| James Bond Ultimate Edition - Vol. 2 (A View to a Kill / Thunderball / Die Another Day / The Spy Who Loved Me / Licence to Kill) | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 39 reviews)
Sales Rank: 4920
Category: DVD
Actors: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi, Rik Van Nutter
Directors: Terence Young, John Glen (ii), Lewis Gilbert (ii)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Brand: BROSNAN,PIERCE
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Format: Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 642 minutes
Number Of Items: 10
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.6 x 1.8
MPN: 027616060051
UPC: 027616060051
EAN: 0027616060051
ASIN: B00000BCPF
Release Date: November 7, 2006
Theatrical Release Date: December 29, 1965
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
James Bond tries to stop a nuclear blackmail threat from Spectre, looks for the connection between a Korean terrorist and a supposedly reputable diamond merchant, investigates the disappearance of submarines carrying nuclear missiles, faces a plot to dest
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: NR
Release Date: 6-NOV-2007
Media Type: DVD
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| Customer Reviews: Read 34 more reviews...
 Three of the best, two of the rest! July 20, 2008
Welcome to Volume 2 of the Ultimate James Bond DVD collection!
This set contains five films. Three, "Thunderball", "The Spy Who Loved Me", and "Licence to Kill" are some of the best in the series. "A View to a Kill" and "Die Another Day" are largely forgettable but at least they aren't horrible.
You can get these movies seperately in single-disc form, or you can do what I did and buy this collection! Not only do you get all the movies in pristine new transfers, along with 5.1 surround, but you also get a second disc for each movie loaded with more extras than you can imagine. Behind-the-scenes stuff, rare outtakes, radio ads, trailers, etc. It's pretty comprehensive for each movie.
As for the movies themselves, well, as I said, there's three excellent films here, and even the two that aren't great at least aren't bad. Four stars for the film selection and five for the extras! Let's give it five stars total. Not bad!
Bond, James Bond July 1, 2008
Excellent collection but the extras are very cool. If you like the 60's and 70's with all their Bond mania, this collection will provide some excellent films and some revealing extras.
The Ultimate Sets are the way to go! Dump the Special Editions when you can! May 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
After waiting for a very long time to acquire the Bond Ultimate Edition sets at a reasonable price, I finally ditched my Special Editions in favor of the new ones. I, perhaps like many others, was always reluctant to give up my Special Editions because frankly I spent a lot of time and money putting the original, Special Edition set together.
After watching the Special Edition and Ultimate Edition of "Dr.No", I finally realized how "ultimate" the new discs are. Gone are the film scratches, imperfections and faded colors that plagued most of the Bond early films such as the Connery & some of the Moore films. The new Dolby & DTS 5.1 surround sound are fantastic! The 1962 "Dr. No" looks like it was filmed yesterday. The special features on "Dr. No" includes a segment on the outstanding work put into the frame by frame restoration. A truly tremendous effort and much appreciated!
I like the slim-line cases for the new sets. My entire Bond collection now only takes up less than half the space on my shelves than it did before. Although I tend to agree with other reviewers that it's kind of cheesy how the booklets for each film are stored in the box and not the individual cases, the overall quality of the DVD's negate any negatives. I spend more time watching the films than browsing the booklets. Forget buying any of the Ultimate Editions individually which are single discs because the DVD's in the Ultimate Edition box sets are double-disc sets. One disc for the feature film for optimized quality and one disc for the special features.
I'm not bothered in the fact that all films in all four volumes are not packaged chronologically, since I went through the same process when I purchased the Special Edition box sets. I understand the studio's logic for "mixing it up", since a chronological DVD order would mean more popular sales for the Connery sets and lower sales for the Moore/Daulton sets. I'm a fan of all the Bond films as I appreciate all of the different actors from Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Daulton, Bronson to Craig and for what each one of them has contributed to the Bond Legacy. Many thanks to Daniel Craig for resurrecting this franchise with his outstanding debut in "Casino Royale". Looking forward to "Quantum of Solace" later this year.
VOLUME 2; Well this is my least, favorite set because it contains my least favorite Bond film "A View to a Kill" (somehow, I can still hear Tanya Roberts yelling "Oh James, help me!"), but the Duran Duran tile song is great (very nice music video in the special features disc). However, to even the score for Moore the set contains one of Moore's best film "the Spy Who Loved Me" with Bond's most popular henchman, Jaws played by Richard Keil. The Lotus car/submarine scene was kind of neat too! "Thunderball" is a solid hit for Connery. Bronson's last film "Die Another Day" has many Bond iconic moments playing homage to previous bond films such as Halle Berry's white bikini homage to Ursula Andress. Somehow I never get tired of that scene! The set rounds out with Daulton's last effort "Licence to Kill".
Great Christmas Gift May 1, 2008
My mother is a huge fan of James Bond movies, so when I purchased this collection for her as a Christmas gift, she absolutely loved it. She has watched and enjoyed these DVDs, and they have performed flawlessly for her.
Must Own Them All! January 24, 2008
The entire collection is a must have. Box sets 1-4 make a great collection. As a Bond lover, I could leave out the Bronson movies, but then I guess what collection would it be!
The sets each include small booklets with a little bit of neat info on the movies. I really enjoyed learning a little bit more.
You cant go wrong
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