New Releases, 20 Dec 2005
Some Releases:
The Amazing Race: Season Seven
I don’t care what the conventional wisdom is, but I liked the Family Edition. I just need to watch the finale of that one of these days. Thank goodness for Christmas break!
Battlestar Galactica: Season 2.0 (3-disc set)
It’s confirmed — this set won’t have the podcast commentary on the final episode, nor the extra minutes on the ep. That will show up in the Season 2.5 disc.
Chicago: The Razzle-Dazzle Edition (2-disc set) (2002)
This is it! The week’s Unnecessary Special Edition Award winner!
Cry_Wolf: Unrated Edition (widescreen) (2005)
Cry_Wolf (R-rated) (widescreen) (2005)
Cry_Wolf (R-rated) (full-frame) (2005)
It’s a horror film starring, amongst others, Jon Bon Jovi and Gary Cole. I never heard of it before today. It’s set at a school of some sort, and that’s all I know about it
ER: Season Four (6-disc set)
This includes the live episode. I believe it’s Target where you’ll get the bonus disc with the extra East Coast feed of that episode.
Four Brothers (2005)
Got some good critical reviews this past summer/fall.
The Great Raid: Director’s Cut (unrated) (2-disc set) (2005)
The Great Raid (R-rated) (2005)
Word War II movie that slid under the radar pretty fast, starring noted pretty boys Benjamin Bratt and James Franco.
MacGyver: Season Four (5-disc set)
Mac is Back. Again.
Serenity (2005)
It’s the release of the week, as Joss Whedon’s crew from FIREFLY return to space. And some of them won’t be coming back. dum Dum DUM!
Next week: Nowhere Man: The Complete Series, The Shield: Season Four, and Toy Story 2: Special Edition, amongst others.
December 20th, 2005 at 4:15 pm
Special note about Battlestar (if memory serves) is that it’s only half of the 2nd season which if true, seems kind of lousy to be releasing it like that.
Picked up Serenity sight unseen despite knowing who makes it and who doesn’t ‘course, I also have “Can’t take the sky from me” tattooed on me, so buying it was a given.
Anybody seen Four Brothers-actually kinda curious about that one, Andre 3000 is turning into a decent actor.
December 20th, 2005 at 11:28 pm
SERENITY was great, though I found that they pretty well ended up dropping the whole “western in space” angle which made the show so unique and fun. Of course, it probably was one of the factors that ended up leading to it’s cancellation.. but I digress.
FOUR BROTHERS- is fun in a 70’s blaxploitation type of way. Kind of a modern western in a sense. Definitely not an Oscar contender, but great popcorn fare.
Next week’s choosing of NOWHERE MAN and SHIELD SEASON 4 - have me drooling already. If only it had come out a week earlier- could have waited for Santa to drop it under the tree.
December 21st, 2005 at 12:16 am
Sci-fi’s airing Battlestar in two halves, with a big split between the two (oddly enough, the second half of season 2 hits the air a few days after the DVD comes out). Which is why, while it’s only half of the second season, it’s the season that’s been on TV so far.
December 21st, 2005 at 9:13 am
Yes, this is only half of Season 2 for Battlestar, with the second half of the season starting sometime in Jauary. Probably will get released on DVD in Summer as Season 3 gets ready to start in July.