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List Price: $59.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 1752
Released: November 7, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Disc 1: *Goldfinger (1964) THE COMPLETE SPECIAL FEATURES LIBRARY: MISSION DOSSIER Audio Commentary Featuring Guy Hamilton Audio Commentary Featuring Cast and Crew
Disc 2: **Goldfinger Bonus Disc DECLASSIFIED: MI6 VAULT Sean Connery From the Set of Goldfinger Screen Tests On Tour With the Aston Martin DB-5 Honor Blackman Open-Ended Interview 007 MISSION CONTROL Interactive Guide Into the World of Goldfinger The Making of Goldfinger The Goldfinger Phenomenon Original Publicity Featurette MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA Original Trailers, TV Spots, Photo Gallery & Radio Communications
Disc 3: *The World Is Not Enough (1999) THE COMPLETE SPECIAL FEATURES LIBRARY: MISSION DOSSIER Audio Commentary Featuring Director Michael Apted Audio Commentary Featuring Peter Lamont, David Arnold and Vic Armstrong
Disc 4: **The World Is Not Enough Bonus Disc DECLASSIFIED: MI6 VAULT Deleted Scenes and Alternate Angles With Introductions by Director Michael Apted Alternate Angle, Expanded Angle Scene: The Thames Boat Chase James Bond Down River - Original 1999 Featurette Creating an Icon: Making the Teaser Trailer Hong Kong Press Conference 007 MISSION CONTROL Interactive Guide Into the World of The World Is Not Enough The Making of The World Is Not Enough Bond Cocktail Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn Garbage 'The World Is Not Enough' Music Video The Secrets of 007 MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA Original Trailer & Photo Gallery
Disc 5: *Diamonds Are Forever (1971) THE COMPLETE SPECIAL FEATURES LIBRARY: MISSION DOSSIER Audio Commentary Featuring Director Guy Hamilton and Members of the Cast and Crew
Disc 6: **Diamonds Are Forever Bonus Disc DECLASSIFIED: MI6 VAULT Deleted Scenes Sean Connery 1971: The BBC Interview Lesson # 007: Close Quarter Combat Deleted Footage - Oil Rig Attack Satellite & Explosions Test Reel Alternate & Expanded Angles 007 007 MISSION CONTROL Interactive Guide Into the World of Diamonds Are Forever Inside Diamonds Are Forever Cubby Broccoli - The Man Behind Bond MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA Original Trailers, TV Spots, Photo Gallery & Radio Communications
Disc 7: *The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) **The Man With The Golden Gun Bonus Disc Newly Recorded Audio Commentary Featuring Sir Roger Moore THE COMPLETE SPECIAL FEATURES LIBRARY: MISSION DOSSIER Audio Commentary Featuring Director Guy Hamilton and Members of the Cast and Crew
Disc 8: DECLASSIFIED: MI6 VAULT Roger Moore and HervÃ(c) Villechaize - The Russell Harty Show On Location With The Man With the Golden Gun Guy Hamilton: The Director Speaks Girls Fighting American Thrill Show Stunt Film The Road to Bond: Stunt Coordinator W.J. Millian Jr. 007 MISSION CONTROL Interactive Guide Into the World of The Man With the Golden Gun Inside The Man With the Golden Gun An Original Documentary Double-O Stuntmen: A Look at the Greatest Stunts and Stunt Performers in the Bond Films MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA Original Trailers, TV Spots, Photo Gallery & Radio Communications
Disc 9: *The Living Daylights (1987) THE COMPLETE SPECIAL FEATURES LIBRARY: MISSION DOSSIER Audio Commentary Featuring Director John Glen and Members of the Cast and Crew
Disc 10: **The Living Daylights Bonus Disc DECLASSIFIED: MI6 VAULT Deleted Scenes With Introduction by John Glen Happy Anniversary, 007 Silver Anniversary Featurettes Timothy Dalton: The New James Bond/Vienna Press Conference Timothy Dalton: On Acting Dalton and d'Abo Interviews The Ice Chase Outtakes - Deleted Footage With Director John Glen Narration 007 MISSION CONTROL Interactive Guide Into the World of The Living Daylights Inside The Living Daylights Ian Fleming: 007's Creator a-ha 'The Living Daylights' Music Video The Making of 'The Living Daylights' Music Video MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA Original Trailers, TV Spots, Photo Gallery & Radio Communications
James Bond Ultimate Edition - Vol. 1 (The Man with the Golden Gun / Goldfinger / The World Is Not Enough / Diamonds Are Forever / The Living Daylights) Reviews:
James Bond Movies 
2009-09-12 - All of these movies are great except none of us liked "The Man with the Golden Gun". If they took this movie out of the set it would be a 5 star.
Awesome! 
2009-08-31 - This is a great collection. This has what I believe are some of the best Bond movies ever. "Goldfinger" is considered the best Bond movie of all time, and I will not disagree with that at all. I believe "Man with the Golden Gun" is the best Bond movie starting Roger Moore.
No Mr. Bond, I Expect You To Die!
2009-07-24 - Goldfinger- The first Bond to make it to blockbuster! While the other two were hits in their right, this was the first one to reach the coveted $100 million mark! Connery, as always, is perfect. Honor Blackman is one of my all time favorite Bond girls and actresses. Fresh off her time on The Avengers, she plays Pussy as one of the most cunning female adversaries in the frachise's history (being an equal to Bond without being overly assertive and eats up screen time like future Bond girls). Gert Frobe as Goldfinger is also one of the best villains out of the entire series, making sure he's one step ahead of Bond once he's in his clutches. The story is pretty much an adaptation of the book but thank goodness they don't adapt the entire eighteen holes (which the book does in excrutiating detail). John Barry's score for this film is big and brassy ( but then again, when aren't any of his scores good?) and Shirley Bassey belts out the title song fantastically. 5 stars.
Diamonds Are Forever- In Connery's second, but official, swan song, is one of more entertaining of the franchise. Jill St. John is sexy and fun as Tiffany but by the second half of the film, she's completely useless. Charles Gray, though sophisticated as Blofeld, is my least favorite out of the three. He just doesn't seem to have the menace of Telly Savalas or the evil cruel tone of Donald Pleascence. But fortunately, Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd, played brilliantly by Putter Smith and Bruce Glover, are menacing, cruel and funny as the homosexual assassins. The best part about these characters, despite the fact that this was made in the 70s, is that their sexual preference isn't in your face all the time, its subtly shown and is left up to the viewer. The plot is actually well conceived and way better than the book version. John Barry's score is perfection yet again, with Shirley Bassey belting out a great innuendo-laden title song. 4 stars.
The Man with the Golden Gun- Moore's second outing isn't as bad as some people think. Some, the director of TSWLM included according to that movie's special features, think that they were trying to turn Moore into Connery, like when he's twisting Maud Adams' arm, which I don't agree with. Moore's Bond is just as ruthless as Connery's (Proof of that in TSWLM and FYEO). Anyway, Britt Ekland is one of my least favorite Bond girls, completely useless in everyway possible. If only Scaramanga could've put a bullet in her instead of Andrea, who I find to be the more interesting of the girls. At least she wanted to be free of the villain when all Goodnight wants to do is get Bond in bed with her. Scaramanga, played by Christopher Lee (one of the greatest actors who's ever lived) is absolutely ruthless and is one of the best villains of the franchise. I especially love his sadistic speech on how he compares himself to an artist near the films climax. However, this is one of the more dated 007 entries (unless compared to today) with the references to the energy crisis, but I do find the movie to be better than the book in some aspects. Another disagreement of this one is Barry's score, which he even says is his least favorite. It is definitely a better Far East score when compared to YOLT and Lulu doesn't sound as bland (but a little off key to me) as Sinatra. 4 stars.
The Living Daylights- Finally a new Bond to critique! 19 years before the world was introduced to the "harder-edged" Bond of Daniel Craig, audiences were already experiencing it with Tim Dalton. Though not the "brick wall" that I've come to associate with Craig (don't get me wrong I like him as the character, but when you start crashing through walls, it seems a little ridiculous). Dalton's interpretation is closer to the books as he actually went back and read the source material. In this, he gradually grows fond of and then falls in love with Kara instead of automatically jumping into the bed after he meets her. And you can see the rage boiling within him when one of his fellow agents is killed in Vienna. Kara Milovy (played by Maryam d'Abo) is innocent as she's set up by her villainous boyfriend and believes Bond to be his friend. She later turns on Bond but once she's double-crossed again, she's repentant towards Bond and helps him. A sort of mixture of Domino from Thunderball and some of the women from the later 70s/early 80s Bond films as she's self assured in the end but overcomes her naiveté. And this one features two villains but I'm not entirely sure which is the main villain. Joe Don Baker doesn't feature as much as Jeroen Krabbé but he's the one who faces his Waterloo in the end. Anyway, Whitaker is pretty bland until the end when he squares off with Bond. Koskov is actually the more interesting character; playing the desperate defector to the British and loyal General to the Russians, but still admires Bond. The story is completely original except the opening with Bond and Kara as the sniper, which is taken from the short story of the same name, and is a fine story with many interesting twists. John Barry delivers his final score to the franchise (and a cameo at the end) and it ranks high with OHMSS and AVTAK. The title song by a~ha is good but not as good as Duran Duran's (I think they were trying to duplicate its success) while the two songs by The Pretenders, I'm divided on: Where Has Everybody Gone is alright as its used as the villain Necros' leit-motif but is not really heard as much while If There Was A Man is the better of the two, again used as a romantic leit-motif for Bond and Kara and fully sung as the credits roll. 5 stars.
The World Is Not Enough- Probably my favorite out of the Brosnan's but featuring my least favorite and oft-talked about Bond girl, Denise Richards. Brosnan gives another side to Bond, ably showing the emotional conflict to kill Elektra. Sophie Marceau is a different kind of villain. Kidnapped but then loved her kidnapper, Elektra decides to kill the people who wronged her, including her father and M. Marceau plays her as innocent in what's going on but once she reveals to M that she was the mastermind, she does a complete turn around, playing a devious but psychologically messed up female villain, which there are too few of in the series. But there's the other villain; Renard, played by Robert Carlyle. He doesn't get as much screen time as Elektra, so I must credit her as the main villain of the piece. He merely serves as indestructable muscle but you can tell that he hates not being able to experience any sense at all and just wants to die. The aforementioned Denise Richards is not suited to play the role of physicist Dr. Christmas Jones and knowing what she's done before, I can't personally picture her as one. The way she acts is bland and wooden (especially near the end when she "urgently" tells James what could happen in during the climax aboard the submarine). Judi Dench gets more screen time as M, which is welcome, adding, like Bond, an emotional conflict to the villain, deciding whether or not to use Elektra as bait. We bid a fond farwell to Desmond Llewelyn as Q, he would die in a car crash not long after the premiere of the film. Action sequences are again fantastic, the ski sequence being very reminiscent of the second ski chase of OHMSS. David Arnold gives a good score and Garbage does a decent job on the title song. A five star movie but because of Richards, I'm forced to give 4.
James Bond Series
2009-05-30 - James (Bind) Bond debonair,suave and sophisticated. The volume 1 is a very good DVD. Delivery was prompt.
The Gold Version
2009-04-15 - This is the most popular version of the James Bond Collection set as far as saleswise. The movies listed in the set are The Man with the Golden Gun / Goldfinger / The World Is Not Enough / Diamonds Are Forever / The Living Daylights. As a whole, the collection is wonderful mostly because of the bonus features. You get behind the scenes, interviews, tributes to various Bond family, documentaries, audio commentary from directors, cast and sometimes Bond (Roger Moore), music videos and much more!!
What is interesting about this collection is the only GREAT Bond film is Goldfinger. The World Is Not Enough was a let down. The Living Daylights was okay. The Man With The Golden Gun was unforgettable. Diamonds Are Forever was Sean's last and less inspiring Bond outing. Buy this volume is you are a Bond collector, a fan, and if you want great features, but don't expect too much.
