DVD special features... Too much of a good thing?


The other day my local paper had an article asking if special features on DVDs were getting to be too much?


I think they are. I can't even say how many special features on DVDs I own, and especially ones I have rented, have gone unwatched. Mostly it's because I'm just not interested. I like the movie, I don't need to know every aspect that went into the making of it. Don't get me wrong, I like a few deleted scenes and/or outtakes and maybe some behind the scenes material. On certain movies I don't like a well made documentary (I don't mean just an EPK) and a good commentary.


But I do mean certain movies. Movies that are classics, like Hitchcock films, or movies that have some sort of importance. I know importance is somewhat of a relative term, but how many fully loaded versions of American Pie do we need?