Roy28

Somehow this one passed me by, but I happened to catch it on cable this weekend and loved it. I went to order the dvd and noticed several stores listed a re-release on 9/2/03. Is the new release going to have anything new, or is it just a standard re-release of the same disc?

I couldn't find much info, but buy.com lists an "Anatomy of a scene featurette" that doesn't seem to be on the current release (as far as I can tell).

Anyone have any info?

Thanks,

Roy

Jackskeleton

Can they lower the price on this even more?

Cornelius1047

I really wish I had seen this in the theatre.

I think the extra feature is just a misprint.

K

Revoltor

There was tons of stuff on the 7.99 version. I can't see what would justify paying more than that.

(Please don't say something stupid like DTS)

Jackskeleton

Maybe they added an insert?

Seantn

Mine already has an insert, i'm looking at it right now.

Jackskeleton

New cover art.. yup, that's it. It has to be it.

PixyJunket

I'd re-buy for an extended Sparkle Motion scene.

chess

concur that the current disk is very very solid. great commentaries, featurettes, and videos.

sound and transfer are very solid as well.

at the price quoted above, i'd pick it up at the merest passing whim.

Geofferson

No kidding - maybe it will have a list price of $4 now.

Apocrypha

The Roberta Sparrow book extra adds tremendously to a second viewing. This has to be one of the best DVD values around, and one of the best films of the last few years.

Quake1028

Ok, this is getting WAY old.

Rico Diablo

Insert.

Jepthah

Actually this could use a new transfer and 2-disc SE (moving the extras to disc 2 and adding some would make for better A/V on the feature disc, and they could even add DTS). I was distressed to see print flaws (some in the first 2 minutes) and too much image softness on this DVD. Given its cult popularity now it deserves a new edition.

BizRodian

I keep seeing Donnie Darko for super cheap and have always assumed it was some sort of scam like a Madacy disc...

boc4ever

Could explain the price drop. I happened to catch the Anatomy of a Scene featurette on Sundance and it is very cool. They pick apart the "Tears For Fears" School Sequence and really shows the amount of thought Kelly put into it...

Roy28

That's sort of why I never got around to seeing it. Not so much that the disc was so cheap (though that didn't help) - I just always got the impression that it was sort of a pretentious, low-budget student type film. Even though I had read or heard good things about it here and there, a movie that revolves around a 6-foot talking bunny rabbit just sounded kind of dumb to me. Don't get me wrong - I LOVE odd/weird and low-budget films, but for whatever reason this one didn't appeal to me at all. I happened to catch it by accident last weekend (it came on after something else I was watching), and I was just totally blown away - it has to be one of the best, most intriguing movies I've seen in a long time.

boc4ever:

Hopefully this will be a new release that includes the "Anatomy of a scene" featurette - I would love to see this. The "Tears For Fears" scene is what really drew me in and made me sit up and take notice.

SCHMEGGA

Man, I have got to see this.

Kicker_of_Elves

I think it would be cool if they put the video for Tears For Fears "Head Over Heels" video on there as well..

Flave

Just to clarify -- 'Mad World' is a Tears for Fears song but it's covered by Gary Jules in the movie. (And it's a great cover -- I actually prefer it over the original.) I must have watched that final scene a dozen times now.

And for those of you who haven't seen it but are thinking of picking it up, do not expect to just sit back and watch. You need to get in there and have your brain fully engaged if you hope to make ANY sense of this movie. This is a great movie and the director makes a valiant effort, but he ultimately fails in bringing the plot to any comprehensible conclusion (and it's this failure that explains the low price for the DVD). Still, this is a movie that is very much worth watching -- even if just to experience its emotional 'feel'.

reubs82

I'll watch it again for Maggie...

Back on topic: if it does go any cheaper, they'll be paying us to buy it eventually!

paul.n3w

How can you even read it? Most of the still-image extras like the newspaper pages and grandma death's book are so damn blurry, they're impossible to read. I read all the newspaper pages on the website but the book I skipped over. It's really that impressive?

garmonbozia

Depends if you want the mythology explained to you or if you want it to remain a mystery. Many people complain that the mythology (or the rules of the world that the film takes place in) were not explained within the movie. If you really want to know them, they are in that book.

It was nearly impossibly to read on my tv screen, but it was much easier on my computer.