DVDs: The Super Collector Edition Thread

[Atreides]

Wow, I am browsing online and holy shit, laserdiscs were majorly expensive. Not just Criterion's. How did the format ever survive for so long?

Tell me about it. I remember paying $70-80 for a laserdisc back in the day. Luckily, I think I only ever bought two movies.

I love my DVDs. I think I've got somewhere in the neighbourhood of 130 titles or so. I'm sitting on the sidelines though until the format war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray until there's a clear winner though.

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In case you were not aware, a new, commentary-rich release of Apartment Zero hit the stores today. Mmmmmm, Hart Bochner.

[gimmeshelter]

25th Hour - has a great commentaries by Spike Lee and the author of the book/screenwriter.

Chasing Amy -- It has an extended scene, where Joey Lauren Adams talks about how she owns insults. I pretend it's still in the movie.

Crossroads - I like the t-shirt extra with Taryn Manning. I also like that they put in the "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman" music video. It's a laugh.

Dazed & Confused - There's a deleted scene with Parker Posey & Joey Lauren Adams that I really like. It's so normal and real.

Fight Club SE - The promotional section is worth the price alone.

I was disappointed that:

Before Sunrise didn't have any extras at all. I would've loved to have a commentary by Richard Linklater.

Dazed & Confused - again, no commentary.

I'm still waiting for subUrbia to come out on DVD.

[huntergrayson]

No audio commentary on Dazed and Confused?

This[/url] is why I'm Criterion's beyotch.

I'm kinda miffed that I have to rebuy The Third Man in May but they're adding a commentary by Soderbergh (and the screenwriter of the Bourne movies? for some reason?), which seems fitting due to The Good German.

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The new release of Apartment Zero has a commentary by screenwriter David Koepp and Soderbergh, hg. Not that I'm pimping for Hart Bochner shirtless, sweaty, unshaven and willing to fuck anything that produces vapour on a mirror or anything.

[huntergrayson]

I know! I was flipping through some LA-based gay mag and they had a review of the new DVD - Soderbergh is such a commentary slut. I was totally planning on renting it anyways and then your praising has definitely pushed it up in the Netflix Queue.

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The Borat DVD is kind of fun, looking all illegally-copied onto a Memorex ("Demorez") blank DVD-R with the movie's title scrawled with a black Sharpie... "Is Life? No. Demorez."

[tinyshoes]

I'm pissed that I bought the bare bones version of Breakfast at Tiffany's (I know it's not PC to like that movie, but I don't care) at Rasputin's, and not two months later, the super deluxe edition comes out at the exact same price!

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It. Is. Happening. Again.

Season Two of Twin Peaks is a chintzier set than the previous, but the episodes are lovingly reencoded from the original film versions -- the greens of the opening credits aren't as bleedy as in the previous set as a f'rinstance.

Now you can at long last relive, over and over, ten minutes of the most horrifying, heart-wrenching, gorgeous, chilling and soul-corroding television ever produced — that would be the last ten of Episode 14, in which BOB… well, let’s just say that if it wasn’t for Twin Peaks, there wouldn’t be so many people interested for the past two years in a plane crash on some South Pacific island. Wow, BOB, Wow.

(And the Dolby 5.1 is awesome, by the way, making the aforementioned sequence a raw, unrelenting nightmare).

[satellite]

I spent part of this morning pleased over how much room I'm going free up on my entertainment rack once I get rid of the Twin Peaks videotape set. It's my only TV box set not on DVD, and I think that all my current DVDs plus the season 2 set when I acquire it will fit now.