There are some excellent DVDs coming out this week,
many of which were just barely edged out as the Pick
of the Week.
First, the genre releases:
- Farscape
–
Starburst Collection Season 2 Vol. 2: The repriced
rereleases
continue. - Kung
Fu
Hustle: I missed this the first time around, but
it looks like a
lot of fun. - The
Muppet
Show – Season One: It’s time to play the music.
It’s time to
light the lights. It’s time to get things started on
The Muppet
Show tonight! - Muppet
Wizard
of Oz: I caught a part of this on CBC not long
ago. Somewhat
amusing, though not up to previous standards set by
both the Muppets and by the Wizard of Oz. (If you
want The Wizard of Oz, wait for the releases
in October. More on that in a couple of months.) - Pet
Sematary: A Stephen King adaptation. - Roswell
– The
Complete Third Season: This finishes off the
collections of this
series. - Thundercats:
Season One, Volume One: The classic 1980s cartoon
comes to
DVD. Google around for the blooper real, if you’re old
enough to
handle foul language (ie. old enough to remember the
show) and you’ll
probably laugh your head off.
Now, the non-genre releases:
- The
Billy
Wilder Collection: “Sunset Boulevard,” “Stalag
17,” and “Sabrina”
are included here. - CSI –
The
Complete First Season: This appears to be a
repriced rerelease of
the first season. - CSI –
The
Complete Second Season: This appears to be a
repriced rerelease of
the second season. I’ve been following the series on
DVD only, and
I’m quite pleased with the first four seasons. - Columbo
– The
Complete Third Season: The first two seasons were
a lot of fun to
rewatch. I’m looking forward to this one. - McCloud
–
Seasons One and Two: This Dennis Weaver series was
aired along with
Columbo and… - MacMillan
and
Wife – Season One: … as a part of the ABC
Mystery Movie.
Columbo is still the superior entry in the series, as
far as I’m
concerned. - The
Naked Gun
DVD Gift Set: The three Naked Gun films in one
package. - Necessary
Roughness: Scott Bakula was in this football
flick. The first
time I saw it was with a football team who had just
been shut out of
the playoffs, and the response from that segment of
the audience
helped everyone enjoy it. Rewatching it later, it
didn’t hold up as
well, but it gets some things right that most of these
movies get
wrong. (For example, they manage a happy ending
without turning this
terrible underdog team into the team that wins the
championship.) - Pretty
In
Pink: One of many Molly Ringwald movies. - The
Virgin
Suicides: Probably just a rerelease, but the
movie’s good enough
that I felt I should point it out.
Finally, the pick of the week. Profit
– The Complete
Series: This was an incredible show. It was the
first time in my
life that I found a show that had no good guys, and
was just amazingly
written. It was also the first time that a show I
enjoyed was ripped
from the air when it was just getting started. All I
clearly remember
now is the cardboard box, and the relationship with
the stepmother. I
look forward to seeing the episodes that had been
unaired at the time
of cancellation. The show was co-created by David
Greenwalt, now best
known for his work on Angel.