OK, these aren’t new releases, but these prices right now, are awesome and you might just have new movies in your home within the week! Right now Amazon has a couple of pretty good deals on boxed collections for The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Forbidden Planet. Amazon is cutting prices up to 60% off the boxed Blu-ray & DVD set prices. Crikey! Up for grabs we have
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The Ultimate Matrix Collection [Blu-ray] (2008)
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The package includes
Written Introduction by the Wachowski Brothers
Commentaries by:
- Philosophers: Dr. Cornel West and Ken Wilber
- Critics: Todd McCarthy, John Powers and David Thomson
- Cast/Crew: Carrie-Anne Moss, Zach Staenberg and John Gaeta
for The Matrix
Feature-Length Documentary The Matrix Revisited
Behind The Matrix Documentary Gallery: 83 Featurettes with The MTV Movie Awards Reloaded and 3-D Evolutions Stills Gallery
The Music Revisited: 41-Track Audio Selection of Nearly 3 Hours of Music
Music Videos: Marilyn Manson’s Rock Is Dead and P.O.D.’s Sleeping Wake
Enter The Matrix: The Game Documentary
Enter The Matrix: View 23 Live-Action Scenes Shot for the Video Game That Plug into the Action of The Matrix Reloaded
4 Director Commentaries and 8 Documentaries on The Animatrix, Including Scrolls to Screen: The History and Culture of Anime
The Burly Man Chronicles: Probe the Society of Actors, Craftspeople and Filmmakers Who Shaped the Movie Trilogy and the Enter The
Matrix Console Game in 21 Featurettes and a Feature-Length Documentary
The Roots of The Matrix: Historical, Philosophical and Technological Inspirations Are Explored in Insightful Documentaries
The Zion Archive: Production Assets Developed for The Matrix Universe, Including Concert Art Storyboards, Drawings, Music Videos,
Music Rave Reel and The Matrix Online
Theatrical Trailers and TV Spots
Stars: Luis Fernando Pena, Leonor Varela, And Jacob Vargas
Directed By Alex Rivera
PG-13; 2008 90 min. Spanish with English subtitles.
((( There are No Spoilers included in this review )))
Like its Mumbai cousin, the 2008 independent Spanish science fiction film Sleep Dealer flew right under the radar of most Americans. I remember seeing a Sleep Dealer poster here around town. Living in LA, I wasn’t sure if it was a cable mini-series, feature film or homo erotic theater. The poster featured some dudes upper back with wires and cable ports popping out like a Borg drone. Within a few weeks the poster was gone and the film a (maybe see it on DVD) memory.
Fortunately last week I stumbled upon the Sleep Dealer DVD. Because of the cool looking alternate cover art and rareness of the film I picked it up immediately. I wasn’t sure what to expect, the region code was missing and the film’s in Spanish with English subtitles. Could this film be the science fiction Slumdog Millionaire, or a Hispanic MST3K crap-fest?
Have you ever wondered who would win a skirmish between Neo (Mr. Anderson) from The Matrix, and Robocop? As the fight progresses, a few other characters join the “debate.”
Check it out:
Tooling around on YouTube can be a mind-sink, but you sure can find some interesting things. Especially when the author has any kind of talent, subtle or detailed.
Cinema StaticDVD / Blu-ray Releases For January 12th, 2010.
This week some great films finally get their due and all three of my movie picks were limited releases. Also, I’ve decided not to list releases of older films that are being repackaged in 2 or 4 packs. There a few exceptions but I don’t want to bog down the list with too many of them.
My movie pick this week is Moon, a great Science Fiction film that never really had a chance in the theaters. Moon was brilliant and would have made its money back easily. Now finally everyone will get to see how great it really is.
Honorable mentions also go out to The Hurt Locker and In The Loop. In the Loop is the British post 9-11 comedy. Ironically I watched all three of these films in the same theater.
My TV Pick of the week is The Simpsons: The Complete Twentieth Season that’s 20 years of Doah aaaaah, Doah!!! Amazing!
The Prisoner on AMC had a strong premiere showing. The show pulled in over 2 million viewers for its premiere. Yet the subsequent night, it barely pulled in a million pairs of eyeballs.
I think I know how AMC snagged in over 2 millions viewers. I happened to have watched their Matrix trilogy airings. Yes, I used plural. I’ve been sick and watching a lot of TV, much to my chagrin in some cases.
I think AMC plotted this premiere of The Prisoner very carefully. They aired a popular movie series and with every single commercial break, they pummeled you with at least 2 ads for The Prisoner. At least. And in EVERY COMMERCIAL BREAK. Or at least by the end of the weekend, that’s what it felt like.
I had seen so many ads that I recorded The Prisoner, looking to take a break from the show before it even started. If you like brain-teaser with a message, I’m sure you’re doing well with the show. But it gave me the feeling of LOST, but not. If that even makes sense.
Maybe Monday Night Football dinged the viewer numbers. There’s always the 7-day delayed viewer numbers that might prove otherwise to the lack of interest… even if the series is getting flogged by some reviews out. Any SoB readers catch the show? What did you think of it if you did?
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