F'N Easter Eggs...

[Dark Lord]

Am I the only person that is sick to death of so-called Easter Eggs on DVDs?

If there are extras, make 'em available, not just for anal-retentive freaks fiddling with their remote-control...

Is there a website around that will show one how to activate these accursed features?

[euryalos]

There's a comprehensive list at DVD Review (www.dvdreview.com) (region 1), and I think you can find a list of region 4 'easter eggs' at www.dvd.net.au.

[hoopy]

No, Dark Lord, you are NOT the only one sick to F'N death of so called Easter Eggs. I too wish they would just throw them on as standard easily accessible extras, so that the general public could actually have a bloody chance of finding them in their own lifetime.

I fear we shall have a whole generation in future years who are still discovering Easter Eggs that their long dead parents were incapable of unearthing.

The year: 2067.
The home of the Cannoli Family.
Steven (25) and Mary (30) are enjoying an old dvd left to them by their parents in their will.

"Hey, look here Mary! I found an Easter Egg on the Star Wars Ep: 1 dvd that mum and pop couldn't find!"

"God bless their dearly departed souls, Steve. They died looking for that one. Finally their spirits can be at ease. All they had to do was press UP, UP, LEFT, enter 234511, TITLE, DISPLAY, ENTER, DRINK TWO BEERS, ROOT THE DOG and PRAY TO ALLAH and they could have found it too."

[chelanxar]

LOL! Nice story! and yes, I know I'm bringing a 7 year old topic back to life... I'm bored, so sue me :D

[giilby]

i have no idea wat this thread is about ? wats an easter egg on a dvd?

[chelanxar]

it's those little tricks where you press a combination on the remote and get hidden extras... and for the record i hate them too...

[MeanDean]

Easter kind of sucks in the US as a kid. You don't really get many chocolate eggs, and you didn't get any at all in my family. I'm not sure how it goes down here, maybe its the same with the hiding part.
Eggs have a white shell in the US. I don't know why... mutant chickens I think. A breed that has been bred out to produce 2 yolks one in every maybe 8 eggs. Since the shells are white you can hold them up to a bright light and see which ones are double yolkers and group them together and sell them for more.
That wasn't important. None of this is so far in answering the question actually.
With white shells, you can draw on them with crayons, make patterns, then dip them in a mixture of food colouring and water and it stains the shell wherever there isn't crayon. Kind of cool if you use white crayon on a white egg, but pretty much just boring.
The great part. The part that makes Easter so wonderful and joyous when you're a kid, is that before you wake up the next morning your parents have gone outside and hid all the stupid eggs you decorated. You get to find them and then you have hard boiled eggs to eat. I should have mentioned that step one of this is boiling a retardedly large number of eggs. Yeah so you're stuck eating a bunch of eggs throughout the next 2 days... it really sucks eggs. I bet its where the phrase "sucks eggs" comes from to begin with.
I think most other kids would make fewer real eggs and then there were these plastic egg shaped things you could put lollies and whatnot in, but it was never vary many of them whenever I was at someone else's house for Easter and there was always the BS of having to give up some of your eggs for the younger and/or stupid kids that thing things are going to be hidden by sitting out on the patio or lawn in plain view. Little bastards would scan the pavement or lawn for five minutes with their eyes and then get upset they didn't find anything. I guess I was a selfish kid when it came to chocolate. I spent most of the time being forbidden from it, so maybe that's why.

Easter eggs on DVDs, video games, software, etc, are features that hidden and that require some stupid act to find them.. searching. If you're using firefox, type about:mozilla in the address bar to see a software Easter egg. Apple tends to take a really annoying approach, or has in the past, where they ship products with features disabled, then they announce that you actually had a wanted feature all along but need to pay them money to find out how to unlock it. Even Super Mario Bros. had sort of an Easter egg, you'd hit one of the buttons and start to pick up the game at the beggining of the level you died on. On a DVD it would be particularly annoying because it would require doing weird things with the remote, which you wouldn't normally do even by accident. Their the metaphorical equivalant to spending all day to decorate hard boiled eggs so you can wake up the next morning and go look for them... pretty stupid in most cases but if you actually want to see the feature on the DVD, then its even more annoying. Today there's software enough that spotting hidden features on a DVD would be a little easier than screwing around with a remote.

I hope that answers your question... as with all things "It started when I was a young boy."

Edit: I knew that would happen... I'd type all that, change a nappie, fix the trauma of dropping a butter crescant roll, finally hit post and someone else would have answered in one sentance.

[giilby]

it's those little tricks where you press a combination on the remote and get hidden extras... and for the record i hate them too...

u know wat... i must have a billion secret little uber special things in my dvd collection... one day when im bored, i may button mash and try to discover some.

[Effigy]

I just read the list....:eek: not one of the dvd's listed is on my collection!