I kind of miss the old videos we watched for movies, you know those huge clunky things that you put in the massive VCR and could watch the movie from start to finish. No skipping, no chapters, special features were at the end.
DVDs did bring a whole new level of interaction that’s awesome, but they also brought new annoyances. They’re controlling. Seriously controlling. You can’t fast-forward or skip if they don’t want you to, you’ve got to put up with the crap to get to the movie.
One thing that irks me is movie ads. The start of DVDs now hold previews to other movies which sucks since after a couple of months the previews are outdated. The worst offender here is Madagascar and Ben Stiller. I know it’s not Ben Stiller’s fault personally, it was whoever decided that we needed to see Ben sit and talk about Madagascar every time we wanted to watch Shrek 2. You couldn’t skip it, you could only fast-forward.
That pissed me off so much that I didn’t go see Madagascar in the movies, I didn’t buy it on DVD. I did watch it when it was on TV for free, but I tend to buy movies I like. They basically lost a sale from it.
I hold grudges about things, silly things. DVDs that piss me off when I’m trying to watch my own movie are one of them. I hold that grudge and then resist seeing what could be a great movie.
Advertising in DVDs is going too far. So I’ll add Snow Buddies to the list of movies I’ll never fork out any money for.
At least with videos you could fast-forward and they couldn’t stop you. I paid for the effing DVD, I didn’t pay to sit and watch your ads.