(Click on the "DVD" thread icon to find threads going back to the beginning of the year...here are links to the previous four weeks: 8/21 - 8/28 - 9/4 - 9/11)
Hello.
Allow me a short moment to pat my own back - we attracted over a thousand people to last week's post via search engine hits that we were able to record! Hopefully it wasn't because people were searching on "9/11" but we'll see this week.
You know, as many people as see these lists, you'd think we'd see some more feedback. HEY LAZY PEOPLE GIVE SOMETHING BACK TO ME ALREADY. (Those of you who actually click and BUY something can be excused, I suppose - still, an email or a reply costs NOTHING but a few seconds. Okay, end new whining - let's cut'n'paste in the old whining)
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Cruising (Deluxe Edition) (USA/West Germany, 1980) Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino - Written and directed by William Friedkin - not sure what makes it "deluxe" though
Wall Street (20th Anniversary Edition) (1987) Wow, has it really been twenty years? Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Sean Young, Terence Stamp, lots of other folks
Strictly Business (1991) Joseph C. Phillips, Tommy Davidson, Halle Berry - was this really not out until now? (And why now, anyway?)
LIONSGATE: Alligator (1980) Robert Forster - giant alligator terrorizes Chicago - I bet it's exactly as advertised, too El Mago (The Magician - Mexico, 2004) Corazn Marchito (Wilted Heart - Mexico, 2007)
VELOCITY/THINKFILM: Zoo (Widescreen) (2007) Finally we can all see HORSE LOVE in the privacy of our own homes (is that a spoiler alert? Hope not) The Insatiable (2006)
ANCHOR BAY: Pittsburgh (2006) Jeff Goldblum heads a long list of actors and actresses playing themselves - half documentary, half improvisational comedy
ECHO BRIDGE: The Dead One (2007) Wilder Valderrama like you've never seen him before
FU OF THE WEEK: Dragon Heat (Maang Lung - Hong Kong, 2005) Sammo Hung, Michael Biehn, Maggie Q
AND THE REST OF THE FURN FILMS OF THE WEEK: The Valet (La Doublure) (La Doublure - France/Italy/Belgium, 2006) Dreaming Lhasa (UK/India, 2005) L' Iceberg (Belgium 2005) Severance (Germany/UK, 2006) People...DON'T schedule your team-building exercise in the woods the same weekend all the killers are out Fatal Contact (Dol) (Hak Kuen - Hong Kong, 2006) From "Garry's Trading Company" (yet another Hong Kong distributor of questionable character) The Victim (Phii Khon Pen - Thailand, 2006) One Wonderful Sunday (Sub B&W) (Subarashiki Nichiyobi - Japan, 1947) Directed by Akira Kurosawa
TOTALLY GAY MOVIE OF THE WEEK: The Gymnast (2006) Maybe only PARTIALLY gay
AND THE REST... Dorm of the Dead (direct to DVD, 2006) BloodRayne 2 (Unrated) (BloodRayne II: Deliverance - Canada, 2007) Zack Ward, Brendan Fletcher, Natassia Malthe - directed by Uwe Boll BloodRayne 2 Bondi Tsunami (Australia, 2004) "The first Japanese surfing road movie in Australia" - ohhhhkay In the Site (? - Japan, 2006) Crazylove (2005) Reiko Aylesworth, Bruno Campos, Meat Loaf Believe In Me (2006) Jeffrey Donovan, Samantha Manthis
CASTAWAY IMPORTS: Waterloo Bridge (1940) Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson Lolita (USA/France, 1997) Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella, Dominique Swain Mussolini: The Untold Story (miniseries, NBC, USA/Yugoslavia, 1985) George C. Scott IS Mussolini
UK TV OF THE WEEK: Ballykissangel: The Complete Collection Jekyll (BBC, 2007) James Nesbitt is the last living descendant of the infamous split-personality - "as seen on BBC America" Ballykissangel - Complete Series Six (BBC, 2001) Final season - also aired on many PBS stations Van Gogh (BBC, 1990) (not in IMdb) Biopic is "a kaleidoscopic portrait of a tormented artist"
POETRY: Rumi: Turning Ecstatic "A voice of peace from within Islam" - yeah, but you have to admit it DOES look like he's wearing a lampshade on the cover
GROW YOUR OWN: High Times Presents Jorge Cervantes How to grow from seed to harvest - you know what I'm talking about - hint hint - giggle - I'm talking about WEED
Whew! Come back Monday for the late changes as well as Amazon's top preorders!
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(edited by CRZ on 15.9.07 1533) 9/24 (The W at Amazon)
Going to get Deathproof for sure. I just picked up Viva Las Vegas when it was released on regular DVD a couple weeks back and I thought they did a great job cleaning up the print. It really looked great. If I had an HD/Blu Ray player, I would try to rent it just to see if there's a difference.
The first season of "Upright Citizen's Brigade" came out to no fanfare whatsoever a few years ago - I know I stumbled across a copy in Best Buy. It long since went out of print. So far as I can tell, this is just a rerelease of the same set. Season 2's new, though.
It still kills me that they're splitting up "Grindhouse". I know they're planning a big time special edition, but I'm still waiting for that "Kill Bill" special edition so I don't plan on holding my breath. But until it happens, the trailers are stuck in purgatory. The "Don't" and "Machete" trailers were better than either movie, dammit!
Originally posted by CRZWho's on the new formats here yet? Anybody?
I bought a new computer a few months ago and it came with an HD-DVD ROM. All I own for it is the BBC's Planet Earth series (which is spectacular).
I haven't been buying any movies lately. I know that eventually I'll go high-def for real with a big TV and everything (right now I just have my computer monitor), but I don't watch a lot of TV or DVDs as is so that's not an expense that makes sense for me right now. But since I will go high-def in the future, I don't need to be buying movies now just so I can re-buy them later. Having said that, I don't know whether I'm going to go Blu-Ray or HD-DVD eventually, so I haven't been buying HD-DVD movies now either.
Originally posted by KJames199I bought a new computer a few months ago and it came with an HD-DVD ROM. All I own for it is the BBC's Planet Earth series (which is spectacular).
I haven't been buying any movies lately. I know that eventually I'll go high-def for real with a big TV and everything (right now I just have my computer monitor), but I don't watch a lot of TV or DVDs as is so that's not an expense that makes sense for me right now. But since I will go high-def in the future, I don't need to be buying movies now just so I can re-buy them later. Having said that, I don't know whether I'm going to go Blu-Ray or HD-DVD eventually, so I haven't been buying HD-DVD movies now either.
But yeah, Planet Earth is real good.
Does the computer have Windows Vista? If so, have you noticed any playback issues when using the HD-DVD player?
Apparently Windows Vista has high definition copy protection built in (I've heard it was the only way that the RCAA would allow them to have high def disc drives at all). Here's an article from two years ago that describes it. http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/hardware/hdcp-vista.ars
Mr. Gutmann, quoted in the PC World article, has a paper up where he said that the copy protection makes it impossible to play HD on the majority of systems because for a long time there were no graphics cards or monitors that supported HDCP, which are two of the conditions necessary for display of HD content. Also, any display device with more than 520,000 pixels (any monitor that can display higher than 800 x 600 resolution) will have its picture automatically degraded. If you're running anything above Vista Basic, you are required to have a monitor resolution above that. In addition, I've heard horror stories about other system process slowing to a crawl while Media Player is running (because of increased workload from the copy protection; it checks for errors every 30 miliseconds if you are using digital output). Here is Mr. Gutmann's full report. http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
This is all second hand, so I was interested in hearing from someone who had experienced high def on Vista himself.
HA! OMG. This was directed by my neighbor and family friend. I knew he was a director, but never looked up his work. Wow.
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Originally posted by OlFuzzyBastardIt still kills me that they're splitting up "Grindhouse". I know they're planning a big time special edition, but I'm still waiting for that "Kill Bill" special edition so I don't plan on holding my breath. But until it happens, the trailers are stuck in purgatory. The "Don't" and "Machete" trailers were better than either movie, dammit!
Wait, I have to buy both movies separately? What the fuck is that? I saw both movies with one ticket! That pisses me off.
Originally posted by Mr. BoffoThis is all second hand, so I was interested in hearing from someone who had experienced high def on Vista himself.
Well, bear in mind that I have never seen Planet Earth in any other format, so there could be issues that I just don't recognize. If the picture looked better (or if it ran smoother - as I have noticed what might be a bit of skipping, but it seems to be only in certain scenes) in a dedicated HD-DVD player, I don't know. And I have only ever tried this one title, so my experience certainly shouldn't be taken as the standard.
The Valet was your standard French farce -- light and frothy and without much else there. A billionaire CEO hires a valet to pose as the boyfriend of the CEO's supermodel mistress in order to trick the CEO's wife. The valet and his slacker roommate will almost certainly be played by Michael Cera and Jonah Hill, respectively, in the American remake which I just made up. Mostly, I watched it because I'm a fan of Daniel Auteuil, who always looks like a big, confused bird to me, whether he's doing comedy (like this or The Closet) or drama (like Cache).
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I'm more interested in Lars von Trier's working methods than his actual movies, most of the time; I like his ideas about putting limitations on art, like in his tongue-in-cheek Dogma manifesto. My favorite of his films is The Five Obstructions, a documentary in which von Trier challenges a fellow filmmaker to remake his own film five times, with a different set of "obstructions" each time. In The Boss of it All, von Trier introduces the Automavision process, which allows a computer to decide how to tilt or pan the camera. The camera holds still, they shoot a take, then the camera resets and they do it again. The resulting film, then, is filled with jump cuts between various oddly-framed shots.
The actual movie is pretty funny -- a tech firm owner wants to be beloved by his employees, so he invents a fictional boss to blame bad news on. When an Icelandic firm wants to buy the company, he hires an out-of-work actor to portray the boss. Hijinks ensue. I think, unfortunately, that the Automavision process is more obfuscating than anything else. It's distracting, frequently annoying, and you never really get used to it.
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The Condemnedsucked. It could have been a fun, mindless action flick, but the action was sub-par and the depravity was depressing -- and then they have the gall to turn around and make a speech about how people who watch violent entertainment might just be the real problem. What sanctimonious assholes. Oh, also, weirdly enough, Stone Cold exhibits no charisma whatsoever. Skip this; watch Battle Royale instead.
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(edited by Karlos the Jackal on 17.9.07 0439) Last 5 movies seen: The Condemned * - The Valet *** - The Boss of it All ***1/2 - The Man From the Alamo *** - The Desperadoes **1/2
Next week: will hundreds of meaningless "Coaches' Choice" instructional releases nobody's interested in keep me from posting anywhere near on time? STAY TUNED
Originally posted by Karlos the JackalThe Condemnedsucked. It could have been a fun, mindless action flick, but the action was sub-par and the depravity was depressing -- and then they have the gall to turn around and make a speech about how people who watch violent entertainment might just be the real problem. What sanctimonious assholes. Oh, also, weirdly enough, Stone Cold exhibits no charisma whatsoever. Skip this; watch Battle Royale instead.
--K
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My expectations for The Condemned were so low that I enjoyed it. I didn't think it was any worse than The Marine. I caught Death Proof (really enjoyed), Gracie (not bad, my daughter enjoyed it), We Are Marshall (Matthew McConaughey is the male Demi Moore - won't ruin a movie, yet he's totally interchangable with 100 actors that will do better), and Brooklyn Rules which was, to me, similar to A Bronx Tale, and pretty good.
I would be interested (if anyone happens to know), what was different between the DVD and theatrical release of Death Proof (I didn't see Grindhouse in the theater).
Originally posted by Karlos the JackalI would be interested (if anyone happens to know), what was different between the DVD and theatrical release of Death Proof (I didn't see Grindhouse in the theater).
Unless I'm mistaken, it contains the "lost reels" of the movie. In the theater, both Death Proof and Planet Death (did I get that one right?) were shorter than the typical movie and the had a gimmick where one of the movies looked like the film burned and another showed something about a missing reel of film. So they just jump from one scene to something that should happen 15 minutes later with no explanation of what went on. I read when the movie was in theaters that the DVD would include this "missing" footage.
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We bought the special Best Buy "Death Proof" in steel box with bonus third DVD - it was the promotional special for "Grindhouse" which (Kim thinks) aired as a half hour MTV presentation - which means it clocked in at about 24 minutes. Sadly, the tiny clips of the trailers are probably more than we'll get in the other two discs combined, but overall probably worth the additional $6 investment. (I should add that at 5:something PM yesterday I saw the last $16.99 sale copy get picked up, and they were down to about four $22.99 special copies after I nabbed mine.) Didn't watch the movie yet, can't comment on the missing reel.
Also bought: Family Guy 5 (I'm a sucker for a sale price) Fall Guy 1 (On sale for $24.99, marked down for $54.99 - I AM a sucker for a sale price) Red Dawn: 2 disc collector's edition (for Kim - on sale for $9.99 - We love the "Carnage Counter" close captioning option)
I think most of these prices are valid on bestbuy.com this week as well... Here you go:
Clearly I'm not watching the right commercials -- I had heard zero about this show til ... somebody on twitter mentioned it the day before it aired. Also, didn't hate it, didn't love it.
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