I'll say it again- Criterion needs to get with the times. DVDs are
coming way down in cost. Even obscure titles are routinely released by
companies like Retromedia, Media Blasters and Blue Underground for less
than half what Criterion charges. Criterion extras are usually quite
banal and superfluous, and they seldom try to actually create any content
themselves. They are severely overrated and living in the past, and I
dread to hear about titles I want getting secured by Criterion. Maybe
they've gotten better since I decided to stop giving them my bussiness,
but there is no reason for a single title to command forty bucks unless
it has at least three discs of extras. I guess as long as there are rich
geeks with money to burn who have to have a painstaking transfer of
everything (even movies that hardly call for them), they'll manage to
stay afloat.
--
"There is no more foul or relentless enemy of man in the occult world
than this dead-alive creature spewed up from the grave..."
The Castle Monster:
http://www.processionofthedamned.com/diablo.htm