DVD extras
(Hmmm, that could be a rock band name... :lol: )
Does anyone else here like the extras which are often included on DVDs?
I quite like to watch a movie with the Director's Commentary instead of the regular soundtrack; it often gives interesting facts that I wouldn't otherwise know (such as, in Austin Powers:? International Man of Mystery, the facts that the opening sequence is blatantly copied from A Hard Day's Night, or that the Sphynx cat they used for the 1990s part was called Ted Nude-gent) :D or it points out things I would otherwise have missed, such as the Justin Timberlake poster in one scene of Shrek 2 or the fact that, in the Austin Powers movie just mentioned, in the scene where the guy was shot down the trapdoor but survived the cat (throughour that scene) looked where the trapdoor would have been if it had really been there. :)
Does anyone else here like the extras which are often included on DVDs?
I quite like to watch a movie with the Director's Commentary instead of the regular soundtrack; it often gives interesting facts that I wouldn't otherwise know (such as, in Austin Powers:? International Man of Mystery, the facts that the opening sequence is blatantly copied from A Hard Day's Night, or that the Sphynx cat they used for the 1990s part was called Ted Nude-gent) :D or it points out things I would otherwise have missed, such as the Justin Timberlake poster in one scene of Shrek 2 or the fact that, in the Austin Powers movie just mentioned, in the scene where the guy was shot down the trapdoor but survived the cat (throughour that scene) looked where the trapdoor would have been if it had really been there. :)
Post edited by robert@fm on
I never make misteaks mistrakes misyales errurs — oh, sod it.
Comments
i think planet of the apes (remake) ive seen about 5 times, mainly cos theres that many ways to watch it :)
I noticed from his Microsoft blog that Andy Pennell has moved from managing C++, C# debuggers into HD-DVD the new emerging DVD format which promises extras.
http://blogs.msdn.com/andypennell/archive/2005/09/06/461514.aspx
He has now been at Microsoft for ten years and did not have a PC when he started - a Sinclair machine certainly. He wrote for the Spectrum and QL.
Elsewhere I saw that the late shipping of Vista was causing disquiet today at Redmond with one MS blogger stating "It?s pathetic. Being a 10+ year vet, I feel ashamed and sad. This company is a mess on so many levels.?
http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=16264
--
Geoff
I love the Shining so seeing a short documentary on that on the disc was excellent but apart from a few big name films i try to buy the bog standard dvd releases. Again seeing the Star Wars deleted scenes are good but other deleted scenes for other films are normally quite poor as most seem to be deleted as theyre quite terrible !
For myself i cant sit through 2 hours of directors commentary either, half the time they seem bored as anything.
The Airplane "Don't call me Shirley" edition (R1) is also good stuff.
Firefly and Serenity is good also.
And who can argue that the Star Wars DVD's have the best extras crammed into them?
they had rachel weiss in them.
edit *have been reliably informed that they are called Mummy and Mummy two.*
[ This Message was edited by: mile on 2006-03-28 11:24 ]
ive started adding my collection to it
the only problem ive found is........its american :p
and so to accept "foreign" ie:- uk films to the database you NEED to add a cover picture, i did 8 films, took ages and they didnt accept em cos there wasnt a picture.....even tho i gave the official website of one that has the picture