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Post by naterdawg on Feb 27, 2017 20:35:22 GMT
I started one thread about films never released to VHS or DVD, and that got me thinking: what films have been released multiple times to VHS and DVD? Perhaps even a little too many times?
The Universal Monsters would definitely be on that list. How many versions of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy, The Wolfman, The Invisible Man, and Phantom of the Opera do we need?
How many issues of Gone with the Wind have there been? How about stuff like Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Lawrence of Arabia, etc.? Do we really need all those versions?
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Feb 27, 2017 20:37:02 GMT
Night of the Living Dead. Since its public domain there are over a hundred different times it was relesed by differnent componies.
But if you are looking for different versions you could go with Star Wars. How many times have those been changed? At least we got a great South Park episode out of i.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 20:39:01 GMT
Star Wars, the original trilogy, particularly annoying given the changes with each release.
I guess they sell and some fans would want every edition for their collections, something I don't really understand but would be the case. I think Top Gun has been released a few times as well.
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Post by Reynard on Feb 28, 2017 0:51:27 GMT
Alien and Aliens seem to get a re-release every two or three years where I live. I think they are mostly the same print over and over again, just with new cover art, which makes them especially useless. Second hand stores are already full of different editions of both and no one seems to want them.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 28, 2017 2:18:51 GMT
Another film commonly released in some new anniversary version: The Wizard of Oz. "Special 76th and a half years edition!'
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Post by politicidal on Mar 2, 2017 23:37:04 GMT
Hey some of us are looking forward to the next Universal Monsters package.
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Post by naterdawg on Mar 3, 2017 3:03:15 GMT
How many Universal monsters sets do you need? I have one that was released in 2001 or somewhere around there--8 or so discs in a special illustrated box. Then they released the "Legacy" editions, one devoted to each monster. Then they had the 75th anniversary editions. Then they released them all in one huge box (last Halloween, I believe). And we're not even touching the blu-ray releases!
Just WHAT are you looking forward to that hasn't already been printed multiple times?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 4:28:44 GMT
All the Evil Dead films.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Mar 3, 2017 7:08:04 GMT
The Force Awakens. The one release was WAY too many.
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Post by Liberal-Fondue-Party on Mar 5, 2017 23:51:01 GMT
Terminator 2 has had endless releases.
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Post by Two Socks on Mar 7, 2017 1:38:54 GMT
Disney always digs back into their vaults to make new versions when it would be nice if original versions just never went OOP to inflate the price.
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Post by naterdawg on Mar 7, 2017 2:15:58 GMT
The original Halloween is another one that has had multiple releases.
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Post by hemlin on Jul 29, 2017 16:47:57 GMT
Robocop, Predator and The Terminator have all had a number of Bluray releases in Europe, often with far fewer extras than some of the previous DVD editions.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Aug 2, 2017 15:29:12 GMT
Yeah, Halloween (1978) has been getting a lot DVD releases, specially by Anchor Bay or is it Starz? They seem to try and milk the fans of their money for what its worth, even including silly stuff like that awful looking and way overpriced plastic Michael Myers mask that got re-released not that long ago.
Evil Dead I agree on, I must have found at least 5-6 different DVD versions of the first film, and still not one of them came with subtitles or any solid bonus features.
Disney is a whole other chapter, as they really have become desperate, as their latest "trick" to squeeze out more money from their customers is by fooling them into buying the old "classics" and what is new? Nothing, they have just wrapped some cheap and "updated" paper artwork around the plastic dvd cover.
But then again, this is probably nothing new, as I remember several of their DVDs was released in 2005 with the paper artwork included, and those who did not came with it, was often a bit cheaper.
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Post by mslo79 on Nov 7, 2017 7:21:42 GMT
Hell, you can damn near take your pick.
movies should be pretty much released once on each format and that's about it. they should get it right the first time but as usual i suspect it's purely a $$$ thing as they can continue to milk people for as much $$$ as they can with the initial release and then some remastered crap or adding some other minor crap to it.
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Post by MrFurious on Nov 7, 2018 8:02:00 GMT
T2 but I dont mind. Got it all the way from vhs to 3D/4K
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Post by darkpast on Nov 11, 2018 6:53:19 GMT
idk but something like Blade Runner has too many cuts
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Post by lava-rocks on Nov 24, 2018 4:45:13 GMT
With P2P downloading, it doesn't really matter does it?
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Post by Lucy on Dec 19, 2018 12:36:48 GMT
Disney movies from the classic and Renaissance era.
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