bigjim25

From http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releas...-features.html
Further Details:
Warner Home Video will release a number of triple feature sets on the 7th of November at a retail price of $14.98 each. The release of these value packages includes four new western sets starring John Wayne and Randolph Scott which are new to DVD. Artwork for most of the sets can be found at link.

John Wayne - The Telegraph Trail/Somewhere in Sonora/The Man from Monterey
John Wayne - The Big Stampede/Ride Him, Cowboy/Haunted Gold
Randolph Scott - Colt 45/Tall Man Riding/Forth Worth
Randolph Scott - A Man Behind The Gun/Thunder Over The Plains/Riding Shotgun
15 Minutes/Frequency/Thirteen Days
Born To Be Wild/Alaska/The Amazing Panda Adventure
Fire Down Below/Out For Justice/On Deadly Ground
Forget Paris/Father's Day/My Giant
Free Willy/Free Willy 2/Free Willy 3
Harum Scarum/Speedway/Trouble with Girls
Hellbound/Hitman/Forced Vengeance
Honkytonk Man/Pink Cadillac/City Heat
The Island of Dr. Moreau/Dark City/The Hidden
It's Alive 1/It's Alive 2/It's Alive 3
Lassie Come Home/Son of Lassie/Courage of Lassie
Lethal Weapon/Lethal Weapon 2/Lethal Weapon 3 (Director's Cut Editions)
A Man Apart/Boiler Room/Knockaround Guys
National Velvet/The Story of Seabiscuit/Black Beauty
Objective, Burma!/Never So Few/Go for Broke
A Perfect Murder/Murder by Numbers/Murder in the First
Poison Ivy/Poison Ivy 2/Poison Ivy 3: The New Seduction
Stroker Ace/Hooper/Sharky's Machine
Singles/HomeFries/Mickey Blue Eyes

EdTheRipper

I might be interested in a few of them...the Free Willy movies for my son. The Chuck Norris, Murder flicks and Poison Ivy series would be the ones I'd get.

Shannon Nutt

No love for "Lethal Weapon 4" in that 3-pack, heh?

PikeBishop

I wonder what this means for the proposed "Dark City: Director's Cut," that Roger Ebert recorded a commentary track for.

Bacon

WS or foolscreen?

Hopefuly Warner will put out a Chevy Chase triple feature with Funny Farm, Spies Like Us and Nothing But Trouble, WS of course

bboisvert

And they're coming out right around the same time that a certain sale traditionally happens...


I'm curious about how these are packaged. Is this a triple feature on a single disc, or are these 2-disc sets? Do they retail any/all extras from previous releases, or are they bare-bones? Etc.

marty888

WB keeps finding new ways to separate me from my money .....

Rypro 525

also in regards to the poison ivy series, we have the rated and unrated versions with both full frame and widescreen versions.

NoirFan

Whats the connection here, other than they are all crap films?

dx23

I saw most of these triple features today at Wal-Mart and picked up the Lethal Weapon set. To anwers some of the questions above:

1. The 3 films come in 2 DVDs. The first 2 films are on flipper discs (Disc 1 Side A Lethal Weapon 1, Side B, Lethal Weapon 2 and Disc 2 Lethal Weapon 3. Disc 2 even has a Disc art.)
2. The Lethal Weapon set are the director's cut edition and are widescreen.
3. I saw the Poison Ivy set and they are the unrated versions but full screen editions of the 3 films.

I don't know about the other sets, but everyone should read carefully the specs before making their purchase.

The sets go at Wal-Mart for $9.59

Premise

These are advertised in my local WM ad for $9.

digitalfreaknyc

Question: why does ANYONE want these? They're clearly all single layered discs and the quality will definitely suffer.

Jackson_Browne

And the films all really suck too.

dx23

Thanks for the

As for me, I like the 3 Lethal Weapon films and Dark City. Frequency and Thirteen Days are pretty good too.

Darknite39

They are single layered? Where's this coming from?

Matthew Chmiel

I'm assuming they're DVD-10s. You know: dual-sided, single-layered.

If it's just the films on the discs with no extras, I don't see the quality suffering that much. For all we know, some of the discs could indeed be DVD-14 or DVD-18; but I wouldn't expect that much from what seems to be bargin-bin releases. I'm a little bit upset that the Poision Ivy set is full screen only as that was the only set I had in mind to purchase, but I'm curious to see how the other New Line sets will be. Their previous double-feature discs were full frame only, but 15 Minutes, Frequency, ad Thirteen Days were Platinum Series or Infinifilm discs. Hell, the original Boiler Room disc was dual-layered and that had no video extras besides some deleted scenes and the trailer.

digitalfreaknyc

Duh.

Do you expect them to be dual-sided, dual layered??

This is just WB's way of sending out cheapo versions.

chente

I'll pick up the Randolph Scott films.

Bluelitespecial

I have a question about the Lethal Weapon set. Is it the correct OAR, It says on the back of the package its 1.85:1, but I swear they are all 2.35:1.

dx23

you are incorrect my friend. All discs are dual layered, according to the specs on the back of the DVD case.

dx23

1.85:1 is the correct aspect ratio. The imdb verifies it:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093409/technical

rexinnih

3 Elvis for $15. Might have to pick that up.

Peep

This may not be the end of the world as I believe that all three FS releases were open matte.

fumanstan

That's an easy question. They're cheap, and the majority of people buying these won't notice/care about the quality.

mifuneral

Absolutely nothing. They aren't going to scrap an SE in favor of a cheap re-release.