I love my Paprika DVD. It's loaded with special features, commentary, interviews, etc., but is severly lacking in one area. It does NOT have the oh-so-awesome theatrical trailer for the movie.
More and more DVDs lack this key element, and I have to ask, why? The theatrical trailer costs nothing to obtain, and doesn't require much additional time. It adds to the enjoyment by whetting your appetite for the film to come, and gives a sense of historical and cultural context. The trailer is an art form in and of itself, a concentrated dose of the most gripping elements of the film.
What possible reason is there for leaving that out? >.<
Is anyone else frustrated by this?
I've always liked when a dvd includes the trailer or trailers. I'd like to see it pop up more often again too, but I guess they're usually up on YouTube or something. For convienience they should be on the disc, but not a huge deal I guess.
Quote from: Fuzzy Necromancer on July 22, 2009, 01:15:58 PM
What possible reason is there for leaving that out? >.<
They used music they couldn't clear the rights for is often a reason.
A Trek movie trailer got pulled from a DVD because it used a recording of part of "The Planets" for which the orchestra would have had to be paid.
And Paramount are notoriously cheap bastards.
Well I'll be.
I always assumed that trailers and all their contents were part of the same rights package as the movie, especially because half of them seem to use the same "vague latin chanting" and "<name of character> was an ordinary <profession or gender identifier>" music.
Interesting, that's usually the one thing I always thought was guaranteed to be on the DVD (except those ones are are just the movie, nothing else *glares at Funny Games*). And I usually enjoy watching them, so I'd be annoyed if they weren't there. I'm going to agree with the above and say music rights is probably the reason for their absence, since oftentimes songs in the trailer are not in the actual movie.
On an unrelated note, I've been meaning to see Paprika for a while but forgot. Thanks for reminding me.
I generally have little use for the "extras" on DVD releases. Most of the stuff is for things I really could not care about.
But I DO love trailers.
Quote from: Fuzzy Necromancer on July 22, 2009, 05:54:43 PM
Well I'll be.
I always assumed that trailers and all their contents were part of the same rights package as the movie, especially because half of them seem to use the same "vague latin chanting" and "<name of character> was an ordinary <profession or gender identifier>" music.
Actually I meant for there to be a question mark at the end of my first sentence there....I know don't for certain that that's the case with this
Paprika movie. But often it's something like that.
And as far as the trailers being "the whole package"....if they use the music from the movie, then yeah.
But sometimes they make trailers or commercials so far ahead that they either don't have the music ready yet or they don't want to tip their hand.
Can't tell you how many times I've heard the theme from
The Rocketeer in a trailer or commercial for a film. And I guess it costs more to use the music in something you're going to charge money for than an ad that you're only going to show for a few weeks.
It makes sense. The Watchmen dvd doesn't have the trailer either, and I can easily imagine its because they didn't want to pay to use the Smashing Pumpkins song, since its nowhere in the movie.
I very rarely watch trailers on DVDs but I do get frustrated when that's the only extra, I'm agree with the 'message' behind The Film Crew. Every movie should have a commentary
I like trailers for foreign movies on DVDs I rent. Gives good exposure to films I may not have known about. As for the trailer of the movie on the DVD that I'm watching? I couldn't really care about it. Watching a trailer beforehand can ruin some of the best moments of the feature.
There are some trailers that are worth including because they're little bits of creativity in and of themselves....
The "Jurassic Park" parody for the American Godzilla, the two Goldmember trailers with Dr. Evil in the Emperor's chair and Fat Bastard as a projection screen for instance. Or the "fake footage" ones that Lucas used to make for ESB and RotJ. Or even ones that have real cut footage.
But the ones that are just standard, quick cut, spoiler filied ads....can live without those.
Well, the official original Paprika trailer has music not seen in the movie, so that might explain why.
But still, take a look at this trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIh_wRysqw) and tell me it's not worth including the DVD. It's a bluggin art form in and of itself.
Also, the US theatrical trailer for Paprika only uses music from the film itself, and it's pretty gremplork amazing too, so I don't get why they left it out. :(