"Hidden Easter Eggs" on DVDs -- why?

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So, I picked up Ramones Raw on DVD today...boasting "over five hours of material". Among the bonus features it cites "12 Hidden Easter Eggs".

Really, who is well served by this? I mean, what's the point? Moreover, if they're hidden, why bother gloating about it on the box? I just want to watch the thing and be done with it -- not have to fuckin' search around for extra little tidbits.

Anyone else mystified/annoyed by this phenomenon?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 1 October 2004 02:51 (twenty years ago)

Geeks think it's cool. They actually print DVD Easter Egg guides in video game mags.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 1 October 2004 03:03 (twenty years ago)

how is the DVD, though?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 1 October 2004 03:12 (twenty years ago)

Aw easter eggs are fun to hunt for when you're bored (and have watched the dvd too frickin many times).

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 October 2004 03:31 (twenty years ago)

But if you are watching something to the extent that you are that bored, then what really is the point. Just switch it off.

― Paul Kelly (kelly), Friday, 1 October 2004 07:41 (twenty years ago)

Is it not also the case that releasing what the easter eggs are can rekindle a modicum of interest in the product when sales start to flag?

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:12 (twenty years ago)

Yes, the idea that I would be so bored as to sit there and randomly press buttons in the hope that something might happen is too depressing to contemplate. If I really liked a film, then I might look up on the net how to access them, but in that case, I'd rather have just had them listed properly on the menu, thanks.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 13:11 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps even more annoying are Easter Eggs that are inaccesible if you don't have the right kind of remote control - I'm thinking particularly of a chunk of audio on The Day Today which requires pressing '7' on the remote at a particular moment in the menu sequence. I don't have any numbers on my remote! Nor can I make it work in PowerDVD on my PC. Bah.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 1 October 2004 13:43 (twenty years ago)

i almost bought Raw last night, but was sort of thrown off by the 'five hours' on the slip cover and then '110 minutes' written on the back of the dvd. i know the 110 minutes is live footage, but i dunno if i need three hours of 'clips'

― kephm (kephm), Friday, 1 October 2004 13:49 (twenty years ago)

The people who make the dvds get really bored. wouldn't you if you had to sift thru 50 hours of kevin spacey outtakes?

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 1 October 2004 13:51 (twenty years ago)

i almost bought Raw last night, but was sort of thrown off by the 'five hours' on the slip cover and then '110 minutes' written on the back of the dvd. i know the 110 minutes is live footage, but i dunno if i need three hours of 'clips'

OTM. I don't need nine dozen shots of Marky Ramone brushing his teeth or Johnny Ramone buying gum in a 711.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 1 October 2004 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Extras are usually hurtin' to begin with. If it wasn't worth including in the main feature, then chances are it's not that interesting. So hiding them just makes it all that much easier for me to not bother watching them.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:18 (twenty years ago)

advertising easter eggs is completely retarded

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Even at Easter?

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Yes. We should all be thinking about the message of the Resurrection, not supporting the commercialized paganism of chocolate eggs.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago)

But I prefer paganism, commercialized or not! And I don't mean modern, PC neo-pagan "Wiccan" horse manure, I mean sacrificng-virgins--to-please-the-rain-god or drinking-hallucinogenic-jaguar-vomit-to- become-a-man-type shit!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps, DVD Easter Eggs could be renamed as "Wiccan horse manure"

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:20 (twenty years ago)

yes

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Just as a follow-up, a friend of mine sent me some link with all the easter eggs on Ramones Raw revealed. They're merely fleeting clips of backstage/touring hijinx. Not really worth the sweat and effort to track them down.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 21 October 2004 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Ever seen the Duran Duran Greatest DVD? Worst example of 'easter eggs' I've EVER seen. The designers thought, 'hey, let's make these extras so fucking convoluted that nobody will ever be able to find them unless they look it up on the internet!' It's got FOUR versions of New Moon on Monday, and if you want to watch the fourth you have to watch the first three IN THEIR ENTIRETY. That's assuming you can FIND the fucking thing in the first place. If you want to watch the alternate Come Undone video you have to select the big A, then the Come Undone single sleeve from the gallery, THEN highlight 'Play' but don't click on it, THEN press left to bring up a hidden icon, THEN click it. If you do this in ANY OTHER ORDER you can't play the fucking clip. It's FUCKED.

― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 21 October 2004 01:34 (twenty years ago)

That's messed up.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 21 October 2004 01:43 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps they were trying to tell you something, adam.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 October 2004 01:56 (twenty years ago)

To not bother? It worked.

― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 21 October 2004 02:01 (twenty years ago)

Some day - maybe 2500 years from now, archaeologists will find that Duran Duran DVD as the only relic left from our modern times .. and they will search it for clues of a lost civilization, and they will find the fourth version of New Moon on Monday, and they will be bewildered for many moons about its meaning, and why it was hidden. And then they will say, "Oh well, fuck it."

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 21 October 2004 10:40 (twenty years ago)

Hahahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:41 (twenty years ago)

seven years pass...

This is an easter egg in a daily cooking show on Belgian TV that was revealed after this year's season ended yesterday. Every now and then, the camera shows who walks by his window (it's in an actual house, not inside some TV studio). Everyone was just really passing by, but these two people seemingly met randomly, got together, got into some routine, then broke up, then got back together (that day she's carrying flowers), then back into daily routine. They're a couple in real life, but acted out this story over the course of the whole season during these short cutaway moments. Nobody noticed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNed-xPyUpk

― StanM, Saturday, 30 June 2012 07:25 (twelve years ago)

That's so cute!

― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Saturday, 30 June 2012 07:51 (twelve years ago)

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