Buy movies now or wait and hope for later

Anonymous Friend · Post by **Anonymous Friend** » Wed May 30, 2007 8:32 pm

I was cruising the Wal-mart.com and found the First Strike set for $20 and was gonna get it and also start looking for other Dragonball Z movies. I'll probably also get the Broli set which is also $20 on the site and pay $15-$25 for each of the other movies new (I really hope I can find them used).

Should I shell out all this cash or is there any good chance that FUNi will release a set of them in the future?

fps_anth · Post by **fps_anth** » Wed May 30, 2007 9:35 pm

They are going to release the movies in a box set (some footage of movie 8 was in a tech trailer). Although it will be cropped, the movies we meant to be seen in 16:9, so this is no big loss. However, will the remastering job by FUNimation be full of hair and peppers? Only time will tell.

SuperSaiyan3Goku · Post by **SuperSaiyan3Goku** » Wed May 30, 2007 10:32 pm

I'm guessing that Funi will release them in their usual fashion that they're doing these days:

They're just release them all in a set just like the remastered set, even though we've all probably bought them all already...

Duo · Post by **Duo** » Thu May 31, 2007 4:10 am

I already own them all...they aren't very expensive or hard to find, and why wait?

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Thu May 31, 2007 5:33 am

It depends. If you want the movies in 4:3 then get them now. If you want them in 16:9 like how they were seen in theaters in Japan then wait until FUNi pumps out a remastered movies boxset or get the Japanese movie releases.

QuantumDestiny · Post by **QuantumDestiny** » Thu May 31, 2007 2:41 pm

I recently saw movie 11 being sold for $29.99CND! Augh, I am waiting for new releases.

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Thu May 31, 2007 2:50 pm

I only have a few of the movies. Phooey on the series, but if FUNi releases a Widescreen movies set as part of this release, then I'll probably pick it up.

Anonymous Friend · Post by **Anonymous Friend** » Thu May 31, 2007 3:10 pm

Duo wrote:I already own them all...they aren't very expensive or hard to find, and why wait?

The most I'm really willing to spend on any DVD movie is $10. And I already went passed that when I picked up a few of DBZ movie a couple of years back for $18. If I can get all of them for a low price per movie, it would be worth it to me to wait.

Duo · Post by **Duo** » Thu May 31, 2007 3:25 pm

Anonymous Friend wrote:
Duo wrote:I already own them all...they aren't very expensive or hard to find, and why wait?
The most I'm really willing to spend on any DVD movie is $10. And I already went passed that when I picked up a few of DBZ movie a couple of years back for $18. If I can get all of them for a low price per movie, it would be worth it to me to wait.

The average movie goes for about $12 now...and deepdiscountdvd.com is probably cheaper even moreso.

I guess I wouldn't be willing to risk FUNi's remastering job. At least with the current releases, you know what you're getting and most of it is decent or better.

Conan the SSJ · Post by **Conan the SSJ** » Thu May 31, 2007 3:28 pm

First off, we don't even know if FUNi will for-sure re-release the movies under their "Wide-screen/remastered" brand. For all we know, they simply asked Video Post & Transfer to telecine/crop spare film prints of movies 8 and 10 because they knew they'd look uncompromised in a wide-screen format for the tech trailer. Anyway, I'd rather just have the full-screen versions myself. Yes, they're meant to be seen in wide-screen, but they're also not meant to be degraded in quality to the point where characters are foaming at the mouth and losing their outlines. The previous releases, while not being perfect, are my choice for what to go for. Anyhow, many box-sets are already out for the movies:

DragonBall Movie Box-set: Original DB movies 2-4.
DBZ First Strike Movie Box-set: DBZ movies 1-3.
DBZ midway Box-set: DBZ movies 4-6.
Broly Triple Threat Box-set: DBZ movies 8, 10-11.

As we can see, except for movies 7, 9, 12, 13, and Curse of the Blood Rubies, everything's available in a certain affordable set (albeit that movies 4-6 set may be edgy to find). I for one don't mind my movies in an aspect ratio they weren't "Framed" for, they were still animated in 4:3 regardless. And thus my rant is over.

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Thu May 31, 2007 3:58 pm

Meh. I don't notice the crap remastering job so much anymore since usually when DBZ is playing on my TV I'm working out or on the computer.

SatoSky · Post by **SatoSky** » Thu May 31, 2007 4:17 pm

Conan the SSJ wrote:First off, we don't even know if FUNi will for-sure re-release the movies under their "Wide-screen/remastered" brand. For all we know, they simply asked Video Post & Transfer to telecine/crop spare film prints of movies 8 and 10 because they knew they'd look uncompromised in a wide-screen format for the tech trailer. Anyway, I'd rather just have the full-screen versions myself. Yes, they're meant to be seen in wide-screen, but they're also not meant to be degraded in quality to the point where characters are foaming at the mouth and losing their outlines. The previous releases, while not being perfect, are my choice for what to go for. Anyhow, many box-sets are already out for the movies:

DragonBall Movie Box-set: Original DB movies 2-4.
DBZ First Strike Movie Box-set: DBZ movies 1-3.
DBZ midway Box-set: DBZ movies 4-6.
Broly Triple Threat Box-set: DBZ movies 8, 10-11.

As we can see, except for movies 7, 9, 12, 13, and Curse of the Blood Rubies, everything's available in a certain affordable set (albeit that movies 4-6 set may be edgy to find). I for one don't mind my movies in an aspect ratio they weren't "Framed" for, they were still animated in 4:3 regardless. And thus my rant is over.

Agreed. Buy them now while you can on the cheap. Any "remastering" that FUNimation might do in the future will simply wash the colors out and make the movies look like crap. That's not saying that the sets that are already out have perfect colors, they don't. Also, if you want them in widescreen, some DVD players can output in 16:9 anyway, so you'll get a cropped version that way.

Something like this:

Rumor Guide Page That's where I got that image from.

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Thu May 31, 2007 5:08 pm

Meh. I won't bother with anything past Pioneer's releases until the movies' dubs have Japanese BGM.

m121akuma · Post by **m121akuma** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:25 am

It'd be funny as hell if FUNi released the movies in a box set in full screen out of spite. Or cropped the widescreen further...

...They should so hire me or something.

Kanzenshuu

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