We bought the Brüno DVD a while back. We got the player setup last night and watched it. It's characteristically cringe-worthy, and the cage fighting scene is really something to watch. It's another nice comment about the USA, the media and the audience :-)
However, I'm really upset with the DVD itself. You put it in, and for 2 minutes get told that you're going to burn in hell after being subjected to a life of poverty if you so much as think about lending the DVD to your friends, let alone copy it. If that's not enough of an insult, you then have to sit through 10 minutes of trailers before you even get to the "play movie" option.
It's clear to me that the (Hollywood) film industry is even more broken than the music industry. Universal Pictures (and others), if you're listening (which it's clear you're not): I don't want to PAY to watch adverts. By all means give me some trailers on the DVD, but don't make it impossible for me to watch the film without seeing them. Surely you can just put another option on the main menu called "see some trailers" - that gives me a choice - you know, "choice" - that thing consumers crave?
I seriously doubt I'll be buying many more DVDs because of the general degradation of the medium, and this "final straw". I still want to watch good films at home, mind you. They just won't be on DVD.
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the cage fight scene is something else (and that flying chair looked like it was pretty close to their heads!)... i also agree with the truly awful in-yer-face selling that goes on with DVD's but i'd say that Disney is the worst for it, there can be 10 minutes of trailers before the menu appears...
if online media wasn't so bloomin' expensive (i really can't see how they can justify the same price for a download as physical media) i would download films, my (albeit limited) experience with them so far is that there isn't the misery of forced advertising...
knobs...