Spider-Man Trilogy headed for BR
 

I didnt see a thread on this

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Spider-Man 3 in Blu x 2 on Oct. 30
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It looks like Spidey will beat Capt. Jack Sparrow to the claim of first major trilogy released in hi-def Blu-ray when Sony Picture Home Entertainment releases all three "Spider-Man" movies on Oct. 30.
Disney's third Pirates movie hits stores in Blu-ray on Dec. 4.
"Spider-Man 3," the year's top-grossing movie ($336 mil. in U.S. according to boxofficemojo.com) will feature six hours of bonus features in a two-disc set ($49.95) and also be available as part of a four-disc "Spider-Man High-Definition Trilogy" pack (SRP, $98.95). The other two discs in the 4-platter set feature "Spider-Man" on one disc (film only) and a second disc with "Spider-Man 2" and "Spider-Man 2.1."
The two-disc special edition features more than 6 hours of bonus features including making-of documentaries, multiple audio commentaries, bloopers, and a music video (detailed below), all of which are also available on the two-disc DVD version for $13 less at $36.95.
So, that means there are no bonus features unique to the Blu-ray version or that utilize the technology that make Blu-ray distinctive from DVD, which is a little disappointing.
But hey, for now, there will be enough eye-candy to cover me for weeks with about 7 hours of all three "Spider-Man" movies to relish in in hi-def, and six hours of new bonus features. Sometimes I think we need to take a breath once in awhile and not unrealistically expect and demand every single movie and every single element of every movie to be instantly available to us in every possible top-grade format and codec the instant that we want it.
But yikes, that $13 is a pretty significant difference in pricing (it's a whopping $21 more than the single disc "Spider-Man 3" on DVD and PSP).

In any case, here are the fun details about the bonus features directly from the media release:

Spider-Man™ 3 Two-Disc Special Edition DVD, Two-Disc Blu-ray™ High-Def
Disc One Special Features:

• Digitally Mastered Audio and Video
• Audio: English Dolby True HD 5.1, English PCM 5.1 (Uncompressed), French, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai 5.1 (Dolby Digital)
• Subtitles: English, English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Thai, Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Cantonese
• Bloopers
• Photo Galleries
• Snow Patrol Music Video
• Audio Commentary with Director Sam Raimi and Cast Members Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, and Bryce Dallas Howard
• Audio Commentary with Producers Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad and Grant Curtis, Editor Bob Murawski and Special Effects Supervisor Scott Stokdyk
• Closed Captioned
• Bonus Previews

Disc Two Special Features:

• Digitally Mastered Audio and Video
• Audio: English, Spanish 5.1 (Dolby Digital). English, Spanish (Dolby Surround)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Featurette: Grains of Sand - Building Sandman
• Featurette: Re-Imagining the Goblin
• Featurette: Covered in Black – Creating Venom
• Featurette: Hanging On…Gwen Stacy and the Collapsing Floor
• Featurette: Fighting, Flying & Driving – The Stunts
• Featurette: Tangled Web: The Love Triangles of Spider-Man 3
• Featurette: Wall Of Water
• Featurette: On Location Cleveland – The Chase on Euclid Avenue
• Featurette: On Location New York –From Rooftops to Backstreets
• Featurette: The Science of Sound
• Featurette: Inside The Editing Room
• Theatrical TV Spots From Around the World
• Closed Captioned

Spider-Man™ 3 Blu-ray™ High-Def 2-Disc
BD Catalog # 15932
UPC Code: 0-43396-15932-7
Order Date: 9/27/07
SLP: $49.95

Spider-Man™ Blu-ray™ High-Def 3-Pack
BD Catalog # 22633
UPC Code: 0-43396-22633-3
Order Date: 9/27/07
SLP: $98.95

Dissapointing that the first two look to be barebones releases. How long has Sony had to work on those? At least they're only charging $25 retail for them.... on the other hand, it looks like pricing for their two-disc movies is $50 (spidey 3 and CE3K) - another negative.

Compared to the six discs we get for the Pirates trilogy, I can't help but be underwhelmed. Of course, three yrs down the road we'll probably get the bells and whistles box set with Spidey 4.

Yeah, I'll pick it up... hopefully for no more than $60 somewhere though...

Spider-Man 2 AND Spider-Man 2.1. I'm digging it.

They gave Spider-man 3 a list price of $49.99? Holy shit. That listing makes it seem like parts 1 and 2 are only available in the set. I think we will still see all the extras on the first 2 movies.

Even though Spider-Man 3 is probably one of the biggest disappointments I've ever had at the movies in my entire life, I'll be buying the trilogy boxset. That list price for Spidey 3 alone is insane! I'm glad they included Spider-man 2.1, I haven't seen it yet and the original cut is one of my favourite movies. This boxset should sell like crazy.

The complete lack of extras on Spidey 1 and 2 is weak. Especially when the list price for the trilogy set is 100 bucks. The Matrix Ultimate Collection cost that much and had literally everything you could want on there(except for The Animatrix in HD).

I am glad they're including Spidey 2.1. More seamless branching on Blu-ray and HD-DVD would be a good thing.

Sweet. Glad I held off on getting Spidey 2.1 and the Superbits.

I didn't hold off on the initial SD offerings but I am certainly getting this set as well.

$50?!?!? Come on Sony, give us a break.

Mission Impossible makes the sad face :(

I did not like Spidey 3 either as much as the first two. But I will propably end up buying the set anyways. I am such a sucker for boxsets. :(

I guess I'll netflix S-m3 first to see if the movie is as disappointing as everything I've read. If by some odd circumstance I actually enjoy it, I'll spring for the box set. Otherwise, I'll be content to wait until they release the second film as a stand alone.

Then again, if they are in seperate Bd cases, I may just buy the set and sell off #3 (and maybe #1).

Hilarious!!!!!


As for Spidey: $50 for a two-disc set of SM3 is shameful. And putting out the first two movies in barebone editions, considering all the supplements they have already stockpiled, is infuriating.

However, I love these movies so much I'm still buying the set.

Same here....really sneaky of them for such a bad movie.

I dont like S3 much, but I will be buying the set.

Ill probably watch it once more and thats it. $50?? ouch.

From what it sounds like, they'll be no bonus features on the trilogy boxset for any of the films as they're saying it's only four discs.

Unless all the bonus material for the first two films is going to be encoded in 480p MPEG-2? I don't see that happening, especially since the films are going to include BOTH loseless TrueHD and PCM tracks.

I want the trilogy, but I won't pay more than $60 for it. I can wait.

I agree with others here. With the amount of extras we got with both the Matrix Collection and (so far) Pirates, it's weird to paying so much for bare discs.

I'll be picking up Spider-Man 3, but I'm not sure if I want to replace my SD discs of 1/2 just yet.

$100 is steep. Maybe I'll save some of my DVD PLanet trade in credit to lessen the blow. But I know special editions of 1 and 2 are going to come down the line.

The 4th disc will be the Spidey 3 extras....I bet all of the S1 and 2 extras will be put on the main discs. I dont see any reason they wouldnt fit since they are SD.

Well see.

No where in that article does it say that Spiderman 1 and 2 will be featureless. The disc specs on those are just not available yet. Sony 2006 would have given us a bare bones release. Sony 2007, who learned from 2006 mistakes, has done a very consistent job of providing most of the dvd extras on their BD discs. Why should we think differently now?

50 gig of space is more than enough room for high bitrate AVC 1080p transfers of a 2 hour movie, PCM and TrueHD sound, and dvd extras.

Im just shocked at the MSRP of S3. $49 is ridiculous and a step back imo. Prices should not be going up at this point.

When WB is giving us a 5 disc set of Blade Runner for $39 retail.

Purely ridiculous and just another reason to hate Sony.

I beg to differ.

Sincerely,
Big Fish, Wild Things, Arlington Road, and The Fifth Element reissue

Indeed, the list of Sony discs that retain all of the bonus features from the DVD edition is much shorter than the list of those that drop features.

Wow, even with the amazon 30% off msrp, S3 is going to be 34.99. Is Sony the new Fox when it comes to MSRP?

"The other two discs in the 4-platter set feature "Spider-Man" on one disc (film only) and a second disc with "Spider-Man 2" and "Spider-Man 2.1."

Maybe they'll see fit to throw a commentary or two on there, but it doesn't look very promising. (maybe a half-hr of trailers though) This is Sony's crown jewel - and two of the three films will likely have less features than Arlington Road - that's pathetic. An insider on the BD forums said they just didn't have time... oh you mean the yr and half since launch?....with films that had existing bonus material which just needed to be slapped onto a disc?!

Arlington Road has all of the extras from the SD version (audio commentary, alt. ending, making-of featurette)

If the standalone and box set sell as good as I think they will, this will only encourage Sony to price their discs at that cost. Everyone complains about the price, but everyone bends over quite contently for Sony nevertheless.

Why's everyone complaining? The entire trilogy should come out to $70 at most on Amazon (most likely less, ala Matrix trilogy). That will average about $23 per movie, plus you get a nice box. Is anyone in their right mind gonna purchase SM3 on its own, the worst of the trilogy?

The Matrix Trilogy on HD-DVD is $63.95 at amazon which is roughly $21.33 each and had a free download of The Animatrix thru X-box live.

This was one of the few Sony releases that might have someday began me thinking about thinking about getting a ps3 or stand-alone blu-ray. As it stands now...not so much.

Wow, $50.....most be some kind of "special" Blu-Ray disc. That is just ridiculous. We are reverting back to the days of initial VHS an Laserdisc pricing.

I'm going to take back what I said earlier and just wait to see how much the trilogy set ends up being discounted at various merchants. MSRP really doesn't mean all that much because none of us here are ever going to pay msrp on a disc.

Im not too concerned with the boxset price.

Im complaining, because Sony is crazy if this is their new MSRP for a 2 disc set. $50 is ridiculous.

Must-have titles I would most likely still purchase for higher price, but alot of on-the-fence titles will remain standard def for me!

If it's any consolation, the DVD folks are getting gouged by Sony too... MSRP on the Spidey 3 2-disc DVD is $36.95. Not sure I understand what Sony is thinking on this.

http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releas...der-man-3.html

Sony is thinking they made over $300 million at the box office, so people will buy this movie at any price.

Right. The word from Sony insider paidgeek on AVS:The time and resources demanded in including something already produced and...hell, already compressed must be enormous. It's not as if they've had ages to prep for this knowing that there'd inevitably be a boxed set at the tail end of 2007.

I guess the mentality is: "we're going to release a better version later, so why bother at all now?"

Hasn't Sony's line about Blu-ray been that everything on the disc should be in high definition? Perhaps the extras from SM1 and SM2 are not in HD. Not the best excuse, but it would be a better reason than "We didn't have time to slap on pre-existing extras."

Yeah, but they've included standard definition extras a fair number of times despite that. There's no real consistency one way or the other.

Spider-Man 2 will, however, include both versions via seamless branching (as has already been mentioned). It may not make up for the extras, but it's definitely a nice touch.

Paramount was worse than that when they set $39.99 list prices for their 2-disc dvd sets of Mission Impossible 3 and World Trade Center. I don't remember that much complaining about those.

It's still disappointing though. There is no excuse for Sony not adding all the extras on parts 1 and 2.

I thought 50gig was enough?