Opinion

Why I Hate How Early Movies Hit DVD

Posted by on September 11, 2011 at 9:04 am.

X-Men and Thor hit DVD shelves this week, and I hate that. I loved both those movies… so why don’t I want to buy them? Check out my video and find out.

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  • Mike0707

    I can see you have a really valid point here John. I would have to agree, the ‘wait’ factor for some of these really great films is essentially taken out of the equation with the speed that these DVD’s are being released. I think they are doing it purely because of the business and the DVD industry. They want to combat the effects of pirated movie downloading so that they can get those people to buy it instead.

  • Anonymous

    I am the exact opposite, i want them as soon as possible.

  • Joecagg

    I can see your point, the part I don’t understand is never going to get them on dvd. There have been time when I haven’t bought the dvd because I too felt like I have just seen them but after a while of not seeing and then seeing it on netflix or tv I am reminded of how much I did like it and that makes me want to even more.

  • garr

    Overdramatic dude haha

  • Garr

    otherwise, I miss you being on the movie blog John, great site though

  • Andrew

    I think you may be looking a little bit too pessimistic into this, John, and I know it’s been like three months since you posted this article and video,  so you probably won’t read this comment, but when I look back into your archive, go back to 2007. What film were you in such a big excitement over? Michael Bay’s first Transformers movie. That came out in July of 2007. As we all know, with the exception of the two sequels, which I know you intensely disliked, you loved the first Michael Bay Transformers movie. That movie came out in theaters in July 2007, while the DVD and HD-DVD (yeah, sad I know) came out the following October, just about four months after the movie was originally in theaters. (The release date of the Blu-Ray version doesn’t count, since that came out one year after the theatrical release due to Paramount’s exclusive deal with Toshiba to release all their movies on HD-DVD at the time.)

    Also, hypothetically, since you personally hate how soon movies come out on DVD (or Blu-Ray, which is what I buy my movies on from now on) does that mean that if, say, I were a distant relative of yours who doesn’t get to see you that often, yet we’re very close, and I decided to pick up either X-Men: First Class or Thor on DVD or Blu-Ray for you as a gift, would you ultimately reject my gift just because the movie came out on home video too soon?

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