• superman is so cool~

• They've pretty much said that because the GL and WW ones didn't sell as well as the Batman and Superman themed ones that the Judas Contract and several others won't get made because they're focussing more on the Big Two because they sell... I know, suckage. Personally I'd like to see the titles go double feature, and have a Superman/Batman story and then a longer second feature like Shazam, Judas, Legion etc...

• You'd be surprised though, I've watched all of the JL/JLU episodes on each blu ray and still want to buy the complete series. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has felt like this.

• Thank you! At least now I know how I missed the damn Specter short when I rented JL: CoTE!

• Concur, totally

• Go to Amazon. You can buy a copy of the Batman/Red Hood used/new for $12.00 bucks plus 3 dollars in shipping. Older blu rays are probably less.

• It sucks for those of us who have the full justice league/justice league unlimited more so. The extras generally include 3-5 episodes on the Blu Rays.

• still, it IS the only way you'll get to see Superman and Captain Marvel battle in animated form. I mean, unless you own Public Enemies. Or that episode of Justice League. Or DC Animated finally makes the Kingdom Come movie. Still, I have a policy of at least renting every DC animated movie, to encourage the occasional success (there've been two by my count.)

• pure muthafu¢kin' incremental revenue

• The problem is that the MPAA and such have Netflix by the balls and won't loosen up their grip for anything.<BR><BR>I called to complain about not being able to complete watching a series repeatedly (they had a tendency to make the last disc of the series "unavailable" while I was watching). The customer service wonk was surprisingly candid in the fact that they are getting their asses handed to them by the distributors and the MPAA when having to renew licenses and buy replacement media.<BR><BR>He told me that it often takes six to nine months or longer for them to be able to buy replacement discs for any given title and sometimes even longer to re-up the digital license for watch-it-now titles.

• So the company that releases TPBs with 4 issues worth of material for $20 is overcharging on something? Let me restrain my show and surprise...

• i feel shame for my younger self at times, scoot. really, i do! XD

• Yeah, but Japanese DVD buyers and anime fans are used to getting raped in the ass by prices. Blu Ray has only made it worse and Bandai is one of the worst offenders.

• To be fair, I heard the Superman / Shazam short was 30 minutes. Though that's still a gods damn ripoff. Wisdom of Solomon, my ass.

• I'll pay anything for some Black Adam goodness. And all of you Red Hood haters really need to at lest rent it, it's really good.

• The current Gundam series (Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn) is only being released on $50 blu-rays, one hour long episode at a time. If they know you'll spend ridiculous amounts on it, they're going to charge you.

• eh....I get why you guys are pissed,but I stopped buying the DC DVD's several releases ago so this is RIGHT up my alley. Plus,the 20-30 dollar price is the suggested retail price....which is ALWAYS higher than reality. I'd honestly say that the regular release will be around 10-12 buck and the Blu-Ray no more than 15-20.

• I was about to ask why in Krom's name you'd want even one edition of Resident Evil, then you gave the only valid reason. Good job!

• There are those of us who get the movies through iTunes, which don't have the shorts. So if they put this shorts collection on iTunes, I'll be happy to get it.

• again, nobody wants to say it? fine! "I'll buy THAT for a dollar!"

• heh, you won't catch me doing that, scoot. i learned my lesson waaaay too hard when the first "Resident Evil" variant casing debacle hits the shelves. i was but a young nerdling then, and i was pining for more Milla Jovovich ass-shots. so of COURSE the execs are gonna take advantage of sorry-ass losers like myself. nowadays, when i see "value" or "special edition" or "remastered" on the tag, i just scoff in disgust and walk away.

• Hell, where's the animated series based on "The Spectre" short, with the 1970s setting? There's awesomeness, right there, with all the goony, malicious Spectre irony fans crave! Ragman? YES. Plastic Man vs. Elongated Man? YES. The entire Marvel Family, including the tiger and the bunny? YES. This Showcase series could potentially trigger years' worth of quality animation, if DC doesn't mess it up.

• is it hours long? fact remains, the main program on the disc is 28 minutes long.

• I think this a missed chance for them. They have a Superman short and could have included Batman as well. They have both their top dogs so Warner is happy (plus they could have done team-up with Batman (too). This way they could have done 7 - 8 more shorts on other DC characters like the Flash, Aquaman, Hawkman, and potentially great characters that aren't as well known like Dr. Fate, Ragman, Deadman, etc.

• God damn it, this new disc represents jackassery of George Lucas-ian proportions. I think it is great that DC is finally turning its attention to its lesser-used characters - the Showcase series itself is a welcome development. It's just what this disc represents. Because, really, what's to stop DC from pulling this kind of dick move again...and again...and again? Because people ARE going to buy this. It's Captain Marvel! My only weakness! (well, that and bullets, I guess)

• Why does DC not cut the crap and make that Judas Contract adaption that we were promised years ago!!!!!!! Screw the freakin Red Hood!!!

• I dunno. I would love to support DC animated projects that don't exclusively feature Superman and Batman. I had no interest in Red Hood or Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, but would like to see the Showcase shorts. Win/Win for me.

• Seeeeeeeee? Now come on over to bittorentland where it's all warm comfy...

• This case could be made for many shorts and other series on DVD. The suits at WB don't really care about DC until becomes a self efficient cash cow when the live action movies hit the box office. And that means any franchise other than just Batman. Watchmen and Jonah Hex were part of the quickly shrinking Vertigo imprint and were basically failures in theaters.

• Captain Marvel? ! dammit now I gotta buy

• The Shazam short is going to be about 20 minutes, and as someone else noted, the other 3 shorts will all be getting extended versions that are a couple minutes longer than their original releases. At Comic-Con, Bruce Timm gave an interview where he flat-out stated that their continued production of these Showcase backups with the individual movies depends on the sales of this Showcase collection. I really hope they make their goals with it too, because the Spectre and Hex shorts were so very, very good.

• The Tales of the Black Freighter disc had the "Under the Hood" documentary on it, which was a live action version of the supplemental material from the comic.

• If these shorts really do have extra footage...then why the fuck? So audiences in the theater they never played in wouldn't get bored during a 15 minute cartoon? Very obvious cash grab, they tend to cut footage way before the final animation is done. You know what was a great bonus value? The Target exclusive Red Hood BluRay with bonus disk featuring 4 Batman episodes, 2 of which were also on the BluRay it came with. The episodes are nice to have when they aren't duplicated, but they look like VHS copies from a poor broadcast. Another thing to consider with the bargain here, is that the DC BluRays are pretty packed with extras. One of them had the live action Wonder Woman and Aquaman TV pilots in addition to 4 JLU episodes, the Spectre short, and other stuff.

• I second you getting a job writting Shazam for DC. I love Shazam! It is the <b>only reason</b> I'll buy this DVD. I loved Shazam as a kid. I loved the Shazam cartoon. I loved the Shazam tv series but the comics keep screwing around with him. <br> I once stood in a thunder storm and every white flash came by, I'd yell SHAZAM! My mother got sooooo pissed off at me.

• They say that the shorts will be "director's cut" editions with extra footage, plus commentary by the creators. Don't knock it. Sometimes extras are worth as much as the films themselves. I love "Empire of Dreams" that came with Starwars.

• It'd had better be freaking awesome to rate $1 a minute of new material.

• Value? You keep using that word, I dunno think it means what you think it means.

• I've been getting the two disk DVD sets from Amazon for $20 or less. Some I've gotten for $15 or so.

• <i>At least this means the shorts will be finally be available on Netflix. </i> Maybe. Remember how long it took for Netflix to get Superman TAS Season 2? It was out for, like, six years before they picked it up and you couldn't even put it in your "saved" section. All of the reviews were "Why isn't Netflix carrying this?" They had seasons 1 and 3 but not 2. If you actually called, the phone person would say, "Uh, we'll take the suggestion," and that was it. They finally started carrying it last fall, but it was weird that they didn't for so long,

• Actually, the Shazam short is 22 minutes, the length of a normal TV episode.

• Dammit, I want a good full Captain Marvel (Shazam to you cretinous dogs) movie! Not some 12 minute short! I've been a Marvel Family fan for as long as I can remember. My Dad gave me a big bound hardcover book of the old 40's era stories back when I was a wee lad in the '70's (just after he'd been reintroduced) and it was my constant companion, and my introduction into comics in general. He's the ultimate role model for a young geek; a kid with a magic word that lets him turn into an adult and beat up the bullies! I sooooooo identified with that when I was little! Well, at least it's something. I really think that the whole Marvel Family mythos is one that DC has totally mishandled all along. Maybe I could get a job writing them....

• Whose responsible this?

• Where are you getting you're movies from? I get a majority of the DCU blue-rays and never pay over $25 for them, I actually think I get them for $20 at wal-mart each time

• Who won the contest from this weekend?

• Haven't we got the point yet that studios believe we fans will buy anything with the logo of our fave property on it? Think about it, take any typical geek title: Once it's released on video we get the basic widescreen version, the director's cut and the two-disc Special Edition. If it's part of a franchise, or a vehicle for a popular actor, or if some other pretense can be concocted, then it'll be released as part of a box-set. God forbid it's part of a long series, like the Harry Potter films, because then they'll put out a new box set every time a new movie is released. Oh, and now of course we can double these numbers by adding a blu-ray version of each.(and in the case of Watchmen--we got supplemental material like "Tales From The Black Freighter" and the motion comic, each on its own separately sold DVD) And they'll keep doing it as long as we keep buying them, like when I nearly spent $30 for Family Guy's "Something, Something Dark Side". Same deal, less than an hour of real content--buttloads of "special features", about 20% of which are even vaguely interesting.

• remember that Watchmen 'expansion', the Black Freighter? That thing came out as a 'sequel' for full Blu-Ray price but clocks in at a whopping 28 minutes! Although the blu-ray claims to have hours of extras... It's a boring, pointless cartoon that does nothing to enhance Watchmen.

• Correction:It actually totals 62 minutes.So if you're like me, and didn't but the BluRay, this is really great.I think the majority of people didn't.

• Or... this could be a brilliant method of getting the dollars of the people who aren't going to buy a Judd-Winnick plotted Red Hood DVD just to see a Green Arrow cartoon, lets DC Comics think we actually want more of his hackery.

• If you think about it, it is a deal.The regular DVDs cost $20.You had to buy the BluRay/2 disc edition to get the short.That's $30.You're paying $10 for the short, it you got them. This collection contains 3 10-12 minute shorts, as well as a 22-minute Superman/Shazam, for $20/$30.With this, you're getting the equivalent of 5 shorts, at only $4/$6 each.That's 58 minutes.

• On just barely a relateable note: Netflix IS awesome!

• F**king value, how does that work? An' I don't wanna talk to no economists, y'all be lyin and gettin me pissed.

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