Comments on: Weekly DVD Picks

By: white.roses

white.roses — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 14:33:32 +0000

Re: Ultimate Matrix Collection

The dock full of Zion-brand mecha shooting SquidBot SquarePantses for like 45 minutes was worth the price of admission all by itself.

I dunno, I mean, I can watch that sort of thing for hours. I don’t know if that makes it worth the price of admission (not that I paid that anyway – that month we went through about 15 to 20 movies, so we weren’t paying that much per disc). I mean, the only way the plot would have been worse is if someone said Neo’s powers were due to an excessively high midichlorian count.

By: y42

y42 — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 20:09:39 +0000

Re: Ultimate Matrix Collection

Revolutions was so . . . bad.
Could've been a lot worse. The Trinity thing was so heavy-handed it made me nauseous, but there's lots of neat chases and death and explosions, which is all we really came for anyway. The dock full of Zion-brand mecha shooting SquidBot SquarePantses for like 45 minutes was worth the price of admission all by itself.

It would have, had it been all by itself. It's the stuff around it that people were annoyed at.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:00:04 +0000

Re: Ultimate Matrix Collection

Revolutions was so . . . bad.

Could’ve been a lot worse. The Trinity thing was so heavy-handed it made me nauseous, but there’s lots of neat chases and death and explosions, which is all we really came for anyway. The dock full of Zion-brand mecha shooting SquidBot SquarePantses for like 45 minutes was worth the price of admission all by itself.

By: white.roses

white.roses — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 13:40:27 +0000

Ultimate Matrix Collection
I just can’t justify purchasing this to myself. Revolutions was so . . . bad. My wife and I never went to see it in the theater (due to new parenting duties), but we did NetFlix it when it came available. The two things I recall about it are the extended and contrived denouement battle with Agent Smith, and the disgustingly syrupy death of Trinity that went on for so long . . . gah! I was MST3K’ing it before we got halfway through. We yakked on about Trinity dying, only to pay attention again to find . . . she’s still dying. Just freaking die already.

The first one was fantastic. Had a sort of BladeRunner-esque what-is-life/reality thing going. Reloaded was viscerally fun, but Revolutions, sorry, they lost me.

By: fiziko

fiziko — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 13:28:37 +0000

Re: M

Is there an English audio track on M, or is it just English subtitles?

It has the original German audio with English subtitles.

By: fiziko

fiziko — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 13:27:19 +0000

Re: Species III

What, specifically, is in the missing footage?

Sex and violence.

By: chad

chad — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 05:00:14 +0000

M
Is there an English audio track on M, or is it just English subtitles?

By: chad

chad — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 04:50:58 +0000

Species III

Species III – Unrated Edition: This includes footage not included in the network broadcasts. Let’s face it; the missing footage was the footage most viewers were looking for, anyway.

What, specifically, is in the missing footage?

By: robertgadlen

robertgadlen — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 19:32:26 +0000

Re: Well

On a sidenote, Gilmour Girls, for a chick show, is surprisingly good. Even the obligatory “will they won’t they” romance isn’t nauseating… first time I’ve ever seen one of those without wanting to throw up.

Gilmore Girls has actually become my favorite show currently on tv now that theres no more Joss on…which might have to do with them hiring a bunch of buffyverse writers. Or it could just be that Danny Strong is histerical in any role :)

By: y42

y42 — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 18:32:08 +0000

Well
On the one hand, I’ve never managed to finish the original Metropolis, it’s just too slow. Maybe I have attention deficit issues, maybe I’ve been brainwashed by MTV and videogames, either way, I just wish he’d get on with it, I get it, yes, they are walking to the factory, the factory is a monster, I GET IT!

However, this M thingy looks interresting, and you seem to be quite adament about its virtues, so I’ll add it to my big mental list of movie I have to see.

On a sidenote, Gilmour Girls, for a chick show, is surprisingly good. Even the obligatory “will they won’t they” romance isn’t nauseating… first time I’ve ever seen one of those without wanting to throw up.