Josh-da-man

I think about 90% of the people who post on message boards, twitter, and facebook have it.

PhantomStranger

Asperger's syndrome has to be one of the most over-self-diagnosed disorders on the Internet. It has become a convenient label for a group of personality traits. Far more people claim to have it than could pass clinical standards for it.

Trevor

[Everyone]But I need an excuse for my behavior! Stop persecuting me![/Everyone]

hanshotfirst1138

Hey, my therapist diagnosed it. Don't look at me.

Why So Blu?

I don't own any of them on BD.

Giles

Supermallet

I read an article that put the prequels in a different light for me (http://www.starwarsringtheory.com/ a lengthy but fascinating read), so I think I'd like to own the prequels on BD to complement the despecialized editions I have of the OT. As far as I understand it, the PT set currently available doesn't have all the extras from the complete saga set, right? Does it have any extra discs at all? I notice that Best Buy has individual episode steelbooks that might be fun to get, but if it means losing extras from the PT set, which has already lost extras from the complete set, I may just split the difference and buy the PT set.

hdnmickey

The complete saga is missing many extras from the individual PT DVD's. If starting from scratch for the PT my recommendation would be to get the PT trilogy BD set and pick up the each of the original PT 2 disc DVD sets. Those PT discs should come real cheap. If there was any PT extras new to the complete saga, they are probably not as good as those in the DVD sets. The Episode I doc is especially good despite the movie being what it is.

Supermallet

Ugh, the last thing I want is more DVDs.

Trevor

I'm regretfully almost positive that if you want ALL the special features of any movie, then you must own ALL the various releases. They rarely truly carry over everything.

Supermallet

I didn't necessarily say I wanted all the special features, just the most bang for my buck. The individual PT releases at Best Buy are $15 each, whereas the PT box at Amazon is $35. If there's no difference in special features between the individual releases and the box, I might opt for the individual releases because they're steel books and that could be cool. If the box had more special features, then less money for more content wins out over packaging.

Josh-da-man

Yeah the PT DVDs each came with a bonus DVD that had deleted scenes and stuff like that. (At least the original pressings of the two-disc sets; these things got so many releases that I can't keep track of them.)

Then the blu-ray releases came out, and very few of the special features from the DVD carried over. Also, the blu-rays themselves are pretty much barebones (I think they have commentaries) with the bulk of the special features presented only in the 9-disc collections of the "saga." The "trilogy" blu-ray sets don't carry over any of the special features from the 9-disc set. Basically, anything blu-ray outside of the 9-disc sets will be barebones.

So if you want everything, you need to own 2-disc prequel DVDs and the 9-disc blu-ray set.

hdnmickey

Best bang for you buck with the PT? Not buying them!

But seriously, best bet is a combo of the BD trilogy (or the upcoming steelbooks) combined with the second DVD discs from the original DVD releases. A simple, rather complete, 2 dsic combo for each movie.

hanshotfirst1138

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Bear in mind also that Lucas made further changes even to the prequels on future releases like the Blu-rays, so the DVD versions (which were still changed from the theatrical cuts in some cases) are also different (puppet Yoda, among other things).

Supermallet

I don't care about those changes, the PT isn't so great to begin with that the tinkering will affect my enjoyment.

Spiderbite

Haha. That was exactly my thought when I read the question.

Supermallet

I decided to wait, I'm guessing when The Force Awakens comes out on BD there will either be deals on the existing sets, or a re-release, possibly with digital copies included.

hdnmickey

But even fewer extras in each subsequent release. But that only important if you're trying to get the best bang for your buck.

Supermallet

In which case, I could get the older set (meaning the set that's out now if they release a new one) on sale. More extras, lower price, win/win!

Solid Snake

Seriously thought there was some news about the OT coming to BD. Nope. And off I go back to the shitter.

E Unit

Damn, you spend some serious time there in the shitter. Or maybe it's only when you're on this thread and Spectre.

Mike86

I'm sort of hoping that if the original Original Trilogy is released that they'll be available separately as well as in a box set. Preferably I'd rather buy them all separately as I hate buying box sets when I know they'll be incomplete. Plus I'd rather not own the Prequel Trilogy at all.

Josh-da-man

My desire would be that they release these movies so that film-specific special features are included on the movie disc itself. I would like to able to watch the movie, then watch the deleted scenes without having to get up and change discs.

Fingers crossed that the next release does this, and includes all of the stuff from the DVDs as well.

hdnmickey

ITA. But if done right (include everything) I think at this point there is enough out there for each movie to warrant a second disc for each movie. The other reason I like the idea of separate releases is so each can get more movie specific artwork. A digibook for each movie would be awesome.

DJariya

Ugh, I own so many variations of this.

I have the original trilogy DVD box set from 2004 that has Empire of Dreams. I presume that's the special edition?

I also whored myself out to the original theatrical cut individual DVD releases of the original trilogy. I believe that came out shortly afterwards.

I have the prequels in their individual 2-disc DVD releases.

And finally I picked up the complete saga on BD 4 years ago.

That covers pretty much everything right?