"Sin City - Recut and Extended Edition" details!

[b.miller]

see, i hated the follow the white rabbit thing. I like my extras to be clearly marked and accessible.


For me the extras may not be immediately important, but if I'm buying a DVD i'm essentially saying to myself "i like this enough to see it more than once more in my life" so i may not get to the extras immediately but maybe in 6 months when i'm looking for something to watch or something like that, they are nice to have on there.

That said, I think it was a previous thread where there was lots of going on and on about how most DVD extras suck nowadays, which i still find true. The few really informative and robust packages that they put out are still like gold to someone who's really into film though. The good commentaries can basically be like film schools, the good (and even sometimes bad) deleted scenes can be like editing class (anyone who saw the "extended" cut of Ray can certainly see why they cut the scenes they did i think... they should've kept cutting i think but i guess that's another post), and making-ofs can be like group discussions/dissections of the film when they're done right.

It's all variable of course... and i fully realize that tons of people aren't interested... but i think that DVD continues, for the most part, to be a healthy mix of what was VHS audiences (i.e. casual consumers) and laserdisc audiences (film geek/collectors)... so i think/hope that mix remains.

which is why we get a bare-bones single-disc version of Sin City (no doubt also available in full-screen) and the multi-disc "special" edition later on for those willing to buy it twice if they haven't heard a better version's on the way.