What I don't like is when the studio orders cuts to be made for a film (for a variety of reasons not dealing with artistic choices) for the sole purpose of "double dipping" -- releasing a "Director's Cut" or "Unrated Version" a few months after the standard theatrical version of the DVD is released.
This is a new, unethical trend the industry has adopted and I, as a consumer, don't support it one bit because it is not about artistic choice, but milking and gouging consumers because they know they can make more money making two, or three different versions of a film instead of putting all that on one or two discs. Especially, with DVD9 and advanced compression technology these days. There is no excuse for having more than two versions of a single film in my opinion. What is worse is studios will then justfiy their greed by saying if they put all of those features on a one, or two-disc set you would have to pay around $30-40 for it at release. So, what? Their twisted logic is you pay around $15-20 for one version and then ANOTHER $15-20 for the extended or unrated version in a few months... Which proves it is nothing but a greed issue on the part of Hollywood and corporate entities like Sony, Universal, etc.
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