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Re: [ARSCLIST] VHS and Beta (was Re: [ARSCLIST] Longevity)
I could not get my copy of airplane to play with the extra scenes, and you
can't get them turned off?
js
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] VHS and Beta (was Re: [ARSCLIST] Longevity)
Oh boy, are you ever my friend! Not only do I have no use for the
"commentaries"
and deleted scenes, 95% of which were deleted for a good reason
(exception: High
Fidelity, most of whose deleted scenes advanced the plot), but there are
DVDs
where you actually have to program the machine so as NOT to put up with
the
interruptions and commentary (Airplane, the special edition).
Then you have the freakin' promos, trailers and even commercials, Whoopi
Goldberg's endless disclaimer on the Looney Tunes Vol. 3, and other
wondrous
time-wasters that can't be skipped..at least you can advance the speed to
16x
and get through them that way.
Grr, snarl, rant.
dl
phillip holmes wrote:
I love the few DVDs I have that just play the movie when you load it. I
can't remember all the titles, but one is a "pan and scan" of Full Metal
Jacket. No extra crud. Load it and it plays. What a novelty! And it's
a
good movie that needs no "value added". I can't stand all that bonus
junk.
I wonder what percentage of folk listen to the director's commentary, the
2nd, 3rd and 4th languages, read the umpteen subtitles, watch the deleted
scenes, the biography on the "best boy" and "key grip", hear the music
transposed down to the correct key, with original instruments, with
sackbuts
in surround, "smell-o-vision" (AKA Aroma-Rama), and....the best feature
of
all...multiple angles? For the life of me, the only genre I could think
of
that could use multiple angles is porn, for the great acting of course.
Phillip
----- Original Message -----
From: "Angie Dickinson Mickle" <angie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] VHS and Beta (was Re: [ARSCLIST] Longevity)
> Special features and the Main menus. The menu volumes drive me nuts!
>
> Angie Dickinson Mickle
> Avocado Productions
> www.avocadoproductions.com
>
> David Lennick wrote:
>> By the way, can anyone tell me why most DVDs are mastered at such low
>> levels?
>> Then you go to the special features and burst your eardrums. $1 DVDs
>> tend
>> to
>> have normal audio levels as well.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> "joe@xxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I love movies in 5.1, and since I installed the sub woofer, I hear
>>>things
>>>I
>>>did not hear before. I've had no problem with dialogue being obscured.
>>>
>>>js
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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