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New on DVD: Catch-Up Reviews

Started by Jandy · 11 months ago

All of these films were released on DVD in the past few months. However, just because a film was just released on DVD doesn’t mean I’ll review it as a New DVD if it also fits in some other category. Some of the films I watched that came on DVD in March or April I’ve […]




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  • Becky Meyers

    11 months ago

    hated michael clayton, haven't seen of the others on here. i wanna see lars and the real girl, heard it was awesome. and now i kinda wannna see shoot em up, you made it sound abosultely HILARIOUS in its stupidity.... glad your back online :D
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  • Jandy

    11 months ago

    What did you hate about Michael Clayton?

    I'm not sure you'd actually like Lars and the Real Girl that much. It's not at all what the advertising made it out to be - it's far less funny and more slow. On the other hand, Shoot 'Em Up IS hilarious in its stupidity, and it was worth it for that.
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  • Becky Meyers

    11 months ago

    never mind, i have seen i am legend, and i liked it ok...will smith is HOT!!
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  • markhorne

    11 months ago

    I am legend: u r so wrong. It sustains the theodicy from beginning to end. The screaming ending is deliberate. The woman is wise but claims we can hear God's voice in the silence. Yet Will (or whatever the character's name is; I never remember) finally hears God's plan in the Hellish basement and responds to the call.

    The real horror of the "zombies" was that they were entirely intelligent and loving. Will never ever realizes this part, and it give an ultra tragic flavor to it. He says the zombies are stripped of humanity because one almost came into the sunlight when he took the woman, never even considering the humanity involved in risking self destruction for another person/creature/mutant/whatever. And then later we see them not only capable of setting traps, but having domesticated monster dogs which are supposedly purely hostile.

    It really bothered me that this latter stuff was only observed by us the audience and never by any characters. But the ending fulfills the beginning of the movie, especially the graffiti we see early on in the contemplative dead city: "God still loves us."

    But enough of this: where's the review of Dr. Horrible? Why do you even have a blog?
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  • Jandy

    11 months ago

    You could be right - I started to lose interest once the creatures attacked the house.

    I'm not sure I could go so far as to say "entirely intelligent and loving." I will agree with you against Neville, though, about the creature who came into the sunlight - when he claimed that showed the creatures were falling even further into degeneracy, I was like, "uh, what? It shows they still have the ability to care about each other enough to risk their own safety when one's in danger!" Do you think they had some intentional agenda to wipe out humanity? To what purpose? Or is it merely retaliation, in a Cylon/human sort of way?

    I watched the first two and half episodes of Dr. Horrible, but the third one was pulled off hulu before I got back to finish it. :( So I haven't seen the ending, which I have heard mentioned a lot but have not been spoiled for. The parts I've seen so far? Love.
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  • markhorne

    11 months ago

    I hope you took my 'tude as tongue in cheek. But they were cooperating, domesticating animals, etc, and Neville was totally blind to it.

    But what it meant regarding agenda, etc, I have no idea. It really frustrated me because I felt like another story was present.

    I'll be looking forward to your review when you see the last episode. I won't say more.
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