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08-17-2006, 07:03 AM
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Troy, Space Cowboys, Lethal Weapon 2, House of Wax HD-DVD 9-12!
http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/news/
More Warner titles on the way next month! I'll be picking up Troy, LW2 and Space Cowboys from this bunch. Still waiting on the official word for Harry Potter on August 29th - WHERE IS IT??
It's shaping up to be a very expensive few months leading to Christmas! 
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08-17-2006, 09:29 AM
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Re: Troy, Space Cowboys, Lethal Weapon 2, House of Wax HD-DVD 9-12!
Amazon could put me down for a sale of Lethal Weapon 2 if they actually decide to list them for sale on their site. Still waiting for them to do that with Caddyshack and The Searchers. What gives?
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08-17-2006, 11:48 AM
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Re: Troy, Space Cowboys, Lethal Weapon 2, House of Wax HD-DVD 9-12!
I'll be picking up NONE of these titles. Come on WB, it's time to release the really good stuff *cough* Batman Begins... *cough**cough* The Matrix... *hurling noises* Terminator 3!!!
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08-17-2006, 12:59 PM
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Re: Troy, Space Cowboys, Lethal Weapon 2, House of Wax HD-DVD 9-12!
Don't forget "the Paris Hilton Horror Hit" House Of Wax.
I love how movies that don't even recoup their budgets are called hits these days....
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08-17-2006, 02:47 PM
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Re: Troy, Space Cowboys, Lethal Weapon 2, House of Wax HD-DVD 9-12!
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I'll be picking up NONE of these titles. Come on WB, it's time to release the really good stuff *cough* Batman Begins... *cough**cough* The Matrix... *hurling noises* Terminator 3!!!
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They're probably saving those for the holiday season. And it's not like Legal Wreckin 2 is a bad movie or anything.
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Last edited by Adam_ME : 08-18-2006 at 01:17 PM.
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08-17-2006, 03:05 PM
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Re: Troy, Space Cowboys, Lethal Weapon 2, House of Wax HD-DVD 9-12!
Lethal Weapon 2 was a rather big commercial and critical hit.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/...907070301/1023
Lw2 earned $147 million in 1989
BB earned $205 million last year. Adjusted for cost of living increase, LW2 was a bigger hit and I'm sure sold more tickets...
I for one enjoyed it a helluva lot more than Batman Begins...
but what do I know...
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08-17-2006, 03:42 PM
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Re: Troy, Space Cowboys, Lethal Weapon 2, House of Wax HD-DVD 9-12!
The titles are coming, the titles are coming!!!
I say; Hooray!!!
Even if I don't want any of them.
The format lives, as long as we get releases and that's good enough for me.
All this whining of "my" title hasn't been released yet, just shows the lack of knowledge of the time & place HD disc is in at the moment.
There are those that say, if "my" title is released the format will be a huge success. Butt, who knows that for sure? Certainly not the studios, who have to take all the risk in this process.
Just remember, HD discs sales, for both formats, are predicted to amount to 1% of SD DVD sales this year. There just aren't that many machines out, at this time, to ensure huge success of a title.
What is GREAT news, is that a title like Aeon Flux, is in such high demand, currently outstripping supply, for all the retailers to stock. That's got to help studios feel more secure in releasing MAJOR titles as well.
When either or both of the waring formats (and that can't be a good thing for the studios, the fact there is a format war raging doesn't breed confidence) hits 300,000 players on the market, that will surly help the floodgates open!
Don't forget, vinyl outsells DVD-A & SA-CD combined to this day, And many would say "Vinyl is Dead". Didn't WB release DVD-A's? Didn't Uni release DVD-A's?
Movies are: "The Greatest Artform".
HD should be for EVERYONE!
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08-17-2006, 04:14 PM
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Re: Troy, Space Cowboys, Lethal Weapon 2, House of Wax HD-DVD 9-12!
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They're probably saving those for the holiday season. And it's not Legal Wreckin 2 is a bad movie or anything.
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It's just annoying that the insert in the WB HD-DVD's say that Batman Begins, The Matrix and T3 will be out Summer 2006, which means before Sept. 22. I highly doubt that'll happen at this point.
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08-17-2006, 04:44 PM
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Re: Troy, Space Cowboys, Lethal Weapon 2, House of Wax HD-DVD 9-12!
Those titles fall in the category of the others, mediocore releases. If I were HD-DVD, I would start releasing now up to and including October, those heavy duty releases. HD-DVD has proven to display great video and great uncompressed sound via 5.1 analog inputs (as per the reviews here), pull out all the stops and let it go.
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08-17-2006, 04:50 PM
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Re: Troy, Space Cowboys, Lethal Weapon 2, House of Wax HD-DVD 9-12!
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Originally Posted by Jerome Grate
Those titles fall in the category of the others, mediocore releases. If I were HD-DVD, I would start releasing now up to and including October, those heavy duty releases. HD-DVD has proven to display great video and great uncompressed sound via 5.1 analog inputs (as per the reviews here), pull out all the stops and let it go.
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Lethal Weapon 2 is not a mediocre title. I think it's the best film of the series and is very entertaining.
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08-17-2006, 07:12 PM
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Re: Troy, Space Cowboys, Lethal Weapon 2, House of Wax HD-DVD 9-12!
Except for HOUSE OF WAX, I like all of these titles. Too bad they aren't releasing the 1953 Vincent Price HOUSE OF WAX instead.
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