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The fear is that if sold individually, the less popular titles (namely ST: TMP and STIII from this batch) will sell worse than the more popular ones (STII and STIV). A box set basically forces fans to pay for every movie, even the ones they don't care for. This will be especially important when...

I'd love to know where the security cameras were on the ship, that captured the events in such tight reverse-angle-reverse coverage! Even better is when Nimoy does the same thing in Star Trek IV, as the characters watch footage of the Enterprise's destruction shown from a variety of camera...

Yeah, I don't understand what the thinking was either, but they really thought it was going to be THE event movie of 2010. They spent an enormous amount of money marketing it. I remember visiting Dolby earlier that fall and everyone there was super hyped about it, like it was going to be bigger...

Not profitable enough to make anyone happy. Disney expected the movie to be a blockbuster out of the gate, but it underperformed their expectations at launch and quickly fizzled afterwards.

Perhaps. I suppose you can throw in Tron: Legacy as well. However, I will say that all three of those sequels came out long after the originals had been established as classics. Belated sequels to classics often struggle to find an audience, whether they turn out good or bad. The hype and the...

It's fundamentally the same movie. Was removing the voiceover an improvement? Sure. Does it completely change everything about the movie that viewers claimed to hate in 1982? Of course not. The plot and the performances and the pacing are all exactly the same. But making any change, no matter...

Only among a very small niche of cultists. The Director's Cut made it a beloved mainstream success.

It's a shame so many great movies all vying for the same audience were crammed into the same small release window in 1982. If any of them could have been pushed back a few months to a year, 1983 had much less competition in that space. Just Return of the Jedi, Superman III, and maybe Octopussy...

All the sci-fi fans were going to see Star Trek II or E.T. again, and the horror fans were at Poltergeist. All these movies were released the same month.

Yes, but no changes were made to The Thing. Blade Runner and Star Trek: TMP were always good movies. The Director's Cuts did not fundamentally change either film, merely tweaked and refined a few things. Yet that was somehow enough to rehabilitate the reputations of both. Theatrical Cut...

As often happens with movies notorious for being bombs (though Star Trek: TMP actually made quite a lot of money) or widely considered disappointments, the later availability of a "Director's Cut" gives viewers an excuse to re-evaluate the film with fresh eyes and release some of the baggage...

Oh man, hilarious that their special screening room played the movie in pan & scan! :)