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castleinthesky
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How could I forget The Silence of the Lambs. Winning the big 4 academy awards certainly should get it a good DVD release. Speaking of the series, Red Dragon and Hannibal can get better releases.
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Chicken Run. The new "Special Edition" is just like the regular with the label slapped onto it.
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castleinthesky wrote:How could I forget The Silence of the Lambs. Winning the big 4 academy awards certainly should get it a good DVD release. Speaking of the series, Red Dragon and Hannibal can get better releases.
Do you have any of the Silence of the Lambs DVDs? It was put out in 2 separate special editions. I'm not sure either were 2-discers, which they certainly should have been. I really think MGM and Criterion's special features should be pooled into one really decent special edition. 2-discs. Screw the sequels, they're not cool.
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yankees wrote: Harry Potter 3: I Found Movies 1 and 2 With Good Special Features But I Just Found This One weak only wit games

Spiderman 2: Theres a extra few min fite scence and Like HP3 should have gotten a better 2 disc set
Harry Potter 3 had a few good featurettes on the FX and animal training, but the interviews with the cast and filmmakers were pretty absymal (get rid of the shrunken head and give me a commentary, for crying out loud!). And I know there are more deleted scenes out there than the 5 included on the DVD.

And Spider-man 2 is a great 2 disc edition - I think it's the lack of deleted scenes that you're craving (Raimi will only be inserting a few additional seconds of CGI for the runaway train and dock sequences in the extended version, not scenes cut from the final print). Almost everything from pre- to post-production is covered thoroughly (such as editing, music, sound, story, production design) and efficiently. Plus the 2 commentaries are pretty informative as well.
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Death Becomes Her[/i] - Groundbreaking Oscar-winning visual effects masterpiece of dark comedy, and Universal is still producing the same DVD they released in 1998 with a grainy pan and scan transfer and no real bonuses except some notes and a featurette - not even a trailer! I admit, I bought it today after renting it recently and knowing what a bad DVD it was simply because I'm sick of watching the butchered and censored version on TV. I'm not sure I'd buy a new one if it wasn't that much better, but I'm pretty sure they could do a single-disc DVD release with an anamorphic widescreen transfer, commentary by Robert Zemeckis, Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, and Bruce Willis, and maybe even Isabella Rosselini and some great bonus features, like a 30-60 minute making-of documentary, trailers, TV spots, footage from the Oscars where the film won Best Visual Effects, and featurettes on the special effects used in the movie.
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Post by DarthPrime »

Wow... where to begin.

Any DVD thats been released without an anamorphic transfer.

DVDs that have seen only a pan and scan release even when the OAR was widescreen.

DVDs that have pan and scan and widescreen stuck on the same DVD making for horrible transfers.
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Better Jackie Treatment

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Unfortunately, I think the movies that need the best treatment are Jackie Chan's Hong Kong stuff, especially Project A & Police Story. Police Story is not even released which has Jackie two of his best stunts. (A car chase literally through a shanty town & his jump down 5 stories on the exploding light sting. I heard the car chase was copied by Bad Boys II in which I have not seen but we know Jackie was in hatchback going through shanty houses.) Then Project A, my favorite Jackie, does not have the "no goods" which shows other takes of Jackie falling off the clock. The music is different too than the better Hong Kong version. And remember Jackie's outakes on credits is sometimes the most entertaining moments of the movie as you get to see all the stunt mishaps.
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I may have mentioned some of these already:

Death Becomes Her (there is a huge demand for a special/collector's edition!)
Arachnophobia
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (forget the sequels, just the original)
Dario Argento's Sleepless (widescreen!!!)
Ginger Snaps (bring the Canadian special edition to the U.S.!)
28 Days Later (I want a full-blown 2-disc edition like Donnie Darko got)
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Post by Roger Rabbit »

Anything done by Don Bluth is lacking - Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time (the original!), All Dogs Go to Heaven.

If nothing NIMH deserves more than what MGM gave it. The transfer in AT and LBT looks nice but no extras at all, and All Dogs had a terrible transfer--it looked like it came off a tape because you can see the grain in the dark blues when Charlie's in heaven.

I haven't seen any Disney films that I've been overly disappointed in. Live action, I'm surprised Titanic didn't have more.
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Any Disney single-disc DVD that has yet to recieve 2-disc treatment.
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