I just happened to be updating my wishlist in time for my Birthday and Christmas and came across the Infernal Affairs Trilogy [LE 8-Disc Box].
Not only does it contain the three films (obviously, it’s a trilogy!) and the usual interviews, photo galleries but it is also lovingly crafted with the following special features:
- Digitally remastered films
- DTS-ES and Dolby Digital EX sound
- 10 minutes of unseen footage added to Infernal Affairs 1
- 2 hours of deleted scenes
- 100+ page photo booklet
- Multi-Angle feature
Okay, so that’s quite good I hear you cry. That’s not what makes me want it, oh no, there’s more. Firstly there’s the fact that you can get the Distributor to put your name on the packaging, then, and here’s the kick ass selling point that has made me write about this. The box set includes:
…a special 5-hour version of the trilogy edited together in chronological order onto two additional discs.
Wow! Now that is really cool. Not only can you watch the movies, but you can see them edited together for the entire trilogy experience. Fantastic! My only concern would be that the five hour version is on two discs, whereas each individual movie is on two discs making a total of six. Surely the credits don’t take up four discs? So does that mean the audio or video is compromised? Not too sure, but it still looks very, very cool.
I do enjoy buying a good movie on DVD, especially when it’s got loads and loads of extras, and decent extras I mean. I can’t stand the trailers, teasers, photo galleries, production featurettes etc all sold as the vast extras available. To me that’s equivalent to none. I only consider an extra to be deleted\additional scenes, or a cast\crew commentary, these kind of things are items on a disc that you would want to watch.
I can’t stand the laziness of some Studios and Distributors to release a DVD with nothing new over the general release on it, or simply tack on some advertising materials and sell it as a Special Edition, or even worse, sell the normal version waiting for the window of opportunity to resell a Special Edition once the sales on the standard version have dropped.
Anyway, someone buy me this DVD…please?
