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Harry's DVD Picks & Peeks - last July of 09: Hal Jordan, Repulsion, The MiddleMan, 12 Monkeys, Spinal Tap & More!
Hey folks, Harry here with this final week of JULY’s report. I hope you enjoy. As usual click the pics and titles and you’ll be whisked to Amazon for purchasing and mass information. If you do purchase – it’ll help keep the column coming. Thanks a lot and enjoy this week’s peeks.
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
GREEN LANTERN: FIRST FLIGHT
I did a full individual review of this back a couple of weeks ago - Click Here to read that! At Comic Con Thursday night – a little over 4,000 Green Lantern fans swore the Green Lantern Oath – watched this film and exploded in applause afterwards. The reason? It fucking rocks! Now let’s just hope the live action version does it even better.
FAST & FURIOUS
Here’s my full review of FAST & FURIOUS. I really like this film, wish they had gotten any of the romance right. As really that was what the film really lacked. On BLU – the film looks gorgeous, sounds in-fucking-sane and honestly the extras are crazy. The same kinds that we gearhead FAST AND FURIOUS geeks have been playing with so far. This completes the set – but due to the box office of this installment – you can bet you’ll have another to add, that’s if you’ve been collecting them all.
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: THE COMPLETE SERIES (Blu Ray)
Not sure if this set is economically sound. At a suggested retail of $349.98… that’s crazy. On Amazon it is $209.99 – and if you buy all the sets separately it comes to around $170 or so, I think. But you wouldn’t have the nifty packaging. If you have all the Blu-Rays – you have this set. This is solely for people that were waiting for the Box Set and want this packaging. That’s it. It has everything that’s been released thus far – but I’m not sure if there’s anything particularly unique to this set. Enjoy at your own cost.
REPULSION – Criterion Collection (Blu Ray)
One of the great horror films of all time. Roman Polanski’s masterful REPULSION with one of the greatest performances by an actress ever. Seriously, watch Catherine Deneuve in this. It is fucking crazy real feeling. The transfer on Blu Ray is stunning – it is filled with extras that I’ll include below – but the real key is… The Blu-Ray is cheaper than the DVD right now on Amazon! Here’s the extras:
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Audio commentary featuring director Roman Polanski and actress Catherine Deneuve
• A British Horror Film (2003), a documentary on the making of Repulsion, featuring interviews with Polanski, producer Gene Gutowski, and cinematographer Gil Taylor
• A 1964 television documentary filmed on the set of Repulsion, featuring rare footage of Polanski and Deneuve at work
• Theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar and curator Bill Horrigan
THE MIDDLEMAN: The Complete Series
Did you see this little miracle of a show? I didn’t. It aired on ABC FAMILY CHANNEL – a channel that I only ever watch flip by on my way to another channel, but hidden upon this inane drivel channel was apparently gold. I watched the 12 episodes that aired on this DVD and they’re great. At Comic Con – the cast did a table read of the 13th unfilmed episode, to the delight of the series’ fans that had somehow found the show. THIS is one of the shows that SyFy (I hate that btw) should pick up and start shooting. Because this show deserves to continue. The team on it at all levels does excellent work. If you haven’t seen it, do so now.
DOLLHOUSE: Season One
I haven’t seen this yet. But I’m going to give it a shot on Blu Ray sometime here soon. I watched the first episode and it left me a little cold, so I didn’t bother to tune in and endure commercials to see the rest. I heard it got much better as the show went along, and I hope to see that. Do you folks think I should check it out?
SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN: 1st Season
I haven’t watched this show – except in small doses with my nephew and it’s pretty damn good. NOW that I have the whole 1st Season I’ll have my nephew over for a few days of WebHeading Good Times! Because you know what – that’s how this show should be seen. With a kid that wants to absorb it all. Right?
12 MONKEYS (Blu Ray)
SO GOOD! OhMyGod! SO GOOD! It has been too long since I last put this film in. At least 5 years. So getting this Blu Ray – I was like… OHHHHH YEAH! 12 MONKEYS!!! Goddamn. Right? This is the sort of awesome that you delight in when Terry Gilliam is on his game and everything is firing away! This is easily Brad Pitt’s very best performance to date. He’s amazing. But everyone else is as well. Madeline Stowe – so beautiful. Bruce Willis – a fantastic madness tale there. Great great work – and the Blu Ray does it justice throughout.
DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION
A truly truly BAAAAAAD movie. But, do you know what that is? This is a great – “WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY FUCKING THINKING!!!” jumping around howling in painfully hysterical laughter at the stupidity of it all. A truly stunning heap of shit. The type that comes out of your ass, you look at and you start laughing. This is that.
THIS IS SPINAL TAP (Blu Ray)
Evidence of God. No, Really!
INGLORIOUS BASTARDS (Blu Ray)
GORGEOUS transfer. Beautiful. So much so that I kinda wish the print was a bit beat up. If for no other reason, than to look more like every 35 mm print or 16mm print of this that I’ve seen. The extras are of every title we’ve seen from the recent DVD release – and a couple more to sweeten the deal. Pretty damn cool to have a quote on this release’s back.
THE GREEN HORNET
I love this serial! I mean, how cool is it that a youthful Keye Luke aka Badass owner of Gizmo in GREMLINS – well, he’s KATO! Doesn’t that rock? What is even cooler – is that this version of THE GREEN HORNET is actually more action packed than the Bruce Lee TV Show. Great serial.
THE 10th VICTIM
Before there was WANTED, there was THE 10TH VICTIM. And WANTED kicks its ass. But Ursula Andress at this time… Holy shit hot! Not smoldering, but she’s red hot coals just waiting for something to be laid on to ignite. And Marcello Mastroianni is pretty damn awesome. If you like CQ by Roman Copolla, this is, in many ways, the movie in that movie. At least I think so. Nice to finally have this.
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT (Blu Ray)
This film is one to really show off all your Blu Ray players super powers. The image quality mixed with this brilliant cinematography. It’s the stuff of dreams. Great film. That said. I’m a lazy fisherman. You know… the bobber floatie thing. But A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT made me realize.. I could never ever be a fly fisherman. I’d put someone’s eye out. By someone, I mean me. Seriously. I like 3D. I’m not gonna try that crazy cartoon whip shit. My eyes are only to be fucked by AVATAR.
THE GREEN HORNET STRIKES AGAIN
I kinda miss Gordon Jones, the actor that played the original GREEN HORNET, but Keye Luke is back and the action is at the same caliber. It is just as good as the first… with the exception for Gordon Jones.
TORSO
Sergio Martino fucking owns with this movie. I love TORSO torso torso…. This is one of those titles, that my parents had a 16mm trailer for, in the pre-Video days – so I saw the TORSO TORSO TORSO trailer a nigh infinite amount of times. When I found it on VHS – I was so excited. The transfer looks really good, and I’m hoping for a Blu Ray release soon.
EAGLES OVER LONDON (Blu Ray)
Fucking Awesome. I completely was not familiar with this film, but it is fucking great. Castellari is surprising as a filmmaker, because you know he didn’t have the financing of the major studios – and he’s in the time before computers. And the shit he comes up with seems to surprise the hell out of me. I really like it.
BIG MAN JAPAN
Just About The Greatest Fucking Thing of All Time! Seriously! One of the weirdest, freakiest, awesomest fucking things ever made. Just fucking crazy. The “True” story of the last Great Protector of Japan. Well, maybe not that great. Giggle.
AN AMERICAN AFFAIR
I have to admit, I wasn’t expecting a real movie when I put this on. I saw Gretchen Mol wrapped in an American flag sexual as hell – and well, yes she does get fucked naked and sexy as hell! But in addition to the cover selling exactly what you get… there’s a fun “coming of age” story of youth wrapped up in a bugnuts “solving of Kennedy’s assassination”!! I’m serious. It isn’t great, but it flirts with great for quite a bit.
That’s it for July. For our first week of August, I’ll be looking at FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS: 2nd Season, RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN, THE SOLOIST, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (blu), YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS: THE WARNER BROS. STORY, MY COUSIN VINNY (Blu), DELGO, SLING BLADE, THE TIGGER MOVIE, ULYSSES, DAFFY DUCK’S QUACKBUSTERS, WOLFHOUND, THE WATERBOY (Blu), THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH, ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE, BIG IRON COLLECTION, DEMON WARRIORS, ACTORS AND SIN, THE MACHINE GIRL, THE ITALIAN JOB (Blu), ST. ELMO’S FIRE (Blu) and more!
GREEN LANTERN: FIRST FLIGHT
I did a full individual review of this back a couple of weeks ago - Click Here to read that! At Comic Con Thursday night – a little over 4,000 Green Lantern fans swore the Green Lantern Oath – watched this film and exploded in applause afterwards. The reason? It fucking rocks! Now let’s just hope the live action version does it even better.
FAST & FURIOUS
Here’s my full review of FAST & FURIOUS. I really like this film, wish they had gotten any of the romance right. As really that was what the film really lacked. On BLU – the film looks gorgeous, sounds in-fucking-sane and honestly the extras are crazy. The same kinds that we gearhead FAST AND FURIOUS geeks have been playing with so far. This completes the set – but due to the box office of this installment – you can bet you’ll have another to add, that’s if you’ve been collecting them all.
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: THE COMPLETE SERIES (Blu Ray)
Not sure if this set is economically sound. At a suggested retail of $349.98… that’s crazy. On Amazon it is $209.99 – and if you buy all the sets separately it comes to around $170 or so, I think. But you wouldn’t have the nifty packaging. If you have all the Blu-Rays – you have this set. This is solely for people that were waiting for the Box Set and want this packaging. That’s it. It has everything that’s been released thus far – but I’m not sure if there’s anything particularly unique to this set. Enjoy at your own cost.
REPULSION – Criterion Collection (Blu Ray)
One of the great horror films of all time. Roman Polanski’s masterful REPULSION with one of the greatest performances by an actress ever. Seriously, watch Catherine Deneuve in this. It is fucking crazy real feeling. The transfer on Blu Ray is stunning – it is filled with extras that I’ll include below – but the real key is… The Blu-Ray is cheaper than the DVD right now on Amazon! Here’s the extras:
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Audio commentary featuring director Roman Polanski and actress Catherine Deneuve
• A British Horror Film (2003), a documentary on the making of Repulsion, featuring interviews with Polanski, producer Gene Gutowski, and cinematographer Gil Taylor
• A 1964 television documentary filmed on the set of Repulsion, featuring rare footage of Polanski and Deneuve at work
• Theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar and curator Bill Horrigan
THE MIDDLEMAN: The Complete Series
Did you see this little miracle of a show? I didn’t. It aired on ABC FAMILY CHANNEL – a channel that I only ever watch flip by on my way to another channel, but hidden upon this inane drivel channel was apparently gold. I watched the 12 episodes that aired on this DVD and they’re great. At Comic Con – the cast did a table read of the 13th unfilmed episode, to the delight of the series’ fans that had somehow found the show. THIS is one of the shows that SyFy (I hate that btw) should pick up and start shooting. Because this show deserves to continue. The team on it at all levels does excellent work. If you haven’t seen it, do so now.
DOLLHOUSE: Season One
I haven’t seen this yet. But I’m going to give it a shot on Blu Ray sometime here soon. I watched the first episode and it left me a little cold, so I didn’t bother to tune in and endure commercials to see the rest. I heard it got much better as the show went along, and I hope to see that. Do you folks think I should check it out?
SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN: 1st Season
I haven’t watched this show – except in small doses with my nephew and it’s pretty damn good. NOW that I have the whole 1st Season I’ll have my nephew over for a few days of WebHeading Good Times! Because you know what – that’s how this show should be seen. With a kid that wants to absorb it all. Right?
12 MONKEYS (Blu Ray)
SO GOOD! OhMyGod! SO GOOD! It has been too long since I last put this film in. At least 5 years. So getting this Blu Ray – I was like… OHHHHH YEAH! 12 MONKEYS!!! Goddamn. Right? This is the sort of awesome that you delight in when Terry Gilliam is on his game and everything is firing away! This is easily Brad Pitt’s very best performance to date. He’s amazing. But everyone else is as well. Madeline Stowe – so beautiful. Bruce Willis – a fantastic madness tale there. Great great work – and the Blu Ray does it justice throughout.
DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION
A truly truly BAAAAAAD movie. But, do you know what that is? This is a great – “WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY FUCKING THINKING!!!” jumping around howling in painfully hysterical laughter at the stupidity of it all. A truly stunning heap of shit. The type that comes out of your ass, you look at and you start laughing. This is that.
THIS IS SPINAL TAP (Blu Ray)
Evidence of God. No, Really!
INGLORIOUS BASTARDS (Blu Ray)
GORGEOUS transfer. Beautiful. So much so that I kinda wish the print was a bit beat up. If for no other reason, than to look more like every 35 mm print or 16mm print of this that I’ve seen. The extras are of every title we’ve seen from the recent DVD release – and a couple more to sweeten the deal. Pretty damn cool to have a quote on this release’s back.
THE GREEN HORNET
I love this serial! I mean, how cool is it that a youthful Keye Luke aka Badass owner of Gizmo in GREMLINS – well, he’s KATO! Doesn’t that rock? What is even cooler – is that this version of THE GREEN HORNET is actually more action packed than the Bruce Lee TV Show. Great serial.
THE 10th VICTIM
Before there was WANTED, there was THE 10TH VICTIM. And WANTED kicks its ass. But Ursula Andress at this time… Holy shit hot! Not smoldering, but she’s red hot coals just waiting for something to be laid on to ignite. And Marcello Mastroianni is pretty damn awesome. If you like CQ by Roman Copolla, this is, in many ways, the movie in that movie. At least I think so. Nice to finally have this.
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT (Blu Ray)
This film is one to really show off all your Blu Ray players super powers. The image quality mixed with this brilliant cinematography. It’s the stuff of dreams. Great film. That said. I’m a lazy fisherman. You know… the bobber floatie thing. But A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT made me realize.. I could never ever be a fly fisherman. I’d put someone’s eye out. By someone, I mean me. Seriously. I like 3D. I’m not gonna try that crazy cartoon whip shit. My eyes are only to be fucked by AVATAR.
THE GREEN HORNET STRIKES AGAIN
I kinda miss Gordon Jones, the actor that played the original GREEN HORNET, but Keye Luke is back and the action is at the same caliber. It is just as good as the first… with the exception for Gordon Jones.
TORSO
Sergio Martino fucking owns with this movie. I love TORSO torso torso…. This is one of those titles, that my parents had a 16mm trailer for, in the pre-Video days – so I saw the TORSO TORSO TORSO trailer a nigh infinite amount of times. When I found it on VHS – I was so excited. The transfer looks really good, and I’m hoping for a Blu Ray release soon.
EAGLES OVER LONDON (Blu Ray)
Fucking Awesome. I completely was not familiar with this film, but it is fucking great. Castellari is surprising as a filmmaker, because you know he didn’t have the financing of the major studios – and he’s in the time before computers. And the shit he comes up with seems to surprise the hell out of me. I really like it.
BIG MAN JAPAN
Just About The Greatest Fucking Thing of All Time! Seriously! One of the weirdest, freakiest, awesomest fucking things ever made. Just fucking crazy. The “True” story of the last Great Protector of Japan. Well, maybe not that great. Giggle.
AN AMERICAN AFFAIR
I have to admit, I wasn’t expecting a real movie when I put this on. I saw Gretchen Mol wrapped in an American flag sexual as hell – and well, yes she does get fucked naked and sexy as hell! But in addition to the cover selling exactly what you get… there’s a fun “coming of age” story of youth wrapped up in a bugnuts “solving of Kennedy’s assassination”!! I’m serious. It isn’t great, but it flirts with great for quite a bit.
That’s it for July. For our first week of August, I’ll be looking at FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS: 2nd Season, RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN, THE SOLOIST, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (blu), YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS: THE WARNER BROS. STORY, MY COUSIN VINNY (Blu), DELGO, SLING BLADE, THE TIGGER MOVIE, ULYSSES, DAFFY DUCK’S QUACKBUSTERS, WOLFHOUND, THE WATERBOY (Blu), THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH, ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE, BIG IRON COLLECTION, DEMON WARRIORS, ACTORS AND SIN, THE MACHINE GIRL, THE ITALIAN JOB (Blu), ST. ELMO’S FIRE (Blu) and more!
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Harry's been replaced with a pod person!
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WTF?
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About the Dragonball comment? sooo does that mean you recommend watching it or you don't? Is it so bad its good or its so bad it's bad?
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And nothing makes me happier that they're making part 5.
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Right now, the only Blu-ray set that is available on its own is 4.5. If you want the other series on BD, you have to buy the set.
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Jul 28, 2009 6:11:16 AM CDT
Nah, don't bother with Dollhouse, Harry.
by richard_gere_raped_my_gerbil
Unless you want a full season of boring episodes with characters who pretty much reset every episode. It's a cold, stale and uninvolving show made for robots that didn't deserve a second season.Don't be a robot, Harry!
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You wanted to post it for days...
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Is just a totally empty movie, dull action wrapped up in a plot no one cares about. Vapid. My flat mates and I watched it bored one afternoon after sitting through Half Past Dead 2, and it wasn't much better.Well, slightly maybe...
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I think the voice acting was solid and the animation was also top-notch. I think the story was good up until the last act, when it really did become less of a movie and more a cartoon. MASK OF THE PHANTASM is still the gold-standard. GL approached greatness for me but fell a bit short in the end. Still, it's very worthwhile.
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I have one last San Diego column, then I write Inglourious Basterds and Paper Hearts up
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It took a while to find its footing but once it did, it became consistently entertaining.
And you didn't want to bother with commercials? It and "Fringe" only had 90 second commercial breaks this past season; couple that with a TiVo/DVR and you'd have barely noticed it had them. -
Probably the best sci-fi film of the '90s. And you're right, Harry. Gilliam and all of the actors are hitting on all cylinders. And that crazy-ass Argentinian tango music that plays throughout the flick lingers in my head whenever I think of the film. No chance you'll answer me on this, but ... are there any new extras and featurettes on this release?
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Sita Sings the Blues - The Astonishing Works of Tezuka Osamu-Extreme Animation: Films by Phil Mulloy-Bill Plympton's Dog Days, and The Animation of Alexeieff are all due this week. And on the mediocre or terrible side of matters, so are Voltron: Fleet of Doom and a re-release of MD Geist
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the story was kinda there but seemed rushed. man gets a power ring and can do anything but we see him think nothing of it. I actually thought the wonder woman dvd was better. It just seemed rushed and hal, as i think harry mentioned seemed something out of top gun. wasnt quite right. ok, but not excellent. i expect better for this character and for this franchise.
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Would you be willing to spit-roast your wife with me?Also, I just bought the Watchmen Directors cut, but it was 25 quid, roughly 45 dollars. Worth it, but so very expensive.
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in the (zombie) apocalypse!!!!
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is the doc on the 12 monkeys BR?
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Love it. I was surprised to find Eagles over London in the column. Definitely getting that one. Is Green Lantern really good? Does it have an annoying, monotonous soundtrack like New Frontier did? After all of Harry's hype, New Frontier turned out to be quite a disappointment. They left all the good bits in the book and went with the most straight-forward, mediocre elements of the original story instead. Very sad, since the animation itself was great.
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is on the TWELVE MONKEYS Blu-Ray, I'm told.
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Hello Up.
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Was a pretty cool show. Its funny to see that character as a phsychopath on Dollhouse as well.
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Pretty much was flat until the last two episodes. They all started out good but about 30 minutes they just turned boring. But since the last two were good hopefully that continues to the next season.
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Out fast.
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However, only watch if you can watch it through Episode 6. Episode 6 is AMAZING.
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Do you even go back and look at what you told us you would review the week before?
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I just needed to say that. Oh and fucking Green Hornet serials?? WTF I never even knew! I'll check those out.
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I watched the first two episodes and immediately lost interest. I just don't see how they can get much out of the premise which is basically a different take on Quantum Leap. Also, Eilza Dushku (and I like her and think she's hot) does not have the acting chops to pull off what she is required to each week.
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Check out the Betty Page movie instead if haven't already seen it. Ample Mol nudity and a decent performance.
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...'Before there was WANTED, there was THE 10TH VICTIM.' I could understand using 'Le Prix du Danger/Prize of Peril' or 'The Running Man' as examples to compare against '10TH' (similar themes I think), but why 'Wanted'? Also 'CQ' (especially as a double-bill with 'Danger: Diabolik') is great!
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I watched the first few episodes of this series and never really got into it. The pilot was fun, but the premies quickly wore thin and the writing was very uneven. The only good thing ABC Family ever did was Greek.
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My opinion.
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That one's a fact.
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...thank Joss later.
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Was great. I was pretty sad when I heard it was cancelled. ABC Family also had Kyle XY which was a sci-fi show with some promise but never fully lived up to it. Was still a fun show.
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Not before you viewed AND reviewed The Shield season 7, Sons of Anarchy, Rescue Me season 5 and Breaking Bad season 1+2. At least. Tons of other series out there that are more worthy than the bad acted mediocrity called Dollhouse.
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I'm going to venture to call it THE title of the week. Yeah, even over REPULSION, which is one of Polanski's very finest. BATTLESTAR GALACTICA has been nothing less than monumental. Criminally under-recognized by the Emmys...but praised by critics and loved by fans. A major science fiction drama.
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Agreed. I know people who really hate how the show ended. But it made total sense to me. Greatest Sci Fi show ever.
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Is on IFC this week, for people who have that channel.
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I feel anything Joss Whedon puts his name on is worth the watch. people bitch that Dollhouse was lame. If you look back at Buffy and Angel in their first seasons they weren't the best. joss takes time to build his shows up. if he would have had the chance for more seasons in Firefly we would be talking about it as one of the best shows ever. i don't understand you Harry everytime Joss puts something out you either won't watch it or your not sure if it's worth the watch. i read this article every week and you watch some pretty shitty things. Give joss a chance. Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dr. horrible, and dollhouse are all good things.
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i can only imagine how much the complete Lost collection will be once that comes since its 2 seasons longer than BSG. hopefully since its still a year away or more the prices will be more reasonable but ouch.
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Jul 28, 2009 9:47:55 AM CDT
Scuse me if I hold out for the Bruce Lee version of Green Hornet
by stalkeye
And speaking of Green, GL FF is one of Dc's best animated features.Wonder Woman was so-so and the best part of Gotham Knight would be the Deadshot sequence. At least DCAU is mixing it up a bit by showcasing other characters whilist Marvel is overexposing the Wolverine & Spiderman animated crap.can't wait to get my hands on the Blade 2 blu-ray which will be arriving soon.
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Definitely will be checking that out again. Although that is a film that needs to be paused and zoomed into.
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Jul 28, 2009 9:52:37 AM CDT
I REALLY hated how BSG ended, but loved it till the end...
by billyeveryteen
They pussed out so badly, I can't muster any enthusiasm for The Plan, or Caprica.
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You find the time to do another DVD column but only ONE FREAKING DAY of Comic-Con? What happened to your priorities man?
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First, I'm not saying he's a bad writer. It's just, I really like BSG, but I don't constantly suck Ron Moore's dick like Whedonites do their false deity. I also like Lost and I don't feel the need to defend J.J. Abrams when AsimovLives calls him Jar Jar Abrams.
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is right here in this column - A River Runs Through It. Yes, yes, 12 Monkeys is excellent. He has all the tics and affectations down to a T, but his work in River is understated and powerful. And his performance in Assasination of Jesse James was better than 12 Monkeys, too. I'd rank 12 Monkeys as his 3rd best performance. The guy can act, but he's inconsistent. When he's on though, he's on.
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From what I can gather, its had CUT footage restored, and is the best release out there, but it doesn't include the recently found "lost scenes".
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its way to mannered for my tastes. It's very 'Look at me, although I'm a pretty boy, I can also play ugly and crazy too' spoils the film a little for me actually. And what's with that cover, Bruce Willis looks like a terminator.
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Baltar is absolved of all his sins including conspiring with cylons in the genocide of humanity. Starbuck and Head 6 are angels. Hera is the missing link. Apollo fights a bird with a broom. Adama gets drunk and pukes. Rosselin is a cougar. They fly all the fleet into the sun. Truly awful.
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"I really like this film, wish they had gotten any of the romance right. As really that was what the film really lacked." What the fuck are you talking about, what is that a haiku?
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NO, I think you should get back to covering Comic-Con. Better late than never.
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That made my week last week.
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Just stopped in to my local Big Blue...said they only received sale copies and NONE for rent(??)
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SPOILER alert or something next time, dude. I know you mention the ending in the header, but I skimmed through the comments quickly.
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Best Buy and Target had GL priced at $12.99 while Amazon charges $15.99. Hey, $3 bucks is $3 bucks.
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The first five episodes are pretty dull (like a weak broth), the show doesn't kick the chef up the arse until the already mentioned brilliant 6th episode (the adding of vegetables and meat). Once the plot starts to thicken you have yourself a delicious bit of TV soup to dip your mind bread into.
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I'm a pretty big Joss fan, and I wouldn't recommend Dollhouse.. It goes from bad, to being pretty good. But I don't think it ever rises to great. I was very excited to see Joss doing a new TV show, but this is his weakest outing to date. I consider it a missfire, and wish it got cancelled, so the talented people behind it could move on to better projects.. If you're going to try watching it, I'd skip the first five episodes.
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"Acolytes" from Fantastic Fest and "Bart Got a Room" from AFF are both out this week (and available at Best Buy brick-and-mortar stores!?!)
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Not sure about Sons of Anarchy.. But Breaking Bad, The Shield, and Rescue Me are all more worthy of your time than Dollhouse..
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That Blockbuster is prbably closing soon. We had 5 in my area (NW Indiana) and now we have 1. In 3 years, there will be none.
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If so, that was a pretty fun movie. Although the time in between fights drags quite a bit.
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Baltar never really conspired with the Cylons willingly He was used and manipulated from the very beginning by them and god. Watch the show from the very beginning and you will see it all falls into place very nicely and has been hinted at from the very beginning.
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Jul 28, 2009 11:03:05 AM CDT
HARRY, have you heard the gayness the BROTHERS BLOOM BLU RAY is
by kaiser soze
This is beyond retarded in this day and age...The Brothers Bloom will hit blu ray September 29...to rent. You can't buy it on blu ray until sometime in 2010. With both Blockbuster and Hollywood Video sucking giraffe testicles, do we really need to go back to the "rent it months before you can buy it" strategy that hasn't worked since the days of VHS?!?!?!?
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Woo-hoo. I am so glad Criterion released Repulsion. Great movie, but the DVD that was out before was so horrendous that it made the film unwatchable. I never double dip, but this is one time I'll ake an exception!
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What is the official explanation for why Baltar did not blow up on Caprica, which was shown in the opening credits of every episode? Surely, ducking behind head Six wouldn't protect him from the blast. So, was that God protecting him or was it Head Baltar caught in the blast? Also, Baltar knowingly and willingly gave Six the nuke that blew up a colonial ship and alerted the cylons to New Caprica. This was never brought up at his trial nor mentioned again in the series, I believe.
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Such a great movie.
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but he did. God Six's body who knows. If i recall a later episode showed him waking up from the blast with six not around. But the nuke he gave to the other six was because head six made him do it. He loved the other six because it reminded him of real six. No one knew but him and the angles he gave her the nuke. Baltar is no saint but he does feel guilty about everything he has ever done. IF you watch the series from the beginning everything six says now really is very profound when you know the whole story.
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For some reason SciFi didn't replay the miniseries that often. Waiting to watch it on Blu-Ray now. Still think I'll find the finale hokey. I liked Baltar as a character, but I really wanted him to get his comeuppance in the end.
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Are they easy to access like in the season sets, or are they crammed into stiff and unwieldy cardboard sleeves that scratch the hell out of them every time you take one out or put one back?
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that you can actually comment in on the same day it is posted. None of this "post on Tuesday, open the TB on Wednesday" (or Thursday, if that). Heck, Herc never did unlock last week's TB.
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That has to be put on the poster somewhere. Only guys do this and and understand this by the way. It truly does feel like an accomplishment for some reason.
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Gotta check that out. I haven't seen it in years, but I think I had it memerized word-for-word from countless early 80's viewing on HBO when I was a kid.
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It would have made more sense TWO MONTHS AGO, but still...genius.
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The Tenth Victim, Harry. This is one of few adaptations of the greatest Science Fiction writer of all time, Robert Sheckley. It has nothing to do with Wanted, which, by the way, is unworthy to lick off this film's ball sweats. Do yourself a favor and seek out the original short story, called, appropriately enough "The Seventh Victim". Read it and read the entire Hunter/Victim series. Sheckley rules. Knowles is a douche.
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"You thought it was a SCHWIIIIIIIIINNNNNNN!!!!!!"
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Im assuming that whedon comment was directed at me. I just really like what the guy does. It's not a matter of sucking him off. but i feel when Harry takes to time to watch let's say the New Tinkerbell dvd i think he should at least take the time to check out stuff that is good.
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BASTERDS!!!!
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I'm going to be out a lot of money next week it seems (this and Big Trouble in Little China and My Cousin Vinny). Anyone know if there's any difference from the HD-DVD release awhile back?
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Speaking as one of the 4000 who spoke the oath, even with a screaming headache I enjoyed the film. I would have like more actual "training" in the use of the ring, but I knew that we wouldn't be getting anything on the order of "Secret Origins" or even "Emerald Dawn."
Picking it up on Blu-Ray today. Inflicting it upon my family tonight. -
Fair enough, but watching a whole tv season is different than watching a 90 minute film. I will give you that Harry does watch a lot of crap. Also, I think Harry is on record as not being a huge Whedon fan. Lastly, I am genuinely curious why Whedonites are such a rabid fan base. Even Star Wars geeks don't praise Lucas the way Whedonites defend their savior. No other screenwriter seems to have such a following.
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I guess he needs to be edgy
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Have you not seen Breaking Bad? I second whoever said you watch that instead. Affecting, funny and sad. Another of the great shows of the last few years. Californication, too, if you haven't seen that.
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Saw this on video and college screenings in the 80's. A huge influence on showing me what you could do to make a scary dreamy cinema style without optical effects or obvious things. I love the film "Repulsion", although it made me paranoid about crazy girls I might happen to be dating... who might snap.... and kill my ass.
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Is the first ever DC comic movie I've actually wanted to see. Hope its good.
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I haven't watched any but want to. Any suggestions?
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I'd like to support this column, but for me to buy Blu-rays using the link to Amazon.com it costs me a decent amount more because of Shipping fees and takes longer to arrive. Would it be too much more trouble to add a link to Amazon.ca? DVD Beaver currently does this with a link to all the countries' Amazon sites where the Blu-ray or DVD is being released. I'd think Aint it cool has a pretty large International audience that could bring in some more $$$'s. No?
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Barnes and Noble are selling Criterion Collection DVD's (and i think blu-rays as well) for 50% off right now through 8/2/2009. I figured anyone here who didn't know would want to know. the sale applies to their online site as well.
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At least your not a prick about it, which is great! Honestly, I can't really tell why I like Joss Whedon stuff so much. It's just they feeling a get in a watch it. It's drama. it's funny, keeps you guessing. i guess i feel like sometimes I need to convince everyone how great i think his work is. it's not for everyone and it seems there is no middle either you love or you don't. they people who do like it REALLY like it.
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I'll probably get some of the other stuff that came out today eventually, but this I HAD to have.
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I think that you're right that you either love it or hate it. I used to watch Buffy every once in awhile and I remember some eps being really good, but I never really connected with it as a whole. I also, tried watching Firefly, mostly because of the hot escort chick and again I couldn't get into it. I can appreciate someone liking something so much that they want to share that with others. I'm not gonna bust on your personal tastes because they differ from mine, that is, unless your into Twilight, too. But, I have seen Whedonites get in some heated frenzies in past talkbacks.
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So they will be regular priced DVD's then. Who the hell buys and CD's or DVD's from B & N everything is so overpriced.
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Went by the local Best Buy at lunch to get Green Lantern and they already have My Cousin Vinny (BR) on the shelf (I got one of the Futurama movies a week early from them too). Looks like the only extras are a theatrical trailer and a commentary track. Couldn't even be bothered to come up with tributes to the late Lane Smith & Fred Gwynne I guess (though I think the extras were sparse on the DVD release as well).
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I subscribe to both Netflix and Blockbuster online. 9 times out of 10, new releases that have a "very long wait" on Netflix are "Available Now" on Blockbuster online (or whatever it's called.) Has anyone else noticed this? I used to love Netflix, but the past couple of years, they've gone down in quick availability of new releases (which is when I added the Blockbuster online service).
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Looking at that stupid cover makes me remember the movie. I don't like to remember the movie.
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Jul 28, 2009 8:02:28 PM CDT
Grindhouse: Theatrical Cut Available on Netflix Streaming!!!!
by henry fool
Just thought I'd let y'all know that the double feature, theatrical cut version of Grindhouse is available for viewing over Netflix Instant Streaming service.
It's not an HD quality stream but it's still looks all right. I'm watching it on XBOX Live on a 61" Samsung with 1080p resolution. The quality of the picture is a little blurry but not bad and its in letterbox format. The grainy style the film was shot it makes it watchable in this format.
I'm one of the few who saw this one in the theater and will always maintain that you haven't really seen this movie unless you get it in its double feature format. As far as I know, this is the first time its been available in original cut since its all too brief theatrical run.
I hope this means they're planning a Blue Ray release soon! -
I love you for telling me this.
To the Xbox cave! -
There was NO backstory to Jordan! He gets the ring within the first 5-6 minutes and then he's a galactic power ranger! I hope the live action version develops him as a character first! kinda like Batman Begins did for Bruce Wayne.
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GREAT show! Fun from start to finish.
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...is the only way you can get all the seasons in HD at this point, Harry. Only 4.5 is available by itself. The price tag isn't that bad either. $350 is only MSRP. Just go to DeepDiscount where it's currently priced at $201, use their 25% discount code and, boom, the whole set is yours for like $150. A good deal in my book.
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Everyone I know loves this fucking movie? Me. I can't stand the shit out of it.
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Dammit.
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Same. Kinda. I could see why this would be funny for lots of people, but to me, it was kinda just there. There were stabs against pretention, and rock-and-roll hubris, sure, but it was impacting just enough that you know it's stabbing away. It doesn't seem to be doing anything else. Maybe that approach is intended, being incredibly mannered and shit. But Monty Python does it that way, yet it always makes me bust my gut laughing. I will have to see this movie again.
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they play it all the time on STARZ and ENCORE channels..i DVRd the trailers...thats all i needed.WHITE MEAT DARK MEAT.
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Watched it last night and thought it was pretty good. I've never read the comics so I cannot comment on its "accuracy". My only complaint was it seemed a little rushed. I think the Sinestro story was too soon and really rushed the film. Otherwise, I thought it was a good film.
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and like everything everyone hates (i.e. that POS Bayformers)
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Thanks for the DeepDiscount tip. Just picked up the BluRay of BSG: the Complete Series and Dollhouse!!! Both for $180 with the promocode!!!!
/Now to actually do some work.
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I don't understand why anyone would pay good money to get it. I was an apologist all the way, and then they screw us at the end. Ron Moore had NO idea what he was doing. "It's all about the characters," my ass. Nothing you could do with a character could justify this abortion. To think he worked on The Next Generation. The jack-ass.
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It's a great time to be a fan of the Emerald Gladiator!
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To each their own I guess....
I thought the ending was rather fitting and heartbreaking. God had been a part of the series since the mini so it didn't seem like a "jump the shark" moment to me.
The existence of God and the existence of science don't have to be mutually exclusive ideas. The two can co-exist.
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Jul 29, 2009 2:46:11 PM CDT
Harry, watch the original unaired Dollhouse pilot first!
by barry_woodward
It's located on the last disc in the special features section. It's fantastic and sets up the world and rules of the Dollhouse much better than the aired pilot. Then you can start with the first disc.
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According to the digital bits, the "Face of the Enemy" webisodes (while not terribly important) aren't included in the box set, but will be available on disk later. Read: future box set. So people want to buy it should probably wait. Then again, before you buy it you should probably realize that this show's finale was basically "Goddidit", and ended with a montage of toy robots.
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Why do people watch that? I saw an episode, and it was so gay.
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Lemme tell you something,I have read very spider-man comic ever published, played every spider-man video game ever released, watched any spider-man film (live-action or animated) and watched all the animated series based on DC or marvel characters and I am telling you that Spectacular Spider-man is not only the best adaption of Marvel's flagship character outside of the comics (on par with "Spider-man 2") but is one of the best superhero shows in the history of TV.
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just couple of months ago, weird that it would get re-released now, anyway it's a pretty fun movie in a 1960's way, but also kind of boring
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I waited 5 fucking months to get Lakeview Terrace sent to my home when I could have just rented it from blockbuster the day of release.
Netflix has also become even less user friendly with their insistence on profiing their customers with recommendations, instead of having a logical setup to browse genres.
Their decision to eliminate entirely the "new releases this week" section that gave customers release dates is truly mindboggling.
Still, I don't expect Blockbuster to be around for too much longer so I won't sign up for their online rental plan. Going into a Blockbuster now is like going into a ghost town of suck. -
Jul 31, 2009 2:49:25 PM CDT
Did Harry mean to say "fucking naked" instead of "fucked naked"?
by banditdarville
Big difference between the two. I'd like to see Gretchen Mol get fucking naked and then get fucked. I do like fucking when I'm naked but I don't necessarily have to be fucking naked to have fucked.
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Granted the best episodes of BSG are awesome and better than the best episodes of Torchwood, Stargate, etc. But BSG has more boring episodes than any other sci fi series and those outweight the good episodes. Other Sci Fi series are not serialized so they follow a formula. this way, even if the episodes are boring it is still less boring than the episodes of BSG that were boring.
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I get the idea of the show runner and I am ok with it. God did it!, fine, the Gods are playing with humans like if we were inside the Greek Mythology, fine, etc, etc. But for me the BSG finale sucked because of the bad execution from film making perspective. Why if this is a series finale would you film scenes that look pointles (ie flash backs), slow, and boring. Why not make the last 3 hours to be intense and suspenful like the good episodes of BSG were (and also like, the best episodes of 24, Lost, etc). Granted, the people that are anti-religious would still cry foul to the idea of having religion somehow involved but they could not argue about the intensity of suspence of the finale. The way it ended up executed, it pissed off the anti-religious people and the people like me that wanted an intense episode that flows with action, acting, good music, good story, etc. Maybe they tinkered too much with the episodes in the editing room.
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was that there was never any explanation as to why Catherine was the way she was. Which of course made the movies way scarier (and perhaps frustrating to an average viewer who had to be like WTF?) They should have called it REPRESSION. (too obvious). I saw it years ago as a kid and even then i was blown away by Polanski. Somehow i don't think i'll see this as a rental at BB so i guess that's one more thing for me to buy. (damn you childhood!)
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not much with the character development with Hal Jordan, which means they may not do much with his development in the live action movie. Although it has such a great SF backdrop that i would think it would be hard to screw up (although this is Hollyweird so who knows?) I also had to laugh at the poster who said that BB was a ghost town. I hardly ever rent from them and the only reason i did the other night was to rent Green Lantern and Wonder Woman animated movies that i didn't see on the list of movies available at Red Box. (5.00 rentals at BB when you can usually get copies of most movies for like 10 bucks on Amazon. WTF?) Red Box is good although selection is limited and if you see scratches on the disc, guareentee yourself a frustrating night (although at only a buck a rental it's not much of a risk innit?)
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