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| Undead Fred 2470th Post
 
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|  "Re(5):Did anyone else get the Sin City DVD?" , posted Sun 21 Aug 14:14
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Damn them for putting a gun to our head and forcing us to buy each and every version of their movies.
Damn them for magically turning our previous versions into fecal matter the very second they start talking about new ones.
Besides, I'm sorry, but if you don't even take the time to read the back of a DVD (if a feature isn't mentioned there, chances are it won't be on the disc) before buying it, maybe you deserve to be "ripped off"?
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Well, in my case, I had read the back and thought one of two things- there was either a special edition I needed to get instead, or it was possibly on the DVD as an Easter egg or something. Or the idea was just scrapped. When I asked the guy at the store, he very confidently said that the full character stories were on there before I could even ask about the feature... doesn't mean much, I know, but just goes to show that I wasn't the only one that was confused. And since there wasn't a super special collector's cut edition in the entire store, I just assumed one of those first two thoughts I had was correct and this was the "real" DVD.
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| Oroch 859th Post
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| "Re(6):Did anyone else get the Sin City DVD?" , posted Sun 21 Aug 15:20
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Damn them for putting a gun to our head and forcing us to buy each and every version of their movies.
Damn them for magically turning our previous versions into fecal matter the very second they start talking about new ones.
Besides, I'm sorry, but if you don't even take the time to read the back of a DVD (if a feature isn't mentioned there, chances are it won't be on the disc) before buying it, maybe you deserve to be "ripped off"?
HAGUED
Well, in my case, I had read the back and thought one of two things- there was either a special edition I needed to get instead, or it was possibly on the DVD as an Easter egg or something. Or the idea was just scrapped. When I asked the guy at the store, he very confidently said that the full character stories were on there before I could even ask about the feature... doesn't mean much, I know, but just goes to show that I wasn't the only one that was confused. And since there wasn't a super special collector's cut edition in the entire store, I just assumed one of those first two thoughts I had was correct and this was the "real" DVD.
well you didnt get totally ripped off
you got the collectors cover, which wont be featured on the full dvd set!
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| Olivier Hague
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| "Re(6):Did anyone else get the Sin City DVD?" , posted Tue 23 Aug 21:27:
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It is annoying having to wait 15 years if I actually want the "complete" LotR.
Yeah, 'cause right now, it's like watching animated storyboards, huh?
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Remember that this isn't even a case of missing extras and interviews. They were intentionally filming plenty of extra actual movie footage for those years of planned re-releases.
Yeah, sure. You're not familiar with the whole "editing process", are you?
Besides, just because they have "extra movie footage" (that won't make its way back into the actual movies anyway, if Jackson is to be believed), that doesn't mean there's no work left for them (they barely had the time to make the DVD extended versions while they were making the sequels... and Jackson is working on something else right now, remember).
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I finally bought The Fifth Element on DVD
Wait... Why was I talking to you, again?
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| Baines
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| "Re(7):Did anyone else get the Sin City DVD?" , posted Wed 24 Aug 07:16
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Yeah, sure. You're not familiar with the whole "editing process", are you?
Besides, just because they have "extra movie footage" (that won't make its way back into the actual movies anyway, if Jackson is to be believed), that doesn't mean there's no work left for them (they barely had the time to make the DVD extended versions while they were making the sequels... and Jackson is working on something else right now, remember).
I am familiar with the editing process. The 15 year plan and amount of extra footage has been mentioned by different people involved with LotR.
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Wait... Why was I talking to you, again?
I do not know, as you are the one that chose to start talking.
Particularly as I was simply stating what I found to be an annoyance in DVD marketing, and you chose to sarcastically say things that were already quite evident before your post and that didn't actually address the annoyance factor mentioned. Then turned towards insulting instead. So, uhm, draw your own conclusion?
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| Pollyanna 1332th Post
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| "Re(4):Did anyone else get the Sin City DVD?" , posted Wed 24 Aug 18:52
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I think you misunderstood me, so I won't take offense to your statement. What I meant is 'blind consumerism' is the stupidest form of living.
I didn't misunderstand you, I was just making fun of what you said, so maybe you should be offended (if you're the easily offended type). At any rate, I agree (especially when people work themselves into debt), but I still want to know how you feel about farmers.
Iggy brought up an interesting point, though. This is "If you give a mouse a cookie" syndrome. When people had nothing, they wanted nothing. Or rather, they just wanted the movie they got. Now, people should know the game and ask themselves "is it worth it?" If you like the movie enough to buy it twice, then buy it twice...if you don't, then don't buy it and let the movie companies know that their plan isn't working.
I don't like it when people say "Now I HAVE to buy this or that". The collector's edition is aimed at people who are probably into something enough to buy it as many times as they "have" to. You're not buying the movie anymore, you're buying the extras...and if you're a "collector" then no price is too high.
I'm guilty of this, too. Though I can only think of one or two instances when I've bought the same product twice. I still think "what am I going to buy next", it's just that I make it a habit to save three times as much money as I spend.
I don't even know what I'm saying. I was supposed to go to bed "early" tonight, too.
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| Undead Fred 2473th Post
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| "Re(4):Did anyone else get the Sin City DVD?" , posted Thu 25 Aug 12:12:
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Although what bothers me about DVD movies isn't big movies getting double dipped... it's old movies being revisited later with "Super Special Editions" that are totally without warning, like you finally decide "Well, no one loves Mallrats I don't think a 'special edition' will ever come out so, I guess I'll buy it..." then Kevin Smith is all like FUCK YOU!! and releases "Mallrats X" (replace Mallrats with whatever older movie you spent $20 on to get what's basically a DVD copy of a lazerdisc rerelease and then have studios suddenly drop an "aniversy" or 'tie-in-with-releated-somehow-related-movie' editions)
Ha ha ha, yeah... with me, it was "Okay, I think I'll finally buy Usual Suspects..." then not one month later, the super platinum anniversary edition or whatever it was called came out.
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But enough of that rant. I don't think we should pick on the original poster of this thread too much. But everyone should know by the now the DVD game. If your willing to buy two or more different DVD sets for the same movie, good for you. Just don't complain too much when you a special edition comes out later. We knew it was going to happen.
That's what I keep trying to get across- I didn't know it would happen. Sin City wasn't as big as LOTR or OMG STAR WARZ, and since I had heard nothing of the bare bones version (hey, four separate collector's covers seemed fairly "special edition"-like to me), I was confused and bought the wrong one. I hadn't closely followed the Sin City release, since I had only heard of one version coming out and didn't expect a million different variations on the same disc to be coming out. I've normally gotten the right version of a DVD I want, and since I usually see a bare bones and special edition sitting on the shelf so I can choose which one I want. This wasn't the case this time.
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