Amadeus
Beetlejuice
Blade
Tomorrow Never Dies
The Matrix
The Dark Crystal
Yellow Submarine
Alien
A Bugs Life
The Messanger
Little Women

Now here are the "Special Editions" that have ****ed me off lately...

Armageddon "Criterion" - 2 commentaries and NO SCORE! GRRRRRRRRR

The Abyss "Special Edition" - Not even a commentary. Just a "Text" one...which is pretty lame. No score either. Why bother?

Ghostbusters - Funny as hell commentary but no score. Ivan Ritman even mentioned (in the commentary) how cool some of the music sounds, and how no one ever mentions it. There is just too damn little of it on the CD.

Aliens - C'mon Mr Cameron. You know better than that. It's HORNER!!

Prince of Egypt - Very interesting commentary. But wouldn't it be nice to have MUSICAL with an Isolated score?! Plus IT's ZIMMER!!

And the #1 DVD that ****es me off...

CONTACT!! Not just because it has a whopping 3 different commentary tracks that all say the same thing, but the Region 2 version of it HAS THE SCORE!!!! AAAARGH! WHY?! WHY?!

My problem with the subject is this:

If they go through all the trouble to put out a special version of a movie, pay tribute to all the cool special effects, the writers, the concept paintings, the commentaries that are eithr boring as hell or have nothing to do with the movie whatsoever, have a couple of useless extra scenes that were obviously deleted for a reason, 6 different types of subtitles with 4 extra seperate audio langages, a collection of theatrical trailors, and about an hour of behind the scenes footage that feature nothing but a bunch of actors and movie people plugging the film and kissing each other's ass....well I can go on and on.

They simply seem to go out of their way to produce a goodies packed DVD and leave out the #1 most important element in a movie. THE MUSIC.

The Dark Crystal
Pee-Wee

....and those are more recent.

This is one thing I'm finding just slightly annoying about DVD, now that I got a player for my TV last week (after having a DVD-ROM only) and decided to start converting from laser discs to DVD for the bulk of my collection. Quite often, a lot of titles lack all the features their laser disc counterpart had thus necessitating me to hold on to the laser disc versions. "1941" lacks the isolated score; "Thunderball" lacks the "Incredible World of 007" documentary. "Midway" and "Earthquake" are missing their trailers. Also, I really prefer the way on laser disc how you could seamlessly switch from one audio track to another while the film was still playing instead of going back to a menu.

DVD is clearly here to stay, but they still haven't perfected the process yet in terms of what they can do with certain titles. Not just in terms of the lack of isolated scores.

Very nice surprise.

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Originally posted by AaronR1074:
I hate Pee-Wee

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You mean to tell me you've never laughed at Pee-Wee when he burns outs from the biker bar on the Harley and crashes right into the billboard!?

I have a DVD, I think The Sixth Sense, that plays a whole bunch of movie ads before you even get to access the movie. It's annoying having that stuff forced at me, with no option to turn it off.

The same occurs with The Mummy, you get a bunch of movie clips thrown at you, in what is a Universal ad, when you click "play." annoying.

Tell me: What's the difference between VCD and DVD? Every now & then I'll see a post with someone advertising their Phantom Menace VCD, or other movies.

and what is PAL?

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Originally posted by Chase&August:
Also, some DVDs begin playing WITH the subtitles.

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There even are DVDs where you CAN'T SWITCH them off! At least some German releases reportedly force you to see the German subtitles if you select the English original soundtrack. Haven't seen one of those myself, though.

JJH:

• VCDs are simple CD-ROMs which contain movie files. They have a special format which allows you to play them on some devices (like that Philips thingy that came out several years ago). Bad quality, though - a whole movie on one or two CDs. I think with 2 full CDs, it can about reach the quality of a VHS tape.
  
• PAL: The European TV norm. From what I know, it's essentially a color encoding format. Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation reportedly had a face color that looked different every episode in the first seasons, because of some NTSC problem (NTSC is the American TV format). PAL versions didn't have this problem.
  Also, PAL has a higher vertical resolution, while NTSC has a higher frame rate (NTSC: 60 half frames per second; PAL: 50). Movies with 24 frames per second can be transferred to NTSC relatively well. PAL makes some problems, the movies run a bit faster. This effect is called "PAL speedup". A 2 hour movie is a couple of minutes "faster" in European television.