Kill Bill DVD Details
With Kill Bill being one movie presented in two different volumes in the theatre, the DVD release(s) has the potential to be a huge mess. Unfortunately, Tarantino himself appears to confirm that it will indeed be messy.
“I’m thinking about it big time already,” he said. “I can’t imagine a better movie when it comes to great DVD stuff. I’m gonna really play fair as far as the DVD’s concerned, you know? We’ll come up with separate DVDs for Volume 1 and Volume 2 and I’ll do special stuff for each of those. Then we’ll come up with a real big version with them both together but I won’t repeat the special stuff I put on Volume 1 and Volume 2. I’ll do something whole other from that. I might even do some other little movie thing just to go on that special double feature version.”
Call me silly, but releasing what was intended to be one film in three separate DVDs is not fair. Fair would be reuniting the film back into one piece so that fans could spend their $20-25 one time and get the DVD. Forcing fans to pay for 2 movie tickets and then expecting them to shell out for 3 different DVDs to get all the extras is not fair, it hyper-commercialism.
I hope they re-think this strategy and just release Vol 1 and Vol 2 as bare-bones disks for those that just want one or both of the movies. The special edition should have all the extras from both Vol 1 & 2. That would be fair.
UPDATE: Amazon has opened up pre-orders for the Kill Bill DVD. The final release date of the DVD is April 13th.
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about 8 years ago
Blurb. If you don’t want to buy 3 dvd then just wait for the final edition. where’s the problem ?
about 8 years ago
Because then you wouldn’t get all the stuff that’s included in the first 2 editions. QT already said in the article in question that the stuff from the first 2 isn’t gonna be on the final edition, it’ll be all new stuff. Do you actually read these articles before you reply to them?
about 8 years ago
It seems to me that Quentin is following the same strategy Peter Jackson had for the LOTR films. On those, the extras for the first DVD are mostly “fluff” pieces, TV making-ofs and such, while the Extended Editions have much more in depth material.
At least he’s being upfront about this strategy. For myself, I’ll reserved judgement on the release pattern until after the DVDs are released, or at least until after the details are.
Finally, Quentin isn’t forcing anyone to do anything. If you don’t like paying for two movie tickets, don’t go see the movies. If you don’t like the idea of buying 3 different DVD releases, don’t buy them. Don’t whine that it isn’t fair just because you don’t like the idea.
about 8 years ago
ummm . . . sources?
about 8 years ago
Try clicking the link in the story headline.
about 7 years ago
This happens all the time. I can’t tell you how many movies I’ve had to purchase multiple times because they keep releasing better edtitions. At least this time we know right up front what’s happening.