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Bad alternatives to 'Special Edition'

post #1 of 19
8/13/05 at 2:39am
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Okay, we have Special Edition, Collector's Edition, Special Collector's Edition, Unrated Edition, Director's Cut, Extended Edition, Anniversary Edition, Ultimate Edition, and even Extreme Edition.

Here are the latest offenders:

The Transporter: Special Delivery Edition

Tommy Boy: Holy Schnike Edition

Clueless: Whatever Edition

Fever Pitch: Curse Reversed Edition

STOP IT.
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post #2 of 19
8/13/05 at 12:49pm
Yeah, I don't understand, do these lame titles actually make the average joe want to purchase these movies even more? Curse Reversed Fever Pitch? Isn't the whole movie revolved around the "curse" being reversed?
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post #3 of 19
8/13/05 at 1:57pm
My favorite, or least favorite as the case may be, is the "Tricked Out Edition" of THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS. But I must admit I would pay good money for an "Afterschool Special Edition" of THE SUBSTITUTE.
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post #4 of 19
8/14/05 at 1:52am
Jaws: Don't Go Fishin' Edition.

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post #5 of 19
8/14/05 at 9:38am
American Psycho: Killer Collector's Edition Uncut Version
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post #6 of 19
8/15/05 at 3:08am
Animal House: Double Secret Probation Edition

and the extras on it are hardly worth mentioning.
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post #7 of 19
8/15/05 at 4:50am
Newell's report on the Office Space: Special Edition with Flair made me cringe. This stuff is lame. Since first editions tend to be bare bones affairs, they should label all subsequent feature-heavy releases as the Meaty Bones Edition.
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post #8 of 19
8/15/05 at 5:25am
X-men 1.5 was called the "2-Disc X-treme Edition" here. Which is such an amazing display of lack of creativity, it makes my brain ache.
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post #9 of 19
8/15/05 at 7:48am
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Originally Posted by Darth_Chocula
Animal House: Double Secret Probation Edition

and the extras on it are hardly worth mentioning.
That's why it's double secret! SHHHHHH!
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post #10 of 19
8/15/05 at 5:12pm
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Originally Posted by billz
Newell's report on the Office Space: Special Edition with Flair made me cringe. This stuff is lame. Since first editions tend to be bare bones affairs, they should label all subsequent feature-heavy releases as the Meaty Bones Edition.
But it's hardly a Special Edition, these are all just shallow attempts to put out older titles with their newer, slightly more effective method of copy protection...............think they give a damn about what showing you what happened when they filmed The Jerk? No, they just want it jerk-proof and mask it with a fluff feature on playing the song in it.


..........I'll just throw this out there.....where the fuck is my Special Edition Darkman?
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post #11 of 19
8/21/05 at 3:52pm
I will always think "The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen" is the stupiest title ever.

Of course there is also the "Half-Baked: Fully-Baked Edition".
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post #12 of 19
8/21/05 at 4:44pm
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Originally Posted by Darth_Chocula
But it's hardly a Special Edition, these are all just shallow attempts to put out older titles with their newer, slightly more effective method of copy protection...............think they give a damn about what showing you what happened when they filmed The Jerk? No, they just want it jerk-proof and mask it with a fluff feature on playing the song in it.


..........I'll just throw this out there.....where the fuck is my Special Edition Darkman?
Yeah that Office Space SE doesn't even have commentary...BY ANYONE!

Also wheres my director's cuts of The Thin Red Line, 13th Warrior, or anything that got seriously chopped or altered by the studio?

That's what Special Editions should be! Actually different versions of the film, with some extras thrown in. Instead of these fucking double and triple dips we're all getting used to. I for one am starting to not buy SE's because I find myself never getting into the extras anyway, or the extras suck, so I'm usually happy with a bare bones widescreen version (saves money too).
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post #13 of 19
8/21/05 at 4:50pm
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Originally Posted by Darth_Chocula
..........I'll just throw this out there.....where the fuck is my Special Edition Darkman?
It's out there, it just looks like other DVDs, so you don't even know it's there.
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post #14 of 19
8/21/05 at 6:53pm
Let's not forget the Reefer Madness : Special Addiction DVD
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post #15 of 19
8/23/05 at 10:01pm
What of the Airplane: Don't Call Me Shirley Edition, which is coming later this year?
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post #16 of 19
8/25/05 at 9:08am
I bet within a year we'll see a Napleon Dynamite: Flippin Sweet edition or something similar.
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post #17 of 19
8/26/05 at 1:52pm
About that Airplane: "Don't Call Me Shirley Edition" see for yourself.

http://dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&...7537&n=1&burl=
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post #18 of 19
9/1/05 at 6:46pm
I'm surprised nobody's yet to mention the Smokey and the Bandit Pursuit Pack. While the name is quite the lame attempt at being clever, I was forced to buy it to have all three in one giant set of Reynolds style. Although was further annoyed to find that the thick packaging is just a disguise. It’s only a single disc!
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post #19 of 19
9/7/05 at 6:29am
There's a damn Chicago: Razzle Dazzle Edition, probably my most disliked ALT-SPEC-ED yet.

And even though I watch everything on every disc, I haven't been able to justify the ludicrously overpriced 2-disc sets for recent multi-tier releases such as A Series of Unfortunate Events, Kinsey and Huckabees. The single-disc verions have done just fine, and if I end up getting Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, it looks like It'll be the 1-disc version there, too.
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