This is not a great week.
First, the DVD releases:
- 30 Days of Night
- B.L. Stryker – The Complete First Season
- Beowulf (Unrated Director’s Cut)
- Black Blood Brothers, Chapter 1 – Bad Tidings
- The Color Honymooners Collection 2
- Dark Shadows: The Beginning No. 3 (Episodes 71-105)
- Day Zero
- Extras – The Extra Special Series Finale: This was a great show.
- Family Affair Season 5
- The Fugitive – Season One, Vol. Two
- Galaxy Railways Box Set
- Ghost Hunters: Season 3 – Part 2
- Highlander: The Source
- Hotel Babylon – Season 1
- Invisible Man: The Complete Series
- Justice League – The New Frontier (Single Disc Edition): I ordered the Blu-Ray version, which will probably become the first comic adaptation I’ve ever reviewed here where I hadn’t already read the source material.
- Justice League – The New Frontier (Two Disc Special Edition)
- The Last Emperor – Criterion Collection
- Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains The Same
- Michel: Complete Collection
- Newhart – The Complete First Season: This show had a great series finale, but I’m not sure it’s worth buying everything that came before that just to own it.
- NFL Super Bowl XLII – New York Giants Championship DVD
- Punky Brewster: Season Four: This was also the final season.
- The Red Green Show – 1999 Season
- Riptide (The Complete Third and Final Season)
- Scholastic Treasury of 100 Storybook Classics
- The Smurfs: Season One, Vol. One
- To Kill A King
Now, the Blu-Ray releases:
The HD DVD releases are as follows:
Finally, the pick of the week. As most of you know, I don’t pick things I haven’t seen, which means it would be a choice between “Red Green,” “Riptide,” and “The Smurfs.” Based on the quality of their predecessors, I strongly suspect that “Justice League – The New Frontier” and “Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale” would both be better than those. Next week has some nice titles, too.
Highlander: The Source
Apparently this was a made-for-TV release. Anyone seen it?
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Canadian Culture, eh?
Red Green was also a hit among NASA astronauts.
Re: Highlander: The Source
I was unimpressed (and, sadly, not surprised by that). I even read somewhere that when they were making it, they intended it to be a theatrical release, and changed to tv late in the process. Good thing, as they’d have made no money in theaters.
Lots of things grated on me, here’s the list, spoiler’d (though I don’t know why): The fight scenes were too-obviously sped up on film; the bad guy had the perfect defense for saving his head, but only needed it in his first fight; MacLeod was bitter, angry and disinterested; Methos seemed out of character the whole time (though they sort of justified it in his last scene); Joe died; and they contradicted the series again with MacLeod being married. That enough?
-cb
Re: Highlander: The Source
Thanks.