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bitchcraft Potential 00 Agent
Posts : 3372 Member Since : 2011-03-28 Location : I know........I know
| Subject: Re: Steelbook blu-rays for selected Bond films Wed Jul 29, 2015 2:10 am | |
| The covers look like absolute shit.
Sticking with my $99 blu-ray box set that I got from Amazon a couple or so years ago. |
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Lazenby. Head of Station
Posts : 1274 Member Since : 2010-04-15 Location : 1969
| Subject: Re: Steelbook blu-rays for selected Bond films Mon Sep 14, 2015 9:29 am | |
| The steelbook covers for OHMSS and YOLT are the best sleeve art either film has had in over 20 years, in fact best EVER for OHMSS, enough to finally prompt me to order it on Blu Ray. The other steelbook sleeves (CR aside) are a bit unremarkable, but some of the individual re-release sleeves are okay, especially the Connery ones (great to see YOLT finally having the poster title font restored after 20+ years), but unfortunately the sleeve designer clearly gave up when he/she reached the Moore era, with a notoriously bad touch-up job on LALD and bad photo selections for pretty much every subsequent sleeve. Beats the sh*t out of me why more dynamic, striking or iconic photos weren't used, for example Bond and Scaramanga back to back with guns raised for TMWTGG, Moore in his shoulder holster get-up for LALD, ditto Brosnan for TND. In fact, the Brosnan ones are so poor to the point of pisstake that they really should have gone the whole way and used a classic painface shot for each of the four sleeves (cue our best photoshoppers here to oblige on that!)... But yeah, mostly a very poor show this. A price reduction would have been nice too. |
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Largo's Shark 00 Agent
Posts : 10588 Member Since : 2011-03-14
| Subject: Re: Steelbook blu-rays for selected Bond films Mon Sep 14, 2015 12:30 pm | |
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Control 00 Agent
Posts : 5206 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Slumber, Inc.
| Subject: Re: Steelbook blu-rays for selected Bond films Mon Sep 14, 2015 11:44 pm | |
| I'm buying these (minus CR and QOS) this week. I sold my Bond DVD collection a few years back. I didn't go for the 50th anniversary Blu-Ray set, as I probably wouldn't even touch half of them.
Along with DN and TLD, these are really the only Bond films I ever bother watching.
I can post some photos of the sets if anyone's interested. |
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Lazenby. Head of Station
Posts : 1274 Member Since : 2010-04-15 Location : 1969
| Subject: Re: Steelbook blu-rays for selected Bond films Tue Sep 15, 2015 9:24 am | |
| Beats me why DN wasn't chosen ahead of FYEO for steelbook, or at least added to the steelbook set. The titles chosen are supposed to be all of the films in which SPECTRE feature. Dr No is the very first cinematic Bond representative of SPECTRE, while all FYEO offers SPECTRE-wise is an uncredited Blofeld dumped down a chimneystack before the film's proper plot has even begun. Plus, a DN steelbook would have looked really cool, given the vibrant colours of the title sequence compared to the far less vibrant FYEO sequence. |
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Control 00 Agent
Posts : 5206 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Slumber, Inc.
| Subject: Re: Steelbook blu-rays for selected Bond films Tue Sep 15, 2015 5:43 pm | |
| It must've come down to choosing seven SPECTRE titles that would generate the most cash. They figured FYEO would outperform DN, even if it was a stretch. Blatant ignorance.
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| Subject: Re: Steelbook blu-rays for selected Bond films Tue Sep 15, 2015 5:58 pm | |
| - Control wrote:
- It must've come down to choosing seven SPECTRE titles that would generate the most cash. They figured FYEO would outperform DN, even if it was a stretch. Blatant ignorance.
Or it could be that Eon wanted all the Bonds that encountered Spectre to be represented and Moore's only contact with Blofeld was in FYEO. |
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Control 00 Agent
Posts : 5206 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Slumber, Inc.
| Subject: Re: Steelbook blu-rays for selected Bond films Tue Sep 15, 2015 11:23 pm | |
| That was kind of them to include Sir Roger, but I still don't see why they couldn't include DN in the set. Obviously a money issue.
Maybe I'll just spend my money on a Blu-Ray of "Big Mouthfuls 26" instead. Mandy Haze in hi-def. |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Steelbook blu-rays for selected Bond films Tue Sep 15, 2015 11:45 pm | |
| Haze in hi-def? Isn't that a contradiction in terms? |
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Lazenby. Head of Station
Posts : 1274 Member Since : 2010-04-15 Location : 1969
| Subject: Re: Steelbook blu-rays for selected Bond films Wed Sep 16, 2015 8:55 am | |
| Sh*t, I ordered Laze in hi-def by mistake :-( |
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Makeshift Python 00 Agent
Posts : 7656 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : You're the man now, dog!
| Subject: Re: Steelbook blu-rays for selected Bond films Thu Sep 17, 2015 5:43 am | |
| I assumed DN was part of the steelbook collection. This is a glaring omission.
Doesn't matter to me I suppose. I already have the Bond 50 set anyway. |
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Control 00 Agent
Posts : 5206 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Slumber, Inc.
| Subject: Re: Steelbook blu-rays for selected Bond films Fri Sep 25, 2015 4:38 pm | |
| I own these now, minus CR and QOS.
The cases are nice, but the discs are the same as the previous Blu-Ray issues. Nice collector's items, until Blu-Ray goes out of style. |
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Lazenby. Head of Station
Posts : 1274 Member Since : 2010-04-15 Location : 1969
| Subject: Re: Steelbook blu-rays for selected Bond films Thu Oct 29, 2015 2:10 pm | |
| Wish all of the standard bluray sleeves could have the same fronts and spines as the steelbooks, using the main title imagery, at least until they ever restore the original poster artwork. |
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Makeshift Python 00 Agent
Posts : 7656 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : You're the man now, dog!
| Subject: Re: Steelbook blu-rays for selected Bond films Thu Oct 29, 2015 8:57 pm | |
| I'm fine with them just using the fonts from the original posters rather than the VHS '90s fonts. |
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Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 00 Agent
Posts : 8477 Member Since : 2010-05-12 Location : Strawberry Fields
| Subject: Re: Steelbook blu-rays for selected Bond films Thu Oct 29, 2015 10:02 pm | |
| - Lazenby. wrote:
- Wish all of the standard bluray sleeves could have the same fronts and spines as the steelbooks, using the main title imagery, at least until they ever restore the original poster artwork.
Yep - surprised it hasn't happened earlier. |
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Control 00 Agent
Posts : 5206 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Slumber, Inc.
| Subject: Re: Steelbook blu-rays for selected Bond films Thu Oct 29, 2015 10:25 pm | |
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Makeshift Python 00 Agent
Posts : 7656 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : You're the man now, dog!
| Subject: Re: Steelbook blu-rays for selected Bond films Thu Oct 29, 2015 11:25 pm | |
| Trying to apply that minimalist aesthetic from the Craig films onto the older films is offputting. Though I actually do like the covers for FRWL, GF and OHMSS. That's when they work. |
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CJB 00 Agent
Posts : 5498 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : 'Straya
| Subject: Re: Steelbook blu-rays for selected Bond films Fri Oct 30, 2015 12:17 am | |
| - Control wrote:
So deep n' gritty. Certainly befits a film that features a 15 year old girl who wants to ride Roger Moore's ice cream cone. |
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Lazenby. Head of Station
Posts : 1274 Member Since : 2010-04-15 Location : 1969
| Subject: Re: Steelbook blu-rays for selected Bond films Fri Oct 30, 2015 8:22 am | |
| - CJB wrote:
So deep n' gritty. And with the current hardon for helicopters thoroughly capitalised on... |
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