Spider-Man 2.1 Extended Cut on DVD in April
When it comes to DVDs, I’m sure we all hate the double dip. Loathe it, even. As a collector, it just eats you up inside knowing that you don’t have the newest, most definitive version of a movie… and there are certain flicks that people will shell out more money for, no matter what. I’m pretty sure Spider-Man 2 is one of them. Sony knows it, and you know it too, which is why they have announced the release of Spider-Man 2.1, a new digitally remastered extended cut of the movie featuring 8 minutes of additional footage!
Extras have not been finalized, but it’s looking like they will include:
- an introduction with producers Avi Arad and Grant Curtis
- an audio commentary with producer Laura Ziskin and screenwriter Alvin Sargent
- a trivia track with new video segments
- an “Inside 2.1″ featurette on the new cut
- visual effects breakdowns
- a sneak peek at Spider-Man 3.
You know, the first Spider-Man 2 DVD had a pretty decent array of special features, so this may be a tough sell for some. 8 minutes of extra footage is nice, but if the cut is not really director-approved then you have to wonder if any of it deserves to be spliced back in. What most people really want to know is, will this also be released on Blu-ray? Sony has made no such announcement as of yet, but we’ll keep our ear to the ground for more details. Spider-Man 2.1 hits stores on April 17th.
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Comments (1)
This is a poor release. It says something that the introduction is made by producers, not the director, and that the new commentary track has the producer on it. Pathetic.
The only times I have paid for a double-dip is when they released a new version that had a commentary by the director, that the old one didn’t have. For example the first DVD i owned was X-Men, but I still paid money to get X-Men 1.5 because it had a Bryan Singer commentary. Other than that, most of the time the special features on DVDs, especially family-friendly movies like this, are pretty lackluster and alot of them plays almost like advertisement (which I’m sure most of them were produced to be).
I think sometimes you just have to remember that you actually have the movie. And that’s the most important aspect of any DVD…right?
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