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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #30 on: Mar 22, 2006, 06:41 PM »
Here's the Canadian cover. Its a little better imo than the U.S. version but still has put too much focus on the academy awards. Hopefully they put out a collectors edition without it.



This is the one showing one the Colubia House Canada webpage
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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #31 on: Mar 23, 2006, 02:41 AM »
I am disappointed with the cover. I do understand the movie poster part but 3 academy awards on top really underscore BBM's accomplishment.

Maywe we will design our own DVD cover and just make it available for the members and replace the one from Focus Features.

My thought, exactly! Once we have the DVD, we can get hi-res screencaps and make any cover we want. Tent scene, anyone?  ;D

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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #32 on: Mar 23, 2006, 07:01 AM »
Well the thing is..........it only says winner of 3 academy awards....people who have not seen the show or who arent bothered might just assume that BBM actually won Best Picture! LOL
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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #33 on: Mar 23, 2006, 08:33 AM »
Well the thing is..........it only says winner of 3 academy awards....people who have not seen the show or who arent bothered might just assume that BBM actually won Best Picture! LOL

You know what? You're right. My Dad thought it won for best picture, before I told him it didn't, and that was more than a week afterward.
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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #34 on: Mar 23, 2006, 09:05 AM »
Well the thing is..........it only says winner of 3 academy awards....people who have not seen the show or who arent bothered might just assume that BBM actually won Best Picture! LOL

You know what? You're right. My Dad thought it won for best picture, before I told him it didn't, and that was more than a week afterward.

YEAH!!! See it might just work!!!...and I would to hear in the 2020 version of "Who wants to be a millionaire"

"Question: In Mars 2006, which controversial movie won best picture at the Academy Awards?

a: BBM
b: Crash
c: Forrest Gump
d: Million Dollar Baby

Answer: Without hesitation BBM!!!"...oops! that was the 1m question!
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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #35 on: Mar 23, 2006, 05:13 PM »
Guys, take a look at these scenes...  I didn't know they existed I just found out a few minutes ago  :o ;) :D:

(Talking about the deleted scenes I don't think they will add these to the DVD, we might have to make a complaint to Focus Features... because I don't think is happening with the DVD release on April 4th!)





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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #36 on: Mar 23, 2006, 06:28 PM »
Well the thing is..........it only says winner of 3 academy awards....people who have not seen the show or who arent bothered might just assume that BBM actually won Best Picture! LOL

You are probably very right you know!

An overwhelming amount of people have never heard of Crash, and second.

I have like at least 5 friends who havent seen Brokeback Mountain but think it won best picture at the Oscars because they didnt watch and dont follow that stuff.. so yeah!! YAY! I'm gonna let them continue to think that too, because it should have won
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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #37 on: Mar 23, 2006, 06:32 PM »
I wish the cover mentions the Bafta and Golden Globes or at least said

"BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR"


because

a) it is
b) it was named best picture by every awards organization known to man other than laugh-cadamy awards, so it wouldnt be a lie!!!
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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #38 on: Mar 23, 2006, 07:01 PM »
I wish the cover mentions the Bafta and Golden Globes or at least said
"BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR"
because
a) it is
b) it was named best picture by every awards organization known to man other than laugh-cadamy awards, so it wouldnt be a lie!!!

So true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But you know what...I think I might just make my own DVD cover when I get mine...with the postcards from the forum and other pix and maybe a couple of Bafta pix too!!!
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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #39 on: Mar 23, 2006, 11:41 PM »
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You know what? You're right. My Dad thought it won for best picture, before I told him it didn't, and that was more than a week afterward.
  That ... is F***in amazing!  I wonder if that's a wider assumption among the unaware - given that it won all the rest of the awards, was the frontrunner, and should have won.  That's pretty awesome!

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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #40 on: Mar 24, 2006, 07:28 AM »
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You know what? You're right. My Dad thought it won for best picture, before I told him it didn't, and that was more than a week afterward.
  That ... is F***in amazing!  I wonder if that's a wider assumption among the unaware - given that it won all the rest of the awards, was the frontrunner, and should have won.  That's pretty awesome!

-btb

I think it probably is. I mean, it looked like it was gonna win. I think most people who don't follow the awards assumed it would win, and then assumed that it had afterward.
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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #41 on: Mar 24, 2006, 07:50 AM »
Guys, take a look at these scenes...  I didn't know they existed I just found out a few minutes ago  :o ;) :D:

(Talking about the deleted scenes I don't think they will add these to the DVD, we might have to make a complaint to Focus Features... because I don't think is happening with the DVD release on April 4th!)







I'm sure there are deleted scenes, but it doesn't look like they will be on this version of the DVD.  However, we all know that oftentimes a "Special Edition" will come out later on that includes deleted scenes.  I'm hoping for this with BBM.  Maybe for Christmas?
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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #42 on: Mar 24, 2006, 02:48 PM »
Any more comments about the deleted scenes?!

 ;) :D :)
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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #43 on: Mar 29, 2006, 08:24 AM »
There's a (clip) scene both in a car(truck, maybe coming down from the mountains?) Ennis crying, havent seen it on a film.. ???

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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #44 on: Mar 29, 2006, 08:40 AM »
There's a (clip) scene both in a car(truck, maybe coming down from the mountains?) Ennis crying, havent seen it on a film.. ???

July 12 in Skandinavia??.. det känns som en evighet :P  ;D 

Yes, there was a chunk of the movie removed for some reason between the time Aguirre left the trailhead and the time the boys were saying goobye.  The goodbye scene was too abrupt.  The boys went from a fight, to coming down off the mountain not talking to back to being friendly and saying goodbye.  Something happened in between that we were not shown.

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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #45 on: Mar 29, 2006, 08:55 AM »
Did I miss something? Where did the info. come from about deleted scenes?  I know there's a lot left on the editing room floor for every film, but for BBM,   where are we getting info. for specific scenes that have not made it into the released film? Sorry if I've overlooked something in this thread.
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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #46 on: Mar 29, 2006, 09:52 AM »
There's a (clip) scene both in a car(truck, maybe coming down from the mountains?) Ennis crying, havent seen it on a film.. ???

July 12 in Skandinavia??.. det känns som en evighet :P  ;D 



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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #47 on: Mar 29, 2006, 01:53 PM »
This is an english thread... lol ;)
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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #48 on: Mar 29, 2006, 02:27 PM »
Patriot1, OK. Thanks for the information :) (but now I'm even more curious what happened, and why did they leave that clip there..)

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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #49 on: Mar 29, 2006, 04:24 PM »
There's a (clip) scene both in a car(truck, maybe coming down from the mountains?) Ennis crying, havent seen it on a film.. ???


I don't have the book with me to be able to check, but I think there was a truck scene in the screen play.
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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #50 on: Apr 01, 2006, 09:37 AM »
Probably in about 10 years time, Focus (if they are still around by then) may release a "director's cut" including deleted scenes added into the movie rather have it on a separate feature.

But by then, it may end up in a big DVD bin at your local WalMart - if they still exist then....

However I am disappointed with the current version. It would be nice if they have more special features.
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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #51 on: Apr 01, 2006, 11:04 AM »
The cover is ugly  Undecided!! The poster is 100x better

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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #52 on: Apr 01, 2006, 08:09 PM »
There's a (clip) scene both in a car(truck, maybe coming down from the mountains?) Ennis crying, havent seen it on a film.. ???

July 12 in Skandinavia??.. det känns som en evighet :P  ;D 

Yes, there was a chunk of the movie removed for some reason between the time Aguirre left the trailhead and the time the boys were saying goobye.  The goodbye scene was too abrupt.  The boys went from a fight, to coming down off the mountain not talking to back to being friendly and saying goodbye.  Something happened in between that we were not shown.



The screenplay didn't have anything between the trailhead scene and the next scene where Ennis and Jack were saying goodbye:

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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #53 on: Apr 05, 2006, 08:06 AM »
I just received my DVD and was surprised to see the movie poster cover is the whole cover! No print about any awards! just the slim band on top saying Focus Features.  And at the bottom, of course, the title, Brokeback Mountain. Did any one else receive this simple, classy version of a DVD cover?
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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #54 on: Apr 05, 2006, 10:21 AM »
My current pet peeve about a lot of DVDs but especially BBM...  I opened the box and there's the disc and... that's it... not a single scrap of paper, nothing other than the movie.  Like they didn't care enough to give us a table of contents, or photos, or anything.  It's so disappointing.  Of course, like another poster mentioned earlier in this thread, I'm not gonna spend my time staring at the box anyhow... but I always feel somewhat gypped when I get the disc and nothing more.  Jeez.

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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #55 on: Apr 05, 2006, 10:27 AM »
A good point! Most of my other DVDc and CDs include inside brochures with added info. table of contents, scene numbers etc.  I guess Focus Features thought the disc was enough, and speaks for itself!
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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #56 on: Apr 05, 2006, 01:16 PM »
I don't like the cover - reminds me of those bargain bin releases of 20-year old movies.

And, yes, they could have been more creative with the awards banner

British ACADEMY of film and television arts AWARD - BEST PICTURE  ;)

I hope the UK cover is better...

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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #57 on: Apr 05, 2006, 01:24 PM »
It does look very "Wal-Mart's $5.50 bin."
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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #58 on: Apr 05, 2006, 03:25 PM »
The UK cover is better. And at least it boasts its BAFTA best film win.

Sorry, I could only find a small pic of it...
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Re: BBM DVD COVER, what's your opinion?!
« Reply #59 on: Apr 05, 2006, 03:28 PM »
Definitely the UK cover is better. Thanks gambrinus for posting it.

Maybe I should order a UK copy too just for the cover. I don't like the US one.
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