Your Favorite Special Feautures?

[Thomas Irwin]

All the extras on Well Go's Phantasm box set. Being my favorite horror series, that is an awesome release. It took me some time to get through them all.

[DR Herbert West]

Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

[AaronJ]

Yeah, The Furious Gods is awesome. As long as it is, I've actually re-watched it.

Generally, I like commentaries, usually informative ones that let me in on the process of making a film. But I also like entertaining ones, too. The commentary with NWR and Elle Fanning for The Neon Demon is hilarious. It's clear that not only did they have a really good time making the film, but that they really like each other and became good friends. I love the movie, but the commentary is practically just as good!

[Matt Murdock]

Behind the Planet of the Apes documentary from 1998
Star Wars: The Beginning from Episode I and Within a Minute from Episode III
Legends of the Dark Knight: The History of Batman from the Batman 89 2005 release
Creating the World of Harry Potter 8 part documentary
Every batch of trailers from the Star Wars DVDs

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Matt Murdock

Behind the Planet of the Apes documentary from 1998
Star Wars: The Beginning from Episode I and Within a Minute from Episode III
Legends of the Dark Knight: The History of Batman from the Batman 89 2005 release
Creating the World of Harry Potter 8 part documentary
Every batch of trailers from the Star Wars DVDs

I'm not a huge Harry Potter fan at all. But that's something that sounds like it would be cool to see some day.

[Rzzzz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYWJvbMgpsg

[TripleHBK]

In order of importance/preference...

-Alternate Film Cuts
-Feature Length Documentaries like "The Fear of God" doc included with The Exorcist.
-Restoration featurette's which detail the restoration process
-Deleted Scenes
-Early Film works that don't have their own release
-CD Soundtracks
-Talking head segments
-"The Making of..." behind the scenes segments
-The trailer/trailers
-Commentaries
-PDF Scripts
-Picture Galleries
-Pop up trivia or other screen overlays

As far as my favorite special features themselves...

-The aforementioned Fear of God Documentary
-Terror in the Aisles being included with Halloween II

[Rzzzz]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

If I could only take 5 Blus on a deserted island this would be one of them.



Not just for the different cuts but for the extras as well. It is a special features lovers dream....

[BluProofie]

I have several favorites, mainly from the Blade Runner set, but one of my recent favorites is the Scream Factory interview with Jamie Lee Curtis on The Fog blu-ray. Curtis is such a delight and brutally honest.

[AaronJ]

Sometimes, there are features I'm very interested on discs or in sets in which I'm not that overly interested. For example, the aforementioned Harry Potter multi-part documentary. I've wished in the past that companies would offer certain features, separate from whatever disc or set they came with, for a set price. There are definitely ones I would spend the money on just to get that feature.

[Thomas Irwin]

Originally Posted by BluProofie

I have several favorites, mainly from the Blade Runner set, but one of my recent favorites is the Scream Factory interview with Jamie Lee Curtis on The Fog blu-ray. Curtis is such a delight and brutally honest.

I haven't gotten around to watching that yet, but one of my favorite interviews is definitely Amelia Kinkade on the Night of the Demons release.

[UltraMario9]

THE MASTER | Back Beyond - YouTube

[Martoto]

Any and all John Carpenter commentaries.

Edgar Wright and Quentin Tarantino's commentary for Hot Fuzz

Dangerous Days

The Making Of Jaws

All the Alien Quadrilogy documentaries

[Member-222782]

My all-time favorite extra has been and will continue to be the Director's Cut. This includes "alternate" cuts that may not be necessarily endorsed or approved by the original director. Any alternate version of a film, even if it's not a favorite, is always welcome. I guess this comes from my deep love of the filmmaking process in general. The process is always fascinating; the behind-the-scenes stories are sometimes more enjoyable than the film itself

I also love in-depth documentaries that feature lots of behind-the-scenes photos or, even better, footage. Anything by Laurent Bouzereau is top notch - even the shorter featurettes he created later. I don't know if he's still in the business or retired but he was the best.

[andyk69]

Originally Posted by Rzzzz

If I could only take 5 Blus on a deserted island this would be one of them.



Not just for the different cuts but for the extras as well. It is a special features lovers dream....

I am still so surprised the blade runner documentary dangerous days is not available in 1080p HD, it puzzles me, such a great and comprehensive behind the scenes look at how a film gets made from start to finish.

[Matt Murdock]

Originally Posted by AaronJ

I'm not a huge Harry Potter fan at all. But that's something that sounds like it would be cool to see some day.

It's one of the most in depth documentaries I've seen outside of the LotR Extended Editions. The only disappointing thing about them is they're split up among the 8 movies on 8 different bonus discs, and most box sets don't include them.

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Matt Murdock

It's one of the most in depth documentaries I've seen outside of the LotR Extended Editions. The only disappointing thing about them is they're split up among the 8 movies on 8 different bonus discs, and most box sets don't include them.

Gotcha. Well, maybe someday I'll find a way to see them.

[UltraMario9]

I really wish Audience Reaction Tracks were more popular. The only ones that even come to mind are the tracks for Lethal Weapon 4 and Sin City.

[LMFAObros]

Alternate cuts and audio mixes for sure. I love it when you get the option on certain titles from Arrow, Shout and others where they have included a modern 5.1 update on the audio along with the original audio track in lossless. Directord cuts, along with alternate versions included make the release more rewarding too

[glennstl]

I really love any Horror’s Hallowed Grounds. Sean Clark is always entertaining but he balances it so well by also being so knowledgeable about the movies he is talking about.

I’ve grown to really appreciate commentary tracks, especially on older ( 1930s-1960s) movies.

This one is pretty obvious, but Criterion almost always does amazing extras that you can spend several hours typically watching or listening to. They’re like the gold standard for special features.

Scream also usually does a great job on their new extras.