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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.
I love (clueless) commentary tracks on really bad movies. So pompous and self-important.
I wish HP:PoA had Cuaron commentating--it would have been interesting.
The best commentaries usually involve two or more people in the same room, although if the editors do a good job, they can get a good single commentary track out of two or more participants being recorded separately. The two tracks on the Princess Bride SE disc aren't bad (Reiner and Goldman), but would have worked much better if they had been edited together and the more extraneous bits clipped out. The Willy Wonka one is cute (the five kids), but involves more on-the-set stories and obviously less stuff about the creation of the film. I will say that the designers track on the LotREE sets always put me to sleep, more due to Alan Lee's soporific voice than anything that's being said.
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.
lexine ... it's from IMDB. The "Studio Briefing" section dated December 1, 2004.
Oh, I read your question on blackberry and couldn't post then -- IMDB, and they get their stuff from Studio Briefing, so that's the copyright.
Perfect - ita, thanks!!!
See, my problem with Oliver Stone is that he's really not very good. I think he's only done two films that I liked, and the rest were such crap ret-conning of history that I just start twitching.
Natter might be a better place for this question, but I'm too far behind in that thread, so: I want to get the My So-Called Life DVDs for my mother for Christmas, but when I checked Amazon, they only had them used, starting at $229!! Didn't they just come out last year, for a reasonable price? What happened? Is Amazon just on crack? But there's a comment on the page from someone who says that people are scouring eBay for the DVDs and paying upwards of $250. That's just insane. Help!