Re-purchased DVD Titles. (1 Viewer)

[Ed St. Clair]

I had made a promise to myself not too do this. After buying the original American pressing, the colored [white] vinyl, the picture disc, the Mobile Fidelity Super Disc, the English pressing, and the Japanese pressing of: Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. I was only going to get 'trapped' into puchasing "one" copy of title on DVD. No such luck! As hard as I've tried to educate myself on each and every title, I've still been 'caught' re-purchasing these titles. Ugh!



1. T2 SE, T2 UE Tin [one disc], T2 UE Tin [two disc].



2. Boogie Nights [who new they had any 'more' extras?], BN SE.



3. Predator, P SE, & it looks like I'm doing this one again soon! Five Star, anyone?



4. Few Good Men, FGM SE [did not think they cared enough for this title to be revisted].



5. Forbidden Planet, Import FP.



6. Bug's Life, BL SE, Disney is much better now at 'warning' everyone of SE's.



7. Fifth Element, FE SB, who knew the bar would be raised when this 'demo disc' was first released?



8. Saving Private Ryan, SPR DTS.



9. Ed TV SE [at least I missed the standard release!], Ed TV DTS.



10. Antz, Antz DTS.



11. Desperado [a fine transfer], El Mariachi/D [loaded], & D SB [DTS]. Ouch!



12. Tarzan, Tarzan SE [did not see that one coming]. And the first issue had the soundtrack problem that Disney never addressed!



With these re-buy's in the near future,



1. Goodfellas SE, no more flipper!

2. Baraka SE.

3. Dogma SE.

4. BS Dracula, going for the SB.

5. Forbiden Planet. And now a SE in 2002! Let's hope it with the original soundtrack this time.

6. Exorcist. Looking for seamless branching with the improved sound.

7. Almost Famous [on the fence with this title to bootleg]

8. Apocalypse Now. Not doing Redux, but they did improve the sound. Please, seamless branching.

9. The Right Stuff. No flipper. SE coming in 2002.



Which title, if any, have you bought or see yourself buying, again & again?

 

[Neil Joseph]

- The Prince Of Egypt SE - The Prince Of Egypt dts SE

- A Bug's Life (non 16x9) - A Bug's Life SE

- T2 - T2 UE

- The Fifth Element - The Fifth Element SB

- Twister - Twister dts SE

- The Mask Of Zorro 0 The Mask Of Zorro SE

- The Peacemaker - The Peacemaker dts

 

[Robert Dunnill]

Which title, if any, have you bought or see yourself buying, again & again?

Only those that physically stop working, due to breakage, etc.



RD

 

[JeremySt]

Import Forbidden Planet? Please elaborate! What? Where? How Much?

 

[Will_B]

La Femme Nikita. The original had horrible compression, so I got the new version.
The new version had perfect compression, but they removed the subtitles, thinking that closed captions are the same thing (they're not - closed captions are like cliff note versions of dialogue!).
So now, if it comes out a third time, i am there.
I've succesfully resisted upgrading T2 and The Fifth Element.
I'll be an unusual one and will eventually be buying the original, _shorter_ version of leon:the professional, since the extra long Version Integral that came out later and is more popular is such a different film. I want them both.

 

[Stephen L]

Haven't done so yet but I'll be upgrading Tombstone when the new disc comes out.

 

[Artur Meinild]

hmm... this smells like a poll!
Have rebought:
The Crow
Die Hard box set
Army of Darkness (DC)
Lock, Stock and... (DC)
Will rebuy:
Starship Troopers (SE)
Mulan and Hercules (anamorphic)

 

[Paul_D]

Have upgraded:

Rushmore Criterion

Die Hard 5 Star

Mummy Ultimate Edition

Shining Remastered

Se7en Platinum Series

Nightmare Before Christmas SE

Platoon SE

Will upgrade:

Blade Runner: SE!!!!!!! (How come no one has already mentioned this one!)

 

[Deepak Shenoy]

OK, I admit I am a sucker for re-releases
Have upgraded :
Donnie Brasco
Dr. Strangelove
Exorcist
Fargo
Fugitive
In the Line of Fire
JFK
La Femme Nikita
Leon: The Professional
Notorious
Platoon
Rebecca
Seven
Taxi Driver
Terminator
Terminator 2
Vanishing
Will be upgrading :
Batman
Batman Returns
Blade Runner
Blue Velvet
Double Indemnity
Game
Goodfellas
Great Escape
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Raising Arizona
Reservoir Dogs
Sleuth
Spellbound
Usual Suspects
(all of them have been rumored at some point or the other).

 

[Mark_Wilson]

What is this Lock,Stock... DC I keep hearing about? When did it come out? So there are two versions of LS in R1?

 

[Jim_K]

bah! amateurs
Here's what I've upgraded so far.

DIE HARD
DIE HARD WITH A VENGENCE
LETHAL WEAPON
LETHAL WEAPON 2
LETHAL WEAPON 3
DOORS
DIRTY HARRY
DR NO
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
GOLDENEYE
GOLDFINGER
LEON THE PROFESSIONAL
LAST OF THE MOHICANS
NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
CONAN THE BARBARIAN
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
BRAM STOKERS DRACULA
INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE
PREDATOR
TERMINATOR
T2
TOTAL RECALL
SEVEN
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (twice)
OUTLAW JOSEY WALES
FUGITIVE
DONNIE BRASCO
2001
MAD MAX (soon)
TOMBSTONE (soon)

Here are the few I held out for.

SPARTACUS
DR STRANGELOVE
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
EXORCIST (25th anniversary edition)
SHINING

Here are the very few I'm still holding out for.

RAGING BULL
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
STING

Here are the very few upgrades I took a pass on.
LA FEMME NIKITA - I can't stand dubtitles. I'll pick it up if they ever fix it.
MUMMY - not worth it to me
MATRIX - ditto
APACALYPSE NOW REDUX - I'll take the original cut any day over this mess.
and here is what I'll be upgrading in the near future.

BLADERUNNER
GOODFELLAS
PULP FICTION
RESERVOIR DOGS
ZULU
GREAT ESCAPE
UNFORGIVEN
SCARFACE
STAR TREK II

Jim

 

[Voon Jiet]

What is this Lock,Stock... DC I keep hearing about? When did it come out? So there are two versions of LS in R1?

Mark, the Lock, Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels: Director's Cut DVD is, to the best of my knowledge, avaliable only in R2. It comes in a jewel case (the only DVD in my collection that comes in that sort of jewel case) and contains 9 mins of added footage. IMO, this is the best version of Lock, Stock in DVD.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...072282-0069433
As for upgrades, I have since upgraded JFK and Die Hard. Will be upgrading the following as well:
Usual Suspects
6th Sense (may or may not upgrade)
Pulp Fiction
Batman
Silence of the Lambs (not a priority since I am quite satisfied with the Criterion version)

 

[Nick Sievers]

I've re-purchased the following:

Seven

Dogma

Almost Famous

Apocalypse Now (Redux)

 

[MichaelPe]

It never stops...

• 12 Monkeys
• Apollo 13
• Armageddon
• Bad Boys
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Die Hard
• Die Hard 2
• Die Hard: With A Vengeance
• A Few Good Men
• GoodFellas (soon)
• Good Will Hunting
• Jerry Maguire (soon)
• Legends Of The Fall
• Léon (twice)
• The Matrix (upgraded to Revisited 2-pack)
• Meet Joe Black
• Platoon
• The Prince Of Egypt
• The Rock
• Romeo + Juliet (soon}
• Seven
• The Sixth Sense (soon)
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• The Thin Red Line
• Tombstone (soon)
• True Lies (soon)
• The Usual Suspects (soon)

 

[Jack Briggs]

A Forbidden Planet SE is on the way? When's the release date? What's on it?

Also, when's the street date for the new Goodfellas disc?

I suppose one disc I'm replacing soon is the newer anamorphic version of The Doors--even though I don't care for the flick all that much. (My psychotic ex-wife was an extra in the film.)

 

[Michael Reuben]

I try not to think of all the discs I've upgraded. It's been a bad habit since the days of laserdisc. When Fox releases the 5-star edition of Speed next year, it will be the fifth time I've bought the film, which is probably a personal record.

M.

 

[Mark_TS]

Isnt there a 5-Star Edition of R.Scotts' ALIEN due out next year?

And I thought I had read where he was considering retinkering the film for a 25th Anny Rerelease...which means *another* DVD edition in late 2004!

 

[Rob Tomlin]

Im lucky. The only DVD I have upgraded so far has been T2 Ultimate Edition!

 

[Jeff_P]

The following is the only titles I re-purchased-

Dogma SE

Desperado

Evil Dead

Night of the living Dead

Jeff_P

 

[Jack Briggs]

And just think: If those Flourescent Multilayer Discs (FMDs) become the next optical-disc format of choice, we get to replace everything again. Ain't technology wonderful?

(For more information on FMDs, see the December 2001 issue of Widescreen Review.)