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Everyone knows that the Jimmy Stewart film It's A Wonderful Life ($24.99; Paramount) is a
classic. If you don't own it, you should. It's even more powerful in July than it is during the
holidays, when it's surrounded by so many other seasonal treats. But why did they put out a Two-Disc Collector's Set? Didn't they just put out a 60th Anniversary edition last year?
In fact, why do so many movies keep coming out in "new" editions, versions that use any
anniversary as an excuse to repackage a film that came out years ago? Fans used to get annoyed(rightly) when they would buy a new movie and then six months later a deluxe edition with allsorts of tantalizing extras came out. But that's not what we're talking about here. Yes, every versionof The Princess Bride ($19.98; MGM) or National Treasure ($29.99; Disney) or Braveheart
($19.99; Paramount) is slightly different. (They've all come out - again - in the last few months.)But lately, it can be hard to even figure our what's different from one "deluxe" edition one year to a"collector's edition" the next.
You see it on CDs, too, where a recent Bob Dylan 3
CD set ($49.98; Columbia Legacy) drew shrugs from
everyone. It contained nothing new and seemed
utterly pointless. (Though if you didn't own any
Dylan, it would also blow your mind.) So why are
they flooding us with all these marginally different
editions? In a word: Wal-Mart.
With the decline of music and video stores like Tower, the major players when it comes to selling
CDs and DVDs are big box stores like Wal-Mart, Kmart and Best Buy. And they're not really in themusic or movie business. (In fact, the floor space devoted to them has been shrinking.) You can'twalk into a Wal-Mart and find the deep catalog that Tower once boasted. Heck, you can't even gointo Wal-Mart and expect to find classic bestsellers like the Beatles catalog or Pink Floyd. It's even
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Michael Giltz: DVDs: "It's A Wonderful Life," Again?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-giltz/dvds-its-a-wonderful-l_b_77557.html [4/5/2009 8:21:36 PM]worse with movies. They stock new releases and when those releases are gone, they just don't get
re-ordered. Sure, a really hot title might get restocked for a few weeks or months. But an old movie
like The Princess Bride? When the last copy was sold, it was gone from the shelf. They just don't
stock "old" titles.
The result? If movie studios or record companies want a title stocked, they have to repackage it and
pretend it's a new release. Columbia knew the Bob Dylan movie I'm Not There would spur interest
in his catalog. They also knew Wal-Mart and Kmart and the like weren't about to order copies of
old albums like Blonde on Blonde or Bring It All Back Home. So they threw together a "new"
greatest hits album and could at least guarantee anyone browsing the racks would find that.
The same holds true for movies. Studios know people are always ready to buy a classic like The
Princess Bride. Or they know the sequel to National Treasure will send people to the store to buy
the original. So they create a "special edition" and get stores to restock it. That's what happens
when people who don't really care about movies and music are the main stores that sell them. And
that's why you keep seeing a flood of not-so-special editions.
Also out this week: the low-key gem Once ($29.99; Fox), a real delight that deserved its long run in
the theaters; Young Indiana Jones Volume Two: The War Years ($129.99; Paramount), which is
the real heart of the TV series, all devoted to a certain era (World War I) giving this set a focus that
makes it more like an extended miniseries - and the extras are exceptional; The Simpsons Movie($29.99; Fox) which was just funny enough to make me wish they'd call it a day on the TV showand make movies every two or three years (surely a Halloween movie is a natural?); Bring It On:In It To Win It ($29.98; Universal), the latest, harmless edition in the direct-to-DVD sequels to
the cheerleading flick; Kissology Vol. 3 ($36.98; VH1 Classics), the third and final volume (for the
moment) by the heavy metal band; The Bronx Is Burning World Championship Edition ($59.99;
ESPN), with new extras including a Yankee cap, team photo and the entire game six - from backwhen cheating referred to cheating towards third; The Mod Squad Season 1 Volume 1 ($38.99;
Paramount), which was oh-so-cool and is now slightly silly but still well-acted and a great timecapsule; three more entries in the exemplary Disney Treasures series with The ChronologicalDonald Volume Three ($32.99; Disney) ideal for the kids, The Adventures of Oswald geared
towards serious animation buffs ($32.99; Disney) and Disneyland: Secrets, Stories & Magic($32.99; Disney) strictly for hardcore theme park fans; Sonic Underground ($29.99; Shout), which
collects 20 episodes of the third (!) series spun off from the video game, combining fights againstbad guys with a rock band on the side a la Josie & The Pussycats; Halloween ($29.95;
Dimension/Genius), Rob Zombie's reboot of the Seventies classic; the messy fantasy Stardust($29.99; Paramount); Kaspar Hauser ($24.95; Kino), the acclaimed film about the real-lifeGerman story akin to Aanastasia's; and One Tree Hill Complete Fourth Season ($59.98; Warner
Bros.), an essential primer for those preparing for the fast-forward leap taking place in the fifthseason.
And for fans of holiday titles: a crush of holiday-themed DVDs have come out in the past few weeks
and months, including 1976's Captain & Tennille - The Christmas Show, available on its own
($14.98; Retroactive) or as part of a C&T boxed set ($45.98; Retroactive); The Johnny Cash
Christmas Specials 1976 and 1977 ($14.98 each; Shout), with the '77 show especially good;
Christmas Television Favorites ($39.98; Warner Bros.), with eight specials/movies, including
gems like How The Grinch Stole Christmas and The Year Without A Santa Claus, as well as some
nice shorts; MGM's Holiday Collection ($29.98; MGM), including Cary Grant's sweet The Bishop's
Wife (1947), Laurel & Hardy's 1934 March of the Wooden Soldiers and Frank Capra's so-so 1961
remake of his own movie Pocketful Of Miracles; the excellent Chuck Jones Collection ($14.98;
Lionsgate) with six specials including A Very Merry Cricket; A Very Special Christmas 20thAnniversary Music Video Collection ($14.98; A&M), which benefits Special Olympics; BerkleyBreathed's sweet and silly A Wish For Wings That Work ($14.98; Universal); The Pink Panther - A
Pink Christmas ($14.98; MGM), with three shorts including the holiday show; and finally, the gut-
bustingly funny, profane and not very wholesome or inspiring collection Christmastime in SouthPark ($19.99; Paramount).
So what's your favorite holiday viewing tradition? Is it A Christmas Story? The Alastair Sim 1951 A
Christmas Carol? Something else?
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You're completely wrong. I got the new special edition version of "Wonderful Life" and it WAS different.
All the scenes with Clarence the angel were re-edited so that he was played by Andrew Dice Clay indrag. Two thumbs up!
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For $24.99 Paramount-- or whoever owns Paramount now-- could at least have a better cover than thatDisney-eque picture on this latest edition. A reproduction of the original movie poster, perhaps?
The same thing is happening with the new edition of "The Apartment"-- Jack Lemmon, Shirley
MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray all huddled together with big smiles on their faces as if, friends-wise,they're happy as can be. Not exactly the theme of the actual movie!
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Another example of this with music CDs.
Pink Floyd had a box set, "Shine On" which featured remasters of 8 of their discs (including one that
wasn't particularly old :p). This included a disc with their 4 early singles and 4 b-sides.
They have a new box set, "By the way", which contains all 14 of their studio albums (16 discs-the wall
is 2 discs and ummagumma has a live disc and studio disc).
This is in addition to their recent best of, "Echoes", which contained 1 song not otherwise easily
obtained.
And of course the original cd releases, plus the gold remasters, plus 25, 30, 35 (dark side of the moon,
I'm looking at you)and upcoming 40 year anniversary versions, plus various remasters (I see a new setof all their cds as 2008 imports on amazon).
You'd think, in a business sense, they'd include more (or any) rare stuff in there so people like me who
own all the albums (at least 1 version, if not 2) would be TEMPTED to buy it.
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Cartoons , Christmas , Disney, Dvds, Holidays , Indiana Jones , Jimmy Stewart , Johnny
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Everyone knows that the Jimmy Stewart film It's A Wonderful Life ($24.99; Paramount) is a
classic. If you don't own it, you should. It's even more powerful in July than it is during the
holidays, when it's surrounded by so many other seasonal treats. But why did they put out a Two-Disc Collector's Set? Didn't they just put out a 60th Anniversary edition last year?
In fact, why do so many movies keep coming out in "new" editions, versions that use any
anniversary as an excuse to repackage a film that came out years ago? Fans used to get annoyed(rightly) when they would buy a new movie and then six months later a deluxe edition with allsorts of tantalizing extras came out. But that's not what we're talking about here. Yes, every versionof The Princess Bride ($19.98; MGM) or National Treasure ($29.99; Disney) or Braveheart
($19.99; Paramount) is slightly different. (They've all come out - again - in the last few months.)But lately, it can be hard to even figure our what's different from one "deluxe" edition one year to a"collector's edition" the next.
You see it on CDs, too, where a recent Bob Dylan 3
CD set ($49.98; Columbia Legacy) drew shrugs from
everyone. It contained nothing new and seemed
utterly pointless. (Though if you didn't own any
Dylan, it would also blow your mind.) So why are
they flooding us with all these marginally different
editions? In a word: Wal-Mart.
With the decline of music and video stores like Tower, the major players when it comes to selling
CDs and DVDs are big box stores like Wal-Mart, Kmart and Best Buy. And they're not really in themusic or movie business. (In fact, the floor space devoted to them has been shrinking.) You can'twalk into a Wal-Mart and find the deep catalog that Tower once boasted. Heck, you can't even gointo Wal-Mart and expect to find classic bestsellers like the Beatles catalog or Pink Floyd. It's even
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Michael Giltz: DVDs: "It's A Wonderful Life," Again?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-giltz/dvds-its-a-wonderful-l_b_77557.html [4/5/2009 8:21:36 PM]worse with movies. They stock new releases and when those releases are gone, they just don't get
re-ordered. Sure, a really hot title might get restocked for a few weeks or months. But an old movie
like The Princess Bride? When the last copy was sold, it was gone from the shelf. They just don't
stock "old" titles.
The result? If movie studios or record companies want a title stocked, they have to repackage it and
pretend it's a new release. Columbia knew the Bob Dylan movie I'm Not There would spur interest
in his catalog. They also knew Wal-Mart and Kmart and the like weren't about to order copies of
old albums like Blonde on Blonde or Bring It All Back Home. So they threw together a "new"
greatest hits album and could at least guarantee anyone browsing the racks would find that.
The same holds true for movies. Studios know people are always ready to buy a classic like The
Princess Bride. Or they know the sequel to National Treasure will send people to the store to buy
the original. So they create a "special edition" and get stores to restock it. That's what happens
when people who don't really care about movies and music are the main stores that sell them. And
that's why you keep seeing a flood of not-so-special editions.
Also out this week: the low-key gem Once ($29.99; Fox), a real delight that deserved its long run in
the theaters; Young Indiana Jones Volume Two: The War Years ($129.99; Paramount), which is
the real heart of the TV series, all devoted to a certain era (World War I) giving this set a focus that
makes it more like an extended miniseries - and the extras are exceptional; The Simpsons Movie($29.99; Fox) which was just funny enough to make me wish they'd call it a day on the TV showand make movies every two or three years (surely a Halloween movie is a natural?); Bring It On:In It To Win It ($29.98; Universal), the latest, harmless edition in the direct-to-DVD sequels to
the cheerleading flick; Kissology Vol. 3 ($36.98; VH1 Classics), the third and final volume (for the
moment) by the heavy metal band; The Bronx Is Burning World Championship Edition ($59.99;
ESPN), with new extras including a Yankee cap, team photo and the entire game six - from backwhen cheating referred to cheating towards third; The Mod Squad Season 1 Volume 1 ($38.99;
Paramount), which was oh-so-cool and is now slightly silly but still well-acted and a great timecapsule; three more entries in the exemplary Disney Treasures series with The ChronologicalDonald Volume Three ($32.99; Disney) ideal for the kids, The Adventures of Oswald geared
towards serious animation buffs ($32.99; Disney) and Disneyland: Secrets, Stories & Magic($32.99; Disney) strictly for hardcore theme park fans; Sonic Underground ($29.99; Shout), which
collects 20 episodes of the third (!) series spun off from the video game, combining fights againstbad guys with a rock band on the side a la Josie & The Pussycats; Halloween ($29.95;
Dimension/Genius), Rob Zombie's reboot of the Seventies classic; the messy fantasy Stardust($29.99; Paramount); Kaspar Hauser ($24.95; Kino), the acclaimed film about the real-lifeGerman story akin to Aanastasia's; and One Tree Hill Complete Fourth Season ($59.98; Warner
Bros.), an essential primer for those preparing for the fast-forward leap taking place in the fifthseason.
And for fans of holiday titles: a crush of holiday-themed DVDs have come out in the past few weeks
and months, including 1976's Captain & Tennille - The Christmas Show, available on its own
($14.98; Retroactive) or as part of a C&T boxed set ($45.98; Retroactive); The Johnny Cash
Christmas Specials 1976 and 1977 ($14.98 each; Shout), with the '77 show especially good;
Christmas Television Favorites ($39.98; Warner Bros.), with eight specials/movies, including
gems like How The Grinch Stole Christmas and The Year Without A Santa Claus, as well as some
nice shorts; MGM's Holiday Collection ($29.98; MGM), including Cary Grant's sweet The Bishop's
Wife (1947), Laurel & Hardy's 1934 March of the Wooden Soldiers and Frank Capra's so-so 1961
remake of his own movie Pocketful Of Miracles; the excellent Chuck Jones Collection ($14.98;
Lionsgate) with six specials including A Very Merry Cricket; A Very Special Christmas 20thAnniversary Music Video Collection ($14.98; A&M), which benefits Special Olympics; BerkleyBreathed's sweet and silly A Wish For Wings That Work ($14.98; Universal); The Pink Panther - A
Pink Christmas ($14.98; MGM), with three shorts including the holiday show; and finally, the gut-
bustingly funny, profane and not very wholesome or inspiring collection Christmastime in SouthPark ($19.99; Paramount).
So what's your favorite holiday viewing tradition? Is it A Christmas Story? The Alastair Sim 1951 A
Christmas Carol? Something else?
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You're completely wrong. I got the new special edition version of "Wonderful Life" and it WAS different.
All the scenes with Clarence the angel were re-edited so that he was played by Andrew Dice Clay indrag. Two thumbs up!
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For $24.99 Paramount-- or whoever owns Paramount now-- could at least have a better cover than thatDisney-eque picture on this latest edition. A reproduction of the original movie poster, perhaps?
The same thing is happening with the new edition of "The Apartment"-- Jack Lemmon, Shirley
MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray all huddled together with big smiles on their faces as if, friends-wise,they're happy as can be. Not exactly the theme of the actual movie!
Instead of countless new editions, can we please have Jimmy Stewart in "The Jackpot," "Take Her,
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Michael Giltz: DVDs: "It's A Wonderful Life," Again?
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Another example of this with music CDs.
Pink Floyd had a box set, "Shine On" which featured remasters of 8 of their discs (including one that
wasn't particularly old :p). This included a disc with their 4 early singles and 4 b-sides.
They have a new box set, "By the way", which contains all 14 of their studio albums (16 discs-the wall
is 2 discs and ummagumma has a live disc and studio disc).
This is in addition to their recent best of, "Echoes", which contained 1 song not otherwise easily
obtained.
And of course the original cd releases, plus the gold remasters, plus 25, 30, 35 (dark side of the moon,
I'm looking at you)and upcoming 40 year anniversary versions, plus various remasters (I see a new setof all their cds as 2008 imports on amazon).
You'd think, in a business sense, they'd include more (or any) rare stuff in there so people like me who
own all the albums (at least 1 version, if not 2) would be TEMPTED to buy it.
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