DVD/Blu-Ray Releases: The Chronicles Of Fockers: Legacy

Topic started by Rorie on April 5, 2011. Last post by mylifeforAiur 2 years, 1 month ago.
Post by Rorie (3,216 posts) See mini bio
 
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Obviously the big news this week is the TRON: Legacy release, which Disney is supporting in their usual grandiloquent way with a two-disc combo pack (Blu-Ray and DVD), a four-disc combo pack (adding in a Blu-Ray 3D and Digital Copy), and two different five-disc Blu-Ray packs with the original TRON in there, including a somewhat excessive special edition that comes with a special identity disc package that all the movies fit into. That's a hell of a lot of TRON, to be honest with you. 
 
If that fails to excite you, then I doubt either Little Fockers or The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader is going to do much better. There are, at least, a load of older films getting Blu-Ray releases this week, including one of my favorite indies of the past decade in Lars and the Real Girl, Jimmy Fallon's finest film, Taxi, and, of course, Mystic Pizza. There's something for everyone, so read on and make your shopping list!

1. TRON: Legacy

I'm legitimately looking forward to checking this out, even if Disney did go completely crazy and put this out in like four different editions, including a crazy Identity Disc version where all eighteen discs or whatever are encased in a replica disc from the film. A bit extravagant, but then, the movie did just barely break even at the box office, and is still probably in the red when you consider marketing costs, so I'm not surprised that Disney wants to milk every cent out of it.

2. Little Fockers

It's still completely shocking to me that Meet The Fockers made almost $280 million at the box office. I mean, The Hangover didn't even make that much. The first film in this series was at least somewhat enjoyable, but it's been all downhill from there, and Little Fockers didn't even manage to make as much as the first film in the series, despite Jessica Alba's wonderful breasts. One can only hope that this is the end of the series, but I doubt it.

3. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Because they're too cool for school, Walden Media has decided to put this DVD out on Friday instead of Tuesday like all the other DVDs. I'm kind of surprised they didn't wait a few weeks and go for Good Friday, because life is precious, and God, and the Bible.

4. I Love You Phillip Morris

There must be at least a dozen guys named Phillip Morris out there who are going to get this as a gag present from someone who hasn't seen it, only to be shocked - shocked! - by its contents.

5. Casino Jack

There must be at least a dozen guys named Casino Jack...wait, that doesn't make any sense. If you want to see Kevin Spacey acting like Al Pacino, this is for you!

6. The Taqwacores

You'd think a movie about Islamic college student punks would be interesting enough to make more than ten grand at the box office, but apparently not.

7. Come Undone

Despite the titillating poster and the promise of examining infidelity, this is another release that only managed to scrabble around $10,000 from its limited release. It stars the daughter from I Am Love, which is enough to make it interesting to me, so we'll see if it pops up on Streaming.

8. TRON

In case you were only interested in the older, kinda boring TRON, feel free to nab it in a new Blu-Ray special edition today, since Disney put it out as a separate disc from the Tron Legacy box sets.

9. Lars and the Real Girl

Among older films getting new Blu-Ray releases this week, check out . ..And Justice For All, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Arthur/ Arthur 2: On The Rocks, Babe, Batman Beyond: Return Of The Joker, Benny & Joon, The Cove, De-Lovely, Fiddler On The Roof, Kung Fu Panda, Lars and the Real Girl, Much Ado About Nothing, Mystic Pizza, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Peter Pan, The Rules Of Attraction, Taxi Driver, Taxi.

10. Friday Night Lights

The fifth season of the popular high school football drama comes to DVD, alongside Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Part 4, iCarly: Season Two, Volume Three, Lark Rise To Candleford: Season Four, Life Unexpected: The Complete First and Second Seasons, Lisa Lampanelli: Tough Love, Sarah Palin's Alaska, Tyler Perry's House Of Payne Volume 7. Very funny.

Post by GeekDown (66 posts) See mini bio
I will probably pick up the Tron: Legacy blu-ray with the original movie. The special edition seems like it's not really worth it.
Post by SSully (179 posts) See mini bio
Tron might be worth a buy, I thought it was a really fun movie. Only other thing interesting on that list for me is I Love You Philip Morris, and I will most likely get it from netflix.
Post by Olivaw (779 posts) See mini bio
So did Black Swan come out this week or last week? I'm confused!
Post by Scotty_Gun (97 posts) See mini bio
Come undone went up on streaming today.
Post by cooljammer00 (327 posts) See mini bio
Ooh, Batman Beyond on Blu Ray.  It better be the good ending with the gun.
Post by CrimsonAvenger (1,277 posts) See mini bio
@cooljammer00 said:
" Ooh, Batman Beyond on Blu Ray.  It better be the good ending with the gun. "
It is, only the uncut version is available on blu-ray. Now we can forget that the cut version ever happened.
Post by dvdhaus (431 posts) See mini bio
Amazon was kind enough to ship my copy of TRON yesterday.  I got the 5 disc Special edition without the Identity Disc packaging.  Excellent collection, with great features.  
Post by Vonocourt (323 posts) See mini bio
Really, I liked Lars and the Real Girl, but you picked that film over Taxi Driver to highlight out of the catalog releases? And what a swell release it appears to be. Haven't watched it yet, but the packaging is pretty slick. It has this raised lettering for the title, unfolds like a pamphlet with a shot of De Niro and Scorsese in the cab as the background, has a nice heavy solid feel to it, and has a bunch of cards with still shots of the movie.
 
EDIT: It also has the commentary by Scorsese that was included on Criterion's first laserdisc release way back in 1986, which hasn't been on any of the other releases because of rights issues.
Post by MrMazz (1,541 posts) See mini bio
I will be indeed picking up Tron Legcay in one of its many forms good movie its enjoyable 
 
Also recommend giving Tron Reconfigured soundtrack a listen
Post by Winston (431 posts) See mini bio
I might buy the blue-ray version of Tron: Legacy. I'm really impressed of the visuals when I first watched it and will probably be blown away when I actually see it again on blueray
Post by Jesus (315 posts) See mini bio
I'm really tempted to pick up Tron: Legacy.
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Post by The_Hiro_Abides (63 posts) See mini bio
@Olivaw:  Black Swan came out last week.
Post by The_Hiro_Abides (63 posts) See mini bio
I already picked up Tron: Legacy and picked up "The Original Classic". I am interested if they spent any actual time with the HD transfer for it.
Post by ryanwho (1,130 posts) See mini bio
Im really curious how already-weird looking young Jeff Bridges will look on a Blu Ray on a giant TV.
Post by Brendan (190 posts) See mini bio
I must be missing something here, because the site keeps referring to Tron: Legacy as barely breaking even, but I see on the wiki page that it made a 133% profit in global box office sales.  
Post by DrPockets000 (381 posts) See mini bio
@Brendan said:

" I must be missing something here, because the site keeps referring to Tron: Legacy as barely breaking even, but I see on the wiki page that it made a 133% profit in global box office sales.   "

I wonder the same thing.

Post by FoxMulder (246 posts) See mini bio
Saw the identity disc version in store and it looks like a piece of shit.  All of the discs sit on top of eachother inside of it with no division.  I ordered the regular 5- Disc version from Amazon because NO stores have it like that. They only have the identity disc case, and the DVD,  2, 3, and 4 disc BluRay versions
Post by Eyz (252 posts) See mini bio
Some more TRON never hurt!
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