Celebrating 50 Years of James Bond on Blu-ray - Page 20

Yes I have watched it, otherwise I would not have posted. One of my pet peeves is when someone says "It doesn't look any better than the DVD". It looks excellent and I don't know how they could have done a better job on TSWLM's transfer. It's the newest transfer of any of the classic bonds in the set as evidenced by the newer digital MGM and UA logos at the start, and it looks it.

Back in the day, just from the damned photos and posters I couldn't take Brosnon seriously enough to see even one of his Bond movies.
I guess I'll have to suffer, now that I've bought into the whole collection.

speaking about posters....where can I buy this British SkyFall poster online ? I assume only in the UK for now..any ideas ?



btw....if anyone wants the US versions of the 27x41 original theatrical release of Skyfall...http://www.cineposters.com/home/index.htm

its in stock there.

Me too.

Agreed! TSWLM easily outclasses any of the tweaked 1.9K scans done by Lowry back in 2005 and slapped onto the current blurays. The 4K scans hold up better, but TSWLM is a new transfer done right!

After buying the Bond 50 set, I am sorely disappointed in the transfers in about half of the releases. It appears a lot of the transfers were made of the original DVD masters. But for $150 (~$7 per title) I cannot really complain much.

I really would like to see what happens with Universal's Hitchcock Masterpiece collection... It costs $230 for 10 movies. Quite expensive, plus the fact that Universal has a miserable record of overly processed transfers for Blu-Ray, only Fox seems to be worse.

Well, considering Universal pushed back the release date over a month from Sept because some early release sets got in the hands of reviewers who hammered numerous issues with and the overall quality of several of the titles in the set, I wouldn't get my hopes up.

And followed with Moore being the worst.

Damn! They set the bar really high this time!
I mean it's 007, couldn't they at the very least come up with something a little more creative than a promo shot badly cut on a lame "Bond background"?

Is that a joke???

Look at this Comparisons:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/146533/picture:3
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/146533/picture:5
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/146533/picture:6
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/146534/picture:2
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/146534/picture:3
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/146534/picture:5
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/146534/picture:7

The DVD was just really bad and the blu ray looks MUCH better!
No better than the dvd? yeah....sure....

The blu ray of TSWLM does look much better than the DVD, however the PQ is POOR relative to the Connery Blu Rays, Moore's Moonraker and Brosnan's Tomorrow Never Dies. There is no question the worst disc in the set in terms of PQ is Goldeneye, that one looks no better than the DVD.

What?

That transfer is the definition,(no pun intended), of mediocre.

Well, RAH certainly liked what he saw re: TND. It mightn't be the most dazzling transfer in the set, not least when compared with the DVD in a caps-a-holic stylee, but taken on its own merits it ain't bad at all.

Nothing like damning with faint praise.
Edited by raoul_duke - 10/20/12 at 5:43am

I will rewatch TSWLM and see if I like the PQ any better. Although I do think that the Connery's Bond Pq is better, sharper and the colors aren't as muted and they have less grain.

Sorry to have stepped on some toes with my high expectations. These are only my opinions, and I am by no means an expert. YMMV.

Tom

TND's is a older MGM transfer that was tweaked by Lowry in 2005 to make a new master and now 7 years later slapped onto bluray. It is average in every sense of the word. TSWLM easily outclasses it.

It could've been worse, could've been better, sometimes you just gotta take the average and move on to the next one.

Unfortunately I have too completely agree with you. At least Thunderball through Live and Let Die were tweaked from their UE dvd masters. TSWLM is a big improvement as well. 4K scans are so much cheaper now and it would be great if all these films got new transfers.

It's a good thing I only really like "Diamonds Are Forever", "Goldeneye" and the Daniel Craig movies out of all of them, so can eventually just get singles. However, it is disappointing that Goldeneye is probably the worst of them all.

I like the descriptor "average".

Tom

thanks to the several sources on this forum for the confirmation..I just received the Casino Royale 15 rating Uk version and its Region ABC.

Sorry if this has been discussed, but I couldn't find any mention of it.

I was watching OHMSS and noticed that in quite a few scenes dialog was spread across the front channels instead of being properly centered.

Has anyone else noticed this? I would have to go back and check on the specific scenes, but it was very noticeable and prevalent enough that I'm really surprised I hadn't heard anything about it.

Can you guys confirm which titles have free ticket to bond film?