There are a few choice titles out this week, but not a huge amount of selection at DVD resolution. It’s like studios didn’t want to compete with the big doorcrasher this week. (It’s some J.J. Abrams thing you might have heard about.)
First, the DVD picks:
- 7th Heaven: The Complete Ninth Season
- American Venus
- Andy Barker, P.I.: The Complete Series
- Avant Garde 3: Experimental Cinema 1922-1954
- Ben 10, Alien Force, Vol. 5
- Bleach Vol. 22
- Bruno
- The Call of the Hunter
- Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion: R2, Part 2
- Dane Cook: ISolated INcident
- Daniel Boone: Fess’ Favorites
- Daniel Boone: The Best of Mingo
- Downhill Racer (Criterion Collection): One of the more mainstream Criterion titles.
- Dragon Ball Z: Dragon Box Z 1: Alex: This contains episodes 1-42 of Dragonball Z, which it looks like will take you 3 episodes in to the Namek & Captain Ginyu Saga.
- Drawn Together: The Complete Series
- Elvis Costello: Spectacle: Season One
- Farscape: The Complete Season One
- Farscape: The Complete Season Two
- Farscape: The Complete Season Three
- Farscape: The Complete Season Four
- Farscape: The Complete Series: Alex: About frelling time! After ADV lost the rights to Sony, Sony let the DVDs slide out of print and was just satisfied with sales through iTunes. Hopefully Netflix will get around to-rebuying the show.
- Gone With The Wind (Two Disc Edition)
- Gone With The Wind (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition)
- Hayate the Combat Butler Vol. 3
- Hollywood Wives: The New Generation
- Is Anybody There?
- It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: It’s A Very Sunny Christmas
- Kujibiki Unbalance Complete Thin Pack
- The Little Couple
- Mai-Otome Complete Collection
- Margaret Cho: Beautiful
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Season 1, Part 3: Alex: In case I didn’t mention before, this is the series that does to Gundam Wing what Gundam SEED did to the Original Gundam Series.
- Monk: Best of Monk: 8 episodes, one from each season
- Moonshot
- My Sister’s Keeper
- Neon Genesis Evangelion 1.01: You Are (not) Alone: Alex: The first of the films in the Eva Reset Trilogy, which basically re-tells the series. However, unlike Death & Rebirth and End of Evangelion, all the animation is new (no animation is re-used from the series), and there are some modifications to the plot, including the introduction of a new character. I haven’t seen the series (though Blaine’s got it on DVD, IIRC) or this movie, so I can’t compare the two. Blaine: I do own the perfect collection, but haven’t even cracked it yet.
- The Open Road
- Polyphonica Complete
- Princess Princess Complete: Alex: A Shoujo (girls) show with Shonen-Ai (“Boys Love” – Yaoi or homosexual) themes.
- The Prisoner: Not the TV series.
- Rome: The Complete Series
- Shaw Brothers Metal Tin: A collection of some pretty good Shaw Brothers films (including Heroes Shed No Tears), and an offer for a Shaw Brothers T-Shirt.
- Silent Scream
- The Smurfs: World of Wonders, Vol. 3
- Snow Fairy Shugar Collection 2
- The Sopranos: The Complete Series
- Spectacular Spider-Man Vol. 5
- Star Trek (Single Disc Edition)
- Star Trek (Two Disc Edition)
- The Best of Star Trek: The Original Series, Vol. 2
- The Best of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Vol. 2
- Taintlight: Some kind of Twilight spoof.
- Towards the Terra Complete
- Wagon Train – The Complete First Season – Special Limited Edition
- The Wild Child
- WWE: Hulk Hogan’s Unreleased Collector’s Series: Alex: Another collection of Hulk Hogan’s matches from the WWE tape library. In short, not only is this not my pick of the week, but if we had one, this would be my snub of the week (being that Hogan can’t wrestle).
Now, the Blu-Ray picks:
- Bruno
- Chasing Amy
- Clerks
- Elvis Costello: Spectacle – Season One
- Fight Club
- Galaxy Quest
- Gone With the Wind (70th Anniversary Edition)
- Is Anybody There?
- It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: A Very Sunny Christmas
- Kevin Smith Box Set: Includes “Clerks,” “Chasing Amy,” and “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.”
- Moonshot
- My Sister’s Keeper
- The Open Road
- Police Story
- The Professional
- Rome: The Complete Series
- Scrubs: Complete Eigth Season
- sex, lies, and videotape
- Star Trek (Three Disc Edition)
- Tsubasa: Resevoir Chronicle – Season 1: Alex: Blu-Ray release of the DVD release we got last week.
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “My Blu-Ray pick for this week is Star Trek (no surprise there), and my standard def pick is Farscape Complete.” Blaine says, “I pick Star Trek in the highest resolution you can handle.”
I have never managed to watch Farscape all the way through. I missed most of it when it was on originally, I tried and failed to watch it when it was rerun in syndication multiple times, and I haven’t had a chance to rent any of the seasons. I’m glad they finally got around to releasing the entire set. Maybe one day I’ll pick it up and finally get to see it from start to finish. At >$100, it’s a bit out of my entertainment budget range at the moment.
In the meantime, I, too, will be getting Star Trek this week, if anything.
Well, if you’ve got a Netflix subscription, they also have seasons 1-3 available for streaming as well.
I have a Blockbuster Online account, not Netflix. They do have them available to rent, but we have far too much TV on right now to try taking on a complete series. I typically keep that stuff for the summer, when there is almost nothing on TV.
If I can’t manage to pick up the series by next summer, I think I’ll try to rent it again.
Dang Americans and your wonderful Netflix! If only it would come north of the border and allow me access to the forbidden closet of mystery!
As Fez said, this would be nice, but at over $100 USD (which should be around $120 for me) it’s a little out of the budget. Hopefully it does the same thing as Firefly did and drops within the next year – either that, or I know what I’m looking for on Boxing Day.
Farscape was a fantastic series that ended far before it’s time. Everyone should watch it!
One note for those planning to pick up Farscape: as far as I can tell this set does not include the “Peacekeeper Wars” mini-series, so while this does have all of the original run and is much, much cheaper than the original ADV discs, it doesn’t have everything.
Thanks for the clarification. I’d wondered about that but didn’t look closely to check.
So it will be like SG-1 then on my shelf, a giant box set sitting next to the follow-up movie(s). :-)
The boxed set is being released by A&E Home Video while the Peacekeepers Wars was released by Lions Gate.
For those like me who are upgrading from the ADV discs, some of which were fairly poor quality, the box set lists a lot of extras but I’ll wait to see whether they are repeats of the ADV disc extras or all new material before selling off my old discs.