Rant number 294
I love my movies me - I really do. There is nothing I like more on a chilly evening - than a good cuddle up in front of a proper classic - or an action blockbuster - or just about anything else.
As such - I have a moderately large (going on obscene) collection of DVD's. I also have some Blue-Rays (although I am still to be convinced they are worth spending extra moneys on) and even a couple of VHS's still left over.
Films of course - tend to run between 90-180 minutes at a time - so I have most certainly watched hundreds of hours of movies over the years.
What I haven't done however, is watched hundred of hours of DVD extras - and I must have so much sitting in my collection that will be unwatched come the rapture.
I am sure that for every 90 minutes of film there is in my collection - there is at least 25 minutes of extras.
The only things I ever watch are short films from the same director - like Frankenweenie (the original one - not the new claymation one) and Vincent which feature on the Nightmare before Christmas - which is one of my favourites ever movies. I also will occasionally watch the deleted scenes (which inevitably were deleted for a reason.)
Many of these extras however, are not something I want to watch. Often they are the same tired tropes of 'how we made it look','how we made this special effect or that special effect' or 'how the director realised his vision.'
They also have a million interviews with quite uninteresting back stage folk. I understand that they want to be seen - but it's not all that exciting.
I genuinely wouldn't be bothered in any way by extras - if we didn't have to keep paying for the things. Some movies (like Lord of the rings for instance) get edition after edition after edition - with the same movie with ever added extras, commentaries and other stuff I'm not interested in.
I'd prefer to be able to have a stripped out (cheaper) version - which focuses on the best quality of print & audio - not extras!
Rant over.
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