churnopol wrote:
Accidentally bought it three times.
I'm going to compare the image quality on all three later tonight. The first disc I watched had some warbling effects during the court scene and a few minutes after that.
Being from the Criterion Collection, I thought there would be a couple bonuses or a second disc. Nope, just the movie. It does include deleted scenes and commentary. I'm going to have to listen to the commentary to figure out what scenes were deleted (my digital copy seems to retain all the scenes as well).
It was extremely rare in the LD days to have an entire extra disc full of crap, even for Criterion. In all seriousness, its pretty rare for there to actually be a hour's worth of bonus stuff worth putting out anyway. Modern DVDs come loaded with sometimes 5 or 6 hours of bonus junk, and even when I love the movie its usually just boring as hell to actually try and watch.
Brazil was many discs, but that's because Brazil is an infamous movie and can be talked about for hours. Trainspotting was a great movie, but it was a new release at the time, not though of as a classic like it is now, and it wasn't murdered by the studio so the movie itself is...pretty much all you need.
In the LD days revolutionary "bonus content" was often only a few minutes.
Also, there are a lot of Criterions with almost no "bonus". When they started doing movies just putting out the movies they chose at all was a big deal, regardless of extras. Now "Criterion Collection" means "super duper version" but back in the day it meant something just for a movie to be
in the Criterion Collection at all. It meant, "this is a great movie that the studio doesn't feel like putting out on home video in the US so we will do it". That was before they released a dubbed only Supercop, obviously.