There are a handful of nice releases this week, including the first of the fall TV season releases.
First, the DVD releases:
- The Adventures Of Robin Hood
- Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers Collection Vol. 2
- Beatles: Turn Left at Greenland
- Black Lagoon: Season 1, Vol. 1
- Black Lagoon: Season 1, Vol. 1 – Limited Edition: The limited edition of season 1, volume 2 came out on July 15, it seems. Odd.
- Black Lagoon: Season 1, Vol. 2
- Black Lagoon: Season 1, Vol. 3
- Black Lagoon: Season 1, Vol. 3 – Limited Edition
- Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage, Vol. 1
- Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage, Vol. 1 – Limited Edition
- Bleach Uncut Season 2 Box Set
- Bleach Uncut Box Set 2 with Limited Collector’s Figurine
- Bloody Nightmares 100 Movie Pack: As with most of these Mill Creek releases, Amazon hasn’t been given a content list. There’s usually a list posted by a buyer a few days after it starts to ship.
- Boris Karloff Collectin 20 Movie Pack: As with most of these Mill Creek releases, Amazon hasn’t been given a content list. There’s usually a list posted by a buyer a few days after it starts to ship.
- Camp Rock (Extended Rock Star Edition)
- Catacomb of Creepshows 50 Movie Pack: As with most of these Mill Creek releases, Amazon hasn’t been given a content list. There’s usually a list posted by a buyer a few days after it starts to ship.
- Dana Carvey: Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies
- Deal
- Dexter – The Complete Second Season
- Elemental Gelade: Starter Set (includes React v.1)
- The Fletch Collection: Includes “Fletch” and “Fletch Lives,” the only Chevy Chase movies I’ve actually thought about buying.
- Galaxy Angel AA: Anime Legends Complete Collection
- George Of The Jungle: Swinging First Season
- Gossip Girl – The Complete First Season
- Gun Crazy Double Feature: Includes “Requiem For A Bodyguard” and “Traitor’s Rhapsody.”
- Gundam Seed Destiny: TV Movie 2
- House, M.D. – Season Four: This is a show I’m following on DVD, so I haven’t seen this season yet. Still, I really like what I have seen of the earlier seasons. Archie Bunker used to get away with being the rudest character on television because he was invariably wrong. Gregory House gets away with being the rudest character on television because he’s invariably right. (At least, he’s right when he’s being rude.)
- Legends of Horror 50 Movie Pack: As with most of these Mill Creek releases, Amazon hasn’t been given a content list. There’s usually a list posted by a buyer a few days after it starts to ship.
- The Life Before Her Eyes
- Love and a .45
- Marco Ferreri: The Collection: Includes “La Grande Bouffe,” “El Cochecito,” “The Seed of Man,” “Don’t Touch the White Woman,” “Bye Bye Monkey,” “Seeking Asylum,” “Tales of Ordinary Madness” and “The House of Smiles.”
- Married… with Children: The Complete Ninth Season
- Masters of Darkness 100 Movie Pack: As with most of these Mill Creek releases, Amazon hasn’t been given a content list. There’s usually a list posted by a buyer a few days after it starts to ship.
- Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day
- Mortuary of Madness 50 Movie Pack: As with most of these Mill Creek releases, Amazon hasn’t been given a content list. There’s usually a list posted by a buyer a few days after it starts to ship.
- Never Love A Stranger
- Nixon
- Overman King Gainer: Anime Legends Complete Collection
- Perry Mason: Season 3, Vol. 1: Oddly enough, the song my iTunes is randomly playing as I type this is “Perry Mason” by Ozzy Osbourne. Just a weird coincidence that has nothing to do with this release, but I thought I’d share, given that’ll likely never happen again.
- Pretear, Vol. 2: Complete Collection
- Prom Night (Unrated)
- The Proposition
- Rumbling Hearts: Box Set
- Rune Soldier, Vol. 2: Complete Collection
- The Scorpion King 2: A direct to video prequel that doesn’t have the star of the first one. Gee, that’s a good sign.
- The Scorpion King Warrior Pack: The theatrical and direct to video releases.
- Street Kings
- Tales of Blood 20 Movie Pack: As with most of these Mill Creek releases, Amazon hasn’t been given a content list. There’s usually a list posted by a buyer a few days after it starts to ship.
- Tales of Horror 100 Movie Pack: As with most of these Mill Creek releases, Amazon hasn’t been given a content list. There’s usually a list posted by a buyer a few days after it starts to ship.
- Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles – The Complete First Season
- Tide-Line Blue: Anime Legends Complete Collection
- Transformers Animated: Season One
- Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Vol. 7 – The Dangerous Pursuit
- Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Vol. 7 (Starter Set)
- Twenty-Four Eyes – Criterion Collection
- Wayside School: Season One
- The Wizard of Gore: Crispin Glover and the Suicide Girls.
Now, the Blu-Ray releases:
- Camp Rock: Extended Rock Star Edition
- The Life Before Her Eyes
- Lust, Caution
- Justice League: Season One
- Monster
- Nixon
- Prom Night (Unrated)
- The Proposition
- The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior
- Street Kings
- Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles – The Complete First Season
Finally, the pick of the week. If you’ve got Blu-Ray capability, grab Justice League: Season One. If not, go with House, M.D. – Season Four instead.
House
In the two or three episodes of House that I’ve seen, he’s actually more wrong than right. He’s absolutely sure about his snap diagnosis, then he finds out some proof that it can’t be that, and makes another snap diagnosis that he’s equally confident on. He just somehow manages to guess the right diagnosis by the end of the episode — and is then utterly cocky about it, as if he’d been right all along.
The episode that bugged me the most (not sure which season it was) was when he was so sure he knew what was going on, that when the patient wasn’t displaying the right symptoms for his diagnosis, he helped her fake them… then realized what was actually wrong with her and swooped in with the right answer, just before the disastrous treatment for the symptoms he faked kills her.
And somehow they keep him on the team. Instead of throwing him in jail.
Sorry, rant over. I know a lot of people like this show, and maybe I’m missing something because I haven’t been watching long enough. But it just bugs me.
(Now, if they played the show as a doctor who’d made a deal with the devil that he would always get the right diagnosis, and the devil slipped an "eventually" into the contract, that could make for a very interesting premise indeed.)
Re: House
Generally, the rudeness comes when he’s in the clinic or otherwise commenting on a patient’s personal life. His diagnoses are wrong often enough to try different treatments through the course of an episode, but when a patient comes in because she’s coughing up phlegm that’s "pale goldenrod" in colour and he tells her she’s about to get fired, he’s right.
Sarah Connor Chronicles
I’ve only seen the very first episode. Is the series any good?
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Re: Sarah Connor Chronicles
It’s interesting enough, but it feels like it’s venturing far off canon, at least from the movies.
Re: Sarah Connor Chronicles
Of course that’s the fun in a universe involving time travel. Nothing can really be considered off canon, as they could go back and change anything they want, really. Just about anything could be explained by someone else going back in time and changing some miniscule (or major) detail.
As a wise man once said… "I hate temporal mechanics!" ;-)
Re: Sarah Connor Chronicles
My wife and I rather enjoyed the first season. It’s fairly good, action-wise, and gives a different take on certain aspects of the timeline.
Plus, any reason to watch Summer Glau kick butt is a good one. ;-)
Re: Sarah Connor Chronicles
Too bad I can’t post this inline, since it definitely fits: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/action_movies.png
DVDs of Future Past
Erm, shouldn’t that be August 19th?
Re: DVDs of Future Past
Yes, it should, and is now corrected. The list for the last week of August is a bit more interesting, for "Heroes" alone.
Re: DVDs of Future Past
Great heads up! Just placed a hold on Heroes Season 2, at the Denver Public Library, and I’m #164 in the list. Waiting that extra week would’ve probably moved me much further back in the queue.
Haven’t rented a DVD in years–DPL gets all the new releases in mass quantities. But I have to be willing to wait for them to become available.
Black Lagoon – The Second Barrage
About damn time. I was almost finished with season 1 (the current DVD release is by Funimation – the original release was by Geneon, which has since bit the dust, which is why it shows as having been released twice) and was waiting for season 2 to come out.
This is a very good show by the way, though not genre – which is why I doubt you’ll see me review it for here once I get back to writing some anime reviews again (and I will get around to doing this once I finally get my hands on Slayers Try).