DVDs Packed With Extras
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Deffo the Alien Quadrilogy...it's enough to make a grown man drool!!!!Especially if you're as big a fan of the series as I am.
Doctor Who Series 1 Tardis Boxset thingy also has lots of lovely little things.
Terminator 3 actually has quite a lot aswell but I haven't even gotten round to seeing them yet.
And yes I too have the 4-Disc Titanic boxset. I was in a bit of a Titanic mood earlier in the year, especially after all those documentaries, thank you very much National Geographic!
Doctor Who Series 1 Tardis Boxset thingy also has lots of lovely little things.
Terminator 3 actually has quite a lot aswell but I haven't even gotten round to seeing them yet.
And yes I too have the 4-Disc Titanic boxset. I was in a bit of a Titanic mood earlier in the year, especially after all those documentaries, thank you very much National Geographic!
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How many people watch the extras more than once? I know there can be some good making of documentaries, the Jaws one springs to mind, but apart from that?
It's the same when they put the scripts on. I read them once, but I don't go out of my way to put the disc back in and read them again at a later date
The problem with extras is it is just a good excuse to re-release a film, and with me being a film fan, I want all those bonus features. I may only watch them once but a lot of them, especially on the Hitchcock DVRAB are worth watching at least once. At the end of the day, all that should matter is the film itself, but for that there was video
It's the same when they put the scripts on. I read them once, but I don't go out of my way to put the disc back in and read them again at a later date
The problem with extras is it is just a good excuse to re-release a film, and with me being a film fan, I want all those bonus features. I may only watch them once but a lot of them, especially on the Hitchcock DVRAB are worth watching at least once. At the end of the day, all that should matter is the film itself, but for that there was video
Actually (ahem) I often watch the good ones more than once. A good example is the documentary on Star Wars I TPM - a stunning docco, far more watchable than the film itself!
The greatest ever extra, bar none, however is the documentary The Hamster Factor on the DVD of Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys. I have watched that endless times (and the movie too!) It is made by the pair who then made Lost In La Mancha, an equally good movie with an even more spectacular story to tell.
Most extras are just studio promotional fluff or padding, but the occasional inspired commentary, documentary or deleted scene makes it all worthwhile.
The greatest ever extra, bar none, however is the documentary The Hamster Factor on the DVD of Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys. I have watched that endless times (and the movie too!) It is made by the pair who then made Lost In La Mancha, an equally good movie with an even more spectacular story to tell.
Most extras are just studio promotional fluff or padding, but the occasional inspired commentary, documentary or deleted scene makes it all worthwhile.
I recently got the Evil Dead Trilogy boxset. Excellent films, very good commentaries with Bruce Campbell. But annoyingly the box says it has the alternate ending to Evil Dead 3, yet IT DOESNT! Even more annoyingly there are short clips of this alternate ending in one of the documentaries, and it looks pretty spectacular. How could they show clips of the alternate ending but not put the actual alternate ending itself as an extra? Mucho annoying.
I find a lot of extras annoying. Most films only really need a half hour or so documentary to tell you everything you could need or want to know, and maybe ONE commentary with a couple of actors and the director.
I hate commentaries with more than a couple of people. If theres too many people they all end-up interrupting each other or just chatting without relevance to the film. Especially annoying are the "party atmosphere" commentaries where they all just giggle and laugh and make rubbish gags ie The Sweetest Thing, probably the worst commentary ever (I had to turn it off).
But I also dislike commentaries where they have recorded people separately and then edited them together, and try to fool you into believing the people were all in the same room ie The HOly Grail. EnRAB up with a weird disconnected atmosphere.
Also annoying is when they pack the disc out with all the promotional material for the film. We have already decided to buy the film....do we really need to see one of those crappy 15 minutes promo packages they show on ITv in the afternoons, with American actors licking each others arses about how great it was working with each other.
Also seems to be a trend to go into exhaustive detail on how every single special effect is realised. Computery geeks waffling on ad infinitum. Very uninteresting. I'd rather preserve the mystery, ta.
Well, I'm sure no-one really gives a stuff about my opinion on extras on DVRAB, but there it is anyway.
I find a lot of extras annoying. Most films only really need a half hour or so documentary to tell you everything you could need or want to know, and maybe ONE commentary with a couple of actors and the director.
I hate commentaries with more than a couple of people. If theres too many people they all end-up interrupting each other or just chatting without relevance to the film. Especially annoying are the "party atmosphere" commentaries where they all just giggle and laugh and make rubbish gags ie The Sweetest Thing, probably the worst commentary ever (I had to turn it off).
But I also dislike commentaries where they have recorded people separately and then edited them together, and try to fool you into believing the people were all in the same room ie The HOly Grail. EnRAB up with a weird disconnected atmosphere.
Also annoying is when they pack the disc out with all the promotional material for the film. We have already decided to buy the film....do we really need to see one of those crappy 15 minutes promo packages they show on ITv in the afternoons, with American actors licking each others arses about how great it was working with each other.
Also seems to be a trend to go into exhaustive detail on how every single special effect is realised. Computery geeks waffling on ad infinitum. Very uninteresting. I'd rather preserve the mystery, ta.
Well, I'm sure no-one really gives a stuff about my opinion on extras on DVRAB, but there it is anyway.