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HARRY'S DVD PICKS AND PEEKS Does The First Week Of The New Year!!!
Hey folks, Harry here... With all the craziness of the holidays - I seemed to forget that Happy New Year gave me ZERO time to get this column done. So - I'm buying myself a bit of time by taking on this first week of 2007 - and frankly - there's not a lot here this first week for me to recommend. However, as the month progresses - you'll find an amazing selection of cool stuff to be had. As usual - you can choose to buy the dvds or read more about each by clicking on the DVDs or the Titles or - just add titles to your Netflix list thingamagig.... or compare and shop. With that - Welcome to 2007 and the first of many releases of DVDs...
January 2nd, 2007
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (Anniversary Edition)
There’s not a great deal of new material on this classic included. You get a commentary from Producer Richard Shepherd – and the DVD is quite handsomely produced. However, this is only for those of you that do not yet own BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S. If you’re one of those geeks like those geeks on BEAUTY AND THE GEEK – watching this film will do marvels for you. Trust me on this. In addition to just being brilliant – you will see one of the world’s great female characters bare her soul. Truly amazing.
SNAKES ON A PLANE
New Line made a tragic mistake marketing this film as pure hype, instead of in addition to the remarkable internet attention – they should have screened the film and done the regular tried and true marketing points to selling this film as a damn good movie. Hiding and being afraid of showing the world that this was a fucking fun flick – and trying to convince John Q America that it was a schlockorama – was digging your own grave. Sadly – this didn’t do the phenomenal business that it should have. David R Ellis did a tremendous job – and Sam Jackson was fucking amazing in the film. However, on DVD and Home Video – this film will find long legs worth strutting for quite some time. The DVD is loaded with extras – including a commentary with Ellis and Jackson… which is worth the price of the DVD. This film isn’t a “so bad it’s good.” It is just a damn good piece of entertainment. Fun for everyone.
Laugh Or I’ll Shoot Collection (THE NAKED GUN / TOP SECRET! / AIRPLANE!)
For $21 you can pick up three damn funny flicks. Completely worth the pick up. There isn’t a ton of extras on NAKED GUN and TOP SECRET!, but the AIRPLANE disc is loaded and very fun. You can pick it up separately – but if you don’t have the other two films – they’re absolutely worth this deal.
MOMMIE DEAREST (Hollywood Royalty Edition)
To round out this first DVD week of the New Year – you have MOMMIE DEAREST (Hollywood Royalty Edition). Paramount did a great job on the Disc itself – but frankly… There should be a “Wire Coathanger” edition with a “Mommie Dearest” wire coathanger keychain and other goofy fucked up souveniers. Now – what DOES rule about this edition is the Film Commentary by… JOHN WATERS!!! I love John, but this is, perhaps, my most favorite thing he’s done on Home Video. Just listening to Waters’ sardonic wit throughout the film… well, it helps take away the trauma I felt when I first watched this as a child… and feared wire-coathangers as if they were portents of doom at your mother’s hand. If you’re a father and want to guarantee that your young and impressionable child loves you more than Mommy… show them this. It never fails.
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (Anniversary Edition)
SNAKES ON A PLANE
Laugh Or I’ll Shoot Collection (THE NAKED GUN / TOP SECRET! / AIRPLANE!)
MOMMIE DEAREST (Hollywood Royalty Edition)
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People like Breakfast at Tiffany's for Audrey Hepburn (as do I) but a little shout out for Hannibal Smith...can I get a hey!
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My number 1 must buy this year. The movie is hilarious and works well for drinking games. Frankly I'm glad the movie didn't do well because now this movie will form into a cult film of some kind.
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And I think you are wrong about Snakes on a Plane (I loved it BTW). I don't think it will find it's audience because it's too successful at wallowing in it's b-movie roots complete with retiring partner, Johnny Kang bad buy, tits for the sake of tits, camp one liners. This movie was made for one very small audience and the greater public hated it (don't just look at the box office numbers, listen to the feedback). Other example of B-Movies that is too successful = Sky Captain.
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...but Ronny Yu would have been still better. *sigh* But I love SOAP anyway.
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It reminds of that time I tried to shit down a straw...
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And yet I know many people who don't know anything about it.
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It's not like I got my hopes up for this movie or was even wetting my pants to see it but...It could have been over the top inventive bull shit, i'm sure of it. Instead, it was pretty boring.
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told me not to see Snakes because it's dumb. Then again, he also loved AvP, but i guess he was the correct age to enjoy that particular flick
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freaked me out so bad as a kid, I've never watched the film all the way through. I think it's because it started airing around the time HBO had ran a special on alien abductions, and I first learned of "the grays". I swear I could't sleep for weeks after seeing that. And that one shot in Communion of the alien behind the armoire? :( Even to this day, big eyed humanoids freak me out. Don't even mention that System of a Down video...
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I don't quite understand how David R Ellis did a tremendous job with that thing. It was flat, dull, uninventive, obvious, and all the wrong kinds of stupid. The only tremendous thing about SOAP was Julianna Margulies, who should get some kind of 'above the call of duty' award for giving a decent performance in a film that didn't deserve it. What a shame they couldn't have held on to Ronny Yu, who has just the right sensibility for the kind of film SOAP should have been.
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It's the hidden gem in this collection. Why the fuck haven't you seen it?
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Damn you Michael Bay
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will be a cult hit in the years to come.
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Now that's a movie that needs to be back in print on DVD.
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Fucken A BanAllFIRSTPosters.. Fucken A... Buy Top Secret if only to hear Val Kilmers horrendously bad rendition of "Are you lonesome tonight" complete with Macy's department store ad lib lyrics.. which I'm sure had a hand in the evolution of Wierd Als Career.. you'll know when you see it. the fucking movie had everything.. Nazis, blood, guts, romance, fights, "traditional" european dance, corny dialogue delivered with impeccable comedic timing (see:Zuckerisms), a singing horse and a little german thrown in for good measure... FLASH FLASH I LOVE YOU BUT WE ONLY HAVE 14 HOURS TO SAVE THE EARTH!!
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That stupid dude with the stupid big eye ran the effing Death Star. Just be careful who you're calling stupid, or he'll take his stupid big magnifying glass and burn your house down. How's that for a childhood trauma?
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Did he retire from this position? I always loved his DVD article. Harry's take on the DVD releases was a little skimpy, and I don't really ever trust Harry's opinion on anything, but at least he avoided grotesque analogies this time.
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...has been out since, what August? September? Thanks for the heads up on the "new" releases.
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Because I haven't seen one of these on this site in many months.
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"No wire hangers, EVAH!"
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C'mon - if you saw it with a decent crowd, Snakes was dumb fun. Forget the plot or the cheesey special effects. It got the crowd jumping and reacting. And the guy who won't watch it on the advice of an 8 year old? Do you take his advice on things like eating boogers and the existence of Santa Claus too?
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maybe too much damn hype, but it thought it was pretty lame.
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It wasn't anything it should've been. Once the novelty of Snakes on Planes had worn off (and after months and months of waiting for this shit, of course it had), there was nothing left in this film. Except for one or two things towards the end, there's absolutely nothing special about it. No clever, creative twists or turns. And the 'line'? Totally out of place. What really bugged me about it was that they had a perfect window to say it in and they blow it by saying it five minutes later.
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He's dead right?
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does that mean Tim Allen doesn't either?
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Please. Save it for the film class that Mommy paid for, Poindexter. Someone needs to throw all your asses in a gym locker. Hell, you might want to check out a gym, too.
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Jan 02, 2007 8:56:45 AM CST
Hey Harry, you didn't give us your geek Christmas list.
by cotton mcknight
this year. You know, that thing where you show us what to buy for a geek if you're poor, middle of the road or really, really rich? I was looking forward to that.
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oh god that white white face is giving me flashbacks
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First, I am an athlete, and that doesn't keep me from discussing geeky movies. And President Evil, was that the standard comeback you used in gym class? Sorry you have all that pent-up anger towards athletes, but you need to talk to a good analyst or therapist. Or someone who is both: an anal-rapist, perhaps?
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You seem to have the details memorized perfectly.
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of what System video do you speak? I'm going to assume Aerials, but just wondering anyways.
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SOAP has little - if no interest for what so ever. The only reason I will watch it (and yes, I will) is for the interveiw Sam Jackson gave about the the snake being all up on some chic's titty. I don't need this movie to show me a boob but that quote all by it's self will get me to waste 90 minutes of my life tonight. BUT, to get Top Secret .... well, that's a great - Chocolate Mousse as a character. "Sir, you dropped you fake doggie dodo"
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Futurama FTW!
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I loved Top Secret. It is one of the underrated Zucker films. My favorite scene is the underwater bar fight. Still an amazing accomplishment in film. Freaking Hilarious!
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especially the scene which you refer to. Fuck that movie.
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And that's saying something. Snakes on a Plane sucked. It was boring. It wasn't good, and it wasn't bad-good. The theater experience on opening night was depressing. Easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen in the theater.
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"We *must* put an end to these afternoon football games!"
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Supposedly
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LAME!!!
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Pretty dumb boring and forgettable film.
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...but the theater I saw it in was a freakin' riot. Chanting of "SNAKES SNAKES SNAKES!", people hissing, loud cheers whenever Sam came onscreen, and that was in the first five minutes. I hope it gets a sort of Rocky Horror following, because while it wasn't the greatest movie ever made, in the right theater with the right group of people, it's the Second Coming.
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You are correct sir.
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..and call it "Snacks on a Plane". Happy New Year, everybody.
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Snakes stench for the rest of his career. He is entering the nest egg period of his career. In 2 years time he will be hitting the big 60. Retirement time for Sam.
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What a depressing example of the idiotic nature of the people who frequent this site. The Breakfast at Tiffany's Anniversary DVD has been out for months, the head of the site doesn't know it, nobody even mentions it, and all you thumbsucking retards can do is jerk off over Snakes on a Plane.
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I think TOP SECRET is the funniest and most inventive of them all. I've seen it so many times on Cable. Yet everytime it's on I find myself watching it again. I always noticed a new gag. It's just a brilliant over the top comedy.
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President Evil- Field monkey? Really?
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President Evil- Field monkey? Really?
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on YouTube and I'm a little shocked at how non-scary it was. It's not even how I had remembered it as a kid. You barely see the thing in the shadows, yet to this day I remember seeing it clearly.Y'know, that right there has me wondering if any of the abduction cases are the real deal or just something that their mind fabricated and it stick with them for years.
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Yes, I'm Albert Potato.
If they find out you've seen this, your life will be worth less than a truckload of dead rats in a tampon factory. -
fuck Supes Returns.
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It's around somewhere's... It didn't feel as epic this year as it felt last year, but it did have that sick as hell security mini-gun.
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Top Secret is fanfuckingtastic. The memorable lines, er, out-memorable-line any other comedy I can think of. "Your Ripple Blanc, sir"..... "My God! That's Simchas Torah!" ..... "Well, let me know if there's any change in his condition. He's dead." .....
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Because he hyped that fucking crap film for a year and it turned into a huge bomb?
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Huh!? Where?
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just goes to show that howard sterns groupies arent as funny as that moron stern wants you to think
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