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Matrix Special Edition Cancelled
An anonymous reader writes "According to The Digital Bits, the recently announced Matrix Special Edition has been cancelled. Rumor is that it was cancelled by the Wachowski brothers in hopes of coming out with a Super Collectors Special Edition later."
If they indeed cancelled it because they'd rather do the whole thing later on, and do it better, then you have to give them credit. How pi$$ed would fans be if they came out with the SE, and then another version of the same stuff later on?
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Given that most DVD's now contain special features, it seems like the prudent thing to do is wait until the entire series (LOTR, Star Wars, Matrix, etc.) is released together. Why would I want to pony up the bucks for one special edition DVD when I can wait and get the ultra-super-extra-even specialer Box collection? Further, if you don't know if they are going to release the ultra-super-extra-even specialer Box collection, would you wait until all the DVD's were out just in case? I guess I am going to wait a while before investing in DVD's of any of these series until I see if they will release a whole series of DVD's.
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That's not necessarily because they "couldn't get it right". A lot of actors have realized that folks really like the bonus features, like deleted scenes. So, what do they do? When they're not pretending to know about world politics, they're demanding that they be paid extra for anything used as bonus features on a DVD.
They're already getting paid to shoot scenese. Then they want MORE money if some of those scenes are used in the bonus features. My, isn't that an interesting economical perspective.
steve
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...they cancelled it because the special edition was just the original Matrix DVD bundled with "Enter the Matrix", a making-of DVD that was previously only available as a separate purchase. That makes buying the "Special Edition" redundant because every geek worth his salt already has the Matrix DVD, so now they would have TWO identical DVDs and a making-of DVD. With that stupid project cancelled, the Wachowskis+WB can work on a TRUE special edition, possibly with more special features and commentary by cast members other than Carrie-Anne Moss. Of course, I can't wait to be fleeced of $70 for the ultra-mega-super-duper edition 6-disc trilogy set coming out after the release of the "The Matrix: Revolutions."
I agree, although I'd like to see a professionally made documentary done for the "making of" feature in movies. Every one I've seen has been nothing more that the supervisors spending 15 minutes talking over some movie footage. Even then they're terribly unprepared, as every other word is "uh".
A lot of actors have realized that folks really like ... deleted scenes."
On the "UHF" DVD, during the deleted scenes section, Al says several times that, basically, there's a reason that the scenes were deleted. In some instances, it might be interesting to know what was going through the director's mind (or at least getting hints about it), but I think in most cases, Al is right - watch the movie, the deleted scenes aren't in it for a reason.
Fans will go to the movie anyway, and they'll buy the special collector edition whenever it comes out.
If they released both, they'd have two products competing for shelf-space needlessly.
Daniel
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Not really, Lucas's patent specifically covers the concept of tricking people into thinking that each release will be the "last and greatest" one, only to tweak the film and make Greedo shoot first, and release it again.
Peter Jackson was always up front about what is being released and when. Everyone know there would be two, a theatrical DVD and an extended DVD shortly after. They have also already claimed there would be a big honkin' box set when it is all finished.
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If anything, waiting a little while longer for a box-set or other version would permit the adding in of other featurettes and options that make the purchase of a different disc a little more logical. I, for one, wouldn't mind getting a matrix set with the animatrix reels in there as well (http://www.theanimatrix.com/).
I'm no apologist for the big production houses that screw over hungry consumers like ourselves, but I do like to see REAL content added from version to version.
The "extended" edition isn't for the average person, it's for the /. uber-geek audience, or people who can recite the books word-for-word... Yadda, yadda.
I must whole-heartedly disagree. Most of my friends are non-geeks who, after seeing the extended version, remarked that the additional footage made scenes in TTT more understandable. Particularly the 'gifting' scene where Galadriel hands out many items that just suddenly appear in the second movie or have special properties (the cloaks) that cause the viewer to think the scene makes no sense.
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As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.
Yeah, I tried to sorta correct myself, I realize that people don't *have* to buy each version. It may even be a good business decision on his part, but I consider it to be kinda sneaky and underhanded to plan it all out.
It was sorta like the Lord of the Rings DVD as well. I didn't buy the original DVD release because I knew a better one was coming later. If I hadn't known, and had bought the original, only to have a better version come out later, I would have been pretty upset. Sure, it probably made them more money, but to me it would have felt like they were trying to take advantage of those who were their biggest fans.
So while this may not make as much money in the long run, I think it's better from a customer relations standpoint.
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/anyone/ get the Special Edition?
//H
> fans get the special edition
> new comers get the (cheaper) normal edition
No, fans won't buy it at all. Since fans already have the Matrix Original DVD and the Matrix Revisited DVD.
Ans since the Special Edition was nothing else but the Original bundled with the Revisited, why would
This is what they have realized and thus dropped the whole 'Special Edition' idea.
I'm too stupid to preview.