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The Two Towers DVD Release Dates
FortKnox writes "Mark these dates on your Calendar: 8/26/03 & 11/18/03. These are the (US) DVD release dates for The Two Towers. Like Fellowship, the first date is the release of the DVD, and the November date is the release of the special edition (with rumored extra 48 minutes of footage). Another one ring.net page has more details on the actual footage."
I'm personally waiting for the complete box set. I hope it will include all the extended versions of the three movies with all the extras, i.e greater than the sum of these intermediate special edition releases.
I really don't see much point in buying the LotR DVD's seperately. You just know that New Line will compile together all three movie's in one big massive package with an infinite amount of DVD extra's.
Wait a sec. You were broke, but still had the $30 to spend on a 4 Disc DVD? That's sick.
Broke is broke. Having $30 to by a movie that you have the luxury to have a DVD player to play in is NOT broke.
So sayeth the fat white computer dude with a good job, and who worries about buying that new Wolverine XBox game 'cause he hears it kind of sucks. -buf
I KNEW this was going to happen. With so many people getting burned on special editions, people won't buy the original releases anymore. Now, the studios are practically obligated to make special editions, which further reinforces people's avoidance of the standard edition. I honestly think the DVD market is permanently fucked up by this, I can't see any way that the studios can reverse the assumption that all movies that were at least decent will have special editions, so there's no point in buying it when it's first released. I'm sure it was a tremendous moneymaker when they started, but now Hollywood's shortsighted greed has obligated them to waste money printing a non-special edition that no one wants, and filming special filler, just so that people will believe them when they release the real version.
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than that of whether a submarine can swim" -EWD
I was in the Philippines over the New Year and I came across a very nice Muslim women who sold me an awards screener for The Two Towers on DVD for $2 US. I have seen the movie in the theater(obviously) so I can attest to the screener's validity and quality. Basically a pretty dope find, and the whole movie is on exactly 1 DVD(huge plus IMHO).
I also bought all 3 Indiana Jones movies and the first 3 Star Wars captured from Laser Disc on DVD. Total cost: $14 US. Arrrr Matey!!!
He painted a unicorn in outer space. I'm askin' ya, what's it breathin'?
Ah, but the beauty of it having its own category is that you can exclude it using your Preferences/Homepage menu, instead of whining about LOTR topics. So, uh, why didn't you go do that?
I can see 3 months helping a lot. They could probably get everything done in time for the first release date if they really tried, but remember that they are also working on Return of the King. Remember, no matter what, the bigger set would take significantly longer to prepare, so no matter what if they were released at the same time they would have been able to get eh 2-disc one out well before. So they figure why not? People who would only get the 2-disc set will be more inclined to get it rather than pirate it, while most people who would get the expanded one would probably wait anyway. And a few of them might buy or rent the 2-disc one in the meantime, which I suspect is probably more of a bonus than a motivation.
I don't really buy the argument that it is a greed thing; maybe that is involved a little bit, but I don't think it's the major role. Remember, they announced (I think... if not, they will soon) that there is going to be a special edition, and I doubt that they will expect too many people to buy both. (Rent perhaps, but that's about where I think that theory ends.) Meanwhile, I see putting together a DVD like that to be a time-consuming venture.
(And for any of you who think this is like what Lucas is doing, remember that Lucas released Episode I to VHS under the official line that NO DVDs were to be released until after Episode III, while just a couple months later reports surfaced that he was in fact working on an Episode I DVD, which was announced a couple months later. Had I (and many other fans) known a DVD was in the works, there's no way I owuld have bought the VHS. *That's* sleazy. There's no trace of sleaze in the Lord of the Rings.)