King Kong (2005) (Ultimate Edition)

[Deathbymonkeys]

Originally Posted by Cook

Yeah just to have those LOTR docs in AVC on 3 blurays would be nice. But WB are apparently treating LOTR with the cold shoulder now. Idk if you heard, but supposedly Jackson wanted money to do new documentaries and new special features and to include new deleted material for the new LOTR release, but WB refused to pay for it and they wouldnt allow him to access the archived material. Instead they released the same stuff weve had for years and bundled it with that stupid shelf and slapped an absurd price on it. Considering that, I doubt they will spend the money to those put the old special features on blu-ray. Its amazing how quickly they forget what Jackson and LOTR did for them.

Yeah I don't even care if they were in high def honestly at all. I just would like them on blurays.

[Deathbymonkeys]

Originally Posted by JasonHensley

15 years later and you're still bothered enough to post in a home video release thread? That's sad. I can't begin to comprehend bothering to complain about a movie I didn't like 15 years ago in a home video release thread.

Go to the Star Wars threads. It never ends. With the same people complaining in here.

[evoll]

Originally Posted by Deathbymonkeys

Go to the Star Wars threads. It never ends. With the same people complaining in here.

That is the truth esp. About the star wars thread, I quit going in there because it's always one cry after another. Even if they released those movies in 4k and all cuts of the movies they would still complain about something.

[MisterKorman]

I assume this will just be the extended cut with all the features that came with the extended DVD ten years ago? If so, sweet. I never got the Blu-Ray because of the lack of features.
EDIT: I didn't look at past pages. My bad.

[kong73]

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[Rich1631]

@Kong73, yea that is pretty rad !

[kong73]

Originally Posted by Rich1631

@Kong73, yea that is pretty rad !

or they just don't care

[Rich1631]

great cover art is pretty much dead. Some of the stuff they choose is so lame or bland.

[Roonan]

Originally Posted by Deathbymonkeys

Go to the Star Wars threads. It never ends. With the same people complaining in here.

That only supports his argument.

[StingingVelvet]

Originally Posted by Deathbymonkeys

Yeah I don't even care if they were in high def honestly at all. I just would like them on blurays.

SD material usually looks worse on BD than on DVD, in my experience.

[IndyMLVC]

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

SD material usually looks worse on BD than on DVD, in my experience.

It depends. I feel like they sometimes just rip the DVD version and re-encode instead of going back to whatever master was delivered.

[insomniac013]

Finally! I have the blu ray. So a couple years too late. Will only buy it again on UHD someday.

[duke4711]

Originally Posted by Deathbymonkeys

Go to the Star Wars threads. It never ends. With the same people complaining in here.

Originally Posted by evoll

That is the truth esp. About the star wars thread, I quit going in there because it's always one cry after another. Even if they released those movies in 4k and all cuts of the movies they would still complain about something.

I stopped going in those Star Wars threads a long time ago. You aren't even allowed to have an opinion with a lot of people. No matter what you say, people rip you a new one. I like Star Wars as much as anyone, but not to the point of trashing someone when their opinion differs from mine.
Anyway, I just heard about the new ultimate edition of King Kong. Depending on the price ($20 or so), I'll probably pick it up day one. With any luck, they'll add some new and interesting special features. As an old-school videophile, I never could develop a feel for picture in picture features that have become so popular nowadays.

[Pieter V]

I wonder what codec it will use? AVC or VC-1....

[thatguamguy]

Originally Posted by willbfree

Is one of them the episode with Bryan Singer?

I remember that being said at one point, but I don't remember whether it was accurate. dvdcompare says that the Singer one was included on the Production Diaries DVD, #53. Another site says that the Missing one (included on the 3-disc set as an Easter Egg) is #59. (Which would make it a Post-Production Diary, by the numbers listed on dvdcompare. So I'm not sure what's up there.)

My guess would be that the "missing Bryan Singer diary" that has been referenced is actually the 'Superman Lives' production diary which features Peter Jackson, rather than the King Kong diary which features Bryan Singer. (Having said that, I would also list that alongside the spider pit recreation as a feature which should be a bonus with this movie.)

[WorkShed]

Originally Posted by thatguamguy

I remember that being said at one point, but I don't remember whether it was accurate. dvdcompare says that the Singer one was included on the Production Diaries DVD, #53. Another site says that the Missing one (included on the 3-disc set as an Easter Egg) is #59. (Which would make it a Post-Production Diary, by the numbers listed on dvdcompare. So I'm not sure what's up there.)

My guess would be that the "missing Bryan Singer diary" that has been referenced is actually the 'Superman Lives' production diary which features Peter Jackson, rather than the King Kong diary which features Bryan Singer. (Having said that, I would also list that alongside the spider pit recreation as a feature which should be a bonus with this movie.)

The missing diary was one with Howard Shore before he left the film, I believe.

[Roonan]

Originally Posted by Pieter V

I wonder what codec it will use? AVC or VC-1....

VC-1. They won't make a new encode.

[WorkShed]

It looks like the first disc is exactly the same as what's available.

[thatguamguy]

Originally Posted by WorkShed

The missing diary was one with Howard Shore before he left the film, I believe.

The Howard Shore diary has definitely, to date, never been released on any of the Kong DVD packages.

However, there were two more diaries which were only released as easter eggs -- "A Day at the Zoo" and "Monitor Watching Syndrome", somewhat misleadingly referred to as "The Missing Production Diary". These are the sorts of things which sometimes slip through the cracks on a re-release like this, for one reason or another, and I wouldn't be all that surprised if one or both gets left off of this one.

And there have also been persistent references, such as willbfree, to a missing Bryan Singer diary. As I said, my best guess is that this is due to there being two different production diaries featuring Bryan Singer and Peter Jackson discussing King Kong and Superman Returns, one for each movie. [I admit, I'm not as big a fan of Singer or his Superman, so I'm not entirely certain of this, but it appears that Singer's Superman diaries were only ever released on a bonus disc in a 14-disc "Ultimate Superman" DVD box set, not on any Blu release or even stand-alone release of Returns.]

[thatguamguy]

Originally Posted by WorkShed

It looks like the first disc is exactly the same as what's available.

The second disc is also identical to previously available DVDs. Only the third disc is new (hence the "new bonus disc" in the marketing), and even that is all previously released content, just collected onto one disc instead of six.