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Topic: No SE for TITANIC -- WTF?
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Joseph L. Kleiman
Master Film Handler
Posts: 380
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 10-19-2005 03:49 PM
Andy,
Just ask my girlfriend. I tend to fall into all those catagories, and possibly git as well. And actually my apologies for being dyslexic. I really am a git. Unfortunately, instead of git, I looked up gip, which is slang for vomit, which leads me to yet another crisis. If Reagan played "The Gipper" in Knute Rockne, All American, what did his name mean? And then I started wondering why if they have all those FBI warnings in front of video presentations, why there isn't one at the beginning of The Twenty?
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Joseph L. Kleiman
Master Film Handler
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Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 10-23-2005 03:06 PM
From The Onion AV Club (the portion of the in-print Onion that isn't satire) 20-26 October:
Underrated entertainment experience: Just watching the movie and ignoring the DVD extras Why? The increasing focus on DVD supplements encourages publishers to sell popular movies twice - once in a quickie edition, and again in a filler-packed "special collector's edition" that costs twice as much. That manipulative commercial calculation is annoying enough, but worse yet is the quantity-over-quality vibe which that dynamic encourages. More extras mean more money, no matter how empty an experience those extras are. For every disc or set out there with an insightful filmmaker commentary or a revealing alternate ending, there are half a dozen full of self-congratulatory puff-piece documentaries, useless "image galleries," and empty-air twittering about how cool everyone involved with the film was. Every film is a unique experience, but most DVD supplements fit generic patterns, and they don't extend the experience of the film so much as they cheapen it, reduce it to the predicable patterns, and then beat it into the ground. The evidence: Almost any "collector's" DVD or DVD set, but for a recent example, check out the three-disc Titanic Special Collector's Edition due to be released October 25th. Love it or hate it, Titanic is a love story. And what love story is enhanced by hours and hours of overanalysis and dissection? (Also, what three-hour-plus movie is really improved by 45 minutes of deleted scenes?)
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