On Blu-ray This Week: October 8 to October 14, 2007
This week’s Blu-ray releases are much like last week’s, including titles that will have you burrowing deep into the cushions of your couch. Yep, this is another round of Halloween themed movies – most of them at least – that had us reeling from getting seriously weird, mutated, surreal, violent, bloody (please take away this thesaurus from me, thanks).
Of course, a number of other titles strayed into this week’s Blu-ray releases, like the surfing penguins (sans the happy feet) in Surf’s Up, the video nature experience in Nature’s Journey, and the drama flick Reign Over Me. The other titles are not in any way forgettable – would you forget the guy with scissors for hands, the cop who got “upgraded” to the pinnacle of coolness, and the Twilight Zone theme song? We thought not, so let’s move on to the releases.
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Know where that tagline originally came? It’s from the 1986 movie, The Fly. It stars Jeff Goldblum as the brilliant but mad eccentric scientist who inadvertently turns himself into the Fly in a lab experiment gone bad. Talk about the bummer of bummers right? Lesson learned: do not try to teleport yourself when inebriated, or entirely not do anything as there is a danger of doing stupid things whilst drunk (*ahem*).
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This week’s Blu-ray releases are much like last week’s, including titles that will have you burrowing deep into the cushions of your couch. Yep, this is another round of Halloween themed movies – most of them at least – that had us reeling from getting seriously weird, mutated, surreal, violent, bloody (please take away this thesaurus from me, thanks).
Of course, a number of other titles strayed into this week’s Blu-ray releases, like the surfing penguins (sans the happy feet) in Surf’s Up, the video nature experience in Nature’s Journey, and the drama flick Reign Over Me. The other titles are not in any way forgettable – would you forget the guy with scissors for hands, the cop who got “upgraded” to the pinnacle of coolness, and the Twilight Zone theme song? We thought not, so let’s move on to the releases.
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Know where that tagline originally came? It’s from the 1986 movie, The Fly. It stars Jeff Goldblum as the brilliant but mad eccentric scientist who inadvertently turns himself into the Fly in a lab experiment gone bad. Talk about the bummer of bummers right? Lesson learned: do not try to teleport yourself when inebriated, or entirely not do anything as there is a danger of doing stupid things whilst drunk (*ahem*).
Most people don’t know cyberpunk, the mix of high technology and low society in fiction, but say “RoboCop” and most people light up. For those of who watched this film as children, RoboCop was just too cool. Police officer Alex Murphy gets roughed up by a bunch of thugs, really roughed up to the point of flat lining in the hospital. He gets upgraded to become the cybernetic cop who quite literally cleans up the city, though who knew he had to clean up the people who created him?
In the spirit of last week’s releases, we’ve got the double punch of zombie goodness: 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later. What’s more terrifying than waking up in a hospital bed alone – tumbleweeds and empty streets, alone? You have no idea what’s been going on and you go somewhere familiar (read: your parents’ house), and well, you get chased by bloodthirsty people infected with the “Rage Virus.” 28 Weeks Later picks up another story, with Britain announced “relatively safe.” You can imagine something’s bound to go wrong in so many ways, right?
Anyway, you notice that this writer avoided the Johnny Depp movies, From Hell (based on the graphic novel about Jack the Ripper) and Edward Scissorhands, since you probably won’t like wiping slobber off your monitors so there. Here are all the Blu-ray releases for this week, October 8 to October 14, 2007:
- 28 Weeks Later (20th Century Fox)
- Surf’s Up (Sony Pictures)
- 28 Days Later (20th Century Fox)
- Robocop (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
- From Hell (20th Century Fox)
- Twilight Zone: The Movie (Warner Bros.)
- Edward Scissorhands (20th Century Fox)
- Reign Over Me (Sony Pictures)
- Nature’s Journey (Koch Entertainment)
- The Fly (20th Century Fox)