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Synopsis: Review: Both Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt deliver great performances as the detectives, and Kevin Spacey is fucking hardcore. Also worth noting, Seven is the second film of Director David Fincher (Alien 3, The Game, Fight Club), whom I think is one of the best new Directors on the Hollywood scene. Watch this kid, he's going places. Special Features : Before I touch on the anything else, I got say that the packaging for this set is really cool. Not as good as the Fight Club packaging, but a really close second. The first commentary track (of the 4 on this disc) featuring Fincher, Pitt, and Freeman was hands down, the best on this DVD. The piss-off is that Fincher and Pitt are giving their commentary together, but Freeman's was recorded separately and then spliced in. Which kind of made things feel a little disjointed when the track switched back and forth between the two different recordings. But, when all is said and done these three guys deliver some good insights into the making of the film. The second C-track, which focused on the story, it's meanings and interpretations, how it was adapted for the screen, and the project history of the film, was fairly well done. With the input of 5 different people (I'm not going to list them) it's well worth listening. I'm going to lump the last 2 C-tracks together (because I found them equally disappointing). The problem I found with the last 2 tracks was that they were a too narrow in there appeal to the watcher. Unless you're hardcore into how a picture was framed, or the way in which the musical score punctuates what's happening on screen, stay away from these two C-tracks. It must be said that Fincher is on all 4 of the C-tracks, which makes him one chatty-motherfucker. Oh yeah, you also get the entire script if you access the dvd-rom features on disc one of this set. It's a cool thing to have, but a little bit of over-kill if you ask me. On to disc 2, appropriately named Supplemental Material, you'll find the meat of this special edition. The "Exploration of the title Sequence" feature offers 3 versions of the opening credits, with 5 different audio mixes of the opening song/sounds and two different audio commentaries. These guys went all out for this feature, and in all honest I think they went a little too far. Don't get me wrong, I dig the opening of the film, I just don't need to hear it in five different mixes. That's all. The "Deleted scenes and Extended takes" section was fairly comprehensive. You get seven different hacked-out or cut-down scenes, which last anywhere between 20 seconds to around 5 mins. All of which can be view with or without commentary by Fincher. I found this section very informative and well worth going through. Likewise, the 2 "Alternate Endings" on this disc are must view for any fan. Again, both offer commentary or not by Fincher (aka. Chatty-motherfucker). Personally, I found the test screening ending something of a let down, but hey, that's me. The production design, still photographs, and "the notebooks" sections basically consisted of either hand-drawn stills or photographs of the movie sets and environments. All of which had audio commentaries by the respective Art-director(s) or Photographer(s) responsible for each creation. Surprisingly I found these sections very interesting (especially the notebooks section). But the credit has goes too the commentaries, without which this section would have been fairly boring. The promotional materials section was fairly lean. All you get is the theatrical trailer and a short promo-video used to hype the film. I didn't really care for the either. They didn't seem to capture the nature of the film very well. The narration on the promo-video sounded like shit, and the voice-over on the trailer was terrible. Neither of these two gentlemen sounded right to me. And the tagline at the end of the trailer was fucking stupid. The filmographs for the cast and crew was standard fair. But I wasn't really expecting much from this section away. Lastly, the "Mastering for the Home Theater" section was really informative as to how a film is transferred to DVD. I'll never watch this section again, but it was interesting nonetheless. Audio and Video: “I’ve tried to figure something out in my head. Maybe you can help me out, yeah? When a person is insane, as you clearly are, do you know that you’re insane? Maybe you’re just sitting around…reading Guns and Ammo…masturbating in your own feces. Do you stop and go: “Wow, it’s amazing how fucking crazy I really am?” - Brad Pitt -Nicky Eyes |
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