buying dvds again and again

[BeyondTheGrave]

Something been bugging me lately. I am getting a little sick of buying dvds that keep coming out with different edtions. Ive been noticeing that when a sequel of a movie comes out that companies decide to come out with a new dvd of the previous movie. spiderman x-men  and the ulimate dawn of the dead are some examples of this. I know its in the sake of profit and to hype the sequel but its annoying and costing.

A idea I came up with is that we should be able to cash in are old edtions and get some money off the new super delxue edtions. I know we could sell it on ebay or trade it in (even thought you wont get much back) but I mean more of a flat rate thing like $15 off if you trade in your old edtion for the new one.

So does anyone else annoyed by this and do you have any solutions?

"thiers no love in your punches!"- ichi the killer

[Cropsy]

I sure they leave a few goods scenes out of the theatre version just so they can make money adding the "cut scenes" to the dvd.

[odinn7]

This is why I will usually not buy a DVD when it comes out. I wait and see what comes out a few months later.

[BeyondTheGrave]

I know what you mean odinn7 but what I meant was those speical edtions that come out when a sequel comes out. So you would have to wait a two or three years when the sequel comes outs and buy thier deluxe edtion that wants to hype the new movie and stuck with the first dvd you bought when it first came to dvd.

"their no love in your punches"- ichi the killer

[odinn7]

Unless it's a movie that I really, really want then I would not buy it a second time just because they released a special edition. I think it's rotten how they do this just for the money.  Look at when they released Hellboy...what was it, a few months later that they released a juiced-up version? Same thing with Underworld. What is the point of all of this? I love movies yet I hate myself for allowing them to do this to me...well, I hate myself anyway but that's a different topic.

[George]

This is interesting.  George Lucas has been really dogged out for coming out with "new" and "updated" and "special" editions.  My solution is very simple...I do not buy the new editions.

Let's be honest.  Do you really need the extra 6 minute interview with Bruce Campbell?  Can seeing how they made R2-D2 move really be that big of a deal?  Who cares what Harrison Ford thinks about Steven Speilberg (sp)?

Just think Field of Dreams.....If you DO NOT buy them, they WILL NOT make them.

[Master Blaster]

I never buy into that special eddition crap. Rarely is they're anything that interesting to be offered. Usually it's the exact same DVD with a silver trim on the cover or something and worse extras than were on the first DVD.

Outtakes that were so boring we didnt put them on the original DVD!!!

Alternate scenes where instead of the guy going left to right he goes right to left!!!!

4 hour interview with the boom operator!! Listen how he tells the fascinating story of how the movie was made!!!! "I had to hold a pole for really long."

[Yaddo 42]

The new special edition of "Meet the Parents" to tie in with the release of "Meet the Fockers" would seem to fit in with this scam. How many outtakes and scenes that were so great they left them out of the original film and earlier home video release could there be. Is there even any demand for it, every used DVD store I've ever been to has at least three copies of the first DVD release traded in.

I tend to wait on buying mainstream releases on DVD to avoid the special edition follow up scam. Plus sometimes they drop the price of the film after it's been out a few months and demand isn't that great. About the only special edition mainstream DVD I want right now is the one for "Master and Commander". Since I'm a fan of the books and that era of history the extras would actually interest me.

I rented the PG-13 rated edition of "Chronicles of Riddick" last week and watched the extras, what a waste of time for that overblown popcorn movie. I shudder to think what they could pad out the unrated editon with. I'm not buying either one.

[dudeman]

now that I think about it,I I've never found a deleted scene worthwhile ever, it's just not worth it really most of the time unless you know the movie is getting higher quality like the Meet the Feebles and Orgazmo special editions, or if it's unrated like the Dawn of the Dead boxset

Yeah, mainstream movies are the ones that go in this scam though and I just stay clear from them. So I don't have this problem too often. It's like remixes, do we really need remixes of the same songs over and over?

[jmdenn]

well odin i sugest thee get thy self to a store that buys used dvds. for instance i traded in my old blue underground version of zombi at newbury comics (btw great b-movie selection there) to help me buy the media blasters two disc version

[Grim]

> A idea I came up with is that we should be able to cash in are
> old edtions and get some money off the new super delxue
> edtions. I know we could sell it on ebay or trade it in (even
> thought you wont get much back) but I mean more of a flat rate
> thing like $15 off if you trade in your old edtion for the new
> one.

That would be nice, but like you said, doubt any companies would do, profit being the big motive there.  One thing I liked about the Lord of the Rings movies is they let you know up front that yes, there will be an extended released a few months down the road.

> So does anyone else annoyed by this and do you have any
> solutions?

Dunno, man.  Me, I'm usually too poor to afford a DVD right when it first comes out, so I usually wait awhile and pick them up later at ebay or half.com.  Just by then, I'm aware of the "newer" version and can decide which one to get....

I understand the annoyance though.

[Menard]

What annoys me is the 'uncut' or 'like you've never seen it before' DVD's that are exactly the same as what has been released before. Two prime examples of this are the rerelease of Fulci's 'Zombie' as 'Zombi 2' which, although loaded with extras, has no discovered or restored scenes that was not on the Anchor Bay release or the VHS releases before that; and just about every release of 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' which has always claimed 'uncut', 'restored', 'like you've never seen it before', etc., and it is exactly what I have seen before. Since I would buy these DVDs anyway, why do they have to lie?

Bob

[JohnL]

>now that I think about it,I I've never found a deleted scene worthwhile ever,

I can think of two examples where I would have liked them to leave in the deleted scenes; Aliens and Terminator II. Aliens has been shown as the director's cut, which includes the scenes of the colony before the aliens are discovered and Ripley being told that her daughter died. Also, although the scenes with the sentry guns aren't missed, it does explain the line "I'm sealing the tunnel!", which always seemed kind of out of place. In Terminator II, the scene where they open up the terminator's head, remove his CPU and flip the switch so that he can start learning has become so ingrained in my mind after reading about it and seeing small parts of it (but never the whole thing) that I always mentally add it while watching the movie. The scenes with the T1000 "glitching" after being shattered and reformed would have been nice to see as well.