Yesterday, I was browsing at my local stroke shop and was pleasantly surprised to find DVD versions of the great BJ series
Shut Up and Blow Me back on the shelves.
Not just the first dozen or so volumes that have been re-released by Digital Playground, mind you, but the entire series up to Volume 30.
NOTE: I'm assuming most of us here remember All Good Video, the studio who produced Shut Up and Blow Me, was purchased by Odyssey Group Video who then went bankrupt
As a huge fan of the series, and after renting and viewing Volume 28, I immediately realized something wasn't right.
(1) Every other volume in this series I have ever rented or purchased (both VHS and DVD) normally runs about 1 hour and 40-50 minutes (i.e. 100-110 minutes). This DVD only runs 74 minutes.
Rog's review of this title (done from the VHS) shows a runtime of 100 minutes!
(2) The scenes are obviously edited (shortened).
MANY of the scenes start right in the middle of the action. The SU&BM series, on the other hand, was KNOWN for its opening set-ups and production values.
For example, action (the set-up) that Rog describes in his review of the Stevie scene doesn't appear here.
When the final scene with Aurora Snow finishes, we start to hear music (presumably leading to end credits which aren't here either) which then ends abruptly in mid note (snip).
Some scenes have the girl ID'd at the beginning (as the SU&BM series normally would), but most don't.
(3) The disk itself appears to be a pressed DVD... but it only has 2.9 GB of information on the disk (one would expect a single-layer studio DVD to contain 4 - 4.3 GB).
I own one original Digital Playground re-released SU&BM DVD (of Volume 11) and it has 4.31 GB of information. It also has the entire 108 minute feature.
The DVD disk art says "Copyright 2005 All Good Video."
How is this possible? AGV no longer exists... does it?
Didn't Digital Playground acquire the rights to the entire series?
One things for sure:
this is not an original AGV disk;
this is not an original AGV/OGV disk;
this is not a re-released Digital Playground disk
(DP is not referenced in any way, shape or form in the video or on the packaging).
My first reaction is that someone has decided to start bootlegging the SU&BM series... but I could be wrong.
Even if they were, we're talking about titles from a bankrupt company from a catalog that is owned by "whoever" (if anyone).
Does anyone know what is going on here?
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