I don't know much about Nixon but I'm really looking forward to this movie. I'm gonna start it probably in 50 mins or so. I'll post later tonight what I thought of it

Look at the version of Casino that the UK gets

yea, we in germany too :p

AH! I just watched my copy last night, and it skips right around the part where Nicky comes back to the casino after being blacklisted! I didn't stick around to see how the rest of the video quality was...

I'm exchanging this for another copy today, and it better work!

Lots of people are have problems with the new Casino, there are a couple of threads at IMDB about this also.

Man, Universal better get their shit together... :rolleyes:

You're telling me. I wrote them a letter voicing my disproval. The very first preview is for The Big Lebowski Special Edition out later this year and I bet you they screw that up just like they screwed up Casino

YESSSSS! A "Big Lebowski" Special Edition. Damn, I wouldve bought 3 or 4 current DVD releases if you didn't announce the Special Editions
Is there a problem with checking a disc before selling it? Of course, they cant play the whole disc through, but if the original didn't have a problem, why would the rest of the copies have. I have the same problem with Gladiator and many others...

I don't know. Mine worked and everybody else's doesn't seem to. You can purchase it and look at the disc before you leave the store. As to if they'll let you view it to make sure, it depends if the store has a DVD player or not

Well this is bizzare... All of a sudden mine works now. It's a good thing I tried it again, before returning it.

Huh? That's weird. What are you playing it on, PS2, DVD player? I hope this convinces Universal to NEVER again release a double-sided disc They're just more trouble than they are worth

Well, last night I played it on a DVD player, but today I played it on a differant DVD player.

It still doesn't make sense though, because while they may have been seperate DVD player's they were the exact same model of DVD player's.

Who knows? It's a Universal DVD. I wouldn't put anything past them now. That company has gone to sh*t the past 2 years or so. They used to be my favorite DVD company but now my worst

Well my Aunt is a top executive at the NBC-Universal merge, so I'm afraid to bad-mouth them. :p

Are you serious!?

Yeah... I get alot of my Universal DVD's for free. Not a bad deal, considering the recent batches are pieces of shit...

Unfortunately I did not Casino for free, due to the fact that it was a fairly anticipated new release, and they weren't handing them out to their employee's, but I've gotten quite a few other DVD's from them for free. I got all those Legacy Monster sets for free... You know, the ones with the old school Frankenstein and Dracula, and what not. Pretty cool.

Wow man, that's not a sweet deal! Hey next time you talk to her ask her to put booklets in with the DVDs, stop putting those stupid latches ont he side of the DVD, and for goodness sake, make a double disc DVD instead of a double sided DVD! But seriously if you do talk to her ask her if she knows when The Big Lebowski Special Edition DVD is due out? There's a preview for it on the Casino DVD and a web site, but the site just redirects you to Universal and it has no information on it. Didn't know if she maybe had "inside" information

Yeah, I'll make sure to check things out.

Cool, and ah if you kick any of that info this way, it'd be much appreciated

I initially intended to buy this release, but now I think I'll wait for the two-disc one next month: http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&...26k%3D%26x%3D14 %26y%3D12

Regardless, I've wondered about the DVD with "Back home...", the documentary about Spilotro, Rosenthal, the real events behind "Casino" and Pileggi's book, etc. I was interested in it, initially, but it's only about 20 minutes long, and yet it costs *more* than a normal film. I doubt it's worth purchasing for that price (and I was hoping it would be among the extras in the new release...). Still, if someone watched the "Back home..." DVD, I would be interested in reading some detailed descriptions...

It's pretty much the same thing as the single disc edition...

It is. Cooler packaging though. I'd get it, if it weren't a Region 2 disk, and incapible of working on a U.S. DVD player.

i really like the documentaries in the special features though

I hate those "flippers!" I just got the Casino Anniversary Edition last Saturday and was disappointed not to see two discs in the case. The same thing happened when I got Goodfellas... Maybe it is just a Scorsese thing?

i thought there'd be more than 2 Deleted Scenes?

i briefly looked through it and only thought there was only 2.

They have a 2-Disc edition of Goodfellas out now.