Celebrating 50 Years of James Bond on Blu-ray - Page 21

I noticed that during Ruby's chicken speech, her voice bleeds into the left and right channels (she is not moving). There was also another scene with Bond and Blofeld where every time Blofeld was off screen his voice would have an echo effect. it's a terrible remix. And the mono track isn't much better as many lines have a muffled effect to them. Very disappointing.

There's a bit in Dr No where the dialogue does the same thing, the remixes are horrible in that regard. It seems like whenever someone is speaking from off-screen or off-centre they've steered the dialogue to the appropriate channel - not a bad thing in and of itself, it reminds me of the directional dialogue of old - BUT they've added a nasty reverb effect for no particular reason.

As bland as the mono remixes might seem in comparison, they have more integrity and don't sound so forced and hollow. BTW people aren't complaining about it here because we already know how crappy the remixes are.

I picked up The Spy Who Loved Me at a Best Buy in Canada for 10 dollars, with a 10 dollar credit towards a Skyfall ticket, so it was basically free. I printed out the ticket online and the process was pretty easy.

The Spy Who Loved me is the most accurate looking (are therefore best) of the set. The windowboxing in the titles is heinous though.

This whole "it looks no better than a DVD" garbage needs to stop. Seriously.

Agreed, we're way past vs DVD. However relative to the Connery blu rays, the Spy who Loved Me blu ray PQ is rather poor. It just didn't have that wow factor for me

That's your problem, not the disc's, m'laddo.

If by "poor" you mean it looks like a great 35mm print and not like manipulated HD video, then yeah, you're right.

Just an FYI, Best Buy finally does have the three exclusive Bond blu-rays (Spy Who Loved Me, On Her Majesty's..., You Only Live Twice) in stores along with the previously released single titles set up in typically in a rack separate from the standard BR/DVD racks in most stores publicizing Skyfall which includes the $10 movie credit promo.

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SkyFall spoilers should have warnings and not be posted in threads about the Blu-ray set!!!!!!!

If your wow factor is based on artificial sharpening and overzealous grain removal then fair enough - but Spy Who Loved Me is representative of real film, the Connery discs are not.

Agreed. I'm not reading any reviews because some of these critic a**holes are giving away the plot and the twist and turns. I want to immerse myself in this film when I see it on the IMAX format on November 8th. We all know it's going to be great. There's extreme high interest based on very positive reviews all over the place and that's all I need to know. A brilliant coup by Barbara Broccoli in getting Javier Bardem and that's all I will say.

Unless I'm going blind, I saw some spots of edge enhancement. I really disagree from people who gave it a 4.5/5 on the PQ. At best for me, I give it a near 4, certainly way better than Goldeneye, some critics have it given it a 3.5/5 on the PQ and to be honest they are being generous, my score is 1.5/5, that atrocious.

The only places in the film I noticed a drop in quality were opticals (e.g. the first shot following the opening credits), but that is to be expected. Besides that I really don't get where you are seeing this supposed edge enhancement - particularly with so many screenshots posted on the previous page showing such beautiful quality. Take this shot for example:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/146533/picture:5

You can see so much fine detail in Q's jacket and the wall behind him. I just don't understand how you rate the transfer on this film so low when many of the Lowry remasters have so much less fine detail by comparison. Yes, the picture is soft but only for having no artificial sharpening applied to it (at least not visibly, anyway).

damn, what took so long.

I just got back from my local Best Buy, the special James Bond rack was looking a little bare.

I did manage to pick up You Only Live Twice and On Her Majesty's Service Service - the last two copies. All of The Spy Who Loved Me Blu-rays were gone.

They do have the $10 coupon toward Skyfall theater tickets.

Thanks for the reminder Partyslammer.

Yeah in Dr. No when Bond is held at gunpoint talking to Strainways, one line of dialogue reverbs through all channels.
Really lame.

Have any Canucks found the Walmart exclusives? The BestBuy titles were in stock a long time ago now... and have since looked for the Wally-world titles with no luck.

I'm in the U.S. and the Walmart's in my area don't have a clue as to why they didn't get any Bond titles... not even the boxed set.

This release was botched big time. They NEVER should do exclusives like this. N-E-V-E-R.

Watched The Spy Who Loved Me last night, can't say I was that impressed with the picture quality/transfer. It's not *bad* but I thinks it looks just above average at best. I do appreciate the fact that the scan does indeed look digitally unmolested but there's so many lesser movies of this vintage on blu-ray that look so much better.

One thing that watching this one reminded me of - the Roger Moore Bonds have really not aged well even though this is this best Bond flick. I remember seeing TSWLM on opening weekend in the Summer of '77(?) and it being one of the biggest hits of that year. I can't even bring myself to buy and watch Moonraker.

For instance?

Maybe I'm suffering from cognitive dissonance but I'm having trouble recociling the fact that you appreciate it's a digitally unmolested transfer yet you think it should look "better." I don't get it....how so?

Is there an issue with the color and contrast on this disc? I don't think so.

Filth, Michael.

Yep, near Edmonton I picked up Diamonds Are Forever and Octopussy at Wal-Mart.

The fact that it's an old somewhat desaturated 2k scan coupled with a good but not spectacular source.

Old 2k scan? Are you sure? It looks new to me. It's the only one in the entire set that looks like it was done in the last couple years.

Why would you not call the "source" spectacular? Was there dirt everywhere or something? The only issue I saw throughout the entire film was about 2 seconds of the title sequence, and I'm not sure if that's something that's part of that optical or what.

So Mike thinks it's too pink and you think it's desaturated. What you're missing is it's a hell of a lot more natural than most of the other Bond BDs.

Maybe I just don't understand how you can watch all of the films in this set, and then come away saying The Spy Who Loved me is the dissapointing one.