Release Dates Sep 08 2008 @ 01:00 pm
DVD Releases for September 9th, 2008
This week’s new releases of shiny spinning moving picture discs are brought to you courtesy of Spout’s FilmCouch podcast, They played a fun little game where they took a famous movie scene, used an online translator to convert the script to Arabic, converted it back into English, and then performed the result on the podcast. Giggles were had. So this week’s DVD blurbs are likewise twice translated for your reading enjoyment.
For my language of choice, I’ve decided to go with Russian.
The Fall
Drop oh the boy of the boy of the boy of boy oh oh oh. I’ve jonesing for this film since then I saw the tail end of the trailer of waaaaaaaaay in March. It is despondent, it never showed upward in my neck of woods but it will finally arrive tomorrow on DVD. Director Tarsem Singh brings its uniquely aesthetic sight the life; filming carried out above the plural years in the plural countries and was almost completely self-financed. It look, that will be breathtaking the fantasy, filled with CGI-free of visuals and moments of make-believe whim. Lee’s pace to press the stars of daisies.
Recommended if you thought Cell, then, Singh’s film previous, was elegant (there are no, I’m without going to protect it the skill of story).
The Forbidden Kingdom – 
I dig me a certain military artistry (as I’m certainly you could say by my selection #1 last week). Engine Li Of Chan, 2 of cinema artists large servicemen, play main roles together for the of first of time. The graph, about a certain pasty white little-one which obtains sent back in the time and longer lost “warrior” legends, brain -mushingly of sounds terrible, but calculate me inside for the punch of 1-2 Chan and Li. This is the guilty pleasure of the highest order.
Recommended if you fell in love with the drunken original, then, the fist of legend, or voracious hunts downward eccentric video of combat skills YouTube.
Baby Mama –
I laughed above on the spot in the trailer when to Amy Poehler of peed in the shell. I could actually laugh above on I eat plural times. He said with the fact, this looks terrible. Luke gave to it moderately glorious and estimated it for which it was, but this is one rental I will not make if it’s of wife turnings in order to select out of the cinema of date.
Recommended if stupid imposing.
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Seed
Of Boll of Uwe strikes again! This guy exactly will not go away, there will be it? As poor penny. Or drunken uncle. Or flowery hamster. This one went directly to DVD, where it will spend entire of 4 minutes on the shop windows of the store before to find its way into the deepest darkest angle of the box of commercial transaction. Where it will give to the copies of Glitter. Poor Mariah.
Recommended if you delight in to select upward women at the car wrecks.
on Sep 08 2008 @ 1:41 pm 1. Luke Harrington said …
Two more three-star reviews FTW!
on Sep 08 2008 @ 2:03 pm 2. Kristena said …
“This is the guilty pleasure of the highest order.” hahahahahaha
Of Derrick of Evan strikes again! I gotta confess, I read this entire post with a weird Russian accent (in my head). And laughed. A lot. In my head.
on Sep 08 2008 @ 2:38 pm 3. Ryan Dunlap said …
So, I basically thought you had lost your marbles until I went back and read the opening paragraph…
“I know I’m just skimming but… man, I gotta read that again… wait.. what??”
on Sep 08 2008 @ 2:39 pm 4. Andrew Wyatt said …
Evan:
Here’s hoping The Fall meets your expectations. I’m holding a release-day Blu-ray screening of it tomorrow night for our film club. It’s one of my wife and I’s favorite films of 2008 thus far. It borders on the ludicrous, but I also found it thematically dense and personally electrifying. And then there’s those stunning visuals. Roger Ebert’s assessment, that it is the sort of film must be seen because it exists, is spot on. Definitely a Love-It-Or-Hate-It slice of cinema.
on Sep 08 2008 @ 2:47 pm 5. Evan Derrick said …
@Ryan – Muahahahahaha.
My devious plan succeeded.
Andrew, it’s good to hear your glowing assessment. I’m hoping I fall into the “love it” category – it looks like an incredible film.
on Sep 08 2008 @ 3:27 pm 6. Andrew Wyatt said …
Evan:
One word of advice: Turn on English subtitles or closed captioning if you can stand them. There is one sequence where there are two separate, quiet conversations occurring simultaneously. I saw The Fall twice in the theaters and couldn’t quite catch everything. More significantly, Catinca Untaru, the child actress who plays one of the film’s leads, has a heavy accented, mumbling way of speaking. Singh uses her naturalistic performance to good effect; the ad-libbing between her and Lee Pace is eerily close to the way that children and adults actually talk to one another. That said, a film isn’t enjoyable if you miss whole swathes of dialog. Subtitles will definitely help.
on Sep 08 2008 @ 4:58 pm 7. Fox said …
UWE ZEAL!!!
p.s. GOSSIP GIRL Season 2 starts tonight! (Kristena is secretly excited…)
on Sep 08 2008 @ 10:44 pm 8. Alexander Coleman said …
The Fall is one of my favorites of the year thus far, too–possibly my favorite, actually.
Many have commented on being unable to be drawn into its fairytale storyline, but I looked at it, at least partly, from the opposite end, as the “real-life” scenario draws one in and makes one care about the fairytale on a richer, more profound plane. Or maybe I was just in a very strange mood when I saw it.
on Sep 09 2008 @ 7:28 am 9. Kristena said …
Or it is repelled.
Fox, there super-duper surface things i loves (takeoff and landing path of project and what not to bear to come to mind), but they have something creative to go for them.
hehe… I couldn’t pass up the opportunity. (Can you guess what shows I just mentioned?)
on Sep 09 2008 @ 9:03 am 10. Luke Harrington said …
“What not to bear,” huh? Having baby regrets?
on Sep 09 2008 @ 1:06 pm 11. Evan Derrick said …
Your recommendation gives me hope, Alexander. I can’t wait to see this one.
on Sep 09 2008 @ 2:46 pm 12. Kristena said …
Yeah, not sure how “wear” translated into “bear.”
on Sep 09 2008 @ 4:16 pm 13. Luke Harrington said …
I guess it kinda maybe makes sense. Like, I have to “bear” my shirt when I “wear” it…because, like, I have to support…its weight…or…something.
on Sep 10 2008 @ 12:11 pm 14. Fox said …
bear… wear… schmear…. Let’s get back to Uwe AND G-Girl Season 2.0!
(Evan, if I ever am approaching “ban status” please issue me a warning first so I can pull back.)
on Sep 10 2008 @ 12:33 pm 15. Luke Harrington said …
Don’t worry Fox, I got your back.
on Sep 10 2008 @ 1:17 pm 16. Evan Derrick said …
Dang, Fox, I was just getting ready to pull out the banhammer before Luke tackled me and calmed me down. Thin ice, my friend. Thin frikkin’ ice.
Also, Uwe Boll called. He wants you to stop stalking him and going through his trash. It’s just weirding him out now.
on Sep 10 2008 @ 2:08 pm 17. Uwe said …
Dear Mister Evan -
Why you feel the need to the badmouth me? Is it because I am of German? The World War II is over you know.
I have contemplating giving your world wide web page, THE MOVIE ZEAL, a first screening of the next of my films. But now I think I check out this Fox person instead.
P.S. Seed is available for purchase at Amazon.com, DVDPlanet, and Best Buy. It is my most genius motion film yet.
on Sep 10 2008 @ 2:35 pm 18. Kristena said …
This is of brilliant.
on Sep 10 2008 @ 2:58 pm 19. Evan Derrick said …
Dear Mister Boll,
I challenge you to a bare knuckled boxing match. In a steel cage. With live jackals. Who have been fed only tofu for 3 months.
Meet me at the old warehouse. Unless you’re chicken. Coo coo ka-tchaw! Coo coo ka-tchaw!
Sincerely, Evan
on Sep 10 2008 @ 3:17 pm 20. Craig Kennedy said …
Best. DVD. Column. Ever.
on Sep 10 2008 @ 3:47 pm 21. Uwe said …
Mr. Evan-
It is truth that I am of German land and maybe do not know the style of American languages, but what is this “chicken” thing? “Coo coo ka-tchaw!“? Are you trying to tickle me like little baby? I am confused of your meaning to this.
In Germany we take compare to chicken as compliment. Have you not seen the movie films of Werner Herzog? I thought this was Movie “Zeal” not Movie “Not Know Anything” (HA! I laugh out loud on that!).
To provoke the person in Germany we say “What… are you American?”! HAHA! So go ahead and chewing on that, Mr. Evan!
on Sep 10 2008 @ 4:16 pm 22. Evan Derrick said …
Watch Arrested Development sometime Mr. Boll. You could learn a lot about a lot of things from it.
Also, your mother is fat.
on Sep 10 2008 @ 5:43 pm 23. Kristena said …
Yeah, you can learn lessons like why you always leave a note.
on Sep 10 2008 @ 10:29 pm 24. Phillip Johnston said …
Better to leave a note than make a guy lose his arm. Especially when you’re en route to The Gothic Castle in clothes that say “Dad likes leather”.
on Sep 10 2008 @ 11:32 pm 25. Fox said …
Whoa… did Kristena and Phillip just make the most bizarre non sequitirs of all time, or am I just not up on my Arrested Development??
on Sep 11 2008 @ 5:51 am 26. G said …
Fox, you’re just not up on your AD. Those are some pretty standard references. Although neither of them run through the entire series.
on Sep 11 2008 @ 9:28 am 27. Fox said …
Dammit!…
Btw, did y’all hear that Michael Cera is kinda lukewarm on doing an AD movie? Last week I read that he (paraphrasing) “really didn’t see the point”.
on Sep 11 2008 @ 9:41 am 28. Luke Harrington said …
I would tend to agree with him…having watched the whole series recently, I’d have to say that it would definitely have gotten stale if it had continued much past its original three seasons. Also, while the humor worked well for half-hour episodes, I really can’t see it sustaining itself over a couple of unbroken hours.
(Now I sit here and wait for the fanboys to jump all over me.)
on Sep 11 2008 @ 9:46 am 29. Fox said …
Yeah, I think you’re right Luke. I mean, I would totally go see the movie, but would it really satisfy the hunger than the fans have? (Did Fire Walk With Me satisfy Twin Peaks devotees?)
Like you said, the humor worked well in bried episodes over a season, but as a 2-hour kind of “finale” it may turn into a mess.
As I’ve learned from many of my sports heroes, sometimes it’s best to go out on top… and when you go out, stay out.
on Sep 11 2008 @ 9:56 am 30. Luke Harrington said …
Thank you, Michael Jordan.
Hollywood’s determination to run all of its IPs into the ground is astounding.
on Sep 11 2008 @ 10:29 am 31. Evan Derrick said …
What both of you need to understand that for many of us (Phillip, Kristena, myself, etc.), AD is the equivalent of crack: it matters little if the product is bad for us, if it’s of an inferior quality, or if it has nothing of value to offer the world. You wave some before our eyes and, goshdarnit, we MUST have it. Period.
So whether it would only work in a half-hour format or if they could have continued the show past 3 seasons are completely superfluous considerations for us addicts. If there’s an AD movie (and by golly there had better be one or heads will roll) we’ll be there, ready to ingest all the crack we possibly can. We don’t process AD logically, we process it instinctively.
Also, I will hunt Michael Cera down if he doesn’t do this movie. With a spoon. Because “it will hurt more, you twit.”
on Sep 11 2008 @ 10:46 am 32. Luke Harrington said …
Evan, there are rehab clinics for people like you.
on Sep 11 2008 @ 10:59 am 33. Evan Derrick said …
I reject the assumption behind your suggestion, Luke.
on Sep 11 2008 @ 11:01 am 34. Luke Harrington said …
You’re okay with the suggestion itself, though? Cool.
on Sep 11 2008 @ 12:11 pm 35. Kristena said …
Michael Cera better not forget his roots, yo.
on Sep 11 2008 @ 12:55 pm 36. Fox said …
OMG… Evan and Kristena are scaring me. You know, we play around a lot on here, but I get the feeling they ain’t joking around!
(Luke, pssst… Since Evan says they can be led around by the noses – “wave some before our eyes and, goshdarnit, we MUST have it.” – when AD is dangled in front of them, how ’bout we trick them into a “AD Marathon” at some theater, and then just play Uwe Boll movies on repeat for 24 hours?).
I mean, Evan was kidding about that “spoon” thing right? And I see – through her blog – that Kristena uses a lot of needles… hmm, maybe we shouldn’t.
on Sep 11 2008 @ 2:13 pm 37. Kristena said …
That’s right. Don’t make me embroider “AD” on your face.
on Sep 11 2008 @ 3:43 pm 38. Evan Derrick said …
Just so you know, Fox, Luke has told me he thinks our next “theme month” should be Uwe Boll related. I personally blame you.
And watch out for the crazy knitting needle lady – she means business when she starts talkin’ embroidery.
on Sep 11 2008 @ 3:47 pm 39. Luke Harrington said …
For the record, I was dead serious about that. There are a lot of potential readers who would love to read an entire month of us putting Uwe through the proverbial ringer. Back me up on this, Fox.
on Sep 11 2008 @ 4:35 pm 40. Haiku Girl said …
I’d do a post on Postal… as its the only UWE film I’d watch again.
on Sep 11 2008 @ 5:05 pm 41. Fox said …
I’ll back you up Luke, but then I’d probably have to watch my back.
Kristena already sent me an e-mail that said “I’m not scared to go Audition on your ass!!!” :0(
…and then someone named “Devan Erick” e-mailed me a picture of this.
So, yeah, I would contribute to UWE ZEAL month… if I’m still (gulp) around.