Special Features worth hunting down despite the movie
05-17-11, 11:59 PM
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Re: Special Features worth hunting down despite the movie
The making-of documentary The Beginning: Making Episode I on the Star Wars: The Phantom Menace DVD. Much better than the movie it accompanied. I can't see it surviving as-is on the Blu-Ray set.
05-18-11, 12:06 AM
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Re: Special Features worth hunting down despite the movie
That got me thinking to ask if you all felt there were special features out there (I guess this could also include movies that haven't made their way to blu-ray per se as of yet) where it's worth the effort to hunt them down even if the movie itself sucks and is not worth keeping long-term especially if you are one of those people like me who don't watch special features more than once generally.
I can't believe I still have that dvd sealed since purchasing it way back when
05-18-11, 07:10 AM
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I gotta go home and check my DVD.
05-18-11, 07:31 AM
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05-18-11, 08:13 AM
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Daybreaker - awful movie, but it has one of the best documentaries I've ever seen on film making.
Blade 2 - tons of features that show everything about the movie, even creating the body casting for the characters. Lots of fly on the wall type stuff which I love.
Blade 2 - tons of features that show everything about the movie, even creating the body casting for the characters. Lots of fly on the wall type stuff which I love.
05-18-11, 10:12 AM
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Cleopatra - the doc on the making of the movie and how it almost killed Fox is far more interesting than the movie itself.
05-18-11, 04:48 PM
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Re: Special Features worth hunting down despite the movie
I didn't interpret the OP's directive as "good features about bad movies," but rather "good features worth seeing/having in a library regardless of the film itself." So, without commenting at all on the films themselves, here are a few standouts I would recommend:
I still haven't seen Bullitt (I know...), but I would recommend the Blu-ray or the 2-disc DVD release just for its inclusion of the documentary, The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing.
There's a terrific making-of featurette on Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People for anyone fascinated by pre-CGI visual effects.
I've kept my 2-disc DVD of The Departed because it includes Scorsese on Scorsese, which was omitted from the Blu-ray Disc.
And even if you despise the Star Wars prequels, there may not be a more comprehensive documentary about filmmaking than "Within a Minute," which showcases the role played by every single department in the creation of a single minute of Revenge of the Sith.
I still haven't seen Bullitt (I know...), but I would recommend the Blu-ray or the 2-disc DVD release just for its inclusion of the documentary, The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing.
There's a terrific making-of featurette on Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People for anyone fascinated by pre-CGI visual effects.
I've kept my 2-disc DVD of The Departed because it includes Scorsese on Scorsese, which was omitted from the Blu-ray Disc.
And even if you despise the Star Wars prequels, there may not be a more comprehensive documentary about filmmaking than "Within a Minute," which showcases the role played by every single department in the creation of a single minute of Revenge of the Sith.
05-18-11, 05:09 PM
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Digital Video Essentials: HD Basics - This contains many calibration tests and settings, but it has a lot of interesting information on all aspects of home theater, explaining why TVs overscan, why they look different on show floors than at home, as well as the history of the standards, as well as a lot of other complicated stuff I can't remember.
05-18-11, 05:18 PM
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Re: Special Features worth hunting down despite the movie
I didn't interpret the OP's directive as "good features about bad movies," but rather "good features worth seeing/having in a library regardless of the film itself." So, without commenting at all on the films themselves, here are a few standouts I would recommend:
I still haven't seen Bullitt (I know...), but I would recommend the Blu-ray or the 2-disc DVD release just for its inclusion of the documentary, The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing.
There's a terrific making-of featurette on Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People for anyone fascinated by pre-CGI visual effects.
I've kept my 2-disc DVD of The Departed because it includes Scorsese on Scorsese, which was omitted from the Blu-ray Disc.
And even if you despise the Star Wars prequels, there may not be a more comprehensive documentary about filmmaking than "Within a Minute," which showcases the role played by every single department in the creation of a single minute of Revenge of the Sith.
I still haven't seen Bullitt (I know...), but I would recommend the Blu-ray or the 2-disc DVD release just for its inclusion of the documentary, The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing.
There's a terrific making-of featurette on Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People for anyone fascinated by pre-CGI visual effects.
I've kept my 2-disc DVD of The Departed because it includes Scorsese on Scorsese, which was omitted from the Blu-ray Disc.
And even if you despise the Star Wars prequels, there may not be a more comprehensive documentary about filmmaking than "Within a Minute," which showcases the role played by every single department in the creation of a single minute of Revenge of the Sith.
05-19-11, 12:54 AM
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All the sets getting ruined, the director needing a doctor to inject him with stimulants to wake up and sedatives to sleep, Liz Taylor's heart attack, the real life romance forcing the change of the entire movies structure, the Italian supplier rip-offs etc etc etc
05-19-11, 01:00 AM
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Cannibal- the Musical, where the people doing the commentary get so drunk they are slurring their words and shouting at each other, and where libellous bits had to be excised
05-19-11, 10:20 AM
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Re: Special Features worth hunting down despite the movie
Digital Video Essentials: HD Basics - This contains many calibration tests and settings, but it has a lot of interesting information on all aspects of home theater, explaining why TVs overscan, why they look different on show floors than at home, as well as the history of the standards, as well as a lot of other complicated stuff I can't remember.
