Here we go again. King Kong was a good fun film, although not as good as some might have you believe. Still the last 2 hours had a lot of thrills and some solid action that firmly puts it on my “DVDs to have” list. The only problem is that there are going to be three (3) separate releases of the King Kong DVD.
The good folks over at Hollywood News gives us this:
One single-disc theatrical version, with at the same time a second containing the same edit but accompanied by a special features disc with over 3 hours worth of extras. Then 3 months later, a 4-disc box set containing an Extended Director’s Cut would appear.
Now, as I have said here before on The Move Blog, I have no problem with there being multiple releases of a DVD. The only problem I have is when the studios put the different versions of them out months apart. Thus they try to take advantage of their fans by getting them to purchase multiple versions (the bare bones one now… because they want to see it now… and then the full full full feature one later).
If you’re going to have multiple releases… PUT THEM ALL OUT ON THE SAME DAY TO GIVE YOUR FANS THE FAIR CHOICE OF WHERE TO PUT THEIR MONEY instead of trying to take advantage of them and getting them to buy multiple copies.
At least with King Kong they seem to be inching towards that by releasing the first 2 versions on the same day.
