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There Will Be Blood

post #1 of 12
4/9/08 at 2:19pm
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Was tempted to get the 2 disc, but am tired of dvd extras shedding light on things I don't want to know about. I love this movie and can live without the extras.

I like the simplicity of the package...for those who don't have it, it's like those thin slip, cardboard cd cases, without the plastic shell.

My only gripe with the image quality is that it seems alot brighter than the theatrical print...but that probably has more to do with video having more contrast.
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post #2 of 12
4/9/08 at 2:25pm
http://www.chud.com/forum/showthread.php?t=107483
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post #3 of 12
4/9/08 at 2:27pm
Go on Jake. Be that guy.
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post #4 of 12
4/9/08 at 3:37pm
The second disc doesn't really shed any light on anything. It's a nicer looking package though.
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post #5 of 12
4/9/08 at 7:17pm
Wait, the single disc version has the shitty sleeve packaging too? Sonuva...
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post #6 of 12
4/9/08 at 7:51pm
Fuck that piece of garbage packaging. I'll wait for Blu.
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post #7 of 12
4/10/08 at 5:21am
This film screams to be released on Blu. I won't even bother with SD on this one.

I'm fucking salivating for 1080plainview.
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post #8 of 12
4/12/08 at 7:13pm
Don't worry nothing will be ruined, save your money though

Quote:
Dear Paul Thomas Anderson,

You know we love you. We've seen everything you've done multiple times, once even all in the same day. Our hearts soared when Daniel Day-Lewis credited your "mad, beautiful head" for his Oscar triumph this year; his appreciation spoke for us as well. Sure, we have issues with Magnolia (OK, we hate it), but at least when the DVD came around we were able to make a little more sense of your passion and indulgence. That behind-the-scenes doc by Mark Rance? Fantastic. We'd have preferred the commentaries like those in Boogie Nights and Sydney (a/k/a Hard Eight), but hey. If you're going to charge us for two discs, you'd better make the second one worth our dime.

Which gets us to this new two-disc "collector's edition" of There Will Be Blood, which Paramount Vantage released April 8. Pardon us, but what the fuck is this?

We're sitting here with our favorite film of 2007, looking for your commentary. Nothing. We bust out the second disc. Photo clippings from your research? Three deleted scenes — only one of which features, you know, editing? And, finally, an exhumed silent short about the history of oil drilling? Really? $30 for two discs and all we get is a public-domain two-reeler from 1923?

Look, PTA, we know it's probably not your fault. There's probably a commentary sitting on some hard drive in Vantage boss John Lesher's office waiting for the precise moment when "collectors" will be ready to part ways with another $30 to hear it. There's probably behind-the-scenes footage with Scott Rudin arriving on location in Marfa, Texas, overdressed and throwing a BlackBerry at the assistant whose weather forecast turned out 15 degrees cooler than the actual temperature. We know there are interviews with you, Day-Lewis, Paul Dano and Ciaran Hinds floating around. We know because it's you, and we expect great things. Not... this.

So get with the fucking program already, PTA, and stop jerking us around with the most stingy, shabby, half-assed miscarriage of DVD justice since Mulholland Drive. You're not that pirate George Lucas, and we're not "collectors"; we're fans — true believers and dedicated followers who deserve better. And you're a candid visionary, so tell Paramount to fuck off and send us the real DVD already, for Christ's sake.

— Love, Defamer
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post #9 of 12
4/12/08 at 7:38pm
Thread Starter 
Awesome.
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post #10 of 12
4/12/08 at 9:10pm
What really sucks is that P.T. Anderson himself is responsible for this shit dvd.
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post #11 of 12
4/18/08 at 6:01pm
That Defamer letter is priceless.
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post #12 of 12
4/18/08 at 6:20pm
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Originally Posted by El Thain View Post
What really sucks is that P.T. Anderson himself is responsible for this shit dvd.
Yeah, defamer should do some research. Not difficult to find out why there's not a commentary. No evil studio boss is holding it on his harddrive.
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