Mitch Vandelay (Memphis, TN)
26 out of 28 found this review helpful
I looked at this set in the store today and it really appears as if the contents actually are the 4 Ultimate Collectors Volumes inside this case with Craig's Casino Royale along side. And by the contents being the 4 Volumes, literally, it looks like they are inside this black box.
I opted for the Ulimate Collector's Bundle for $179, instead of this, since I purchased Casino Royale when it was released, and I am really just looking for all the previous movies from Connery to Brosnan in the remastered 2-disc versions.
Also of note, if you want all the Bond films- you have to order Never Say Never Again as a separate item, that is not part of the MGM/UA library.
I am glad I bought this box set when I did, the price just keeps going up and down, up and down..... November 13, 2007
Rykre (Sacramento, California)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
After buying all the Special Edition DVD's of James Bond 007 library, I thought it was a disappointment that they re-released them all again, and also that they came out in Ultimate Edition 5-pack boxes, again where you have to buy all the James Bond films out of sync of their release order. And then they say that they were digitally re-mastered frame-by-frame to reproduce the best quality picture and sound.
All I could think about was how expensive it was to have to repurchase all these DVD's all over again. But then, I rented the new Ultimate Edition version of "Golden Eye" and I was blown away! So impressed was I that I immediately rented "From Russia With Love" just to see it that film was improved. I was definitely impressed!
But I still waited before I started buying the four Ultimate Edition 5-packs of the James Bond DVD's. I wanted to see if these Ultimate Edition box sets would come down in price over time. Actually, the Ultimate Edition box sets went UP in price this past year, and then they started to release the movies individually. However, although the re-releases were cheaper individually, they didn't come with the second DVD of the special features. Not even the Patrick McNee documentaries that were on all my Special Edition versions. This was just another way to disappoint me if I decided to start buying them individually. So again, I waited to see what would happen. I was in a buyer's freeze. I was afraid to make a move. To make any purchase. You know how upsetting it is when you buy something, and then afterwards, they improve on it and sell it again. This has happened to me before.
This is why I'm avoiding the transition to Blu-Ray DVD's, because I don't want to have to re-purchase all my DVD's to a new format. Especially knowing that I have great High Definition masters of some films on standard DVD's anyway. Besides, in a couple of years, they'll say that they made yet another new format that is better than Blu-Ray DVD's, so there you go again. We'd keep buying our favorite movies over and over again, till the end of time.
Well anyway, I bought this box after it dropped below two hundred dollars. Now I can buy the entire James Bond library in this one big box set featuring all 21 films, including the bonus disc for each film, totaling 42 DVD's for under two hundred dollars. This was a respectable, worthy re-purchase. If I could sell all my Special Edition versions for half as much, than it will be worth it to upgrade my James Bond library.
We true James Bond fans will watch these films over and over again for the rest of our lives. And all these additional documentaries are just the icing on the cake.
Great set, but confused on the price September 13, 2007
calvinnme (Fredericksburg, Va)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is truly a great deal - under five dollars per disc for all 21 Bond films. There is no enhancement from the Bond set put out in February of this year other than the addition of Casino Royale, on loan rights-wise from Sony. The packaging looks a little ridiculous - two 5-film volumes on either side flanking Casino Royale in the middle, but other than that I can't complain. The only bone I have to pick is with the discount shown. It's not as big as you would think. Ammy shows the suggested retail being 290 dollars. That's correct - in Canada. In the U.S. the suggested retail price is 240 dollars, so you're not getting as big a discount as you think you are. Also note that if you have a favorite actor in the role of Bond, collecting by volume will not help you. Each volume has a collection of films from different time periods - this set is not organized chronologically as shown below:
Volume 1 - The Man with the Golden Gun / Goldfinger / The World Is Not Enough / Diamonds Are Forever / The Living Daylights
Volume 2 - A View to a Kill / Thunderball / Die Another Day / The Spy Who Loved Me / Licence to Kill
Volume 3 - GoldenEye / Live and Let Die / For Your Eyes Only / From Russia With Love / On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Volume 4 - Dr. No / You Only Live Twice / Octopus / Tomorrow Never Dies / Moonraker
I'm sure doing it this way was a marketing strategy, but it has its advantages to the viewer. It's rather fun to see Bond's character travel over a 50 year period from the time of the Cold War to the present where corporate and individual ambitions can be as threatening as Russia once was, and from the time where the women were there to merely be Bond's flavor of the day to the point where he has to deal with a woman as a boss.
Lives Up To The Hype August 25, 2008
Sarasotan (Florida)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I just finished watching these 21 movies in chronological order of release. The picture and sound quality is absolutely amazing. They did such a good job with the frame by frame restoration that it looks as close to HD as SD can get. As to the sound, if you don't have a surround sound system, use this as an excuse to get one. I listened in DTS 5.1 with a surround system. A good bit of the enjoyment is from the stunningly clear, realistic sounds coming from in front and behind you, together with the pristine picture. Plenty of action scenes. When the bullets whiz by behind your head from one rear speaker to the other, you feel like ducking! At the same time you can have bombs going off in the subwoofer and other speakers and helicopters whirring by across speakers. Makes you feel in the center of the action.
The first 3 are full screen (Dr. No, To Russia With Love, and Goldfinger). It wasn't until the 4th movie (Thunderball) that the filming was done with Panavision's wide-screen lenses. Also the first 2 Roger Moore films (Live and let Die and The Man With The Golden Gun) are full screen. But all the others are wide screen. I prefer the wide screen myself - you get more of the original picture included. Full screen chops more off
The films are not in chronological order in the 4 boxes, so the first thing I did was to arrange them in that chronological order.
It's interesting to watch the evolution of the character. Sean Connery started it off with a style epitomizing the coolness of the 60s. The 70s and 80s Roger Moore 007 was still cool, but more comical and evolving more and more into including the campiness of the 70s. I believe they went too far in the comedy direction in this era, reaching the low point of the whole series in Octopussy, when James Bond is seen swinging from a vine doing the Tarzan yell.
Then came the two episodes with Timothy Dalton, which returned (thankfully) to a more serious vein, Licence To Kill being criticized by some as too serious. But I found it superior to the Moore flicks.
The four Brosnan films are all very good. The set also includes the 2006 release of Casino Royale starring Daniel Craig, who I think has potential to be the best 007 of all.
So there are the 21 movie discs and for each movie is a separate disc of special features, for a total of 42 discs. I have watched only a few of the special features -- I was so anxious to watch the movies themselves, but I did at least cursorily look at each of them. What I saw looked good, and I'm anxious to go back at some point and watch them. I did watch the little 4 or 5 minute featurette for each movie about the "exotic locations" at which it was fimed -- those were universally good. There is also a separate little pamphlet for each of the 21 movies, containing all sorts of interesting and useful info.
I would strongly recommend this set to anyone who enjoys James Bond movies. One caveat -- they are about to start releasing the Bond flicks in BluRay, so if you are into that you may want to check into it and wait a while.
A whole lotta Bond September 16, 2008
Michael H. Clark (Vancouver, WA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is an excellent choice for the Bond lover. I hadn't purchased any of the existing collections, so this was the ultimate way to go. It has all existing 21 EON bond films, Quantum of Solace hasn't been released to theatres yet.
This is all contained fairly substantial case. It comes in a nice slip cover box, with all 21 films in one compartment, and the booklets in too smaller ones. It doesn't take up a large amount of space, but is fairly heavy. It's not as some of the pictures sets that are the 4 collection boxes bundled in the box, they are all individual cases, and it looks much nicer.
It's interesting to watch the series evolve, from basic gadgets from Q to the most high-tech gear you could want from the Q-branch.
20 of the films are in the slim 2 disc DVD cases, with the movie and some bonus features on the main disc, and loads of extra packed into the second disc.
The 21st disc is the Widescreen Special Edition of Casino Royale. It is in a standard 2 disc DVD case, and squeeze into the package nicely.
There are 2 nice DK publishing booklets with info about Bond that fit into the case. Also included are 20 booklets that detail the story and info about the first 20 Bond movies, and have images of the theatre posters etc.
There isn't too much missing from this set, it's the Ultimate Collector's Set for a reason... The few things that are, really are minor though. It would have been nice to have the extra info booklet for Casino Royale to slot in with the others, as well as the matching slim case. Also there is no room for future expansion in the box.
To be complete, there are a couple of documentaries that I would have loved to have been included. I have picked them up seperately, and well as the last Sean Connery Bond film, Never Say Never Again. this one isn't included since it's not an official EON film.
Hopefully they offer a way to make future films match the rest of your collection.
Still money well spent.
|
|
|
|
