Today is the official release day on home video for Star Trek (2009) in the US. While choosing Trek for my favorite film of the year was easy, more difficult is picking which Blu-ray set to get.
Best Buy, and a couple others, are offereing the Blu set with four Starfleet insignias. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m amazed at the overall lackluster Blu-ray titles released month-after-month. In a given week, there are maybe an average of 15+ titles, mostly made up of “B” films (if we are lucky) and a plethora of movies I have never heard of or not going to fork over $25-$35 for. Come on! – a premium format at a premium price should have a premium library.
But I am happy to see things changing. Looking at the 2009 release schedule, hardly a week goes by I don’t see a few choice titles come up. Last fall the 007
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The 81st Academy Awards were held last night and I issued myself a pass. Not a pass to get in, but a pass to pass on watching the broadcast. The last time I sat through the Oscars was a couple years ago. The last time I watched the show in its entirety, well, all I remember was a really funny skit involving Owen Wilson with a crack about why he should be up for an award for Behind Enemy Lines when all he did was run around in it. That was the 74th Academy Awards in 2002.
See, the thing is I love the movies. I have seen more than my individual share at the theater, attended screenings when I lived in Los Angeles, premieres in NYC, owned hundreds on VHS, bought over 1400 films on LaserDisc and more than 500 on DVD plus made the switch to Blu. But I don’t care a whole lot for the Hollywood crowd. To me most of the actors and actresses are a bunch of spoiled babies with huge issues. I don’t read about them in People because I don’t really care about what they have to say – only what they are told to say in whatever film they are in. I don’t want to hear their political views either, just like I don’t necessarily want to know about some random guys view who is plucked off the street in Tucson.
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