Blu Rays For 02/10/09 Previewed Briefly By Blue

* Amadeus: Director's Cut (Warner) - One of the best movies ever made. This blu ray comes with a cd with tracks of Mozart's music from the film, as well as a digital copy(for ipods). Recommended highly.

* Boondock Saints (Fox) - When I tell fans of this movie that I saw it theatrically, their initial reaction is disbelief or envy. See, it was only released in 3 theaters in Los Angeles for a week. One of those theaters happened to be across the street from my college, and just a block away from where I lived at the time. I explain this, and they're impressed. Until I tell them I walked out. This movie is flat out shit. Far be it from me to generalize, but the people who make up the cult of this film should be immediately suspect of being complete fucking idiots. Seriously, the only relative appeal of this movie is to put the far better documentary about the making of it, Overnight, into context. When I say bad, to put this into context, it's Sean Patrick Flannery's worst movie. And the fucker was Powder.

* Chocolate (Magnolia) - From the director of Ong Bak. Remember him? Yeah so do I, vaguely. Never heard of this movie.

* Donnie Darko (Fox) - Not much info about the release in the 30 seconds I took to look. However it doesn't say Director's Cut anywhere so I'm thinking this is a good buy. See, normally Director's Cuts improve the movie. However Richard Kelly, the director of Donnie Darko, is a giant douche tool idiot(see Southland Tales). I once heard him explain the untold portions of the movie and THEY RUIN THE MOVIE. Like make a good thing bad. I saw the theatrical cut when it played briefly in LA, and this remains by far the preferable edition imo. Kelly has some talent but needs to be told no for his movies to work.

* Doom (Universal) - Say what you will, I enjoyed this movie. Is it amazing? No. But the game, while ground breaking, isn't really *that* good. The Rock's movies tend to be underrated but he's good in this and this is a pleasant time waster.

* Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13 / Bojack Returns (FUNimation) - Never got into Dragon Ball Z. Frankly it always came off as a strange mix of Fist of the North Star and Pokemon. I will probably be murdered for that comment. Oh well, bring it fuckers.

* Frozen River (Sony) - Melissa Leo(from the show Homicide) was nominated for an Oscar for this movie. No doubt it's good, but the fact that Melissa Leo, while a good actress, stars in this suggests it's dreary, extremely low budget, and very indie. Which isn't a list of bad things necessarily, but who wants to own a movie like that on blu ray.

* A History of Violence (Warner) - The first movie by Cronenberg in his new film noir kind of mentality. Excellent little movie, with a great cast.

* IMAX: Grand Canyon Adventure - River at Risk (Image) - Yawn.

* IMAX: Super Speedway (Image) - Hmm this might be interesting. As long as it's not NASCAR.

* Miracle at St. Anna (Walt Disney) - Spike Lee movie about how black people actually fought in World War 2 as well. Basically by just swapping out a normal WW2 plot with black actors instead of white. Apparantly not very good either(the trailer was pretty pretentious).

* My Name is Bruce (Image) - Bruce Campbell capitalizing on his fame in non-Evil Dead 4 way. So who cares.

* Nights in Rodanthe (Warner) - Chick flick. Who cares.

* The Pelican Brief (Warner) - There's only one really good Grisham movie, and that's The Rainmaker. The Firm is okay as a thriller but Coppola's Rainmaker is really underrated. This movie sucks, and not just because of Julia Roberts. Though mainly.

* Pretty Woman (Walt Disney) - Is it Julia Roberts week? People criticize this movie for making it seem that becoming a prostitute is a glamorous thing to do. But hell, have you SEEN how hot porn stars have gotten? Girls are doing porn these days that would never have touched it before. I credit this movie.

* Raging Bull (MGM) - Hmm. I actually am not a fan of this movie. I know I should be, it's supposedly Scorsese and DeNiro's respective masterpieces, but not really feeling it. Never have. Respect it, just don't love it. BTW although I had Taxi Driver listed last week it did not come out, seems like it was a false scheduling thing.

* The Rundown (Universal) - Another movie with The Rock, and this is actually a pretty fun action movie in my opinion.

* Soul Men (2008) (Weinstein) - This movie is cursed! At least it's a convenient excuse not to watch it.

* Street Fighter (Universal) - Gloriously bad or gloriously awesome? I'm really tempted to buy this just because. The weird thing is the casting is actually decent, considering.

* A Time to Kill (Warner) - Another Grisham. I guess his new book is out this week? Sounds about right. This one's okay, but again, no Rainmaker.

* W. (Lionsgate) - I really enjoyed this, it's a seriocomic take on Bush's life and what made him want to be President, despite being completely mentally unqualified.

* The Way of War (First Look) - Cuba Gooding Jr movie I never heard of, that is direct to video. Whatever.

* When Weather Changed History (Madacy) - Weather documentary. I didn't realize there was another way of saying "boring." But here you go.