Unnecessary 2-Disc Releases

[Hellbilly]

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Ice from the Sun (1999)

Image Entertainment gave this Sub Rosa (!) release the royal treatment. But why? The movie is awful and was unheard of for me until 5 years ago.

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Raiders of the Living Dead (1985)

I love discovering obscure 80s movies, but this one was a pain to watch. Yet Elite made it out to be some long lost cult film and included 2-discs.

Are there any you can think of? And no, I don't mean overblown big budget Hollywood releases :o

[Jeremy]

Mondo Crash's HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB, whose second disc featured a completely gratuitous "American cut" that was really just a hacked down TV version of the longer European cuts found on disc one.

[j tea]

"Last House on Dead End Street"... blech! ugh!!!

[Ash28M]

"Last House on Dead End Street"... blech! ugh!!!

Your right that should of been a 3 disc set. :)

[fceurich39]

forever evil
the unseen i like the film but i think code red could of fit the extras onto the first disc

[mcchrist]

Your right that should of been a 3 disc set. :)

Yes, correct.

[Nailwraps]

Army Of Darkness (Anchor Bay/Universal 2-Disc release): The Director's Cut was in bad quality. It's better just getting the Theatrical Version individually (both the Anchor Bay/Universal release and Universal's Screwhead Edition) and the R3 Hong Kong MGM Director's Cut disc since that is 10 times better than what Anchor Bay offered (sorry AB).

[SaviniFan]

Your right that should of been a 3 disc set. :)

Amen! I regret getting rid of the Barrel 2 DVD set.

[j tea]

Amen! I regret getting rid of the Barrel 2 DVD set.

Seriously, people like that movie? I thought it was eerie but also really terrible. I'm not sure what special features would prop that up, unless the other disc had 'House by the Cemetery' on it or something.

[dave13]

Devil Dog: Hound of Hell

while I appreciate the effort shriek show put into collecting the interviews (hours of them) that went onto the second disc, the movie is such a waste of time, one feels that their time would have been better spent elsewhere. Also, why not just take all those talking heads and condense them into an edited commentary? I dunno. I shouldn't bitch. The movie's such a stinker, its the extras alone that make it worth owning. So now I take it back! Thank you shriek show, for making me not feel like I wasted my money by picking up your devil dog disc!

I'm not a fan of studios releasing limited editions of discs by including some 30 minute featurette on a bonus second disc when there was more than enough room to include it on the main disc. Examples: Bad Taste, Two Evil Eyes, The Final Countdown. There must be several others. Sorry Blue Underground, you know I love you, but you do like to do this.

[fceurich39]

Amen! I regret getting rid of the Barrel 2 DVD set.

luckily i still have mine i enjoyed the movie

[chancetx]

Troma's upcoming "There's Nothing Out There" 2-disc SE. I like the movie but the original disc had more extras than you'd ever expect for a title like this. I can't imagine Troma will improve on anything.

[DVD-fanatic-9]

Actually, my biggest problem with this kind of thing - smaller companies doing 2-Disc sets to show off - is that the 2nd disc always comes FREAKING LOOSE in the case and I already spent $17-20+ on the set (Hardware, Just Before Dawn) and waited weeks for it to show up. This so rarely happens with sets from Warner, Paramount, etc. Cheap cases...

[hotbodynick]

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[chancetx]

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You win.

:lol:

[bigdaddyhorse]

I'm not a fan of studios releasing limited editions of discs by including some 30 minute featurette on a bonus second disc when there was more than enough room to include it on the main disc. Examples: Bad Taste, Two Evil Eyes, The Final Countdown. There must be several others. Sorry Blue Underground, you know I love you, but you do like to do this.

The Crow fits this category also, I think all of disc 2 totals around 15 minutes.:rolleyes: Looks and sounds good on paper, but was disappointing as hell to watch.

[buck135]

The Escape From New York blu-ray. While a second disc containing any extra features would be ideal, we received a DVD with the movie and a trailer. To borrow from Peter Sellers in Murder By Death, "Second disc like conversation on honeymoon.....UNNECESSARY!"

[Katatonia]

Troma's upcoming "There's Nothing Out There" 2-disc SE. I like the movie but the original disc had more extras than you'd ever expect for a title like this. I can't imagine Troma will improve on anything.

And the old Image DVD had a nice Progressive-scan 16x9 transfer. I can't really imagine Troma improving on that either.

I hate what Troma did with the Pep Squad DVD. I don't know what they did to the transfer, but it has major problems. It almost looks like they applied edge enhancement to the very max...twice.

As for unnecessary 2-Disc releases, my vote goes for This is Spinal Tap on Blu-ray. For some reason they felt it necessary to include a "Bonus DVD" that literally has only about 15-minutes of standard definition material on it. They could have easily just put this stuff on the main Blu-ray disc, which had plenty of space left.

[DVD-fanatic-9]

Wow...they pushed the release of that thing to Jan. 11?? I'm more than willing to rent it and check out the 2nd disc. (Has Horror Digital done a review of it yet?)

[Matt89]

Every single MGM "BLU-RAY + DVD" edition. Why did they not port over all the special features on the Mad Max blu-ray? They ported over half of them, then the other half are on the DVD disc included with a standard def version of the film. WTF?

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is another one. They carried over ALL the features, but not the COMMENTARY? I want to listen to the commentary on the blu-ray, not on a piece of shit DVD authored in 1998 in non-anamorphic widescreen. Bullshit. I don't understand their logic when it comes to releasing films on blu-ray (yet Return of the Living Dead had everything carried over to the blu-ray?) I'm not complaining, but why can't they do that with every blu-ray release? It makes absolutely no sense. Then you have Misery, which is bare bones, but the special edition DVD with all the special features and commentaries are on a separate disc. Escape From New York and Ronin had excellent special editions, but the blu-rays are barebones and NOT ONLY THAT, the DVDs included with the blu-rays are barebones discs themselves!! What the fuck!?

~Matt

[bigdaddyhorse]

Got another one.
ANY dvd or blu-raythat has a digital copy on a seperate disc, most useless thing ever.

[startide]

I bought a 2 discer of Axe (AKA California Axe Massacre, Lisa Lisa) from the UK recently that has the most unnecessary 2nd disc ever. 1st disc has the movie (which runs barely more than an hour after opening and closing credits!) and the trailer (a whole minute and a half). 2nd disc has Harry Novak trailers and an interview of 40 minutes or so. Total run time of just over 2 hours and they couldn't fit that on 1 disc? Jeezus. Anything for a Special Edition I guess!!

The more I think about it the sillier it is!! God forbid they try and fit a three hour movie on 1 disc... laserdisc, here we come....

[Korngold]

Got another one.
ANY dvd or blu-raythat has a digital copy on a seperate disc, most useless thing ever.

/Co-signed.

[rxfiend]

Some of the early Anchor Bay and Blue Underground SEs get my vote.

As for the digital copies, I like 'em. After you take off the DRM, you can put them on multiple devices. However, once you rip the copy, the disc is garbage. I prefer blu-rays that come with a DVD of the film and a digital copy is present on that disc.

[maybrick]

It isn't a 2 disc set, but I have a Marx Brother's box set that has an extra 6th disc of bonus features with a sum total run time of about 10 minutes. Considering the shortness of most of the Marx Bros. movies you'd think that they could've crammed that amount on one of the other discs.

[Korngold]

It isn't a 2 disc set, but I have a Marx Brother's box set that has an extra 6th disc of bonus features with a sum total run time of about 10 minutes. Considering the shortness of most of the Marx Bros. movies you'd think that they could've crammed that amount on one of the other discs.

Is that the Silver Screen collection you're referring to? I have that also.


Some of cinema's classic marx brothers comedies; they do a piss poor transfer on some of the films (cocoanuts is really bad) and a barely there extras disc. Sad.

[dave13]

i remember thinking what a waste of time the 2-disc edition of The Mist was. A second disc so they could include a B&W version of the film? Really? Just turn the color down on your tv, if that's how you want to watch the movie. So unnecessary.

[evildeadfan123]

/Co-signed.

I have several of them. I have the 5 Disc Tron/Tron:Legacy 3D Blu-Ray. I think the first 2 discs are the original Tron. This particular set cost about $65.00, and I think it does come with a digital copy. They do these seperate Digital Copy, because there are a few people that would like to download a copy to their computer, but I think it's just another disc to add so they can jump the price a little bit more, and I prefer NOT to have a seperate Digital Copy. I do own a laptop, and I'm not going to use the Digital Copy disc, so for me, it's a waste of money, and time.

[maybrick]

Is that the Silver Screen collection you're referring to? I have that also.


Some of cinema's classic marx brothers comedies; they do a piss poor transfer on some of the films (cocoanuts is really bad) and a barely there extras disc. Sad.

That's the one.

And I second the one about digital copies. I was just going to write the same thing, actually.

[bigdaddyhorse]

It makes no sense to waste a whole disc for a digital copy that will expire or can only be used once anyway. Especially when other companies just insert a sheet of paper with a weblink and a code to get one. Why do they exist at all? Probably to charge more and call it a 2-disc set, or 3 disc or 4 disc. At least a couple of the ones I have, have some decent artwork on the DC disc. Most don't even offer that, just a plain old dvd looking thing taking up space and raising shipping costs if I sell or trade it.:rolleyes:

[rxfiend]

I believe it's just the code to redeem that actually expires, not the actual file. Once you redeem it, it's good for as long as you keep it.

[MrTransistor1]

One Dark Night (1983) Double Disc Special Edition by Media Blasters.
Second disc doesn't really have anything worth watching.

[DVD-fanatic-9]

Some of the early Anchor Bay and Blue Underground SEs get my vote.
Examples?



By the way, I've got you all beat:

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Fox and the Hound = a tale of a friendship torn apart by a world that doesn't understand, filled with danger, heartbreak, love, tragedy, and the will to survive.

Fox and the Hound 2 = a Fox and a Hound join a band, wacky hijinks ensue.

[dave13]

Fox and the Hound 2 = a Fox and a Hound join a band, wacky hijinks ensue.

:lol: really?!

[DVD-fanatic-9]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPFn6WSfj7I

Really.

[dave13]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPFn6WSfj7I

Really.

:eek2: yeeeeeuuuuucchhh. that's repulsive!