Welcome to the new world! May it rot.
Starting with a minor complaint, I guess, but it still irks me:
NO BOOKLET!
I guess I just... wanted a booklet.
But here's what's really bugging me: my DVD has three or four minutes of trailers for a bunch of crappy movies that I don't want to see! They start as soon as I put the disc in, and you can't turn them off! So I'm stuck with these things every time I want to see the movie. This one's a deal breaker for me. My DVD's going back to the store, and I'll just wait to pick up a used copy somewhere. I want to own the DVD, but damned if I'm giving money to Universal to watch commercials.
(it's a great movie though. no complaints on the movie itself)
take care
---jones()
ps. Don't even get me started on the Sunny Delight and Master Card commercials elsewhere on the disc. Unlike the trailers, I'm not forced to watch them, but it's really annoying to find them among the "Bonus Features."
Welcome to the new world! May it rot.
<font size="2" face="Comic sans ms, Helvetica, sans-serif">God, yes! That was so annoying. I saw that and actually played the SunnyD thing. I was so horrified that I actually watched most of it before my finger would press the menu button.Originally posted by Kampin' Bear:
ps. Don't even get me started on the Sunny Delight and Master Card commercials elsewhere on the disc. Unlike the trailers, I'm not forced to watch them, but it's really annoying to find them among the "Bonus Features."
Yeah, that's a pretty sick thing to do to a person who has paid you for entertainment. Besides the fact that I can come up with my own critical commentary, thank you very much! [img]wink.gif[/img]
Unless you're actually involved in a movie, you shouldn't be doing a commentary track. Period.
Most commentary tracks are lame anyway. The exceptions I've found so far any Kevin Smith film (Mallrats especially as it features almost the entire cast), and UHF with Weird Al.
Jones, make sure you find out what company created that disc and let them know you returned it for that reason. Speaking with your money is the best thing you can do.
As far as bonus features on CD's go... the art of movies simply hasn't caught up with the technology yet. Right now, I get the feeling that they are looking for something ANYTHING to fill the space.
Should I mention the Unforgivable DVD that Dan and I rented that had, as a bonus feature, some boring movie critic guy talking over the ENTIRE movie (apparently, I only watched a few minutes before my menu button finger unfroze.) Kinda like MST 3000 on heroin, methinks...
I rented the Hulk, and I gotta say, I honestly thought it sucked. I did like the hulk he was cool, but the plot!!! DEAR GOD!! And what the hell was up with that 10 ft.tall killer poodle?
Did the movie follow the original plot of the comic book? I never read Hulk as a kid or now. I actually really liked the movie. I thought I would hate it. But the actor for the Hulk was really excellent, I thought, and they let him have more screentime than his animated alter ego. The previews gave one the impression that it would all be animation, and that was why I almost didn't go see it.
As to the poodle: I gotta agree with Ski. Who thought that was a good idea?
Actually, the plot is pretty much the classic Greek "sins of the father" thing. I liked it.
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