Poll: The second disc. Do you care?
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I got several of those but I never bothered watching them.... THE MOVIE is intresting how they made the movie and all the xtra stuff is yust boring well the bloopers are funny but the rest.... mje
I dislike the second disc features as much as you, OP. I feel it's unnecessary and i resent having to pay for them. I never watch them. I suppose it's nice to have / 'know it's there'. But honestly i don't like looking at how a movie was made, because i feel like it takes away some of the magic and atmosphere of losing yourself in a movie in the first place. I don't want to see what was and what wasn't digitally animated and i don't want to see that alien was just a guy in a costume. Of course i intellectually know all these things, but i don't want them presented to me on a silver platter. The point of films (and even games) is to lose yourself in escapism, in another world, if you will. The deconstruction of that into basic 'we did this by...' totally removes that for me.
I don't really care. It's nice and all, but most of the ones I have fit everything on the first one anyway.
Never cared about the extra stuff. If it were something useful, like the soundtrack, then it would be fine, but i've never seen that except on some video games. The stuff they put on is what no one cares about. Some people may enjoy things like that, but not me. I even skip all the documentaries about the film 'in the making', 'stunts', 'actor's view' and alike. What I care about is the movie itself, not for the extras. The only packs I buy are ones with all the films or sequels, because that's something useful.
True enough,tredecim said:
I hear the given reason for not releasing the extended versions of Lotr was because they weren't considered to be the canon version of the films... Apparently Jackson was suprised at the fans reaction to the standard edition blu-ray release (Which I was pretty unimpressed with too).
It's insulting for sure but to see it from their point of view, most of their sales come from people who neither know enough about blu-ray technology or really give much of a shit about it anyway. They just buy the discs. C'est la vie...
Elsewhere, Star Wars fans are bracing themselves for what will almost definately be a disappointing blu-ray release... In fact it'd almost excuse Lucas for every bad move he made with the prequels if Lucasfilm and 20th century fox just pulled their thumbs out and gave us a decent package fist time round... But I'm not hopeful.
I'll watch the special features if it's like Watchmen or District 9 or something, but if it's like a generic Sandra Bullock movie my mom/sister bought I don't really care.
It varies greatly on the movie. Some movies might be worth checking out the bonus features, for instance The Dark Knight, I might be seeing that second disc some day or another.. I also watched the bonus features of Firefly. But there are also many movies that I will never see the bonus features for. But I am a collector, so I get the two-disc version whenever I can (I won't buy Sherlock Holmes until the two-disc version is released. But that movie was so cool that I actually intend to watch the bonus features as well 
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But I agree that if it reduced the price, there should be a "movie only" version.
)But I agree that if it reduced the price, there should be a "movie only" version.
Canon? That's an incredibly lame excuse seeing as the extra material doesn't really alter anything, it just provides more satisfying explanations to certain aspects. It's not like the Extended Edition revealed that Arwen was actually the King of Men, and Aragorn was a cross-dresser a-la Eowyn. Of course it's not like they'd come out and say "Well, we thought you weren't giving us enough money. I've a wife and two seperate coke habits to feed, after all."Raven said:
The Star Wars Blu-Rays will be horrendous. I'm actutely prepared for that so that I won't be crushingly disappointed. Greedo will shoot first. Lots of pointless CGI will be shoved in (possibly at the expense of perfectly good - or perfectly BETTER - practical effects) and that bloody kid will be the Jedi spirit instead of the proper one.
I wouldn't put it past Lucas, at this point, to replace Chewbacca with Jar-Jar Binks, to be perfectly honest. He'd probably get a real kick out of watching the internet spontaniously combust.
Yeah, i love it.
But only if i care about the movie in the first palce; but then, i wouldnt even know the 2nd disc even exists, now would i?
But only if i care about the movie in the first palce; but then, i wouldnt even know the 2nd disc even exists, now would i?
It depends entirely on what it is. A lot of special features and commentaries are total crap, and even if they're for a movie/show I like, I can't work up any interest in them (it's particularly surprising how astoundingly boring Mel Brooks is). On the other hand, I have yet to be disappointed by anything done by Joss Whedon. I actually sat through all the commentaries and whatnot in the Buffy and Firefly box sets (over the course of a few months between the two), and they were consistently interesting. Very little bonus stuff I've seen is at that level of quality, though. The funny thing is that those were cheaper than almost any other comparable set for any other shows, despite having so much good extra stuff included.
For a moment I thought this was about games with more than one disc. Silly me.
OT: I kinda like the second disc, it usually has all the cool "making-of" featurettes, and the deleted scenes. Although I can certainly see where it's a waste of time, it seems more like an interesting distraction to me.
OT: I kinda like the second disc, it usually has all the cool "making-of" featurettes, and the deleted scenes. Although I can certainly see where it's a waste of time, it seems more like an interesting distraction to me.
Movies don't really cost any more than they did 10 years ago, AND they're trying to give me extra content for no extra cost. Those bastards...
Removing special features won't make the movie any cheaper. If you don't like the extra content, then don't watch it.
Removing special features won't make the movie any cheaper. If you don't like the extra content, then don't watch it.
It's probably one of the lamest excuses ever given. But that's the way of business now. The consumer has completely relinquished control of or even the ability to influence the market as a result of the average population becoming dumber and capitalism driven...tredecim said:
Lucas in so many ways exemplifies this. Hell, he is the poster child of "you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain".