X2: X-Men United - still no announcement, looking more like a late November release:( (1 Viewer)

[TheLongshot]

Apart from the Indy Boxset, the EE of Two Towers and Pirates of the Carribean there's only X-Men 2 to look forward to.

Speak for yourself. There are more DVDs on my list to buy than I have money for. Waiting a little longer for X2 doesn't bother me a bit, considering I don't want the double dip to happen again...

Jason

 

[Chad A Wright]

I'm in same shape your in. More DVDs than money. I was just sitting down to make a list of everything I want through the end of the year.

 

[GuruAskew]

Ultimately, you want both "X-Men" and "X-Men 1.5". They both have exclusive extras, the only way you can get all the extras is to own both. However, if you only want one of them, "X-Men 1.5" is the way to go. It's clearly the better of the two.

 

[Matt Stone]

The extras are better on the 1.5 disc, than on the first disc anyway, IMO. I did like the Charlie Rose interview excerpts on the first disc, but there's only like 2 minutes of total interview time, so it's not that big of a deal missing out.

The 1.5 second disc has a great big-ol' documentary that has the feel of the Magnolia/Episode 1/Daredevil on set documentaries. Very good stuff.

 

[Qui-Gon John]

I read somewhere something about the transfer looking a little better on X-Men than on X-Men 1.5. So for me, I'm more concerned about that than the extras, so I opted for X-Men.

 

[Matt Stone]

From DVDFile's review of 1.5:

"In fact, this transfer is the same as on the previous DVD"

 

[oscar_merkx]

looks like X-Men 1.5 it will be then

 

[Kristoffer]

Found this on dvdanswers.com on the R2 UK disc...some nice extras but no dts! Yet...

Thanks to the folks over at the BBFC we can reveal some of the extra material that will be included on the region two release of X-Men 2. The movie stars Patrick Stewart and Halle Berry and will be available to own from the 24th November this year. The disc itself should set you back around £19.99 though that has yet to be officially confirmed. We'll bring you the full disc specs and artwork as soon as we get our hands on them but for now here are the partial disc specs along with the runtimes for each:


Anamorphic Widescreen Transfer

Dolby Digital 5.1 Track

Wolverine Deathstrike Fight Rehearsal (1m 23s)

Nightcrawler Timelapse (3m 38s)

United Colors Of X (8m 53s)

The Second Uncanny Issue Of X-Men-Making X2 (59m 26s)

Evolution In The Details - Designing X2 (17m 59s)

Introducing The Incredible Nightcrawler! (9m 48s)

Nightcrawler Stunt Rehearsal (2m 25s)

Visual Effects (24m 56s)
- The X-Jet Dogfight Sequence
- The Bamf Effect
- Escape From Plastic Prison
- Cerebro
- The Dam Breaks

Multi Angle Sequence - Nightcrawler Attack (9m 31s)

Various Trailers

 

[Sven Lorenz]

If there's no audio commentary on the original DVD then we can be sure that there will be a 'X2.5: X-Men United'.

 

[TomWoodward]

Don't worry, you can definately expect that list of extras to grow. Those are just the ones classified so far, nice to see an hour long documentary included though. I'm getting sick of all the ten minute promotional features!

 

[Johnny G]

well, as ever, Tom's great site is the first with the artwork & I'm sure if he's not THE first, he'll be one of the first with the announcement.

Here's a taster of the art



but got to DVD Answers for the full size images

 

[oscar_merkx]

Looks like the special features will be something else though

 

[Johnny G]

Well it looks like we have a date at last

November 4th

 

[Travis_W]

Yeah I've been hearing November 4 alot too but I don't know if Fox would compete with Finding Nemo. That damn fish spooked Indy, Wolvering can take him!

 

[Brent M]

The Digital Bits has 11/25 as the release date in their Rumor Mill.

 

[Rob Bartlett]

I think technically, the dvd could hold its own against Nemo, but it would seriously affect it. The highest grossing movie of the year? X2 was one of the year's big moneymakers, but it's kind of the runt of the 200 million set. The release would be bound to get less press.

Novemeber would be after all the big action blockbusters of the year anyways, so they might as well put some distance in there.

 

[Scott_D]

Here are the R4 specs from the fox press release...

DISC 1 Description

AUDIO COMMENTARIES (x 2)

· Audio Commentary by Bryan Singer, John Ottman and

Tom Sigel

Audio Commentary by Lauren Shuler Donner, Ralph Winter,

Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris and David Hyter

DISC 2 Description

HISTORY OF THE X-MEN

· Featurette: The Secret Origin of X-Men

· Featurette: Nightcrawler Reborn

PRE-PRODUCTION

· 4 Multi-Angel Fight Sequences – Night Crawler Attack

· Featurette: Evolution in the Details – Designing XMen

2

· Featurette: United Colours of X

PRODUCTION Six Featurettes/Documentaries:

· Wolverine Deathstrike Fight Rehearsal

· The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men Making X-Men 2

· Introducing the Incredible Nightcrawler

· Nightcrawler Stunt Rehearsal

· Nightcrawler Timelapse

FX2-Visual Effects

POST-PRODUCTION Two Featurettes:

· Requiem for Mutants-The Score of X-Men 2

· X-Men 2 Webcast Highlights

DELETED SCENES Eleven Deleted Scenes:

1. Extended Wolverine/Deathstrike Fight

(Approx. 2:30)

2. Wolverine Kills The Intruder (Approx. :22)

3. Mystique In Stryker's Files (Approx. 2:53)

4. Nightcrawler Bamfs To Save The Students

(Approx. :30);

5. Jean And Storm In The X-Jet

(Approx. 1:09);

6. Jubilee At The Museum (Approx. 1:15)

7. Pyro Starts The Campfire (Approx. :20);

8. One Of The Children Is Sick After Bamfing

(Approx. :13);

9. Rogue Helps The Children Escape

Approx. :30);

10. Professor X And Cyclops Escape

(Approx. 1:37);

11. Arriving To An Empty School

(Approx. :41)

GALLERIES 8 Static Image Galleries:

1. Graphics Gallery

2. Museum Stills

3. Production Design

4. Character

5. Graphics

6. Nightcrawler

7. Gus Dyas Gallery

8 Promotional Artwork

TRAILERS Trailer X-Men 2 Theatrical Trailers

 

[ChristianB]

From what I'm hearing, Fox will officially announce X2 one week tomorrow (on August 19).

 

[TomWoodward]

From what I'm hearing, Fox will officially announce X2 one week tomorrow (on August 19).

Yeah, that's what I've heard as well. Apparently there's also an embargo on posting artwork etc for it now but it's probably a bit too late as most sites have already posted it! Still, I imagine the region four disc will be identical to the region one disc, just trying to find if it'll carry a DTS track or not! They included one for Daredevil so I don't see why they wouldn't here.

 

[Galen_V]

If Fox is smart they will wait for the 25th, just to get those Christmas shoppers (which I assume they are doing).