the CoS DVD

[Tyler Hewitt]

"chthonia9" <chthonicdancer at h...> 
wrote: 
> I was disappointed though that there wasn't more of
a photogallery -
 
> and is there really no commentary, or am I just
unable to find it? Compared to other DVD's of films of
this length, there didn't seem to be much to justify
the two discs.  But I'm glad the wait is over...

And Kristen replied:
My feelings on the DVD are close to yours. I was
definitely NOT impressed with the "extras." I guess I
was just surprised, considering that the first movie
was the *second highest grossing movie of all time*
they would put a bit more into the DVD. I did enoy 
the additional scenes and cast interviews, but I just
felt like a bit more effort could have made it
exponentially better. 

I do understand that these movies are geared towards
children, but do they realize that they are leaving
out an entire interested demographic? Surely the
people on this list are not the only adults 
that would enjoy a more involved "Making of" and
commentary. Like you said though...I am glad I have
it.


Now me:
I'm a little disappointed with the extras on the CoS
DVD as well. I actually liked the extras on SS better.
I was hoping for longer cast interviews, and still
think that a comentary track with Dan, Rupert and Emma
would be alot of fun. I do think they are ignoring all
the adult fans of the book, but it doesn't have to be
that way.

I bought the new DVD of Who Framed Roger Rabbit a
couple of weeks ago. They did a great job of
packaging: 2 discs, the first is a 'family friendly'
disc with the fullscreen version of the film, 3 Roger
rabbit short cartoons, and a 'making of' documentary
obviously geared towards children. No commetaries or
other hard to navigate things.
The second disc is the 'grownups' disc and has the
letterbox version of the film, with DTS sound and
audio commentaries by the director and others, pop up
facts about the film that can be superimposed over the
action, an unfinished scene, and many other features
geared more towards adults and less towards kids.
So, you basically get the film in two formats-one that
kids will like, the other for film buffs. It would be
easy to do the same for the Harry Potter films. If the
films are too long to do in one package they could do
'family' and grownup' editions instead of fullscreen
and widescreen editions. The extras, etc. would be
geared towards adults in the widescreen edition, and
towards kids in the fullscreen edition. 

Tyler



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