Thoughts about the DVD extras... beware! spoilers ahoy!

[jeanico2000]

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I purchased the 2 disk edition of the DVD yesterday, and watched the 
2nd disk with my daughter and my hubby last night. I wanted to share 
some thoughts, and see what others thought about the extras included 
on this one:

deleted scenes: aside from the 'Doing the Hippogryph', I once again 
fail to understand why these tiny little sequences were cut from the 
movie. They're all so short, yet rather important (well, except the 
ones with the Durmstrang boy asking the Hogwarts girl to the ball 
and the one with Harry and Cho on the stairs... those are just plain 
fun to watch... especially the looks on Harry and Ron's faces! 
LOL!). I also wish that they'd just incorporate them in the movie 
part of the DVD, so that we could really enjoy them all in context.  

I loved all the other features, except maybe the cast interview with 
the trio. This was not due to the trio actually, but rather to the 
shear dullness of the guy interviewing them (IMO, of course). I 
found him totally bland... like plain oatmeal or day old bread 
without butter. Also, the fan questions part of it... I don't know, 
but no one seemed to be having fun with that. However, I loved how 
relaxed Rupert was throughout this feature (I found that Emma seemed 
a bit tense, and Dan seemed very tense for some odd reason. All in 
the body language, of course).   

The 'making of the Yule Ball', the 'meeting the champions' and 
the 'recollections' features I found absolutely wonderful... so much 
fun to watch.

Last thing I wanted to mention, following a few previous posts on 
the subject, is that it is indeed confusing for the consumer to know 
what to buy. We've been used to 2 edition DVDs of the HP movies, and 
this time around we have to pay a whole lot more for a 2 disk set 
with special features. Here, in Canada, the 2 disk edition was 
retailing between $28.00 and $30.00, while the 1 disk (which I'm 
sure a lot of people were buying without realizing that it was only 
the movie with no extras) was being promoted at $19.00 for 1 day 
only (which is what we used to pay for the 2 disk set of the earlier 
Potter movies on the 1rst day of sale). I think a lot of fans had 
some nasty surprises yesterday... and, of course, nothing can be 
done about it once the DVD has been opened!

Nicole