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Well on sunday I went and saw City of Ember with my bro (and his GF). Simply put, it’s a pretty good movie. To be true, there are parts that drag on a little bit, and you never really get answers to some questions that pop up. Really though, the movie does have a set focus and keeps to it admirably more than most movies in recent memory).
If you haven’t heard what it’s all about, City of Ember is about–naturally enough–Ember, a city that was built underground to save humanity from a never expounded terrible fate. A box was passed down from one governor to the next, eventually getting lost and forgotten. 200 years later the box pops open and the adventure begins. The box contains the way out of Ember, So our intrepid youth find the map and go from there.
Anywho, see it.
So quite a few things are coming out soonish, and me being me, I pre-ordered them, almost all on amazon. For shame, I’m weak, I know.
So without further ado my voyeurs, here’s where I’ve been spending my monies as of late:
Firefly (Bluray) – Sweet mother of Murgatroyd! Yes, we finally get a High-Def release of one of my all-time-favorite shows! I already have the show on DVD, but it’s a show that deserves to be owned in any format that it comes out on. I only wish I actually watched more TV when it was on, then Fox might not have canned it… Oh and if you haven’t seen the movie for it, Serenity (DVD, HDDVD), you should.
Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles – The Complete First Season (DVD, Bluray), I’ve been meaning to get my post up about this. If you haven’t seen this yet, do yourself a favor and get it any way you can (eg iTunes, Unboxed, the upcoming DVD/Bluray releases, bittorrent). And of course, it’s got Summer Glau from Firefly.
Stargate Atlantis Season 4 (DVD) – The latest season of Stargate Atlantis, including the the wonderful Jewel Staite from Firefly. If you like Stargate SG1, you’d like Atlantis, but you probably already knew that…
National Treasure 1&2 (Bluray) – And finally we have the National Treasure movies now on Bluray in High-Def. Honestly, you should have seen these movies by now, they’re good flicks, kinda “Who can get to the goods first” movies. I love ‘em both.
Witchblade – The Complete Series (DVD) – Finally they (TNT) realize that people want to see Witchblade again. It was awesome, and I can’t wait to sit down and watch it straight through when it ships. If you don’t know anything about Witchblade, check the Wikipedia pages for the comic and the TV show.
With the 2.0 (“Take 2″) update to the AppleTV you can now rent HD movies directly from your TV (admittedly I could already do this with my Xbox 360 but have not yet done so). So for my first rental I went with Live Free or Die Hard.
Die Hard 4.0 as it’s known in the rest of the world, is the story of a new-age terrorist attack and John McClane must stop it. Basically since everything’s done by computer now, the terrorist try to take everything (utilities, all communications) down and hold the country ransom, and it’s up to John to stop it. Overall the movie was great, 4/5.
So my brother and I went and saw the new Resident Evil movie today, and I have to say it wasn’t bad. For starters as any good sequel it builds off its predecessors nicely. Still following Alice (Milla Jovovich), we now see how royally frakked over the Umbrella Corporation has made the world. Basically think of how the world is in Command & Conquer, except where there’d be Tiberium in C&C there are zombies in RE. Extinction continues the trend of bringing actual characters from the game over into the movies, this time with Claire Redfield (Ali Larter). Also in keeping with the backwards order established in the second film, the main bad guy ends up being the boss from the second game. Go figure.
Anywho, go see it, it’s actually well put together (though they seem to have dropped almost all of the horror elements), and at least if you’ve seen the other ones you’ll probably enjoy this one.
Ahem, the executive summary to Stardust (with possible spoilers:
Stardust is about a guy named Tristan who goes after a shooting star to prove his love to a girl, and ends up finding his true love — which just happens to be the star that fell from the skies.
But the movie is so much more than just that simple premise, Easily the closest movie comparison would be to A Princess Bride, and that can only be a good thing. Of course nowadays movies have all the crazy cool CGI, and in that respect not only does Stardust not disappoint, but does not go overboard as well. After I got home I actually went on amazon and ordered the book of it (the fully illustrated version).
Anywho, go see it, I’ve babbled enough about the movie now. Go see it, again, a few times.
W00t! My copy of 300 on HD DVD came today, this made me very happy after a long day of work. So I watched it tonight of course, and it’s still as frakking awesome as it was in theaters, granted on a smaller screen. So go get it now if you have an HD DVD player, or go get the regular DVD version (or even [shudder] Blu Ray).
As for the special features, I’ve only gotten a chance to look at some of the videos in the special features, haven’t watched the PIP yet, but will definitely soon.
OMFG! I’ll just start by saying that. I just got back from seeing the movie and immediately want to go see it again. It’s great to see (almost) all of your favorite Autobots and Decepticons on screen and kicking each others asses. Simply put you must go see this movie! Screw whatever negative reviews you might have read, because honestly after seeing the movie the only negative I have about it is the annoying the schizoid (frenzy). So yeah, that’s about all I can think of at the moment. 4.5 out of 5, if not a full 5/5.
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Well, I finally got my HD-DVD copy of Children of Men even though I hadn’t seen the movie yet. I have to say though that after watching it just two words pop to mind: Holy Shit. And I mean that in a good way.
Mini synopsis for those in the dark about the movie: Children of Men is set about 20 years in the future where mankind has lost the ability to have children, and shows the world in a collapse. The story revolves around Theo (played by Clive Owen) and his trials getting the miraculously pregnant Kee to the Human Project so they can try and save humanity.
In all the commercials they quote someone’s review stating that this movie “is this generations Blade Runner“, and after watching it I can see why in a way it is.
Another thing that gets mentioned a lot is the fact that they use a lot of long cuts (really long), to tell the story. I for one think it’s awesome and works so well to give a sense of immediacy to the film that other films are missing. It’s lovely, at first when you’re watching it you might not notice the fact that there aren’t any cuts, but you do notice it doesn’t quite feel like other films, and then it dawns on you that they haven’t cut away yet.
Having only watched the HD-DVD side of the disc I have to say the movie looks awesome, and even though it’s set in the future, it’s not the distant future where we’re all flying around in hover cars and jet suits. Instead it’s more of a present day setting all blown out from terrorism, bombings, wars, etc, etc.
All of that said, there’s just one simple thing you need to do: go buy it now!
So my brother and I went and saw the 300 on sunday, along with everyone else apparently. One thing is for certain though, “300″ is frakking good. One might expect that with all the cgi in the movie that it micht be, too unbelievable, but it all just works and the whole thing is well written. Anywho, I haven’t been one for a lot of words lately. After all I can’t go about all articulate and such, ‘cuz you know that’d be cool and all.
Anyways, just go see the movie already!
Well I finally saw, A Scanner Darkly, ane in a word I have to say trippy. The way they rotoscoped the entire movie instantly gives the films makers loads of options and really makes it so you can get the full effect of the story. If you haven’t heard the story before, basically it follows the story of a guy named Archer who works as an undercover drug cop. As the story unfolds he gets deeper and deeper and goes about taking all the drugs, and (spoilers) in the end he succumbs to them. In the end it is a pretty good movie. But as far as a rating goes, I’d say like a 3.75, not quite a 4.
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