Brent L

For the past few months, I had been debating picking up 12 Monkeys or not. The reason that I was holding off for so long, is that I could not find any mention of any extras at all on the back of the box. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not a 100% "extra whore" or anything, but I didn't want to pick this one up and then have a big SE or something come out. I felt the film deserved it, as I love it that much.

Well I decided to really research it, and at almost every DVD review site I noticed that they gave the DVD high marks, especially in the extras department. I went out and looked for the DVD again, and still only found the same one with no mention of any extras. I bought it anyway at a pawn shop after I found it for only $8. Sure enough it had some great extras on it, and I love the DVD. This brings me to this question...

...what DVDs do you know of that have no mention of any extras at all on the box anywhere? Why would a company do this in the first place?

RobCA

LOL, before I even opened this thread, I was thinking of 12 Monkeys.

I think Universal used to do this with a lot of their DVDs. Field of Dreams is another one that comes to mind. The back cover doesn't mention the featurette or audio commentary.

Rob

Panda Phil

Same with Apollo 13. No mention of the documentary or the two commentary tracks on the case.

VincentVega

Dragonheart (DD5.1 version) doesn't mention anything but it does have a commentary and lengthy documentary as well as trailers and cast bios.

DeanoBKN

Most of the old Univeral collector's edition's never mentioned the special features. I was amazed when I saw the special features for Psycho, when I thought I paid $29.99 for just the movie.

Another title that comes to mind is Jacob's Ladder. Although Artisan called it a "special edition", there is no mention of the audio commentary, deleted scenes, etc.

Dean

Revoltor

Jacob's Ladder.

I held out on this for a couple of months till I read reviews for it. Lo and behold it's pretty packed. I guess it would be silly to sell a special edition that only had a trailer. Still the features oughtta be indicated on the box.

TomOpus

First DVD I thought of when I saw this thread: Jacob's Ladder

Brent L

This brings me to my question. Why would someone release a DVD without any of the information on the back? Is this something that they just did when DVDs were "new", not thinking how much of a big deal that extras would become?

Cornelius1047

Yeah, most DVDs that don't have the features listed came out in the early days (read: years) of DVDs.

K

Edit: The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night is a recent one that does not list the special features on the back. But I think it came with one of those paper ones, like the Buffy sets.

shill66

The original release of Gattaca too.

letterbox

To balance out the DVDs that list menus and chapter stops as "special features".

mikewendt

The original Universal CEs are all I could think of.

ryuryu2949

I too was thinking 12 Monkeys from the get-go.. But also may I add the BMW the hire dvd.

PatrickMcCart

Casablanca and The Outlaw Josey Wales (original editions) have a ton of trailers not listed.

SteveBlair

The Money Pit has a small "making of" not listed.

folgersnyourcup

Reading this thread has made the 12 Monkeys DVD a must buy for me. The back of the box led me to believe that it might not even have a menu screen! Not very good marketing...

Wallet Boy

A Bronx Tale has a Featurette not listed on the back that has interviews with most of the actors.

mdc3000

I keep hearing all this surprise about the special features on the early Universal releases... but keep in mind, all the mentioned titles, which don't list special features on the back, are all COLLECTOR'S EDITIONS...

Universal hasn't really just thrown that banner/title around...they only use it on the discs that usually feature a decent amount of extras etc.... even in the early days, they had titles that were just standard (no banner etc.) but always reserved the gold COLLECTOR'S EDITION seal for the quality titles! Anyone who was hesitating, pick these titles up! Many of them are excellent!

MATT

meharry2003

I just bought "The Touch" with Michelle Yeoh and there is a commentary track on disc 1 that isn't listed on the box. Can't tell you if the track is in english or not, but since the movie is english i would say the track is.

kajs

Univeral Collector's Editions used to have a sticker on them listing the special features....I still have them for Dante's Peak, Apollo 13 (which spells Jim Lovell's name incorrectly), and Psycho.

Quake1028

Dang, I didn't know Gattaca had any special features. I went with the Superbit (which I got for $13.99, not bad), but would have rather had some nice special features. Maybe someone will trade with me...

Buttmunker

Scarface doesn't list anything, but it too is loaded --- with documentaries and deleted scenes. I was amazed!

Tha Freak

The latest...

Gangs of New York having DTS, but not mentionned on the back....

That was quite a surprise when I popped the disk in the player!!!

--- edited to stop the jokes!!!(even if it's too late!!) ----

Jazzbutcher

That must have been a surprise!

Groucho

Oh dear. It's only Monday, and I have tears coming down my face in laughter. Post of the Week!