DVD Day: January 13th, 2009 (Just the Dregs)
Posted at 11:49 AM Jan 13, 2009
Jesus. I thought I'd seen some bad DVD Days before, but when Reba: Season 5 is the second best-selling DVD release of the day, you know you're in for slim pickings. • Tokyo Gore Police
I don't know much about this movie, but I like the cover, and it has a "Very Long Wait" on Netflix. Here's the synopsis:
In the near future, the Tokyo Police Corporation is locked in a bloody war with the "engineers." These genetically modified super-criminals can bio-fuse their open wounds with weapons, turning self-mutilation into a combat form. Ruka, the daughter of the police chief's murdered right-hand man, is now the top engineer hunter. With cold-blooded efficiency she cuts through the psychotic engineers and tracks down their home base, a truly bizarre fetish club. Nothing keeps her from her sworn duty, even when she finds out the truth behind her father's death.I like how she's wearing stocking and leather books and a miniskirt and a tie. Didn't want to miss a fetish!
• Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Mamoru Oshii's beautiful and utterly passive/aggressive hate letter to audiences hits Blu-ray. Seriously, it's like 5 minutes of action, and two hours of Batou and Togusa reading from Bartlett's Book of Literary Quotations.
• Stargate: The Ark of Truth
In Blu-ray. I have nothing to say about this film, except I was under the impression Julian Sand died like a decade ago. Weird.
• Voltron Vol. 7
Part 2 of 3 of the Vehicle Voltron series. Yep.
• Supercop
Jackie Chan movies can be very good or very bad, but Supercop is definitely one of the good ones. Plus, it's put out by Dragon Dynasty, which is an excellent, excellent series--I hope to god they get around to releasing John Woo's The Killer like they did with Hard Boiled. Daddy needs to see Chow Yun-Fat in anamorphic widescreen, please!
Comments
Tokyo Gore Police looks so awesome.
Posted 01/13/2009 at 10:27:19 AMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFKP9lB_F7s
GITS 2 Blu Ray already on preorder.
ALSO, Tokyo Gore Police, DO WANT
Posted 01/13/2009 at 10:52:40 AMIf you can find it, I highly recommend watching the Tokyo Gore Police trailer. It looks so fantastic.
Posted 01/13/2009 at 01:03:05 PMGitS2. Oh goody. My world may continue to spi- NO! It's shit! It was impenetrable nonsense and a pathetic retread of one of the original stories from the manga! Why in Gods' name are they bothering to put it on Blu-Ray? You couldn't GIVE me that movie.
Well, maybe if it was packaged with every other animated chapter in the GitS stories. Then I'd just mothball it or sell it on eBay.
Posted 01/13/2009 at 02:26:17 PMI really don't remember much about tokyo gore police except that it was awesome. I watched it at Otakon this past year. Problem was I had been on a 48 hour drinking spree prior to watching the film. Around the time the movie was starting I found myself nodding off in my chair. I remember falling asleep and waking up to key gore scenes and thinking wow, I really need to stay up and watch this. I watch a lot of asian b-movies and this is up there with wild zero. It's not equal since wild zero is perhaps the greatest movie ever made.....EVER. I'm also on another 48 hour marathon with malt liquor.
Posted 01/13/2009 at 07:27:20 PMMy friend has seen TGP and says it changed his life. Where else can you see a woman's torso devour a man whole, a gun that shoots human fists, a chair made out of human limbs which urinates on people, or a amputee walking around on sword blades? Where?!
Posted 01/14/2009 at 01:10:26 AMIt's not even the real Voltron, it's the crappy car one
Posted 01/14/2009 at 09:07:05 PMive seen tokyo gore police. when i was at film school we had a teacher was a bit werid, and he ended up getting invited to a party to see what he would be like drunk. he didnt drink, merely put on tokyo gore police, and frankly, it killed the party. I did end up watching it all the way through, merely because it is mindbogglingly insane. the best bit: after all the OTT special effects and monster penises the bad guy in the end gets his legs chopped off, injects some "super juice" into them and starts flying around the room on jets of blood splurting out of his legs, waving his sword around....
if your into randomness its definately a must see
Posted 01/20/2009 at 09:20:01 PM