The New DVD Thread 2

Just Myself · Post by **Just Myself** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 10:22 pm

Holy crap I'm lucky...
My friend's uncle who works for Warner DVD got a couple of British copies of Troy... and he's gonna convert one and send it to me!!!!! OMG this so rule's....

Agh I'm not gonna be able to get it til early October. But that's still a half a month earlier than the UK and three months before USA

Awesome awesome awesome!!!!

Pluto · Post by **Pluto** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 8:19 am

Ive got the movie lion King 2 Special Ed

Pluto · Post by **Pluto** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 8:19 am

It was great!!!!!

Squirrel · Post by **Squirrel** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 3:32 pm

Today, I added another addition to my collection of British shows ...

I got Are You Being Served? Again! (or, more properly: Grace & Favour), the complete series (with 12 episodes total). Got it for about 36 dollars. Fills out my AYBS collection, then, so look forward to watching it ... starting tonight. I grew really fond of the last show I got on DVD, Last of the Summer Wine; it just seeps into you, if you let it. Grace & Favour isn't "great," but it has its moments, for sure, and I seem to enjoy it more than most AYBS fans.

I was almost tempted by Good Neighbors (or, here in America: The Good Life), the final series, but ... it's an Acorn Media release, and I know BBC Video said that their own complete set of the show is "in the works," so I'm clamping myself down on that, and waiting. They had the first series of Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, but I passed on that, too ...

Satoshi · Post by **Satoshi** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 4:52 pm

I got Alias: Season Three today at Best Buy. Also got a free Sky Captain preview DVD there.

Loomis · Post by **Loomis** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:02 pm

This week saw the purchase of Freaky Friday (1977) and the arrival of my Van Helsing review discs (it is a 2-Disc set here in Oz).

Got to love review discs.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:14 pm

Got Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train 2-Disc SE at Costco for a meager $12.99!

MickeyMouseboy · Post by **MickeyMouseboy** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:57 pm

Today i got:

- Resident Evil - Deluxe Edition-
- Thelma and Louise - Special Edition-

by the end of the week

-Ladykillers might make it to my collection..............

Prince Phillip · Post by **Prince Phillip** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 7:03 pm

Got 3 today:
-Dawn of the Dead (4 disc)
-The Puisher
-Stir of Echoes

and this past Saturday (3 days before it was suppose to street) I got...
-ANGEL - Season 4!

I think I've done pretty good

My next big purchases will be in October!

Just Myself · Post by **Just Myself** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:39 pm

Soon I might get Ladykillers and Jersey Girl if parents permit...

I was strolling through F.Y.E. Sunday and found, to my absolute delight- They had put out Home on the Range 9 days early- and on sale for $19.99, no less (quite cheap for F.Y.E.)

I's so happy....

Loomis · Post by **Loomis** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 6:06 am

It arrived! It arrrriiiiiveeed!

Dawn of the Dead: The Ultimate Edition (which as 2099net points out, means it is the 'final' one, but I doubt that...).

Many hours of viewing ahead here, as it is 4 disc, with 3 different versions of the film, 2 feature length docos (one original, one new), commentaries and other groovy things! Hell, there is even a mini comic.

MickeyMouseboy · Post by **MickeyMouseboy** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 7:54 pm

Loomis wrote:It arrived! It arrrriiiiiveeed!

Dawn of the Dead: The Ultimate Edition (which as 2099net points out, means it is the 'final' one, but I doubt that...).

Many hours of viewing ahead here, as it is 4 disc, with 3 different versions of the film, 2 feature length docos (one original, one new), commentaries and other groovy things! Hell, there is even a mini comic.

nothing is the ultimate edition unless the movie burns and disappears. i'm sure we'll get Dawn of the Dead 75th anniversary 10 disc set with 9 cuts of the movie! the original cut, the director's cut, the special edition cut, the ultimate cut, the platinum cut, version you've never seen , the zombie out cut, fan club cut and the all new 75th anniversary cut will newly found scenes! plus all new interviews with the cast and director's talking about the same thing they did 75th years ago! SRP is $79.99 come with a squishy zombie head that squeeks!

Loomis · Post by **Loomis** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:04 pm

MickeyMouseboy wrote:nothing is the ultimate edition unless the movie burns and disappears. i'm sure we'll get Dawn of the Dead 75th anniversary 10 disc set with 9 cuts of the movie!

Yes, what I said.

I wonder if they will still have DVDs in 2053 (for the 75th anniversary)? I'll be 75 then as well, so it is quite appropriate.

The DVD is pretty complete, I must say. The "Extended Director's Cut" could have been left off, simply because it isn't really a Director's Cut per se (and the theatrical is unrated) but it was included for the sake of completeness. The European Cut is there because fans demanded it. So all the "official" cuts of the film, at any rate. Plus, unlike Disney, they've included the ORIGINAL making of doco (the feature length Document of the Dead), as well as a new retro-doco (which goes for 75 minutes, and from what I've seen is quite good).

Overkill? Probably. But it makes this fan very happy.

MickeyMouseboy · Post by **MickeyMouseboy** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:08 pm

Loomis wrote:
MickeyMouseboy wrote:nothing is the ultimate edition unless the movie burns and disappears. i'm sure we'll get Dawn of the Dead 75th anniversary 10 disc set with 9 cuts of the movie!
Yes, what I said.

I wonder if they will still have DVDs in 2053 (for the 75th anniversary)? I'll be 75 then as well, so it is quite appropriate.

The DVD is pretty complete, I must say. The "Extended Director's Cut" could have been left off, simply because it isn't really a Director's Cut per se (and the theatrical is unrated) but it was included for the sake of completeness. The European Cut is there because fans demanded it. So all the "official" cuts of the film, at any rate. Plus, unlike Disney, they've included the ORIGINAL making of doco (the feature length Document of the Dead), as well as a new retro-doco (which goes for 75 minutes, and from what I've seen is quite good).

Overkill? Probably. But it makes this fan very happy.

I would just buy the 75th anniversary set for the squishy zombie head the squeeks

2099net · Post by **2099net** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 2:24 am

Loomis wrote: Dawn of the Dead: The Ultimate Edition (which as 2099net points out, means it is the 'final' one, but I doubt that...).

Hello! Mr. Pickey here!

Ultimate can also mean "definitive" or "best". But this term of the word is based on the prime defintion of the word ("final"). In other words, it doesn't have to mean last. But even when using the word to mean "best" it can only be used after the group of items it is being compared to has definitively finished. Being as we don't know no further Dawn of the Dead, Star Wars or whatever DVDs will be released in the future, we cannot make a judgement on which is "best" (in the Ultimate sense of "best").

So it is wrong use of the word to say DVD is the "ultimate" format, as DVD is not the "last" format, and its not the "best" format because we know there will be more formats in the future (and we can be pretty sure these future formats will be better too). Etc.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:49 pm

I returned my Alien Quadrilogy and just got Aliens: Collector's Edition instead. I realized thats probably the only film of the set I'll rewatch a lot.

"When they said 'alien', you thought they said 'illegal alien' and signed up!"

MickeyMousePal · Post by **MickeyMousePal** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 3:38 pm

I just got:

Friends: Season One
Friends: Season Two
The Wizard of Oz
Peter Pan (2004)

MickeyMouseboy · Post by **MickeyMouseboy** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 5:10 pm

Jack wrote:I returned my Alien Quadrilogy and just got Aliens: Collector's Edition instead. I realized thats probably the only film of the set I'll rewatch a lot.

"When they said 'alien', you thought they said 'illegal alien' and signed up!"

bad move mate! very bad move!

Squirrel · Post by **Squirrel** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 7:19 pm

Got Badlands. For 15 dollars at Borders.

Loomis · Post by **Loomis** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 2:45 am

MickeyMouseboy wrote:
Jack wrote:I returned my Alien Quadrilogy and just got Aliens: Collector's Edition instead. I realized thats probably the only film of the set I'll rewatch a lot.

"When they said 'alien', you thought they said 'illegal alien' and signed up!"
bad move mate! very bad move!

Nah, the Alien Quadrilogy is a bit of overkill. Seriously - it took me ages to get through just the Alien and Alien3 supps, and I seriously doubt I'll ever watch them again. You may as well just get the ones you want, and if you can't afford a big expenditure in one hit, the single volumes are the way to go.

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