The Movie: Yet another movie that I should have seen before but didn't. The first thing I wanna say is... sweet Jesus, Charlize Theron is freakin' hot!!! Secondly, I wanna say that the movie itself was quite good. I know some people that just watch it over and over again... I don't know if it has that sort of quality for me, but it definitely was worth watching.

The DVD: the film is presented in an anamorphically encoded widescreen format, and it looks great. The special features include deleted scenes, movie trailers and a behind-the-scenes short that is quite audaciously titled: "The Cider House Rules: The Making Of An American Classic"... this was a great movie, but isn't it a bit too soon to be judging itself as "An American Classsic"?

The deleted scenes weren't bad to watch, and a couple of them even gave some new insight into some of the stuff that happened in the story. I started watching the making-of short, but after about 5 seconds I was already sick of it. It hadn't really gotten going, but I could already tell (as if the title wasn't a clue enough) that it was just gonna be a whole bunch of self-back-patting, rather than be anything that would give insight into how the movie was made.

So basically what I'm saying is that the movie is great, but if you're a fiend for special features... well, as with most DVD's, the special features aren't so special after all.