To prepare for Quantum of Solace's impending arrival, we're celebrating all things Bond with an entire week of high-def 007. We're digging deep into the first James Bond titles released in Blu-Ray, starting with Connery as Bond Dr. No and finishing with Brosnan's Die Another Day. Stay glued to this page as your guide to our all of our in-depth, high-def 007 analysis.
Day 1: Dr. No
Every franchise has to start somewhere. For James Bond, that beginning came with Dr. No. Looking at the movie forty six years (and twenty two movies) later, it’s pretty evident that the movie may have been a good starting place for Bond back then, but his first adventure doesn’t exactly hold up well.
Day 2: From Russia With Love
It didn’t take long for James Bond to take off, and a year after his first adventure, Dr. No, the super spy was traipsing around the globe, off to rescue a beautiful woman and, less importantly, a secret decoder device from the hands of the enemy. Hey, if you were Bond, which would you make a higher priority?
Day 3: Thunderball
Blu-ray may have been made for Bond, but we’ll have to wait before we get some of his best adventures. The first wave of releases offers fans three Connery movies out of the six movies, but leaps over Goldfinger to include Thunderball, one of the weaker films in the franchise. The spy game is almost at an all time high here, but an overly ambitious storyline leaves much to be desired.
Day 4: Live And Let Die
The first wave of Blu-ray Bond movies leaves behind Sean Connery and moves into the Roger Moore era with his first film, Live and Let Die. For his first trick as 007, Moore avoids a lot of globe trotting and exotic locales and heads for a place no Bond has gone before: blaxploitation.
Day 5: For Your Eyes Only
Much like the Connery movies before, one has to wonder what criteria was used for selecting the Roger Moore movies to appear in the first wave of Blu-ray movies. For Your Eyes Only feels like a rather random selection, with far more memorable and enjoyable adventures bypassed to bump a pretty mundane picture to the top of the list.
Day 6: Die Another Day
For the last movie in the first wave of Bond on Blu-ray, the studio chose to bypass the Timothy Dalton years and move to Pierce Brosnan’s take on Bond. In an odd move, however, they didn’t use Brosnan’s first Bond picture, like they did with Connery and Moore. Instead we leap to Brosnan’s last adventure, Die Another Day. It’s an odd choice to include, since it was probably one of the worst received of the actor’s stint as the spy, but in retrospect it’s not as bad a movie as we remember it.
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