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PostSubject: Re: Steelbook blu-rays for selected Bond films   Steelbook blu-rays for selected Bond films - Page 2 EmptyWed 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Haze in hi-def? Isn't that a contradiction in terms?
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Sh*t, I ordered Laze in hi-def by mistake :-(
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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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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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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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I'm fine with them just using the fonts from the original posters rather than the VHS '90s fonts.
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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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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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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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So deep n' gritty.

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