This Week on DVD
December 1st, 2009by Andrew Robinson
So you want to know what comes out on DVD today? Okay:
Skip These
Terminator Salvation
I was not nice to this movie when I saw it in theatres (here’s my review) and recently I thought it best to give it a second shot. It did not fear well. Basically everything I said in my review still stands. Overacting from Bale doesn’t help the fact that the story was a complete mess. Fans of the Terminator franchise know that this ended when Cameron stopped directing the films.
I’ve Heard of them, Haven’t seen them and Don’t Give a Damn
Into the Storm
Here is another WWII story playing more on Winston Chruchill and how he inspired England during the time. I really have no interest in sitting through another BBC produced film that will only remind that the war was bad. Or at least not right now. I like Brendan Gleeson (especially ever since he was in In Bruges and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) but this just seems like a poor match in my mind.
Movies I Haven’t Seen but Want to
A Christmas Tale
I plan this month to do a Christmas Movie Marathon (that I will call The Yule Tide Marathon) and this is the perfect opportunity to watch this movie that my friend Damion mentioned in good favour on the podcast recently. It’s being released as a Criterion Collection (which tends to say something about the quality of the movie) and I will definitely be talking more about this movie later in the month.
Check these Out (ie. Rent)
Night at the Museum: Battle at the Smithsonian
Here is a fun family film that I enjoyed thoroughly earlier this year. Yes it’s a poor man’s version of films like The Mummy and Indiana Jones more or less but that doesn’t make it any less fun. Ben Stiller can’t help but make me laugh here alongside Amy Adams in a story of how a museum of historical characters come to life in the middle of the night. (Here’s my review)
Paper Heart
Here’s a movie that I recently saw and even though I know it isn’t earth shattering it is a nice sweet film. It’s a documentary about Charlyne Yi searching for what love is, since she doesn’t believe in it. While making the movie she meets Michael Cera and she falls in love. I personally think that the Cera, Yi and Jasenovec parts are either scripted or improvised but the movie still ended up being enjoyable. I particularly liked that for those people that Charlyne did interview, whenever they told certain stories about their love there would be this dramatization of the story with these paper dolls which was ultra cute and pretty funny at times.
Here are some movies being rereleased on BluRay for HD fans
I’m just letting the already fans of the new generation of home theatre and the movies about to be mentioned. Personally all of these movies are either buys or rentals because they are all either movies that have a reputation to go along with them but I may not have seen all of them. So this week on BluRay is:
The Green Mile
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Gremlins
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December 1st, 2009 at 11:17 am
Ah I love these sort of posts, always get a chance at one last jab at the real duds
. Into the Storm as a film was very mediocre, very narritively disjoint, hopping from one event to the next barely keeping it together. Though I do have to say, I enjoyed Gleeson in it, he’s the only real highlight.
I’m not sure Salvation could have had more yelling and “grrr I’m tough” attitude without it just being a film looking at testosterone. Of course with Lock Stock, Snatch, and Green Mile coming out, I may have to get Blu-Ray one of these days after all
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