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Ten-disc 'Matrix' DVD Box Set Planned
squishey writes "The Matrix trilogy is to be released as part of a special ten-disc DVD boxset in time for Christmas, according to the DVD Times.
Out on December 12 and with an RRP of 44.99." Includes a lot of stuff you probably already own, and a few things you might want... like a version of Reloaded with the Enter the Matrix footage included.
That's not $44.99, it's 44.99, which is what, ~$75-80?
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They shoot for a few months, and you don't think they'll have 40 hours? They likely have hundreds of hours, with dozens of cuts for each scene. These are just the prime selection of that.
Isn't that, like, a little extreme? They could get nearly 40 hours worth of video on that. I wouldn't have thought that much footage would have been shot during the making of 3 films.
Having worked in the movie business, I'll tell you that a typical hollywood movie has hundreds of hours of footage, if not thousands.
Although, most of the footage is just retakes of the same scene.
That would be on disk seven - The Animatrix. As far as being canonical goes, I understood that was the reason for seeing Animatrix before Reloaded - that was a chunk of story you should know about (but then so was the game, which is why I'm glad they're inserting that into the movies). Just glad I decided not to buy 2&3 - I was sure they would bring out more complete disks in time (if not better-scripted).
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The ten discs seem to be:
And here is HMV's list of special features for the new discs:
THE MATRIX
MATRIX RELOADED
MATRIX REVOLUTIONS
THE ANIMATRIX
THE ROOTS OF THE MATRIX
THE BURLEY MAN CHRONICLES
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Since you either actually don't know, or just want to bitch about extended editions, here's the real happenings on LoTR. There will be no boxset. Due to the fact that it's going to run for way more than he'd like it to, Peter Jackson canned it. As for different versions of the films aside from what's already out there, that's not going to happen either; the extended versions that have either been released or are in the process of being released will be the longest that they ever get.
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Just read these. And to think I actually went to see "Highlander 2" the first weekend it was out - the audience was laughing at the film. Gawd it's awful. It would probably make a good basis for a MST3K showing, though.
Since then it's all gone decimal. 100 pence to the pound.
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The difference these days is that where the studios used to take all that extra film and throw it in the trash (or stuff it in poorly-maintaned warehouses where a lot of old footage has rotted away or -- I'm not joking -- been eaten by rats) now it's preserved and put on DVD for interested viewers.
Yeah, there are a few movies like the LotR trilogy where the director shoots a scene knowing full well that it's intended for the DVD. And I suppose given its financial success, we may see additional "shoot some extra scenes for the video game" cases like Matrix Reloaded. But the vast majority of deleted scenes on DVDs are simply the result of the absolutely ordinary process of editing a movie into shape.
When it comes on again, try watching "Project Greenlight" if you want an illuminating view of what a director goes through and how much of the intended film actually ends up on screen. I believe I heard they're doing a low-budget horror movie for the next project, which ought to be fun.
Here in the land of the vanishing currency symbol, the first film was cut in 2 places by our film censors (they demanded about 1 second of head-butting be cut from 2 fight scenes).
For the DVD, we lost the 'music only, no dialogue' bonus soundtrack that was present on the other region 2 DVDs entirely, because they couldn''t be bothered syncing up that version of the audio or finding 1 one-second bits to splice into the fights.
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So to get the US price, you need to start with 38.29GBP and convert that to dollars, not 44.99GBP. Otherwise you're also converting the sales tax.
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Sometimes footage is cut not because it sucks, but because the director is told "This movie cannot exceed 90 minutes"... thus forcing said director to cut otherwise good footage that *should* be in there.
Also, as the other poster said, it inserts the video game stuff.