Re: How Soon Before Everything Worth Watching is On A DVD

"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in rec.video.dvd.titles, Mike
> Kohary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >But even the Jabba scene...look, when you make a movie, you simply don't
> >include every scene that you film.  Some scenes don't work for one reason
or
> >another, and for efficiency's sake if nothing else, you cut stuff.  Every
> >film has deleted scenes, and for the most part are better films for it.
>
> I agree. But I really wish DVDs offered an option to view deleted
> scenes in context, i.e. to see the whole movie with the deleted
> scenes in their proper places. This would mean when a "deleted"
> scene is a longer version of a scene that was in the movie, the
> short version would be omitted.
>
> It's all programming anyway, so it would take virtually no extra
> space to offer that option.

Yup, seamless branching is an option that isn't used often or effectively
enough, IMO.  T2 and The Abyss used it well, but many movies that could use
it, don't, for some odd reason.

Mike