High-Def Digest: The Bonus View2012 Archives - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tag/2012/ A High-Def Digest Blog Wed, 13 May 2020 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Weekend Roundtable: What a Disaster! https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-disaster-movies/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-disaster-movies/#comments Fri, 21 Feb 2014 20:00:18 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=60338 One of the great joys of being a filmmaker, especially a filmmaker fortunate enough to play around with a big budget production, is to create an elaborate movie world and then tear it to the ground in spectacularly destructive fashion. Making a disaster movie essentially gives a director the opportunity to return to his childhood...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-disaster-movies/feed/ 37 Weekend Roundtable: Lamest DVD and Blu-ray Bonus Features https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-lamest-bonus-features/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-lamest-bonus-features/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2012 20:00:29 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=44712 Bonus features are still a big selling point on the DVD and Blu-ray releases of movies, but who actually watches these things? As reviewers, many of us on staff are actually obligated to sit through all the commentaries, documentaries, featurettes, gag reels and miscellaneous odds and ends on the discs we review. When supplements are...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/apocalypse-not-now/feed/ 9 It’s Official: Sci-Fi Movies Are Dumb https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/scifi-movie-stupidity/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/scifi-movie-stupidity/#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:00:52 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=10169 I doubt that anyone will be too surprised to hear that science fiction movies are rarely scientifically accurate. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out. Nonetheless, when actual rocket scientists weigh in on the issue, perhaps we should give their opinions some credence. If you’ve ever wondered which movies NASA thinks are...

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