Mallrats DVD
 

Since Sept. 7 will be coming up soon with the release of Clerks X and Jersey Girl, I noticed that I didn't have Mallrats in my collection. And I knew (up until know) that the DVD was in circulation and I didn't really care to buy it, until now. So I go to bestbuy, circuitcity, and various stores to find out that the Mallrats DVD is out of print and extremely hard to come by. After a quick search on Amazon, I found that the only price they had for it were $40 and above for the used and new prices.

AH!!!!

How did this happen or more importantly WHEN did this happen. So I guess the meat of this post, Where can I still get a copy?

Anyways, thoughts, comments, gladly accepted.

I thought this just had a price drop? Did you check any other e-tailors?

I bit the bullet long ago and paid about $24 or so for my copy.

check out dvdpricesearch.com. there are a few places that show up as having it.

What milo said. I thought I saw this around $14.95 ~.

$ 17.39 at DVD Empire

This was one of the first DVDs I bought (for about $30!). I just saw it for $14.95 at Best Buy.

I got mine at Blockbuster for $21.00 a while back and now my local Best Buy has it for $14.99.

Is this something that's going to be re-released (Mallrats X?) anytime in the not-to-distant future?

Should I pick up cheap available copies as I see them?

I thought someone mentioned that the reason it went out of print was that universal was trying to put out the Mallrats DVD under their High School Reunion collection or something.

http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...light=mallrats

Currently Unavailable...

but it also says:

PRE-RELEASE: Ships when stock arrives.
Scheduled for Release on 8-31-2004 (1 days)

-confused-

so it was oop and it's being rereleased tomorrow?

They did release it with that banner, going OOP only a few months later. Either a newer SE (maybe better, maybe worse) or yet another price drop.

Now I know why the one I was selling on eBay went for $31 last night.

I didn't even know it was OOP.

Rob

you have a Borders nearby? i saw a Mallrats DVD at the Borders where i live in Santa Rosa, CA a few weeks ago. i figure not a lot of people shop at Borders for DVDs, since their prices are so much higher than everyone elses, which means that a lot of harder to find DVDs never get bought there. they sometimes have some OOP stuff too. i recently spotted some copies of the two disc Star Wars TPM and AOTC DVDs there the other day.

i have found a lot of hard to find stuff at my local Borders. i pay maybe a couple bucks more, but at least i have it in hand when i buy it, rather than having to wait for shipping and all. if you have one nearby, check them out.

Mallrats is OOP. I am having a hard time believing an SE is replacing the CE. The CE is anamorphic, as well as DD 5.1. It also has several commentaries, deleted scenes, and some other stuff. I picked it up today used for $12. I also got Resident Evil Superbit for $12, Nice little haul.

Recently, on his WWWBoard, Kevin Smith mentioned that Universal wanted to do a tenth anniversary DVD release, and he told them he wanted to be involved, on the grounds that they were planning on doing it either way, so he might as well participate, as it could only help the disc to do so.

Now, I have a hard time believing it'll be worth upgrading, since the old disc is so good, but it is coming. Believe it.

If nothing else, I'd assume they'll move the massive amount of deleted scenes to the second disc. Hopefully, they'll include the ABC-edit of it, or at least samples from it, for a laugh. There's also an MTV special they could include (two, if you count "Jay and Silent Bob's Video Stash"; it would be cool if Smith, as a trade-off for this being a release he isn't wholehearted about, made Universal pay for whatever video rights would be holding that up from being released).

I just saw this movie for the first time over the weekend. I thought it was pretty funny. I wish they would have done more with Jay & Silent Bob attempting to take down the stage though.

It's not my favotire Kevin Smith movie, but I liked it better than 'Chasing Amy'.

I don't see him revisiting it. The currect CE DVD is very nice as-is.

I don't see him lying publicly about something so pointless.

[I'd assume the "'95" is a typo.]

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Maybe the "ten" is a typo and Universal is getting to work on this early so it will be correct (insert and all) for the 100th anniversary in 2095.

Mallrats X? I just can't see it. Maybe a Dogma, Ultimate Edition. Howsabout a Chasing Amy "Girl on Girl Explosive edition"?

Here's what I want.. old and new commentary for theatrical cut.

ABC cut with commentary.

"The Stink Palm Effect" doc on a studio screwing with your movie.

3/4 of that special were the J&SB MTV commercials... and they're already on Clerks X

luckily I've had mine for a few years now:)

I don't think any newer edition would be worth the bucks

Theres hours of dailies not released other than that I don't see Universal going all out for this one.

Could be Universal is doing a two movies on one disc job, but what other movie to pair it with?

Nah, it's closer to a quarter, at most a third (if you don't count regular commercials) ... they only showed six of the MTV commercials/shorts, and several are about a minute long. There's a lot of stuff which was taped in the just-opened Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, along with a few videos (I don't think they were shown entirely, but there was one two-part video which might've been).

Yeah, I didn't mean they should include those, I meant they should include the rest of the special, for all those View Askew completists out there.

Uh, Gramercy really didn't fuck with Smith and gang on Mallrats. With the expception of Jim Jacks telling him and Moiser to remove stuff during the screenwriting process, Gramercy pretty much stayed out of Smith's way during filming. The only thing Gramercy fucked with on Mallrats, was of in the way of promoting.

Kevin said this evening (when he was standing a few feet away from me) that he does know that Universal has taken Mallrats out of circulation. He doesn't know why (he said the DVD has made them quite a bit of cash), but if they are deciding to release 10th anniversary release, that he hopes they'll contact him to get some new extras ready.

Now in the case of Chasing Amy, the Criterion release contains everything. That is unless we'd like all the dailies put on the DVD, so we could all "make our own fucking version of the flick." ;)

I'm sure just the Mallrats movie special will be on the DVD (that is if Univeral does re-release it and puts said extra on there), since the Jay and Silent Bob's Video Stash consisted of quite a few music videos that Universal doesn't own nor will want to pay the rights too. ;)

last I heard the disc was going out of print because universal wanted to put the stupid "high school collection" banner on it like they are doing with the fast times dvd.

That was LAST September when Universal put out their John Hughes titles and Three O'Clock High. The newest release of Fast Times will have a "special edition" or "collector's edition" banner.

Kevin Smith reported this weekend (after Friday night when I saw him) that after the great sales of Clerks X, that Universal wants to do a Mallrats X. Let me just say this, I'm game.

My idea for a Mallrats X:

Disc One:
- Original Mallrats DVD with New Transfer

Disc Two:
- Original Rough Cut of Mallrats
- New Audio Commentary
- Additional Deleted Scenes

Disc Three:
- Television Cut of Mallrats
- New Commentary
- New Documentary
- MTV Special

:up: that would be very cool.

I've seen it just recently here as a 3 pack. Clerks, Amy, and Mallrats.

That's maybe your only solution..

Television cut would be awesome... I love that fact that they got some other guy to dub most of Jason Mews lines.

"All it took was a phat karate punch!"

They're *all* different people. See, I wouldn't want the whole TV cut, I'd just want like a montage or something cut together with all the funny changes.

So, you're saying, the studio didn't fuck with them other than making them cut stuff (a *lot* of stuff, incidentally) and promoting the film badly? What would you consider fucking with? [Note that, in addition to what you said, the studio also imposed a co-editor on the film; it's the only Smith film not edited by just Smith and Mosier.]

[Sidebar] since when can you say "fuck"? [/sidebar]

Kinda makes sense, 'cause he had said they were thinking about it, that they'd want to check out the sales first. But this is weird, to me, that they'd pull it OOP *before* deciding to do a new one. [Though, I guess, if demand required it, they could just put the old one back in print if they needed to.]

I found this at a used dvd shop today. They have new and used titles. Well they had Mallrats for $17.99 sealed?

Wonder if I should buy it?

even though a supposed Mallrats X is coming out?

at my local mall pretty much all the stores that sell dvds still have them stocked at least a few. at my FYE it costs 29.99 but at suncoast just 19.99

I bought this at EB toinight for $14.99, that seemd pretty good to me. What is the latest news on a possible Mallrats X?

Mallrats X news
 

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/572/572180p1.html

This has been up at dvd.ign.com

I wonder if the Foley work is going to be non-existant like it is on the theatrical version on Clerks X.

I'm sure the sound will be remastered (the film was released to theaters with Dolby and DTS), but I don't think they're going to reconstruct the audio to remaster it like they did with Clerks.

If anyone is still looking for the original, NON- "High School Reunion" version, check your local Wal-Mart.

My Wal-Mart had 6-8 of them for $14.44 the other day.

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~davet/dvd/cove...TS_210x300.jpg