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DVD shuffle: 01/03/06 – New Year Edition

January 3, 2006 /

Ringing in the New Year on DVD this week:

1) Wedding Crashers – BUY: It’s been a long time since an R-rated comedy has done so well at the box office, and the unrated version (with an additional 8 minutes of footage) will surely be funnier, or at least raunchier.

2) Broken Flowers – RENT: Fans of director Jim Jarmusch will undoubtedly love his latest drama/comedy starring Bill Murray. Everybody else, however, will not.

3) The Cave – PASS: Do you really need a reason NOT to see this film? Okay… then click the link.

4) Dumb and Dumber: Unrated Edition – BUY: For those of you who still don’t own this movie need to run out and pick up this copy, but there’s not enough special features on the single-disc release to warrant replacing your older copy. A handful of alternated scenes and endings just isn’t a big enough selling point. Where are the commentary tracks by Carrey and Daniels?

Movie DVDs, Movies, Reviews

I need some exorcising myself

January 1, 2006 /

Yes, well, I got around to renting The Exorcism of Emily Rose from Netflix and watched it last night. What can I say? Not scary at all, but a decent amount of suspense, I suppose. It was certainly better than that horrid turd The Skeleton Key, which was neither scary nor suspenseful and yet another fine example of Kate Hudson wasting any remaining talent on pure crap.

Anyway, I noticed I had rented the “unrated” version of this flick and couldn’t figure out what the hell could have been in it that made it an unrated cut. It’s a pretty tame horror flick by any standards, and the special effects are pretty much all dished out in one minute of the movie. If you ever saw the trailer, you pretty much saw the “scary” parts and all their effects, in other words. My problem with the scares was that they relied too much on slamming doors and quick jump cuts to something loud that wasn’t scary. Cheap seat jumpers.

But the damn thing ran too long at 119 minutes, and being “based on” a true story, I could only feel that once again some serious shit used to go down in the ’70s (1976 was when the actual tale the film is based on took place). We need fresh exorcism stories, people. Fresh scares. Enough with mining old crap and rehashing even more of it into new remakes. The original Amityville Horror was lame enough. A new version wasn’t needed. I didn’t waste me time on that, thankfully.

I do think it would be good, however, if a really gory flick came out that wasn’t made by Rob Zombie that featured a soundtrack by Christopher Cross. Could you imagine how rockin’ that would be? Someone getting an axe to the chest and Cross bleating out a love song. Someone get the studios on the phone.

Horror Movies, Movie DVDs, Movies, Reviews

DVD shuffle: 12/27/05

December 27, 2005 /

Out on DVD this week:

1) Dark Water – RENT: Please, no more horror films imported from Japan! That being said, this psychological scarefest is actually pretty good. Then again, what more can you expect from a cast made up of Jennifer Connelly, John C. McGinley, and Tim Roth? To those who have seen “Aeon Flux,” don’t answer that.

2) Into the Blue – RENT: For as much as I hated this underwater treasure-hunter popcorn flick, you can’t deny watching the mesmerizing Jessica Alba in a skimpy bathing suit for 90 minutes.

3) The Shield: Season 4 – BUY: Perhaps the next best season of the series since it’s sophomore year, season four gets back to the good ‘ol days of Vic and the Strike Team taking down the baddies.

Also out this week is the direct-to-DVD movie “American Pie Presents: Band Camp,” a special edition of “Toy Story 2,” and Wong Kar-Wai’s latest, “2046.”

Movie DVDs, Movies, Reviews

“Serenity” is worth a look

December 22, 2005 /

I’ll admit, I was one of the few who watched “Firefly” when it was on, but I was lukewarm about the idea of the show moving to the big screen. How often does that happen, anyway? Cancelled shows just do not get made into movies. Hats off to creator Joss Whedon (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Angel”) and the show’s fans (called “browncoats”) for keeping the dream alive.

I just watched “Serenity” and it is a nice piece of sci-fi storytelling. For those that are worried about not having seen the TV show, stop…it really doesn’t matter. Whedon does a nice job of summarizing the situation and getting everyone up to speed. The bottom line is: if you like sci-fi, you’ll probably like this movie.

Action Movies, Movie DVDs, Movies, Reviews

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