Disney's UP dvd version rental question...
Was there a menu on yours with special features?
I am asking because mine didn't come with menus or subtitles or special features. Basically it made you have to wait and watch all the adds then after what seems like 15 minutes of ads you finally get to see the movie. WTH? Anyone else experience this?
I am asking because mine didn't come with menus or subtitles or special features. Basically it made you have to wait and watch all the adds then after what seems like 15 minutes of ads you finally get to see the movie. WTH? Anyone else experience this?
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Permalink Reply by I'm Not a Turnip on -
No experience with "Up", but I remember reading early in the year Fox was going to start producing "rental only" DVD versions. I wondered how far they would take it - mono sound? non-anamorphic? commercial breaks?
No subtitles.... uh oh!
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Permalink Reply by Spindaddydad on -
It's that Disney DVD forced-trailer thing. They do that with a lot (if not all) of their DVDs. The FF and Rev are disabled but I've found that the chapter-skip forward sometimes works.
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Permalink Reply by Knaldskalle on -
No, this was different. Disney calls it "Fast Play" or something like that, but you can always exit that by going to the menu. Without a menu, though, there's little escape.
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Permalink Reply by beeswax on -
...mine didn't come with menus or subtitles or special features ... after what seems like 15 minutes of ads you finally get to see the movie
Because somebody had mentioned this same thing in the "what did you watch today" thread, I put the dvd in my player and then went to do some chores without even turning on the tv. Figured I could backtrack to the beginning if the movie started while I was busy.
Imagine my surprise when I came back and turned on the tv and there was a menu onscreen with selections for "play movie" and "chapter selection" and "set up" and "bonus features."
Not trying to make you feel cheated or sad, but why would Netflix have BOTH the non-special-feature/"rental version" and the "regular version" of UP? Seems kind of random.
By the way, if you have a subtitle button on your dvd player or remote you should try hitting that to see if there are subs available on that "streamlined" version they sent you. I'd be curious to know.
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Permalink Reply by Knaldskalle on
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I got Up from Netflix when it was released and it had no menu, no subtitles/closed captions, no special features, nothing other than trailers and the movie, just like yours. I tried the "subtitles" button and got nothing, I tried all the different menu buttons and got nothing. Nothing worked, it was like getting one of those early DVD releases where they thought they had to be like VHS tapes. Sad.
I subsequently bought the movie and that version has plenty of extras and a nice menu. I didn't buy it for any of the extras, nor did I buy it because the rental version was so stripped of everything, but because it's a great movie.
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Permalink Reply by Spindaddydad on
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I didn't buy it for any of the extras, nor did I buy it because the rental version was so stripped of everything, but because it's a great movie.
I did too. I bought the 4disc Blu ray version. It's one of their most emotional movies to date. Man, that opening montage sequence gets me every time. They really adhere to Walt Disney's creedo that "for every laugh, there should be a tear."
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Permalink Reply by Knaldskalle on
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Yep, same version I bought (we don't have Blu-Ray, but some day we will and we got a fair deal) and, yes, that montage is amazing.
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Permalink Reply by Broken on -
Jesus....It feels good to be backed up by someone. I thought I was going crazy because of what people have said. But it's true. I mean I wouldn't have made a thread about it if I was straight up lying. I mean I have seen something like this with Wolverine Origins. But even that had the menus and chapter selects.
I mean I was pissed not really for the special features (they are a treat but if they aren't there no biggie). I was pissed because I was enjoying the movie with my mom who can't hear too well and she wanted to have subtitles on. But long behold nothing worked I got that censored symbol always. I mean you can't even begin to believe that once the movie was over bam! the dvd repeated itself. The only button that worked was the skip chapter/track. Not even fast forward or rewind worked. And believe me I tried the disc in several dvd players, same results.
The scary part is if they do that....this could be a start of something else. I mean yeah you should just rent movies for the movies but to just rip out the bare bones of a dvd seems really messed up.
It is a great movie. I love the movie. I still cry on some parts and what amazes me is you can be so emotion without dialogue which is pretty impressive.
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Permalink Reply by beeswax on
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Jesus....It feels good to be backed up by someone. I thought I was going crazy because of what people have said. But it's true. I mean I wouldn't have made a thread about it if I was straight up lying.
You completely misunderstood my post if you thought I was questioning your experience.
My point in posting that I got the other version is that NF is sending out BOTH kinds of discs, and it seems weird to me that they are doing that.
There are plenty of people in the review section at the site complaining that the version you got does not have subtitles/captions, so -- in my opinion -- that makes the "rental-version" decision-making by Disney even weirder.
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Permalink Reply by Broken on
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I wasn't pointing you out, beeswax. I have friends who didn't even believe me either. Which made it even more frustrating. It's just weird like you said.
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Permalink Reply by Sock Puppet on -
I totally screwed up my New title's this week and next (forgot about UP, and I didn't get my other movies on Friday like I should have, so I could get Star Trek on Tuesday, kinda pissed about that one....) Anyway, I watch A LOT of Disney titles and this is not anything really new. They have done similar things with other popular movies. The idea is to put the movie on one DVD (plus all the "coming soon" and "also on DVD" crap), and then all the making of and extra's onto a separate DVD.
However if you look on Up's Netflix page..., unless they totally screwed up (wouldn't be the first time) you will see this...
Other features:
Color; interactive menus; scene access.
Subtitles:
French, Spanish
Language and Sound:
English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
English: Dolby Digital 5.1
The only way for the "Average" person to access those is via a menu.
But Disney has this Fast Play crap that Knaldskalle mentions. With my Player all I have to do is hit the button that says "Menu" on my RC. This will always take me to the root menu, and will always bypass this nonsense.
That's the only button that will work, any others will give me a....
... picture at the top corner of my screen. And that's a whole other bitch gripe I have with the studios... Just who the hell are they to tell me what I can and cannot do with MY DVD/Player?
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