I've never seen a movie with commentary. What's the difference between a normal movie and a commentated movie? Naked lunch huh? Sounds like something I might like
Well commentaries vary depending on the film. Fincher does a commentary with most of the cast on Seven, Fight Club and The Game, and they talk about their feelings on the movie, anecdotes, jokes. The trio on FC was great. Sometimes it's just one person discussing info about a film, those tend to be the more "classic" and hoity toity films. Generally the way you are getting movies you won't get it with commentary . it's just a separate audio track on the disc. I think there's about as much chance of you liking naked lunch as me getting a night with Jennifer Connelly... Oh man, what a night that would be...
Speaking of Jennifer Connelly, the Requiem for a Dream commentary was just one guy, but it's pretty good.
I'm still confused with this commentary. A commentary is the same as a basic movie, but there are just guys talking over the top?
Yup. Some suck, some are fascinating. I dunno if you've heard of the British sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf, but all of their DVDs have full commentary with the whole cast and it's freakin' hilarious.
Dude, that "just one guy" was Darren Aronofsky Imagine it as a round table of people or a person who discuss the film. Sometimes it's casual and other times its more technical. Haven't you ever watched a movie and thought "man, I would love to hear why they did that the way they did?", sometimes a commentary will have those answers. I guarantee that if you own even a handful of DVDs or blus, at least one will have audio commentary. Depending on what it is, I strongly urge you partake. That sounds like it'd be a blast. Game of Thrones is amazing, they have commentary for almost every episode, except for one each season. I've no idea why they only had 9 our of the 10 fitted with commentary tracks. Season 2 they had 2 episodes with 2 commentaries, and I've yet to be disappointed. The ones with the kids is so adorable and funny, especially when there are sex scenes and they have to announce they're "taking a break" from watching them. The commentary with the actors that play Davos and Mellisandre started off rocky but they got rolling quickly and it was awesome. They knew each other and had starred in other projects together. He ended up directing her in a movie he'd done. They were excellent friends and it came through in their banter. Those were worth the price of admission alone. My wife and I watched most of season 2 again preparing for 3 and when 3 started, my first thought was "man I wish I could watch this again with commentary!" For that alone, I hope physical media never ever ever ever ever goes away. I would die, it's too valuable. And I'm a weird collector and need to have physical copies of things. Not that anyone will ever actually see them, and any site that would appreciate what I have outdoes me by a landslide... But they take my money. A lot of it. God, so much of it. I don't even want to think how much I've invested in Criterion films. I have close to 40 =\. Blergh
Argh.. physical copies. WORST.. IDEA.. EVER.. They just gonna suck valuable storage space from your home and then gonna break or have their surfaces scratched over time to make them fail when you want to use them. Or you loan them to your friends who never give them back
So you would rather have some company using their proprietary, non standardized storage that who knows what could happen to? Read the fine print on the movies you buy, you don't OWN then, you license them and that license can be snapped away at a moments notice. The DRM renders "owning" movies nothing but a falsity, and because the way the MAFIAA operates, that DRM might never go away. Music is one thing, movies are VERY different. Plus, we don't have the bandwidth for proper HD video and sound, a 3D movie takes up a full BD50, Titanic, for example, takes up 2 discs. 2! You're telling me that it'll be possible to just stream that electronically? Not not, not in 5 years and who knows how long that will take. With caps being enforced through the world, and the massive population that has minimal or zero broadband, they would lose out and possibly be unable to even stream SD, let alone HD. An with resolutions going up, do you think the next generations of TVs will have a lower? No, it'll just get bigger and bigger. I will never give up the security of physical media. To me, blu ray is about as perfect as it gets. I'm sure the next step up will be great, but my copy of Yojimbo isn't going to look any better in 4k, it's just not. Hell, the human eye can barely perceive 1080p over 720p, so 4k will come to fruition for 80" TVs, and 3D passive TVs... Anyway, physical media rocks my socks. Commentaries, cast interviews, I learn insight about a movie that take it from just being some passing whatever, to being a truly magical thing. I've got discs that have hours and hours of extras, hell The Matrix, the first DVD I cares about owning... That was SOLD OUT when I went to buy it, has one of the best supplementary packages. That doesn't exist on electronic form. iTunes is trying, but they can't even get close. So while electronic media is great, and I even use it from time to time, it doesn't hold a candle to the value of physical media. Physical media does not suck. And who in the hell scratches or breaks a blu ray? Or even a DVD for that matter? Are you 12? . no adult that is worth being an adult breaks or scratches their physical media, especially the near unscratchable blu ray due to the special coating. And valuable storage, pah. I have 300+ movies and they fit into a relatively minuscule space for how much value they provide. I rarely say this, but sweet lord are you W. R. O. N. G. wrong. Flat out homey.
Incorrect. They make your walls look like the library from Disney's Beauty and the Beast, but with DVD and Blu-ray cases instead of books. And that's freakin' epic.
It was. I can imagine what it would have been like on mind altering substances =\ RICHARD PAHHHHKAH! He was totally Raj from BBT, I love the movie and I love him but he was Raj.
The best bit of info I read was that Spoiler the tiger's name was originally Thirsty, and when Pi met the priest dude earlier the priest's words were "You must be thirsty".
Is gi joe worth seeing? Was thinking of making a run to the theater soon, is there anything else that was released after OZ that is a must see?
I know you all are talking about downloadable vs physical, but I would like to say, I don't like the size and care with dvd or blue ray disks. It's not really the scratching as much. But the storage space and extra care required. I kinda prefer something maybe more on the size of the minidisc or something, but yeah, I know, blue ray won't fit on that right now, but something with a somewhat more rugged case would be nice. But I do think the future trends will go primarily to a downloading and streaming mechanism, physical copies dvds or bluerays will likely phase out just like the cd and record at some point where quality issues in the future won't matter with faster and faster bandwidth sizes.
I've owned thousands of CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays and never has one stopped working due to scratching or being too delicate. What's this non-existent problem you've all just created?
I have a big collection, I buy my favorite movies on DVD or Blu Ray. I love my bluray extended versions of LOTR. 15 disks.
