News Flash: DVD speacial features no longer special
Special features are no longer special features. When will all the DVD manufacturers and Hollywood exec-types get it into their heads? These things were once special.. but no more! Remember those really big DVDs back in the 80′s?.. Some of us remember they had names like Laserdisc’s. To quote Mark from SLC Punk “This looks like a silver record, but it’s not a silver record.”. Point is, guess what, they had special features too.
From my crap filled perspective, to be termed special you need to provide something that is above and beyond what was expected by the consumer. At this point, additional DVD content is demanded by the public. To produce a DVD that does not have content besides the main film is to disappoint the home audience and possibly lose sales. So hey.. Quit calling them special already eh? Instead, only do it when you have something truly wonderful..
Calling them special at this point is like still calling ADD and ADHD a “disorder”. When enough of a given population exhibits the described characteristics, they become part of the norm. Where ADD/ADHD may never reach the point where the “Disorder” label is removed (we are already at that point, open your eyes) “Special Features” have reached that point where we should have en evolution in thought and reevaluate what is truly exceptional enough to brand it as such.
While I am ranting about obvious things, let me throw this out there. Movie trailers are not special. They are advertisements wasting precious bitrate space that could be used for higher quality films reproduction. Here is a thought, make the film have a higher quality production and hopefully that can make up for the lack of decent plot ideas we have been subjected to in the last 10 years.. If I have to hear about one more remake of an excellent foreign film, an old tv show, video game.. graphic novel…………… time told classic…… please.. no more little woman remakes etc.. we have had enough…
thanks and good day.
While I am ranting about obvious things, let me throw this out there. Movie trailers are not special. They are advertisements wasting precious bitrate space that could be used for higher quality films reproduction. Here is a thought, make the film have a higher quality production and hopefully that can make up for the lack of decent plot ideas we have been subjected to in the last 10 years.. If I have to hear about one more remake of an excellent foreign film, an old tv show, video game.. graphic novel…………… time told classic…… please.. no more little woman remakes etc.. we have had enough…
thanks and good day.
No shit! And the commentary! Who the fuck listens to that shit?! Seriously, are you really going to sit through the entire fucking movie again and listen to some asshole talk over it so that they can tell you what they were thinking when this scene was shot and that scene and the next scene and so on. Oh for fuck's sake!
ReplyDeleteThe only "special features" I look for on a dvd are as follows:
1. Alternate ending
2. Deleted scenes
3. Bloopers
I don't want or need any of that other bullshit.
Shocking! -roibflh9
ReplyDeletesee, alternate ending i think is special, because it doesnt always exist and it is something to get really interested in..
ReplyDeletecut scenes and bloopers are so common, just list them as features... we dont need more marketing telling something is special when it isnt.
thats all i really look for as well.. i think i have listened to two directors commentaires out of my whole collection... and both times were to try and get info about a specific scene. i didnt sit through the whole movie.
The Fight Club commentary was really good.
ReplyDeleteAnd I sent you a PM. It contains the not-set-in-stone itinerary for our trip.
And holy shit! You got the new picture gallery up! I fucking love it, and I plan to use zenphoto for something now.
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