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  • HitchBondUSAHitchBondUSA USA
    edited July 14 Posts: 290
    The 5 film Craig 4k set went down by almost half here in the USA. At least on Amazon
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 18,665
    I didn’t know they did one of all 5; I’ve got the set of the first four.
  • HitchBondUSAHitchBondUSA USA
    Posts: 290
    mtm wrote: »
    I didn’t know they did one of all 5; I’ve got the set of the first four.

    They do they have the 4 set and a 5 one the 4 one doesn't include nttd and the 5 set does
  • RyanRyan Canada
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    I have the four film one. I was tempted by the five one just for the cleanliness of having all the films in one box, but instead I finally found a decent deal on the standalone releases with the slipcovers. The Connery steelbook set had reminded me how much I prefer to have single cases versus many discs in a slim case barely hanging on for dear life!
  • AgentJamesBond007AgentJamesBond007 Vesper’s grave
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    The Connery films are getting standalone 4k releases.

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  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
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    I really don’t understand this cover design. At least the mashed up posters for the 6 film set was unique, this is just weird.
  • RyanRyan Canada
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    The worst offender:

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    Foreve

    I'm all for minimalistic, but this must be among the worst cover art ever presented for Bond. The letters cut off, staggering some titles but not others, etc...
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    Not to mention 'GoldFin!' 😂
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    I don't mind them, but what I'd love to see is the classic illustrations rearranged to make a 'new' image.
  • HitchBondUSAHitchBondUSA USA
    Posts: 290
    AgentJamesBond007 wrote: »
    The Connery films are getting standalone 4k releases.

    NR2Lb45.jpeg

    This would help enjoy some sooner and cut the price down if you can't get them all right now
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 18,665
    Honestly I think they're rather cool, embracing the retro graphic design of the films but. in a contemporary treatment. I find all of the new covers really quite artistic. DN, YOLT and TB are the pick of them for me.
    I wonder if it's just coincidence that they rather echo the stacked arrangement of the NTTD logo.
  • RyanRyan Canada
    Posts: 761
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    Not to mention 'GoldFin!' 😂

    Title for Bond 26? :D
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    I have mixed feelings about the covers myself. I like the simplistic concept of them, but the broken up single words like for GF and TB is awkward. The DAF one looks straight-up ugly to me all around, though I rather like the way the others look besides the word cutoffs. Most days on my shelf I’d only be looking at the spines, anyway, which are all pretty good besides DAF’s. Hope this means everything else from OHMSS through NTTD gets individual releases (I think the Craig ones already did, but rereleases in this style would be nice for uniformity).
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
    edited July 30 Posts: 18,058
    Have to agree with @mtm, they look rather cool. I love typography though, so seeing the various fonts all big like that is a bit exciting. Although stylistically very different, they made me think of designer David Pearson's covers for Penguin Press’ collection of John le Carré’s George Smiley novels, where Pearson used typography of that era, including type which is not available digitally and was pieced together from different sources.
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    I do feel however that the design of these 4K covers are "almost there" – like they are just some finishing touches or details from being even better.
  • BT3366BT3366
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    I know the demand for less physical media means usually expecting less in terms of extras and special packaging, etc. But this is about as sloppy as they can get with about zero care. I will credit at least they got the typeface consistent with the original marketing.

    Anybody venture a guess as to why it's not worth the effort to put the original poster art on the covers anymore? If I'm not mistaken, they haven't used it since the remastered VHS releases from around 1993, at least in the U.S.
  • RyanRyan Canada
    Posts: 761
    BT3366 wrote: »
    I know the demand for less physical media means usually expecting less in terms of extras and special packaging, etc. But this is about as sloppy as they can get with about zero care. I will credit at least they got the typeface consistent with the original marketing.

    Anybody venture a guess as to why it's not worth the effort to put the original poster art on the covers anymore? If I'm not mistaken, they haven't used it since the remastered VHS releases from around 1993, at least in the U.S.

    From what I've gathered (based on the excellent resource of https://www.007homevideo.com/), you are correct that that was the last time the original posters and/or key art was used.

    There are a couple exceptions (the Zavvi GoldenEye Steelbook and the Casino Royale Collector's Edition, for example, which both used their poster counterparts), but it's a shame new artwork based on the original posters has never graced a complete set of the EON films.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    To this day, the first way that I owned the films - the Ultimate Edition DVDs - is the best artwork for Bond home releases IMO. There really aren’t any others I would call exceptionally good-looking, but most of the rest are simply serviceable. With these new ones, they’re not perfect or even great, but I’d rather have this simple approach than it be too much.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Ryan wrote: »
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    Not to mention 'GoldFin!' 😂

    Title for Bond 26? :D
    Could work.

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  • StamperStamper
    edited July 31 Posts: 458
    In term of future actors box sets, the Moore one is a given and I suspect they will mimic the original sets, and do a Brosnan 4 films set, and then a Dalton set (2 films), and the Laz set (one film).

    Probably the Moore set will come first (despite being 6 films, but since they botched the remixes of all 6 Sean films, there's no reason to think they are not on their way already with the Moore set), so expect more half sentences and words missing, but hey, "Atmos, great!" and everyone pleased despite listening to soundtracks missing half the words.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Missing half the words?
  • DaltonforyouDaltonforyou The Daltonator
    edited July 31 Posts: 864
    EON's big mistake was not releasing a big BOND 60 4k or blu-ray box set back in '22.
  • 007ClassicBondFan007ClassicBondFan
    Posts: 2,632
    FoxRox wrote: »
    To this day, the first way that I owned the films - the Ultimate Edition DVDs - is the best artwork for Bond home releases IMO. There really aren’t any others I would call exceptionally good-looking, but most of the rest are simply serviceable. With these new ones, they’re not perfect or even great, but I’d rather have this simple approach than it be too much.

    I personally prefer the 95 VHS/Special Edition Covers but the UE cover’s are also fantastic.
  • HitchBondUSAHitchBondUSA USA
    Posts: 290
    Stamper wrote: »
    In term of future actors box sets, the Moore one is a given and I suspect they will mimic the original sets, and do a Brosnan 4 films set, and then a Dalton set (2 films), and the Laz set (one film).

    Probably the Moore set will come first (despite being 6 films, but since they botched the remixes of all 6 Sean films, there's no reason to think they are not on their way already with the Moore set), so expect more half sentences and words missing, but hey, "Atmos, great!" and everyone pleased despite listening to soundtracks missing half the words.

    Brosnan is apparently next goldeneye needs some work.
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
    Posts: 3,031
    A question for those that have purchased the new Connery 4K edition box set.

    I noticed in all of various unboxing videos that are on YouTube, that the disks themselves are a bit barebones in that there doesn't appear to be liner notes or essays. Maybe my Criterion purchases have spoiled me, but I would have thought a short thoughtful essay would have be appropriate given the historical nature of these films. Does anyone else have that feeling? No right or wrong answer here, but I am curious to what others think.

    Thanks.
  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
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    Last time a Bond set had anything like liner notes was probably the Ultimate Edition DVD volumes from 2006. I definitely didn’t have that with the 4K set.
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
    Posts: 3,031
    MakeshiftPython wrote: »
    Last time a Bond set had anything like liner notes was probably the Ultimate Edition DVD volumes from 2006. I definitely didn’t have that with the 4K set.

    That is my memory as well .... which is one of the reasons that I have held onto my UE DVD sets.
  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
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    I sold all of mine. The liner notes were pretty thin and trivial. The only notable one to me was think for TLD, where Dalton was referred to as the Harrison Ford of James Bonds.
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