First it was the double release of “Lord of the Rings,” with the two-disk set (which I bought) to be followed by a four-disk set at the end of the year. I wouldn’t mind the two-disk one, except it has no audio commentary whatsoever. They’re saving that for the next one. Greedy bastards. 🙂
Now it’s “Pulp Fiction,” my friend Mike VS‘s favorite movie. I bought the bare-bones DVD some time ago, and now they’ve up and got me buying the ultra mega edition at Best Buy (it was $15.99 or some such, so I didn’t have to take out a second mortgage). It too has no audio commentary (boo!) except when played on a computer DVD player. But what it does have is what they call a “trivia track,” where they use the subtitle text area to tell a stream of trivia about the movie. Very cool. And your eyes aren’t wandering around the screen like they are with the “pop up video” stuff, which this is clearly patterned after.
So these three tomatoes are walking down the street: Papa Tomato, Momma Tomato, and Baby Tomato. But Baby Tomato is lagging behind. So Papa Tomato gets mad, goes over to Baby Tomato and squishes him, and says, “Catch up.”
I don’t know if it is true or not, but I read that the reason they left off the audio from the current edition of LotR is that they were up against the storage limit to keep the film on a single disk. The extended edition will require you to swap discs mis-stream anyway, so they can add all the commentary they want.