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When I took the job of movie columnist a couple of months ago, I quietly promised myself that I would not use the position to rant about whatever was pissing me off in movies.
However, every now and then, something comes along that is just outrageous, and pisses me off so much, that I feel the need to break my promise.
In the last couple of weeks, the following DVDs were released:
1) Billy Madison: Special Ed-ition
2) Clueless: Whatever! Edition
3) Tommy Boy: Holy Schnike Edition
These are the latest and most outrageous in a long string of such DVD releases, and it?s been bugging me for ages.
So, here?s what I think about it, on the off chance that someone from the marketing department of a major studio is reading this.
I think that special edition DVDs are stupid, pointless, and a large part of what?s wrong with the movie business today.
They are yet another symptom of the greedy, soulless studios who will stop at anything to make an extra buck.
The only consolation is there?s a special place in hell reserved for all of the men and women who use deleted scenes and gag reels to jack up the price of DVDs.
Of course, movie special features are not a new thing; in fact, bonus features have been around a lot longer than most people realize.
When Laserdisc (a primitive and cumbersome precursor to DVD) was introduced in the late 1970s and early 80s, manufacturers found themselves with a lot of extra space.
Laserdisc, and now DVD, can hold a lot of information, much more than VHS, and much more than it takes to store a standard, two-hour movie.
Thus, additional footage, deleted scenes, theatrical trailers, and behind-the-scenes documentaries, snuck onto Laserdiscs and DVDs, and film buffs everywhere lapped it up gleefully.
However, Laserdisc never took off because VHS was a cheaper and more versatile technology, and so special features never became mainstream.
That is, they didn?t become mainstream until the mid-90s, when DVD hit the market, and the studios found themselves in the same position: too much space, and nothing to fill it.
At first, DVD features were simple and subdued.
Does anyone remember the heady days when ?Interactive Menu? was listed as one of the DVD features?
In many cases, early DVDs had the exact same special features as their Laserdisc releases.
Since then, however, things got out of control.
Deleted scenes, for example, are totally unnecessary. On the DVD of Clerks, by Kevin Smith, he introduces the deleted scenes reel by saying that the only reason he included the deleted scenes was to show the viewer that the film was better off without them.
On the other hand, in a lot of case, the deleted scenes are just unnecessary, longer versions of the same scenes that made it into the movie, and they?re just indulging the actors? and director?s vanities.
I would like to state, for the record, that I do not object to the idea of special features on principle.
I think that with the extra space a DVD affords, director commentary and theatrical trailers can make for an interesting bonus to films you already love.
In fact, on rare occasions, I even watch special features.
However, things got out of hand when the studios started making so many special features that suddenly the movie needed two discs, one for the movie itself, and one for the special features.
Things got further out of hand when studios started releasing special editions for the sole purpose of re-issuing the movie (and making a few bucks along the way.)
Nowadays, out of hand is a distant memory.
Each installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy was released in a four-disc box set. In fact, if you?re willing to fork over $119.97, you can buy all twelve discs in a single box set!
The Bourne Identity was first released as a ?Collectors Edition,? then, a few months later, a re-edited ?Ultimate Edition? hit the shelves.
You can buy the 10th anniversary edition of Toy Story. That is, if you didn?t already buy the original Toy Story edition, or snap up the Toy Story 2 Pack (includes Toy Story and Toy Story 2.)
This Tuesday, The Sting and To Kill A Mockingbird are being released in special, two-disc, anniversary editions.
How much insight can the special features of these movies have forty years after the fact?
I realize all of this may seem like a minor thing to a lot of casual moviegoers but like I said, this is what?s wrong with the movie business today.
All of these little things, the gag reels, the deleted scenes, the ?unrated editions? all take away from the movies themselves.
When was the last time you watched all of the special features on a DVD?
Have you ever watched a movie all the way through with the director?s commentary on? Did he have anything interesting to say?
I certainly don?t watch the special features, but I do pay extra because they?re there.
All of these things change the movie business from being about movies, to being about business, and that?s what?s killing movies.
So remember, every time you buy a two disc special editions DVD, every time you watch a deleted scenes reel a fairy dies; and this time, clapping by itself won?t bring it back.
