NiCK Crush

hate that Paramount hasnt figured it out and gone Blu... ill definitely grab the 2-Disc DVD though.

-NiCK

PopcornTreeCt

It kinda sucks. PTA has talked about how he learned so much from listening to commentaries on laserdiscs and felt gracious to give back.

He's sold out!

dman988

Is there really going to be no commentary?
That stinks, but I love the film so much that I'll buy it anyway. Though I'll wait for the eventual BD version because if any film should be viewed in Hi-Def it's this one.

Mao

Okay, time to break the official news on this one....I'm a few days early, but...

Paramount will be releasing a single disc, a 2-Disc SE and a 2-Disc HD-DVD on April 8th.

The single disc will be barebones.

The 2 Disc Features:
English, French Dubbed & Subtitled, Spanish
5.1 Surround, Dolby Digital
• Featurette: 15
• Trailers: Teaser
• Trailers: Trailer
• Additional Scenes: Fishing
• Additional Scenes: Haircut/Interrupted Hymn
• Featurette: Dailies Gone Wild
• Featurette: The Story of Petroleum

The 2 Disc HD-DVD Features:
English, French Dubbed & Subtitled, Spanish, Spanish Dubbed & Subtitled
5.1 Dolby Digital Plus, 5.1 Dolby TrueHD
• Additional Scenes: 15 Minutes
• Featurette: The Story of Petroleum
• Featurette: There Will Be Blood - Pics, Research, Etc
• Trailers: Teaser
• Trailers: Trailer
• Additional Scenes: Fishing
• Additional Scenes: Fishing
• Additional Scenes: "Haircut"
• Additional Scenes: Haircut/Interrupted Hymn
• Featurette: Dailies Gone Wild
• Additional Scenes: Dailies Gone Wild
• Trailers: Teaser
• Featurette: The Story of Petroleum

(Now if someone could help me post the artwork, I have it...391.2 KB and 379.9 KB respectively)

chris_sc77

Wow what a another shit release by paramount. Doesn't surprise me after what they are doing to INTO THE WILD.
I own HD-DVD but I must bestow a special FUCK YOU to paramount for putting more features on the HD-DVD than on the 2-disk DVD.
This whole hi-def format thing has really made me lose faith in films and DVD.

Aegean2007

I'd be glad to get the artwork posted. PM me.

Johnny Zhivago

:::waiting anxiously for the cover art to appear::::

Thanks for the update Mao!

Sparrow

While I'd love to get this in high def, I'll have to rent this one for a movie night to share Day-Lewis' masterful performance with my friends.

dman988

F*CK YOU Paramount with a capital "F". If that gets me banned, so be it, but this is complete and utter BS. You can't put more features on an HD version of a premium release where a barebones is also available. That's not how the market works. If there was one SD with all of the SD 2-disc features and then the HD with bonus, FINE. They are just being @ssholes.

Please, everybody, BOYCOTT this release. This isn't an HD vs. BD thing.
I would have problems with this if any other company pulled this stuff with BD too, so don't say it's because of bias. You pay the premium price for more features, this is complete crap they're pulling.

dman988

Also, I think it's completely moronic that suddenly PTA isn't making commentaries.
The one thing I've always appreciated were his informative commentaries, and I've seen him in person and he's not the most interest person (he tends to repeat himself too), but I'd still appreciate a full commentary. This is just LAZY.

I might just...hmm...this makes me mad. I'll leave it at that.

Aegean2007

Hey, guys, here's the art that Mao sent me:

The 1-Disc:



The 2-Disc:

dman988

Thank you very much!

Giles

you know Disney did this for the BR edition of Ratatouille - there's a bucketload of extras that are nowhere on the standard DVD.

dadaluholla

I'm definitely buying this... but those are two of the worst attempts at cover art I have ever seen.

Giles

I've never liked the top art/photo layout, it makes Daniel Day Lewis look like he's trying to restrain a fart.

dadaluholla

He looks more like Burt Reynolds in Boogie Nights in the top picture.

Giles

as for the second disc photo - wtf? There are countless scenes from the movie that could have been included as cover art. Terrible terrible still pic.

Aegean2007

I really wish they had gone with this:

Drexl

Wait and see what the features actually are before condemning Paramount for the apparent split. That list of features for the HD DVD is so clumsily written that I suspect some of those are mistakenly listed twice, like "fishing." The only thing that really looks missing is the featurette on pics, research, etc., and that may still be on the DVD. We'll see.

domino harvey

Those are obvious joke covers guys

Aegean2007

Why would you think that those were joke covers? Mao sent them to me. They're obviously very very early temp art.

Plus, where has anybody seen that picture on the 2-disc before? It's a brand new picture.

Trust me, I wouldn't jerk anyone around on this. There Will Be Blood is my hands-down favorite of last year, I just wanted to help post them so that I could see them, myself.

dman988

That's OK because there was no special edition of Ratatouille simultaneously released. If there was the Ratatouille regular, Ratatouille CE with more features, and the Ratatouille CE for Blu with even more features then I'd be just as pissed.
I bought the SD version of Ratatouille because I didn't have a BluRay player at the time and I was completely fine with that. I actually like the incentives for either side because I think that's going to get more people on, but Paramount is cheating with those incentives.

But as someone mentioned, I guess I should wait and see what the final specs are, though Mao has posted specs before and to my recollection he has always been on the dot.

OH, and if the 2-disc special features are the same as the 2-disc HD features then I take back EVERY SINGLE (bad) WORD. Then it's completely fair.

Mao

This will all become clearer to you on Tuesday.

Wolf359

Not trying to argue, but I genuinely don't understand the posts by dman988 and chris_sc77. What is wrong with including more special features on the HD version? Isn't it like an incentive for people to pick up the HD version? Or how about a better version for the higher price paid? Or how about people who are into HD in the first place are more likely to want to watch special features than the average bare bones purchaser?

Cosmic Bus

Agreed. Including exclusive extras on the HD versions of movies is going to become more and more commonplace, and frankly, is the way it should be done now.