All rights reserved. ![]() Looney Tunes DVD News. Compiled news, reporting, and analysis . If you are to use this information for your own site in any capacity, do the decent thing and credit us and link back to our main page. Three- Pack Now In Stores. Daffy, Tweety, and Porky DVDs collected; nothing changed. Keeping the Looney Tunes franchise on life support, today Warner Home Video released yet another repackaging of older titles, the Looney Tunes Super Stars Vol. Made up of collections from the otherwise dead Looney Tunes Super Stars line, the three- disc set is now available in stores and online. Sadly this means that all of the cartoons on Frustrated Fowl that were cropped into widescreen are still presented in widescreen. Material Information Title: Charlotte sun herald Uniform Title: Charlotte sun herald (Charlotte Harbor, Fla. The fine print: These prices are updated hourly, and may change between our last update and the time you purchase the title on Amazon.com. Please consult Amazon.com. This Looney Tunes shirt features Marvin the Martian in a fun edge to edge and front and back print. The best selection of PlayStation 2 video game cheats, codes, cheat codes, reviews, previews, news, release dates, and much more! Movies, Music, Vinyl and More at the Guaranteed Lowest Price. Free Shipping on Orders over $25! DVDs, CDs, Blu-ray, LP, Boxed Sets, New Releases, Hard To Find, Imports. Tom and Jerry Tales; Genre: Slapstick comedy: Created by: William Hanna Joseph Barbera (characters) Jeff Davison: Developed by: Joseph Barbera Rob LaDuca Jeff Davison. Store & share your files with uploaded.net Learn more about our services (video). On the plus side, considering what little is left in the series to mine again, there's a good chance this will be the final release under the seven- year- old Super Stars banner.. Shorts that were cropped into widescreen are noted.. All of the cartoons are repeats from various Golden Collection volumes.. The all- repeat Feline Fwenzy disc doesn't justify the price if you already own the entire Golden Collection series (and you should), while Frustrated Fowl still has the marred cartoons on it. ![]() Fans and collectors deserve better. If you want to see these cartoons released properly, please follow the suggestions there to help convince Warner Home Video to correct the situation. You can also voice your displeasure by tweeting the studio directly on Twitter at @WBHome. Ent (be sure to also . DVD only and retails for $1. Order it now on Amazon. April 2. 1, 2. 01. Super Stars Vol. 2 Three- Pack Announced for June 6. Daffy, Tweety, and Porky DVDs collected; shorts still in widescreen. It's those four words that always bring a delicate balance of hope and dread to fans: . June 6. The DVD- only set will combine the Super Stars releases Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl, Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy, and Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham. Coyote: Supergenius Hijinks. That collection had since been repackaged and slightly retitled and can usually be found at most Walmart and Target DVD racks. Warner Home Video's announcement e- mail refers to this as a . The cropped widescreen Daffy cartoons will still be in widescreen (at least the back cover actually mentions that this time!), One Meat Brawl on the Porky disc will still have the . Shorts that were cropped into widescreen are noted.. What a great idea, ! Welcome to the duck side, 'toon fans, with this array of shorts that take to funny like a duck takes to water - out of the vaults and on DVD for the first time ever. So, no, you probably haven't seen these. And, yes, you certainly should. There's fun here to blow your beak off in 1. Daffy Duck as a hard- to- handle house pet (Nasty Quacks), a faulty fur trapper (The Iceman Ducketh), an inferior interior designer (Design For Leaving), a perturbed papa- to- be (Stark . Each is a feather in his cap, so to speak. Enjoy. Looney Tunes Super Stars: Tweety & Sylvester - How tweet it is! Nearly two hours of uncaged 'toonacy are yours in these 1. The feathers, fur . Now, remastered to pristine, make- your- eyeballs- bug- out condition, these 1. Looney Toons . Then, there's Porky's ham- handed scheme to thwart a ravenous rodent with a robot cat (Mouse Menace), . And th- th- th that's NOT all folks! There's further fun afoot with Porky, Elmer Fudd, Bunny and Claude ! Here we have one disc with two- thirds of its content cropped almost beyond recognition, a second disc of all repeats, and a third that has been available dirt cheap at Big Lots and Black Friday dump bins for the last few years. Why on earth would anyone want to pay almost twenty bucks for this?? Be sure to also include Warner Archive in your message at @Warner. Archive, as a reissue certainly wouldn't be outside of their wheelhouse. So hey, it may be a good idea to put the Bugs in their ear that way, too! June 6 on DVD only and will retail for $1. Pre- order it now on Amazon. March 1. 6, 2. 01. Jerry Beck on Stu's Show this Wednesday. The latest news (if any) of Looney Tunes on home video! This upcoming Wednesday, March 2. Jerry Beck will again return to Stu's Show, the online radio show hosted by cartoon/pop culture/television nut and home video pioneer Stu Shostak. The episode will air at 7. PM EST and is available as a free stream for those who tune in live. Afterward, fans can hear a . It is not known yet if Jerry is in fact involved with this project at all, so he may have more information about it- -or he may simply say, . We are optimistic that it could lead to some progress on the home video front for the various classic animation properties, but without knowing how the content will be presented or how large the available libraries will be, anything would just be speculation at this point and we do not post rumors or wish- lists as news. We will likely cover the eventual launch of the service when it does happen, and obviously we will cover any actual home video news directly related to it, but for right now we're just going to wait and see. In the meantime, we will gladly post about the Boomerang service over on our Facebook page. Join us there! We say this every since time Jerry appears, but do NOT bug the show with . Last time, our #Finish. The. Wabbit graphic was e- mailed to the show as a . This in fact cheesed Stu off a little. Our graphic is intended to be sent to Warner Home Video or Warner Archive to encourage them to continue remastering and releasing the cartoon library. PESTERING OUTSIDE PARTIES WITH IT DOES NOT HELP! Stu does not decide what to release on home video, and Jerry for that matter doesn't decide that either. If Jerry has any home video news that he's allowed to reveal, it will come up during the show. He does not have final say on programming or release matters; he can only try to comment on situations as best as he can.. The information he gives is never meant to be inferred as any sort of official statement from a studio and that they can and do change plans on a whim without telling him. It seems silly that we need to mention this every time, but we also didn't think we needed to keep saying . If there is any major DVD or Blu- ray news announced, we will of course report it here after the show. So if you've linked to any our updates in the past year, be prepared to update any links to go to the new archive page. Perhaps signaling another long year of disappointment, today Warner Home Video has released a second volume of the Looney Tunes Double Feature. Made up of all recycled material and primarily intended for big- box store dump bins, the two- disc budget set is now available in stores and online. As we ranted about back when this two- disc set was first announced, this marks the third time The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie has been repackaged into a multi- disc set- -and just the second time in only the last four months! Containing NO classic material, the disc features the following.. Moron. Cube Wars. Tech Suppork. Planet of the Taz. Beneath the Planet of the Taz. Enough with the Planet of the Taz. The only actual Looney Tunes theatrical cartoons on this set are the three 1. Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie disc: Box Office Bunny, From Hare to Eternity, and Pullet Surprise. If you haven't picked up The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie at this point via any of its previous releases, then you clearly don't want to own the movie. Maybe the cheapish price point is attractive, but then you're still stuck with a second disc of unwatchable Flash cartoons. Tell them you want to see more classic cartoon compilations released. We have no idea what will happen to home media in 2. Order it now on Amazon. Better on DVD - TV Tropes. It probably has something to do with the fact that the writers live in the environment they have created for the characters 2. Previously On is not enough to bring the viewer back into that world. Perhaps it has to do with Executive Meddling, such as airing the episodes Out of Order. Then again, the writers may not have written the episodes in chronological order anyway. It could be that the Act Breaks are a little soft. Or maybe just the lack of constant commercial breaks makes the immersion much more complete. The fact remains that some series do not really work quite as well until you sit down for a marathon with the DVDs or video on demand. Compare Vindicated by Cable where a film didn't sell at the box office but attains a following through repeats on television or a streaming service. With better on DVD, the redeeming factor is the compilation of the series (with or without Bonus Material) allowing the viewer to evaluate the series as a united whole as opposed to one or two installments a week. The trend toward the 1. Episode Anime makes binge- watching these series more manageable than with longer series. Binge- watching a 2. Collecting whole TV series on VHS would be impractical, and as far as the mainstream was concerned, the Animation Age Ghetto mentality (amongst other things) was still very much in place, so any anime that were adapted for TV would likely be heavily Bowdlerised or otherwise Macekred. The only choice for hardcore fans who wanted unedited material was VHS. Even OVAs which were part of a series likely had much shorter runs than TV series, so were more amenable to VHS release. On the one hand, it is far more satisfying to marathon and blow through a significant chunk of a story arc in a single day rather than just getting a tiny bit of story each week. On the other hand, because these shows air weekly and are usually not rerun, episode beginnings are often bogged down with several minutes of . The original manga chapters tend not to be quite as offensive in this regard, but even they will have a tendency to reference earlier scenes and repeat information if the need arises. This is mainly due to the fact you won't know what's going on, considering the random nature of the show. Well, you won't know what's going on either way, but if you don't watch them quickly its easy to forget that it doesn't matter. What else do you expect from Gainax? Their Tenchi Muyo! TV releases had only a single OP and ED ever played per tape. This is why the next episode previews (and one postseason epilogue) were never dubbed. D's is incredibly split when it comes to characters, so the anime tried to give even- time to every character. Since the show aired one episode a week, and was subbed the day after it aired, it angered fans when their favorite character doesn't get the spotlight. Watching the show on DVD isn't nearly as infuriating due to the wait, and the backstory episodes add some pleasant flavor to the surprisingly complicated universe. It's easier to follow if you're watching a marathon of the entire thing in order, along with reading up of some explanatory material. Neji fight, followed by the beginning of the Zabuza arc, to name one example). Also for fans of the original Japanese background music, the DVD versions of the three movies keep the Japanese music intact as opposed to the Di. C music used in the VHS release and Toonami airings. The animation was also cleaned- up and improved overall. The first series is divided between . This allows viewers to see the whole . The series was originally shown in a particular non- chronological sequence, and even on DVD one of the chronologically last episodes (episode 1. Non- Indicative First Episode. The series arguably has much better pacing when viewed in its original order, and this is especially apparent at the end, where the intended last episode (chronologically occurring in the middle) is dramatic and world- changing, while the chronological last episode (originally shown in the middle) basically consists of everyone sitting around the club room on a typical day, which is quite disappointing as a season finale. With that final piece in place, it is a perfectly constructed series when watched in any order. While marathons can help one breeze through season one's massive block of filler episodes and allow the story's progression to come at a more natural pace, the amount of recaps the show uses (either as pre- episode narrations, flashbacks, or entire episodes) makes much of it seem quite redundant. This becomes especially true for the five interstadial episodes between seasons three and four, as all of them are recaps; the fact that one of them focuses on the fairly recent Souther arc just adds to the repetitiveness. This goes for most other Anachronic Order shows as well. The crazy Parody/Deconstruction of anime in general is much easier (and more fun) to watch/understand in one go than if you were to try and watch it on TV one week at a time. Plus, it's the only way to see the banned episode and it has a . Puella Magi Madoka Magica counts as well, but for other reasons. If you missed even a single episode, you were likely to be absolutely lost. Multiple matches tend to last up to three episodes, but that is far more forgivable than seeing characters do nothing but talk and power up for three episodes. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood flows like an extra- long movie, and has plenty of cliffhangers. Because of this, it's far more satisfying to marathon the entire series. The series has a lot of complex foreshadowing and tight story arcs that are ideal for binge- watching. The ending to ~After Story~ makes a lot more sense with Kotomi's theories about the Hidden World fairly fresh in your mind, but some fans find the series of Wham Episodes in the second half of ~After Story~ makes it too emotionally overwhelming for them to process in one sitting. While there were a few widescreen VHS tapes released in the 9. There were also many widescreen laserdiscs (as they were the serious film collector's format), but it wasn't until the DVD format came out that widescreen home video started to grow in popularity, and even then it took the introduction of widescreen televisions to finally begin to kill off pan- & -scan (However, it is still common to find stores selling the . In addition, some existing scenes have had special effects redone or new music put in. The theatrical version was reviled by critics and series fans and, while not an outright flop, disappointed at the box office. The Unrated Director's Cut released on DVD and Blu- ray, while still controversial, is a very different film with much more focus on character depth and development, extended suspense sequences, and a totally different ending. It's generally better- received, with some fans calling the Director's Cut one of the best movies in the franchise. Zombie and/or the studio certainly think so, as the Theatrical Cut hasn't even been made available on Blu- ray in the US. The DVD allows watching one of the three endings at random, or watching all three in successions, allowing the audience to better compare them, and notice the parallels (such as the repeated lines) between each of them. Certainly more practical than hunting for three movie theaters showing three different versions of the movie (although outside North America (and when the movie came out on VHS in 1. Paramount released the movie with all three endings in a row)! The commentary track with Brian Helgeland and Paul Bettany was hilarious. The theatrical cut is a rather shallow Dung Age Crusader movie, but the full cut weaves a story of political intrigue and love that greatly elevates the film. Some of the voices on the DVD version were redubbed for whatever reason. The extended editions add about 4. It's mostly embellishment on the setting and characters, which would've slowed down the pacing in theatres, but ends up perfect for hardcore LOTR fans. Aliens featured the heretofore- unreleased theatrical cut and special edition (which added a half- hour worth of footage), while Alien. The Anthology set also allowed viewers to access a massive database of additional information, interviews and deleted scenes from any of the discs in the set (via Blu- Ray technology). It's much easier to follow the storyline when there isn't a year or two between each installment, and by the end of the series you aren't struggling to remember stuff from a movie you last saw ten years ago. Alas, many of the other subplots aren't returned because they simply weren't filmed. While plenty of people loved the film when it was originally in theatres, there were also those who felt let down by the cliffhanger ending. After all, it was a two- hour adventure film which ended with nothing being resolved. This was very unusual at the time. It's easier to appreciate Empire when you don't have to wait three years for Return of the Jedi and can see clearly how it fits into the overall story. This was all fixed in the DVD and VHS releases. One example is A. I.: Artificial Intelligence. On the Blu Ray, it's much more obvious that the creatures at the end are robots and not aliens. It's easier to see the bright lights and circuitry inside of them and there are flashing lights on their heads when they talk. This apparently wasn't too obvious for people at theatres. The biggest example though is definitely the Kill Bill movies, which almost require to be viewed back to back. This makes the plot (not to mention the character interactions) much more understandable. Word of God is that the ending in the extended version was intended for the theatrical release but had to be cut due to Executive Meddling. It jumps around to various stages in their relationship, which on DVD is easier to keep track of. You can rewind and fast forward to certain points to pick up on information you might have missed out on. Some viewers even said it was like watching a different movie.
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