DVD REVIEW: Serenity (Collector's Edition)
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I wanted this to be something special, but it falls short
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"I only think a true special edition for this film will come once the 14 episodes of "Firefly" and Serenity are offered in the same set. Unfortunately "Firefly" is a Fox Home Entertainment property and Serenity a Universal property, so it will take a lot of "working together" for that to actually happen, but if those two studios could somehow find a way to make it work then we will truly have something "special" on hand."
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I'm really tired of this double (and sometimes triple and quadruple!) DVD dips, trying to continually extract money from the same movie/DVD. I'll stick with the copy I already have.
Vic
As am I, but at the same time as the technology gets better I think it's right to re-release a remastered version that improves on quality, but releasing another edition for 20-minutes extra of bonus material isn't al that appeal. Still Universal is far from the worst offender.
Sony Pictures is the kind of re-releases. How many copies of THE FIFTH ELEMENT have been released? I know I owned 2 of them, and now 2 of them on Blu-ray. The media is barely a year old and already a double dip is available.
Thankfully, some studios are doing things right the first time, or the second time, and we don't get anymore such as Warner Bros., whose re-release of THE WIZARD OF OZ probably has just about everything they could possibly include and was re-mastered and I highly doubt we'll see it on standard def DVD again.
Brieefly and FWIW, re: Session 416.
They weren't "made for the film and never used". They were made specifically for the web as promotion for the movie a couple of months before it was released theatrically. See
http://www.session416.com/sessions_story
for the details.
Ahhhh, thanks for the info, I just updated the review to also include the link, but doesn't this just fuel the statement that double-dipping is a bit rude on the studio's part. With the sessions already being online and the "Sci-Fi Inside: Serenity" feature already being shown on television it takes two features away that people have already seen. To me that just cheapens the value of the special edition.
Fancy boxes aside, it really comes down to the content and this one really doesn't live up for people to buy it again.