Go Back   Horror.com Forums - Talk about horror. > Horror Movie Discussion > Latest Horror Movies
Register FAQ Community Calendar

Reply
 
Thread Tools
  #1  
Old 07-27-2008, 11:13 AM
_____V_____'s Avatar
_____V_____ _____V_____ is offline
For Vendetta
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 31,677
DVD Editions with the Best Features

Most of us are avid DVD collectors. I myself pride on choosing the best editions from the shops - be it Extended Cuts, Unrated Director's Cuts, Special Collector's Editions etc. etc.

Have a peek at your personal collections so far, and the ones you have listed to buy in the coming months, and tell me this...which DVD releases have the best Features on the discs? It could be 2-disc, 3-disc or even bigger box-sets.

I am not talking about the transfers/audio-video quality, but the extra features...such as featurettes, commentaries, behind-the-scenes, Easter Eggs etc. kinda stuff.
__________________
"If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 07-27-2008, 07:02 PM
fortunato's Avatar
fortunato fortunato is offline
mostly ghostly?
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Green Hill Zone
Posts: 6,567
i'll add more later, but the one that comes to mind immediately is criterion's videodrome release.

click for dvdbeaver review
__________________
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 07-28-2008, 07:12 PM
_____V_____'s Avatar
_____V_____ _____V_____ is offline
For Vendetta
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 31,677
Good one, F.

One more which comes to mind is...





Other than having 5 different versions of the movie (Final Cut, Director's Cut, Theatrical, International, and Workprint), it has two bonus discs - one packed to the brim with featurettes and deleted scenes, and the other is a docu-disc of making Blade Runner.

A must-buy for any avid DVD collector.
__________________
"If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 07-28-2008, 07:34 PM
neverending's Avatar
neverending neverending is offline
Cranky

 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 12,416
A Mighty Wind.

The regular edition has some very cool features. Commentary track by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy,

Full footage of the mock folk concert they staged for the movie- recorded live in front of an audience.

A bunch of "music videos" from many of the bands featured in the film.

The audio commrntary is hilarious. Guest reveals he, Shearer and McKean used to go on as the Folksmen before Spinal Tap concerts and nobody ever caught on it was them.
__________________
Lee Widener, Author Website

Cartoon Artwork, Underground Art, Other Weird Stuff
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 07-28-2008, 07:43 PM
The_Return's Avatar
The_Return The_Return is offline
AKA Vampenguin/Dark_Hero

 
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 17,540
Send a message via AIM to The_Return
Pretty fond of this one:



Comes with 2 earlier film versions of the story, a handful of shorts, radio adaptations, a documentary, studio blooper reel...just an all around great set for one of the best detective movies out there.
__________________
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 07-28-2008, 09:17 PM
fortunato's Avatar
fortunato fortunato is offline
mostly ghostly?
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Green Hill Zone
Posts: 6,567
the six feet under boxset is pretty wonderful, too. one of the jewels of my collection.

review

__________________
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old 07-28-2008, 09:33 PM
Doc Faustus's Avatar
Doc Faustus Doc Faustus is offline
Mephistophiliac

 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 4,999
Send a message via AIM to Doc Faustus
Quote:
Originally Posted by fortunato View Post
i'll add more later, but the one that comes to mind immediately is criterion's videodrome release.

click for dvdbeaver review
Yup. Definitely. Their Naked Lunch edition also has great features, but the most impressive Criterion thing I've seen yet is how packed the Slacker set is. Fans of early nineties Indie cinema should definitely get it. Kevin Smith fans should also look into it to see where he was coming from.
__________________
Horror and Bizarro novelist and editor
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old 07-29-2008, 02:14 AM
ferretchucker's Avatar
ferretchucker ferretchucker is offline
Ziggy Played Guitar
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Just to the left of nowhe
Posts: 10,578
Send a message via MSN to ferretchucker Send a message via Skype™ to ferretchucker
Most of my DVDs a 2 dics editions. I have the original star wars trilogy on VHS, Gold Edition.

My only collectors edition is my latest addition to my collection. Halloween. 2 disc, loads of making ofs, TV spots, trailers, Trivia etc. And a holographic cover.
__________________


The Ferrets like it...
Reply With Quote
  #9  
Old 07-29-2008, 09:03 AM
fortunato's Avatar
fortunato fortunato is offline
mostly ghostly?
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Green Hill Zone
Posts: 6,567
well, i just received my vampyr criterion release in the mail today, and i have to say...it's incredible!

check out the dvdbeaver review of it. you can see how great this set is.

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdcom...mpyr-maybe.htm

__________________
Reply With Quote
  #10  
Old 07-29-2008, 10:08 AM
urgeok2's Avatar
urgeok2 urgeok2 is offline
Top Of The World Ma!!

 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 6,950
my favorite extra is always the commentary ... not many of the others mean that much to me .. most of them are 'behind the scenes featurettes where 90% of the content is pieces of the same goddamn movie playing over again.

I've mentioned this many times before - but the best commentaries are on the John Carpenter films and the Kevin Smith films.

very entertaining - very informitive.

also Robert Rodriguez has excellent extras in his films ... expecially the cooking school on Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
__________________
You make stupid look smart.
Reply With Quote
Reply


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -8. The time now is 01:18 PM.