What started out as a simple little bit on TV show crossovers, mutated into a comparison of TV and comic books. WTH? There I am writing, then I’m suddenly looking up things for comic book crossovers. Dagnabbit. Any how, I was forced to retitle my original pitch and this is it…. Which is more fun for the consumer, TV or comic book crossovers?
The other day I was motivated to think about crossover TV show episodes. I remember not being so enthused about any of them that I can remember. Don’t get me wrong, I like crossover episodes where characters from other TV show series get to visit different realms. I loved when Ray Langston (Laurence Fishburne) pursued a criminal ring across all three CSI TV shows, CSI: NY and CSI: Miami, and finally back to his own series, CSI, just as one example.
But one of my favorite crossovers took place in the comic book universe crossovers when Batman confronted Predator in Batman versus Predator. Now that, was cool for a comic book! But never discredit whenSuperman got knocked into space by Hulk or when Superman and Spider-Man crossed paths! Again, more coolness.
While I have great memories of comic book crossovers, TV crossovers tend to fall a little short for me. I don’t know if you’ve noticed but when a favorite character of mine shows up somewhere else in a different TV show, they almost seem smaller than life and don’t have the command of the scenario they usually do in their own TV show.
I remember Ray’s character not being quite so large-as-life in the other CSI titles as he usually was in CSI itself. But I presume that this observation might make sense. The characters are only visiting and don’t want to show up the other regular characters, or dilute the show they’re visiting.
This week’s new DVD & Blu-ray releases number close to 250 titles! Amongst those titles are Predators, Apocalypse Now, Psycho Blu-ray & the 35th Anniversary Edition of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
We’re also starting to see holiday titles peppered within the list at the bottom of this article! Let’s see what new DVD/Blu-ray titles we have coming out on October 19th, 2010:
Movies on DVD/BD
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Agora Starring Rachel Weisz and Max Minghella
Apocalypse Now [Blu-ray] Starring Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Ultimate Edition) Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Ultimate Edition) Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson
Mirrors 2 Starring Nick Stahl, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Evan Jones, et al.
Moulin Rouge! [Blu-ray] Starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor
Night of the Demons Starring Edward Furlong, Shannon Elizabeth, Monica Keena, et al.
Commentary by Robert Rodriguez and director, Nimród Antal
De-cloaking the Invisible: Alien Terrain
Motion Comics:
–Moments of Extraction: Robert Rodriguez presents exclusive prequel vignettes voiced by the cast of PREDATORS. Witness the secret adventures that turned two of our world’s most ruthless killers into the ultimate Predator prey
—-Isabelle
—-Mombasa
—Crucified
Predators Blu-ray Special Features
Disc 1: Blu-ray Theatrical Feature
Commentary by Robert Rodriguez and Nimród Antal
Motion Comics
Fox Movie Channel presents Making a Scene
Deleted and Extended Scenes
Theatrical Trailer
Disc 2: Digital Copy
Psycho (50th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray] Starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, and Janet Leigh
Psycho Blu-ray Special Features
The Making of Psycho
Psycho Sound
In The Master’s Shadow: Hitchcock’s Legacy
Hitchcock / Truffaut Interview Excerpts
Newsreel Footage: The Release of Psycho
The Shower Scene: With and Without Music
The Shower Scene: Storyboards by Saul Bass
The Psycho Archives
Lobby Cards
Behind-the-Scenes Photographs
Production Photographs
Theatrical Trailer
Re-release Trailers
My Scenes
Feature Commentary with Stephen Rebello (author of “Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho”)
BD Live
Romeo + Juliet [Blu-ray] Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, John Leguizamo, Harold Perrineau, et al.
Seven Samurai (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Starring Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, et al.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (35th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray] Starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, and Barry Bostwick
Restored Picture – Brand New 4K/2K Master From The Original Camera Negatives
The Midnight Experience: The Late Night, Double Feature, Picture-in-Picture Show, Vintage Callback Track (Unrated), Prop Box, Trivia Track
BD-LIVE: Live Lookup, Powered by IMDb
Rocky-oke: Sing It!
Don’t Dream It, Be It: The Search for the 35th Anniversary Shadowcast, Part I
An-tic-i-pation: The Search for the 35th Anniversary Shadowcast, Part II
Welcome to the New DVD Release Report for the week of June 22nd, 2010 from Cinema Static. This week, Matt Damon’s Green Zone tops the list in headliners & She’s Out Of My League tops the charts in chick flicks. There’s a new a series on DVD coming at you from the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and some great concert DVDs coming out this week also.
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DVD Movie of the Week
My movie pick this week is the remastered version of, Death Race 2000 the Roger Corman’s classic! Packed with behind the scenes footage and interviews with the late David Carradine this re-issue is fully loaded. If your a fan of auto racing, and haven’t seen this film yet, I’m ashamed of you! Pick this one up on Tuesday on DVD or Blu-ray!
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DVD TV Series/Documentary of the Week
Entourage The Complete Sixth Season, is my TV pick of the week, the documentary Fuel also looks very interesting in light of today’s epic oil spill in the Gulf…
I was tooling around looking for a specific video and I came across the ultimate in confrontations that could occur between Alien and Predator out on YouTube… take a look:
I’ve previously geeked out over the 1st movie trailer from Predators that came out recently, and while trying to stay calm, I thought I would put up a collection of images I have on hand for the moment, plus the new one-sheet movie poster for Predators.
Predators comes from Robert Rodriguez, and adds another chapter of information about Predators. Well, they’re calling it a reboot. Be as it may, it stars Adrien Brody as Royce, the reluctant leader of a band of mercenary-like killers who have been brought together to where they are, to fight a new breed of Predator. It also stars Topher Grace,Danny Trejo, Laurence Fishburne, Walton Goggins and just a few more.
Nimrod Antel (Armored, Vacancy) is directing it, and from what people have said about some of the original plotted action in Armored, I’m not worried… yet.
The scene from the Predators movie pictured above that got me thinking about the script that Rodriguez had for this movie.
Back in 1996 Robert Rodriguez had written a script with the idea of another movie but the reception to the Predators franchise wasn’t warm and fuzzy enough to warrant any studio dropping the funds on his idea.
That script had been rumored to make its way onto the internet (My god, how does everything get on the internet?)
I can’t imagine that the script from ’96 stayed intact at all, but on the off chance that there are elements to the new 2010 Predators movie, I’m going to make my standard warning of potential SPOILERS ahead.
Today we were treated to the first preview of Robert Rodriguez created, Nimród Antal’s directed Predators and I’m geeking out to finally get something about the film from the production company.
A Cinema Static Opinion Piece
