A per-rental fee sounds like it would work out better all around though - more money to the studios on high traffic rentals, and it encourages stores to stock riskier independent fare because they're not getting soaked for as much if people turn out to not be interested in that particular movie.

Plus, with DVDs, you can just say to yourself, "I want to see that scene in The Mask where they do the big dance number in the street," without having to fast forward through everything

I know it's a minority opinion round here, but I really love Y Tu Mama Tambien. It just works for me.

I also really liked it. Like Robin, I appreciated the contrast between what we were seeing and what the voiceovers were telling us -- it was the factor that made the movie more than "Threesome in Mexico" for me.

I have examined this statement in depth and the market as a whole and I can only come to one conclusion:

Oliver Stone is a dick.

And again Robin speaks for me. Maybe he didn't like VHS either, and the shift to DVD has given him an opportunity to spout off? He might believe movies only count if you see them In the Theatre.

Which is nice if you can find a theater that will show me Ginger Snaps II (or Citizen Kane, for that matter) at 11 a.m. on a Sunday while I recline in my jammies.

I still see movies I'm interested in at the theater. All DVD does is make foreign films and indies that don't run in my area available to me after the fact.

DVDs have opened up way more media viewing for me, both in movies and tv (the last few episodes of Firefly come immediately to mind). I'm really looking forward to getting Netflix (it's my "finally out of debt" reward).

ita - where did you pull that quote regarding Oliver Stone from? I have to do a thing on logic fallacies and that would be a good one to use, but I need the source.

I'm a fan of the DVD format because I love the extras, especially the commentaries, at least when they're well-done. My favorite commentaries (outside the LotR movies) are on the Ultimate Toy Box set (the Toy Story 2 one is especially hilarious). Some of the more boring ones where the first Matrix film and 1776 (I hate it when the commentator does little more than say, "And this is where this character says, 'Such-and-such'" just as the character says just that. Tell me something I don't already know from watching the film!

I can possibly see some filmmakers not being crazy over the dawn of dvd because of some of the extras- having deleted scenes and outtakes being considered a standard part of the package, when the director wanted the finished product to stand on its own.

But a filmmaker upset that their film is more available? That's lame. A market flooded with shitty movies shouldn't render anyone incapable of making quality films.

I'm really looking forward to getting Netflix

That whole return by postpaid mailer when you want to thing is just SO good!

Oh, with you all the way Kathy. But worse than the Matrix I extras? Were the Harry Potter I extras. InTERMinable blahblah, some of it.