The Clone Wars Movie DVD Discussion! (spoilers)

The previous WB DVD releases (Clone Wars Volumes 1&2) fit in well with the existing animated classics releases from Fox as well as with the films. Happy to see the Clone Wars movie do the same.

 

Since I live in England I cannot buy the dvd and if it did come out now over here I would still have to wait for christmas

 

i would love a youtube link to the season 1 preview on the disc

 

back to the DVD vs. Blu-Ray discussion we were having earlier in this thread...

Has anyone else noticed that they are really highly pushing the Blu-Ray release of this movie. In fact, they are basically ignoring the standard DVD release in their ad campaign. Every commercial I've seen for this release says "buy it on Blu-Ray Tuesday." Most of the time, they've always had the, "buy it on DVD and Blu-Ray this Tuesday" in their ads.

It seems like a conscious effort to steer people away from DVD. Kind of interesting to me.

 

Totally agree. That's what I've been saying.

 

After watching the special features, I can say I'm really looking forward to seeing the Jar Jar episode "Bombad Jedi". I literally LOL at the look on his face after the incident with the ship.

Anyone know what the episode number is for this episode?

 

I broke down and decided to buy both Tales of Symphonia, and Clone Wars, so I picked up the Target exclusive today. Haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but, like everyone else, I am very happy with how the cover looks, it fits in well with the other DVDs. though I wish the side had been kept black ot fit better, but oh,well. I'm pretty happy with the comic too, the Target DVD was chepaer than Best Buy's and had a free comic with it. Quite awesome. I'll have to wait til Friday to watch it though.

For the people who watched the Season 1 preview, are there spoilers in it? I'd like to watch it, but I alwasy prefer to stay completely spoiler free before I see something.

@2ndQuest-Was your Best Buy exclusive $50? I thought about getting it, but 50 bucks is too much for just a different cover.

 

Just picked up my Target copy! Excellent store exclusive, just as awesome the Crystal Skull DVD was. The DVD case and book are in a nice slipcover which is about as deep as a VHS tape. The free comic is a nicely put together, I like the paper they used for the cover. Can't wait to watch it!

 

There aren't any major spoilers. Its mostly just 2-ish minute montages of episodes from Season 1, with commentary thereof. You see some planets, some basic plotlines, but not really any spoilers. for example, "Jabba's son has been kidnapped, look at this sweet vertical battle" would be all you'd see if the movie was part of the montage.

 

I just noticed that Sam Jackson, Christopher Lee and the rest of the cast receive no mention on the box! Odd.

Also I can't wait for the episode Bombad Jedi and its bollywood influenced musical score. I never thought of it before, but zany Jar Jar comedy and Indian music are a perfect fit.

 

So it's basically the same as reading the preview's on the cable lisitng? Guess I'll watch it then.

 

Episode 8


http://www.tv.com/star-wars-the-clone-wars/show/73668/episode.html

 

I watched all of the special features last night and I'm sorry to say that I'm just a little disappointed. They give a little insight into the coming episodes, a short "clone wars voices" video and a behind the scenes of Kevin Kiner's score. I'm surprised that we didn't get to see any of the short videos of the people that are working on the Clone Wars. Not that it was a bad "extras" dvd, but not as much as I was hoping for.

 

I was satisfied with the extras and found the commentary to be very enjoyable! The Kevin Kiner featurette was my favorite, I didn't know his resume included Enterprise, Wing Commanger and Stargate XG-1 (found via iMDB, not the doc). I like the approach of making each planet's music based on the music of a Earth country or culture, for example the Battle of Christophsis is Nordic influenced.

I appreciated having the commentary subtitled, something I haven't seen before. It was nice to watch the film while the behind the scenes comments appeared, almost like a pop-up video.

Did anyone else notice how yellow/green the menu intro to disc 1 looked? The space background was a hazy yellow/green rather than true black.

Again, A+ to WB for having the case design fit in so well with the film DVDs. Hopefully the Season 1 set follows suit.

 

I got around to watching the special features disc last night. There's some cool stuff on there like the season 1 featurette and the voices featurette. I also liked the deleted scenes. I actually kind of wish the Rancor scene had stayed in the movie.

Overall, however, I think the special features are a bit too thin to really even warrant a 2nd disc. I made it through everything that was on that disc in what felt like an hour. A lot of the extras aren't even anything new like the webisodes and the trailers. It's all stuff we've seen before. After that, the only really new stuff were the featurettes on season 1, the voices of the movie, 4 deleted scenes, and the score.

Maybe I'm asking too much, but it really felt like there was way more in the dvd releases for the prequels. I suppose you're never going to get as many special features for a animated movie as you would for a full live release, but it just feels thin.

I'm still happy with the dvd's overall though.

 

Can anybody put up some pictures from The Clone Wars Dvdc Series Preview Please

 

I was very happy with the special features.The Deleted scenes were long and good.The Rancor scene was fantastic.
Plus the 25 min season one preview was great and showed alot of new stuff.The Jar Jar episode does look funny and Ahmed Best does Jar Jar,you can clearly tell.Plus The Lair of Grievous looks to be the best of the series.

 

Same. I found the $51 sticker behind the 24.99 sticker.

 

Well, remember how jacked up the price was for the OT Limited Editions tin? Still, $51.99 is WAY too much for a steelbook release. I'd think 29.99 retail at most.

 

Hi all! Just picked up two copies of the Best Buy exclusive for only $102!


(joking)

 

Watched the special features and they're great. I loved the new episode previews. Holy crap! We are getting some amazing episodes! Lair of Grievous and The Innocents of Ryloth look fantastic. Bombad Jedi looks hilarious and Ahmed Best is doing Jar Jar and Tom Kenny's Nute Gunray is dead-on

I also enjoyed the featurette on the voice acting. I'm into that kind of stuff and it was nice seeing the actors do their craft. Seth Green is not Kit Fisto. He was shown performing and was not doing the Fisto voice, it's probably Phil Lamarr.

The music doc was great as well. I'm into music and Kevin Kiner is the perfect successor to John Williams. There goal is to try out differnt styles and to see what works and what doesn't, they don't want to just use all familar stuff.

The deleted scenes were fun, but I could see why they were cut. Also, the film looks incredible on Blu-Ray, better even thasn seeing it digitally, the colors pop and the animation stands out very nicely.

I'm just happy we got Star Wars on Blu-Ray, c'mon where's that 20-disc saga box set with everything?