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The most annoying aspect of the format war is the attention lavished on product that doesn't deserve it. In short, if a movie is good, then it's good no matter what. My copy of Liquid Sky is a cheap bootleg with misspelled menu text and no subtitles, which is fine: I'd be cool with there being a special-edition release, but the movie stands on its own strength.
If a movie is bad, though, nothing will save it - not a release in HD or Blu-ray, not loads of extras. It's sad to see all these features - "previously unseen footage," trailers, documentaries, commentaries - frantically packed into such sinking ships as 300 or some fucking Spiderman movie. Really, who in their right mind would care to hear what Bryan Singer has to say about any one of his dubious productions?
That said, I'm pretty stoked for the Zodiac director's cut. Damn, what a great movie that is! And one that actually merits lots of bonus material, being based on true stories.
(I also like the More Things That Happened disc of the Inland Empire package. What a sassy thing for Lynch to do.)
If a movie is bad, though, nothing will save it - not a release in HD or Blu-ray, not loads of extras. It's sad to see all these features - "previously unseen footage," trailers, documentaries, commentaries - frantically packed into such sinking ships as 300 or some fucking Spiderman movie. Really, who in their right mind would care to hear what Bryan Singer has to say about any one of his dubious productions?
That said, I'm pretty stoked for the Zodiac director's cut. Damn, what a great movie that is! And one that actually merits lots of bonus material, being based on true stories.
(I also like the More Things That Happened disc of the Inland Empire package. What a sassy thing for Lynch to do.)