Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 1.0
Extended Edition - DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!
Please direct your attention to the review directly preceding mine.If you're going to buy Gladiator then for heaven's sake buy this version.http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003CXE7/qid=1125353778/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-5526114-1392609?v=glance&s;=dvd&n;=507846Do not buy the extended version. The studios must be stopped from making these multiple versions of their movies on DVDs.Backbeat is released by the studio with only a 2.0 track on it then released later in 5.1. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas was giving similar treatment.If you have a home theatre system then you have even less reason to buy this extended edition. Where do the studios get off releasing a movie with a DTS track on it then releasing a longer version missing the DTS track? They tried to do this with The Bourne Identity. Guess which one I'm keeping? That's right, the DTS version. Gladiator has one of the best DTS tracks ever on it, everything is so clear and perfectly balanced. I'm sick of the way the studios keep screwing over the public by not releasing the "Special" edition as the normal edition.Gladiator DTS:ES 6.1 is the only version of this movie that should be released. Help teach the studios that they can't screw us around like this.EDIT - JAN 2011 - The newly re-mastered Blu-ray version is of course the version you should be buying, complete with both versions of the film and a lossless high resolution soundtrack. The initial Blu-ray has been replaced. DVD just doesn't cut it, the BLu-ray is miles better.