Ultimately, MGM is in this business to make money.
With the SE of the Usual Suspects, I feel that MGM acquired a very fine balance of...
1. Satisifying, somewhat, the "tech heads" such as ourselves
2. Satisifying the "joe six pack" who doesn't care about widescreens or, for that matter, "extras."
3. Managed to keep all of these goodies on one DVD, there by reducing the overall cost of the package.
I would have liked to have seen a different DVD package altogether of a WS or PS. But, as noted before, we have to look at the source material. It is NOT a pristine, clean high budget movie. As such, there are some things that MGM can try to get way with and, I feel, worked.
Is it perfect? No. But, I feel, it is a great and fair comprise all the way around, considering the original film material.
Now...the studio who tries to do this with Spiderman, I WOULD be pissed about that.
