No Zack Snyder Live Watchmen Screening For Australia
Truth be told, we didn’t expect that the BD-Live screening of Watchmen hosted by director Zack Snyder would ever make it here to Australia. But we’ve had confirmation from Paramount that we definitely won’t get to sit back and chat with Snyder during the community screening US owners of the Blu-ray will experience.
Perhaps more disappointing is the fact that the version on sale in Australia on July 30 isn’t actually the Director’s Cut of the film – we only get a 2-Disc special edition, which doesn’t look like it includes the “Maximum Movie Mode” we’ve seen before either.
Despite the fact that this sucks for Watchmen fans, I’d still class the film as a “must-have” Blu-ray purchase when it hits shelves in just under two weeks. And as an added bonus, it’s good to know that the complete motion comic Blu-ray will also hit shelves the same day.
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This is so disappointing. I was using the release of Watchmen and the extra features (i.e. Maximum Movie Mode) to partially justify getting a blue ray player, but if this is essentially the same as the DVD what is the point of paying extra for this on blueray?
I did the same thing. I saw the blu-ray release as a way to prove to my friends what Blu-ray was all about. the 30th july release date was going to be like a kid waiting for that brilliant xmas present. But when he opened the box he got school shoes.
I wrote a long winded article about this. Feel free to check it out and comment.
it’s about how the hell are we meant to be supporting local products and ecomony when stuff like this happens. I agree, downloading a blu-ray rip might be an option, especially when you’ve already shelled out $44.00 for a blu-ray release that you would expect to be the same as the U.S version.
the article is here:
http://interpretedwisdom.com/press/?p=126
on the other hand, they may try to get a double dip by releasing a separate directors cut version later.
Why are we being screwed here again?
I was planning on buying the directors cut when it came out but i think i’ll just download the directors cut blu-ray rip via a bittorrent so the studios get nothing. Why should we have to wait just because they arbitrarily decide to slice the globe into segments to suit themselves ?
I suggest everyone else do the same. The blu-ray rip comes in at about 4gig looks create at 1080p.
Does anyone know the legality of zoning in Australia ? If its not actually valid why can’t we press sony to provide an unlock code for the PS3 like a number of other coutry’s do ?
good point, i noticed that all the sony devices are opened in Australia and unlocked for dvds, this was even done for our BD player when we got it, but I think they would have only unlocked the dvd region lock, not the BD one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code#Legal_concerns
I would very much like to know whats changed as well, it seems the case that outlawed region coding in aus was directly related to the famous “ps2 mod chips are legal” case.
there are a few notable differences, first the regions are different for BD and lots of the disks are multi region or region free.
I guess I’ll be importing this one then. Luckily the US release is region free.
So if I order it via Amazon, that will play on my PS3?
I normally check out the list here first – http://bluray.liesinc.net/
If so then I’ll order it from Amazon, but it has to have no sign of an Aussie release for me to do that, because of how freaking expensive Amazon’s shipping is. So in this case i’d go there.
I’ve ordered from Amazon in the past off this list without any problems (even some Blu-Rays come with the label saying region A only) but they all work on my Aussie PS3.
Hey Cam, I ended up ordering it from Amazon, it was only $USD 30 including postage, but it was the slowest kind of postage.
Wells wells wells….b*mtown Australia gets all the stuff the rest of the world gets once again….NOT!
And is there any wonder why we download….???
I am NOT getting the local release… Nobody should.
This sucks… Australia needs to start making GOOD films so that when we have a popular film franchise released and we have Director’s Cut DVD’s and the American’s have to either wait or not get it at all they’ll know how we feel. I don’t have much money, I’ve been searching for a job for half a year now and I have saved fifty dollars for the Watchmen DIRECTOR’S CUT DVD… and now we’re not getting it, and if we do it’s going to be something like in November and I’m going to have to save up for it all over again cause I’m not waiting for it any longer than Thursday.