Anyone know of any sites that specialize in announcing upcoming DVD special editions? I'm trying to make sure I don't reexperience something similar to buying Fellowship of the Ring only to see included on the disc the fact that there was a forthcoming extended edition. Needless to say I skipped the initial DVD release of TTT and RotK.

[url]www.thedigitalbits.com[/url] is what I use for DVD rumors.

DVD special editions suck for the most part. Movie companies now have figured out that they can make extra money by releasing special editions after everyone has already bought the regular edition. They add stupid stuff, like 5-10 minutes of pointless extra footage that was cut for a reason, and have commentary by some guy who did props work for like 2 days for the movie.

Occaisionally, though, special editions are awesome.

The suckage of a special addition is directly related to how much more it costs than the regular version.

With the exception of the Extended Edition LotR movies.

What annoys me are those "Unrated versions" of movies. Because DVDs contain content and footage that haven't been reviewed by the rating board, certain movies just slap that label on. Of course, some "unrated versions" attract buyers because of a short segment of "frontal nudity."

With the exception of the Extended Edition LotR movies.

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With the exception of the Extended Edition LotR movies.

With the exception of the Extended Edition LotR movies.

*nods* I see how this works.

I don't understand . Well, with the exception of the Extended Edition LoTR movies, of course.

I got to thinking that with what Jackson did with the LotR movies he might do something similar with King Kong although I don't think King Kong needs that treatment. Thanks for the link TimeWolf!

If a film company makes any editing changes to a film it needs to be re-rated. This takes time and costs, I think, $6000. Usually it's not worthwhile.

Film companies have turned their greed into a selling point. You'll generally only find it in the low-brow sort of movie, where they try to advertise "unrated" as some kind of borderline pornography.

The rating is sometimes troublesome, because companies try to artificially make the movies pass lower rating limits. Of course they can complain about the board decisions, and those complaints often are noted favorably. But also they cut away good if not essential parts just to get a lower rating. And then those cut movies go on DVD. The Director's Cut is the proper version to get if such a thing happens.

Also in the case of the LOTR movies, even if the sheer lenght was the biggest issue of those movies.