DVD

After what seems like a long wait (it has been available on Zune for several weeks), The Grey is finally out on DVD today. Liam Neeson plays a bad-ass trying to survive the Alaskan wilderness? Yes please. I had not heard of it, but Chronicle actually also looks like a pretty interesting watch. It explores the lives of 3 high school kids that have super-hero powers. I love the actual super-hero movies, and this seems like a cool look at what would happen if someone gained these powers in a totally realistic way. There was also big Academy Awards buzz around both Rampart and Albert Nobbs, but mostly for the stellar performances of the actors.

DVD/Blu-Ray

	1. Chronicle The anti-Avengers superhero film. Three "normal" high school students make a discovery that allows them to develop uncanny superpowers. The friends start to learn to control their new abilities, but then it also explores what starts to happen when their darker sides take over. I'm not sure about the found footage device, but this looks pretty solid.
	2. The Grey It's Liam Neeson battling the Alaskan wilderness after being stranded with a group of oil-rig roughnecks after their plane crashes. Just watch it already.
	3. The Devil Inside If you have a thing for horrid horror movies watch this. If you do not, don't watch this.
	4. One for the Money The only thing I hate more than Katherine Heigl in a movie is Katherine Heigl in a movie with a bad Jersey accent. The 98% rotten rating on rottentomatoes seems to agree with me.
	5. Rampart Woody Harrelson is a bad cop, And by bad I don't mean useless I mean one of the most awful and corrupt cops that has ever been on screen. I can only hope that this movie is complete fiction, but Harrelson's performance makes you think it is a real story which is truly terrifying.
	6. Albert Nobbs Possibly worth watching to see Glenn Close's turn as a woman forced to live as a man in 19th Century Ireland. She was nominated for several awards for the performance, which is really the only thing this movie has to offer.
	7. Norwegian Wood Based on Huruki Murakami's novel, the story of two love stories and a man who must chose between his past and present.
	8. Hell on Wheels Season 1 of the AMC western is out on DVD today. I missed it on air, but thinking a marathon might be in order.
	9. Born Yesterday A slew of Mill Creek movies were released on Blu-Ray Disc today and Melanie Griffith's Born Yesterday was one of them. I loved this movie so much as a child and I will like to re-visit a time when her face wasn't plastic.
	10. New York Stories Another in the Mill Creek BD release, whether you are a Woody Allen fan or not will depend if you want to pick it up, but I don't think anyone can deny it's a classic.

I did see Chronicle and it was surprisingly good. It's a great combination of found footage and kids getting super powers. It's what X-Men would be like if it happened.

Chronicle, and The Grey come to Netflix 6/12/12

I'm sorry the others seem week, i might see one for the money, but maybe not

Is this the extended, unrated, wolf-punching version of the Grey? Because that's the only version I want.

chronicle is a great movie i cant wait to see it on blu-ray!

I'll pick up The Grey on blu-ray as that seems like a great film to have to watch alone. I personally believe that seeing it in theater hurt the film in my opinion, the action-oriented mind set of both me and the audience didn't let myself really soak in the slow pacing of this film with the booing when the credits roll or the cheers when the wolves attacked. I'm sort of excited to see it again and really appreciate it this time even though I did enjoy it the first time.

@Watcherg44 said:

Chronicle, and The Grey come to Netflix 6/12/12

are they coming to instant?

@ashogo: I don't think it will be soon, but I could be wrong, i mean Puncture is Streaming

@FinalDasa said:

I did see Chronicle and it was surprisingly good. It's a great combination of found footage and kids getting super powers. It's what X-Men would be like if it happened.

That's what I was hoping going into the film but I personally didn't feel that it lived up to it. I thought that it should have explored the fact that one of them was more powerful than the other and how they slowly lost their humanity. I felt like the film spent too much time on the social aspect of the film and still didn't really dig into that aspect with any meaning. This is where I thought the found footage held the film back, I think since it was all videotaped by the characters that the directors felt like it needed to be too "partyish." All this would have fine if the final fight the film was building too was any good. But it felt like half the fight was spent with one of the characters on the ground or filled with some "eh" special effects. And the movie had to end in that awful emotional pandering mountain scene that didn't connect with anyone in the audience

@TheFaithfullyDeparted: it connected with me. I think there are plenty of people who liked the ending scene.

@ashogo: maybe it was that none of the previous emotional stuff connected with me was why I didn't like that fight

@TheFaithfullyDeparted: I see your points and do agree with some. But I think they wanted to focus on the one kid feeling left out and finally being able to connect to others from his class socially just through his powers. It was more the development of his character turning bad. Personally I thought the found footage was unnecessary.

How is Hell on Wheels?

@FinalDasa: Yeah I got that its just I wanted more I guess and there were some really good emotional scenes (Black kids death/funeral and some of the father scenes) it just wasn't enough for me. For the camera I thought it got a little ridiculous how his first camera looked like it weighed 50 lbs and he was just carrying it around in school and then how they incoperated cameras with the phones flying around with him at the end.

@mylifeforAiur: I really liked the first episode especially the end but I stopped after the second episode. I can't remember if that was because it was getting boring or because thats when I started watching shows on netflix but I remember it didn't capture enough of my attention to watch it over Breaking Bad

@TheFaithfullyDeparted said:

@FinalDasa said:

I did see Chronicle and it was surprisingly good. It's a great combination of found footage and kids getting super powers. It's what X-Men would be like if it happened.

That's what I was hoping going into the film but I personally didn't feel that it lived up to it. I thought that it should have explored the fact that one of them was more powerful than the other and how they slowly lost their humanity. I felt like the film spent too much time on the social aspect of the film and still didn't really dig into that aspect with any meaning. This is where I thought the found footage held the film back, I think since it was all videotaped by the characters that the directors felt like it needed to be too "partyish." All this would have fine if the final fight the film was building too was any good. But it felt like half the fight was spent with one of the characters on the ground or filled with some "eh" special effects. And the movie had to end in that awful emotional pandering mountain scene that didn't connect with anyone in the audience

It's not supposed to be about the special effects, it's not about Cloverfield or other found footage. It's about a social outcast, who has gotten NOTHING in his life, to finally have something to hold unto(the Power), and then become something more.(trying not for spoilers) It was a really good movie because it touched on the subject of realism, with the power of (magic) or whatever you call it. The kid lived his life like any social outcast would. I even like the ending because again it's not hollywood emotions and flat lined dialogue, how would you react given the power when having nothing sucks so bad? That;s what I took out of this movie. and I wasn't even excited for it.

@AlKusanagi said:

Is this the extended, unrated, wolf-punching version of the Grey? Because that's the only version I want.

Yes it has the extra scene with the full Alpha Wolf. I dunno about un-rated but I don't think the movie was really un-rated that well at an R anyways. to everyone else GO BUY THE FREAKING GREY AND STOP READING THIS. That is all.

I liked Norwegian Wood, I think. It's more 'interesting' than 'good'.