In my quest to do something besides have nearly every post I make consist of a list of links and brief comments on them, I like to try and find other things to write about. Since I watch a lot of movies, I figured I'd write about some movies that I've seen that are new on DVD this week. (And while I'm at it, post links to where you can buy them and I get a cut of the profits if you do it through my link. I'm on a quest for a little money too.) I don't know if I'll do this sort of thing every week. Mostly because I'm lazy and I seem to enjoy watching movies a lot more than I do writing about them these days.
DOOMSDAY: Based on the trailer and other people's reviews I was ready to write this one off as a ripoff of a bunch of other movies that most of us have seen before. Movies like ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, the MAD MAX movies, and even 28 DAYS/WEEKS LATER. It's be an absolute lie to say that this flick doesn't borrow from those other movies. However, the commentary leads me to think that it's more of a form of homage rather than blatant lack of creativity. Plus, I'm willing to give writer/director, Neil Marshall some slack, because I dug his previous movie, DOG SOLDIERS.
The premise of DOOMSDAY is simple enough. There's a outbreak of a disease in Scotland, so the entire country is walled off and quarantined. Roughly twenty years pass, and one of the few people taken out of the country before it was cut off was a little girl who has grown up to become some sort of crazy SWAT cop. Her name is Eden Sinclair, played by Rhona Mitra. Eden is, essentially speaking, the Snake Plisskin of this story. Missing eye and everything. Anyway, Eden is recruited to take a team into Scotland to look for a scientist who was working on a cure for the disease before the walls went up. This is because the plague has started showing up in England. Naturally, things turn really bad once the team are behind the wall. Cannibal gangs and a crazed medieval society await to enact ridiculous violence on the team.
Personally, I enjoyed the movie more than I thought I would. I'd say at the very least, DOOMSDAY is worth watching once. Definitely a try before you buy. So check it out somehow and if you dig it you can pick it up on DVD or in HD on Blu-Ray at Amazon.
Moving from post-apocalyptic to modern stoner satire...
The premise of DOOMSDAY is simple enough. There's a outbreak of a disease in Scotland, so the entire country is walled off and quarantined. Roughly twenty years pass, and one of the few people taken out of the country before it was cut off was a little girl who has grown up to become some sort of crazy SWAT cop. Her name is Eden Sinclair, played by Rhona Mitra. Eden is, essentially speaking, the Snake Plisskin of this story. Missing eye and everything. Anyway, Eden is recruited to take a team into Scotland to look for a scientist who was working on a cure for the disease before the walls went up. This is because the plague has started showing up in England. Naturally, things turn really bad once the team are behind the wall. Cannibal gangs and a crazed medieval society await to enact ridiculous violence on the team.
Personally, I enjoyed the movie more than I thought I would. I'd say at the very least, DOOMSDAY is worth watching once. Definitely a try before you buy. So check it out somehow and if you dig it you can pick it up on DVD or in HD on Blu-Ray at Amazon.
Moving from post-apocalyptic to modern stoner satire...
HAROLD & KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY: I was surprised by how much I liked the first movie in this series. I was expecting the sequel to suck, as sequels usually do. So I was nicely surprised by HAROLD AND KUMAR 2. I found it to be just as funny as the first, and maybe even funnier. Of course, that's only after having seen it one time. I don't know if it'll stand up for me in multiple re-watchings like the previous flick in the series did.
The plot of this one is that it takes place immediately after the first movie. The boys get on a plane and due to an "only in the movies" sort of misunderstanding, they're arrested as terrorists and shipped off to Guantanamo Bay. Now, in a time where people are sent there for real, this doesn't sound very comedic. Luckily, the duo don't spend much time there, and they escape. They spend the rest of the movie on the run, trying to clear their names while having misadventures. Neil Patrick Harris, who was amazing in the first flick, is back again and possibly even more demented than he was the last time out. There's also Rob Corddry, who's playing an inept homeland security agent, who's chasing the boys down. People without a sense of humor might want to avoid this one. Anybody who dug the first one should definitely pick this up.
So, grab it on DVD or in HD on Blu-Ray at Amazon.
Also the first movie in the series HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE just came out on Blu-Ray. It's at a fairly reasonable price for a new Blu-Ray. Pick it up on Blu-Ray at Amazon.
The plot of this one is that it takes place immediately after the first movie. The boys get on a plane and due to an "only in the movies" sort of misunderstanding, they're arrested as terrorists and shipped off to Guantanamo Bay. Now, in a time where people are sent there for real, this doesn't sound very comedic. Luckily, the duo don't spend much time there, and they escape. They spend the rest of the movie on the run, trying to clear their names while having misadventures. Neil Patrick Harris, who was amazing in the first flick, is back again and possibly even more demented than he was the last time out. There's also Rob Corddry, who's playing an inept homeland security agent, who's chasing the boys down. People without a sense of humor might want to avoid this one. Anybody who dug the first one should definitely pick this up.
So, grab it on DVD or in HD on Blu-Ray at Amazon.
Also the first movie in the series HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE just came out on Blu-Ray. It's at a fairly reasonable price for a new Blu-Ray. Pick it up on Blu-Ray at Amazon.
LOST BOYS: THE TRIBE: Even though it's only coming out today, I saw this last week. I'll be blunt, I didn't like it. Seeing as this is a direct-to-video sequel of a movie from twenty years ago, my expectations were low. Low expectations were met. In a lot of ways, this is pretty much a remake of the first movie. They even cast Keifer Sutherland's younger brother in the lead vampire role. (Too bad he doesn't have the acting chops of his older brother and dad.) Honestly, I pretty much only watched this movie to see how much of a train wreck Corey Haim's performance would be. He doesn't even turn up until the end credits in a very brief sequence, about a minute long. The other half of the Corey screen duo, Feldman, gets more screen time. In fact, he's the only character from the original to return in any signifigant way in the movie. For me, the only real reason to watch this movie is because Autumn Reeser is hot.
I can't recommend the movie, but if you want to blow your cash on it, I'd be happy to take a percentage of your DVD or Blu-Ray sale. Honestly, you'd be better off just buying the first movie, which just came out on Blu-Ray.
Finally, WARGAMES also got a 25th anniversary edition DVD that came out this week, but I didn't feel like writing a review of a movie I watched about three hundred times in the 80's. But it is a classic and worth picking up on DVD if you haven't already.
I can't recommend the movie, but if you want to blow your cash on it, I'd be happy to take a percentage of your DVD or Blu-Ray sale. Honestly, you'd be better off just buying the first movie, which just came out on Blu-Ray.
Finally, WARGAMES also got a 25th anniversary edition DVD that came out this week, but I didn't feel like writing a review of a movie I watched about three hundred times in the 80's. But it is a classic and worth picking up on DVD if you haven't already.
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