For all your James Bond fans
Bond on Blu-ray
This week MGM and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment announced that they will be releasing six classic James Bond films on Blu-ray starting this fall — October 21. Those chosen for the first entry into the hi-def world will be the first Connery/Bond flick "Dr. No," "Die Another Day," "Live and Let Die," "For Your Eyes Only," "From Russia with Love" and "Thunderball."
Oh dear Die Another Day, that was awful. I'm still waiting for the Ultimate edition Casino Royale to come out on DVD.
I havent really liked the last three bond movies. Give me Moore any day!
Quote from: Blackride on June 19, 2008, 03:58:02 PM
I havent really liked the last three bond movies. Give me Moore any day!
You didn't like "Casino Royale???" I'm pretty shocked. I thought it was amazing and Craig fit the character of Bond very well. Great film.
Yeah, I was really not a big fan of Craig. I liked Pierce a lot more. Craig is more down and dirty, no to mention younger, like the original books but I got kinda used to the Roger and Pierce.
I liked Pierce too. I'm a big fan of his "Remington Steele" show. But Craig just seemed to really nail the early Bond for me. The opening of that movie is still one of the best action sequences I think I have ever seen - in any film.
o don't get me wrong. I liked the action sequences.
I responded to this thread yesterday; I don't know where that went.
Die Another Day was awful, but it started off so well. Those first 5-10 minutes had me thinking I was going to get the gritty, serious Bond movie I'd been waiting for ever since I read the novels. Instead, it was just the final waste of Brosnan's skills.
It would be a few more years before Royale would finally deliver what Bond fans deserve.
Oh yeah the start of Die another Day was great, beardy bond, but then, pretentious crap. Daniel Craig IS amazing as Bond. Alas Pierce and Dalton are troubled times. Not that they are bad Bonds, far from it but story wise carp. Lets face it Dalton was asked to be Bond before Moore but he thought he was too young, shame. Moore was great in the beginning but after a period of time became pun-tastic, Craig is Bond, in original story and film.
I think Pierce was a great Bond, but in a world of reimaginings Craig makes Pierce and the others look like BSG 70's. Unfortunately that makes Dalton BSG 80's.
Oh easy there, Chris. Dalton was alas struck with late 80's safe sex lessons and so he was barred from random shagging and so was unable to really let go as proper Bond. Brosnan was great in Goldeneye but thats it, and do you know why? Good story. The others terrible, awfully stunts, awful scripts, awful effects, very very very bad invisible car. Thank god for a more accurate Bond that we find in Craig.
Exactly, HawkeyeMeds. The promise of Goldeneye was sadly followed by increasingly worse movies. The producers failed Brosnan with each successive script.
This is AWESOME news!!! I must say that I have enjoyed all the Bond flicks....some more than others but I liked them all.
You know my main beef with the movies between Goldeneye and Casino Royale is? They come down FAR TOO MUCH on the action side and not enough on the spy side. Don't get me wrong, I love action movies but Bond has always seemed to be a great balance of action movie/spy thriller....the last few (Casino Royale notwithstanding) did not have that.