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Re: “A Questionnaire Re: Your Home-Entertainment Viewing Preferences.”
sgtgrumbles: You're totally right about the fact that, at least for now, just about everything that comes out on Blu-ray also comes out on DVD (and vice versa). But yeah, the special features are a big part of why I posed the question: Whenever we review something, we're gonna want to give it a thorough review, and the feature sets between Blu-ray and DVD releases are starting to get pretty disparate. Take UP, for example. Here's what's on the standard DVD release (via http://bit.ly/L9JHh):
Commentary by director Pete Docter and co-director Bob Peterson
Dug's Special Mission An all new original short film that follows the misadventures of Dug....
The Many Endings of Muntz Many ideas were hatched about how to dispose of the film's arch villain, Muntz, and now viewers can see the many alternate endings proposed during story development.
Partly Cloudy The hilarious short film that preceded screenings of Up....
Adventure is Out There This action-packed documentary tells the story of the filmmakers' own trek to the tepuis mountains of South America to research the design and story of the film.
The Blu-ray edition, meanwhile, has all of the above, plus:
Cine-Explore A visual montage of concept art, clips and documentary coverage that illustrates the directors' commentary.
Geriatric Hero A character study of Carl, from research to realization including art and design, rigging, animation and story. It focuses on the issues of aging, "simplexity", shape-language and compelling character arcs.
Canine Companions For anyone who ever wondered where CG puppies come from, an introduction to the design, behavior and language of dogs.
Russell: Wilderness Explorer A character study of Russell from inspiration and design to finding the character arc and authentic voice for this wilderness ranger.
Our Giant Flightless Friend, Kevin Find out how avian research and development at Pixar helped bring a mythical, 13-foot tall iridescent bird to life.
Homemakers of Pixar Carl and Ellie's house is an important "character" in the film. Fans follow the development of the house from story to art to its ultimate realization in the computer.
Balloons and Flight Carl's house and Muntz's dirigible presented the filmmakers with two different problemshow could they make a physical impossibility possible? And, in the case of the dirigible, how would they unearth a fallen giant and let it soar?
Composing for Characters Composer Michael Giacchino returns to score his third DisneyPixar feature film....
Married Life The original story concept that became the powerful "Married Life" scene, showing Carl and Ellie's love story.
Global Guardian Badge Game Players try to locate countries, states and capitals around the globe in a multi-layered BD-Exclusive geography game enhanced by BD-Live.
Granted, some of those (Global Guardian Badge Game! Canine Companions!) sound bullshitty and aren't anything I suspect Mercury readers would be interested in, but you can see how there'd be a pretty big difference on our end between thoroughly reviewing the DVD and doing the same for the Blu-ray.
If the poll results and comments thus far are any indication, though, it doesn't look like Blu-ray specific features (or even special features in general) are of much interest to a lot of people, unless they're obsessive-compulsive/rabidly-completist movie geeks like myself. And even if those sort of special features are of interest to some, they certainly don't seem to be a major selling point for Blu-ray, nor would they seem to make a convincing argument for more Blu-ray coverage.
Re: “Syfy Threatens Portland with Sharding Tornados?”
I want to see this movie so badly that it HURTS.
Re: “Acceptable?”
Those are not acceptable for anyone at any time.
Re: “Pop Quiz”
The intended point of that sentence wasn't that Norma worked at a private school, "~", but rather that both of these people have jobs--and that at least one of those jobs apparently supplied enough money to them them to buy a Corvette. (And the film is set in the '70s to boot, when it was less common for both individuals in a marriage to have to work in order to survive.) Sorry if that was unclear.
Re: “Dragon Age: Origins Does It Doggystyle”
I named mine "Bloodhound"!
Because he's a dog! And he gets bloody!
Get it?!
Fine. Whatever.
Re: “This Must Be What Going Mad Feels Like.”
C'mon, b!X. You already know the answer to that. (If you don't, THIS must be what going mad feels like.)
Re: “This Week's Mercury Film Section.”
@ meerkat: Black Dynamite is only opening in NY, LA, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Seattle this weekend. If and when it expands to Portland, we'll have a review then.
That said, our sister paper in Seattle has a review: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/black-d…
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