DVD Review HTF REVIEW: KING KONG - Peter Jackson's Production Diaries (RECOMMENDED) (1 Viewer)

[Adam Lenhardt]

Wow. It's amazing that the promotional material can flip flop into actualy product. They'll probably try to tell me the back-ups I made on my HD are illegal copyright infringement now, too...:rolleyes

 

[Richard Michael Clark]

This set won't have bilingual packaging in Canada will it? As it only has an English audio track it should be ok, right?!

 

[Eric Peterson]

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[Steve Tannehill]

Eric, as the pictures showed, this is two single-sided discs.

Continue to hop.

- Steve

 

[TravisR]

It's not on a DVD-18.

 

[Kevin M]

 

[Steve Tannehill]

I have posted the full review back on page 1 of this thread.

- Steve

 

[Adam_WM]

From Steve's review...



This was my concern, but apparently, as I learned in this thread, this set is going to be the only home for these diaries.

 

[RickER]

Yea Travis i skip a bunch of things because of price, transfer, disc problems...so on. To tell you the truth if i didn't find a reason myself to skip something i would own to much crap. Sure hope you dont think anyone, or myself were jumping on you. $27 to $35 is a bit of a steep price for an extras disc, but i am willing to buy, for this movie. As a matter of fact i felt the 3 disc Wizard of Oz was a rip off. I would have been just as happy with the 2 disc in hind sight. But you know YMMV.

 

[Steve Tannehill]

Which I guess means the final tally will be eight discs.

Just for the record, I don't think anyone knows for certain if this is the last place we will see these diaries. Knowing Universal's tendency to repackage, I would not be surprised to see a bundle of everything down the line. But Jackson himself did say that this was a separate effort by the DVD team. Is Peter Jackson our most prolific DVD supplentarian, or what?

- Steve

 

[Mark-W]

AND he is the one who hasn't ONCE repeated bonus content from one DVD set to another.

My guess is these PD won't be available again on DVD.
Hi-Def, sure, but not on DVD.

 

[Mike Williams]

I'm a little disappointed that -- considering how full the discs are (nearly 4 hours between the two of them) and the less than stellar video quality (DV HD) to begin with -- these are on single-layer discs, but I am still all over this set. I can't wait.

 

[Kevin M]

Two single layer discs.....sounds like MGM's Escape from New York...what's the point aside from an illusion of generous content?

 

[Steve Tannehill]

Oh, that's easy... over an extra gig of storage (and hence, actual content) that would have been missing with a single DVD-9.

That is also the difference between marginal video quality and good video quality.

- Steve

 

[Kevin M]

Well yes, that's true, but my point was if they were really concerned with quality they could have gone with two DVD-9's and increased the BR even more at around 2 hrs. per disc (something I wish MGM had done with Escape). Considering the source material it wouldn't have hurt.

 

[Eric Peterson]

Thanks! I misread a couple posts about DVD-18, and jumped the gun. Universals use of these discs makes me so angry that I have a hard time controlling my temper. I deleted my post.

 

[Mark Zimmer]

Well, maybe. He clearly has lost a LOT of weight from his LOTR days.

 

[GerardoHP]

I saw the movie yesterday at a screening and it is so AWESOME I wouldn't know where to begin, and this not from Peter Jackson's most ardent fan. So, I have to say, this set will probably become a must-have for me.

 

[Stephen Orr]

I solved the problem of expense...I put it on my Christmas list for a relative to buy!

 

[Rob Lutter]

Picked this up today at Costco...

I think the packaging feels cheap-as-hell. I guess I was expecting something harder on the outside like say: the Scarface gift set from Universal (which is by and far the prettiest DVD set ever made, by the way). Instead it's almost paper thin with a cardboard box inside with King Kong written on it... whoop dee doo.

I am a total Peter Jackson whore, so I'm sure I'll enjoy the contents... but just letting you people that might be purchasing it for the packaging to look again.

PS: I gave out a hearty laugh when I saw "NO. 159,xxx" as the "Limited Edition" number. LOL. Limited to however many they can print!

PPS: The lithgraphs are the nicest thing in the set, I'm definitely gonna frame these puppies.

PPPS: Costco has this for $25.59... and they had 5 total copies at my store.