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This TV show is inferior to the movie that inspired it in every way, most grievously in its lack of Jenny Agutter running around half-naked.
• The Darkest Hour
Invisible aliens disintegrate people in Russia, starring Emile Hirsch. Emile Hirsch was in Speed Racer. That was a good movie. I'm pretty sure this isn't.
• Night Gallery: Season Three
The final season of Rod Sterling's post-Twilight Zone Twilight Zone series.
• Doctor Who: The Daemons and Carnival of Monsters
Two Pertwee stories. CoM is a special edition, if that matters.
• A Trip to the Moon
Did you see Hugo? This is Georges Melies' classic sci-fi/fantasy movie that helped inspired it, restored on Blu-ray.
• Dark Shadows: Complete Series Limited Edition
131 DVDs for over $500. Zero uses of T.Rex's "Bang a Gong."
• Starman: Complete Series
This TV show is inferior to the movie that inspired it in every way, most grievously in its lack of Jeff Bridges (who was fully clothed, as I recall).
• Donald Glover: Weirdo
One of his stand-up comedy specials. I'm assuming it's at least somewhat nerdy.
• Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo: Complete Series Part 1
I immediately got upset when I read this was "complete series part 1" -- and then I realized that's kind of perfect for Bobobo-bo's DVD release. Well played, Viz. Especially in you never release part 2.
• Squid Girl Season 1 Complete Collection
On Blu-ray. I am told this anime is both excellent and has absolutely nothing to do with tentacle rape. I remain skeptical about the latter.
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I did the best thing I could. I got the WWE Edge "You Think You Know Me" Blu Ray.
It is awesome, and comes complete with 5 second poses (for those of you who have flash photography)!
Hmmm... I thought I was the only person in the world that like Speed Racer. Not a great film, but it felt really genuine to me.
I liked it. The only thing I didn't much like was how they chose to portray Speed, but I understand the rationale behind that choice. (I think. Unless Emile Hirsch is just that sucky as an actor.)
I even liked Chim-Chim, and I usually hate chimp (and self-conscious-little-kid) antics. I was sure I was going to cringe constantly throughout the movie on this basis alone.
Never heard of the Starman or Logan's Run TV shows...guess that explains how horrible they are?
My kids got me into Squidgirl simulcast on CR, it was pretty funny. Be interesting to hear it dubbed.
Viz is not releasing the Bo-BoBo set, nor do they hold the license.
Also, you're stupid. This set is released by S'more Entertainment, a new company who also holds the license. Change your article. Or better yet, do some actual research for once, for these things.
I could not possibly agree with more on the horrible Logan's Run TV show. There are a good number of far more deserving shows lost to the mists of television obscura that deserve DVD releases more than that turd. I was around twelve when the show came out and had been dazzled by the movie's visuals (especially Jenny Agutter, yum), so the show was a grave disappointment that reminded me of Ark II, only somehow even worse. And did you read harry Knowles' assessment of the show in his DVD roundup today? I long ago gave up believing he had anything resembling critical credibility, but he gushes like a look about the show's alleged excellence with the ardor of a long-starved lover. And I;m hating on the show just to be a hater. It really is awful. It's basically Logan, Jessica, and an annoying fashion disaster android named Rem driving around the weedy hills of California in a "futuristic" hovercraft that's straight out of Zombies of the Stratosphere, and they encounter oddball pocket civilizations and assorted weirdos in every installment. Save your money and time and stay home and mine your own butt-crack instead.
Sorry for fumbling a sentence here and there. It's just that that show gets my dander up and I lose all rationality.
Jenny Agutter ran around a lot more than half-naked in Logan's Run. She's at least three-quarters naked.
In related news, just heard "Jaws" hits Blu-Ray August 14th with stuff from previous releases but also a new documentary on the movie's legacy. Can't wait to upgrade to this.
For $63 (or less depending on other vendors), I'd recommend "Georges Melies: First Wizard of Cinema" instead. Absolute tons of more content, and the restoration quality is better from what I've heard. (I've seen that collection but can't compare. No fault of "Flicker Alley" on that; their project involved saving a very very damaged print, the only surviving produced handcolored print, lost until the 90s and thought unable to be recovered even after it was discovered.)
But at any rate, wait until FA puts repairs of its BRs and DVDs into practice: their original production run hit glitches on soundtrack and sound/synching issues. They'll replace defective disks at their cost, but be prepared to ask them for it as their whole original run was tainted. (A nightmarish situation for that small company.)
Carnival of Monsters is a Jo serial, sadly, because other than that it's a really fun episode. The Doctor should have fed Jo to the Drashigs and taken up with that carny chick who seemed like a lot of fun.
In Soviet Russia, tentacles get raped.
Japan isn't Russia, though, so no tentacles get raped. But Japan is pretty close to Russia. Just sayan'.
Being Sane is suffering, but she's more than fine with that.
You mention Bobobo and Squid Girl in this post, but no acknowledgment of Madoka Magica?
For shame.
Well considering that you can get two or more complete seasons of other newer shows from other distributors for what you pay for 5 episodes of Madoka, I'm kinda surprised Aniplex stays in business.
So, in Squid Girl, is it not so much tentacle rape as tentacle love-making? It makes me think of that old woodblock print wherein a Japanese artist acted on the thought, "hey, let me draw a father-son octopi pair double teaming a woman!"
Plus in the series there's only one character who actively pursues tentacle love-making and another who wouldn't mind it in the name of Science.
Ah, good ol' Hokusai. There was a biopic made about him, titled "Edo Porn" in the West, in which they bring that famous print to life with a nude actress and some animatronic octopi.
No use of tentacles for sexual purposes at all, actually. Squid Girl is sort of like a Japanese Invader Zim, except female and far more adorable.
I've argued that Squid Girl arguably goes out of its way to avoid the expected Japanese perversions.
When she does wrap someone up in tentacles, it is as un-tentacle rapish as you could probably imagine, more like wrapping someone in a white bandage.
And when the story has someone being covered in strange body fluids, it is black ink in classic cartoon full coverage style, not strategically placed white stuff.
The thing that I absolutely fear for the US release is that a lot of the fansubs filled the show with squid puns. Squid Girl does that Japanese thing of ending her sentences with a certain sound. (Like cat girls putting a "nya" or "meow" at the end of stuff, or girls that try to sound cute by doing it with some other sound.) Most of the fansubbers decided to "translate" that quirk by putting some kind of squid-related pun into everything she says, which made her sound a lot stupider than she actually was and was just really freaking annoying in general.
Not just the fansubbers did that, Crunchyroll (that have the online rights) do that too, squiggly might be an ok approximation of -geso but still sounds even more stupid
Far more adorable? That seems difficult to do, but I'm glad, so long as it doesn't wind up being another Hot Topic sensation, like the aforementioned Zim.
I totally thought Darkest Hour was by the guy who did Nightwatch/Daywatch, and thus thought it would be pretty cool. Guess I was wrong about the first part. Anybody seen this to confirm/deny?
I saw Darkest Hour when it came out in the theater, and am apparently alone in thinking it was a pretty decently entertaining science fiction movie. I really thought the effects were good, the story highly entertaining, and the acting at least decent. I know this doesn't sound like a rave review, but I'm saying its a solid movie, considering how few non-franchise oriented sci-fi flicks make it to theaters these days.
Nothing groundbreaking, but not too bad. (I just wish that the 3D hadn't been so, what's that word, non-existent.) I saw Tintin later that day. Just felt like sharing.
I enjoyed it. Not as amazing as Night watch, but some similar visual elements, a pretty good story, and over all fun. The ending was a little meh. Certainly not a bad movie.
Well, apparently its produced by the same guy who did those films, but not written or directed by him. Of course.
Rob, Bobobo isn't being released by Viz, it's being released by S'more.Don't forget to mention that Avengers Season 1 is out on bluray in Canada next week, as for some reason it isn't being released in the US yet.
The bluray will work on US players so there is no reason you shouldn't be able to play it, unless you're in Europe where you will need to buy the Aussie region free steelbook set like I did, unless the Canadian set isn't region locked
No, once upon a time all BRs really were region free. That was one of their selling points compared to DVDs for intermarket buyers: people in Britain could order North American BRs and vice versa, or Japanese or whatever. I own some of the early Blus from other regions, they work fine on all my players.
That was mainly due to the fact that only high-tech and relatively high-income regions (i.e. Japan, North America, Europe, maybe Australia) could manufacture Blus, which also meant they were going to set approximately similar market prices that people in their own regions and from other regions could afford to play. Low-income regions just didn't have Blu players, or bought players from (or intended for) high-income regions (maybe reselling overstock on the street cheaply.)
As Blus and players became more prevalent, the region encodings started being produced in order to provide reasonable (legal) alternatives to low-income regions and to protect factories and distributors in high income regions from being undercut by products from low-income regions. (Illegally produced product would always undercut of course, but that's another problem.)
Same thing happened with DVDs previously; I don't recall if it was quite as fast before, but the system was already in place now of course.
Just seems that way to most Americans, as they are the biggest content creators and don't have to worry about region coding as much as the rest of the world.
Easily half of my library is from America and without hacking my bluray player to make it region free I wouldn't be able to play them.
Wait a second, Jeff Bridges was naked in Starman! You're not fooling anyone Mr Bricken.
Came to say this, good on you for beating me to it. I don't remember much about that film, but naked Jeff Bridges I do recall :D
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