New Indy Releases

Does anyone out there that owns the current Indy box set feel a little jipped by this new set that is coming out? I mean, how different or better are the new features compared to the ones on the fourth bonus disc in the current set. I know that the audio and video on the new set are the same as the current one. This is just Lucasfilm double-dipping

The studio is not asking anyone who already owns the movies on DVD to buy them again. You still have something called "free will." I hope. Or maybe they're still trying to get Will out of jail. I dunno.

Anyway, Paramount is hoping to persuade people who haven't bought them yet to do so by tying in the newest releases of the older movies to the newest Indiana Jones film in theaters. Further, there may have been any number of people who didn't buy the previous box sets because they couldn't afford them, who will now be more interested in the individual titles (which Paramount will also sell separately).

Remember, the business of any business is business. Money. If they can't sell you something at one time, they'll try another time. Paramount is no different in this regard than Ford or Sony or GE.

John

Mmmmmm........Crow tastes so good

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[Post edited by cmmoore82 on Mar 21, 2008]

Damn! I thought this thread would be about new independent films!

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Tim Raynor, said: Damn! I thought this thread would be about new independent films!

Great comment, Tim!

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[Post edited by Veteran-Viewer on Mar 21, 2008]

I've noticed that MANY times... when a new sequel is coming to theaters... the previous movies on [insert preferred format here] will be re-released with SOME kind of new content - JUST to get people to buy the new versions. Sometimes... they only add something stupid like some auditions from actors who weren't chosen to be in the film. Even worse... they only change the outside cover and hope that's enough to confuse people into thinking it's a new, "must-have" version of their favorite movie.

There have been some good reasons to get new copies of movies. I apologize for the title of the movie I'm about to mention... when "Son of the Mask" was going to hit theaters, they DID re-release "The Mask" on DVD (although, there was no hoopla about the re-release). The re-release was the "Enhanced for 16x9 version" version. It previously was not!

Oh... and I heard (and could tell by the trailers) that "Son of the Mask" was a stinker!

Lucasfilm LOVES double-dipping!!!! I feel a little cheated, but i'm not gonna cry.
I end up getting the new set too.

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Lucasfilm LOVES double-dipping!!!!

We all know, and has already being stablished, he's not the only one. Look at "Live Free or Die Harder". When that movie was first announced to be made, Fox re-released the Die Hard Trilogy individually as a "Special Edition" blue or golden pack along with a bunch of other titles. Then when the movie (Live Free...) came out in theaters, Fox re-released the Die Hard Trilogy free of any extra features for $20 USD. Then when Live Free... came out on video, Fox re-released a third time all the movies in form of a "Trilogy" (first tree), a "Saga" (all four), Live Free... individually w/o extras, Live Free... w/o extras with a T-shirt, and Live Free... double disk special edition, all the individual DVD's also came out as Widescreen and Fullscreen, AND let's not forget the Blu-ray versions of the entire Saga and Live Free... individually.

So that's like... 11 releases of fricking Die Hard movies in less than 2 years. All of you people complain about Lucas "double dipping"? Shoot, at least Lucas did that with Star Wars in a 10 year span.

wii-lite... The original DIE HARD has many deleted/extended scenes, trims, added scenes for TV, etc, and I've long wished that Fox would release a longer, 'road-show' cut of this exiting action film. Perhaps they will one day, when it gets a re-do on Blu-ray. And surely LFoDH (4th film) will see another Blu-ray re-do eventually, in unrated form (like the DVD), since the current Blu-ray consists of the PG13 theatrical version - great quality nonetheless.

-JIMI (the Voodoo Child)

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The original DIE HARD has many deleted/extended scenes, trims, added scenes for TV, etc

I know there was/were prior release(s) of Die Hard, I was just pointing out the releases starting around the time of the announcement of the 4th film which were + or - the golden or blue packs. The point I was trying to convey was to bring out to people's attention that there are worse companies than Lucas in the "double dipping" trend.

It seems very common for people to critize Lucas on "double dipping" when all of them do it and sometimes even worse than Lucas.

I always love when we get into this kind of debate how someone always has to point the finget at Lucas, as though he's the only greedy Hollywood executive alive. What Lucas has done is trival crap compared to all the other films out there that have had "special" re-issues. Many of the films we love have had at least two to three revamps over the years -- some even more than others. Let's not forget that Lucas did release the first Star Wars trilogy without all the extended footage, and he probably did this because of all the bitching from fans that wanted the original films untampered. So in some way, Lucas actually did a favor for a lot of die-hard fans when in reality he could have done nothing.

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Let's not forget that Lucas did release the first Star Wars trilogy without all the extended footage, and he probably did this because of all the bitching from fans that wanted the original films untampered.

Good point Tim as far as Lucas is concerned, the original trilogy never existed because for him those films were "incomplete". So he actually listened to the fans and did something "based on what the fans/consumer wanted" (does that statement sound familiar? )

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Does anyone out there that owns the current Indy box set feel a little jipped by this new set that is coming out? I mean, how different or better are the new features compared to the ones on the fourth bonus disc in the current set. I know that the audio and video on the new set are the same as the current one. This is just Lucasfilm double-dipping

I don't feel cheated. In defense of Lucas & Company, he owns the rights, so he can do what he wants. Eventually, he will probably release yet another set with the deleted scenes so many people have been asking for, and cash in big time. But, as pointed out, its his and Spielberg's movie. It's not nice that they seem to want to soak people, but they have as much right to try as much as we have a right not to double or triple dip - especially if the picture quality is the same.

A PRICE NOTE ABOUT THE 2003 STANDARD DVD COLLECTOR"S SET: April 11, 2008: If you haven't bought the 2003 trilogy set (with special features disc) in standard dvd format yet, and you don't want to wait for May or the reported future Blu-Ray releases there is a sale going on right now at barnesandnoble.com - $29.99 for either Widescreen or Fullscreen. Even with tax, from what I can see, it is the best price online right now.

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[Post edited by Sylvia on Apr 11, 2008]

Man I feel really fortunate to have come across some of the independent movies I've been watching lately, they're has been a few duds in the mix but suprisingly alot of good ish has been coming out. Last Night I watched Revolver the Guy Rithcie movie. All I can say is that if you havent seen this go see it, its not what you'll expect it to be and the concept behind it is really f-ing poignant. This film really reps the conceptual evolution of man depicted thru the medium of film. I dont want to say too much, cuz well I really dont want to ruin this one. I think I'm going to watch Southland Tales next and then perhaps Val Kilmers new movie Conspiracy, which I heard was much better than its critical reception.

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Man I feel really fortunate to have come across some of the independent movies I've been watching lately, they're has been a few duds in the mix but suprisingly alot of good ish has been coming out.

LMAO!!!

Dude, did you read through the thread? It has nothing to do with Indy films.

Tim,

Maybe he's teasing.

Or not.

John

http://hddvdreviews.blogspot.com/2008/05/indiana-jones-adventure-collection.html

Wow, Eddie, intereting take. After watching all three films over the years, I'd have to say the first is still my favorite. I feel the pacing is so much better and more in focus of the nemisis (nazis . . . you know, that old chestnutt). lol

I do enjoy all three, and yet I'd put the Indy III in my second favorite of the bunch, but Indy 1 has the better climax and more rewarding in the end, eventhough it is less redeeming how it ends up. I can't agree with you that things didn't pick up until the truck scene . . . Dude, the big giant rolling rock and the get away, the scene where he shoots the sword fighter, the scene in Napal, etc. There were plenty on edge gripping moments way before your mention of the "slide under the truck with the whip" scene. Oh well, we all see something different I suppose.