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Ultimate Special Extreme [insert buzz word here] Collectors Titanium Edition DVD

  • 11-11-2003 10:18pm
    #1
    Bacchus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭


    Inspired by the new Alien Quadrilogy DVD box set:
    What are your opions on the countless so-called special edition/directors cut/ultimate edition etc. re-releases of great movies. The Terminator is a classic example, they have the Ultimate edition, Special Edition, Extreme Edition, Collectors Edition - not to mention the new installment coming out on DVD soon. Does anyone find it annoying to buy the new bestest release of these movies and then have to fork out another €80 6 months later on the new bestest release.
    I'm a big fan of the LOTR series of movies and have the collectors extended editions(Two Towers in a couple of weeks) but I know when the trilogy is complete there is going to be a Collector Trilogy DVD set - possibly more than one. I can't help but feel ripped off that I'll be buying that too - I know it's not like I'm being forced to buy it.
    Ditto for Matrix and Star Wars.
    Actually Star Wars is going to release the Originals 3 on DVD after Episode 3. So that's another one, but then there'l probably be a special edition with improved FX or different commentary.
    Another one is X-men. What was all that BS about "X-men1.5" DVD. The're doing it for X-men2 aswell. There's already the regular and special editions of X2 available (from next week)!!

    Anyway, sorry about the rant. Needed to get it off my chest. So anyone else feel this way or do they embrace spending their cash so they can have the latest and greatest DVD BOX set?


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  • #2
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,003 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Let's be fair to LOTR. They publicised that they'd do a theatrical and extended edition of the movies before releasing them. It's your fault if you bought both. Not like others who don't tell you.


  • #3
    CodeMonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,103 ✭✭✭CodeMonkey


    Originally posted by Bacchus
    Anyway, sorry about the rant. Needed to get it off my chest. So anyone else feel this way or do they embrace spending their cash so they can have the latest and greatest DVD BOX set?
    Well, the studios are a lot of the times just cashing in on people's obsessive nature of collecting junk. Lots of special features are a joke and what the hell is wrong with renting? Things like dvds etc don't matter unless you have lots of money and don't know what to do with it but if that's the case you probably wouldn't be ranting about it. In 5-10 years time you're going find yourself with hundred of dvds and think to yourself, christ, I've waste my time and a lot of money.


  • #4
    vibe666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    i'm patiently waiting for the ultimate super duper ultra extended LOTR box set when that comes out the end of next year.

    didn't buy a single one yet, i didn't see the point. damn I'm patient.


  • #5
    Bannor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 815 ✭✭✭Bannor


    Originally posted by vibe666
    i'm patiently waiting for the ultimate super duper ultra extended LOTR box set when that comes out the end of next year.

    didn't buy a single one yet, i didn't see the point. damn I'm patient.
    I was in that boat too until I went to Canada in September. The extended 4 disc box of The Fellowship was only $25 Canadian which worked out to less than €16 at the time. After watching it I got the bug and pre-ordered The Two Towers. :o


  • #6
    Bacchus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭Bacchus


    ixoy: I only bought the extended edition LOTR DVDs. And it was fair of them to tell people in advance about what versions they'd be releasing - unlike a lot of others. I was just wondering are there people who actually buy both and why?
    It's just something I don't understand. I can understand distributors releasing them coz it's makes them money, but why people buy every new release of a DVD is beyond me. Okay, if you have the money, why not. But there are people out there who even if they can barely afford it still waste there money on it.
    The reson I'm ranting is coz when I buy a DVD with my hard earned cash for the "definitive DVD Box Set" of a movie I love, I get really pissed off when a new one is released the next year - not I'd buy the new one, I'v a bit more sense than that.


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  • #7
    Makaveli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,503 ✭✭✭Makaveli


    It is very annoying the way they do it, but I buy dvds for the film not the extras. So if they release a new edition I wont buy it.
    The one that gets a lot of people to buy again is when they add a DTS soundtrack.
    Army of Darkness has a truck load of different releases.


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