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DVD extras - how many of you actually care?

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Suerte

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I've fallen in love with this DVD and I have to say it's the first DVD that I've actually been bothered to watch and listen to every single extra on it. Even the commentaries! Previously all I'd really watch in DVDs is the deleted scenes but now I'm half tempted to go back and watch some more but I guess it really depends on how much you love the film before you consider watching the extras. So what are all your favourite DVDs for extras?

Also, I basically want to tell everyone to go see the film and/or buy the DVD. Now.
 

Kefkaff

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Depends what kinda DVD..

Movies = Deleted Scenes. That's all I REALLY care about. Maybe little featurettes, but nothing major. I don't listne to the commentaries or anything.


TV shows = COMMENTARIES. I love listening to these. Although the only TV DVDs I have are Futurama and Simpsons and Trailer Park Boys, I absolutely LOVE listening to the commentaries and listening to where the writers/directors/etc got their inspirations for jokes. Futurama wins hands down for the best DVD commentaries. Trailer Park Boys= 1 or 2 Commentaries per set = boo.
 
Personally my favorites are the Easter Eggs, I love the commentaries and deleted scenes and whatnot, but there's some crazy joy in finding some silly thing on a DVD and there's often some hilarious stuff hidden in nearly every other DVD released. LOTREEs have some decent ones, and I enjoy the bloopers in Star Wars, among other things. Very nifty.
 
yeah, I love the commentaries on Futurama dvds (only tv show I have on dvd). Commentaries on movies are kind of hit-miss, but I usually don't watch them. For movies, the most important (well, as in most likely to watch) extras are deleted scenes/alternate scenes.

I rarely watch the featurettes and whatnot that some movies through in as extras, and I have never used any "Stick this DVD in your computer's DVD drive to get more extras!" extra.

I normally don't like gag reels/bloopers. Photo albums are nice, but usually pointless, I would rather just download the images off the internet.
 
Suerte said:
I guess it really depends on how much you love the film before you consider watching the extras.

Well... yeah. If I don't like the movie enough to care about the extras, I probably don't like the movie enough to spend money on it. Unless it's $5 or less.
 

tt_deeb

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A lot of my stuff has like 2 discs and I'm all like "cool, this is going to be really worth the money" but I never get around to watching the stuff - but one day I will.
 

Mejilan

Running off of Custom Firmware
I never watch DVD extras. If they want me to watch it, integrate it into the movie.
 

jett

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DVD extras are overrated. I can't stand to listen to commentaries for the entire movie, not even with my favorite films...the only excepction is School Of Rock, cause Jack Black is funny as all hell. Anyway, I guess I like "making of" stuff the most.
 

SKluck

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It matters. But admittedly I only watch them once. And even though I love the idea of audio commentaries, I tend to only listen to ones for tv shows. It's just "getting your money's worth". Why not spend an extra 5 or 10 bucks and get the "complete" version with extra behind the scenes or whatever.
 
I care. I feel like I'm getting ripped off paying the same price for a DVD with no extras as I am for other DVDs that are packed with extras. I refuse to pay full price for a movie with little or no extras. Even if I rarely go back to the extras more than once, I still enjoy them. I've seen every extra on every dvd I own.
 

DarienA

The black man everyone at Activision can agree on
I'm not real big on behind the scenes stuff but I love commentary tracks.
 
Extras are very important to me. Even though I admittedly hardly ever watch them, I'll happily double dip or spend the extra money to get the special or 2-disc version of a movie. That's just the way I am...
 

BreakyBoy

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If you have no interest in how a movie is made, or in why a director chose to shoot a scene a certain way, or what an actor's inspiration was when taking on a role, then you won't be interested in commentaries or interviews. Personally I love that sort of stuff.

That being said, a lot of commentary tracks suck because the commentators have no personality what so ever, and fall silent and watch the movie for 5-10 minute stretches before saying something. I tend to fall asleep to those.

Fight Club Special Edition (2-Disc set, comes in a tin case): Tons of legitimately interesting commentary tracks for this movie. Off the top of my head I think I remember 4 seperate commentary tracks, and I can defintely remember two that were fantastic and one that I really liked.

Pulp Fiction Collector's Edition: Surprisingly, no commentary at all on this one (rumor goes that by the time Miramax was working on this DVD set, Tarantino was sick and tired of talking about the movie, so he refused), but instead you have the option to turn on this trivia track that run as subtitles during the movie, and serves as some very cool commentary to a classic movie. Combine that with a couple of TV specials (a Siskel & Ebert special, and an hour long interview with Tarantino), a shit ton of trailers and TV spots from around the world, and a bunch of really interesting articles from critics about the movie.

Jackie Brown Collector's Edition: Almost note for note, the exact same extras as the Pulp Fiction set, but tailored for Jackie Brown. I throw this in, because in my opinion it's almost criminally overshadowed by it's big brother (Pulp Fiction). Granted that PF is overall a better movie, it does not take away from the absolute excellence of Jackie Brown.

The Miramax Collector's Series edition of Clerks also has a great commentary track, where Smith and company talk about how they got the movie off the ground and the difficulties of following through and finishing the indie project. It also tends to be funnier than the movie itself many times, thanks to audio cameos by several people during his taping, including the ever popular Mewes, who supposedly shows up drunk (he sure sounded like it).

On the same note, the Clerks Uncensored DVD set which contains all 6 finished episodes of the Clerks cartoon has a commentary track for each episode, and each one is hilarious and pretty informative if you don't get all the cross-referential in-jokes laced throughout each episode.

I've also heard that pretty much everything by View Askew (Kevin Smith movies) have excellent commentary tracks, unfortunately those two are the only ones I own.

I'd jot down more than just the usual suspects (Smith and Tarantino) if I could, but as of yet, my DVD library isn't all that great yet. I'll leave it to others to hopefully clue you in on some lesser-known titles' extras.
 

totoro'd

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In theory I care, but actually I don't. I mean, it feels like you're getting some nice extras, but I literally watch that stuff like once and that's it.

Although I do love extended editions
 
Don't care. I'd prefer if they used the extra space to make a better encode of the main movie like Superbit DVDs. They should have "Special Editions" for people that want the extras or put them on a seperate DVD.
 

pnjtony

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I love all of the extras except I guess the picture gallerys. This includes mindless commentary. I really enjoy the direct's and the actors commentary on the LotR DVDs. not so much with the music and effects tracks though but I listen to them anyways
 
Fight Club is the only movie I've watched with commentary, and it was very worthwhile. I will eventually get around to all my other movies I think. On TV shows I listen to the commentaries though, like Family Guy and Chappelle's Show.
 

Lonestar

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"I've also heard that pretty much everything by View Askew (Kevin Smith movies) have excellent commentary tracks, unfortunately those two are the only ones I own."

Very True. Pretty much all of them have been good, and on the new "Clerks X" release, they filmed another commentary (with full length video of them in the studio doing the commentary) and it's also pretty good and funny (though Mewes isn't passed out :( )
 

Drensch

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If you're gonna buy a dvd, you might as well get the version with extras. The prices they charge for the barebones are way too expensive compared to the deluxe versions.
 
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