360 is still dead, wondering about Blu Ray

Microsoft has pissed me off to the high heavens when it comes to their customer service. Trying to get in touch with a competent or living entity to help you is impossible, at least for me it was.

To the point that I was considering getting a PS3. I've been wanting one for a long time for some of their first party games (like LittleBigPlanet) and the Blu Ray Player. I actually bought my first blu ray movie, which was Nightmare Before Christmas. I bought it from the dying Circuit City for 70% off, so I thought it would be a grand movie to try out when I do get a PS3. I was wondering what other Blu Ray movies would be worth getting down the line.

Of course Disney/Pixar films always look impeccable, that's understandable. They are the highest order of quality when it comes to video presentation. But I'm just wondering what else is worth the price. And not just for video and sound quality, but for extras. I hate when I see certain movies on Blu Ray, like Predator, for example, and seeing it's a bare bones edition with just a trailer. What the hell is that about? I understand making money on a movie by double, triple and quadruple dipping (or what's happened with movies like Evil Dead II and having 72 versions on VHS and DVD), but when you have a new venue to showcase a classic film, or any film for that matter, why shortchange people by giving us a shitty edition like that?

The film companies will say, "Well, we wanted to make sure the film could look it's best on this new format and most normal shoppers of DVD's and Blu Ray don't really care about extras anyway."

Well, they're wrong there. I'll give my parents as the ultimate example, being very behind the times in certain areas but when it comes to movies they know what they're talking about. But when DVD came out, my parents couldn't understand the whole widescreen/fullscreen debacle. To us film afficionados out there, there is no question as to which version of a film we'd want to see (WIDESCREEN!) but to my parents it was insane to watch a film with black bars on the bottom and top of the picture.

But over time they learned to understand that this was the only way to see a film in it's original way (unless it was filmed in fullscreen) and then started loving the extras that came with them as well. This is the 'normal' film buyer they speak of and they understand the time it takes to not only make a film but to make a truly great DVD.

So all I'm asking is for the big companies (and small ones) to make some killer Blu Ray releases and put a ton of exclusives on them so film geeks like myself have to either upgrade past releases or just buy the Blu Ray instead. I'm asking to spend money on movies. Is that so wrong?

-James