Re: The official BLADE RUNNER SE thread. (Check out page 8 and #790.)
True. At that point in time, probably the single biggest DVD release seen up to that point was the 3-disc Criterion Brazil, along with a few other exhaustive discs (the T2 Ultimate Edition, The Matrix, the Die Hard 5-Star Edition, Fight Club, the Se7en Platinum Edition, and several other vintage Criterions). Largely everything else, even those, were still two discs in scope at the maximum, although most of those competed quite well with Brazil, even at two discs.But we shouldn't forget that the 4-disc Lord of the Rings were a revelation when they first came out, in terms of their unified content patterns...including the so-called "fluff" content from the theatrical releases would've significantly disrupted this unity in a sense, and I can understand Kurtti-Pellerin's disinterest in doing things this way (though the studio also surely played a role in this decision).
That said, though, I think Charlie also -- quite paradoxically -- just disproved this sentiment to an extent with the new Blade Runner set(s), showing that such content can in fact work in tandem, and setting a freaking huge new bar for future DVD releases to clear in the process.
It's a double-edged sword.
