Back to the Future R1 news (New Pictures Posted!) (1 Viewer)

[Andrew Hintz]

David, you said,

The BTTF Trilogy DVD set will be advertised on a number of DVD's (starting with this week's A Beautiful Mind, if I'm not mistaken)

Unless I am missing something, I don't think the advert made it to the US widescreen ABM release. I checked both discs and could not find any trailer/preview/mention of BTTF.

--Andrew

 

[David Lambert]

I know. :frowning:
I spent a half hour last night scouring the ABM discs for such a trailer. I found the trailers for Apollo 13, K-Pax, Family Man, and Patch Adams. But nothing for BTTF.
So I went back to the source of my info. I could potentially post it here, graphically, so you know I'm not making this up. But that would be tonight, and I don't have it where I am now.
But it said something to the effect of "Trailering: The BTTF Trilogy DVD's will be trailered in theaters in front of The Two Towers, and also with How High, A Beautiful Mind, The Scorpian King..." (and it named several others, including the in-theaters-already Minority Report).
So here's my confusion: Did they mean the trailers would be in theaters or on home video? Nobody seeing Minority Report in theaters this past weekend mentioned the presence of a BTTF DVD ad, and MR *is* coming to home video before the end of the year, so we can suppose home video, right? Well, How High and now ABM are already *out* on home video, so I again doubt they mean in theaters. But, How High has been out for a few weeks, and I don't recollect anyone jumping up and saying "there's a BTTF trailer on this disc!". Nor can we now find one on ABM's discs (I too have the WS version; I doubt the FS one is different just for this!).
But why would they try to hide it? It's no good as an easter egg, after all: they are trying to market and promote something here!
Conclusion: perhaps this trailer is either on videos only provided to rental chains, OR is only on the VHS's of these titles.
Can anyone tell us about this idea? Anyone got a VHS (shudder) of ABM (or How High), or rented copies of either?
In the meantime, tonight I will post that graphic.
Sorry for any disappointment I generated, though!

 

[Dan Brecher]

Dan, you sure you didn't mean to say Universal instead of Fox back in Post 89?

Fox as in Michael J, Theo.

Dan

 

[John Simon]

EDIT: I see my post was already addressed earlier. Sorry.

 

[JohnJGalbo]

I gots full info on the DVD right here.

 

[Steve_E]

Marty: You'r not going to believe it....BTTF is coming out on DVD.
Doc: I dont believe it!

 

[Kenneth Cummings]

I can't wait for this to come out, even if the case is a bit blue for it own good. But one thing that I wondering, would it still have that cut which the evil television verison (which was already bad with the pan and scanning) where any mention of terrorist is gone? I would be very mad if it is still cut out in the DVD.

 

[LukeB]

With all the stuff that gets 2-disc sets these days, I am quite a bit disappointed, thinking over this and wondering why Universal couldn't have given the Trilogy a 4-disc set similar to the Jurassic Park Trilogy. Universal tends to load all the extras onto one disc, and by packing in DD and DTS and commentaries, I hope these look and sound alright.
4 discs for 3 movies would have definitely been more welcome. But one thing is very cool: the low $54.99 SRP.
Been waiting for these so long, that single-disc releases is a minor letdown. But let me wait to see them before complaining.

 

[Brenton]

I can't wait for this to come out, even if the case is a bit blue for it own good. But one thing that I wondering, would it still have that cut which the evil television verison (which was already bad with the pan and scanning) where any mention of terrorist is gone? I would be very mad if it is still cut out in the DVD.

Bob Gale (producer/co-writer) has said in an interview months ago that he had no idea that the TV stations butchered the film this way, and he said that neither he nor director Robert Zemeckis would have condoned it. Expect the DVD to be the theatrical version.

 

[David Von Pein]

Amazon now has it up for preorder showing list of $54.98 with their discounted price at $41.24.

In just the last 24 hours, Amazon has jacked-up the price for the WS version more than $7.00!
A BIG "YIKES": Check this out....they're selling the FF for much less than the WS!! Usually, this is the other way around. ........
WIDESCREEN
FULL FRAME

 

[Julian Lalor]

R1 has far more extras.

Based on the list up at www.bttf.com it doesn't. It looks identical. The R4 specs can be found here:
http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/220686
Both R1 and R4 DVDs states over "10 hours" of extras. The main difference is the price: due to the low Australian dollar, the R4 version is dramatically cheaper.

 

[Jeff*S*C*]

I definitely will be swapping the cover with the R4 one.

 

[BrettB]

DVDEmpire has the WS & FF for the same price: $43.98

 

[Dan Brecher]

Julian,

Bob Gale has said himself that the US version will have more substantial features on them, hence the delay for the US releases. They've dug up additional deleted footage and more featurettes for the R1s. The R1 specs are not yet final...

Dan

 

[Julian Lalor]

I wouldn't be surprised if the R1 ends up very close to the R2/4 versions, perhaps with the exception of audio commentaries on Parts II and III. I suspect the delay for the R1 versions has more to do with fears from Universal of parallel importing the R1 DVDs into foreign territories than anything else.

 

[oscar_merkx]

I guess www.dvdfile.com has sunk to a new low with stating that www.bttf.com is the official website for the DVD release. Then again you could say that this is the ultimate compliment (no pun intended) to the fan website as well.
oh well so much for spin (and I thought that labour was good at this)

 

[Rich Romero]

Not necessarily. Maybe they just didn't wanna kiss corporate ass? Maybe they were gonna do us a favor and send us to the better site? I think it's better what they did.

 

[oscar_merkx]

Rick
your answer makes sense I suppose and www.bttf.com is by far the better site than the one from Universal.

 

[Kenneth Cummings]

That wasn't the offical site? Whoa, that a shock. By the way, notice that Peter made no big deal about it happening with the usual pictures in the update and instead had something for James Bond and Ice Age up instead (which both were somewhat minior updates)?

 

[David Lambert]

Not necessarily. Maybe they just didn't wanna kiss corporate ass? Maybe they were gonna do us a favor and send us to the better site? I think it's better what they did.

I think it's as simple as he made a mistake, and said the wrong thing. "The simplest explanation is usually correct". Now where did I put my razor... :wink: