DVD Extras

In continuing to bring you multi-tiered platform content, Single Malt Cinema now presents a series called "DVD Extras". I watch alot of dvds...and now-a-days with blu-ray, the content of dvds is changing. Which dvd do you buy? Films come out with 3-4 versions and with the intent of getting you to eventually double dip and buy 2 or 3 versions of the same film (I have 3 versions of Fight Club). I research Amazon, Dvdtown, Blu-ray, Digital Bits, Jo-Blo Dvd, Ratethatcommentary ,and Criterion Cast, as just a few sites that really help to get the right dvd and the dvds that have the best versions, most versions, and best extras, like commentary.

This portal should be used as a place to entice you to go to those other sites...they do a great job...I just like to bring you some of the best of the extras from dvds. Today I have two that come to mind.

1. The Wrestler Blu-ray - only the blu-ray has extras..the best of the extras is in a making of video diary of the set...Mickey Rourke I guess is a lazy actor and the actress playing his daughter is just really good and brings it on every take (Evan Rachel Wood)...at one point, Director Darren Aronofsky is so pissed with Mickey's performance...he steps into the camera...and slaps the shit out of Mickey and tells him he's terrible and the actress is killing him...O man...it's at a very emotional time in the film and is great that they left this on the dvd.

2. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Blu-Ray:...again the blu-rays are special these days...post Katrina NOLA looks like a wasteland on Blu-Ray (also see The Road Blu-Ray)...in this extra...it's a video diary...Werner Herzog explains the film a bit...why he is the one that works the clap board and shows how he got bit by an Iguana...the best though is Val Kilmer hamming it up for the videographer...at one point Herzog reprimands Val...but then Val tells him straight up that he was doing it for the video/dvd...and to cool off because he knows he is a ham...and you cant stop a ham from hamming it up...another point is when Nicholas Cage says pretty much that he picks movies based on something that Bill Murray once said "I don't want an audience saying after one of my films 'that was good', I want them to say...'WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT'...funny stuff.

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