Spider-Man Collection 4K UHD (2002-2007) (Limited Edition)

[Deric2014]

Originally Posted by DJR662

My favorite is the first Spider-Man, also my favorite superhero movie along with Batman Begins and Elektra.

I understand your feelings about wanting a third Amazing Spider-Man movie because that's exactly how I feel about the cancelled fourth Raimi movie. You love these movies and you really would like them to continue and then the studios decide they want to do yet another reboot.

Anyway I should be getting the Origins Collection in the mail today, will have to wait until tomorrow to start watching them though.

Thanks for being cool about it and I can't believe Sinister Six movie would have been out one year ago time flies but The Amazing Spider-Man is my second favorite after Spider-Man 2 I really liked the music and action and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was decent but messy due to SONY interference but they should have made a third one and fix the mistakes the second one did same with Spider-Man 4 but SONY never learns and they decided to hit the reboot button twice within 15 years.

[Colson]

Originally Posted by DJR662

A pleasant surprise:



Our Spidey 4K collection has individual cases.

Dang, I like the artwork.

[Geoff D]

Odd that they kept the colourful first Spidey one but went with the grimdark 'reimagining' for the other two. Does that set include the regular Blu-rays as well, DJR? If so what ones?

[DJR662]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Odd that they kept the colourful first Spidey one but went with the grimdark 'reimagining' for the other two. Does that set include the regular Blu-rays as well, DJR? If so what ones?

Nope.

No digital and no regular Blu-rays. Would have liked to see the alternative Spider-Man 3 that was being mentioned here but I'm not too bothered about it. Would probably be a one time viewing only anyway.

[Colson]

Originally Posted by DJR662

Nope.

No digital and no regular Blu-rays. Would have liked to see the alternative Spider-Man 3 that was being mentioned here but I'm not too bothered about it. Would probably be a one time viewing only anyway.

Trust me, you're better to stick with the theatrical.

[Geoff D]

I didn't mind the recut of Spidey 3, but it can't rescue a film that's flawed at its core.

Couldn't do without the extras though, Charlie de Lauzirika worked on Spidey 2's bonus features and it's great to have them back as well as all the other stuff. Sony even included the trailers, can you believe it? They usually junk them these days. And I got a tenner for the digital code too, so my net spend for the US digibook was roughly £38

[TM2-Megatron]

I hope North America gets individual releases soon. It's been years since I've seen any of these, and while they're a little on the crude side compared to the best of modern superhero flicks, they have that Sam Raimi charm and, along with X-Men and X2, were my first real introduction to superhero films as a kid.

[Mr Anderson]

Originally Posted by DJR662

A pleasant surprise:



Our Spidey 4K collection has individual cases.

I want that!

Where, and how much?

[Hardback247]

Originally Posted by Colson

Trust me, you're better to stick with the theatrical.

Actually, I feel that the Editor's Cut is an improvement. It does get rid of that infamous butler reveal scene, after all.

[DJR662]

Originally Posted by Mr Anderson

I want that!

Where, and how much?

This is the Dutch release:

https://www.bol.com/nl/p/spider-man-...0000082154723/

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by TM2-Megatron

I hope North America gets individual releases soon. It's been years since I've seen any of these, and while they're a little on the crude side compared to the best of modern superhero flicks, they have that Sam Raimi charm and, along with X-Men and X2, were my first real introduction to superhero films as a kid.

Crude how? Spidey 2 is quite simply one of the best CBM's ever made.

[imsounoriginal]

Originally Posted by Hardback247

Actually, I feel that the Editor's Cut is an improvement. It does get rid of that infamous butler reveal scene, after all.

It's an improvement but not to a significant extent. I can still watch the theatrical cut, especially since that's the one in 4K.

[Geoff D]

And you can still get a leetle taste of what the recut has because the UHD has the alternate score option which apparently restores Christopher Young's intended cues instead of the hastily redone Elfman cues which were tacked on at the last minute by Sony.

[Vangeli]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

And you can still get a leetle taste of what the recut has because the UHD has the alternate score option which apparently restores Christopher Young's intended cues instead of the hastily redone Elfman cues which were tacked on at the last minute by Sony.

WAIT WHAT?

I never knew this was an option!

[Bolty]

How can that be when the cuts are different? Halfway thru the movies diverge -- how can they share a soundtrack??

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Bolty

How can that be when the cuts are different? Halfway thru the movies diverge -- how can they share a soundtrack??

It's amazing what they can do with editing software nowadays. Sarcasm aside, Chris Young's music was changed pretty late in the day, from reading up on it he'd basically scored the release version but Sony felt that it needed more identifiable cues from the first two Raimi flicks so Elfman's people came in to rescore a few bits.

[turkey_luver]

I hope they release these individually.

[StingingVelvet]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

It's amazing what they can do with editing software nowadays. Sarcasm aside, Chris Young's music was changed pretty late in the day, from reading up on it he'd basically scored the release version but Sony felt that it needed more identifiable cues from the first two Raimi flicks so Elfman's people came in to rescore a few bits.

I oddly agree with Sony, I loved hearing Elfman's music come back in 3 at certain points and I barely remember anything outside of that. Also to contribute to yesterday's battle I am in the camp of Spider-Man 3 being flawed but coasting on the excellent first two to surpass (easily) the Amazing movies.

[Bolty]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

It's amazing what they can do with editing software nowadays. Sarcasm aside, Chris Young's music was changed pretty late in the day, from reading up on it he'd basically scored the release version but Sony felt that it needed more identifiable cues from the first two Raimi flicks so Elfman's people came in to rescore a few bits.

So you are saying he also scored the released version of the movie as well as the until recently unreleased version?

That sounds more ethical than simply editing his score to make it fit a version he never himself did the entire score for.

[Geoff D]

I'm saying that his score was likely conformed to the theatrical version, more or less, and it's actually the Editor's Cut which has had Young's music re-edited to fit. Otherwise I don't see the point of the random alternate score version on the UHD, i.e. if it was intended to fit the alternate cut only then re-editing it to fit the theatrical (and just for the UHD, it's not on the newly authored theatrical version BD) seems like a waste of time. It sounds more like they pulled the score and found that it matched the final theatrical version when preparing the Editor's Cut so they put it on the UHD as an Easter egg, albeit one you don't have to look very hard to find.