THE THING 16x9: Is there supposed to be a booklet?

There's a pocket for one, but mine didn't have a booklet in it. Is there
one, or is this a weird packaging goof by Uni? And if there is one,
should I exchange my copy? I mean, am I missing anything jaw-droppingly
essential here?

Not wild about this digipak thing. Would rather have a keepcase any day.
But I'm glad the movie is anamorphic now anyway.

BNE

BNE wrote:

> There's a pocket for one, but mine didn't have a booklet in it. Is there
> one, or is this a weird packaging goof by Uni?

It doesn't have a booklet: see Josh Zyber's reply in this thread...

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HTH,

doug

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Douglas Bailey

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:08:52 GMT, BNE <> wrote:

>There's a pocket for one, but mine didn't have a booklet in it. Is there
>one, or is this a weird packaging goof by Uni? And if there is one,
>should I exchange my copy? I mean, am I missing anything jaw-droppingly
>essential here?
>
>Not wild about this digipak thing. Would rather have a keepcase any day.
>But I'm glad the movie is anamorphic now anyway.

I actually went to Dvdcompare on this (at someone's suggestion) and
the differences between versions are the new anamorphic transfer and
addition of a Spanish 5.1 track vs. non-anamorphic but with isolated
score track (accessed via one of the extras). Everything else is
shared on both versions, so it's the new transfer in a digipak vs. the
isolated score in an amaray. I also had the original, so I swapped
discs and kept the amaray case, but gave up the isolated score. No
sooner do we kill snappers than digipaks appear. Damnation!

fredman

BNE wrote:
> There's a pocket for one, but mine didn't have a booklet in it. Is
there
> one, or is this a weird packaging goof by Uni? And if there is one,
> should I exchange my copy? I mean, am I missing anything
jaw-droppingly
> essential here?
>
> Not wild about this digipak thing. Would rather have a keepcase any
day.
> But I'm glad the movie is anamorphic now anyway.
Does this dvd have forced trailers?

wondering...

-goro-

Ed Kim

In article < .com>,
"Ed Kim" <> wrote:

> Does this dvd have forced trailers?
>
> wondering...

No. Amazingly, Universal has done away with all forced trailers on their
more recent releases.

What's even more amazing about it is there hasn't been so much as a peep
about it in this group. That's a little strange when you take into
account that just 8 months ago, 4 out of every 10 posts here was about
Universal's forced trailers.

> -goro-
--
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people,
and neither do we." - George Dubya Bush

Vote Kerry 2004

Black Locust

Black Locust wrote:
> In article < .com>,
> "Ed Kim" <> wrote:
>
> > Does this dvd have forced trailers?
> >
> > wondering...
>
> No. Amazingly, Universal has done away with all forced trailers on
their
> more recent releases.
>
> What's even more amazing about it is there hasn't been so much as a
peep
> about it in this group. That's a little strange when you take into
> account that just 8 months ago, 4 out of every 10 posts here was
about
> Universal's forced trailers.

this is EXCELLENT NEWS!!!! i was on the Universal boycott, so i had
alrady decided to not buy the THING SE, but if the forced trailers are
gone, Uni's back in the game, babeeee!!!

-goro-

Ed Kim

Black Locust wrote:
> In article < .com>,
> "Ed Kim" <> wrote:
>
> > Does this dvd have forced trailers?
> >
> > wondering...
>
> No. Amazingly, Universal has done away with all forced trailers on
their
> more recent releases.
>
> What's even more amazing about it is there hasn't been so much as a
peep
> about it in this group. That's a little strange when you take into
> account that just 8 months ago, 4 out of every 10 posts here was
about
> Universal's forced trailers.
>
> > -goro-
> --
> "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.
> They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our
people,
> and neither do we." - George Dubya Bush
>
> Vote Kerry 2004

Ed Kim