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Date Posted: 18:15:51 11/25/03 Tue
Author: Silk
Subject: Re: DVDs.

Barring picture quality, how much of an evolution are DVDs?

When I watch a film, I want an escape into some fictional world for 2-3 hours. And that's it. I don't need 8 hours of excess footage, particularly of footage which wasn't good enough to make the original cut.

I realize some edits are made for time constraints, but...I think directors are going to lose sight of that in the DVD era. After all, a Director's Cut used to be a rarity. Now you can bank on it for just about everything.

This means the released films are going to be a temporary version. But even allowing for that, that's about 10 minutes extra of film you're going to get, and the rest is superfluous piffle.

Thus what's a DVD offer?

I consider the film to be the legend of that world - the official story. The rest? It's irrelevant.

Then there's the fact that most deleted scenes I've seen are actually crap and you can understand why they didn't make the final film.

You also get The Making Of... which might be interesting with some technological wonder. But I saw the excellent Phone Booth recently, and that also had a Making of... - what the hell? What'd I need to know? How a phone is operated?

Finally, back to picture quality - yes, but speaking to the people who run my local video library, but apparently there's a pretty high damage rate amongst the DVDs with scratches and that.

So...? I don't know, maybe they have to start putting films on cartridge.

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Re: DVDs. -- elt, 16:14:34 12/02/03 Tue
Oh and another thing -- elt, 18:07:19 12/02/03 Tue
- Maybe they'll eventually release a Director's Cut, too. -- Silk, 18:10:05 12/02/03 Tue