Disney's UP dvd version rental question...

[Broken]

Was there a menu on yours with special features?

I am asking because mine didn't come with menus or subtitles or special features. Basically it made you have to wait and watch all the adds then after what seems like 15 minutes of ads you finally get to see the movie. WTH? Anyone else experience this?

[Spindaddydad]

It's that Disney DVD forced-trailer thing. They do that with a lot (if not all) of their DVDs. The FF and Rev are disabled but I've found that the chapter-skip forward sometimes works.

[beeswax]

Chapter skip and sometimes the "menu" button.

[Knaldskalle]

No, this was different. Disney calls it "Fast Play" or something like that, but you can always exit that by going to the menu. Without a menu, though, there's little escape.

[beeswax]

...mine didn't come with menus or subtitles or special features ... after what seems like 15 minutes of ads you finally get to see the movie

Because somebody had mentioned this same thing in the "what did you watch today" thread, I put the dvd in my player and then went to do some chores without even turning on the tv. Figured I could backtrack to the beginning if the movie started while I was busy.

Imagine my surprise when I came back and turned on the tv and there was a menu onscreen with selections for "play movie" and "chapter selection" and "set up" and "bonus features."

Not trying to make you feel cheated or sad, but why would Netflix have BOTH the non-special-feature/"rental version" and the "regular version" of UP? Seems kind of random.

By the way, if you have a subtitle button on your dvd player or remote you should try hitting that to see if there are subs available on that "streamlined" version they sent you. I'd be curious to know.

[Eddie G. Wilson]

The version I got from Netflix was a rental version. I guess they will get whatever they can get their hands on.

[Knaldskalle]

I got Up from Netflix when it was released and it had no menu, no subtitles/closed captions, no special features, nothing other than trailers and the movie, just like yours. I tried the "subtitles" button and got nothing, I tried all the different menu buttons and got nothing. Nothing worked, it was like getting one of those early DVD releases where they thought they had to be like VHS tapes. Sad.

I subsequently bought the movie and that version has plenty of extras and a nice menu. I didn't buy it for any of the extras, nor did I buy it because the rental version was so stripped of everything, but because it's a great movie.

[Spindaddydad]

I didn't buy it for any of the extras, nor did I buy it because the rental version was so stripped of everything, but because it's a great movie.

I did too. I bought the 4disc Blu ray version. It's one of their most emotional movies to date. Man, that opening montage sequence gets me every time. They really adhere to Walt Disney's creedo that "for every laugh, there should be a tear."

[Knaldskalle]

Yep, same version I bought (we don't have Blu-Ray, but some day we will and we got a fair deal) and, yes, that montage is amazing.

[Broken]

Jesus....It feels good to be backed up by someone. I thought I was going crazy because of what people have said. But it's true. I mean I wouldn't have made a thread about it if I was straight up lying. I mean I have seen something like this with Wolverine Origins. But even that had the menus and chapter selects.

I mean I was pissed not really for the special features (they are a treat but if they aren't there no biggie). I was pissed because I was enjoying the movie with my mom who can't hear too well and she wanted to have subtitles on. But long behold nothing worked I got that censored symbol always. I mean you can't even begin to believe that once the movie was over bam! the dvd repeated itself. The only button that worked was the skip chapter/track. Not even fast forward or rewind worked. And believe me I tried the disc in several dvd players, same results.

The scary part is if they do that....this could be a start of something else. I mean yeah you should just rent movies for the movies but to just rip out the bare bones of a dvd seems really messed up.

It is a great movie. I love the movie. I still cry on some parts and what amazes me is you can be so emotion without dialogue which is pretty impressive.

[beeswax]

Jesus....It feels good to be backed up by someone. I thought I was going crazy because of what people have said. But it's true. I mean I wouldn't have made a thread about it if I was straight up lying.

You completely misunderstood my post if you thought I was questioning your experience.

My point in posting that I got the other version is that NF is sending out BOTH kinds of discs, and it seems weird to me that they are doing that.

There are plenty of people in the review section at the site complaining that the version you got does not have subtitles/captions, so -- in my opinion -- that makes the "rental-version" decision-making by Disney even weirder.

[Broken]

I wasn't pointing you out, beeswax. I have friends who didn't even believe me either. Which made it even more frustrating. It's just weird like you said.

[justsayin']

hey Broken -- I'm probably breaking a rule by inserting myself in your thread like this, but was reading your topic with interest this morning and wanted to just mention that when I've had a problem like this with a disc -- an inability to get to subtitles from a disc that really should have them, while watching with someone who needs the titles -- I always try telling my TV/receiver to turn on Closed Captioning. Since CC is carried in the audio signal, it's often created for one reason or another (TV broadcast for old titles, as part of distribution prep for new), and since it's the TV which picks it up, it can't get lost in "DVD player/disc menu confusion" syndrome. Has worked more than three or four times for me, even for (usually older) movies that expressly did NOT have DVD subs.

(Up is awesome, isn't it?)