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Harry's DVD Picks & Peeks - 4th Wk of April: Wrestler, Nitro Hauling, Mutants, Nixon, BSG, Freakazoid & Much More!
Hey folks, Harry here with the latest DVD Picks & Peeks. Some really good stuff on here. Btw – I banged out this week’s column listening to The Bird And The Bee’s RAY GUNS ARE NOT JUST THE FUTURE about 6 times. And to answer the questions about where’s Yoko’s Cool Cuts gone, she’s working to get back to it. Between her day job and Baby Nephew in town – she has been quite lacking in her Cool Cuts duties, but is resolute to get back into it soon. Now onto this week’s column. As usual the Box Art and Titles are linked to AMAZON – where you can learn more on the title in question and even purchase it if you feel so motivated. A small portion of the costs will go to support and keep this column coming. Hope you enjoy…
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
THE WRESTLER
Generally everybody’s favorite performance of 2008 belongs to Mickey Rourke in Darren Aronofsky’s THE WRESTLER. This is an incredibly impressive film. One without high budgets, overly complicated CG assisted camera work and all that whiz-bangery that goes into… well the slate of films we’re about to have unleashed upon us over the summer months, but astonishingly… it is possible to tell a story with actors and a camera of incredible power that you no longer feel the need for all those hundreds of millions in production value. Instead, Darren had Mickey and Marisa and they put pain, shame, hope, depression, isolation and humanity on the screen for the duration of this film. This is just a great filmmaker making a great film and depending upon where Mickey goes from here – we’re likely to see this film really be a landmark for Mickey’s career from here on out. The Blu Ray looks gorgeous
FROST/NIXON
Another great title from 2008, this one from Ron Howard, who nailed the film adaptation of FROST/NIXON. The box declares this to be Ron Howard’s finest film yet… I don’t know. I’m a huge fan of SPLASH, PARENTHOOD, BACKDRAFT & APOLLO 13… as well as this, but it is one of Ron’s very best works. I think I could easily say that Frank Langella’s Nixon is the best acting performance in any of Ron’s films. I was watching this Blu-Ray about a week ago and just found myself looking at Langella’s Nixon… and after the film, I found myself watching the whole Frost/Nixon news piece that this film is about – and found myself wishing that Nixon had the soul that Langella put into the performance, because I sympathize with Langella… but I never had that with Nixon. Langella just can’t help but have charisma – in the way that Nixon repelled charisma. Fantastic making of material on this.
CAPRICA
Well, I didn’t quite like CAPRICA – but I didn’t hate it. I’m only up to date with the 3rd season of the show – can’t wait to catch up, but I just couldn’t get into CAPRICA. Moriarty seems to have liked it and others that have been more diligent in their following of the holy series – have enjoyed it more than me. If you’re a GALACTICA geek there’s no stopping you in picking this up – except for the caveat that perhaps you should wait to purchase when it gets the Blu treatment later.
SIN CITY (Blu Ray)
This is incredibly loaded 2 disc set that has both the Theatrical & the expanded editions. AHEM – NEW LINE! LORD OF THE RINGS! AHEM! And I have to say this is absolutely stunning in Blu Ray. I watched it and THE SPIRIT as a double feature – and SIN CITY is just breath taking. I actually feel that Mickey was on the road to getting his career exactly where we all wanted it to be with his work as Marv in SIN CITY. He’s insanely great here! And the odd part about watching this film is seeing how much Clive Owens’ face has chanced in the last 4 years. It is crazy. A film geek must! Great Blu Ray!
X-MEN TRILOGY (Blu-Ray)
Yes, I know X3 is included – but I’m a completion freak – and it is cheaper to get it this way. The extras are insanely deep. You have two discs per film. And the extras are legion. Just check em out on the AMAZON page – you’ve got costume tests, Multi-angle things, animatics out the wazoo, and on and on and on. Actually – technically you get 3 discs per film. The third disc is just a digital copy for your myriad of devices on which you watch film. Do any of you actually make use of the Digital Copies on the discs? Just curious. Buy for the first two of this set. The third is an illustration film of how to ruin a franchise.
WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN: Heroes Return Trilogy
It has the best animated X-MEN saga yet – but we all really should wait for the entire seasons. Whenever the powers at be would allow us to enjoy them. Sigh.
HELLRAISER: Boxed Set (Blu Ray)
I love mine. Even though it annoys the living fuck out of me that it contains only the first HELLRAISER on Blu Ray – and then… inexplicably regular DVD versions of the 1st HELLRAISER and the second film. It also isn’t the safest way to store your discs, but it sure as hell looks cool and watching your friends trying to open it is kinda funny – it takes everyone a moment or two to figure the box out. I love the film dearly, but they could have gone the extra steps to just complete this box set as they should have. Unless you’re just a Pinhead freak – skip this and hold out for a complete Blu Ray presentation of all materials.
THE WAGES OF FEAR (Blu Ray) Criterion
Back in college – my father and I did a show up in Dallas and bought a WAGES OF FEAR half-sheet based solely on the beauty of the poster. When we came back home – a poster collector was waiting on our doorstep to see what stock we had picked up and he snatched this from us before we even knew anything about the film. This was pre-IMDB. The days when Leonard Maltin’s Film Guide was the bible for film info. We rented the film shortly thereafter and then HATED having sold the half-sheet.
WAGES OF FEAR is the very best film on the list this week – and one of the greatest films you’re likely to see. Yves Montand is amazing – and if you have any idiot friends that enjoy “swanging” as a cautionary note – show them this to show them just what fucking jackasses they are. WAGES OF FEAR is a great film – and it is stunning on BLU RAY. The extras are essentially the same as on the Standard Def – but the film has never looked better. Now if someone would just give Friedkin’s SORCEROR the same treatment… PLEASE!!!
NOTORIOUS
I haven’t seen this yet, but everything I’ve read about it states that it is THE hip hop music biopic to go after, not 8 MILE. I’ll be finding out soon enough – as I’m picking it up in the morning to watch with Yoko, as she is a Biggie geek. Might add notes here upon watching.
FREAKAZOID!: Season 2
As all who remember FREAKAZOID! will attest… This is the Shit! FREAKAZOID was insane bliss. But ultimately there’s a profound sadness when you realize… this is it. There ain’t no more. And that truly is a reason for crocodile tears. The brilliance of this show can only be measured by the amount of cereal you ingest while watching this season repeatedly while smiling with your freshly brushed teeth! And even if you’re not a fan, please sympathy purchase this so we get the numbers so high that we end up with a special FREAKAZOID movie. No, not live action. But 2D 3D IMAX style!
THE ARRIVAL (Blu Ray)
The Arrival was the first of David Twohy’s films as a director that I saw and I’m quite fond of it. It came in that first year of AICN, when he was smarting off the attachment of his name to WATERWORLD the previous year. But that film wasn’t plagued with script issues, but all sorts of other issues. Also of note – as this was the last really wonderful film that Charlie Sheen has made. He’s allowed himself to basically become a joke – something that I have no doubt he’ll turn around when he gets his shit together… and a director remembers the level of performance he once had the capacity for. ANYWAYS – THE ARRIVAL is a fantastic lower budget sci fi film that is always better than you expect it to be. I’m really glad to have this on Blu Ray.
TINY TOON ADVENTURES: Season 1 Vol 2.
While not at the quality of the original Warner Bros cartoons – TINY TOONs are actually quite entertaining. Who am I kidding, I love TINY TOONS. I remember at the time, I thought upon the first sight of the designs in USA TODAY – I screamed bloody murder. How retarded could they get – baby Looney Tunes characters? But the team behind the TINY TOONS – from a design and writing stand point far exceeded our collective expectations on this series – which they further built up through their work on ANIMANIACS, FREAKAZOID and onwards. I’m hoping Warners completes the runs with the short seasons into one more set. What do you think?
THE BURROWERS
Here’s one of the best genre films that you most likely never had a chance to see on the big screen. J. T. Petty’s THE BURROWERS was one of the Fantastic Fest highlights from last year. A horror western that brought some really goddamn creepy shit into play. Add to that – the fact that one of the leads was none other than Clancy Brown – and Clancy is GREAT in the film. Well, you have a full on recommendation from me. There’s just some really and truly creepy stuff that happens in this film – and the mere nature of the period means if creepy scary shit happens in the field… there’s no help anywhere that’s coming to you’re your ass. Really solid small film!
INTO THE BLUE 2: THE REEF
I’m a sucker for Bikinisploitation flicks. I actually liked INTO THE BLUE – mainly because of Jessica Alba in a bikini… and that it had a decent cast if you count Josh Brolin and Scott Caan and Paul Walker – and the oh so cute Ashley Scott… but if you compare INTO THE BLUE to THE DEEP, you know that INTO THE BLUE is shit. Well, if INTO THE BLUE was THE DEEP’s shit, INTO THE BLUE 2 is the shit that comes out of shit’s asshole. It’s really really really bad. I watched it because anything with bikinis is watchable. BUT – about the time I heard that they were searching for part of the “True Cross” that Jesus was crucified upon… my jaw dropped. But wait… it gets better, they actually upped that by making it be all about the search for missing SADDAM MONEY!!! SO BAD!
DANTE 01
I’m scared of this film. I haven’t seen it, but I’m required by my love for everything else that Marc Caro has been attached to, to watch in the hopes and prayers that possibly everything I’ve heard is wrong. Caro is a brilliant visualist. This does have Dominique Pinon in it. And that’s all I need… to be interested, but I’ve still seen no reviews that I’ve read where I knew the person writing well enough to write this off. God I hope it doesn’t oppressively suck.
ARCTIC TALE (Blu Ray)
I love nature documentaries, especially in High Def. They’re just wonderful background as you work – or something amazing to show off the beauty of High Def. I have this in both HD DVD and BLU RAY now – guess I can get rid of the HD-DVD. Biggest problem I have with this one is Queen Latifah’s narration which just doesn’t work very well for me. This is also working too hard to be cute, but if you have the sound off and you’re just seeing the images and listening to something else… it is great.
I DISMEMBER MAMA
OH – I’m so looking forward to getting to finally see this. I’ve known about this movie my entire life. On the Horror Trailer reel that my parents had in 16mm, there was an amazing trailer for I DISMEMBER MAMA / BLOOD SPLATTERED BRIDE.
Well – you see that trailer? It makes quite the impression. I’ve seen BLOOD SPLATTERED BRIDE, and I’m quite fond of it. But now I have the chance to check out the next part of that doublebill trailer! In fact, I have to take out my BSB dvd and watch this as the doublebill that I’ve always wanted to see. Maybe it’ll make me laugh like that one guy! Maybe it’ll drive me crazy. Or hopefully it’ll just scare the piss out of my ol lady!
KIKE LIKE ME
I understand my friend Jeff so much better now. I’d like to thank the filmmakers for the understanding and maturity I feel regarding Jeff’s weird traditions that I just never could understand before watching a sincere and amazingly sincere film like KIKE LIKE ME.
Next week, I’ll be looking at BRIDE WARS, STAR TREK season 1 Blu Ray, X-MEN Volume 1 & 2, THE READER, HOTEL FOR DOGS, 6th season of MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, DA VINCI CODE Blu, IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES Blu, THE UNINVITED, MARTYRS, THE HIT Criterion, JETSONS THE MOVIE, JCVD, WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU, JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, EMPIRE OF PASSION, THE PRICE OF SUGAR, THE LOONEY LOONEY LOONEY BUGS BUNNY MOVIE, WHILE SHE WAS OUT, THE SHE-BEAST, THE HAIRDRESSER’S HUSBAND, THE CENTERFOLD GIRLS, GLEN AND RANDA, British Cinema Volume 2, PSYCHOS IN LOVE, THE PERFUME OF YVONNE, THE BOOBY HATCH, WAR GODS Collection and much more…
WAGES OF FEAR is the very best film on the list this week – and one of the greatest films you’re likely to see. Yves Montand is amazing – and if you have any idiot friends that enjoy “swanging” as a cautionary note – show them this to show them just what fucking jackasses they are. WAGES OF FEAR is a great film – and it is stunning on BLU RAY. The extras are essentially the same as on the Standard Def – but the film has never looked better. Now if someone would just give Friedkin’s SORCEROR the same treatment… PLEASE!!!
Well – you see that trailer? It makes quite the impression. I’ve seen BLOOD SPLATTERED BRIDE, and I’m quite fond of it. But now I have the chance to check out the next part of that doublebill trailer! In fact, I have to take out my BSB dvd and watch this as the doublebill that I’ve always wanted to see. Maybe it’ll make me laugh like that one guy! Maybe it’ll drive me crazy. Or hopefully it’ll just scare the piss out of my ol lady!
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liked it alot though they shouldve dug deeper into the east west beef and him and tupac falling out. though there might not be much to him and pac falling out seeing as he was a compulsive shit talker.
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Come on, man... This is last year's best film! I know amazon doesn't sell it, but at least give us your thoughts on the return of the great John Woo...
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Apr 21, 2009 2:13:01 AM CDT
x2, sin city, the wrestler, notorious
by supercowbell4therequestformorecowbell
not a bad bluray and dvd week. freakazoid owns!! AND TINY TOONS!?!?! AWESOME im fucking 5 again
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...you watch Dante 01. I'm a sucker for vague horror films. With that said, I want The Burrowers...now.
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Apr 21, 2009 2:16:05 AM CDT
and umm is it just me or does year one look like
by supercowbell4therequestformorecowbell
fucking ishtar part 2?? oh well but to the topic i guess
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Apr 21, 2009 2:18:05 AM CDT
and what the fuck is up with that x men cover
by supercowbell4therequestformorecowbell
what the fuck is storm featured up there instead off jean or someone? she wasnt a big character and it was a fucking dreadully lame performance by halles sexy ass.
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especially as a Tangerine Dream fan, but I really can't help but think people are being contrarian or just have plain bad taste when they say it's better than Wages of Fear (I know, I sound like an elitist arschkopf, but Clouzot films will do that to me). Come on, with the possible exception of Seven Samurai, this is possibly the purest action movie ever made. I get it if you think the first hour was boring, but without it the rest of the movie wouldn't have had anywhere near the same impact.
The only possible sour spot is the very French ending. But maybe I'm just thinking that because I've been brainwashed by Hollywood endings.
And Yves Montand was like the French Clark Gable- one of those screen presences who make movies seem magic, not because of their acting skills but because you can't peel your eyes off 'em.
I'd check out all of Clouzot's other movies if you haven't seen them (obviously I'm not addressing Harry here). Le Corbeau, Les Diaboliques and Quai des Orfèvres aren't much like Wages of Fear at all, but they're all at the top of any film geek's Must See list. -
The Blu Ray release got pushed. It happens
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I honestly don't believe I've enjoyed a single Ron Howard movie. Give me Robert Altman's Secret Honor any day of the week over F/N.
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cartoon needs to be released on DVD.. That was the best X-men of all time..
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and why did Aranofsky use it?
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They show it here on Boomerang every few weeks and I seriously manage to tune in every time, when Judy sings this stupid 80's pop duet with her blue boyfriend and the crazy and kinda creepy music video starts!
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Apr 21, 2009 3:39:29 AM CDT
Wolverine and the x-men season one is out on region 4 May 5th
by slimballs
Notorious sucks. Complete bullshit, should have made a Tupac film. Tupac was an interesting character and made good music
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CHIMPANZEE
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Crocodile tears are "tears or expressions of sorrow that are insincere." Why does everyone think this means the exact opposite? (Note: Harry said the end of "Freakazoid" warranted crocodile tears.)
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FREAK-A-YOU
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As a geek I will never forgive Fox and Singer for allowing the X-films to go ahead without him. X2 was heading towards a totally stunning conclusion. As it is, watching X3 makes me feel that maybe the other two aren't as good as I thought they were. It's not totally BAD, it's just horribly mediocre. And to think that Singer did this to make the totally horrible Superman Returns. WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY?
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Dangling participle patrol strikes again!
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by leaving after part 2. Then really screwed the Superman fans too.
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what would you word wizards have to point out?
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THAT looked pretty good. Never was a fan of Most of Thin Shitty(TM), but I did enjoy the Marv segment, him and Carla Guguino there rocked. For me it was just too much of the same old as the movie dragged out. And as for X3--I liked that, actually. Ratner deserves better here than he gets. You know I'm right.
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Checked out a few of his flicks this winter ala 'China Seas' and 'San Francisco' etc. You hit it right on the head. He was pretty bloody good.
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Apr 21, 2009 5:03:43 AM CDT
The Arrival rules. Now where's Terminal Velocity?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
As much as I liked The Wrestler and Rourke, Sean Penn gave the best performance of 2008. Frost/Nixon was average at best. None of the X-Mens were particularly good. X3 didn't stand out as any worse than any of them.
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Why does it all have to be ugly flat flash cut out animation? Why why why?
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Was an awesome movie enjoyed it very much. Sheen was superb in it, and the guy playing Nixon was great. OK, they were a bit liberal with some truths but it was still fantastic. Would have loved to have seen the stage show, but it didn't tour to Scotland (as far as I am aware).
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The studios need a lesson. DO NOT BUY THE WRESTLER! Putting this out when you know a DIRECTOR'S CUT or SPECIAL EDITION is around the corner with worthwhile extras (such as commentary)is coming down the pike is wrong! The studios need to stop double dipping on releases!
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And that for once you *listened* to your readership and decided to maybe think about what they wanted to see on your site. Now if we could get you to stop posting that attention whore ScriptGirl on here, or at LEAST get her to post some ORIGINAL content instead of you just embedding her YouTube video to try and sneak it in, like she's a columnist or some shit, we'd be getting somewhere.
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"A small portion of the costs will go to support and keep this column coming. Hope you enjoy… "
and with that you'd think you'd actually let us know if a DVD is borked... Like say "let the right one in" Or you know at least make a post about it and say how magnet is in the wrong. But no, "magnet is batting 100" just great harry. -
Apr 21, 2009 6:53:22 AM CDT
there will not be a directors cut of the wrestler
by talkbacker with no name
trust me. won't happen.
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That one looks DTV-tastic, plus I heard it crosses with The Hills or something.
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All I remember of this idiotic show was that it was yet another lame attempt to emulate classic 40's and 50's WB loony tunes.
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...at least Disney kept their modern versions (Duck Tales, Tailspin) true to the original oldies rather than think that "wacky" = Funny for the 90's generation. Dumb dumb dumb.
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Just spotted in Asda. Season 1 and 2 for just £10 each.
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Of the Arrival. What the hell?
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD FUCKING EDIT YOUR SHIT!!!!!
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Why doesn't she make her own site and you could kindly link us to her site.
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I agree with you. Why doesn't Harry do those videos that he used to do for Sky Movies, I would dig that. Or an AICN podcast?
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Im a teacher and I show them on my digital projector all the time. NIghtmare before Xmas, Hellboy 2, Bolt, to name a few recent ones. They're excellent
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How has his face changed? Is he just older/thinner? Please, please don't tell me he's had plastic surgery. I'm still in dismay over those Rupert Everett pictures.
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To me, Carla Gugino is by far the sexiest babe in Sin City. Her ass and her titties... MAN!!!!!
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Oy vey!
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It smells like pooh-gas. I loved that show. FREAK-OUT!!!
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...INTO THE BLUE. Don't remember much else about it...sunken drugs?...treasure?...both?...but my god...that ass.
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Why can't they spell the entire word? I can't stand this PC age we live in.
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It was announced last week that a Blue Ray package edition of the theatrical editions of LOTR will be released. No dat was given. Evidently there is alot of negative feedback on the Amazon page concerning Warner Bros nickel and diming the public.
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wow. Hope it's blu ray, but I've only seen aweful quality copies of it. DVD would be a leap in quality.
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The inclusion of a dvd is a motivation to buy some blu-rays. Thank you, Disney!
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How about that?
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What the fuck did I do?
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Please say yes! PLEASE!
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Please say yes! PLEASE!
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But yeah, I need to know. Badly!
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Apr 21, 2009 9:58:07 AM CDT
Sorcerer is not even available in Widescreen, let alone
by lanemyersclassic
Blueray. What the fuck is that? This is a manly man's film for men. Women could never appreciate it as much as a man. Just like I could never appreciate Sex in the City as much as a woman. Clouzot's original rocks, too. Sorcerer is one of those rare reimaginings that works as well as the original.
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...which automatically makes it the best X-Men cartoon series to date.And Boom-Boom had a great ass.
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actors on TV right now, cruising through Three and a Half Men. Why actually work, when you can take candy from a baby? And the dude HAS comic timing. How else can he sell those lame ass jokes?And Harry, after viewing The Spirit and Sin City back-to-back, did you turn The Spirit into a drink coaster like it richly deserves to be used as? GAWD that movie was bad, even as camp, it was bad. BADBADBAD
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In all different kinds of lingerie and bikinis: thongs, tighty whitey's, lace, leather, graanny panties. In all different kinds of positons: sitting down, bending over. Sitting on wicker chairs, on top of glass coffee tables. In all different elements: underwater, wet, showering, sandy, muddy, smokey, oily, greasy, slimey. That would be the best visual DVD to show off your HDTV. And it would be a number one top seller. Who's with me?!
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Apr 21, 2009 10:30:24 AM CDT
Frank Langella should have received the Oscar for "Frost/Nixon".
by leafar the lost
Frank Langella gave one of the best performances that I have ever seen in a movie. I thought it was really that good. A close second was Mickey Rourke role in "The Wrestler", but I keep saying that he wasn't really acting in that movie. The character basically was him if you trade the word "wrestler" for "actor". I gave Rourke credit for giving everything he had to play "The Ram", including letting himself get stapled in a hardcore match. If Mickey did win it I wouldn't have minded, but Langella did a little more. He literally became Nixon in the movie, and he did it so well that I forgot that he doesn't really look like the real ex-president. The drunk phone call scene really blew me away. I can't recommend "Frost/Nixon" enough, and Sean Penn should give his 2nd Best Actor Oscar to Frank Langella. Do the right thing, Sean.
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if being the highest paid actor on tv is a joke, then sign me up!
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I thought that was The Joker? You mean performance in a leading role, yeah.
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of Fast Times, with Penn as a pot bellied stoner entrepreneur-owner of a surf shop, and anything to bring Phoebe Cates back to the screen.And I still say Rourke got robbed because he played "himself", while Penn played a character outside of his "comfort zone" (dark, brooding, conflicted, etc).
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It's good! Really! People who write things have been doing it for literally centuries! Sometimes they get other people to edit for them! Try it, because it hurts to read these columns sometimes. It hurts bad. In my brain.
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Why do you care?
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I know that i am gonna get slammed for this, but I REALLY don't get all the X3 hate. Other than the fact that Cyclops was killed off without a proper buildup (story-wise or emotionally), I thought the rest of the movie was pretty damn awesome. Great action sequences, a decent plot, cool effects. Don't get me wrong-- the movie's not perfect. Still, it's stood the test of time way better than the first X-men, or Superman Returns or Spider-Man 3 for that matter. Seems like people just want to bash it because of Ratner.
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and Ron Howard is simply a paint by numbers director. Why must every critic insist on recommending this film? If you search your memory honestly, you WILL admit that the film was NOT enjoyable or insightful. for enjoyment watch O.Stone's NIXON.
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x3 sucked for many reasons none of them were for killing cyclops off. I hate cyclops and the other movie never gave him any realy redeemeable qualities other than epic douche.
other reasons:
stupid made up mutants which powers from actual marvel charecters(origins repeats this crime)
Lazy editing, magneto either changes time or the ediotors forgot the brdige scene was during the day and the prison break was during night.
Wire fu beast(not a crime to use wires but they didn't even try to mask it).
Angel does absolutely nothing except rescue one person.
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to those who say that Frank Langella deserved an oscar. look at archival footage of the real Nixon, read about him. Frank Langella captured neither the timber nor the character of Nixon. Stacy Keetch did a better job in the play Front/Nixon. Furthermore, Anthony Hopkins does an immeasurably better job capturing the essence of Nixon than Frank Langella ever could, and Hopkins is fucking British. Frost/Nixon isn't even adequate much less remotely enjoyable. skip it entirely.
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frost/nixon was a huge wad of meh, frank lagella was of course great but the actual interview was way more interesting.
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Apr 21, 2009 12:12:51 PM CDT
I think dividing seasons up into volumes is a crock of shit.
by axel fff
Fuck any company that pulls that shit.
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Because haters hate. It's what they've been programmed to do.
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Just finished watching Notorious...it's pretty damn good, better than 8 Mile, but that make 2pac look crazy...I'd love to see a 2pac movie since there are always 2 sides to a story...love to hear what you think about it
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Consider me as someone who doesn't hate X-Men 3, but it is more flawed than part 1. Its biggest problems are that they are stuffing TWO stories that are supposed to be epic into 90 Minutes and some bad and amateurish wirework during the actionscenes. Again, I think the movie is okay. Disappointing and a huge step back after the wonderful part 2, but it doesn't suck. We can discuss if it's as good as part one, but it's definitely NOT better than it.
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But at least we can agree that X-Men 2 was easily the best.
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Apr 21, 2009 12:54:00 PM CDT
"there’s no help anywhere that’s coming to you’re your ass."
by jimmy rabbitte
That's right nobody will be "you're-ing" you anytime soon.
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Hey, cut me a break. The picture was small and I hadda squint.
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Just watched it for the first time, great movie. There was one part that was completely unbelievable...is there anyone in the free world that would deny a lap dance from marisa because she looked to old...come on now that was some of the hottest footage I have seen
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Ele'lator go doOWWn.
Plucky FTW!
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I can't believe some people are fans of that turd. Everyone got screwed by that fiasco: Singer, X-Men fans, Superman fans. I read yesterday that the film cost $210M to make. Where was the money on the screen? Seriously, $210M for a fake-ass looking 90 minute film? They took one of the best comic book stories ever written and just shit all over it and the fans. I hope Marvel gets the rights back to the X-Men (and FF) soon, so Fox can go and fuck off!
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Don't use them. I have a 30gb Creative zen vision (which I prefer over Ipods), will play almost any video format, and can convert the rest, but it won't play or even convert those limited use digital copies. so they really are of no use to me.
and besides if I wanted to watch them on it I could just download them. I prefer using a regular TV.
Personally, I dislike this 'We'll give you a disc with a digital copy and call it a two disc set so we can charge more' practice they been doing lately. You're gonna charge me more? Give me more content. Don't make me pay twice for the same movie. At least put something else on that second disc. God knows theres room for it, even on dvds. -
wtf is that?
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maybe because im a x-men fan and knwo theres more to the story the wirey kung fu type garbage
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It's also out in a single bluray, btw, with all the extras
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X3 I can understand, but what the heck was wrong with Frost/Nixon? It was tight, gripping, and brilliantly acted! I can understand it not being someone's cup of tea exactly, but hating it? Come on -- that's just silly!
Oh wait - my bad! This is the internet and we can only talk in extremes. Whoops! -
Unforunately has no R2 release, words cannot express how bad i want itDownloads will have to do for now i suppose.
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hey, i have the same MP3 player myself and i agree, its much better than the Ipod. sure its the size of a brick compared to MP3 players today but it plays and sounds great. i've had mine 2years now and i've still only filled less than 3GB of it. screw you apple. :P
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But I find myself getting more riled up by Ron Howard's brand of hackery than legitimate crap movies, which are generally more watchable BECAUSE of their flaws.
Also, the fact that I saw Frost/Nixon on a Nixon film night with some friends (yes, I hang around a weird crowd), after watching Nixon, Dick, All the President's Men and Secret Honor (which had just Nixon (Philip Baker Hall) alone in the Oval Office with his tape machine and getting progressively more drunk, and still managed to be the best Nixon movie I've ever seen) really didn't do Frost/Nixon any furthers. -
The Zone and its edit button has made me fat and lazy.
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Where is it?
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they both suck. waste of pixels.
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No love for the mud squids??? Damn knuckle-draggin' fools! Whoo!
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On blu ray discs, both Taiwan and America share the same region (Region A). So who do so few discs have Mandarin subtitles? My wife is Taiwanese, and she has no idea what the fuck is going on in Vicky Christina Barcelona. If you're asian and are trying to watch a Woody Allen movie without subtitles, you're screwed.
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END OF STORY.
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Apr 21, 2009 3:58:02 PM CDT
id rather have him just drop scriptgirl
by supercowbell4therequestformorecowbell
she is awful!
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When, dammit, when?
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X-3 is truly a funhouse, I feel sorry for anyone who feels so strongly about the change in direction that they can't enjoy TLS for the insane mega-throwdown that it is.
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not killed soon enough
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wolverinewolverinesbuttwolverinewolverineHELLRAISER!
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I hate the fact that BSG split its seasons and stretched for years at a time. Never again, dammit.
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The second one was the best. So many awesome moments. The opening Nightcrawler attack. The assault on the mansion. As well as when Mystique injected the metal in the security guard to bust Magneto out. It just felt like the most complete of the 3. I agree with the poster who felt like the 3rd was too jam packed. It was, that was the problem, resulting in the mess we got. Everyone I saw it with loved it, they don't read comics. Which leads me to believe that most people will probably enjoy the hell out of Wolverine.
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this time around. WARNING: do NOT watch THE ARRIVAL II, it really sucks.
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I 100% agree. Really really good. Good movie that one.
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Maybe people use them. I don't. Nor do I expect ever to. I hate that I have a useless disc in the film's packaging, and I hate thinking that I'm being charged for the extra disc. If the majority of people who buy blurays use them, I guess I'll just have to learn to deal with it. But if most people are like me, and I selfishly suspect they are, I hope the studios wise up and stop producing them.
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to always say it like it is! LOVE the review of the XMEN Blu Ray trilogy as as "watch the third disc as an example of how to ruin a franchise". I agree--- but at least it will make a nice coaster. Love ya, Harry.
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God. I loved that show. That's probably why I was always in these columns begging for it to be released on dvd.
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Those blu-rays are just as much as blu-rays without digital copies. It's just a nice perk for people with ipods and it adds value to the purchase.
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Sincerely, fuck you you asscunt.
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Cyclops dies but we don't see it. Professor X dies but he puts himself into the body of his twin brother to survive (ugh...horrible writing), Jean dies but she's the fucking Phoenix and can come back. Rogue gives up her powers which is rendered mute since the last scene before the credits has Magneto starting to get his powers back even after multiple shots of the cure.
The movie is utterly pointless. Add to that the fact that they changed Xaviers character completely, turning him from a wise, understanding teacher to a bitter old man.
"I don't have to explain myself to you." He actually says that in the movie. It's garbage. A piece of trash that Tom Rothman shit on and sold to us as cake.
For the record, Singer didn't walk away from X-Men. He wanted to do it after Superman but Fox wouldn't wait and so essentially set out to spite him.
Fox are poison. Rothman and co hated X-Men to begin with (just look at the budget for the first film). They ruined Fantastic Four, they anally raped Dragonball and they fucked up X-Men.
When Fox interferes then shit starts to smell. Look at their most successful movies...the Star Wars movies and Titanic...what do they have in common? The director was strong enough to fight Fox and get things his own way. Lucas even managed to retain the rights to the franchise whereas Cameron...well we all know what happened with Titanic.
Now they're giving Cameron a ton of money to make Avatar and it will probably be a smash hit.
Rothman couldn't control SInger and was glad to be rid of him. Fox wants directors they can control. People like Ratner who will do their job without fuss and without creative license.
But the people Fox allowed to have creative license over their films created the biggest movies in history. I'm not saying that they should give every director $300 Million, I'm just saying that if they gave their projects to people who cared about them, didn't interfere and showed some respect to the people who made the material popular in the first place ie the fans, then maybe Fox wouldn't be the most reviled of studios.
It's not just 20th Century Fox though, it's pretty much all of News Corporation, from the studio to Fox News with their hate speech, and guys like O'Reilly and Hannity who would be prosecuted for racist hate speech in any other civilised country.
Newscorp doesn't give a shit about us. They cater to their demographic which are dumb hicks who will watch anything with explosions and listen to anything that feeds into their racist hate filled viewpoints. And the sad thing is, there are millions of these people,
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stupid. just give me X2 and I'm good.
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It had Cary Grant and some wine bottles. Very good little movie.
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"it is possible to tell a story with actors and a camera of incredible power"Yes, Darren Aronofsky certainly does have a camera of incredible power. And his story with actors! Such a combination was impossible before now.
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The first couple that get interviewed... is that the actress that played Seinfeld's mom? OMG it looks like her...
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Agree I loved the movie. I also had to compliment your name, I have the Amnesiac crying minotaur tattooed on my arm. They are the best band ever
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The part you quoted.."it is possible to tell a story with actors and a camera of incredible power".
That doesn't even make much sense if you make it grammatically correct, as in: "it is possible to tell a story of incredible power, with actors and a camera."
We know that. It's called a good film, as opposed to a bad one.
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I've got the evil smiley bear on mine:-D!
I've also got the lyrics of my all-time favourite song tattooed on my penis..."All together now, super-cala-fragilistic.."
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:) I should get "nothing to fear, nothing to doubt" tatooed on my penis. Now that would be ironic
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Apr 21, 2009 8:54:49 PM CDT
Don't listen to gusradio and logicalnoise01; watch Frost/Nixon.
by leafar the lost
Its very obvious that these "guys or gals" wouldn't know a good movie if it was set on fire and shoved up their assholes. Anyone who says that "Frost/Nixon" was not one of the best movies of 2008 is a total, complete, motherfucking idiot!
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If you're gonna get a Radiohead inspired penis tattoo, you could get "blink your eyes..one for yes, two for no." Or "How'd you get your teeth so pearly?"
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A lengthy argument about creative control laced with scatological descriptions and ending with a blunt slam labeling the entire corporation racist. Way to help the cause.
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TOTALLY agreed that the idea of a bunch of college guys finding Tomei to be "too old" to give them a lap dance was laughable, considering she has a body at age 44 that shames most actresses half her age. That, and even her face hasn't aged very noticably. As great as that film is, Tomei was just too damn good-looking to be taken seriously as an "over-the-hill" stripper.
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X3 aint art but it packs tons of walloping action into a plot that forces each character to choose sides once and for all. A damn good X-Men film.
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Must be kicking themselves these days.
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The week long Tiny Toons event that was interrupted by the whole Waco incident?
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http://martiansattackingindianapolis.blogspot.com/2009/04/live-free-or-ill-be-back.html
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Apr 21, 2009 10:38:51 PM CDT
just saw the wrestler for the first time
by supercowbell4therequestformorecowbell
wow....amazing.
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Apr 21, 2009 10:41:15 PM CDT
oh and i want marisa tomei's asshole in my mouth
by supercowbell4therequestformorecowbell
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Harry, don't shit your pants when Emma Frost turns into an animated disco ball. She can do that.
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I have never watched any BSG episodes, I used to make copies of them for Sci-Fi when I worked at a dubbing house and thought it looked interesting.
Would it be okay to watch Caprica first then start watching all the seasons of BSG or should I just watch BSG first? I don't know why but Caprica piques my interest. -
..and just think.. since the dieting, you can look down and see it.
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I bet it's like salty buttery chocolate with sprinkles.
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without any knowledge of BSG. You won't get the full story of what happened after, but all the characters on Caprica are brand new to BSG viewers.
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and if you're a fan of The West Wing, its fun to watch since the film has Ron Silver, Terry Polo, Richard Schiff and Martin Sheen's kid, Chuck.
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That movie sucked. I saw it on cable (either IFC or Sundance) and I wish I never watched it. The main guy in it has an extremely grating personality. He's a complete douche. He tries to go for "gotcha journalism" but fails. At the end of his movie about Jewish identity and antisemitism he asks the camera if he is Jewish and then gets all testy at himself and says "Why the hell does that matter?!" Dude, I wasn't really that curious, but if you make a full-length about being Jewish don't feign sensitivity about the topic.
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You ARE being charged 5 bucks extra for your BD + digital copy. The thing is, on Bu-ray they're not giving you a CHOICE between the regular-price BD and one with Digital Copy. They just give you the DC one, and you pay extra without realising it because you have nothing to compare with.
So you could argue how I'D know myself? Well, on occasion they HAVE given you the choice. Wall-E 2 disc BD had EXACTLY the same features as the 3-disc. All you got on the 3rd disc was the digital copy, which is just a low-rez repeat of disc 1. Nothing 'extra' at all. And it cost 5 bucks more. The OTHER way to prove it is that you can look at all the MANY examples of regular SD DVDs with digital copy and see they cost 5 bucks more without giving you more new content. And you know full well it only costs a few cents more NOT 5 bucks more to give you that other disc. They just don't want you to rip a mobile version of the standard DVD to your device, that's all.
Why all the fucking morons on Amazon.com fall for this blatant trick I have no idea... especially because the obvious and less wasteful thing would be to just put a secure website 'key' on the original disc. Unlocks the site, and you download directly to your device through your PC. Or when you select it on your player, it sends the key to your email. Whatever, this simple solution exposes the physical disc for the marketing sham it really is. And I should know, I've dealt with marketing sleaze for most of my working life. -
I can see the link right up there,top of the popular TBs column.
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and you, sir, are an idiot.
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for all the blame Ratner and FOX gets the real blame the X-MEN franchise went downhill goes to Bryan Singer. Can you really blame Fox for wanting to make sure they had a tent pole blockbuster that summer. The X-men movies turned Bryan Singer into a blockbuster director instead of the art film film maker he was before. Thats like Sony not going ahead and making Spiderman 2 while Sam Raimi worked on Batman Begins. Lets also face the fact that Ratner was just a director for hire and he can't really be blamed for having accepted a job directing a major franchise film...and by the way Superman Returns did suck!
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If they had released the blu rays a month before the film came out I would have watched them, to 'prepare' for the movie, in a frenzy of excitement. (After all, they are already doing premieres and stuff like that.) Silly fuckers.
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was maximum suckage.
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showing Aliens and The Abyss in 70mm in Santa Monica May 29th. Holy schmoly.
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http://www.americancinematheque.com/Aero/aeromastercalendar.htm
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in October per the new trailer @ WB. Hope it's as good as some people, (looking at you Harry), have hyped it to be.
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I can't speak for Blu-rays but regular dvds often have regular and "special" releases. I've seen alot of two disc and three disc editions with the extra disc being nothing but a DC. Occasionally the main disc will have more extras but not always. but they always charge more for the extra disc editions.Bouncy X: I had my current one for about the same time (my first one i broke the screen after a I had had it a year). But I filled mine up a long time ago and find myself having to change out stuff. I listen at work and in 8 hour days you'd be surprised how much you can go through.
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Besides being 300 hours long I found that film impossibly tedious and boring. I went into Frost/Nixon with no real expectations and walked out very impressed.
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'We have found it. Unreacted thermite.'
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Truly, I laughed at the trailers, and um, this isn't a comedy, right? What, the producers couldn't get Rich Little? Sheez. As for Tiny Toons...nah. Too often violence was substituted for comedy, as if the two are interchangeable. But Freakazoid...yeah man, that WAS the shit. Better story lines and a love interest would expand this property nicely into movie material. I'll have to check it out. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, Harry.
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Saw it on Sundance. Totally meh, it's something you watch when nothing else is on, not something you would actually buy.
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Apr 22, 2009 10:30:43 AM CDT
I'M GOING OUT ON A LIMB HERE TO SAY THE WRESTLER WAS NOT ALL THA
by bringingsexyback
Good performances, sure, but I didn't find his character the least bit sympathetic. His daughter finally comes around, he has a chance at reconciling, and he fucks that up for no reason. Truth is, as kind as he was to Tomei, she did the right thing in rejecting him. He would be a horrible BF and father figure to her son. I prefer Rocky Balboa.
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You accurately got the Wrestler. A lot of the fools around here took the film as a a glorifying tribute to 'professional' wrestling and a favorable biopic of a good man. They are wrong. What it really is is a sad portrait of a hopeless fuck-up whose only victories in life are staged for the crowd. You may well be the only other person besides me that seems to have got it.
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but Frost seriously waits till he gets a drunken, over the phone, throw down challenge to get down to business and do his homework?Is this one of the famous liberties taken for dramatic license? I will admit Howard did a great job of taking a stage play about a goddamn TV interview, and make it cinematic without a lot of camera trickery. And the cast including Platt, Rockwell, Bacon and the leads all do the characters justice..yes even Langella's Nixon. I loved how he played with Frost early in the interview scenes. "Did you do any fornicating..?"
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It's just unpleasant, that's all. Very cool, very stylised, but just nasty.
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Nixon as Raving Maniac
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I can't recall reading a single post that makes the assertion that The Wrestler is "a glorifying tribute to 'professional' wrestling and a favorable biopic of a good man." Ram is obviously a seriously flawed individual who is unwilling to let the past go and rather stubbornly clings to it, impeding his own ability to move forward. That said, I do think Ram can be viewed as a sympathetic character because despite his overwhelming flaws he earnestly tries to make things better even while constantly fucking things up exponentially. Regardless, I don't think the various themes are that difficult to grasp.
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Apr 22, 2009 12:33:10 PM CDT
mmmmm salty buttery choclate with sprinkles
by supercowbell4therequestformorecowbell
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Amazing ass
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Any extras on The Arrival Blu-Ray about how they transformed Charlie Sheen into a Mexican when he is snooping around on the spaceship? I love that bit! Oh yeah, I also want Teri Polo's ass in my grill.
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You'd be surprised how hard some people find the themes to grasp. What I was referring to was the talkbacks for the posts on this site about Mickey Rourke agreeing to do Wrestlemania a while ago. The general consensus there was that 'The Wrestler' was the greatest thing to happen to 'professional wrestling' since Vince McMahon. Make no mistake a lot of people viewed the film as an ode to the 'sport', and didn't see anything theme-wise in the film other than a man nobly pursuing his dreams. Not that there isn't a little of that in there, and not that the character is completely unsympathetic, but if all you took from the movie was an inspiring feel-good biopic, you're as deluded as Randy the Ram.
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You put it more bluntly than I dared to, fearing a backlash from the wrestling fans. The movie depicted wrestling as the most self-destructive and depressing sport ever. I can't believe Rourke offered to promote pro-wrestling after doing this movie, I guess he (or Aronofsky) didn't grasp their own lesson.
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It’s funny because I grew up watching classic wrestlers such as Hogan, Warrior and Hitman but as I hit high school my interest in the “sport” dried up. What really began to fascinate me were the various stories and tragedies surrounding the profession, an interest that was even further piqued by the documentary Beyond the Mat, which The Wrestler really seems to pull some ideas and concepts from. I guess I was watching The Wrestler from my own perspective, knowing just how fucked up and miserable the industry is, especially to has-beens, without realizing some people see the film as uplifting, which I think is a bizarre perspective. Even subjectively I think making the argument that The Wrestler is an endorsement of the sport or the lifestyle would be hard to make.
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means he doesn't get his own film. The only thing sadder than these guys destroying themselves for money is them destroying themselves in an empty arena for next to nothing. Maybe now he knows what these guys do to themselves for a living and prefers they do it for a larger audience and more money. Its just a show of respect to the guys who do that for a living more so than a validation of the industry. At least that's how I'd see it.
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There's Robert Wisden's performance as Tricky DIck in "Watchmen" that takes that overly rubberized make-up cake. Christ, "Watchmen" Nixon made Nixon's Head in a Jar on "Futurama" look like lost fucking footage.
The best Nixon portrayal, hands down, is Greg Itzin in season 5 of "24". Oops... he's not playing Nixon. Well he looked the fucking part.
NIXON'S HEAD: Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973 but your average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become bitter, and let's face it, crazy over the years. And once I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat. And I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place! Muhuhahahaha! -
And I agree with the person who said The Wrestler is overrated. Maybe not Rourke's performance, but the movie as a whole.
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"Christ, "Watchmen" Nixon made Nixon's Head in a Jar on "Futurama" look like lost fucking footage." Fucking funny and all too correct. Kudos sir.
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I don't know why 3 gets picked on as if it is any worse then the first two pieces of garbage.
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"Tricky DIck in "Watchmen" that takes that overly rubberized make-up cake. Christ, "Watchmen" Nixon made Nixon's Head in a Jar on "Futurama" look like lost fucking footage." now thats awesome.
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if you're in the market for a well made puzzlebox, check out www.hellraiserpuzzlebox.com - you'll pay, but the quality is worth it (their prices have dropped since i got mine). they also have a HELLRAISER RUBIK'S CUBE, which i just gotta have...
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in every single way. well except when it comes to cyclops getting tottaly raped in the asshole.
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I wikipedia the first X-men only to find out that Brian Singer turned it down at first because he thought comic books were for retards. He didn't give a damn about it or the fans. But he chose to do it because the idea of not fitting in as a mutant reminded him of his years as a homosexual teenager. He decided not to include Gambit because he didn't like the character even though he was aware fans loved the character. He did better on X-2 because he found out there really s an audience for a x-men film. But he chose to do Superman Returns because for some odd reason the original film reminded him of how it feels to be different (Relating back to his homosexuality)when he was growing up. Ratner comes in at the last minute to film the script that they were going to use with singer anyway and actually tried to make a movie for the fans. And lord knows he tried to throw Gambit in it. Just watch the DVD commentary for X3 and you will hear all the ideas he had that fans would love but couldn't work into a script. If Ratner would have gotten the francise from the beginning we would have actually had a X-men film trilogy. But he was left to make due with the script and cluster fuck trilogy Brian left him. So for all of you fans who hate Ratner for x3 should blame Brian for taking a francise on that he didn't give a shit about and leaving someone else who cares to finish it. Ratner would have given us their real suits with a adult Rogue and Gambit. Fuck Brian.
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wouldve been worse than a guy with a stupid fucking helmet, gay boots, and a fake rubber six pack. OH WAIT A MINUTE
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Both are excellent films.notorious was hard to watch at times because i was huge biggie fan growing up.it's sad seeing a young guy who was just begining to mature into a man cut down in his prime.he was such a talented m.c. a true loss to the world.the wrestler was my 2nd favorite of 2008 just under the dark knight.
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God almighty did it not occur to you that there was a thematic point to having Nixon all rubbery with the completely over the top nose and all? Here's a clue. The guy's a fucking caricature/cartoon/blatant cypher/narrative fucking shorthand. Also, the makeup was stylised in the same way as young Rorshach's painted-on freckles and red hair was completely over the top - narrative economy. Fucking hell you guys. I'm not defending Watchmen just to refute you - I thought it spent so much time trying to be impressive and true to the book it forgot to have enough life in it - but really, that's a moronic slam on Nixon. Watchmen's Nixon and Frost's Nixon are apples and oranges as far as the amount of caricature goes.
And my two cents on The Wrestler is that Rourke was back playing Charles Bukowski again in a similarly-toned character and performance. Doesn't mean it was bad at all, just saying. -
SPITTING IMAGE!!!
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Apr 22, 2009 10:27:04 PM CDT
white_vader-that doesnt explain the shitty make up on
by supercowbell4therequestformorecowbell
silk spectare 1.
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What, when she's old and her face is like a pasty old mask? Uh...
Or the thing of it not being a prosthetic job where her features haven't been properly distorted by time and gravity? Because that one's a whole different kettle of fish that may have much more to do with egos, agents and contracts than anything pertaining to the film itself. Thorny issue. How moronic was it that makeup designs were altered in Interview with a Vampire because of the whole Tom egomania/contractmania? Somehow we wouldn't realise that a character who was standing there a second ago in the same clothes now supposedly burnt and disfigured was still the same character? We wouldn't still think it was Tom and would walk out and ask for our money back or something?
And what about the ridiculous Beowulf where the chicks (even in CG which I thought was a major reason for making it that way) don't age beyond a few hairline cracks? Click where you've got the master of age makeup Rick Baker and both the chicks AND Sandler don't want to be aged properly in a fucking TIME-TRAVEL situation? There are many more, and they don't really have much to do with the actual movie in question at all, so that one's a bit murky to answer (Watchmen/SS) as I don't know the real deal there.
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the make up just sucked. seriously i dont think they had that idea for nixon i think they just did a shit job. maybe the nose was supposed to be funny but it just looked bad. i suppose the comedian looked good...but i think the scene where he broke in molochs the make up looked pretty crap too.
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what you mean about ss1 and that wouldve been a good idea for them but i dont think it was the case because some others just looked bad...
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how are you not gonna mention Jean Painlevé's "Science Is Fiction" collection? I can't wait till the 3 disc monster comes in the mail..
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And the World asks Why?
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I just disagree, that's all. My view is they followed the comic so precisely that they had the same intent with stuff like Nixon. And the other thing I meant to say was that in both the comic and film, Nixon being a cartoonish figure while making a satirical point concurrently makes the superheroes/costumed characters seem more 'real/realistic' by contrast.
The most interesting thing for me about the look of things was that Manhattan proves that the eyes mean everything in CG. My wife didn't realise Manhattan wasn't cg-enhanced prosthetics like she thought but all CG, and the convenience/copout/appropriateness of the white superhero eyes just prove that while we may have licked most of the other problems, eyes are still the holy grail (for me Benjamin Button didn't quite get there, but did fool many people and was much better than say, Beowulf). I liked that they stuck blue lights all over the mocap suit to get the right bounce light on the real characters too and help lock the blue guy into the plate. -
That crazy Octopus sex creeps me out. Ewww.
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kwisatzhaderach, thanks for the news of James Cameron at the Aero in Santa Monica, with the 70 MM showing of ALIENS and THE ABYSS (May 29th). I actually looked into going, being the huge James Cameron fan that I am. (ALIENS is my favorite Cameron flick.) ...Dang it, I envy people who can just drop what their doing and go to events like that. It may as well be on the other side of the planet, 'cause I can't go.
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...and meet Harry, and talk about how we miss HD-DVD. (Hopefully, the SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN will be available on USA dvd by then.)
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Harry - Here's a review:
http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/Dante-01
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to view in a theater, but still, STILL, does not have an anamophic widescreen edition of it or True Lies for video. Don't get me started on the titles still awaiting BluRay release..as in the new Back To The Future editions that came out a month or so ago. Its been over 20 years, can we get the series or at least the 1st on BluRay without milking the release schedule???
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And if was the filmmakers intention to exaggerate the Nixon makeup to the point of cariacture, they did their jobs too well, to the point of it being a distraction. But hey, thats just my opinion.
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That they weren't SHOT in 65/70mm, right? So those are blow-ups. Even if there were fx shots originally done in vistavision. I think Abyss had a separate 70mm sound mix though. Just sayin'.
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End of story.
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I found the blue guy with his CGI dick flopping about more believable than the rubber dick hanging between Dick Nixon's eyes.
And i fucking know it's an exaggeration, but fucking SNL has done farce/parody with better make-up.
Now kiddy Rorshach's freckles and red hair... they never stood-out to me as fake. But that goddamn flesh-colored tire glued to Wisden's face... that distracted me. EVERY time we saw him.
That's right... took me out of it more than glowing blue bollocks or the shifting ink blot on Rorshach's face. -
The Wrestler was a well made film. But saying it should have been a contender for Best Picture? FUCK THAT. That role was fucking cake for Rourke, especially the scene was a slams that random whore in the bathroom.
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What is the orgin of your name?how did u come up with it?
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I Redbox-ed that bitch and was none too impressed. Don't get me wrong, my little bastards, I thoroughly enjoyed the Marisa Tomei T&A and the firefighter-obsessed coke slut. For some reason that's just not enough this time. Am I growing up?
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Every DVD reissue has that same bad print the other one had.
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those shows are indeed without a doubt the shit and Into The Blue 2 sounds hilariously bad, I may just rent that one
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Nixon might end up being a contender for most movie appearances up there with Dracula and Sherlock Holmes.
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Soon, Fast and Furious movies will be right up there, too
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but incredibly depressing. The damn film pretty much ruined the rest of my day.
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... great performance by Rourke, but not a great film. A very good one, though.
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Adelai Niska, can you explain why Hitchcock would have Ingrid Bergman in a film about a black rapper?
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don't get it either. The TV spots quote "stand up and cheer for The Wrestler". The movie is closer in tone to Huston's Fat City than Rocky. I guess you can't successfully promote a drama unless you make it "feel good" (Thats why I'm avoiding Slumdog Millionaire like the plague).
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Good movie.
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Whippersnappers.
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Much better than that overrated piece of crap Ben Button, that everyone loves here at AICN.
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God, it was so long I thought I was watching a Peter Jackson epic.
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the new horror film on dvd this wk
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Apr 26, 2009 11:02:12 PM CDT
Harry's gem of the week (sponsored by the Ed Wood Foundation).
by thegreatwhatzit
"...is just a great filmmaker making a great film." Cue trombone, followed by very polite applause.
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It's got plenty of substance and while it wasn't my favorite film of last year it was very well done.
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