Sin City DVD

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

Well I picked this up the other day and I popped her in the machine and was wowed by the coolest title screen ever. Then, I looked for special features. And guess what?
There's nothing, not even commentary!!!! All there is, is one crappy little featurette that I already saw on TV. I guess that in a couple months the special collectors edition will come out with all the bonus stuff.

The bastards. When I find out who did this I'll give him whats coming to him. And when his eyes go dead the hell I send him to will seem like heaven after what I've done to him.

[CatchFiveBats]

Sin City was the freaking most kick-ass movie ever.  It's gonna take a long time for me to find a movie cooler than that one.

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

Just wait for the extended edition DVD. This one sucks.

[Lord Nepenthean]

Yeah I'd have to agree on the Sin City DVD rather lacking.  I didn't purchase it, but a friend of mine did, and there's absolutely nothing extra on the disc except a few commercials for bad TV shows.  Shame.

P.S.  The movie is great, but highly overrated.

[Jagdiesel]

I loved the movie but do agree that it is a bit overrated.  Mrs Jag only made it about 20 minutes into the flick and said "this is gross, how can you watch it".  Now I know how to get her to leave the room:  pop in Sin City and forward to any of the massacre scenes!

[video_game_addict]

I think most special editions are overrated. Unless it's a movie I really love, I find I rarely even view all the extras on the disc. I usually buy the movie because I want to see it without cellphones going off, and people talking all around me, and just all the annoying crap that goes on in theaters.  Plus it's nice to be able to stop frame & examine things more closely, find the little details on the set. Hey is that an Atari box in the background! And then backup and view it again.

I don't really care if the studios are double dipping with these multreleases, and triple dipping sometimes too. If the movie warrants it. I don't always need to buy a 2 disc SE set, when the 1 disc version has the same movie & is $5 cheaper. Why wait a year or more longer for what may come to pass, when I can own now & always upgrade if I choose to.  

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

Stop making sense!!!
I don't know why I demand stupid stuff I'll never watch, it's just a real downer after watching the awesome title screen and then finding out there isn't even commentary

[video_game_addict]

The only extra features that interest me are the commentaries, deleted scenes, and making ofs.  

But when you get down to it, alot of the deleted scenes are crap. Sometimes it was for good reason they were cut out of the movie. Some deleted scenes I've seen are not even on par with picture quality. They were cut out of the movie early on, and never touched up, or are in poor lighting, some are grainy looking. So you watch them & they look like crap. And they tend to be short 15 sec or less & not really relevant to anything in the movie. I can't think of any deleted scenes where I've ever thought, damn that should have been in the movie.  But every now & then they are worth a watch.

Director & actor commentaries are something that I do enjoy, but rarely watch/listen to. Some are kind of boring. I have watched a few of my dvds with commentary on. And I sometimes learn more about the film or the direction behind it by listening to these people. A movie like Citizen Kane, I really didn't think much of, untill I had listened to the commentaries. I realized it was a great movie for it's time,  but it seemed kind of dull 50 years later. Listening to the commentaries, I was able to see things that I really hadn't noticed the first time around. And some things that were just lost on me growing up long past news reels in theaters & the history behind the characters.

But there are alot of extras that are really pointless to me with a computer at my disposal. Actor biographies, which I can find in a more up to date form at IMDB.com Still photographs which I never really understood, you can get most in the movie with a push of a button. Music videos that sometime accompany a flick, pointless. Future releases or related movies, again I think are pointless.  Some even offer tie-ins with online sites, assuming you have a computer handy, and a dvd drive, you get to connect to the web with the disc, for what I do not know.

But usually they pack these with everything they can think of, and sometimes there are features which I like, and am glad to have bought, but usually I never even touch these. So for me, I will pick up a dvd if I want to view it in the privacy of my own home, and then if a SE comes out 6 months later, or 5 years later, I will buy it if I want it.

     
I bought Pulp Fiction over again as well as Reservoir Dogs. I bought T2, and promptly resold it after I had trouble with the nav menus on my dvd player. I bought Shawshank Redemption again when the 10 yr set came out with the soundtrack & novella, now OOP because they didn't have the rights to the book. I don't mind buying some movies over that I've enjoyed over the years.  I never picked up the SE Fargo, because I thought it wasn't anything new. The interview had aired on tv, and the movie was untouched.  So I am selective in what I will purchase, and then what I'm willing to purchase again. I try not to buy everything if I feel I do not get any more use out of it. SE versions are not bad, but I sometimes feel they are pushed a little more than necessary.

[Mike Leon]

Rumor has it that a special edition Sin City is already in the works. I'm waiting for that. Of course I'm still waiting for the uncut Kill Bill and House of 1000 Corpses too.