Region 1 Special Editions I'd really like to see get made. (1 Viewer)

[George_W_K]

Mark Pytel, nice picks!

Same to you, Eric!

 

[Jim Peavy]

I noticed the Superbit editions of Bram Stoker's Dracula were all priced at $9.95 at a Best Buy I visited yesterday. This wouldn't mean they're trying to blow them out because of a SE coming, would it? Anybody heard anything?

If not, I'm gonna' snag one of these at that price.

 

[Ray_R]

Jim, I believe they're selling for that price because they're most likely prepping for Blu-Ray or just finally hacking the price for them. If I were you, I'd buy the SuperBit as it's very nice.

Here is a long delayed update of my list starting off with retiring multiple titles. (With the obvious exclusion of Titanic.)

BATMAN (1989)
Batman Returns
Dead Poet's Society
Dumb and Dumber
DUNE
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Frighteners
Gallipoli
Good Morning, Vietnam
A River Runs Through It

Here are some titles I'd like to add of which I'm waiting for and still am eager to await a Special Edition.

2010
The Addams Family
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Backdraft
BEETLEJUICE
Black Rain (Ridley Scott)
BLADE RUNNER
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Braveheart
Dick Tracy I just might even buy the current edition.
Excalibur
FACE/OFF
Jewel of the Nile
LadyHawke
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
Maverick
Mission: Impossible
The NeverEnding Story Still waiting for a Two-Disc Special Edition...
Outland
Poltergeist

Quiz Show
The Rocketeer
Romancing the Stone
RONIN The Special Edition 2-Disc is most likely coming here so as soon as it gets all announced and a week before it comes out I'm selling my single disc and keeping the "booklet".
Screamers
The Shadow
STARMAN
SUPERMAN II
Tank Girl
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
They Live
Three Amigos!
Time Cop
True Lies Supposedly rumoured to be a Five Star Collection release, but due to unforntunate "events", it remains unreleased as a Special Edition. Although, if it does happen to get released, it'd most likely be under the Collector's Edition banner.
Volcano
WarGames
Waterworld
Westworld

Young Frankenstein

Updating later...

 

[Vincent-P]

one of the titles I'd most like to see an SE for is "That Thing You Do". I wish for one every time I pass by it in the store because I've held off buying it hoping for one.

 

[Ray_R]

Figure I'd post another listing again, mainly focusing on 1980's films this time. To start with, here are several titles which are finally being re-released as Special Editions or their various monikers. (Titles with an asterisk after the mumbo jumbo are the ones I'm planning on purchasing.)

Coming in 2006:
2001: A Space Odyssey - Special Edition (??/??)*
All the President's Men - Two-Disc Special Edition (02/21)
Blue Thunder - Special Edition (04/04)
A Clockwork Orange - Special Edition (??/??)
CON-AIR - Unrated Extended Edition (05/16/06)*
Crimson Tide - Unrated Extended Edition (03/14)*
Dog Day Afternoon - Two-Disc Special Edition (02/28)
Enemy of the State - Unrated Extended Edition (05/16)*
Erik the Viking - Director's Cut (03/21)
Event Horizon - Special Collector's Edition (04/18)
A Fish Called Wanda - Collector's Edition (03/14)*
The Green Mile - Two-Disc Collector's Edition (??/??)*
Midnight Cowboy - Collector's Edition (02/21)
Mission: Impossible - Special Collector's Edition (04/11)*
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (03/28)*
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (03/28)*
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (03/28)*
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (03/28)*
The Poseidon Adventure - Special Edition (05/09)
The Shining (1980) - Special Edition (??/??)
Stalag 17 - Special Collector's Edition (03/21)
SUPERMAN II - Director's Cut (??/??)*
The Towering Inferno - Special Edition (05/09)

Coming in 2007:
L.A. Confidential - Two-Disc Special Edition (??/??)*
The Man Who Would be King - Special Edition (??/??)*
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior - Special Edition (??/??)*
Poltergeist - Silver Anniversary Special Edition (??/??)*

Coming in 2008:
Risky Business - Special Edition (??/??)

More to follow later.

Here are titles of which I am and others are still waiting for. (Titles with an asterisk after the title are films I've yet to see but will get around to eventually watching them.)

The 13th Warrior
1492: The Conquest of Paradise - Get Charlie de Lauzirika for this one.
2010
The Abyss - Current release is perfect and I highly prefer the 171m Special Edition cut over the 146m Theatrical. One major issue I have with this is that it's non-anamorphic.
The Addams Family
Addams Family Values
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - A Criterion calibre type of Special Edition would be nice. Hell, if Criterion were able to make a Special Edition of this title and even port over all their laserdisc material and make even more extras that'd be just fine.
Altered States*
Always
Apocalypse Now
The Arrival
Awakenings
Backdraft
Bean
BEETLEJUICE
Big
Black Rain (Ridley Scott)
BLADE RUNNER
Bottle Rocket
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Braveheart
Broken Arrow*
The Cable Guy
Coming to America
DARKMAN
Dark City
Days of Thunder*
Death Becomes Her
Dick Tracy - I just might even buy the current edition. Was rumoured to be a Vista Series release but said rumour has since been quashed. By the way, could anyone confirm whether or not the current release is anamorphic? Figuring since the price is so low now and if they see sales for it it'd garner a Special Edition release.
Dragonslayer
Enemy Mine
Escape from L.A.
Excalibur
FACE/OFF
Far and Away
The Fisher King
A Fistfull of Dollars*
Flash Gordon*
Flatliners*
For a Few Dollars More*
Futureworld*
G.I. Jane
The Game - A Criterion calibre type of Special Edition would be nice. Hell, if Criterion were able to make a Special Edition of this title and even port over all their laserdisc material and make even more extras that'd be just fine.
GHOSTBUSTERS II - Doubtful due to the recently released Gift Set last year.
The Golden Child
Hard Target - The Director's Cut would be nice to have for this John Woo film.
Home Alone
Hone Alone 2: Lost in New York
The Hudsucker Proxy
Jewel of the Nile
Judge Dredd
LadyHawke
The Lawnmower Man
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
Mars Attacks!
Mary Shelly's Frankenstein
Maverick
Michael Collins
The NeverEnding Story - This most deservedly deserves (quaint, ain't it? ) Warner's Two-Disc Special Edition treatment. A fully branching version with the American and the International (Perhaps the German cut?) fully remastered 16:9 transfer with commentaries and the second disc obviously devoted to the extras. The second disc should be dual-layered considering the source material is a book and there are alot of sites divulging on the making of the film. One of my must buys but alas am holding off for the dream version stated above. And I'm still waiting for a Two-Disc Special Edition announcement from Warners...
Outland
The Phantom*
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Quiz Show
Raising Arizona
Rising Sun - I'd love to see a full blown 2-Disc Collector's Edition from Fox. That's how much I have high regards for the Michael Crichton book and the movie.
Rob Roy
The Rocketeer - I have all of The Rocketeer comic books so I guess you could say I'm a fan. A commentary track from the Director and creator Dave Stevens. Another commentary track from the Director and Bill Campbell. Documentaries and behind-the-scenes feauturettes would be excellent.
Rollerball (1975)
Romancing the Stone
RONIN - The Special Edition 2-Disc is most likely coming here so as soon as it gets all announced and a week before it comes out I'm selling my single disc and keeping the "booklet."
Screamers
The Shadow
STARMAN
Strange Days
Tank Girl
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
They Live
Three Amigos!
THUNDERHEART
Time Cop
True Lies - Supposedly rumoured to be a Five Star Collection release, but due to unforntunate "events", it remains unreleased as a Special Edition. Although, if it does happen to get released, it'd most likely be under the Collector's Edition banner.
Virtuosity
Volcano*
WarGames*
Waterworld
Westworld*
White Squall
The Witches of Eastwick
Young Frankenstein

 

[Richard--W]

I would like to see Anthony Mann westerns given the special editions, each film with commentaries and a disciplined documentary on what he did for, and how he fits into, the western genre. Some of his westerns are already on DVD and they look fine, but they deserve more:

Cimarron (1960)
Man of the West (1958)
The Tin Star (1957)
The Last Frontier (1955)
The Man from Laramie (1955)
The Far Country (1954)
The Naked Spur (1953)
Bend of the River (1952)
The Tall Target (1951)
Devil's Doorway (1950)
The Furies (1950)
Winchester '73 (1950)


After seeing what Kino has done with The Blue Angel (1930)and what Criterion has done with The Scarlet Empress (1934), I would like to see the rest of the films Josef von Sternberg made with Marlene Dietrich receive the special edition treatment. I admit Dietrich doesn't interest me much. I can't get interested in her saloon singer character, which became a bore even before Destry. But her work with von Sternberg is riveting. There are layers of subtext and visual metaphor going on here that scream out for commentaries. Even when the plotting doesn't make rational sense, these films glow with their own heat. There needs to be a documentary about their relationship and association:

The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
Blonde Venus (1932)
Shanghai Express (1932)
Dishonored (1931)
Morocco (1930)

And while we're at it, why not rescue von Sternberg's other films from obscurity?

I also think Richard Fleischer's Fantastic Voyage (1967) deserves a special edition. It was a breaktrhrough sci-fi film in its time, enormously popular and influential. The optical effects were a state-of-the-art achievement in 1967 that hold up well today. It needs a commentary and a documentary about how it was made. To dismiss this great film on a double-feature disc with the routine Voyage To the Bottom of the Sea is an insult. Fleischer was one of Hollywood's most inventive studio directors who made several significant films. When I met him at the World 3-D Expo in 2003, he told me that he would be happy to do commentaries, in fact he wants to, but aside from 20,000 Leagues, he's never been asked.

 

[Brett_M]

I'd plunk down the cash for:

G.I. Jane - anamorphic at least.

The 13th Warrior - extended cut or deleted scenes

True Lies - Needs SE treatment.

Superman 2 - everyone has said what it needs -- I AGREE.

Bram Stoker's Dracula - documentary from the LD would be nice + deleted scenes.

The White Buffalo (even a bare bones release would be fine with me)

 

[Ray_R]

Post #85 updated again.

 

[MarcoBiscotti]

I'm still anxiously waiting for:


- Cool Hand Luke

- LA Confidential

- Creepshow

- Beetlejuice

 

[Qui-Gon John]

Ray, CON-AIR is supposed to be coming out with CRIMSON TIDE and ENEMY OF THE STATE.

Would also like to see:
Armageddon
American President
Days of Thunder
Kundun
Mrs. Doubtfire

 

[Nathan V]

John, not sure if you know this, but Armageddon is currently available from the Criterion label as a stacked 2 disc director's cut with a bonanza of features.

 

[Ray_R]

It is but it just needs to be re-released anamorphically...
Post #85 updated yet again.

 

[John*P]

For the people who said True Lies, I think I read that a sequel is in the works, so maybe you'll get an SE to coincide with its release?

As for Mrs. Doubtfire, I think the current edition of that DVD is OOP. I think it has lots of extras, but I'm not sure if it is an "SE" or not. (I could be wrong, but I don't think it is anamorphic?) I really want to buy it, but it seems to be unavailable at the moment...I'm hoping it gets rereleased sometime soon...

 

[Qui-Gon John]

John*P, for Region 1, there is no Anamorphic MRS. DOUBTFIRE.

 

[Ray_R]

Post #85 has received another update from meself.

 

[Steve Christou]

Here you go Ray, a list of DVDs I'd happily buy again if rereleased as multidisc special editions.

Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Altered States
Apocalypse Now
Backdraft
Barbarella
Beetlejuice
The Big Country
The Black Hole
Blade Runner
The Blue Max
Blue Thunder
Brainstorm
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Burbs
Capricorn One
Clash of the Titans
A Clockwork Orange
Con-Air
The Cotton Club
Crimson Tide
Dark City
The Devil Rides Out
Dick Tracy
Dog Day Afternoon
Dracula (1979 in full color!)
Dragonslayer
Enemy Mine
Event Horizon
Excalibur
Extreme Prejudice
Face Off
Fantastic Voyage
Flatliners
Forbidden Planet
48hrs
Fright Night
Full Metal Jacket
Gunfight at the OK Corral
How the West Was Won
Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
LA Confidential
Ladyhawke
Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Lifeforce (1985)
Lord of the Rings (1978)
Mackenna's Gold
Mad Max 2
The Man Who Would Be King
Mars Attacks!
Moby Dick (1956)
1941 (anamorphic remastered 'theatrical' edition)
The Omega Man
Our Man Flint (with In Like Flint)
Outbreak
Outland
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Pinocchio
Poltergeist
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Psycho (1960)
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
Red River
Rio Bravo
The Robe
The Rocketeer
Romancing the Stone
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
The Shadow (1994)
The Shining (1980)
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Stalag 17
Strange Days
Streets of Fire
Superman II
Tango & Cash
Theatre of Blood (1973)
The Thing (1951)
This Island Earth
The Towering Inferno
True Lies
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010
Under Fire (1983)
The Vikings
WarGames (1983)
Waterworld
The Wings of Honneamise
The Witches of Eastwick
Wolfen
Year of the Dragon (1985)
Young Sherlock Holmes

 

[Ray_R]

Post #85 got a sorta massive update of which was largely inspired with thanks to me matey Steve Christou. Thanks, Steve!

 

[Jim_K]

Here's the major one's that I can think of right now.

Most are desired for improved transfers. Some for corrected AR. SE content is desired for all. A few of these are rumored to be in the works.

Blade Runner (1982)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - current transfer is good but want SE content
Braveheart (1995)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Crimson Tide (1995)
Excalibur (1981)
Face/Off (1997)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Hero (2002)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
Man Who Would Be King, The (1975)
Moby Dick (1956) - correct AR
Outland(1981)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Poltergeist (1982)
Red River (1948)
Road Warrior, The (1981)
Rob Roy(1995)
Sanjuro(1962) - corrected AR cropping
Searchers, The(1956)
Seven Samurai (1954)
True Lies (1994)
Yojimbo(1961) - corrected AR cropping

 

[Jerry R Colvin]

Annie Hall, Broadcast News, Raising Arizona.

And, I still need to see Enchanted April get even a bare-bones Region 1 release....

 

[LCD22]

Sabrina (1995)
The Freshman (1990)
White Fang (1991 Disney/Ethan Hawke version)
The Rocketeer (with "Rocketeer: Excitement in the Air" - 90s Disney Channel special that was hosted by Bill Campbell)

Anyone else would like to see "White Fang" get the special edition treatment?

Ray_R, I like your sig picture.