WARNING: Cuntish production companies may annoy the shit out of you

[Mick]

I received my very own copy of One Hour Photo (damn good film - 8/10) yesterday, and everything about the DVD is just grand except for one thing (well, excluding the cover, but I've already moaned about that).....

On the sleeve there is a yellow box, with red (IIRC) writing saying NOT FOR RENTAL - it's un-missable. Then, when you open up the case, it's there again - this time on the disc. Slightly annoying, but I can live with that that...... what I can't live with (I'll do myself in later, don't worry) is a 30 SECOND, un-fast-forwardable warning telling me to report anyone who rented the DVD to me.... 30 seconds for chrissakes, that's almost a minute. Almost a minute of my life that I'm never going to get back, spent watching a warning message that nobody gives a shit about.

Surely there is no need, at all, to make this required viewing. If someone actually wants to phone the number, they will; everyone else should be able to skip it. Absolutely disgusting practice.

What's probably even worse than this, is when they force you to watch their god-damn logos. I know who the production company is, and I don't give a shit. There's no need to, essentially, force me to look at your stupid logo.

Have any of us ever been walking around the shop, looked at a DVD and said "Ooh, this is a Fox disc - lets not give a shit what the film is, I'll buy it anyway since Fox made One Hour Photo"? Probably.

[Moviefan1234]

I really don't mind the logos. In fact, I like watching them and think they're cool. I also don't mind the warnings. Is 30 seconds really going to harm anybody?

[scottish-movie-freak]

You said "cuntish"....Hee hee! :p

Anyways, I actually bought One Hour Photo a few days ago, watched it tonight but I personally dont mind the whole "non rental" thingy! I buy dvds for the movie, not for the special features or for not having the rental thingy.

[Mick]

Originally posted by Moviefan1234
I really don't mind the logos. In fact, I like watching them and think they're cool.

I'm not really talking about the bit just before the titles, I actually kinda like that, it's the stupid logo you get sometimes as soon as you stick the DVD in. EIV (chances are you've not came across these critters) seem to like plastering their logo over everything.

I also don't mind the warnings. Is 30 seconds really going to harm anybody?

It just might, you can't really be too careful these days. My main gripe about the warning is that you can't skip it. If you could skip it, it'd be fine. What I can't understand is why not just let you skip it? If someone WANTS to skip it, chances are they don't give a shit about what the warning is saying, so what's the point in having it there?

Just because they can do something, doesn't mean they have to. I doubt video piracy is going to plummet because they now have the ability to keep the message on-screen without being FF'd.

Bloody communists.

[Jon Lyrik]

That;s pretty annoying. Thank God I only have one UK DVD (and it's not EIV or One Hour Photo).

[Jim H]

I agree. I've actually considered getting one of the off brand Chinese players because of that.. If you get a less respectable brand, some let you skip anything. :D

My Apex will let you skip SOME stuff my Sony won't, others it can't skip at all.

The worst are those stupid montage films some companies force you to watch. And I'm the kind of guy that LOVES it when a movie has a bunch of trailers - I just don't like being forced to watch them.

IMO, other then legacy titles, the best feature of VHS is you can skip ANYTHING and there is nothing they can do about it.

[Droog989]

I find the smaller the production company behind a film, the more likely they are to force you to watch their damn logos over and over. Some animé films are the absolute worst, because they'll have 8-11 backers, and you have to sit through each and every damn one just to boot up the disc, and thats the absolute worst. I mean where do they get off, on VHS you could've at least fast-forwarded it, but now? Noooo, well, wankers, all of them.


Bolshy great yarblockos to thee and thine :mad:

[Jim H]

That's the nice thing about my Chinese (possibly pirate, not positive) Trigun DVD :D

Great audio and video quality, god awful subtitles (I'd seen it before with good ones, so I know what is going on) and none of that bullshit a lot of anime DVDs make you sit through. Plus, WTF is up with them doind 3 25 minute episodes a disc?! The Chinese set I have is the same video quality, has around 6 eps a disc, and is as wide as two DVD cases on top of each other - meaning it fits in some standard DVD cases. MUCH better then the ludicrous $150 American release box set.

[Bullet Tooth Tony]

They piss me off as well...especially the Star Wars DVD's, they seem to be in every language ever created.

But what are you gonna do?