Got these Monday the 13th, but....life got in the way, so here we go....
So!! Plan A was either "The Batman" or "Morbius".
Well, they had "The Batman" but I was short by a couple dimes.
And, I was a day early for "Morbius".
I could have gone home, and come back the next day.
I could have gone home, and scrounged the dimes, and come back.
I just plain didn't want to have burnt that gas for nothing.
So, I went to Plan B.
And Plan B failed.
And C, and D, and E....
I went all the way to Plan Z.
Everything I wanted for substitutes, they didn't fucking have, or I couldn't afford.
Finally, I went tail between my legs to the 7 dollar section.
And damn.....there was actually good shit there!
So, I grabbed these!
The Princess Bride (1987)
Yeah, I desperately needed this upgraded to Blu-ray.
Especially after just reading "As You Wish".
That's part of a big book-a-thon review post I have coming up.
Stay tuned for that.
The bonuses alone were worth it, and lifted me out of some serious doldrums.
Thank you, William Goldman and Rob Reiner for the existence of this.
I think this is just about everyone's anti-depressant.
Bladerunner (1982)
Bladerunner 2049 (2017)
Old review of Bladerunner here.
Last edition I had was fucking VHS, so I totally needed the boost to Blu-ray.
And while I was grabbing stuff, 2049 was right there.
May as well have the duology.
I love them both, but 2049 could stand to have about 20 minutes cut.
It drags a little bit towards the end.
I needed a caffeine break to make it.
But, overall, yeah, still great.
And both for 14 bucks?
You can't beat that with a stick!
And hey!! Buttercup from "Bride" is in 2049!
Synchronicity!
It was meant to be!
So, that's those!
Had to log 'em!
2 comments:
The four-disc "Blade Runner" DVD set that I have (I know there's a super-collectory 5-disc set, but I don't *really* care about the workprint version of the movie) is probably the finest special-edition disc/disc set of a movie that I have, contended with only by the two-disc Criterion "Dazed & Confused" and the two-disc special edition "Zodiac."
I never understood the movie at first, but in 2008-09 really fell in love with the whole thing.
I maintain that there is no movie that benefits more from immersing yourself in the culture surrounding the movie (reviews, debates, discussion boards, essays, fan fiction, history, whatever) than "Blade Runner."
BR2049....yeah, already said this I guess, but it was really on to something up until the final act.
There were good scenes like the first scene with JOI and I like how the movie went the opposite of the original BR to the point of even repudiating a classic--the original BR presented you with a bleak world, but one that was sort of romantically bleak and cool, like one you'd like to visit from time to time.
You'd never in forty million years want to live in the world of BR2049.
That's interesting.
Then we get to the Harrison Ford scenes, and they're pretty good (without deleting the "Deck-A-Rep" debate!)
So far, so good.
Then....
....a lame fight scene with a female replicant warrior which is the usual fight scene dreck we get in the movies today where Gosling would probably be dead after two punches or something like that and Ford would've drowned, but noooo.
....a meaningless "revelation" about some sort of replicant uprising or something that Hampton Fancher really botched, is it part of the *point* that you wouldn't care about replicants taking over the crappy BR2049 depress-o-world?
....an ending scene involving Gosling looking at snow that has no emotional impact whatsoever, at least Sir Ridley would have done a good commercial job of FAKING the emotion in this scene, Denis Villeneuve probably isn't capable of such warmth at gunpoint.
I also have no idea what reason anyone would have for caring about the Jared Leto character, or what they were even going to do with him.
Whatever they were trying to do with the history of what happened with the world between BR and BR2049 (the "blackout") also failed to catch my interest. (It might be a botched reference to "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?," where we're told "World War Terminus" had recently occurred.)
It's more of a good movie than bad, but gawd does that last act blow.
As for picking up the DVD, I'm sure I've seen unwanted $5 copies of it in every grocery store in America for the last five years.
Right next to countless unwanted copies of "Howard The Duck," still making money off that one George?
"Princess Bride" is on DVD now in a cool Criterion purple/yellow package BTW, did you get that one? I guess it's like the thirtieth time the movie's been issued.
Note: Google "princess bride william goldman book" or something like that and you can eventually see a 1970s copy of the book with cover art that looks like a cross between "Sophie's Choice" and a friggin' porno. You'll know it when you see it. Amusingly 70s for an item so associated with the 1980s.
Sorry for lateness!
Book-a-thon still going on!
8 down, 3 to go!
Re:BR2049, Yeah, I can't tell if Gosling was supposed to be dying, or what.
They should have had a dove fly by.
Y'know, to tie into how the dove represented Roy's soul in the first one.
I think they did the dove in the prequel anime.
Ah, well.
Maybe in the real 2049, they'll fix it.
Um, nope, not Criterion "Princess Bride".
Basic edition.
Still tons of bonuses though.
Dunno what else it needed.
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