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When I first started getting into DVD's a couple of years ago, I tended to view nearly all the extra's, but lately I've found that I just can't be arsed to watch them - more so if the extra's are on a seperate disc as I prefer to put on a another film.
Having looked through the DVD's I have, I've noticed quite a few where the 2nd disc hasn't even left the box yet, and it's got to the point where unless I really like a film (like LOTR, where I may watch some of them) then the extra's just don't get watched.
Anyone else feel like this? Or am I the odd one out here?
I luv me extras esp. commentaries, documentaries (apart from the 'ass kissing' ones), & deleted scenes but for some films I can quite happily do without them.
Originally posted by pompeyfan
When I first started getting into DVD's a couple of years ago, I tended to view nearly all the extra's, but lately I've found that I just can't be arsed to watch them - more so if the extra's are on a seperate disc as I prefer to put on a another film.
Having looked through the DVD's I have, I've noticed quite a few where the 2nd disc hasn't even left the box yet, and it's got to the point where unless I really like a film (like LOTR, where I may watch some of them) then the extra's just don't get watched.
Anyone else feel like this? Or am I the odd one out here? That pretty much sums me up completely.
I used to make myself watch all the extras even if they were boring. Now I usually watch just the deleted scenes and sometimes a couple of other things.
There are plenty of DVDs that I've bought specific regions of for the extras - and I've never actually watched the extras :confused:
I simply don't get TIME to watch a lot of 'extras' - it's not that I don't WANT to...
(Sometimes I'm more in the mood for a doc than a film, then I try and cherry-pick!)
I seem to listen to HARDLY ANY commentaries...
:smokin:
I always watch the deleted scenes, and I like to be able to see a documentary style program on the film (eg, from TPM, or Platoon SE).
However, even though I'm more likely to go for a film with a commentary, I hardly ever listen to them. When it comes to the crunch, I usually go for another film :)
The only reason I got into DVDs were for the audio commentaries that I saw available on expensive laserdiscs.
However I like them to be as technical as possible and many fail to live up to this, so I have less patience with them and will turn off if they are not decent within 20-30 mins.
Better picture + sound are nice, but they alone would not have been enough to make me switch until the players got down to the prices that they are now (which is why I never got into laserdiscs)
However the ability to have TV series on one slim little disc is fantastic and for releases like that I'm not bothered if there are extras (though saying that I love the new Red Dwarf release!)
Originally posted by pompeyfan
Having looked through the DVD's I have, I've noticed quite a few where the 2nd disc hasn't even left the box yet, and it's got to the point where unless I really like a film (like LOTR, where I may watch some of them) then the extra's just don't get watched.
Anyone else feel like this? Or am I the odd one out here?
I've just done this (looked through my collection) and there is only 2 dvd films I watched the extras LOTR & Blade 2.
So no-your not the odd one out Pompeyfan;)
cheers Steve
I also fall into this trap of wanting the best available version of a film, and then rarely do I get as far as watching the extra discs with the majority of the dvds that I own.
Maybe when I have watched every dvd in my collection I will dedicate more time to going through the extras. ;)
At first I was all for extras and used to watch them all. However, I only really watch the extras if they appeal to me, it's more about the films for me than anything else. The only commenteries I've listened to are John Carpenter on The Fog and Amanda Winn Lee on the two Neon Genesis Evangelion movies. However, as soon as I get my Evil Dead Book of the Dead back from a friend, I'll be listening to that commentary, Bruce Campbell is just so funny to listen to :)
I usually just watch the deleated scenes.I did get through most of the Terminator 2 ultimate ed set though.I recently watched all the extra's on the BTTF trilogy due mainly to having no sky for the weekend so it halped pass the time.
I think that it depends on the quality of the extras. There is a lot of "filler" out there!!
I got the Bond Tin this week and have been really impressed with the documentaries on each disk. The "making of" extra's are absolutely superb!!
Head and shoulders above these "HBO special's":rolleyes: IMO
:)
Quite a lot of discs have a large number of extras but with the depth of a puddle and I normally just skip through those or stop watching them after only a few minutes, but some discs have fantastic extras that really do add to my enjoyment of the film, such as the documentary on the Blues Brothers disc, and the extras on many of the Kevin Smith dvds.
I don't religiously watch extras any more - I've got quite a few dvds where I haven't watched any of them, but I intend to browse through them all at some point.
I watch all the extras but I admit some of them only in order to say that I've watched them all.
A lot of the photo galleries are filler and mainly just stills from the film - completely pointless, if I wanted that I'd press pause throughout the frickin' movie. Storyboards are interesting for a minute or two but too many frames can get a bit much.
I've only ever listened to a few full commentaries. I've got enough DVDs that it would take me for ever to get through all the commentaries. Sometimes I might dip into the commentary for a few minutes at an interesting point of the film.
Cheers,
longfellow
Good extras are always worth watching! Sadly they are the exception rather than the rule! Alien, Fight Club, Seven, Magnolia, The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Dancer in the Dark, Brazil criterion, Starship Troopers come to mind immediately for quality extra features.
I haven't listened to the commentary yet, nor delved ito the comic book info, but I was really disappointed with the extra material on the Spider-man disc - usual backslapping, mutual masturbatory HBO crap - all the more disappointing when you consider the amount of money Sony have made from the film and will continue to do so through dvd and video sales :rolleyes:
Andrew
I watch a lot of DVDs and also use my Gamecube quite a lot too, so I don't have enough time to sitt hrough every extra. I usually just watch the extras that really interest me, but if I end up without any films I feel like watching or games I feel like playing I will often put some of the less interesting extras on. I often flick through them while I'm doing something else, so I can find out if they're more interestng than I thought. With films that I really like, such as LOTR, I will always get the version with lots of extras, and make time to watch them.
I usually just watch the extras when I know I aint got time to watch a film but theres crap all on the TV anyway. So if theres a spare half hour or so before I go to bed or whatever then I tend to watch the extras then :)
I have a few DVDs where the extras have gone unwatched, but in general I like to work my way through all the extras.
I even occasionally watch a film, then record the commentary on my walkman to listen to on the way to/from work the next day whilst the film is still fresh in my head (makes a change from XFM every day!).
:nuts:
The extras were the main selling point of DVD for me, so to neglect them would be criminal! A decent commentary or 'making of' documentary can completely change your perspective of a movie, and even make you appreciate films you didn't appreciate previously.
Having said that, I have also encountered a few commentaries that are off the scale of my dull-o-meter.
:)
Yeah I rarely get the time to watch any extras or listen to an audio commentry , I've still got to finish off listening to the John Carpenter ones on They Live and The Fog as its the only John Carpenter commentries I make a point of listening to , I think most of us are the same on the forums we bitch about the lack of extras yet most of us rarely watch them anymore :)
Yeah, I don't usually bother with extras for the latest releases, unless it's Star Wars or something.
I love extras for old films I love, like BTTF for example. I mainly like commentaries, making ofs, and Trailers are must haves. But yes, loads of features go unwatched and in some cases the whole second disc as you say.
I always watch them, but sometimes I ask:
'Why do there have to be so many?' when I'm not in the mood to watch all of them.
The best extra is 'deleted scenes' and sometimes 'commentary' as some of the commetaries I've listened to have been a waste of time.
The extras i bother with is the commentaries, dleted scenes and sometimes a documentry if i like the film.
tend to always read the actor profiles and the text based stuff.
some deleted scenes, but not all, and generally wonder why they were cut:)
trailers...hardly ever...i mean whats the point? you either are about to watch the film in which case the trailer spoils it, or you just have and you already know what the films about.
commentaries, occasionally...although mainly due to peoples recommendations on this forum.
features...well I don;t like the crappy HBo stylie ones, but I really like the Hans Zimmer one on Gladiator, so some times I just hope, but most of the time I don;t bother.
If I have a lot of time on my hands, I will go through every extra on the disc, to feel like I'm getting my money's worth.
But I have finally realised how frickin' boring that is. Now I will not bother watching featurettes that are obviously just promotional fluff. I will only watch documentaries that look like they will genuinely teach me things I didn't know. I watchd eleted scenes of course, because they are interesting. As for commentary tracks, I will read reviews of the DVD, and if the reviewers say a commentary track is boring I won't bother listening to it. I love good commentary tracks though.
I have never watched a complete disc's set of extra's, and this includes a disc that only includes a trailer and filmographies etc.
Never listened to ANY Director's commentary(my view is, whats the point of watching the film again and spoiling it with someone talking over all the story/action).
The only part of any commentary I have EVER listened to, was part way through First Blood, just to confirm what the hey Stallone says when asked "what do you hunt with a knife ?".Can't even remember the answer now, but it sounds like, aaaaaaamun.
I even bought the R2 version of Black Hawk Down after getting the pretty much extra's free Region 1 version.Someone tell me why the heck I bothered when I don't watch the extra's anyway ?.Come to think of it, why did I buy Matrix Revisited ?????.
Dohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Any psychologists out there care to explain this behaviour ?.Best I can think is it's like collecting Dvd's for collectings sake.Still, aint hurting no-one (just the bank balance) so no real probs.
Originally posted by RDNZL
I luv me extras esp. commentaries, documentaries (apart from the 'ass kissing' ones), & deleted scenes
Me too - I even like the ass-kissing ones :D :nuts:
I used to watch the trailers but don't bother now and I once watched Criterions Seven Samurai with the commentary on. I've got about a dozen other Criterion discs and never bothered with the extras.
I've had a desire to watch the Kubrick Documentary disc that came with the boxset but despite having bought the boxset over a year ago I still haven't got round to watching the documentary. I've never, ever touched the 2nd disc on any of the 2 disc DVD's I've bought.
I've bought the Spider-Man Collectors Edition and as a big time spidey fanatic I hope to get the 2nd disc out and explore what's on it, which will be a first. I'll also be watching the Stan Lee Mutants & Monsters disc that came with it as well, although I'm a little bit put off because Kevin Smith also features on the DVD. I'm also fairly certain that I'll be exploring some of the extras on the LOTR 4 disc set.
I totally agree with 1st poster - on most films I can't be bothered I'd rather put another film on.
I did start by saying I'll watch them at some other time, but if your anything like me you've got about 20-30 films to see yet and as soon as you watch one you tend to receive another through the post, or see another bargain you just can't miss. Therefore some other time becomes never.:oh-hum:
Daz
Same as most.Cannot be bothered or dont have the time.Would rather watch another one.
Apart from War.I will watch all of the extras.
I usually watch the deleted scenes on some.
Have to agree with most that I don't bother with the extras much. I do tend to take a look at deleted scenes and those extras that offer details on the film & don't drag on to much or are overly self praising but commentaries I just can't seem to spare the time for.
I used to watch all the extras religiously in the early days of DVD and now they, like many others here, remain unwatched. I think that:
1- the novelty of DVD extras have worn off
2- there is so much choice now, I rarely have enough time to watch a film straight away let alone the extras
I don't usually bother with extras any more, haven't watched a commentary in months.
Originally posted by rfawley
I usually just watch the extras when I know I aint got time to watch a film but theres crap all on the TV anyway. So if theres a spare half hour or so before I go to bed or whatever then I tend to watch the extras then :)
Me too. I`ll put on some Documentry that is about 20 mins or so (avioding The Thing and The Matrix Docs for example, as they are as long, or longer than the films are :))
For me, first comes the film, then the transfer, then the extras. If the film is available uncut in R1, R2 and R4, and has a decent transfer in all three of these regions (as they are the main ones I buy from), then I start worrying about which one has the better extras. I love the extras, but I wouldn't let them take precedence over the movie: for example, I wouldn't buy a censored movie just to get an extra theatrical trailer.
That said, I have (to date) watched all the extras on all my DVDs right through, some several times. (Although my collection is only about 70 DVDs. I can see why people with hundreds of discs might have a problem making the time to see them all.)
The last thing I want to see is a return to the days of bare-bones releases (a la VHS) or bare-bones discs priced regularly and super-expensive extras-laden discs. To me, Columbia Tristar's "Superbit" scam is an ugly reminder of what could happen.
To me, Columbia Tristar's "Superbit" scam is an ugly reminder of what could happen.
To be honest a properly done version of SuperBit would be ok, I would rather the disc was taken up by a DTS track, DD track and picture and then extras like subtitles and features.
I'm still not sure why discs have a DD 5.1 and DD 2 tracks though
Originally posted by cjb110
[b]To be honest a properly done version of SuperBit would be okSo far, all the Superbits I've seen struggle to fill two thirds of the disc and many of them have below-average bit rates. I'd have nothing against Superbit titles if they genuinely did offer something that the competition didn't, but when I look at titles like Panic Room all I see is the complete cold-heartedness of the distributor, trying to sucker people into buying first this and then (no doubt) an over-priced collector's edition a few months later.
I have to say that I'm a big extras fan.
Especially Behind the scenes documentaries, Deleted Scenes.
Don't listen to commentaries all the time but I could do without all the Stills Galleries and production notes, I just find these a bit tedious.
Love the Theatrical Trailers, especially for the older flicks. . .Cool !
Hats off to Disney DVD's as their special editions are cram packed with goodies.
Originally posted by Whiggles
So far, all the Superbits I've seen struggle to fill two thirds of the disc and many of them have below-average bit rates. I'd have nothing against Superbit titles if they genuinely did offer something that the competition didn't, but when I look at titles like Panic Room all I see is the complete cold-heartedness of the distributor, trying to sucker people into buying first this and then (no doubt) an over-priced collector's edition a few months later.
umm the air force one and desperado definitely have a higher bit rate video according to powerdvd...but agreed they are abusing it now.
I try to listen to the commentarys at least once if they are available and watch most of the extras once but i rarely if ever watch them again.
I'm a complete sucker for extras, if I already own a crappy first release of a movie I'm still likely to buy a newer version with more extras when it comes out. And if I buy a dvd and its a movie I've already seen then I almost always go for the extras first, sometimes even putting off watching the movies if I don't have time for both.
Allot of my DVD collection is based solely on movies that seemed to have awesome extras, I mean if theres a movie that I really like but its bare bones when it comes to the extras then I might pass it up for something thats not quite as great but has really good extra features. I think this might be because of my interest in the film industry, I can see how some of the extra stuff (documentary's, storyboards, commentaries, etc..) could be boring to allot people, I personally though love hearing what a director personally thinks about a particular scene, or how that scene was taken from paper to film.
My favorite features are probably the amateur behind the scenes type documentary's where they look like they were just filmed by some guy walking around with a camcorder. They don't seem rehearsed and just really shows what its truly like behind the scenes of a movie.
:thumbs:
Having looked through the DVD's I have, I've noticed quite a few where the 2nd disc hasn't even left the box yet, and it's got to the point where unless I really like a film (like LOTR, where I may watch some of them) then the extra's just don't get watched.
Anyone else feel like this? Or am I the odd one out here?
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I luv me extras esp. commentaries, documentaries (apart from the 'ass kissing' ones), & deleted scenes but for some films I can quite happily do without them.
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Originally posted by pompeyfan
When I first started getting into DVD's a couple of years ago, I tended to view nearly all the extra's, but lately I've found that I just can't be arsed to watch them - more so if the extra's are on a seperate disc as I prefer to put on a another film.
Having looked through the DVD's I have, I've noticed quite a few where the 2nd disc hasn't even left the box yet, and it's got to the point where unless I really like a film (like LOTR, where I may watch some of them) then the extra's just don't get watched.
Anyone else feel like this? Or am I the odd one out here? That pretty much sums me up completely.
I used to make myself watch all the extras even if they were boring. Now I usually watch just the deleted scenes and sometimes a couple of other things.
There are plenty of DVDs that I've bought specific regions of for the extras - and I've never actually watched the extras :confused:
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I simply don't get TIME to watch a lot of 'extras' - it's not that I don't WANT to...
(Sometimes I'm more in the mood for a doc than a film, then I try and cherry-pick!)
I seem to listen to HARDLY ANY commentaries...
:smokin:
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I always watch the deleted scenes, and I like to be able to see a documentary style program on the film (eg, from TPM, or Platoon SE).
However, even though I'm more likely to go for a film with a commentary, I hardly ever listen to them. When it comes to the crunch, I usually go for another film :)
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The only reason I got into DVDs were for the audio commentaries that I saw available on expensive laserdiscs.
However I like them to be as technical as possible and many fail to live up to this, so I have less patience with them and will turn off if they are not decent within 20-30 mins.
Better picture + sound are nice, but they alone would not have been enough to make me switch until the players got down to the prices that they are now (which is why I never got into laserdiscs)
However the ability to have TV series on one slim little disc is fantastic and for releases like that I'm not bothered if there are extras (though saying that I love the new Red Dwarf release!)
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Originally posted by pompeyfan
Having looked through the DVD's I have, I've noticed quite a few where the 2nd disc hasn't even left the box yet, and it's got to the point where unless I really like a film (like LOTR, where I may watch some of them) then the extra's just don't get watched.
Anyone else feel like this? Or am I the odd one out here?
I've just done this (looked through my collection) and there is only 2 dvd films I watched the extras LOTR & Blade 2.
So no-your not the odd one out Pompeyfan;)
cheers Steve
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I also fall into this trap of wanting the best available version of a film, and then rarely do I get as far as watching the extra discs with the majority of the dvds that I own.
Maybe when I have watched every dvd in my collection I will dedicate more time to going through the extras. ;)
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At first I was all for extras and used to watch them all. However, I only really watch the extras if they appeal to me, it's more about the films for me than anything else. The only commenteries I've listened to are John Carpenter on The Fog and Amanda Winn Lee on the two Neon Genesis Evangelion movies. However, as soon as I get my Evil Dead Book of the Dead back from a friend, I'll be listening to that commentary, Bruce Campbell is just so funny to listen to :)
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I usually just watch the deleated scenes.I did get through most of the Terminator 2 ultimate ed set though.I recently watched all the extra's on the BTTF trilogy due mainly to having no sky for the weekend so it halped pass the time.
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I think that it depends on the quality of the extras. There is a lot of "filler" out there!!
I got the Bond Tin this week and have been really impressed with the documentaries on each disk. The "making of" extra's are absolutely superb!!
Head and shoulders above these "HBO special's":rolleyes: IMO
:)
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Quite a lot of discs have a large number of extras but with the depth of a puddle and I normally just skip through those or stop watching them after only a few minutes, but some discs have fantastic extras that really do add to my enjoyment of the film, such as the documentary on the Blues Brothers disc, and the extras on many of the Kevin Smith dvds.
I don't religiously watch extras any more - I've got quite a few dvds where I haven't watched any of them, but I intend to browse through them all at some point.
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I watch all the extras but I admit some of them only in order to say that I've watched them all.
A lot of the photo galleries are filler and mainly just stills from the film - completely pointless, if I wanted that I'd press pause throughout the frickin' movie. Storyboards are interesting for a minute or two but too many frames can get a bit much.
I've only ever listened to a few full commentaries. I've got enough DVDs that it would take me for ever to get through all the commentaries. Sometimes I might dip into the commentary for a few minutes at an interesting point of the film.
Cheers,
longfellow
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Good extras are always worth watching! Sadly they are the exception rather than the rule! Alien, Fight Club, Seven, Magnolia, The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Dancer in the Dark, Brazil criterion, Starship Troopers come to mind immediately for quality extra features.
I haven't listened to the commentary yet, nor delved ito the comic book info, but I was really disappointed with the extra material on the Spider-man disc - usual backslapping, mutual masturbatory HBO crap - all the more disappointing when you consider the amount of money Sony have made from the film and will continue to do so through dvd and video sales :rolleyes:
Andrew
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I watch a lot of DVDs and also use my Gamecube quite a lot too, so I don't have enough time to sitt hrough every extra. I usually just watch the extras that really interest me, but if I end up without any films I feel like watching or games I feel like playing I will often put some of the less interesting extras on. I often flick through them while I'm doing something else, so I can find out if they're more interestng than I thought. With films that I really like, such as LOTR, I will always get the version with lots of extras, and make time to watch them.
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I usually just watch the extras when I know I aint got time to watch a film but theres crap all on the TV anyway. So if theres a spare half hour or so before I go to bed or whatever then I tend to watch the extras then :)
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I have a few DVDs where the extras have gone unwatched, but in general I like to work my way through all the extras.
I even occasionally watch a film, then record the commentary on my walkman to listen to on the way to/from work the next day whilst the film is still fresh in my head (makes a change from XFM every day!).
:nuts:
The extras were the main selling point of DVD for me, so to neglect them would be criminal! A decent commentary or 'making of' documentary can completely change your perspective of a movie, and even make you appreciate films you didn't appreciate previously.
Having said that, I have also encountered a few commentaries that are off the scale of my dull-o-meter.
:)
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Yeah I rarely get the time to watch any extras or listen to an audio commentry , I've still got to finish off listening to the John Carpenter ones on They Live and The Fog as its the only John Carpenter commentries I make a point of listening to , I think most of us are the same on the forums we bitch about the lack of extras yet most of us rarely watch them anymore :)
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Yeah, I don't usually bother with extras for the latest releases, unless it's Star Wars or something.
I love extras for old films I love, like BTTF for example. I mainly like commentaries, making ofs, and Trailers are must haves. But yes, loads of features go unwatched and in some cases the whole second disc as you say.
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I always watch them, but sometimes I ask:
'Why do there have to be so many?' when I'm not in the mood to watch all of them.
The best extra is 'deleted scenes' and sometimes 'commentary' as some of the commetaries I've listened to have been a waste of time.
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The extras i bother with is the commentaries, dleted scenes and sometimes a documentry if i like the film.
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tend to always read the actor profiles and the text based stuff.
some deleted scenes, but not all, and generally wonder why they were cut:)
trailers...hardly ever...i mean whats the point? you either are about to watch the film in which case the trailer spoils it, or you just have and you already know what the films about.
commentaries, occasionally...although mainly due to peoples recommendations on this forum.
features...well I don;t like the crappy HBo stylie ones, but I really like the Hans Zimmer one on Gladiator, so some times I just hope, but most of the time I don;t bother.
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If I have a lot of time on my hands, I will go through every extra on the disc, to feel like I'm getting my money's worth.
But I have finally realised how frickin' boring that is. Now I will not bother watching featurettes that are obviously just promotional fluff. I will only watch documentaries that look like they will genuinely teach me things I didn't know. I watchd eleted scenes of course, because they are interesting. As for commentary tracks, I will read reviews of the DVD, and if the reviewers say a commentary track is boring I won't bother listening to it. I love good commentary tracks though.
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I have never watched a complete disc's set of extra's, and this includes a disc that only includes a trailer and filmographies etc.
Never listened to ANY Director's commentary(my view is, whats the point of watching the film again and spoiling it with someone talking over all the story/action).
The only part of any commentary I have EVER listened to, was part way through First Blood, just to confirm what the hey Stallone says when asked "what do you hunt with a knife ?".Can't even remember the answer now, but it sounds like, aaaaaaamun.
I even bought the R2 version of Black Hawk Down after getting the pretty much extra's free Region 1 version.Someone tell me why the heck I bothered when I don't watch the extra's anyway ?.Come to think of it, why did I buy Matrix Revisited ?????.
Dohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Any psychologists out there care to explain this behaviour ?.Best I can think is it's like collecting Dvd's for collectings sake.Still, aint hurting no-one (just the bank balance) so no real probs.
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Originally posted by RDNZL
I luv me extras esp. commentaries, documentaries (apart from the 'ass kissing' ones), & deleted scenes
Me too - I even like the ass-kissing ones :D :nuts:
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I used to watch the trailers but don't bother now and I once watched Criterions Seven Samurai with the commentary on. I've got about a dozen other Criterion discs and never bothered with the extras.
I've had a desire to watch the Kubrick Documentary disc that came with the boxset but despite having bought the boxset over a year ago I still haven't got round to watching the documentary. I've never, ever touched the 2nd disc on any of the 2 disc DVD's I've bought.
I've bought the Spider-Man Collectors Edition and as a big time spidey fanatic I hope to get the 2nd disc out and explore what's on it, which will be a first. I'll also be watching the Stan Lee Mutants & Monsters disc that came with it as well, although I'm a little bit put off because Kevin Smith also features on the DVD. I'm also fairly certain that I'll be exploring some of the extras on the LOTR 4 disc set.
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I totally agree with 1st poster - on most films I can't be bothered I'd rather put another film on.
I did start by saying I'll watch them at some other time, but if your anything like me you've got about 20-30 films to see yet and as soon as you watch one you tend to receive another through the post, or see another bargain you just can't miss. Therefore some other time becomes never.:oh-hum:
Daz
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Same as most.Cannot be bothered or dont have the time.Would rather watch another one.
Apart from War.I will watch all of the extras.
I usually watch the deleted scenes on some.
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Have to agree with most that I don't bother with the extras much. I do tend to take a look at deleted scenes and those extras that offer details on the film & don't drag on to much or are overly self praising but commentaries I just can't seem to spare the time for.
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I used to watch all the extras religiously in the early days of DVD and now they, like many others here, remain unwatched. I think that:
1- the novelty of DVD extras have worn off
2- there is so much choice now, I rarely have enough time to watch a film straight away let alone the extras
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I don't usually bother with extras any more, haven't watched a commentary in months.
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Originally posted by rfawley
I usually just watch the extras when I know I aint got time to watch a film but theres crap all on the TV anyway. So if theres a spare half hour or so before I go to bed or whatever then I tend to watch the extras then :)
Me too. I`ll put on some Documentry that is about 20 mins or so (avioding The Thing and The Matrix Docs for example, as they are as long, or longer than the films are :))
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For me, first comes the film, then the transfer, then the extras. If the film is available uncut in R1, R2 and R4, and has a decent transfer in all three of these regions (as they are the main ones I buy from), then I start worrying about which one has the better extras. I love the extras, but I wouldn't let them take precedence over the movie: for example, I wouldn't buy a censored movie just to get an extra theatrical trailer.
That said, I have (to date) watched all the extras on all my DVDs right through, some several times. (Although my collection is only about 70 DVDs. I can see why people with hundreds of discs might have a problem making the time to see them all.)
The last thing I want to see is a return to the days of bare-bones releases (a la VHS) or bare-bones discs priced regularly and super-expensive extras-laden discs. To me, Columbia Tristar's "Superbit" scam is an ugly reminder of what could happen.
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To me, Columbia Tristar's "Superbit" scam is an ugly reminder of what could happen.
To be honest a properly done version of SuperBit would be ok, I would rather the disc was taken up by a DTS track, DD track and picture and then extras like subtitles and features.
I'm still not sure why discs have a DD 5.1 and DD 2 tracks though
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Originally posted by cjb110
[b]To be honest a properly done version of SuperBit would be okSo far, all the Superbits I've seen struggle to fill two thirds of the disc and many of them have below-average bit rates. I'd have nothing against Superbit titles if they genuinely did offer something that the competition didn't, but when I look at titles like Panic Room all I see is the complete cold-heartedness of the distributor, trying to sucker people into buying first this and then (no doubt) an over-priced collector's edition a few months later.
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I have to say that I'm a big extras fan.
Especially Behind the scenes documentaries, Deleted Scenes.
Don't listen to commentaries all the time but I could do without all the Stills Galleries and production notes, I just find these a bit tedious.
Love the Theatrical Trailers, especially for the older flicks. . .Cool !
Hats off to Disney DVD's as their special editions are cram packed with goodies.
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Originally posted by Whiggles
So far, all the Superbits I've seen struggle to fill two thirds of the disc and many of them have below-average bit rates. I'd have nothing against Superbit titles if they genuinely did offer something that the competition didn't, but when I look at titles like Panic Room all I see is the complete cold-heartedness of the distributor, trying to sucker people into buying first this and then (no doubt) an over-priced collector's edition a few months later.
umm the air force one and desperado definitely have a higher bit rate video according to powerdvd...but agreed they are abusing it now.
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I try to listen to the commentarys at least once if they are available and watch most of the extras once but i rarely if ever watch them again.
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I'm a complete sucker for extras, if I already own a crappy first release of a movie I'm still likely to buy a newer version with more extras when it comes out. And if I buy a dvd and its a movie I've already seen then I almost always go for the extras first, sometimes even putting off watching the movies if I don't have time for both.
Allot of my DVD collection is based solely on movies that seemed to have awesome extras, I mean if theres a movie that I really like but its bare bones when it comes to the extras then I might pass it up for something thats not quite as great but has really good extra features. I think this might be because of my interest in the film industry, I can see how some of the extra stuff (documentary's, storyboards, commentaries, etc..) could be boring to allot people, I personally though love hearing what a director personally thinks about a particular scene, or how that scene was taken from paper to film.
My favorite features are probably the amateur behind the scenes type documentary's where they look like they were just filmed by some guy walking around with a camcorder. They don't seem rehearsed and just really shows what its truly like behind the scenes of a movie.
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