Archive for the ‘Retrowatch’ Category

The Elitist asks: What do today’s reviews have in common? Max Von Sydow!

Posted: 4th May 2010 by admin in Blu Ray, Retrowatch
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Dune…Dreamscape…Minority Report. All on Blu Ray. All with Max Von Sydow. Can’t get enough of this bad ass Swede, especially when he’s in Ming-mode. Already on order: Flash Gordon Blu Ray in June! Yeah, yeah. The Harrassinator’s long-winded rebuttals will get posted soon.

The Elitist retrowatch…Minority Report on Blu Ray

Posted: 4th May 2010 by admin in Blu Ray, Retrowatch, Reviews
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This movie is tedious and boring. Look! It has Tom Cruise running! Run little guy, run. Guess it is good I got it on sale. This disc is going on the dusty shelf with the fuzzy teddy bear from AI. Double-stinker! Maybe one of these days, the Harrasinator will write some retrowatch reviews. That guy […]

The Elitist retrowatch…Dune on Blu Ray

Posted: 3rd May 2010 by admin in Blu Ray, Retrowatch, Reviews
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Say what you want about David Lynch’s adaptation of Dune, seeing it on Blu Ray was a complete eye opener! It has its messy, rushed narrative, but this is sci fi Shakespeare, or sci fi Lawrence of Arabia. And it looks just as epic. I remember seeing Dune in the theater as a kid, and […]

The Elitist retrowatch…Dreamscape on Blu Ray

Posted: 3rd May 2010 by admin in Blu Ray, Retrowatch, Reviews
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I’m a physical media addict. I had a huge VHS collection, which lead to a huge laser disc collection, then on to a DVD collection…and now on to Blu Ray. Shelves full of dead or dying media formats. And as a new set of media comes out, I replace the older versions with the new. […]