(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: 5/29 - 6/5 - 6/12 - 6/19)
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We have 429 new releases following the opeining spiel, and you'll find all of them on Amazon during the week beginning Tuesday, 6/26. No good reason why we have so many this week, just a lot of different folks putting out a lot of different stuff. If you have money burining a hole in your pocket, I'm pretty sure you'll find at least one thing that will get you curious enough to either place an order or remember to keep an eye out when you make your weekly Best Buy trip. (Other people do that, right?)
I pretend that these are organized, but we all know how that goes. Generally, if your mind starts to wander, look for the horizontal line which tells you we're breaking to the next section.
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PICK OF THE WEEK: Miami Vice: Season Five (The W at Amazon) (NBC, 1988-9) This one's automatic - the final season for Crockett & Tubbs - includes one unaired-on-NBC Pam Grier episode!
Wedding Wars (A&E, 2006) John Stamos, Eric Dane - gays strike when denied weddings
CRITERION: #387: La Jetee/Sans Soleil (Criterion Collection) Two from Chris Marker - a photo montage that inspired "12 Monkeys" (France, 1962) and ... one I don't know anything about, sorry! (France, 1983) - more info at Criterion (criterion.com)
RIPOFF OF THE WEEK: Transmorphers (2007) Hmm, wonder what inspired-- hey, wait. THAT Amy Weber? Trailer at Asylum (theasylum.cc)
EXPENSIVE VERSIONS OF FILMS YOU ALREADY BOUGHT ON DVD: This week, Blockbuster announced the completion of their pilot program to rent Blu-Ray and HD DVD releases - Click Here (gizmodo.com) and Click Here (gizmodo.com), and since they did 70% more with Blu-Ray, that's the one they were going to offer. So, naturally, here's a giant list of practically obsolete HD DVD releases coming out Tuesday... American Me [HD DVD] (1992) Edward James Olmos Army of Darkness [HD DVD] (1992) Bruce Campbell - hey I think this was "Evil Dead III" Mallrats [HD DVD] (1995) Kevin Smith and troupe Bulletproof [HD DVD] (1996) Damon Wayans, Adam Sandler, James Caan The Big Lebowski [HD DVD] (1998) Jeff Bridges, Steve Buscemi, John Goodman - the Dude is in HD DVD Meet Joe Black [HD DVD] (1998) Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins Being John Malkovich [HD DVD] (1999) John Cusack, Cameron Diaz Mystery Men [HD DVD] (1999) Ben Stiller and a cast of thousands The Watcher [HD DVD] (2000) James Spader, Keanu Reeves, Marisa Tomei, Ernie Hudson Unleashed [HD DVD] (Danny the Dog - France/USA/UK, 2005) Jet Li, Morgan Freeman, Bob Hoskins
ARTS ALLIANCE AMERICA: Visions of Horror Collection of seven shorts...here's five of them:
BLUE UNDERGROUND: Going Under (Unrated Version) (2004) Roger Rees, Geno Lechner - I love the quote on the box AND its source: "Not Since SECRETARY Has A Film So Accurately And Provocatively Captured The Subtleties Of Human Emotion Inside Of An S&M Relationship." - Sex Herald. Come ON.
CODE BLACK ENTERTAINMENT: Young Cesar (2007) Clifton Powell, Sam Sarpong, Sean Blakemore - Trailer/info at Code Black (codeblackentertainment.com)
DARK SKY DOUBLE FEATURE: Drive in Double Feature - Search and Destroy / The Glove (Canada/USA, 1979) (1979) the combined casts is a Who's Who - John Saxon, Rosey Grier, Joanna Cassidy, Keenan Wynn, Joan Blondell, Perry King, Don Stoud, Tisa Farrow...and, of course, George Kennedy - more info at Dark Sky Films
MONARCH: The Stone Merchant (Il Mercante di Pietre - Italy/UK, 2006) F. Murray Abraham The Stone Merchant Unrated version of above? Definitely more expensive version of above, at least
TRULY LOST CLASSIC: ...that probably should have stayed lost... Rockin' Road Trip full screen (1985) Margaret Currie
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FU OF THE WEEK: Sonny Chiba - Masutatsu Oyama Trilogy Karate Bull Fighter (Kenka karate kyokushinken - Japan, 1975) , Karate Bear Fighter (Kyokuskin kenka karate burai ken - Japan, 1977) and Karate for Life (Sora-te baka ichidai - Japan, 1977) - even more info at Brentwood (navarre.com)
Who Can Kill a Child? (Quin Puede Matar a un Ni?o? - Spain, 1976) - more info at Dark Sky Films - consider it an uncut, uncensored version of "Island of the Damned" - 'cause that's exactly what it is Hot Milk (Spain, 2005)
The Last Hunter (L'Ultimo Cacciatore - Italy, 1980) aka "The Deer Hunter, Ripped Off as only the Italians Can" - trailer at Dark Sky Films (catalog.darkskyfilms.com)
A Dedicated Life (Zenshin Shosetsuka - Japan, 1994) Kazuo Hara's documentary on writer Mitsuharu Inoue Lost By Dead (Japan, 2002) Directed by and starring Masato Tsujioka - Trailer at Pathfinder Home Video (pathfinderpictures.com)
MOST EXPENSIVE MYSTERY ITEM OF THE WEEK - FROM FILM MOVEMENT: 12 Month Movie Club Subscription I wish I knew what exactly that $165 is supposed to GET me!
AHHHH, MY PROSTATE: The Prostate Cancer Men's Club Sometimes, it's easier to buy a DVD than talk about it - wow, that club sounds fun!! WHERE DO I SIGN UP?? Prostate Cancer Doctor's Speak Get this: outtakes from the PREVIOUS DVD make up THIS DVD. Gotta give it up for that kind of wringing money out of tragic circumstances
Originally posted by CRZANCHOR BAY: Behind the Mask - The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006) Robert Englund
I have yet to see this, but I SO want to. The hit of Fantasia last year, about a would-be serial killer (in training) being followed around by a documentary crew in a universe where Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers are real people. Answers the burning questions like why Michael Myers can always catch running teenagers while appearing just to walk.
Robert Englund has a key but small part doing an homage to the psychiatrist from Halloween.
Originally posted by CRZShooter (Full Screen Edition) Shooter (Widescreen Edition) (2007) Mark Wahlberg IS
It has its moments, but the bad guys are as dumb as posts, there is a wacky coincidence involving the lead FBI agent that is a little hard to swallow and there is a last minute reveal that makes you wonder why you just went through the last ninety minutes. And the last five minutes of the movie are sort of what the movie should have been all about, but by that point it is a little bit late.
Spoiler Below: Highlight text to read
The last five minutes starts with the Attorney General of the United States saying basically the bad guys are guilty of international crimes against humanity, but we're doing nothing about it because they're Murrikans, which is spookily like the real US position on the issue. Then he basically looks at Mark Wahlberg and says basically, "Of course if they were all to die horribly we'd probably chalk it down as - They needed killing." And then Wahlberg FINALLY goes all Arnie in Commando. Compared to the Action Heroes of the Seventies and Eighties, the Action Heroes of today are PUSSIES.
Originally posted by CRZQueen of Outer Space (1958) Zsa Zsa Gabor (no, REALLY)
The man-hating queen of the movie title is called "Queen Yllana".
Yllana, backwards, of course...
As of 2/28/05: 101 pounds since December 7, 2004 OFFICIAL THREE-MONTH COUNT: 112 pounds on March 9, 2005 OFFICIAL SIX-MONTH COUNT: 142 pounds on June 8, 2005 OFFICIAL ONE YEAR COUNT: 187 pounds on December 7, 2005 As of 2/27/06: 202 pounds "I've lost a heavyweight" As of 7/31/06: 224 pounds
You know, sometimes I don't click on these links because I'm afraid of what Amazon will start offering me based on browsing history. I guess I should sign out or something.
Bozo: The World's Most Famous Clown, Vol. 1 30 shows on 4 DVDs
I was surprised I didn't see this advertised all over WGN, where Bozo still exists as yearly party mascot and the odd public appearance, but then I read the raging debate in the reviews about Bozo versus Bozo, and apparently this is the NY Bozo. Kinda should've listed that in the comments, kinda not surprised they didn't.
Originally posted by thecubsfanapparently this is the NY Bozo. Kinda should've listed that in the comments, kinda not surprised they didn't.
Ahem. You might mean "not the Chicago Bozo" as this Bozo was the one syndicated in a lot of markets including the Champaign-Decatur-Danville one downstate here.
Chicagoans. Sheesh!
As of 2/28/05: 101 pounds since December 7, 2004 OFFICIAL THREE-MONTH COUNT: 112 pounds on March 9, 2005 OFFICIAL SIX-MONTH COUNT: 142 pounds on June 8, 2005 OFFICIAL ONE YEAR COUNT: 187 pounds on December 7, 2005 As of 2/27/06: 202 pounds "I've lost a heavyweight" As of 7/31/06: 224 pounds
Originally posted by crz"The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3: The Complete Series (NBC, 1990-1) Based on the smash video game, originally aired with "Captain N" Saturday mornings on NBC - more info, trailers AND details of all 3 (!) discs at Shout! Factory (shoutfactorystore.com)"
Amazingly, I don't remember this show. I remember Captain N of course, and I actually own volume 1 of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show.
By the way, a quick rant. I hate that they didn't include a few episodes of the Legend Of Zelda with the Super Mario Bros. Super Show box sets. One of the bigger reasons I bought volume 1 was to see LoZ. I bought this SMB:SS set, and then one of the trailers before it was for the complete LoZ box set with all the LoZ cartoons on there.
I know it's my fault for not reading the SMB box set carefully enough. But since the LoZ cartoon was part of the SMB:SS show (coming on every friday), I just assumed it would be on there. Oh well.
Originally posted by crz"Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection Vol. 11 I should really show more love and tell you what's in this but...you'll either buy it sight unseen anyway or you aren't buying it no matter how I describe it, so forgive my laziness"
I'm in the former camp for this release. But just for clarity, these are the episodes from this collection:
episode 206- THE RING OF TERROR (with short: THE PHANTOM CREEPS PT 3) episode 409- THE INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN (with short: UNDERSEA KINGDOM PT 2) episode 414- TORMENTED episode 1011- HORRORS OF SPIDER ISLAND In addition, it will contain these extras:
MST3K Video Jukebox, Volume 2 Original Theatrical Trailers (for all except "Ring of Terror") A "Tormented" Reunion (with Bert I. Gordon, Susan Gordon and Joe Turkel) MST Hour "Jack Perkins" Wraps for "Tormented"
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BTW, just curious if it was you CRZ that posted this thread at Fark or someone else? Saw it run by already having been denied the green light and was curious.
It's interesting that the onen "Cult Camp Classics" set I was interested in is the one that DOESN'T make the Top 24 (it's at #27, right behind "Super Mario Bros. 3" - go figure)
Next week is Independence Day and it looks like NOTHING is coming out 7/3. Well, "NOTHING" actually means "about 150 odds'n'ends" so... see you Friday!
Originally posted by wmatisticBTW, just curious if it was you CRZ that posted this thread at Fark or someone else? Saw it run by already having been denied the green light and was curious.
I posted it over there. I don't intend for it to get greenlit, but I am a TF'er and I like TF'er's so if any of them come over here, I'm good with that.
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