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.
Archive for May, 2010
The Elitist asks: What do today’s reviews have in common? Max Von Sydow!
Posted: 4th May 2010 by admin in Blu Ray, Retrowatch76
The Elitist retrowatch…Minority Report on Blu Ray
Posted: 4th May 2010 by admin in Blu Ray, Retrowatch, ReviewsThis 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, ReviewsSay 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, ReviewsI’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. […]
Iron Man 2 opens next Friday. The Elitist is a huge fan of the original. Tony Stark and I drink the same scotch. The early reviews are mixed. To me, this one looks like so many movie sequels: 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound doggie bag. Too many characters. I’m on the fence. […]