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Killers
This box-office wasn't seen by many - including me. It's not that I don't want to see it, it just wasn't screened for press. It doesn't look that bad.
Best deals:
DVD - $14.99 at Best Buy
Blu-ray - $19.99 at Best Buy
The Office: Season 6
I gave up on The Office ages ago. The first two or three seasons were fun, but it went downhill after that. Absurd is the word. Ricky Gervais got it right with the original BBC version, then America had to go and ruin a good thing. Jim and Pam get married in this season - that is the only thing I know about it.
Best deals:
DVD - $29.99 at Target - with Exclusive Bonus Disc
Blu-ray - $37.99 at Target - with Exclusive Bonus Disc
MacGruber
What a crude and hilarious little movie! Being the biggest flop of the summer, nobody saw MacGruber. Hopefully it will get some play on home video. Being based on the 30-second SNL sketch, it is surprisingly well-written and not drawn out. Imagine the most crude and vulgar version of Dumb and Dumber possible and you've got MacGruber.
Best deals:
DVD - $17.96 at Walmart
Blu-ray - $26.96 at Walmart
Tommy
Who doesn't love The Who? It's a spectacular musical. Check it out.
Best deal:
Blu-ray - $14.86 at Walmart
THX 1138 Director's Cut
George Lucas is milking his old films again. It all starts with you buying his THX 1138 Director's Cut on Blu-ray. Next year he will release his remastered version, then the following year he will put out an extended remastered edition. Then he will put out the original cut. Then an un-remastered extended cut. I remember watching this film for class in college and thinking it was long and slow.
Best deal:
Blu-ray - $19.96 at Walmart
The Player
Tim Robbins in the movie industry. I've never seen it - but I will now that it is easily accessible.
Best deal:
Blu-ray - $18.99 at Amazon
Poltergeist
Honestly, who didn't watch this movie growing up? Rich Bonaduce pointed out that this movie capitalizes on every childhood fear - basements, braces, etc. I remember being afraid to touch the screen of my TV when it displayed a "static" or "snowy" screen when mistuned. Awesome little classic movie.
Best deal:
Blu-ray - $19.96 at Best Buy
The Skeleton Key
I actually really enjoyed The Skeleton Key. Kate Hudson and Peter Sarsgaard made a good team here. It's about voodoo and hoodoo is the south. Kinda creepy. Awesome ending.
Best deal:
Blu-ray - $19.96 at Walmart
The Black Dahlia
The director of Scarface gives you one of the worst movies in a long time. Overacting is prevalent. Josh Hartnett should never be a lead in a period piece. Reading about the murder in a newspaper would have been more entertaining.
Best deal:
Blu-ray - $18.86 at Walmart
Pulse
Kristen Bell stars in this bad, bad "horror" movie where technology kills people. There - I just spoiled it for you. You don't have to see it now - except maybe if you want to be in on Russell Brand and Jason Segel's inside joke about Kristen Bell in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Best deal:
Blu-ray - $14.99 at Best Buy
A Scanner Darkly
A movie that you will remember just because of it's unique style. I saw it and all I remember is how it looked - nothing about the story whatsoever. They filmed a movie, then transferred it to cartoon. Cool stuff.
Best deal:
Blu-ray - $7.96 at Walmart
Lost in Space
What in the world are William Hurt and Gary Oldman doing in this turd? They are better than that. Heather Graham and that boring guy who played Joey on Friends - I can see them doing something like this. But William Hurt and Gary Oldman? Come on.
Best deal:
Blu-ray - $15.99 at Amazon
Stardust
I know a lot of people love this movie - I'm not one of them. At the screening I went to a problem arose with the projector towards the end of the movie that caused us to miss ten minutes of it. That was my favorite part of the whole movie - that I didn't have to see those ten minutes. Boring, flat, uninteresting characters. Ricky Gervais and Robert De Niro made me laugh. That was all I enjoyed. It is hard to believe that it was made buy the guy who gave us Kick-Ass and Layer Cake.
Best deal:
Blu-ray - $19.96 at Walmart
Mars Attacks!
Tim Burton at his whackiest. With an all-star cast, Mars Attacks rolls out like a bad '50s science fiction movie. It's is oddly entertaining and very funny. But I am in the minority here.
Best deal:
Blu-ray - $19.96 at Walmart
News and Deals
Avatar 3-D Blu-ray - It was announced that week that the 3-D Blu-ray of Avatar will be a Panasonic exclusive - meaning you must purchase the Panasonic 3D Viera Plasma TV in order to get your hands on a copy of it. Every week James Cameron does one more thing that makes me think that he is nothing more than another George Lucas.
Amazon has a lot of great deals. These are three that you must know about it you do not own them:
$8.99 - Batman Begins
$8.99 - The Dark Knight
$32.99 - The Die Hard Collection
Best Buy has some great ones too:
$7.99 - 3:10 to Yuma
$9.99 - Ghostbusters
$9.99 - Starship Troopers
$9.99 - Underworld
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