As a dude who watches a lot of movies (not that you'd notice, given that I haven't updated my movie website in thirty thousand years), I naturally have encountered DVDs from a wide range of sources and manufactures. Often, these DVDs fill me with rage.
Attention, the makers of laser-encrusted picture wheels! You should be listening! It's not just I who demands the following changes.
1. That shit at the beginning—FBI warnings and such—should always be skippable. DVDs from some studios will let you and those from others won't, but all of them should. Home video is not exactly a cutting edge idea; we've all seen the warning a billion times, we all know what it says. We should be able to skip gaily past it because we fucking know already, leave us alone! It gets even worse when you can't skip all the other legal disclaimers (Paramount, I'm looking at you right now). You know, the message about how "the opinions expressed in the interviews and commentary" yadda yadda yadda. We've seen that so often we all know it just as well as the FBI warning. Throwing it up on the screen in multiple languages, each as unskippable as the last, ...