Dee-Vee-Dee!

Remember when DVD's had bonus features....?

So the other day the Missus goes to the store and shops for a few necessities. When she returns she has brought home King Kong; The DVD. Now remember when the cool thing about getting DVD's was when you were done watching them they always had those cool additional things on the disk; Alternate endings, deleted scenes, Outtakes, bonus footage, Upcoming movies. You name it they had it. And of you didn't want to watch it well guess what? You didn't have to fast forward through it, you just didn't watch it. Cool huh?

So what goes?

Let's back up before we go forward. A few weeks ago the missus goes to the store and shops for a few necessities. Sound familiar? Well when she returned she brought home the newest Harry Potter DVD. What was this one, number 4? Something like that. Anyway it came as a two pack. She openned up the package and the "other" disk says something about game etc. Scene-it I think it was....so we watched the DVD and at the end we begin the search.

For what you ask?

Well I'm glad that you asked. Bonus stuff. Extra features. So we searched and searched and there was nothing. Oh, maybe it's on the second disk. I thought the same thing. So we change the disks and hit Menu and what did you think was there? This monologue on how to play Scene-it that went on for quite a while. Now I have nothing against the game. I've never played it. But what i'm getting at here is that DVD's have changed. It was the cool thing that made them different from a VCR tape. Remember those? Fast forward, Please be kind: Rewind, boring features with Mr Voice narrating what movies were coming out (that you were still going to wait until it came out to see). Gone.

Okay, but it was just the Harry potter movie.

Or was it?

So, fast forward, the Missus comes home with King Kong. All three hours of it. So ya it finishes around 1 a.m. and I stop the credits by hitting the menu button. Menu comes on and what's there? Commercials. No special features what so ever. Nope, nuttin, zero, zip zilch. You get the idea.

So what's the deal? Is it just freaking Wal-Mart that sells these bonus-less movies with no extra's? Where's the motivation to go and buy these DVD's? If all I wanted to see was the movie itself ( and don't forget this one came with commercials) I could wait a year and then watch it on TNT or Spike (Spike has better commercials). Does Wal-Mart have these DVD's made to keep them cheap so all the camouflage sweatpant wearing attention all wal-mart shoppers we're having a sale on toothpaste, oh wait, pass on that, shoppers can have as big a collection of DVD's as they have of Nascar Tee's?

C'mon people.

All I'm saying is that if I go to buy a DVD I want to see some bonus features in there. I want to see the deleted scene with that guy that really should have been bitten in half by the monster, and was, but the ratings folks said "you're pushing it if you leave it in there..." I want to see the extended muppet scene, ya you know which one i'm talking about. I want to see that stupid Coming Soon feature of She's the Man (don't get me started down that road...). Whatever they are I want my bonus features just like I wanted my MTV.

Remember when MTV actually played music....?