The Fox wrote:Well War Chief has told us from his contact at Paramount what will be on the u.k dvd. I'm gonna take his word and hope for the best [-o<
Why would Paramount go to the trouble to tell us one thing and then do another?
Maybe the Paramount contact is quoting the 1min 16sec Walter Hill intro as commentary and the cartoon edits as the 7 new deleted/edited scenes. I hopw I'm wrong but all the reviews suggest we have been short changed.
because Paramount sucks, thats why. i urge any one of you to go out to a video store and look at the movies and TV shows they've released. im sure you'll find a dearth of anything any fan of whatever show you look at would want by the way of extras. With the exception of Top Gun which took years to come out with a special edition, and Chappelle's Show, the last season of which Paramount will no doubt try to hold up for whatever reason, their track record when it comes to caring about what we as fans want and would pay for versus what we get is pretty bad.
"It's just our mark..It don't mean we're at war..."
MorrowMan wrote:Member when DVD's first came out? and the companies thought that "Widescreen" format and "also in Spanish and French" was an extra? Well thats the way Paramount's home video dept. thinks.
Unfortunately that's still pretty commonplace IMO. Too many DVDs list "special features" with things like "widescreen," "subtitles," "trailer," "scene index" and "remastered."
Big Cyrus. He was gonna run the whole city...what crap that was.
Considering that quite a few online UK stores have been advertising the UK disc as having a commentary and the deleted scenes, this description must have come from the official source - the publisher. If this really turns out to be false and if the UK disc is going to be identical to the bad US release, one could very likely try to take the matter to court, over false advertising, misinformation and essentially selling an inferior product with a misleading description of a superior one (as there have been preorders available - I placed one, too).
Of course, the UK disc will still have the highly superior cover, but there will probably be the issue of the frame speedup of NTSC-to-PAL conversions... which can normally be ignored, but in this case, I was planning to extract the complete film score using the DVD's audio track...
In both places the information that the two releases are supposedly identical comes from the same person, one "Martin Jeeves"... In other words, there is absolutely no confirmation of it at this point.
can't take 'em to court if they give you back your money, which of course, takes away any damage incurred by a buyer of the disc. Besides, Why would Walter Hill agree to a commentary, something he never does. (This guys got maybe twenty five movies he directed. Some of them legendary;Red Heat, 48 Hours, Southern Comfort, The Getaway and he hasn't so much as authorized a special edition of any of em. "I like to let my films speak for themselves..." I hope that's a misquote, 'cause you know if Hitchcock and John Houston were alive today and did audio commentaries on their films, these purist directors would own them. Someone should ask these directors- who cant be bothered to take advantage of the growing technologies of DVD's- what movie inspired them to be a filmaker in the first place, and wouldn't it be nice if there were some extras on that films disc?
"It's just our mark..It don't mean we're at war..."
OK, so Hill doesn't do commentaries. Many directors don't, Woody Allen and David Lynch to name two. But I am sure Beck, Remar, Harris, and Valkenburg would have been open to the idea. Even Andrew Laszlo would be cool. It would have been nice to have someone who was involved with the film do a running commentary.
Still they could od put some effort in and presented the deleted scenes. You sometimes wish fans of the film could have some input rather than suits and market research. However perhaps the deleted scenes are no longer easy to find since the days of inserting them into a tv edit
Arrrrg! I cant wait. its due tommorrow here and im fidgity! I ordered it thru Amazon.com so they will ship it when they get it, but im gonna walk down to my vid store and see if they got it early. So what? i'll have Two copies, is that so bad? i think we are all about to get our just due. Even though the DVD might not have every single thing we all want on it, it's been a long time comin and people are staring to buzz about the video game. I started a buzz last night about the re-make at work. even though its gonna suck (how far do you think they'd have got in the original if Every gang had a gun? two guns? seven guns? Mac ten's? Uzi's. some of the Bloods have access to AK 47's) The publicity will make people more aware
"It's just our mark..It don't mean we're at war..."
It's out in LA. i looked at a box at the Circuit City. It said Introduction by Director Walter Hill. 4 Featurettes (which is prolly just one cut up into 4)
and Theatricle trailer. There needs to be some of those DVD easter Eggs on this one man. cant wait to get my copy
"It's just our mark..It don't mean we're at war..."
JoePal wrote:iand i am assuming they don't carry the photo gallery too?
I haven't seen a photo gallery on my copy of the dvd. There are a lot of nice photos shown during the intereviews, but there's no separate feature to view them in.
I also want to clarify exactly how the alternate daytime opening to the movie is presented on the dvd. Yes, it is shown in one of the featurettes, but there's no audio (the crew talks as it's being shown), and it's quite butchered. Someone who has never seen the scene on tv or through this site would have no clue as to what they're watching.
