DVD Day: January 6th, 2009
Posted at 11:57 AM Jan 06, 2009
Sorry for missing the last two DVD Days, but really, virtually nothing came out other than that weird Resident Evil: Degeneration CG flick. The studios have clearly been saving their good stuff for after the new year, including...• Battlestar Galactica Season 4.0
I could point out this is when they find Earth, but I'd rather point out that Apollo is clearly staring at Starbuck's rack on the DVD cover.
• Frisky Dingo Season Two
The one, the only. Its cover is pretty spectacular as well.
• Babylon A.D.
The Vin Diesel sci-fi flick roundly denounced by its own director. It currently has 1-star on Amazon, which is impressive in its own way.
• Transformers Animated Season 2
I have no information on this set, and no inclination to get any.
• Duckman Seasons 3 & 4
I'm all well and pleased Duckman is out, but where the hell is my last Tick set? Goddammit.
• Gurren Lagann Part 2
Anime death watch: Gurren Lagann is a great show. It was on Sci-Fi Channel. It was made by Gainax, of Evangelion fame. It has many, many fans in America. It is absolutely one of the top anime series in the U.S. Currently, this reasonably priced box set is selling slightly less than the DVD of the PBS special A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway. Wow.
• Postal: Unrated Director's Cut
Uwe Boll's latest movie apparently had a few brief moments of non-awfulness. So wouldn't his director's cut just be him making those scenes as terrible as he originally intended?
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MORE Uwe Boll stuff? And it's a director's cut? When the books are written, he will go down in history along with Ed Wood, Joel Schumacher and the Sci-Fi channel as one of hollywood's greatest monsters.
..and the second season of Frsiky Dingo sucked. A big disappointment over the awesomeness of season 1.
Posted 01/06/2009 at 09:05:00 AMI just looked at the Postal Director's Cut on amazon.com, and all the reviews are positive. Obviously I haven't seen it, but these reviews are calling Uwe Boll "Courageous." One reviewer says they met Boll and called him "a really nice guy." Wait--are we talking about the same Uwe Boll, or even the same movie?
Posted 01/06/2009 at 09:22:27 AMWhy are nearly every dvd set cover nothing more than folks posing? What happened to hiring an artist (like the Hillderbrant Brothers. Their Star Wars art is iconic)or even the original Battlestar series (as crappy as it was, their poster and promo art was top notch) to really make your product jump off the shelf? Instead nearly every dvd cover, cd cover and movie poster is nothing more than some folks posing for the camera, looking slightly interested in the procedings, if that.
Posted 01/06/2009 at 10:00:11 AMNot Adult Swim. If there was an award for "Best Series of DVD Covers" they would win every year.
Posted 01/06/2009 at 11:07:04 AM"I have no information on this set, and no inclination to get any."
Seriously? Listen, I was apprehensive of the new Transformers series. It looked stupid and I didn't even give it a chance until the second season was over. But after watching it I have to say it's phenomenal. Any TF fan no matter when you picked up the show should give it a chance. It never talks down to you. Sure, it has silly moments like the Constructicons having Brooklyn accents but the story is solid and the characters a well-developed.
If you liked TF like Beast Wars where the cast was kept small and each were given a very distinct personality then TF Animated is for you. Please look past the anime style of animation. The show has a great heart and is flat out clever.
Posted 01/06/2009 at 12:31:14 PMI have to respectfully disagree with Friginator.
Season Two was amazing; I loved the abrupt shift in tone, and found the political humor to be hilariously scathing. The creators adhered to an Arrested Development-style of wasting no secondary characters and tying all the plotlines together by the end.
I also loved the two-off Xtacles special they ran a couple months back, and I hope we see a season of that. We all need to force the phrases "Bon Jovi Friday" and "Meat Loaf Monday" into the American lexicon.
Posted 01/06/2009 at 12:52:02 PMTransformers: Animated is the best thing to happen to the franchise since Beast Wars (and the toys are excellent!)...
Posted 01/06/2009 at 05:06:32 PMThey had Weird Al Yankovic be the voice of Wreck-Gar. Daniel Witwicky cameos in that episode. When Wreck-gar tries to wreck a garbage barge, Ratchet shouts "You wouldn't dare be so stupid!" Wreck-gar shouts back, "I am Wreck-gar, I Dare to be Stupid!"
I think that says it all right there. He also uses the Universal Greeting in that episode once.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 01:20:34 AM