This is odd; Fox doesn't normally do this. I'm wondering if they're doing this to make a stink about it like Disney, or because they're bringing SEs of them in the future.These Fox titles are all about to go the way of the dodo: Ice Age: Special Edition, The Fly/The Fly 2 (double feature), Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, Oklahoma! and State Fair are gone on June 30th; The Bruce Lee Master Collection goes bye-bye on July 31st; Anastasia, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Hustler, and The Verdict are out on September 2nd; and January 31, 2006 brings the demise of 28 Days Later, The Beach, Carousel, The King and I, South Pacific, and Miracle on 34th Street. If you want any of these, now is the time.
My Anastasia disc, for example, is an old non-anamorphic version that has been discontinued before and quietly replaced with an anamorphic one (same bonus content, just an improved transfer), and I have put off buying it again, figuring that I'll get to it eventually. Since I don't have a WS 16x9 TV, anamorphic hasn't been too much of an issue, but I'd still like to get it in anamorphic just on the obscure chance that I ever get a WS TV or get the chance to see it on one. So it would seem that if I want to buy it for the new transfer, the time is now, UNLESS they are cooking up some sort of SE of it in the future. Which is a distinct possibility; the extras on the current disc are GOOD, but it could easily be made great with more. And the movie's 10th anniversary is in 2007, which is not TOO far off.
And I want FernGully, too.
Another thing is the Rogers & Hamerstien musicals, with the exception of Sound of Music, were all originally released as non-anamorphic barebones releases. So there is lots of room for improvement there. But do I want to risk there NOT being a better version soon and missing them?
Advice, anyone? What are you all going to do?
Unfortuantley, the movie isn't a top priority and I don't have spair money to spend on it... I'm hoping for a new SE in the near future!
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