The Blu-ray of Say Anything... is something I've been anticipating equally with the "whenever it happens" release of Almost Famous (the Untitled Cut). Say Anything... is not only one of my favorite Cameron Crowe movies, it's one of the movie I probably re-watch the most. The cover art is among the most heinously bad Photoshop jobs I've yet seen. They added a different, mutant boombox that has one speaker and they artificially stretched out his arms and legs. Thankfully, the transfer is solid and the audio is stellar.

All the extras from the previous edition have been preserved, including the very intimate and candid commentary. On top of all that, there are A Conversation with Cameron Crowe [9:31], a retrospective called An Iconic Film Revisited: Say Anything... 20 Years Later [21:57], and a Best Week Ever-style fan featurette called I Love Say Anything... [7:31]. The "20 Years Later" piece is substantive thanks to the quantity of 2009 interview footage with Crowe, Cusack, and Skye (and even Nancy Wilson). It's more substantive to most of the "Anniversary Edition" fluff crap that gets crammed into many releases.

I don't want to sell anything bought or processed...

The Crowe footage in the 20 minute piece and the "A Conversation with" thing are taken from the same interview session. He's very warm and nostalgic about his first feature, which, like so many wonderful emerging auteurs, he stumbled into directing unintentionally. The fan bit includes Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant (credited as Sell-Out Screenwriters), "Weird Al" Yankovic, and a pile of comedians extolling the virtues of Lloyd Dobler and the movie as a whole. The contents are worth the upgrade, but that cover is going to chain me to a desk to Photoshop my own.