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Category: TV DVDs (Page 48 of 54)
Anyone who’s picked up Season 10 of “M*A*S*H” – and, really, you’d have to be a huge fan or an utter completist, because the later years of the show were nothing compared to the first five or six seasons – saw this little card in their set:
Awesome! Buy all 11 seasons, then find yourself 20th Century Fucked when an all-seasons-included collection comes out with exclusive bonus material that isn’t on any of the other sets…which, as Joss Whedon fans may recall, is exactly what they did with “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
I swear to God, these companies can’t even pretend to be out for anything other than a buck anymore…
“Japon”
Carlos Reygadas’ directorial debut is an incredibly lackluster tale about one man’s journey to the Mexican countryside as he prepares for his imminent death. Why it’s called “Japon” (“Japan” in English) is beyond me (I didn’t get that far), but whatever the reason, it hardly justifies making the audience watch the unceremonious death of an innocent pigeon. Next!
“Battle in Heaven”
Oh god, not another film by Carlos Reygadas! A quick note to the director: watching a fat Mexican couple have sex isn’t art, it’s disgusting. Further more, “Battle in Heaven” is filled with so much dead time that you’re bound to fall asleep and miss the one redeeming thing about the film: sexy newcomer Anapola Mushkadiz. I can’t seem to understand why Reygadas’ films have been treated so gloriously by the critics. They’re amateurish at best, and quite frankly, not worth all the commotion.
“Plan B”
What the hell is Diane Keaton doing in a low-budget mobster comedy? Was her career on that bad of a downswing at the turn of the millennium? If so, isn’t this what good agents are supposed to keep talented clients away from? And if my rhetorical questions aren’t convincing enough, how about this little tidbit of information: the film was shot five years ago and has been sitting in the Warner Brothers vaults the entire time. They’ve finally released it on DVD, but I doubt anybody is dumb enough to buy a movie where Paul Sorvino is the second biggest lead.
“The Nanny: The Complete Second Season”
Let me be quite clear when I say that I’d rather eat a bucket of nails than watch a single episode of “The Nanny” ever again. Fran Drescher drove me crazy enough in the 90s, and the simple fact that her series ran for six seasons (when shows like “Arrested Development” only get three) makes me want to throw up. That being said, not even my DVD player would accept any of the three discs from the second season release, perhaps because it’s worried that it may never work again. You heard me right. Even my DVD player is rejecting Fran Dresher. Now that’s good craftsmanship!
Admit it, guys: you’ve laughed at “The Golden Girls.”
You might not call it one of your favorite shows of all time, but we’ve checked with the folks at Nielsen, and they have documentation which clearly demonstrates that, whenever you’re at home alone, you’re flipping through the channels, and you find an episode on Lifetime – and lord knows it’s on all the damned time – you sometimes stop and watch.
Season 5 of “The Golden Girls” is being released on DVD on Tuesday, May 9th. Yeah, I know, if it’s on Lifetime constantly, why buy it? Well, unlike a lot of the bare-bones sets coming out nowadays, this one features several commentaries from the Girls themselves: Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, and Betty White. (Sadly, Estelle Getty has, for some years now, been suffering from Dementia with Lewy bodies, which is – God help her – reportedly like a cross between Parkinsons and Alzheimers.) Arthur and McClanahan have a tendency to drift into watching the show, laughing at what’s onscreen, and offering comments like, “We were a great bunch of gals,” but White’s commentaries are particularly interesting and full of trivia…like, for instance, how she was originally considered to play Blanche (McClanahan’s role) but that the producers felt it would be too much like her character Sue-Ann Nivens on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”
Ah, who am I kidding? You’re not going to buy it…but, y’know, Mother’s Day IS right around the corner. So if you buy it for your mom, I’m sure she won’t tell anyone if you borrow it…
Good news, everyone…!
In an interview with the Onion’s A.V. Club, Matt Groening – creator of “Life in Hell,” “The Simpsons,” and “Futurama” – reveals more details about the ongoing adventures of Fry, Leela, Bender.
“We’re going to do four of them, straight to DVD,” says Groening. “And as we speak, I’m exchanging e-mails and ideas with David X. Cohen and Ken Keeler, both of whom worked on the show from the very beginning. Right now, we’re trying to figure out whether to do a giant epic, or separate crazy movies, or what. But I wager that Bender will be featured prominently.”
Groening also talks about how there was once the very real possibility of a Krusty the Klown spin-off.
“I just thought the idea of a live-action Krusty the Clown show would be something Dan (Castellaneta) could go completely crazy with. And halfway through the pitch, Fox said, ‘Can it be a cartoon?’ So okay, we’ll make it a cartoon. And it just got bogged down in the kinds of mysterious machinations that often happen in Hollywood. Maybe someday we’ll do it. I don’t know.”
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