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post #51 of 55
2/15/10 at 2:31am
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Originally Posted by Gabe Powers View Post
Younger filmmakers seem to be more excited by the possibility of DVD extras. Eli Roth and Edgar Wright are good examples, we'll see what happens in the next ten years, though DVDs and Blu-rays might not last that long, making the whole discussion moot.
Those formats will go away but added value content will still survive. They'll be downloadable, sure. But they'll also be evergreen, fluid and updatable rather than fixed media on a disc.

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Criterion's the best about extras hands down and they still put out great commentaries from film scholars.
Criterion used to be the gold standard, no doubt, and they still get a lifetime pass because they were such influential pioneers for extras. But let's face it, they don't have the budgets or the resources the big studios do. They're like the art house equivalent of Anchor Bay or Blue Underground now...which is great. I love all of those companies. But to call Criterion "the best about extras hands down" is out-of-date praise, in my opinion.
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post #52 of 55
2/15/10 at 6:25am
Scary, I've been a laserdisc guy for almost twenty years now. My friend Chris brought me over and showed me Empire Strikes Back in the summer of 1990. Once you go Laserdisc, you never go back. Supplements went from a niche industry for collectors, to 12 hours of content on the Burton Apes movie. Pearl Harbor on four discs. I think that the mainstream no longer is as amused with additional content, but from my perspective, when you started hearing commentators talk about the things and films they couldn't talk about on the commentary track, much was lost. You still get good work, you'll always get good work, if the film is worth talking about and the participants are on the ball. I think the problem now is that films that should have special editions, and bells and whistles for fans are going to be ignored for the 1000 catalog titles people are interested in and new films.

Criterion's supplements are archives and/or interviews now. I think this works. I don't think they'll ever top their Spartacus commentary, which is the most bitchy commentary track pretty much ever.
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post #53 of 55
2/15/10 at 6:34am
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Originally Posted by Andre Dellamorte View Post
Scary, I've been a laserdisc guy for almost twenty years now. My friend Chris brought me over and showed me Empire Strikes Back in the summer of 1990. Once you go Laserdisc, you never go back.
One of my first laserdiscs was Empire...I got an old piece of shit analog player from a pawn shop in Orlando in '96 after becoming an avid reader of hometheater mags. I had to see what this laserdisc stuff was about. I got so hooked I upgraded to a better player with digital sound and CAV capability, and the first time I heard True Lies in dolby digital 48khz through my dad's tower speakers he used for music, I was in heaven. And I cranked it LOUD...Seven, Broken Arrow, Empire, Star Trek Generations all looked and sounded like new movies since I'd been used to experiencing their shitty VHS presentations.

I remember being disappointed initially in dvd when it first hit because the sound was so compressed versus laserdisc. I was a big audiophile.


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Supplements went from a niche industry for collectors, to 12 hours of content on the Burton Apes movie. Pearl Harbor on four discs.
Exactly!

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Criterion's supplements are archives and/or interviews now. I think this works. I don't think they'll ever top their Spartacus commentary, which is the most bitchy commentary track pretty much ever.
Really? Who's on it? Were they bitching about Kubrick? (I know the behind the scenes stories)
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post #54 of 55
2/15/10 at 6:51am
I pretty much echo Dre's sentiments up there on laserdiscs. Howard Fast is especially catty on Spartacus.

I always wondered how The Rock or Se7en made it to Criterion so quickly, or seemingly without any kind of time to build in status. As much as I like (and still like) those films, I can't imagine these days being able to sit and read an insert about the silver retention process called CCE.
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post #55 of 55
2/15/10 at 8:47am
As much as it sucks to miss out on new commentaries from PT Anderson, i'm happier to listen to no track than one from someone who doesn't seem like they want to be there. The two tracks from the Watchmen "ultimate cut" DVD are among the worst commentaries i've heard.
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