kyle chandler

This week the list of new DVD and Blu-ray releases include a lot of Blu-ray titles and TV shows.

In conjunction with Disney’s movie theater re-release, there is, amongst other titles, a new set of packaging for The Lion King for the Home Entertainment market!  Beyond the lion, we are getting ourselves some Vin Diesel & Dwayne Johnson action in the surprise action movie, Fast Five.  We’re also seeing a first time release to Blu-ray with writer/director Quentin Tarantino‘s Pulp Fiction.

If you waited for the boxed set of the entire series, then you’re in luck if that TV show is Friday Night Lights!   And season 1 of AMC’s The Walking Dead is hitting shelves also.

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Green Lantern DVD!

This week we also see the initial release of the extended cut of Green Lantern, starring Ryan Reynolds.  This is the movie fans of the franchise loved, but movie fans in general wretched from seeing.  But judging from how far down I had to dig to find the title in a list of titles sorted by sales stats, I’m guessing there aren’t enough fans to bring this bad boy up near the top of the heap.  Green Lantern pre-sales seem to even be beat by a few Pee Wee Herman titles.  My unprofessional observation is telling me they need to pump this up as best they can for initial sales numbers!

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Transformers 3 DVD Warning Note

Transformers 3 (Dark of the Moon) came out on DVD & Blu-ray last Friday.  As a renegade amateur consumer advocate, I have to say beware!!!

The version that came out was the movie only disc.  No extras, no interviews, no nuthin.  When I popped in my DVD version in my DVD player, my only options included ‘play,’ ‘select chapter,’ and ‘setup.’  If you like to spend your money on packages with extras, you’re either going to have to wait.  If you’re anxious to own, then you’ll be popping bucks on both.  Personally, I think it’s a crap tactic and I wish they would release a movie in all options during the first week.  Period.

But we have to remind ourselves that they wouldn’t do this if it didn’t work and enough people didn’t spring for both.

This reminds me of my COMCAST VoD service…  when a movie comes out for its first week of rental, well, cool!  But then a few weeks later you then see the director’s cut or extended version cut show up in the menu.  Boo.

I do my damndest to never double-dip.  It doesn’t feel fair how some of these media outlets take advantage of your enthusiasm for a franchise!

I’m off my soap box, here’s a list of new DVD releases that’s coming out this week.

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