Another week, another round of DVDs. Nothing to write home about, though.
First, the genre releases:
- Cartoon Classic Favourites Vol. 10 – Best Pals – Mickey and Minnie: I have most (all?) of these in the Walt Disney Treasures already.
- Cartoon Classic Favourites Vol. 11 – Best Pals – Donald and Daisy: For those not collecting the Treasures series.
- Cartoon Classic Favourites Vol. 12 – Best Pals – Mickey and Pluto: Another collection in the series.
- The Dark: It’s got an interesting cast, even if it doesn’t have the best reviews.
- Escaflowne: Anime Legends Complete Collection: Another well regarded anime I haven’t seen. There are way too many of those.
- Farscape – Season Three, Collection Three (Starburst Edition): I’m still waiting for the Starburst box sets.
- Leprachaun / Leprachaun 2: This double feature stars Jennifer Aniston and Warwick Davis.
- Mission: Impossible (Special Collector’s Edition): This wasn’t a bad movie, though it’s not really what I think of when I think of Mission: Impossible. (For me, MI is about a team of very mortal experts who work as a team to do the impossible. This is about Tom Cruise kicking ass with just a bit of help.)
- Mission: Impossible 2 (Special Collector’s Edition): This one didn’t impress me at all. This wasn’t about a team at all.
- Mission: Impossible box set: If you plan to get both, this is the way to do it.
Now, the non-genre releases:
- Bob Newhart – The Complete Third Season:
- Deep Blue: A documentary on sea life.
- Fun with Dick and Jane: Tea Leoni’s presence isn’t enough to get me to watch this Jim Carrey flick.
- Grad Night: Coolio stars in this movie about graduating from an urban high school.
- The Greatest Game Ever Played: I can’t say I’m all that interested in a golf movie.
- In Living Color – Season Five: Jim Carrey’s in this one, too.
- Laugh or I’ll Shoot! Collection: Includes The Naked Gun, Top Secret, and Airplane!.
- Laurel and Hardy Giftset: Two of the earliest screen comedians together.
- The Newsroom – Complete Third Season: This is a hilarious show.
- The Red Show Diaries – The Movie: A well reviewed title I’ve never seen.
Finally, the pick of the week. I’d have to go with the Laugh or I’ll Shoot! Collection. There’s something to be said for classic idiot humour.
MI:2
Mission:Impossible 2 was the most fun I’ve had in a movie thatre.
Yeah, that’s saying a lot. It was a combination of things, not the least of which was that I turned my brain off when I walked in. I also had the perfect seat, the screen was huge and the sound system was fabulous. You know that really really dumb motorcycle scene where Tom Cruise and the other guy jump off their bikles and hit each other? Everyone in the theatre just went "WHOA!" It was pretty cool. Yeah, in real life they’d both die horribly, but still. John Woo knows how to do action. Plot, not so much, but action? Oh yeah.
The first one pissed me off because they made Phelps the bad guy which is just. plain. wrong. True, the second one wasn’t so much a ‘team’ thing, but it was a John Woo movie and, as such, it is a fantastic action movie. I’d buy it if I didn’t already have a Good Enough version (5.1 sound and widescreen is all I demand).
Now, as for Red Shoe Diaries.
About… 11 years ago I was dating this girl who had a friend who raved about this new show, "The X-Files". Using my crazy computer skills I found other movies that one David Duchovny was in (this was pre-imdb) and came up with Red Shoe Diaries.
So later that night myself, my girlfriend, her friend and about three other girls go to a video store and rent Red Shoe Diaries.
The clerk gave me a weird smirky look which, at the time, I assumed was a Canadian thing.
This movie is not very much above being softporn. So basically I walked into a video store with five girls who were barely out of being teenagers and rented softporn.
There are only two reasons to watch this movie. The first is, of course, nudity. The second is that David Duchovny is such a terrible actor that at some points it’s hillarious.
Red Shoe Diaries
There’s a typo in the list: it’s Red Shoe Diaries, not Red Show Diaries.
And if I recall correctly, Red Shoe Diaries (the series) is basically soft-core porn. So I’m assuming the movie is more of the same.
Re: Red Shoe Diaries
No, it’s less of the same.
It’s just a bad movie, but it has this one Duchovny line that’s just so bad, it’s almost worth watching the movie for.
But not quite.
Re: Red Shoe Diaries
So what’s the line?
Re: Red Shoe Diaries
Spoilered:
He’s engaged to this girl and he’s meeting her mom for the first time, and is left alone with the mom. The mom goes "Are you a good lover?" or something, and he goes, in classic unemotional stony Duchovny-style acting:
"Why don’t you close the door and find out."