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[ManaByte]

King Kong teaser trailer will be attached to it:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20400

 

[Ash Housewares]

let's see, I'll add that to my list of reasons to see it for a grand total of: 0

 

[Mrjellybeanct]

KING KONG ain't got shit on me!!

 

[Dan]

It'll be online the day before.

 

[Fuzzy]

I thought this was reason enough.

Oh no, Cruise strikes again! :lol

 

[DarienA]

I thought this was reason enough.

Oh no, Cruise strikes again! :lol

Well to be true the War of the Worlds poster is really a take on the TV series one... which I'm not sure if I can find...

EDIT: Ah here we go.

Man I loved this series.

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

The Kong trailer may be cool, but it's not enough to get me to want to see this movie either. The reviews are going to have to be great.

BTW, Darian, is the movie related to that TV series at all? I wasn't under the impression that it was.

 

[Willco]

No, it's not a take on the TV series.

Did anyone see those two vid journals from BlueTights.net and KongisKing.net where Peter Jackson got so tired during the last week of film that he called Bryan Singer during the Superman Returns production to help direct as he was falling asleep on set? Shit, that was hilarious.

 

[DarienA]

The Kong trailer may be cool, but it's not enough to get me to want to see this movie either. The reviews are going to have to be great.

BTW, Darian, is the movie related to that TV series at all? I wasn't under the impression that it was.

The similar theme of the poster is the only connection I've seen or heard of. So no I don't believe so.

 

[Prospero]

Man I loved this series.

I'll say it again--I'd pay whatever price a merchant chose to charge for DVD box sets of this TV series. I'm troubled that nothing like this has been announced yet, to ride on the coattails of the movie.

 

[DarienA]

I'll say it again--I'd pay whatever price a merchant chose to charge for DVD box sets of this TV series. I'm troubled that nothing like this has been announced yet, to ride on the coattails of the movie.

I almost hate telling you this because this makes you a competitor... but if you have an all region DVD player check Ebay. I'm watching a few auctions now for the entire series (2 seasons) which were apparently released on DVD in the UK.

 

[Prospero]

I almost hate telling you this because this makes you a competitor... but if you have an all region DVD player check Ebay. I'm watching a few auctions now for the entire series (2 seasons) which were apparently released on DVD in the UK.

Thanks a lot, DarienA. If I bid on one of these, I'll go ahead and do the Buy it Now option.

Something about those discs looks a little sketchy though (not that I care much)--they're not region 2, but region 0 (playable anywhere), and I can't find any evidence online of a legitimate release of an eight-disc WOTW boxset. I'm going to look around a little more and try to find out what the deal with them is.

 

[tedtropy]

Well that looks decidedly phallic...

 

[DarienA]

Thanks a lot, DarienA. If I bid on one of these, I'll go ahead and do the Buy it Now option.

Something about those discs looks a little sketchy though (not that I care much)--they're not region 2, but region 0 (playable anywhere), and I can't find any evidence online of a legitimate release of an eight-disc WOTW boxset. I'm going to look around a little more and try to find out what the deal with them is.

Let me know what you find out.

 

[borghe]

Thanks a lot, DarienA. If I bid on one of these, I'll go ahead and do the Buy it Now option.

Something about those discs looks a little sketchy though (not that I care much)--they're not region 2, but region 0 (playable anywhere), and I can't find any evidence online of a legitimate release of an eight-disc WOTW boxset. I'm going to look around a little more and try to find out what the deal with them is.

I hate to be an advocate of pirates and bootlegs, on escam especially, but in some instances it really is the only way to go. I mean why should one pay $50-70 for a legitimate region 1 copy of Flash Gordon by Universal when they don't even bother to make a version available in region 1 (original was by Image Entertainment under license). So being that Universal is themselves making it so you are unable to pay them for this movie, get it another way.

Same thing here. The original rights producer has it within their power to make WOTWTS available on DVD, yet they choose not to. So screw it, buy it another way. Is it piracy? Yes. but somehow I feel there is a huge moral vindication there knowing that if the show were available on DVD, you would buy it. and in many cases (as bootlegs have a tendency to be shit quality) you will buy it if and when it is released. so really it is a win/win situation for everyone.

 

[DarienA]

I hate to be an advocate of pirates and bootlegs, on escam especially, but in some instances it really is the only way to go. I mean why should one pay $50-70 for a legitimate region 1 copy of Flash Gordon by Universal when they don't even bother to make a version available in region 1 (original was by Image Entertainment under license). So being that Universal is themselves making it so you are unable to pay them for this movie, get it another way.

It is ridiculous how much those Flash Gordons go for on Ebay... I've been following them for awhile now...

 

[Prospero]

(as bootlegs have a tendency to be shit quality)

That's my primary concern here--specifically, I'm worried about an improper PAL --> NTSC conversion. The last gray-market DVD I bought off eBay (the original Twin Peaks pilot, not the re-edited version that gives away the ending) had that problem--the conversion from 25 to 30 fps (if I remember the framerates correctly) raised the pitches of the music and the voices, so that men sounded almost like women and women sounded almost like Chipmunks. That's fine if I'm only paying a few dollars for a single episode to complete a set, but not for a 42-episode box.

 

[Prospero]

Let me know what you find out.

The only legitimate DVD releases I can find are these:

Some random episodes of Season 1.

But this concerns me more than whether the DVDs are bootlegs or not (link):

Season one has been shown in the U.K. in late-night slots around the ITV regions, from 1991. It had been heavily edited to remove some of the more gruesome scenes. Season two was first shown in the Central ITV region in 1996, some seven years after it was made.

If I were to order those discs to find that not only were they bootlegs, but that the episodes had been edited for gore, I'd be pissed beyond belief. I think I'm going to pass.