Well …. not really but it caught your eye, no?
We had father’s day a few weeks ago and my children conspired to buy me, as a gift, something I had my eye on. About a month ago a new edition of all of the 007 movies were released in the UK and Australia. The US will have to wait ’till November. So my children all chipped in and bought me it.
So far I have watched about half of the movies. I was going to space it out over the next few months leading upto the release of the next movie which will be early December here. My wife however decided that she would like to see them all at once!
My first impression is that they are fantastic reproductions. My second impression is even better. The films have all been frame by frame digitally captured to cinema quality. They then went through a colour correction process to compensate for the ageing and different film stocks and environments. They did frame by frame repairs to thinks such as scratches, torn film and such defects. They then fixed other problems like noise on the film. They did a similar fix on the audio, producing a 5.1 surround mix including a DTS audio stream. They then produced a copy for DVD resolution. The quality of both the video and audio are quite remarkable. You would not know that the origonal (Doctor NO) is now over 40 years old.
The set comes in two versions, a cardboard case, which is the one I have, and a briefcase. In hind sight the brief case would have been nicer but relly it is the content not the wrapping that is important, and I am just thankfull that I have such generous children. There are 40 DVDs in the set. 20 movies and 20 disks of extra material. On the extra DVDs are some real gems, such as a segment from a 1964 TV show where Roger Moore does a 007 spoof which is quite funny. There is also a Super 8 recording made by one of the extras on one of the films which contains a comentry from the person who made the film.
In some respects this exceeds the quality of the origonal film. If you are at all keen on the 007 movies this is a must have.