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Originally Posted by Beast
Well, honestly... what did people want? Lucas announcing that everyone viewing the webpage would get free copies?
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Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl
It's the fans own fault. They spend the last 2 months speculating, debating, saying they want this and want that and it will be epic and so on. They just say it's so much fun to specualte and to build expectation and blablabla.
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I'm not really dispointed by the annoucement, myself, but I'm not terribly excited either.
I do think a more specific breakdown of what is included on discs 7 and 8 would be nice.
Instead of just "deleted scenes" and "extended scenes", for example, there could have been a more fleshed out specific list of them. I'd like to know what the "addtional content" (aka the "and more") is supposed to be.
The details of the 6 movie discs and the 9th disc with the documentaries are pretty well fleshed out. It would have been nice to see that with the other two discs.
Granted, sure, it would probably make for a very long list, but it would still be nice to get it in full detail.
My only disapointment is the lack of a listing for "Empire of Dreams". But for all that we know, that could be part of the "and more" of the OT bonus features disc. And if not, I still have my DVD, so it's not the end of the world.
But I can easily see where some might be disapointed with how vague some of the details are. For an annoucement proclaiming "all will be revealed", there is a lot of ambiguity in what was listed for those two discs in particular. So, I would say that anyone who is disapointed by that has good reason for feeling that way.
But as per usual the people who defend Lucas no matter what just chalk it up to absurd fan expectations. Got forbid that fans expect to receive all of the specific details on what will be included on the Blu-Ray set when they go to read an announcement that was advertied as "
ALL will be revealed".
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Originally Posted by Beast
The numerous past releases of the films on other formats. It's not really a surprise.
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But in all fairness, we don't really have THAT much of a precident for that. Most of that is based on previous Laserdisc releases of the OT, which were a very niche market.
Not to mention that when the OT came out on DVD, it was pretty rushed and was given only one bonus disc, and most of the room on it was taken up by the Empire of Dreams documentary. So, there wasn't a ton of room for a lot of other bonus features beyond what was included.
As it stands, some of what is listed seems to indicate a carry over of some special features. For example, we seem to be getting deleted/extended scenes for all of the movies, and we already got those for the prequels on the DVD sets. So, your arguement goes right out the window there.
It would be one thing if there were several different DVD releases of the films with new features each time and without the old features being carried over. But we really haven't gotten that for the most part.
The closest thing was the bonus disc from the initial OT trilogy set was only ever available with that set. But then they made a set of just the 3 movies without the disc at a lower cost for those who don't care for extras. Then they made the individual versions with the UOT bonus discs, but that's a gray area at best. It wasn't like there was a bonus disc specific to each film, so included the one disc from the Trilogy set would have been difficult. Then there's the digipack release which is just the individual releases in one set.
For the PT, the individual releases and the digitpack Trilogy set included the same bonus materials discs.
So really, you are kind of grasping at straws with this arguement. But I guess that's par for the course around here when you try to attack everyone else's 'expectations' as being ridiculous when they really aren't in many cases.
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Why couldn't they use any of the other 5,000,000 fan artist conceptions out there?
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