Eastern Promises does indeed suck. All we is a a 10 minute featurette and a (almost ) 7 minute long featurette???
After the great A History Of Violence DVD this is sooo dissapointing. I think Focus Features is to blame. They have been making shit DVD's for about 5 years. Some of the best films of the past 5 years have been released by Focus Features and most of them have been absolutely terrible. I guess they dont believe in the audio commentary over there.
The only good one I can think of is Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind (2-disk Collector's edition) but they even screwed us on that by releasing a 1 disk version only 4 months previously.

Zodiac-only b/c they're double dipping, could've done it once

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Futurama-for the packaging

Extras used to be super-important to me but, i don't really have the time to watch all the extras AND the movie so, I choose the movie over the extras. I will however make all the time in the world to watch every single second of the Blade Runner collections!

That being said, I thought <b>Bug</b> & <b>Wind chill</b> have to be two of the worst films I have seen all year.

At worlds end - lack of extras
Under Siege bluray umm only the trailer
EWS- no commentary??
300- had what? 15 mins of extras?
Order of the phoenix blu-ray- horrible selection of extras
Departed- decent but i expected more especially a COMMENTARY. there will definitely be a new release.


Blade Runner---



just kidding lol

300 was packaged as a 2-disc release, but everything could have been put into 1 DVD. The Making of documentary was maybe 12 minutes tops. You would think for a movie like this they would have assembled hours of pre-production, production and post production footage.

The Departed was disappointing because of no Scoresee commentary and the fact there wasn't even a documentary about the movie. They could have easily created an hour long documentary on the origins of the movie, adapting it for the American audiences, casting and prroduction. They could have even interviewed some of the people from Infernal Affairs like the directors.

The video quality of HP was disappointing (mostly the first 30 minutes) but the movie was great. Zodiac was a horrendous transfer.

Same here. I'm waiting to get the whole package on BD.

Really? What film commentaries already exist and for what DVD region?

There are MANY films that are bare-bone releases. But to my view, Perfume: Story of a Murderer is one of the absolutely best looking SD releases of the year.

There should be a LONG list of DVDs to be picking on before this ever should be mentioned.

people complaing about 300, need to get the HD-DVD version, has a awesome Video commentary with being able to watch the bluescreen version of the flick.

That must be an hd exclusive because i've got no such feature of that kind on bluray.

You should see more movies then. BUG wasn't anything I'd be interested in returning to, but it was a pretty involving and effective piece of work. And WIND CHILL was the best small budget horror movie I've seen in years.

I just watched BOY EATS GIRL, and it was incomprehensible. I guess it's an Irish film that tries to sort of blend the Dawson's Creek 90210 genre with zombies. A good idea, but the teenagers are in their 40's and it's a mess in every way imaginable. Weird.

The Kubrick Collection was fantastic, with the huge caveat that Barry Lyndon was not remastered for the set. Major disappointment.

Well, it's not a nice composition, made worse by the fact that all the photos of actors' heads are in varying levels of sharpness and quality. It looks cobbled together in five minutes. They might've been better off not teasing us with a microscopic version of the beautiful poster.

It pains me to say that two Warner Bros titles (the perennial favorite for best studio) has put out the two most disappointing releases of 2007:

Poltergeist
Twilight Zone: The Movie

Both were a long time coming and we just flat-out deserved more. The 'extra' feature on "Poltergeist" was crap. I own the "Ghost Hunters" DVDs for a reason. I wanted the "Poltergeist" DVD to touch on the trials and tribulations of the film itself. There could have at least been an audio commentary.

Both films obviously had some pretty serious issues going on during their production and long after that, but to mask this from the viewer (especially the viewers who already KNOW quite a bit about it) is pretty chicken-shit on the part of Warner Bros.

Two of my favorite films from 2006 were very disappointing in the 'extras' department. I don't typically dig into extras, but when it's a favorite film, I'm keen to know more and they are

Little Children - I bought it, returned it, then bought it again (had to have the film in my collection sans any extras :()
Notes on a Scandal - very thin extras - left me cold

I have to go with Flash Gordon Savior of The Universe Edition.
While it was great to finally have an anamorphic transfer, the lack of quality extras was a big dissapointment,

Yup, that one bothered me too. Barry Lyndon is my favorite Kubrick movie.

The Good German definitely needs to be counted among the worst DVD releases this year as well.
The Good Shepard also deserves to be on the list.