WTF?

21 Nov 2006 09:56 pm
karohemd: by LJ user gothindulgence (Blofeld)
[personal profile] karohemd

The (rental) DVD of District 13 not only has unskippable trailers but a bloody Mars advert, too before you get to the main menu. Grrrrr.

Date: 21/11/06 10:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sesquipedality.livejournal.com
Return it, then write to the studio and tell them you did, and why,

Date: 21/11/06 11:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
It's rented so I won't but if it happens with anything I buy, I will.

Date: 21/11/06 11:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thefon.livejournal.com
Otherwise a great movie, though.

Date: 21/11/06 11:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neilh.livejournal.com
But rip it and deCSS it first...these things are far more watchable once you've gotten rid of all that stupidity.

Date: 22/11/06 09:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whollyrandom.livejournal.com
I've noticed a definite trend with retail DVDs recently to include an unskippable anti-piracy message - which in at least one case is just legally wrong ("piracy is theft") - and adverts for other films which are as hard as possible to skip through. Oddly, it seems worse with the disks we buy for Juliette than with the disks I buy for myself, though this may be a matter of Disney policy as much as anything else. I find it offensive enough that I have to sit through (non-film) adverts at the cinema when I've paid to watch a film; having to sit through adverts for other films on a DVD that I've bought and that Juliette is watching for the nth time is just bloody frustrating.

Date: 22/11/06 09:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cabd.livejournal.com
Its bad enough that at most cinemas you need to turn up early to get a seat, then sit through half an hour of crappy adverts and trailers before the show. That they also subject us to such adverts on DVDs we've bought is even worse.

And then, just when you think you've got past the adverts, you've got a stupid animated menu taking five minutes to run through, a mentu that can take you to a film, a self indulgent commentary that ruins the film, the bits that were so crap they didn't make it into the film, and a documentary that tells you how they made the film so bad anyway. Oh, and it isn't unlikely that theres more rubbish content that you've already paid for thats hidden, the idea being that you'll spend three days looking for the 'easter egg'.

Two years later there'll be another version of the film for sale, a 'special edition' with an extra disc full of drivel. Then the year after that comes the 'collectors edition', with a third disc of scrapings from the cutting room floor, and then two years after that there will be the 'ultimate edition'; four discs full of dire tedium.

Break out the VHS, I'm downgrading.

Date: 22/11/06 12:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ebb.livejournal.com
I know for sure on 'Lord of War' dvd, there's an unskipable Mars advert on the one we bought for home. So they have the cheek to do that even on ones for home rather than rent. GAH!

Personally, I shove the dvd in the player without the sound or tv on, go get a drink/nibbles/lighting right etc then return to it. If it's gone past the start, one hit of the back button gets me where I should be and 9/10, it's sat waiting for me on the menu. Bwhahaha

Date: 22/11/06 12:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] feanelwa.livejournal.com
Books also have the excellent facility to skip the adverts and commentary.

Date: 22/11/06 01:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] themadone.livejournal.com

But apart from that, it's a damn fine movie? :)

Date: 22/11/06 01:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
Indeed. The Making of and Parkour extras are quite good, too. Especially the precision jumping is still mind-boggling.

Date: 22/11/06 02:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] themadone.livejournal.com

Yeah. You'd think such stuff would require wires or some kind of special effects, but then you find out they really are doing it all and it's like WTF!!!!

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