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I might make an exception if it’s a movie that I really care about, but that’s becoming increasingly rare.
Yet I think that fan enthusiasm for these features has declined over the years, due to viewer burn-out and the shallow, repetitive nature of many (frequently promotional) featurettes common to modern movie releases.īack in the day, I used to get very excited about watching all the features on every disc I bought, but these days I hardly ever watch supplements unless I’m professionally required to do so in order to review the disc. We frequently hear complaints about “bare bones” discs, as if a lack of supplements means that the studio was too cheap and/or lazy to pull any content together. That’s still true to some extent on Blu-ray today. However, when DVD arrived in the late 1990s, supplements quickly became a standard feature and a primary selling point of almost every movie release. On Laserdisc, these features were typically relegated to expensive box sets that appealed to the die-hard fans and collectors. Soon afterward blossomed the idea of the “Special Edition” loaded with documentaries, deleted scenes and other contextual information about the making of a movie. The first ever running audio commentary (by film historian Ronald Haver) appeared on the Criterion Collection edition of the classic ‘King Kong’, released on LD in 1984. The concept of “added value content” on a movie disc was actually pioneered back in the early Laserdisc days. What are your favorite types of disc supplements? Whether they come in the form of audio commentaries, deleted scenes, documentaries or other unique content, bonus features have been a staple of home video releases all through the DVD and Blu-ray era.