DVD/Blu-Ray: Limitless Tekken

Topic started by Rorie on July 19, 2011. Last post by CherryBomb 1 year, 10 months ago.
Post by Rorie (3,216 posts) See mini bio
LOOK INTO MY EYES
LOOK INTO MY EYES

I really like Bradley Cooper. I wish I goddamn knew why; I should loathe him and call him a douchebag, but goddamn if he doesn't just charm the pants off me. Part of that is undoubtedly just the familiarity that we all have with celebrities; we see them so often that we start to look past whatever surface level bullshit would cause us to dislike them. And, don't get me wrong, if I saw Bradley Cooper in a bar without knowing who he was, I'd be hard pressed not to throw a drink in his face, with or without him hitting on me.

Alright, we're getting into some pretty personal fantasies here. How about we just get on to the DVD release list, shall we?

DVD

1. Limitless

I confess, as per a podcast discussion with Ryan, that I find Bradley Cooper totally disarming. I'd let him talk French to me in bed, in other words. I look forward to checking this film out, especially after the unexpected thumbs up from Alex.

2. Take Me Home Tonight

A worldwide total of seven million dollars? That's got to be a fairly huge "ouch" for Relativity on the balance sheet. I'm sure it'll make all that money back in DVD sales, right? ...right?

3. Cracks

Eva Green is a teacher in a British all-girls school, and her students start competing over their infatuation with her? I'd love to think that this is some amazingly trashy pseudo-lesbianic tale, but reading the Wikipedia summary just makes it seem depressing.

4. Dumbstruck

The ventriloquist documentary you never knew you wanted! Because you didn't want it ever, ever, ever!

5. House of the Rising Sun

I really like Amy Smart, if only because she's incredibly hot, so I'm sad that she's making movies with WWE guys like Bautista now. Not because I hate him or anything, but just because those movies generally wind up pretty bad. That said, this doesn't appear to be a WWE movie, so who knows? Maybe it's the next Citizen Kane, although with a tagline like "They took his badge. He kept the gun," I doubt it.

6. Mayor Cupcake

Lea Thompson bakes cupcakes...but then she has to run for mayor! Sounds like wacky hijinks! It's a shocker this is heading straight for DVD!

7. Peep World

I'm not going to lie; the trailer for this didn't impress me at all. But don't let that stop you from enjoying this fine, 20% RT meter film.

8. Tekken

So, apparently this movie cost $35 million to make and made less than a million at the box office after failing to find an American distributor. God forbid a terrible movie should do poorly! (I assume it's terrible.)

9. Potiche

French comedy! I do so generally love those. I'll check out this Catherine Deneuve/Gerard Depardieu film as soon as it hits Netflix!

10. Monsterwolf

According to the IMDB description, "The movie is about a group of people who represent oil company, while working, they accidentally cause a Wolf to appear and start attacking them. No one can stop the wolf but one of the last native Americans." Yeah. Yeah, man. Yeah.

11. Doctor Who (Reboot)

In television DVDs, we have Doctor Who: Series Six, Part 1, Hey Dude: Season 1, The Littles: The Complete Collection, Melrose Place: Season Six and Season Six, Volume 2, Top Gear USA: The Complete First Season, and Torchwood: The Complete Original UK Series.

Post by honeycut1 (10 posts) See mini bio

So what are people checking out first? I may have to go with Batista just for the fun of it.

Post by RockinKemosabe (884 posts) See mini bio

Definitely Limitless, probably check out Lincoln Lawyer and Rango cause didn't get around to seeing them last week.

Post by crithon (80 posts) See mini bio
man, I've been waiting for that Tekken movie when Sammo Hung was announced as Hiehachi in 2000
Post by CherryBomb (1,255 posts) See mini bio
I think Take Me Home Tonight will do fine 
it looks like one of those movies that you'd wait to buy the dvd for some mindless entertainment now and again 
and i thought the trailer for Peep World looked kinda good actually! 
 
and mmm, Bradley Cooper! look at him (:
Post by enemymouse (141 posts) See mini bio

We named our all-girls school movie "Cracks"? We really did that?

Post by SoFuLL (84 posts) See mini bio
A word of caution, Potiche isn't very good.
Post by litrock (560 posts) See mini bio

Tekken is really bad. And not like a DOA bad-but-in-a-way-I-can-laugh-at kind of way. It's just sad. And there are no good Heihachi beatdowns despite teasing us with them the entire movie.

Post by Daemon (630 posts) See mini bio
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I remember Monster Wolf being actually fairly decent fun with some amusing characters -- although I do have to qualify that with a "for a SyFy channel movie" so don't anyone get too eager in checking it out. Tekken was pretty damn bad and kind of wasted the talent and the characters they had...although visually the Blade Runner-ish future slums had a decent atmosphere to them. I know...I'm really reaching on that one. Oh hey the sisters Nina and Anna Williams are both merely Kazuya's whores in this film...at the same time! Gotta love that sense of class.
Post by teh_destroyer (483 posts) See mini bio

Matt, would yo cheat on Joseph Gordon- Levitt for Bradley Cooper?

Post by The_Patriarch (260 posts) See mini bio

@CherryBomb: 19 million dollar budget, only 7 million made in theatres... I really doubt it.

Saw Limitless at the cinema and liked it a lot. Nice to see Robert De Niro in something that doesnt suck. Will probably get it on dvd once it drops in price. God his eyes are blue in that flick!

Post by FighterOfFoo (7 posts) See mini bio
I agree with Matt's sentiments about Brad Cooper. Goddammit if I don't like the fuck out of him despite myself.
Post by CherryBomb (1,255 posts) See mini bio
@The_Patriarch:  Well I'm sure you'll be proven wrong. It's not a strange thing for a film to have good DVD sales. Especially a comedy movie.
Post by The_Patriarch (260 posts) See mini bio

@CherryBomb: It's not. It is a strange thing for a movie to do better on dvd than in theatres though, especially when it's one that was received poorly by both critics and viewers. I havent seen it, so Im not speaking to the quality of it. Im just saying it's doubtful this will end up anything other than a flop.

Post by dezvous (92 posts) See mini bio

I watched Tekken so long ago over at a friends house, it was in pristine quality too. It must have been while it was waiting for that distributor, because it really feels like it was close to a year ago. Anyways, Tekken is kind of enjoyable in that half paying attention kind of way. The costumes are pretty good and the thought of "Tekken bucks" or whatever they called their currency remains an inside joke between us still. It's a pretty horrible movie but I thought the fight scenes were okay. I mean, at the end of the day it's a freaking Tekken movie. How good could it have ever been?

Post by Hot_Karl (768 posts) See mini bio
@CherryBomb: I doubt Take Me Home Tonight will be a huge success, but that's a movie that'll have a decent cult around it. It'll probably be that movie that's always on at 12-2am Saturday/Sunday nights on Comedy Central & TBS networks. I guarantee that;ll happen within a few years.
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