It's got all the supplements of the previous Blu - ray and 2 - Disc DVD Special Edition (commentary by director Oliver Stone, twelve extended / deleted scenes and an alternate ending with optional
commentary by Stone, and the 1992 documentary feature Beyond JFK: A Question of Conspiracy, co-directed by two - time Oscar winner Barbara Kopple) plus three bonus documentaries: the new JFK Remembered: 50 Years Later (directed by Robert Kline), the 1965 John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums (directed by Bruce Herschensohn), and JFK: To the Brink (a chapter from Stone's Showtime series Untold History of the United States).
Four «Deleted Scenes» come with optional
commentary by Stone: «Dr. Lee Conducts» (1:53, SD), «Battle of the Bands» (1:59, SD), «A&T Alternate Performance A» (1:02, SD), and «Devon and Laila Drive Off» (1:21, SD).
The 25th anniversary «Platoon» Blu - ray features separate
commentaries by Stone and the military adviser, Dale Dye, that combined run for almost five hours.
Not exact matches
Opting for straight - line suspense, the filmmakers had to forgo subjective cutaways like the plainclothes cop's reflections on his tortuous relationship with a Third - World - infatuated feminist; again,
Stone writes in a more bedrock
commentary on metropolitan backsliding
by refusing to reveal which of the hostages is the cop, so that the police monitoring the stolen train are led to wonder whether it's a man or a woman and chauvinistically calculate a woman's chances for taking effective action against the hijackers.
Oliver
Stone's W. is inaugurated on DVD (full frame or widescreen) and Blu - ray (full frame and widescreen), with the following bonus materials: deleted scenes, an audio
commentary by director Oliver
Stone, the original theatrical trailer and featurettes (Dangerous Dynasty: The Bush Presidency and No Stranger to Controversy: Oliver
Stone's George W. Bush).
There is a feature audio
commentary by Oliver
Stone.
An audio
commentary by director Charles
Stone III («Theatrical Version» only) allows the director to wax enthusiastic about the bands and their leadership, and explain how the film came together, including the details of his specific visual approach.
Bonus: • Audio
Commentary with Director Oliver
Stone • Introduction
by Oliver
Stone • «Greed Is Good» Documentary • Deleted Scenes with Optional
Commentary • «Money Never Sleeps — The Making of Wall Street» Documentary • «Fox Movie Channel Present Fox Legacy with Tom Rothman» Featurette
Starting things off, there's an audio
commentary from director Mark Hartley, joined
by «Ozploitation Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set of 26 deleted and extended scenes, now with optional audio
commentary from Hartley and editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director of the film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes of low tech behind the scenes moments which were shot mostly
by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3 hours worth), with an opening title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together most of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast in Paris, Melvin, Son of Alvin, Night of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon,
Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.
That said, the Executive Suite DVD does include an audio
commentary by director Oliver
Stone.
Along with some fairly dull
commentary tracks (the first
by director Oliver
Stone, in which he so graciously delivers morsels of wisdom like «This is Will Jimeno driving to work,» and a second
by the real - life Jimeno and some of his rescuers), the two - disc effort also includes nine delete / extended scenes because, well, the movie was already too long, and a three - part making - of documentary running nearly an hour long.
Stone follows - up his
commentary with voiceover for the approximately ten deleted scenes elsewhere on the platter, and his justification for some of these cuts is up for debate: I don't agree that the finished film ends on a peak note — instead, it's a hasty retreat, and that abruptness could have been alleviated
by either of the alternate denouements presented here.
The only drawback is that you can't kill two birds with one
stone by having Tim Burton's or Danny Elfman's
commentary playing between items.
Subtlety has always been a foreign concept to Oliver
Stone, even back when he was in great form, so it's not exactly surprising when various characters make a pitiful attempt at thematic
commentary by blatantly spitting out the title in
Stone's latest movie, a wobbly, wandering drug dealers vs. cartels thriller.
Running time: 92 Minutes Distributor: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment DVD Extras: Gag reel, Emma
Stone audition footage, and a
commentary by Emma
Stone and the director.
Audio
Commentary by Director Joe Dante, Actors Dee Wallace
Stone, Christopher
Stone and Robert Picardo / Featurettes: «Unleashing The Beast: Making The Howling» indexed in 5 parts (54:11)(see comment) + «Making A Monster Movie: Inside The Howling» (8:02) / 12 - 13 Deleted Scenes (9:31) / Outtakes (5:19) / Poster Gallery with 12 images and Production Photos with 39 images / 2 Theatrical trailers for «The Howling,» plus DVD trailers for «The Fog,» «Carrie» and «Jeepers Creepers» / 4 page colour booklet
As background to recent developments, the site includes selected
commentary from The Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 — An Annotated Guide
by Knox Dobbins and Jason
Stone (published
by North Law Publishers, Inc.).