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…no longer special…

Special features are no longer special features. When will all the DVD manufacturers and Hollywood exectypes get it into their heads? These things were once special.. but no more! Remember those really big DVDs back in the 80’s?.. Some of us remember they had names like Laserdisc’s. To quote Mark from SLC Punk “This looks like a silver record,but it’s not a silver record.”. Point is, guess what, they had special features too.

From my crap filled perspective, to be termed special you need to provide something that is above and beyond what was expeced by the consumer. At this point, additional DVD content is demanded by the public. To produce a DVD that does not have content besides the main film is to disappoint the home audience and possibly lose sales. So hey.. Quit calling them special already eh? Instead, only do it when you have something truely wonderful..

Calling them special at this point is like still calling ADD and ADHD a “disorder”. When enough of a given population exhibits the described characteristics, they become part of the norm. Where ADD/ADHD may never reach the point where the “Disorder” label is removed (we are already at that point, open your eyes) “Special Features” have reached that point where we should have en evolution in thought and reevaluate what is truley exceptional enough to brand it as such.
While I am ranting about obvious things, let me thow this out there. Movie trailers are not special. They are advertisements wasting precious bitrate space that could be used for higher quality films reproduction. Here is a thought, make the film have a higher quality production and hopefully that can make up for the lack of decent plot ideas we have been subjected to in the last 10 years.. If i have to hear about one more remake of an excellent foreign film, an old tv show, video game.. graphic novel…………… time told classic…… please.. no more little woman remakes etc.. we have had enough…
thanks and good day.