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PixarFan2006 · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:11 am Post subject:

I watched a few of the features on The Wizard of Oz Ultimate Collectors Edition DVD.

The Wizard of Oz (1910) - This was in REALLY poor quality and was kind of laughable (Most notably, the costumes).

Trailers - I watched all of the trailers, which were kind of interesting. A few trailers seemed recycled from older trailers.

A Twister A Twister - This was kind of boring. It was nothing but shots of the tornado scene.
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PixarFan2006 · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:07 pm Post subject:

PixarFan2006 · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 5:46 am Post subject:

Psycho (1960) - Theatrical trailer: I was surprised that this trailer was kind of long (around 6 minutes), but it was still interesting.
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PixarFan2006 · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 6:06 pm Post subject:

Star Wars Trilogy

Trailers - I watched all the theatrical trailers for all three films. I found them all interesting.

I also skimmed through the documentary Empire of Dreams to see how long it was (Over 150 minutes!).

I might eventually want to get the prequel trilogy on dvd.
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Cordy_Biddle · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:02 pm Post subject:

Listened to the audio commentary for "The Best of Everything" which includes movie historian Sylvia Stoddard and original author Rona Jaffe. I had hoped the two would be in conversation but they were recorded separately. Jaffe (who sadly passed away a few months after the DVD was released) offers invaluable insights into the production; and Stoddard is always a pleasure. Smile

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Escapay · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:32 am Post subject:

I don't have The Best of Everything on DVD, but do either of them discuss the short-lived 1970 soap opera on the commentary or is it limited to just the movie?

albert
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Cordy_Biddle · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 6:15 pm Post subject:

Escapay · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:12 pm Post subject:

Aw, that's upsetting. Not a lot of information is available on the soap opera and beyond the brief pages devoted to it in The Soap Opera Encyclopedia and The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television, there's really nothing else.

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Tristy: The [worst Disney songs are] songs in Mulan.
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Cordy_Biddle · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 10:32 pm Post subject:

Escapay · Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:55 am Post subject:

Ooh, I'll have to give the Return to Peyton Place commentary a listen then! I can't believe I haven't listened to it yet!

I'm itchin' to get the Peyton Place DVDs, especially since the price is so right ($40 for 30-odd episode volumes!). Of course, it'll take awhile to collect ALL of them since there's 450 more episodes and two television movies that they still have to release!

albert
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Tristy: The [worst Disney songs are] songs in Mulan.
pinkrenata: What are you talking about? "Be A Man" is a work of art! To be honest, I don't know how tongue-in-cheek that statement was. The song sort of rocks!

Cordy_Biddle · Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 1:44 am Post subject:

I'm looking forward to seeing the "Peyton Place" series too, but it will be a while before I'll be picking them up. Been on a real melodrama bent at the moment, with "The Best of Everything" and the "Peyton Place" films.

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blaing · Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 3:03 am Post subject:

Just watched the "Johnny in Bollywood" episode on the season 2 set of "Johnny Bravo"

this was a special episode of Johnny Bravo made for Cartoon Network India.

Johnny has a bad hair day as a result of a hair gel endorsed by a celebrity, and goes to Bollywood to untame his hair.
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Barbossa · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:04 pm Post subject:

Just finished watching all the special features for Star Trek.

The deleted scenes were interesting, especially the ones where Nero was being held in the pison by the Klingons. I thought the new mask-look to the Klingons was interesting. It's too bad this squence got cut from the final film as it fleshed out Nero's character a bit more. Hope the Klingons get some screen time in the next Trek.
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zackisthewalrus · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:15 pm Post subject:

I watched some of the features on the Hyperion Studios bonus on the Snow White Blu-ray. It was cool to see some of the animated shorts in HD. There was a definite improvement when watching "Steamboat Willie."

I also watched the Rerun Van Pelt featurette on the new "I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown" DVD.
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Silent Hill 2 Disc Blu-Ray [FR]

I started out watching the film with Christophe Gans' [subtitled] commentary and a PiP of the movie without effects.

First of all, the movie without effects was very interesting - unlike the similar option on 300 which is mainly just background replacement. There's some green screen elements in Silent Hill, but also lots of subtle and not so subtle effects. But most interesting is how many effects were actually practical - from outdoor sets covered in "real" fog to monsters being humans in suits. Most of the practical shots are augmented with CGI, be it digitally created falling ash, composites of multiple shots to turn one monster into a crowd or just adding a pulsating, organic texture to said practical monsters.

From Gans' commentary its clear he's not an American director, and never will be. Not because it was in French (which granted is a big give away!) but because he's so open and candid. He discusses changes required by TriStar (basically more men - especially more Sean Bean) which he admits does hurt the flow and pacing of the film somewhat. He talks about Radha Mitchell initially not wanting to commit to the film (she was waiting to see how successful Melinda and Melinda would be) and as a consequence the two never really hit it off while filming - and he talks about Mitchell and Holden's different approaches to acting which caused more tension on the set.

A typical Hollywood/Studio commentary is full of "oh wasn't x wonderful" and "I'm so happy I worked with z". It should be noted, Gans never criticises the actors, and accepts some of the blame himself and he does praise their work where he's particularly impressed or proud of it. But the commentary track never becomes a "love-in" so typical of commentaries today.

As well as all this, we hear his views on the games (he makes a slight dig at the fans not likening Silent Hill 5 so much which is odd, considering most of what the fans didn't like was taken from his film!*), the difficulties of the shooting schedule (61 days, with upto 4 different dressings for each set!) and how time resulted in the ending being changed the day before the final day's shooting, and how the home video release had extra effects work on some scenes as there wasn't time to perfect them for the theatrical release.

Its a wonderful commentary, and I think being forced to read it as subtitles helped me to appreciate it more - its so easy to have a commentary track flow over you when you just listen. By reading you're forced to have almost 100% of your attention on the commentary track, and you take more in.

I've also explored about half of the other supplements. The best so far is Gans discussing Silent Hill 2 (the game) where he expertly pinpoints exactly what's so great about this game. From the information that he had it for 2 weeks but didn't want to play it - for fear it would dilute his Silent Hill 1 experience - to him animatedly and joyfully discussing the blocking and camera work of a cut scene and explaining how it goes beyond the language of cinema, I was totally hooked. He ends the discussion saying that he wouldn't make Silent Hill 2 into a movie - he couldn't do it justice. And after hearing him explain why, I tend to agree - nobody could do it justice.

I've also watched about half of the "proper" making-of (90mins, HD) which again is not your typical American making of. It's quite happy to discuss various legal and creative differences.

I've skipped in to and quickly around the other making of when I was first checking out the disc and its a more traditional documentary (60mins, SD). Iconicaly, given what we've learned from the commentary, it shows Mitchell in typical full-on PR mode telling us how she was hooked by her first read-full of the script she was sent and had to do the film as a result. Really?

I've still got about 5 hours of supplemental content to work through! I can honestly say this is my favourite Blu-ray release to date. Picture and sound is superb, but never, ever in my wildest dreams did I expect to be able to buy a Silent Hill disc with hours of supplemental content about the games and movie.

* I actually think Silent Hill 5 (Homecoming) is the second best Silent Hill game to day - bit of course nothing can top Silent Hill 2.
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Cordy_Biddle · Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 4:44 pm Post subject:

When killing time I often play a few bonus feature bits 'n' pieces, so yesterday I watched:

* some of the documentary from the 1933 "King Kong"

* "Seeing Stars": TCM's Robert Osborne interviews Dick Cavett (from the "Hollywood Greats" Dick Cavett Show box set)
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jlppr · Gold Collection Joined: 14 Aug 2006

last bonus features i watched were the popumentaries found in popeye volume 1. soon i will be watching the special features of LOTR trilogy. i'm currently watching the movies, i have one more to go and from there special features of the extended editions

ajmrowland · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:01 am Post subject:

I've been watching all the HD DVDs for Harry Potter, and as many of the bonuses as I could-minus some games and the now unusable DVD-ROM features on Chamber of Secrets DVD.

Did the PIP commentary for Goblet of Fire tonight. Interesting stuff about the music, Quidditch World Cup, and Voldemort is here that doesn't appear anywhere else, which is quite nice, actually.

Tomorrow: Order of the Pheonix.
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