The "DVD Special Features" Thread

[CFE]

You know you love 'em.

Discuss anything and everything pertaining to DVD Special Features.

Favorites?
Least Favorites?

What do you look for in SFs?

Put everything on DVD Special Features here.

CFE

 

[November Rain]

most special features and dvd featurettes are really bad....

the only real decent ones are for animation where you get to see the voice actors talking normally then slip into their character voices, that's fairly neat...

the rest is ultimately useless filler to make you feel like you are getting some sort of important insight...

 

[KenK]

I finally got the special edition for Aliens, and that one is pretty extensive. They really go through everything from pre-production to post, and it was great seeing interviews with the cast, including Carrie Henn (Newt), and even her brother, who played Newt's brother in the film, but his footage was cut from the theatrical release. Seeing how all the weapons were made was fantastic, and of course all the work that went into the Queen Alien, because even now that I know how they did it, I still look at the film, and I'm still amazed that they actually pulled it off. Same with the Power Loader.

The Frighteners is another great DVD for the special features.

The DVD for the first Blade is still one of my favorites. For a one-disc deal, it was pretty extensive in showing how they developed the look and story of the film. You have to figure, now it's a situation where all the features go on a separate disc, and sometimes, it's still pretty barebones. When DVDs were just starting out, Blade was the top seller for a good long while, and with good reason.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

The Making Jaws on the 30th anniversary edition is really good.

 

[Storm22]

The LOTR EE special features are fantastic. They really immerse you in the making of the movie. In terms of special features I don't care too much for deleted scenes unless they're good enough that you have an option to play the movie with them in it. Generally most deleted scenes look unfinished or aren't that good to begin with.

I like Making of documentaries and featurettes and outtakes/gag reels. I also really like behind the scenes look at SFX and stunt work. The Matrix Ultimate Edition Boxset has great stuff on the training the cast had to go through.

I HATE DVDs that only have trailers and previews of upcoming movies. Generally you only get that with older DVD's however I was very unimpresed with the lackluster special features on the R2 Poseidon DVD. We only got the single disc edition and all you got was a 5-10 minute making of and trailers - lame!

 

[StrainedEyes]

I'm really only it it for the Commentary. Some featurettes and deleted scenes are interesting. But most aren't. And I don't care about production notes or music videos.

But if a dvd doesn't have a commentary, I am a sad person.

 

[cabel]

I like listening to commentaries. I'm a little dissapointed that Speilberg never seems to do commentaries, but he usually makes up for it in interviews.

 

[Mr. Socko]

LOTR EE special features and Star Wars PT special features are the best IMO.

Robert Rodriguez's "cooking schools" and "10 minute flick schools" are also very fun

 

[superkong 500]

I love special features, featuretes and docs. the LOTR making of docs are the best ever put on dvd. Those and the one for gladiator which is like 3 1/2 hrs long and many other dvds that have very good features in general like the ones for the alien quadrilogy, great stuff. I like comentaries but not as much as interviews or in depth looks at the creation of a film.