Pythonofdoom wrote: I WISH ALL COMPANIES WOULD DO THERE SPECIAL FEATURES LIKE THIS!!!!  At least some companies still have 2-disk DVDs loaded w/special features!

i dont. companies need to continue having special features that are only available on blu-ray. until the rest of the world decides to join us blu-ray shoppers, they will continue to be slow release/expensive as s**t. catch up with the times.

i might pick this up. quentin let me down with his last few movies. and are we to believe there will be no "Extended" or "Unrated" cut of this movie? well, at least instead of stealing other peoples work, he's actually doing remakes now. thats like authorized theft

And as per usual, the single-disc art is 100x better than the Blu and 2-disc art. Thank you yet again studio artwork lackeys.

I actually like the single disc art better than the 2-disc, but I'll still get the 2-disc!

this was the best movie of the year for me, one of tarantinos best

So out of curiousity, does anyone have a clue as to whether the DVD's gonna open with the original Weinstein Co. logo or go straight to the classic Universal one?

williams411 wrote: As a big fan of Tarantino's work, I was very dissapointed with this film. I thought it was way too long and very boring at times. I hope that Quentin will get back on track and provide us with a good film next time. I certainly will not be purchasing this film.

boring? the final "showdown" between the bride and bill... now THAT was boring, only because carradine couldn't pull off tarantino's dialogue if his life depended on it. but the casting in this film was just plain excellent. tarantino's dialogue had never before felt so natural and organic as it did in this film. there was always that point in his previous films where you thought to yourself, "is he serious??? he's really pushing it. who the f**k talks like this?" but here, it just felt right. waltz was just superb as landa. and not to mention that the script was very clever. loved the many plants-and-payoffs in this.

now, im not attacking you for thinking the film was boring. i can actually sympathize with you a little. i just got done watching it for the third time with a group of people. i could sense a little boredom from them in a couple parts of the film, but at what moments they found boring, i found fascinating in a way. i loved the quiet moments in the film, maybe even more so than the loud and violent parts.

*SPOILER*

there was this moment in the film when landa orders two pastries, one for himself and one for emmanuelle/shoshanna, with a coffee for him, and a glass of milk for her. this was a hint at a scene that was shown at the beginning of the film where landa asks for a glass of milk just before he has shoshanna's family massacred.

*END SPOILERS*

there were many quiet moments like this that built up really great tension, but for some, might not have been appreciated as much. alfred hitchcock says this in an interview with truffaut:

"Let us suppose that there is a bomb underneath this table between us. Nothing happens, and then all of a sudden, “Boom!” There is an explosion. The public is surprised, but prior to this surprise, it has seen an absolutely ordinary scene, of no special consequence. Now, let us take a suspense situation. The bomb is underneath the table and the audience knows it, probably because they have seen the anarchist place it there. The public is aware that the bomb is going to explode at one o’clock and there is a clock in the decor. The public can see that it is a quarter to one. In these conditions this same innocuous conversation becomes fascinating because the public is participating in the scene. The audience is longing to warn the characters on the screen: “You shouldn’t be talking about such trivial matters. There’s a bomb beneath you and it’s about to explode!”

"In the first case we have given the public fifteen seconds of surprise at the moment of the explosion. In the second we have provided them with fifteen minutes of suspense. The conclusion is that whenever possible the public must be informed."

that's what sets this film apart from saving private ryan.