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Tell Me You Love Me: The Complete First Season
was, for my money, last year’s second-best new series. Insightful, alluring, well-considered, ground-breaking and fearless in its depiction of intimacy. HBO’s finest series this side of “The Wire” mesmerizes with perhaps the most honest scripted look at the American bedroom to grace a screen of any size. Brims with suspense. Makes you think. Also? Lots of hot screwing!
David Goyer, who wrote and directed “Blade III” and created CBS’ “Threshold,” followed up with 2006’s Blade: The Series. What thought the critics?
Variety said:
… Picking up, unfortunately, where the "Blade" movies left off, Kirk "Sticky" Jones offers a fair Wesley Snipes impersonation as the half-vampire hunter blessed with "all of their strengths, none of their weaknesses." Even with comicbook pedigreed producers, however, there's more emphasis on noise than smarts here, proving the film-to-TV leap by an earlier vampire slayer, Buffy, is more difficult than it looks. David Goyer, who wrote all three "Blade" films and directed the third, is joined by comics scribe Geoff Johns, but the two-hour premiere still feels more like a bland swig of plasma than the bloody romp that it ought to be. …
The Hollywood Reporter said:
… In its two-hour launch, "Blade" shows itself to be less driven by plot than a series of violent, revenge-driven, oft-graphic confrontations. … just dandy for comic book vampire fans and must-flee TV for the rest of us.…
TV Guide said:
Normally I'm a sucker for a good bloodsucker, but I've seen paper cuts go deeper than Blade, the toothless new TV version of the comic-book-turned-film franchise … Where Buffy the Vampire Slayer took a mediocre film and elevated it to TV art, Blade doesn't even try to improve on the loud, flashily hollow movies. It's just more of the same martial artlessness. I kept expecting to see Batman-style OOF! BAM! graphics on screen. …
The New York Times said:
… surprisingly inoffensive …
The Los Angeles Times said:
… It's not as pop-culturally knowing as "Buffy," which some might account a good thing, but the action is active and the suspense fairly suspenseful. (There's a little too much slo-mo for my taste, but that is just the price of watching an action show in 2006.) …
The Boston Globe said:
… It's not just Blade's dark sunglasses and mournful leather coat that give him away; his delivery is so wooden it could kill a vampire for all eternity. … too dreary and weary for its own good. …
The Boston Herald said:
… Those thirsting for action will find it in quick, unsatisfying bursts. Many of the stunts are a cross between a low-budget “Matrix” and a Wirework 101 class. The pacing of the two-hour debut is so slow that you will pray for daybreak. Even die-hard “Blade” fans will find little to sink their teeth into. …
The San Jose Mercury News said:
… comes up more than a bit short. …
The Philadelphia Inquirer said:
… Despite the loud music and all the supposedly ominous foolishness, blood that even spatters the camera lenses, and a sexy proto-vamp who often manages to wear almost no clothes (OK, maybe not despite her), I kind of liked the stupid thing. …
The Detroit Free Press said:
… a tediously bloody bore. … Those feature films may have been thudding, flashily overwrought nonsense, but they're sophisticated entertainment by comparison to the dreary new TV series … What "Blade: The Series" desperately needs and doesn't have is a playfully dark sense of humor to alleviate the show's relentless onslaught of graphically violent, lowest-common-denominator bloodsucking schlock. And it sure doesn't help that Jones also portrays black-clad Blade with negative flair in a perpetual droning monotone, grunting out such morsels of bad dialogue as, "Sun's down. Time to make some friends." Not with "Blade: The TV Series" he won't.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said:
The leap from big screen movie franchise to small screen hopeful is a successful one for Spike TV's "Blade: The Series" … many of the effects are just as well-done in the series, whether it's the "ashing" or flaming disintegration that marks the death of each vampire slain, the razzle-dazzle weapons of artificial sunlight Blade deploys, or the superhuman leaps from 20th floor to street level, which the vampires routinely perform. Although most viewers will notice a scale-down in the scope of effects and stunts, the style, the look and the impact are much the same as in the films. …
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel said:
… For a series named "Blade" on a channel called Spike, basic cable's latest drama is surprisingly lacking in edge. … the pilot has little suspense and not a hint of the humor and humanity that made hits of "Buffy" and "Angel." Only Nelson Lee ("Oz," "Traffic"), as Blade's tech-wizard buddy, Shen, and Randy Quaid, as a professorial type, display much life. And Quaid's just a guest star. Visually, the pilot is so dark it's sometimes hard to figure out what's happening. Repellent as Marcus is, his silver-blond hair at least provides a relief from the gloom. Of minor hometown interest is the product placement of Harley-Davidson's sleek, midnight-black VRSCD Night Rod motorcycle, Blade's wheels of choice. It has more personality than some of the characters.
Hercules The Strong said:
… Those who thought a Marvel superhero series could never produce characters as listless and uninspired as those populating “Mutant X” could find themselves unpleasantly surprised. A TV-size budget - and a grunty rap artist named Kirk “Sticky Fingaz” Jones pinch-staking for Wesley Snipes - do this wobbly franchise no favors. It’s pretty dull going, and shockingly so for a show about fight-happy Detroit-dwellers with superpowers. …
Outlaw Vern said:
… get past the fact that it's a guy playing Blade instead of THE REAL Blade, and you've got a good fuckin TV show. … If you like the character Blade, you will probaly like this show. …
Don’t buy Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, which goes for $14.99.
Go big and pony up the $29.99 for Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners & 26 Nominees. 41 cartoons means more bang for your buck, and – candidly – the nominees on this set are, on average, a lot cooler and funnier than the winners.
Oscar-winning shorts featured on both the $14.99 and $29.99 sets:
1) The Milky Way (1940; d: Rudolph Ising),
2) Yankee Doodle Mouse (1943; w&d: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera; MGM, Tom & Jerry),
3) Mouse Trouble (1944; w&d: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera; MGM, Tom & Jerry),
4) Quiet Please! (1945; w&d: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera; MGM, Tom & Jerry),
5) The Cat Concerto (1946; w&d: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera; MGM, Tom & Jerry),
6) Tweetie Pie (1947; d: Friz Freleng; w: Michael Maltese & Tedd Pierce; WB),
7) The Little Orphan (1948; w&d: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera; MGM, Tom & Jerry),
8) For Scent-Imental Reasons (1949; d: Chuck Jones; w: Michael Maltese; WB, Pepe Le Pew),
9) So Much for so Little (1949; d: Chuck Jones; w: Chuck Jones & Friz Freleng; Warner Brothers short),
10) Two Mouseketeers (1951; w&d: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera; MGM, Tom & Jerry),
11) Johann Mouse (1952; w&d: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera; MGM, Tom & Jerry),
12) Speedy Gonzales (1955; d: Friz Freleng; w: Warren Foster; WB),
13) Birds Anonymous (1957; d: Friz Freleng; w: Warren Foster; WB, Tweety & Sylvester),
14) Knighty-Knight Bugs (1958; d: Friz Freleng; w: Warren Foster; WB, Bugs Bunny)
15) The Dot and the Line (1965; d: Chuck Jones; MGM cartoon)
And why two winners in 1949? “So Much For So Little,” an informational piece designed to curb the appalling infant mortality rate of the era, won the Oscar for “best documentary short.” “Scent-Imental” won “best animated short.” (A big year for the amazing Chuck Jones!)
Only the $29.99 set contains all those plus these Oscar-nominated shorts:
1) Popeye The Sailor Meets Sindbad The Sailor (1936; d: Dave Fleischer; Paramount/Fleischer)
2) Peace On Earth (1939; d: Hugh Harman; MGM)*
3) A Wild Hare (1940; d: Tex Avery; w: Rich Hogan; WB, Bugs Bunny)
4) Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt (1941; d: Friz Freleng; w: Michael Maltese; WB, Bugs Bunny)*
5) Night Before Christmas, The (1941; w&d: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera; MGM, Tom & Jerry)
6) Rhapsody In Rivets (1941; d: Friz Freleng; w: Michael Maltese; WB)*
7) Superman (1941; d: Dave Fleischer; w: Seymour Kneitel &
I. Sparber; Paramount/Fleischer)
8) Greetings, Bait (1943; d: Friz Freleng; w: Tedd Pierce; WB)*
9) Swooner Crooner (1944; d: Frank Tashlin; Warren Foster; WB, Porky Pig)*
10) Life With Feathers (1945; d: Friz Freleng; w: Tedd Pierce; WB, Sylvester)*
11) Walky Talky Hawky (1946; d: Robert McKimson; w: Warren Foster; WB, Foghorn Leghorn)
12) Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Mouse (1947; w&d: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera; MGM, Tom & Jerry)
13) Mouse Wreckers (1948; d: Chuck Jones; w: Michael Maltese; WB, Hubie & Bertie)
14) Hatch Up Your Troubles (1949; w&d: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera; MGM, Tom & Jerry)
15) From A to Z-Z-Z-Z (1953; d: Chuck Jones; w: Michael Maltese; WB, Ralph Philips)*
16) Sandy Claws (1954; d: Friz Freleng; w: Arthur Davis & Warren Foster; WB, Tweety & Sylvester)*
17) Good Will To Men (1955; w&d: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera; MGM, Hanna Barbera)*
18) One Droopy Knight (1957; d: Michael Lah; w: Homer Brightman; MGM, Droopy)
19) Tabasco Road (1957; d: Robert McKimson; w: Tedd Pierce; WB, Speedy Gonzalas)
20) Mexicali Schmoes (1959; d: Friz Freleng; w: Warren Foster; WB, Speedy Gonzalas)
21) Mouse And Garden (1960; d: Friz Freleng; w: Warren Foster; WB, The Honeymousers)
22) High Note (1960; d: Chuck Jones; w: Michael Maltese; WB)*
23) Pied Piper Of Guadalupe (1961; d: Friz Freleng; w: John W. Dunn; WB, Speedy Gonzalas)
24) Beep Prepared (1961; d: Chuck Jones; w: John W. Dunn & Chuck Jones; WB, Road Runner)*
25) Nelly's Folly (1961; d: Chuck Jones; w: David Detiege & Chuck Jones; WB)*
26) Now Hear This (1962; d: Chuck Jones; w: John W. Dunn & Chuck Jones; WB)*
*new to DVD
Half a decade after “The Adventures of Bullwinkle” went off the air, the minds and voices responsible reunited for ABC’s Saturday morning cartoon half-hour George of the Jungle , a hilarious parody of the “Tarzan” movies. One of the best running jokes was George’s ape sidekick was a good deal smarter than the title character. Much funnier than the 1997 Brendan Fraser movie – but then it would kind of have to be, wouldn’t it?
George only contributed one weekly segment to the 17-episode series that bore his name. Two other shorts – “Tom Slick,” about a patriotic race-car daredevil and “Super Chicken,” about a fowl who got his superpowers by emptying a martini glass – filled out each half-hour.
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Congrats to all who picked up I-Spy: Season One and I-Spy: Season Two at $13.99 a week ago, as the price has already risen to $14.99!! (Still a pretty good price, though, for 28 one-hour episodes on five discs!)
The third and final and completely wonderful third season of “Veronica Mars” (the one with the 12-minute fourth-season “Veronica FBI” pilot among its extras) is still selling at the moment $19.99!! That’s 67% Off!! (It was $37.99 two weeks ago.) The first two seasons have been momentarily encheapened as well:
$19.99 Veronica Mars: Season One <--- VASTLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$19.99 Veronica Mars: Season Two <--- VASTLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$19.99 Veronica Mars: Season Three <--- VASTLY ENCHEAPENED!!
Warner Bros. Home Video’s girlish generosity, it turns out, is not limited to Keith and Leann Mars’ little girl. All four seasons of “The O.C.” are available for $16.99!! That’s a whole season for a dollar less than the “Epic Movie” DVD and 72% off on the latter two seasons (the ones with Taylor Townsend and the mini-Coop and the episode that tells you how it all ends).
Also, all seven seasons of “Gilmore Girls,” a favorite of mine and Mrs. Harry Knowles, are down to $19.99 per season.
The first three seasons of “One Tree Hill” are available at the same price, in case you’re into poorly written teen sports drama.
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McLeod's Daughters 5.x
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Rides 4.x Vol. 2
Rosemary & Thyme: The Complete Series
Route 66 1.x Vol. 2
Slings & Arrows: The Complete Series
Soul Food 3.x
Strictly Confidential: The Complete Series
Third Watch 1.x
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Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners
Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners & 26 Nominees
The Beatrix Potter Collection
Blade: The Complete Series
Bump! Florida
Bump! Gold Coast North America
Chris & John To The Rescue 1.x
Dallas 8.x
The Equalizer 1.x
Family Ties 3.x
General Hospital: Night Shift
George of the Jungle: The Complete Series
Girlfriends 3.x
Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive Vol. 4
Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive Vol. 5
Tell Me You Love Me 1.x
This Is Tom Jones Vol. 2
Next Week
Coach 3.x
Cops: 20th Anniversary Edition
Dragonball Z 4.x
Father Ted: The Complete Series
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Vol. 1 (2002)
It's The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown: Deluxe Edition
Lillie: The Complete Miniseries
Rides 4.x Vol. 2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2.x Vol. 1
Walker: Texas Ranger 4.x
February 26
B.L. Stryker 1.x
Comanche Moon: The Complete Miniseries
The Color Honeymooners Vol. 2
Dark Shadows: The Beginning Vol. 3
Extras: Finale Special
Family Affair 5.x
The Fugitive 1.x Vol. 2
Ghost Hunters 3.x Vol. 2
Hotel Babylon 1.x
Highlander: The Source
The Invisible Man (2000)
Justice League: The New Frontier (1-Disc)
Justice League: The New Frontier (2-Disc)
Justice League: The New Frontier [Blu-ray]
Newhart 1.x
Punky Brewster 4.x
The Red Green Show 1999
Rough Diamond: The Complete Series
Smurfs 1.x Vol. 1
State of Play: The Complete Miniseries
March 4
Archie's Funhouse: The Complete Series
Ben 10 3.x
Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
Doctor Who: Planet of Evil
Flight 29 Down 2.x
Flight 29 Down Hotel Tango: The Series Finale
The Hogfather
Human Giant 1.x
The Kill Point: The Complete Miniseries
The Love Boat 1.x Vol. 1
Magnum, P.I. 8.x
The Pink Panther Vol. 6
Rides 4.x Vol. 3
SNL: Best of 2006/2007
SNL: Lost & Found in the '80s
Storm Hawks: Collector's Set
Trading Spaces: Specials
March 11
Fantastic Four Vol. 3
Five Days: The Complete Miniseries
Last of the Summer Wine: Vintage 19
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I was surprised by it, and disappointed that it was not renewed. The guy who played the lead vampire was cool. I recommend checking it out.
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and violent.
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but my tv at the time sucked and the colors were fucked so the picture was so ugly it really wasnt worth watching. but now i have a better tv and i did like what i had seen so i'll just buy this, i mean its just 30$ so why not.
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Were they even nominated? Funniest Looney Tunes stuff ever...excuse me while I go a little crazy.
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It was a '30's B&W feature, more than twenty minutes set in the Arab desert where they were fighting with the Foreign Legion. By today's standards way off the PC meter even compared to others in its era. Saw it once on Nik at Nite more than 10 years ago and never again. That. I. Want. It was one of the most unusual cartoons I'd ever watched.
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The lead vamp dude (both the actor and character) was cool. The vampire girl (who was actually a very old character) was cool, too -- she looked like a 12-year-old Emma Watson. The Asian dude who worked with Blade was cool, but the series didn't go into his backstory enough (it looked like they were saving his story for a second season). And you know I actually thought the guy who played Blade wasn't too bad either. If you enjoyed the movies, and you dig vampire or mob gang type of stories with a supernatural twist, I do recommend checking this out. It's not Sopranos quality of drama -- it's like a more serious version of Buffy, with more violence, some nudity and swearing.
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the Blade TV Series on Spike late at night and it is really quite good, slow start but really picks up and gets going
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Don't really care, but it could be interesting. Still waiting for Sammo Hung's MARTIAL LAW to be put on DVD.
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EW had an article on the funding/proiducing fiasco that led to its direct-to-video debut. It's a shame, cuz it's really very funny. Pfeiffer continues her hot-streak return, and Rudd is hilarious. The only bad part was Tracy Ullman, whose part as "Mother Nature" didn't fit the rest of the film at all.
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I'm super excited about The Equalizer, while everything else leaves me cold...
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Not really, I just wanted to be Gene Shalit for a second.
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Started off a little slow then kicked ass , I really enjoyed that show. Didn't hurt that Chase and Krista were 2 nice hotties to gaze at. Too bad they cancelled it.
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that Herc used are mostly talking about the pilot, which most of us who liked the show agree was (like many TV shows) a weak point. The main thing I liked about the show was that they took advantage of the nature of a TV series and did things that couldn't be done in the movies, like storylines that unfold a week at a time, delving more into the vampires until they become surprisingly sympathetic. The ridiculously named character "Krista Starr" has some depth to her. You can see why she'd be torn between Blade and the vampire family she's undercover with, and you're not even sure who's side she should end up on. So most of the things that are good about it you can't get a sense of from the pilot. The premise of the series is not even set up until the end twist of the pilot.
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Other than the the cover with Heigl bigger than everyone else, and the words "Starring Emmy Winner Katherine Heigle", is this any different from the version released a few years ago? Does she do any commentaries, because I don't think she did any on the previous set.I usually agree with Herc but I can't get on board with "Tell Me You Love Me". I tried and was bored, even with the explicit sex scenes. I didn't find any of the characters to be realistic. I only watched the first episode, some of the second, and a scene from the fourth or fifth show. Maybe it got better but from what I saw I would not recommend it.
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Oh, Blade.. right.
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Feb 12, 2008 3:41:50 PM CST
WOHA! You can almost see Robin's tits throught that X-Ray!!!
by rickslamu2
Maby i should pick up a copy of "night shift". Always thought she was hot and bangable in a girl-next-door-little-sister like way!
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That show was an utter waste of time.
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i looked at a few places today, no luck, and no candian online sites have it listed... we got the pilot disc but i skipped it for the series set, but...
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Then why is this gay shit paramount??
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... and some retards you don't give two fucks about. Embrace Heigl's splendiferous rack or watch Chris & John "Bump! it," one gay at a time.
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I think most of them were great. In fact, the actors in the main cast (Blade, Krista, Marcus, Chase, etc.) should be cast in future seasons of LOST and Heroes. They would fit right in with either series. Seriously, Blade the series was under-appreciated (and under-watched), had decent to good writing, and appealing actors/performances. If you can pick up this DVD set for cheap (or can rent the discs), I highly recommend it.
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I can only imagine what that show is about.
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Chuck Jones animation is orgasmicly great, and to finally have the chance to replace my vhs copy of dot and line recorded of A&E OnDemand... oh there, it happened. Just creamed myself.
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At first I was skeptical about Sticky "Onyx" Fingaz playing Marvel's Iconic Vamp slayer, but going in the first 5 eps, he held his own and c'mon no one maybe with the exception of Micheal Jai White can compare to Snipes' performance and creative input.
I hate when pedestrian minded critics compare Blade to fuckin Buffy Blade is based on the 70's comic TOD, Buffy was a mediocre film made into a mediocre TV series and Gellar is not convincing as a vampire slayer any chick could have played that role including freaking Hillary Duff (buahahahahahaha) I'm gonna order the series C/O AICN's sponsers:Amazon.com XD
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