So 300 is released today, so I went back to Blockbuster to pick up my copy. I brought it home, popped it in my DVD player, and this is th screen that comes up... Look at it closely and see if you can tell me what is wrong with this picture:
That's right. One of the menu options is labeled "Special Features." But there are clearly no "Special Features" on this disc. If you go to "Special Features," this is what you get:
Okay, I don't know what you would consider to be a "special" feature, but I haven't seen features this ordinary since I bought the DVD of Schindler's List. All you get is a commentary by director, the writer, and the director of photography--all of whom you've never heard of before. Commentaries by writers and not-famous directors are the booby prize of DVD Special Features.300 doesn't even come with "Theatrical Trailer." I thought "Theatrical Trailer" was supposed to be standard! But you know what should be standard for DVD Special Features? Blooper Reels!
Nothin jazzes up your average ho-hum DVD like classy Blooper Reel. Imagine how much more you would appreciate your Schindler's List DVD if it had come with a Blooper Reel?
LIAM NEESON: This car. Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people. (removes Nazi pin from lapel) This pin. Two people. This is gold. Twenty more people. He would have given me twenty for it, at least, uh one... uh... wait. (breaking character) How many was I supposed to get for the pin?
STEVEN SPIELBERG: (offscreen) Two! Two! (laughs)
LIAM NEESON: How many did I say?
BEN KINGSLEY: (laughing hysterically) You said twenty!
LIAM NEESON: (chuckling) Well, I can't believe I thought Amon would give me--
BEN KINGSLEY: You wanted Amon to give you twenty for a gold pin!
LIAN NEESON: (buffooning) Well, it is a nice pin.
BEN KINGSLEY: Ha! Ha! Twenty!
LIAM NEESON: Where's Amon? Hey! Someone get Ralph back on the set! Someone ask him how much I'll get for this very nice pin...
Entire cast and crew break down into hysterics.
Couldn't you just watch that kind of thing for hours? Well, I say that if Schindler's List could have been saved with a Blooper Reel, there's no reason 300 shouldn't have one. I am sick and tired of having to wait until the Tenth Anniversary Special Collector's Edition just to get the good stuff. It's time we demand more from our DVD's! It's time we settle for nothing less than a Blooper Reel for every movie.
300 also comes with an Easter Egg mini featurette where director Zack Snyder explains how he managed to convince the suits at Warner Bros. to let him make this weird movie. They show a little one-minute clip of a sample fight sequence that Snyder used to illustrate to the execs what the movie was going to look like. Mildly interesting but hardly a substitute for a good, solid hour of Blooper Reel.
5 comments:
Blooper Reels are a must for every DVD purchase. Might as well buy a freaking VHS tape if the DVD is going to suck and not include bloopers. Sheesh.
Don't knock pre-orders! I laid down $10 a YEAR before the playstation 2 came out. . . . I secured a unit, bought it with a friend for $300 . . . put it on ebay . . .sold it for 1700, and we split the profits. Bought the keeper unit later. . .but you get the jist.
Still haven't seen Sin City but brown. . . I will get around to it. BUT WILL NOT BUY this sub standard DVD! Thank you steak. . .dodged a bullit.
I'm watching 300 now. It's better than I expected so far. Silvana Bertolini brought home the two disk
"special edition" but guess what? Still no blooper reel.
Could you write a blooper reel for us, Steak? You're GOLD, man. Solid. Gold.
But even GOLD can be tarnished by sparse updates.
have you nothing better to do? I'm researching for a paper and google brought me to this waist of time, gotta love google for that. 300 was an amazing film and bloopers don't make the movie. Yeah, they're fun, I love the blooper reel, but if a dvd doesn't have one, it's not near enough to send me on such a rant and piss and moan as much as you have. I personally didn't by Schindler's List to mock at the concept of what they were doing, there wasn't anything particularly funny about that subject. Now Slither, that's a good blooper reel!
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