MGM And Fox To Package All 22 James Bond Films On Blu-ray

COMMENTS (23)

• I paid for my first Bond in the 70s – in a movie theatre that is- Moonraker was the title

  (three times in a row, btw)

  In the ’80s I bought my first Betamax Bond-
  later again on VHS-
  In the late 80s I bought a laser disk Bond-
  In the late 90s I bought a DVD Bond-
  In the mid 2000′s I downloaded just for fun a Bond on pirate bay-

  Jesus, how much money will the Broccoli’s with me…?

  Okay, I might not buy the the blue ray edition, but what will I tell my son…?

  Comment by Curt Riess — Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 4:22pm EST  Reply to this post

  • Tell your son it took you 35 years and 5 life cycles to finally figure out that they are all the same freakin’ product!!!!!

    Comment by No One Of Consequence — Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 5:07pm EST  Reply to this post

• 22 blu-ray discs, but only 9 films are in HD? Saywhoozit?

  Comment by Apocalypse Pooh — Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 4:28pm EST  Reply to this post

  • Nine are new to HD. Meaning they’ve never been on Blu-ray before.

    Comment by Tim — Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 4:33pm EST  Reply to this post

  • I think the article means that out of the 22 films, 9 have never been in HD before, but are now.

    Comment by Time Traveler — Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 4:51pm EST  Reply to this post

  • Yes… first time they’ve all been in one collection and the first time 9 of the 22 have been released in HD. You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, The Spy Who Loved Me, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies haven’t previously been released on Blu-ray.

    Comment by larrythefatcat — Wednesday January 11, 2012 @ 4:10pm EST  Reply to this post

• Good news all around, fantastic time to be a Bond fan.

  Comment by Robert Lewis — Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 4:29pm EST  Reply to this post

• Can I trade QoS for Casino Royale (1967)?

  Comment by John Douglas — Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 4:35pm EST  Reply to this post

• Some Bond films were released on Blu-Ray several years ago. Nine of the films make their Blu-Ray debut with this box set.

  Comment by Ricky — Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 4:49pm EST  Reply to this post

• Apocalypse, no … this is the first time nine of the Bond films have been in HD. All the rest have been on Blu-ray already.

  Comment by Matt — Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 4:50pm EST  Reply to this post

• So far 13 Bonds are available on Blu-Ray. I have them all. It would be nice to just be able to buy the 9 remaining titles without having to buy the whole boxed set, which I am not going to do.

  Comment by Bob Collins — Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 4:58pm EST  Reply to this post

  • Agreed.

    Comment by Shatter24 — Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 5:29pm EST  Reply to this post

• Can I buy all but the Roger Moore films?

  Comment by Moneypenny — Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 5:30pm EST  Reply to this post

• Ditto to that. I have the 13 available Bond Blu-rays already, including a double-dipped purchased of the deluxe CR so, no, I really don’t see myself splurging for the boxed set of all 22. I do hope Fox/MGM will acknowledge that many a Bond fan already owns some or all of the 13 Blu-rays and offers the new-to-Blu titles individually. Here’s hoping…

  Comment by Ste7en — Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 6:15pm EST  Reply to this post

• Can’t wait for OHMSS on Blu-Ray.

  Comment by It's the best — Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 7:31pm EST  Reply to this post

• Anything and any way to make extra bucks on these films, no matter what format they get released on.

  Comment by Jed — Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 9:05pm EST  Reply to this post

• It is inevitable that at some point in the future they will available individually.

  Comment by Skyfall — Wednesday January 11, 2012 @ 2:12pm EST  Reply to this post

• Buy the ultimate editions that were restored by Lowery Digital in 2002 and that’s all you need. You get 20 Bond films so just need to add CR and QOS in Blue Ray and your up to date. The Lowery Digital restoration picture quality and sound is just as good as Blue Ray plus you get all the extra bonus material.

  Comment by Morgan — Wednesday January 11, 2012 @ 6:09pm EST  Reply to this post

  • How can you say that Morgan? I have the Ultimate Editions and also all the available Blu Rays and they are as different as chalk and cheese. I defy you come to my cinema and not be blown out of the water by the Bluray of Dr. No. Just the fact that bluray is at least 4 times the line resolution of DVD means that the DVD can NEVER hold a candle to the quality of Blu.

    Comment by Adrian Swatridge — Sunday January 15, 2012 @ 7:39am EST  Reply to this post

• Is it too much to ask that the original cinema posters are somehow used in the packaging for the new blurays? Most of them had a portrait version as well as landscape and I’ve been longing to have them as covers for the films. If not, maybe a ‘lobby card’ of each one in the corresponding Amray case? Now that would be cool.

  Comment by Adrian Swatridge — Sunday January 15, 2012 @ 7:36am EST  Reply to this post

• I was disappointed when the earlier box sets didn’t include all the films in Blu-ray, so I’ve only bought the two Craig movies in the HD format. Hopefully the same extras from the DVDs will be included so I can retire the older box sets I bought back in 2002. Too bad they aren’t including Casino Royale 1967 or Never Say Never Again (since they own the rights to those now), but as those are available separately on Blu-ray it’s not a huge deal. The writer of the article might want to reword the bit about 9 films – I came here from a forum where people are blasting Sony for only including 9 of the Bond films in high-def. Oops!

  Comment by Alex — Thursday January 19, 2012 @ 4:05pm EST  Reply to this post

• What about the Blu-Ray 3D set? When would that be available? hehehe

  Comment by xande007 — Sunday February 19, 2012 @ 2:04pm EST  Reply to this post

• I too am wondering if the remainder of the unreleased Bond Films on blu-ray will be released. I am not going to get the cumbersom box set and end up buying the ones I already purchased again.

  Comment by Des Grant — Wednesday September 12, 2012 @ 9:51am EDT  Reply to this post