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-- Star Wars EP3 *BONUS DISC* *NTSC* - DVDRIP - XPDVD (http://forum.vcdq.com/showthread.php?threadid=66880)

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Picture quality of the extras is extremely variable. Sound is completley out of synch at the beginning of the stuntwork featurette "It's All For Real" but manages to catch up later. Remainder of the featurette is extremely pixely. Not having seen the original I couldn't say if that was a fault fo the transfer or not but either way it looks like a pirated VCD download.

On the positive side the limited selection deleted scenes are extremely well presented in anamorphic 2.35:1 with 5.1 surround and no timecodes. The opening 30 min CGI fest was originally a full hour so there is much we have still not seen. The rest of the special features (except for the TV spots) are also in 16x9 albeit with 2.0 surround.

As with the remainder of the movie sequence it describes the 78 minute documentary "Within A Minute" is overlong and incredibly tedious. It even has the nerve to "specially thank" Rob McCallum and George Lucas who commisioned the featurette to begin with, a bit like performing seals applauding themselves.

The "Chosen One" featurette is not nearly as comprehensive as some online dealers have suggested and plays like a conventional preview of the movie. All 15 so-called web documentaries are also present on this disc.

A fundamental mistake of the producers is assuming that having "more" of something automatically makes it "better", it doesn't. Since I didn't have to pay for this download I'm not complaining but frankly I could live with a single disc edition of this movie quite happily.

good bonus disc