We’ve got some libraries titles this week before next week’s doorcrashers.
First, the DVD picks:
- The Accidental Husband
- American Virgin: It says a lot about Rob Schneider’s career that his movies are being released by the Platinum Disc corporation now.
- Ballast
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold Vol. 2
- The Break Up Artist
- The Christmas Clause
- A Christmas Proposal
- The Classic Sherlock Holmes Collection
- Dawson’s Creek: The Complete Series
- Desciples of Shaolin: Shaw Brothers film.
- The Divine Weapon: Korean Wuxia Film
- Dragon Ball Season 2
- The Echo
- Flight of the Conchords: Complete First and Second Seasons: Includes a music CD.
- G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Complete Series Collection
- Giant Robo: The Animation – Complete: Alex: Series brick of the 7 episode OVA from 1992-1998 an adaptation of the 1960s manga.
- Heartland, Season 1 Part 2
- JAG Season Nine
- Justice League: Complete Series: With 15 discs, this’ll also include Justice League Unlimited.
- Keeping Up With The Kardashians: Complete Second Season
- The Line
- Lyrical Nanoha Veridian Collection: A re-release of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha at a lower price point.
- Mamma Mia! The Movie – Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! DVD Gift Set Version
- Naruto Shippuden The Movie: Alex: A side-story, not a compilation movie. (They don’t start making those until the series actually ends.)
- Nash Bridges: The Third Season
- The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Complete Second Season
- Special A Collection 1: Romantic comedy anime set in High School.
- Spongebob Squarepants: Truth or Square
- Spread
- Star Wreck: A Finnish Star Trek spoof
- The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 7: 1952-1954
- TNA No Surrender 2009
- Touched by an Angel: Inspirational Collection – Holiday
- Touched by an Angel: Inspirational Collection – Hope
- Tsubasa: Resevoir Chronicle Season 1: Alex: The first season of the anime adaptation of the manga I’ve started reviewing.
- UFC: The Ultimate 100 Greatest Fights
- The Ugly Truth
- The Untouchables: Season Three, Volume 2
- Up: Single disc edition
- Up: Two Disc Deluxe Edition with digital copy
- Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut: Blaine: Running time of this 5 disc set: 576 minutes
- World Series Official Film Collection
- Zebraman – Special Edition: A Tokusatsu (Japanese Superhero) film from Takeshi Miike.
Now, the Blu-Ray picks:
- Amelie: Blaine: One of the greatest movies ever in any genre.
- Ballast
- Echo
- The Faculty
- The General: Blaine: One of my all time favorite comedies.
- Godzilla: Blaine: This is the 1996 version, not the good version.
- Hard Candy
- Heat
- The Line
- Logan’s Run
- Mamma Mia! The Movie – Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! More Gift Set
- Mimic
- Monsters, Inc.
- The Motorcycle Diaries
- Near Dark
- The Negotiator
- The Piano
- Red Heat
- Rules of Attraction
- Scream: Blaine: The listed cast includes David Arquette, Drew Barrymore and Courteney Cox Arquette, so I’m betting the listed rating (X) is wrong, particularly since the X rating was retired before this movie was even made. (NOTE: I’ve submitted the information to Amazon, so it may change by the time you view it.)
- Shifty
- Spread
- The Ugly Truth
- Up: A four disc combination Blu-Ray/DVD edition
- Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut: Blaine: This has a listed runtime of 251 minutes, which I consider further evidence that the runtime on the DVD set includes bonus features.
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “This is a good week if you’ve got Blu-Ray. Since I haven’t seen the Ultimate Cut of Watchmen yet, I can’t pick that. However, I can pick Heat. Nothing in standard definition catches my attention, aside from Lyrical Nanoha, if you don’t have it already.” Blaine says, “Blu-Ray is the way to go this week. Amelie and The General are both must haves as far as I’m concerned. The Justice League collection is also well done if you’re looking for standard definition.”
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What’s different about the ‘Ultimate Cut’?
I believe it’s a studio cut. The shortest cut was for theatrical release, then the director’s cut added more footage. I think the Ultimate Cut includes even more footage to produce another release for the Christmas season, despite the fact that both the director and editor felt the movie was stronger without that footage in the first place.
“This version weaves Tales of the Black Freighter into the Watchmen Director’s Cut film.”
Sounds like the closest you’ll get to translating the graphic novel directly to film, minus the squid. What I want to know is: are they just intercut, or does it include scenes with the news vendor and kid to explain why it’s there?