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I've waited until the region 2 release of X-Men before I rant on about this just to check if it makes me as annoyed as the US version I have - and it does. It's also not the only offender of this crime.
As far as I can see from the features list, and assuming the hidden extras are also there, the discs are the same (apart from a Titan A.E. trailer) but my problem is not with the disc or the extras or anything like that - it's the use of the term 'Special Edition'.
Surely for there to be a special edition of a film there has to be a standard version as well. Newer Disney films tend to come as 1-disc film-and-a-couple-of-extras versions and a 2-disc loads-of-stuff-about-the-film versions. In this case the term 'special edition' is valid because one version is more special than another, offering much more interest to fans of that particular film. The only reason I can see for X-Men to have this term applied to it is to make it seem even better than it actually is. Why this is necessary is beyond me as the film was very popular and it's a good DVD in it's own right.
On a similar note there is something which annoys me even more, and it's something Disney deserve nothing but praise for.
I was looking at the up and coming release to see when The Emperors New Groove was due for release (May 1st for all you fellow R1-lovers) and I noticed that there was an Ultimate Edition of The Mummy on the way soon. Fortunately the normal version is a top class disc for extras and most of the Ultimate extras seems to be DVD ROM stuff.
Granted I don't have a DVD DOM drive so a lot of that is useless to me but that's not the point. The point is that I, a fan of the first film, have been short changed with a lesser version that I could have got. Unlike my earlier rant, this problem is much more common. If there is going to be more than one version of a DVD then they should be released along side each other so that casual fans can get one and more serious fans can get the other - not so that people have to buy a second copy of the same film. It's just fans being ripped off again and, to be honest, I'm surprised at how surprised I am.
I don't intend to buy The Ultimate Mummy and I wouldn't do so for any film this happened for but there will be a lot of people who already own the first film who do.
As far as I can see from the features list, and assuming the hidden extras are also there, the discs are the same (apart from a Titan A.E. trailer) but my problem is not with the disc or the extras or anything like that - it's the use of the term 'Special Edition'.
Surely for there to be a special edition of a film there has to be a standard version as well. Newer Disney films tend to come as 1-disc film-and-a-couple-of-extras versions and a 2-disc loads-of-stuff-about-the-film versions. In this case the term 'special edition' is valid because one version is more special than another, offering much more interest to fans of that particular film. The only reason I can see for X-Men to have this term applied to it is to make it seem even better than it actually is. Why this is necessary is beyond me as the film was very popular and it's a good DVD in it's own right.
On a similar note there is something which annoys me even more, and it's something Disney deserve nothing but praise for.
I was looking at the up and coming release to see when The Emperors New Groove was due for release (May 1st for all you fellow R1-lovers) and I noticed that there was an Ultimate Edition of The Mummy on the way soon. Fortunately the normal version is a top class disc for extras and most of the Ultimate extras seems to be DVD ROM stuff.
Granted I don't have a DVD DOM drive so a lot of that is useless to me but that's not the point. The point is that I, a fan of the first film, have been short changed with a lesser version that I could have got. Unlike my earlier rant, this problem is much more common. If there is going to be more than one version of a DVD then they should be released along side each other so that casual fans can get one and more serious fans can get the other - not so that people have to buy a second copy of the same film. It's just fans being ripped off again and, to be honest, I'm surprised at how surprised I am.
I don't intend to buy The Ultimate Mummy and I wouldn't do so for any film this happened for but there will be a lot of people who already own the first film who do.
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I've waited until the region 2 release of X-Men before I rant on about this just to check if it makes me as annoyed as the US version I have - and it does. It's also not the only offender of this crime.
As far as I can see from the features list, and assuming the hidden extras are also there, the discs are the same (apart from a Titan A.E. trailer) but my problem is not with the disc or the extras or anything like that - it's the use of the term 'Special Edition'.
Surely for there to be a special edition of a film there has to be a standard version as well. Newer Disney films tend to come as 1-disc film-and-a-couple-of-extras versions and a 2-disc loads-of-stuff-about-the-film versions. In this case the term 'special edition' is valid because one version is more special than another, offering much more interest to fans of that particular film. The only reason I can see for X-Men to have this term applied to it is to make it seem even better than it actually is. Why this is necessary is beyond me as the film was very popular and it's a good DVD in it's own right.
On a similar note there is something which annoys me even more, and it's something Disney deserve nothing but praise for.
I was looking at the up and coming release to see when The Emperors New Groove was due for release (May 1st for all you fellow R1-lovers) and I noticed that there was an Ultimate Edition of The Mummy on the way soon. Fortunately the normal version is a top class disc for extras and most of the Ultimate extras seems to be DVD ROM stuff.
Granted I don't have a DVD DOM drive so a lot of that is useless to me but that's not the point. The point is that I, a fan of the first film, have been short changed with a lesser version that I could have got. Unlike my earlier rant, this problem is much more common. If there is going to be more than one version of a DVD then they should be released along side each other so that casual fans can get one and more serious fans can get the other - not so that people have to buy a second copy of the same film. It's just fans being ripped off again and, to be honest, I'm surprised at how surprised I am.
I don't intend to buy The Ultimate Mummy and I wouldn't do so for any film this happened for but there will be a lot of people who already own the first film who do.
As far as I can see from the features list, and assuming the hidden extras are also there, the discs are the same (apart from a Titan A.E. trailer) but my problem is not with the disc or the extras or anything like that - it's the use of the term 'Special Edition'.
Surely for there to be a special edition of a film there has to be a standard version as well. Newer Disney films tend to come as 1-disc film-and-a-couple-of-extras versions and a 2-disc loads-of-stuff-about-the-film versions. In this case the term 'special edition' is valid because one version is more special than another, offering much more interest to fans of that particular film. The only reason I can see for X-Men to have this term applied to it is to make it seem even better than it actually is. Why this is necessary is beyond me as the film was very popular and it's a good DVD in it's own right.
On a similar note there is something which annoys me even more, and it's something Disney deserve nothing but praise for.
I was looking at the up and coming release to see when The Emperors New Groove was due for release (May 1st for all you fellow R1-lovers) and I noticed that there was an Ultimate Edition of The Mummy on the way soon. Fortunately the normal version is a top class disc for extras and most of the Ultimate extras seems to be DVD ROM stuff.
Granted I don't have a DVD DOM drive so a lot of that is useless to me but that's not the point. The point is that I, a fan of the first film, have been short changed with a lesser version that I could have got. Unlike my earlier rant, this problem is much more common. If there is going to be more than one version of a DVD then they should be released along side each other so that casual fans can get one and more serious fans can get the other - not so that people have to buy a second copy of the same film. It's just fans being ripped off again and, to be honest, I'm surprised at how surprised I am.
I don't intend to buy The Ultimate Mummy and I wouldn't do so for any film this happened for but there will be a lot of people who already own the first film who do.