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Gilbert Galindo

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Scarface Untimate
Pulp Fiction Vista Series
Jackie Brown Collector Series
Goodfellas Special Edition
and all the other we need and want.
 

Daniel L

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No need to for Scarface, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown.
The orignal version of Scarface has already been discontinued, so it is likely a new version already in the works.
Disney has been kicking around (working on) SE's for Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown for over two years, but think the ball is in Tarantino's court now.
As for Goodfellas... who knows.
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Rob Gillespie

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If these petitions really work ...
That's an exceptionally big IF. Maybe for the odd issue they may have some effect - like P&S Wonka - but as has been said several times recently, if people start a petition for anything they can think of the impact of such action is diminished greatly.
You'd be much better off writing a letter to the studio involved.
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Greg_Y

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Internet petitions don't work for one simple reason: they're easily forgeable. How long would it take me to generate a list of 10,000 e-mail addresses and names of people who think that Star Wars should NEVER be released on DVD? A half-hour? An hour? All I need is a list of first names, last names, some e-mail addresses.... heck, you could write a program to go and grab real ones off the 'net in an hour. Why should a studio or any company lend credence to something that can be so easily faked?
The idea of a petition is almost as silly as the e-mail lists that go around asking you to sign the petition against the e-mail surcharge.
 

alan halvorson

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I think we should start a petition for everything. In other words, petition Fox, Columbia, Disney, MGM, Warner and whoever, to put everything out right now. This way, we only have to deal with one letter per studio and then we're done with petitions forever!
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Glenn Overholt

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Put everything out now - that was great! At least give us the schedule for everything that they have planned.
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Kevin P

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In other words, petition Fox, Columbia, Disney, MGM, Warner and whoever, to put everything out right now.
Don't forget to add the OAR clause, otherwise we might get what we asked for... MARred!
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Peter Overduin

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Petitions arise out of a sense of passion for the subject at hand. DIVX and Willy Wonka are two examples of subjects that absolutely aroused the passion of the HT community, and it shows through in the threads, and no doubt on the call boards at WB.
Petitions can also work against you when one is started for everything; we start to come accross like left-wing nut cases that make issues of everything and thus begin to sound shrill and stupid.
The Willy Wonka issue WILL be resolved in our favor because of the latent intensity that pervades the topic. I doubt that Pulp Fiction elicits the same emotive power. Mind you...try releasing the Indy trilogy in pan'n scan!!
Bottom line: petitions need to be used with careful consideration or they lose their effect.
 

Ken_McAlinden

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No more petitions for now!
Not even the "We, the undersigned believe AOL-Time Warner should purchase a new server for our forum and give our moderators fat stock option packages" petition? I guess I'll stop prepping it. I doubt they would buy my reasoning about the undue strain on the current server & moderators their recent full frame announcements have caused anyway.
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