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Film Discussion => Digital Streams & Criterion Dreams => Topic started by: Pas on June 12, 2003, 09:18:27 PM

Title: Worst DVD ever
Post by: Pas on June 12, 2003, 09:18:27 PM
For me, this is definietly the Memento Special Edition DVD. Don't get me wrong, it has tons of cool features...if you can find them. I look at the list (including easter eggs) and I haven't found half. Those who have seen it will understand hoe messy and frustrating the navigation is. If you just want to watch the movie, it's not so bad. But when you get to the features you're taken through a series of dumb question that leads to different path depending on your answer. Good concept, bad execution.

Anyway, what's yours ?
Title: Worst DVD ever
Post by: Ghostboy on June 12, 2003, 09:23:24 PM
I agree with you completely. I'd rather have no extra features than the headache I got trying to navigate those menus. What a pain.

But on that note, a lot of the DVDs I have with no extra features are still cool in my book, since the movies are usually so good. Mulholland Drive or The Pledge or Buffalo 66 are all movies I would have loved to have seen a few features on...but the movies are the main reason I bought them in the first place, so it's all good.
Title: Re: Worst DVD ever
Post by: MacGuffin on June 12, 2003, 09:34:14 PM
Quote from: BoothThose who have seen it will understand hoe messy and frustrating the navigation is.

Not if you have this. (http://world.std.com/~trystero/Memento_LE.html)

My most disappointing DVD is probably "The Matrix". While the extras are fine, the commentary track is awful; filled with too much tech talk and not enough set antedotes. Carrie Anne Moss seems to disappear/keep silent for about an hour of the commentary. And then there's the cheap, cardboard snap case it comes in.
Title: Worst DVD ever
Post by: godardian on June 12, 2003, 09:47:18 PM
I'll say that shitty old cheap release of Lang's Metropolis. Bad features can be disappointing, but if the transfer itself is awful, the whole DVD is worthless.

It's so nice to have the deluxe Metropolis now...
Title: Re: Worst DVD ever
Post by: Pas on June 13, 2003, 06:37:49 AM
Quote from: MacGuffin
Not if you have this. (http://world.std.com/~trystero/Memento_LE.html)

Thanks a lot ! That'll help !
Title: Worst DVD ever
Post by: 82 on June 13, 2003, 12:49:36 PM
first release of pulp fiction...

No Interactive Menus
No Scene Selection
Just the movie...
Title: Worst DVD ever
Post by: bonanzataz on June 13, 2003, 04:31:29 PM
i had menus and scene selection on mine. don't know where you got yours.
Title: Re: Worst DVD ever
Post by: picolas on June 13, 2003, 11:41:38 PM
Quote from: MacGuffinAnd then there's the cheap, cardboard snap case it comes in.
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Title: Worst DVD ever
Post by: MacGuffin on June 13, 2003, 11:52:35 PM
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Title: Worst DVD ever
Post by: picolas on June 13, 2003, 11:58:18 PM
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Title: Worst DVD ever
Post by: MacGuffin on June 14, 2003, 12:00:47 AM
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Title: Worst DVD ever
Post by: picolas on June 14, 2003, 12:06:02 AM
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Title: Worst DVD ever
Post by: Cecil on June 14, 2003, 12:07:27 AM
knock it off you two

anyway, i really hate the lost highway dvd. it doesnt bother me that much because i love the film, but its in pan & scan and the quality is worst than vhs (well its about the same as vhs but the blacks are worse). i think thats the shittiest i own, maybe aside from i spit on your grave, but for some reason youd expect it from that.

i hear that the dementia 13 dvd is really crappy, and that you see the actual tape tangle up near the end or something like that.
Title: Worst DVD ever
Post by: MacGuffin on June 14, 2003, 12:12:18 AM
Quote from: cecil b. dementedi think thats the shittiest i own, maybe aside from i spit on your grave, but for some reason youd expect it from that.

Which version do you own? They came out with a Millennium Edition not too long ago that has two commentary tracks. One by Meir Zarchi and the other by Joe Bob Briggs. The Meir one is great; he has a lot of stories to tell about making the film.
Title: Worst DVD ever
Post by: Cecil on June 14, 2003, 12:23:15 AM
no i have the no-extras one. i want to hear those commentaries, blast it.

EDIT: i dont understand why the millenium edition sells for less than the barebones edition. whats that about?
Title: Worst DVD ever
Post by: Holden Pike on June 14, 2003, 08:36:36 AM
Gotta cast my vote for Cimino's The Sicilian, R1. It is actually the longer international cut of the flick, but it's panned and scanned all to Hell, the image quality is dreadful, and there are zero extras of any kind. Horrible, horrible disc. And from Artisan too, who have put out some good packages. This surer than sh!t ain't one of 'em.
Title: Worst DVD ever
Post by: bonanzataz on June 14, 2003, 11:20:59 AM
it's OK, holden. you can say shit here. this is a safe place.  :wink:
Title: Worst DVD ever
Post by: Pas on June 15, 2003, 09:03:08 AM
Quote from: cecil b. demented
EDIT: i dont understand why the millenium edition sells for less than the barebones edition. whats that about?

Well, I actually bought the barebones edition for 9.99$CAN at Wal Mart
Title: Worst DVD ever
Post by: Sigur Rós on June 15, 2003, 09:13:41 AM
Quote from: MacGuffinasphinctersayswhat

What?