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

[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!

[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.