Would you pay $1,000 for a Blu-Ray?

This kinda says it all.

How much is a good Blu-Ray worth? Universal Studios certainly hopes that $999.99 isn't pushing it too far. According to /Film September 6th is the date that you'll have the opportunity to show the world just how much you love Scarface with a Limited '1000 copy run' edition on Blu-Ray. What could this possibly come with for a grand? Considering the movie in question, I struggle to imagine anything short of a truck full of finely cut cocaine would live up to such a price.
But that's not what you get. No, you get something arguably better. You get a " hand-painted humidor crafted out of untreated Spanish cedar". One of only 1000! It's entirely possible I may have just died a little inside.
Honestly, I can't begin to fathom the idiocy involved here, They're charging $999.99 for a Blu-Ray with some new extras and the crux of the deal is that you get a goddamn box? There is no way that a responsible studio can justify trying to make almost $1million on a thousand wooden boxes, I don't care if they were hand-crafted by Al Pacino from the wood of his recent acting. It doesn't help that the extras sound just as unrewarding; a scorecard that keeps count of uses of the word 'fuck' and the amount of bullets fired? It's not as if the internet hasn't had this sort of miscellaneous-meets-ridiculous information covered since the birth of online geekery.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a sucker for special editions. Regardless or not of whether I'll watch them, I'll always buy the maximum amount of discs available with a movie and yes, I was the guy who bought the Night Vision Goggles edition of Modern Warfare 2. I'm not proud of it. But this...this is my limit. I'm making a statement and putting down a firm answer to Universal's (literal) million dollar question:
No.

Originally posted on Screened.com on March 29th, 2011