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Tony Black and Zack McGhee have been together for nearly 4 years. They spend altogether too much time watching movies and TV, and being glued to their computers. This blog combines all three at once, thereby gaining them maximum efficiency.
By Zack McGhee | Monday, January 19, 2009, 07:51 PM
Usually when people claim “Saturday Night Live” hasn’t been good in a while, I know they haven’t been watching it. From where I sit, the last few years of SNL have delivered week after week. Tragically, that streak seems to be fading. A week ago, Neil Patrick Harris hosted the show to some acclaim, though I must confess this left me baffled. Sure, he was funny, but the writing just wasn’t any good. This weekend’s episode, hosted by Rosario Dawson, confirmed my suspicions: It was criminally unfunny. After the steady highs of election season, hopefully this is just a little post-holiday burnout.
As means of encouragement, I thought I’d gather together the best of the series’ recent best. When the first SNL Digital Shorts appeared in late 2005, usually produced by Andy Samberg and The Lonely Island, they jump-started NBC’s viral marketing engine quite unexpectedly, and could usually be counted on as the highlight of each week’s episode. Here are my 10 favorites. What do you think? Which are your favorites?
10. Laser Cats - “There are two things that everyone loves, cats and lasers!” Featuring Lindsay Lohan.
9. Laser Cats 2 - That rare sequel that tops the original.
8. Laser Cats 3D - A new dimension in laser cats.
7. Body Fuzion - Starring Drew Barrymore, this parody of ’80s exercise videos is spot on, right down to the tracking problems.
6. Andy’s Dad - Jonah Hill gets close with Andy Samberg’s dad when guest-hosting SNL.
5. The Japanese Office - Skip it if you’re not a fan of The Office.
4. J••• in My Pants - This prematurely catchy electro-pop music video stars the Lonely Island trio and features Molly Sims, Justin Timberlake, and Jamie-Lynn Sigler.
3. Natalie Raps - Natalie Portman. There are no words.
2. D••• in a Box [Watch Uncensored] - Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg unveil three simple steps to win a lady’s heart.
1. Lazy Sunday - You may know it as the “Narnia Rap.” The second digital short to air (after the long-forgotten Lettuce), this is really the one that started it all.
By Tony Black | Sunday, January 18, 2009, 07:46 PM
If you didn’t watch Friday’s mid-season 4 return of Battlestar Galactica then you should probably stop reading right now.
The premiere answered one of the big questions we were all dying to know: Who is the final Cylon?
I watched the episode with a group of friends and polled them all before it started to hear who each of them thought the final Cylon would be. No one guessed correctly and we all felt silly when we learned who it was since she was suspected of being a Cylon when she was first brought onto the show.
The final ‘skin-job’ turned out to be Ellen Tigh, the wife of Galactica’s XO Colonel Saul Tigh (who is also a Cylon).
Kate Vernon, who plays Ellen Tigh in the series, tells Access Hollywood that she’s known about her character’s fate for two years. She is slated to appear in most of the remaining episodes of the season.
One of my friends told me about a theory that Ellen Tigh is just an older version of the model 6 Cylon which would mean that she isn’t the final Cylon and that the remaining ‘skin-job’ had yet to be named. But it looks as if that theory has been put to rest.
With the identity of the final Cylon out of the way, there are still plenty of mysteries that need solved:
What was Starbuck’s original Viper fighter doing on Earth and was that Starbuck’s body in the cockpit? My friends and I feel that the answers behind Starbuck lie in time travel.
What about the final five Cylon’s flash backs to living on Earth? Will we be getting more flash backs this season? I sure hope so.
Did Anastasia “Dee” Dualla kill herself because of her despair or was their another reason? Actress Kandyse McClure, who plays the deceased Lieutenant, speaks about her character’s suicide.
Why are all the bodies found on the war-ravaged Earth Cylon?
What role will Ellen Tigh play in the future of Cylons and humans?
By Zack McGhee | Friday, January 16, 2009, 10:10 AM
Is there a weapon better suited to 3D than the pickaxe? I couldn’t think of one as I watched the psychotic killer of My Bloody Valentine 3D tear through his victims with blunt stereoscopic force. Certainly it’s an improvement over the knife — even Friday the 13th: Part III upgraded to an axe for key 3D effects way back in 1982. But the pickaxe! With its subtle curves, multi-purpose head, and baton-shaped body, it emerges from the screen as an elegant but deadly threat.
Director Patrick Lussier started out in movies editing Wes Craven’s New Nightmare in 1994, and he’s edited all of Craven’s films since then. You can hear him on the commentary tracks for the Scream movies, where he’s incredibly charismatic and has a knack for remembering interesting anecdotes. He made his feature directing debut with the underrated Dracula 2000, but since then has been consigned to direct-to-video work. (He continues to work as an editor, even on his own films, including this one.) My Bloody Valentine 3D is Lussier’s first “big” movie, and it borrows heavily from the conventions of horror movies, which is what we expect. We want to see a horror movie in 3D. Although it’s gory, it’s not torture porn; it uses gore to have fun with the 3D process.
As the movie begins, we learn about a tragic cave-in at a small-town Pennsylvania mine. The lone survivor, Harry Warden, hacked his friends to death with a pickaxe; then the cave-in put him in a coma. A few months later, he wakes up and goes on another rampage, killing more than a dozen people. Warden is shot and killed just before he can dispatch with teen Tom Hanniger (Jensen Ackles), while Tom’s girlfriend, Sarah (Jamie King), and Axel Palmer (Kerr Smith) look on.
Ten years later, Warden is dead. We learn that Tom left town, and returns now only after his father’s death. Tom’s dad owned the mine, and Tom plans to sell it. In his absence, Sarah turned to Axel (now the town sheriff) for comfort, and they’ve since married and had a son. As all the would-be victims of Warden are together again, the anniversary of the Valentine’s Day massacre approaches, and the murders begin again.
Certainly My Bloody Valentine has its flaws. After Tom rolls back into town, there’s a long stretch with lots of bad dialogue and no kills. It has a few scares, but unlike the best recent horror movies, it’s practically starved of suspense. Nor does it have the wit or engaging performances of a movie like Scream. After the movie, a friend correctly remarked that Kerr Smith “couldn’t act his way out of a paper bag.” He and Jensen Ackles are engaged in an interminable brood-off from frame one, in addition to vying for the affections of the mannered, uneven Jamie King. Certainly, I must give credit to the man behind the mask (is it Rich Walters?), whose presence is always felt. But the movie’s best performance comes from the fearless (naked) Betsy Rue as Irene, whose screen time is tragically short-lived.
The RealD process — used previously for movies like Bolt, Monster House and the semi-annual re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas — is not perfect. Sometimes parts of the image seemed blurry or unstable to me, and the digital print we saw had a handful of severe artifacts; but these are not constant problems, and certainly this is an improvement over the 3D processes of the past. (Nothing has yet topped the current IMAX process, however.)
I haven’t seen the 1981 original, so I don’t know how faithful the new film is to it. (Lionsgate released a My Bloody Valentine: Special Edition DVD of the original movie, which I plan to have a look at this weekend.) And while there will be no particular reason to see the remake of My Bloody Valentine on DVD or cable, nor in a theater that is showing the flattened “2D” version — in a movie theater, with a raucous crowd, in 3D, it’s a lot of fun.
By Tony Black | Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 10:20 AM
Ugly Betty star Ashley Jensen
Eonline.com reported Monday, Jan. 12 that actress Ashley Jenson, who plays Betty’s best friend Christina McKinney, has asked to leave the cast of Ugly Betty. They go on to report from an insider that she is still part of the show and storylines for the next season haven’t been decided.
NBClosangeles.com is reporting, however, that the rumors aren’t true and that there are no plans for Ashley Jenson to leave Ugly Betty.
What do you think? Rumor or truth? Would you be sad to see her character leave the show or can you live without her? Personally, I have felt they have been playing down her role in the show more and more lately making it easier for me to lose her.
Eonline.com also claims that another unnamed cast member will be killed off at the end of the current season. They give not-so-subtle hints that lead you to believe that Daniel Meade’s newest love interest, Molly, will be the one to die. I knew she wouldn’t be a part of the show for long, but it surprises me that they would kill her off.
Another rumor? Or do you think she’ll be getting the ax, literally?
Ugly Betty star Ana Ortiz
In other casting news, People.com is reporting that Ana Ortiz, who plays Betty’s sister Hilda, is pregnant. Will this interrupt her role on Ugly Betty? Well, she’s due at the end of July which is long after the current season ends but close to when filming for the next season begins. We’ll just have to wait and see.
Speaking of babies, Ugly Betty star Rebecca Romijn and her husband Jerry O’Connell gave birth to twin girls on Dec. 28. Romijn says she wants to take at least 6 months to just spend time with the twins so don’t expect to see her returning to her position at the head of Meade Publications any time soon.
By Tony Black | Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 11:11 PM
The mid-season return of season 8 of Smallville comes with the news that there will be a season 9.
According to RadarOnline.com, Smallville star Tom Welling is close to signing on for another season of the hit CW show.
Smallville star Tom Welling
The show was once in ratings trouble and talk of a ninth season was out of the question.
So what changed?
The eighth season’s ratings are on the rise. Clark is out of the barn and into the city. Moving the super-powered hottie away from his boring farm-life in Smallville and into a job at the Daily Planet in Metropolis alongside his future bride Lois Lane was one the best moves the show could have made.
The introduction of the alien beast Doomsday has also helped spike renewed interest in the series. Doomsday goes on to kill Superman in the future but currently he is just discovering that he is an indestructible creature from outer space.
The mid-season hiatus left us with a cliffhanger after Doomsday kidnapped Clark’s gal pal Chloe during her wedding. Where will the rest of season 8 take us? What do you think we can expect from season 9? I know the show’s creators have always said that Clark would never don his red and blue tights nor learn how to fly, but don’t you think that by season 9 he’ll be ready for those thing?
By Zack McGhee | Monday, January 12, 2009, 08:05 PM
On Sunday, I took in a strange double-bill: The Unborn and Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino.
I have a soft spot for genre movies — I’m anxious to see My Bloody Valentine 3D, directed by the reliable Patrick Lussier, and The Uninvited, with Elizabeth Banks as an evil stepmother, for example. The Unborn begins as a below-average ghost movie in the style of The Ring, but it deteriorates into an absurd farce. After reaching its nadir — a tasteless retirement home chase — it culminates with an exorcism that abandons that religious ritual for a mindless fight scene. Talentless lead Odette Yustman gives a vacuous performance while the charming Meagan Good, who plays her token best friend, is criminally underused. All this while the most critical question goes unanswered: What’s Gary Oldman doing here?
Though I grew increasingly tired of The Unborn, it hardly seemed worthy of even the wittiest, most incisive criticism (not that I’m kidding myself) after seeing Gran Torino — a meaningful, complex portrait of contemporary America that also happens to be Eastwood’s best film in 15 years. To say it caught me by surprise would be the understatement of this admittedly young year. I plan to devote a much longer post to this remarkable film later in the week, after I’ve been able to take in a second viewing.
By Tony Black | Sunday, January 11, 2009, 11:19 PM
If you haven’t been watching NBC’s 30 Rock starring Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin, then you obviously don’t enjoy smart, funny television.
30 Rock picked up three more Golden Globes tonight, bringing their total to five. But five Golden Globes is nothing when you look at the long list of awards30 Rock has won in its 3 year existence.
Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin both picked up awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series and Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, respectively in the comedy/musical category. The series itself won Best Television Series - Comedy or Musical.
Other than 30 Rock, I really didn’t know much about any of the other TV shows or movies that were in the running this year.
Watch a 30 Rock season 3 highlight and learn why this series is one of the most critically acclaimed shows on TV.
By Tony Black | Saturday, January 10, 2009, 09:17 PM
A postcard the main character Killface uses to promote his campaign to destroy the world
Frisky Dingo, one of my all time favorite animated TV shows on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has ended production. 70/30 Productions, the producers of Frisky Dingo and its spinoff The Xtacles, have decided to close their doors and move onto other projects.
What many of us have been fearing for a while now has become a reality. Adult Swim chose not to pick up the Xtacles for more episodes and even more disappointing, 70-30 has closed up shop. The guys are going to splinter and move on to other things. I’m going to try and keep up with where this leads and look forward to seeing what the future brings these great guys.
The spinoff, The Xtacles, only aired 2 episodes due to poor ratings. I watched the first episode and didn’t find it any where near as smart and funny as Frisky Dingo. I seriously hope that the failure of the spinoff isn’t the only reason 70/30 decided to dissolve.
Frisky Dingo was one of the funniest shows to hit Adult Swim since Aqua Teen Hunger Force and I’m very disappointed that we won’t get any sort of closure after the season 2 finale cliffhanger.
The third and final leg of the REPO! Road Tour is coming to the Esquire Theatre. Director Darren Bousman and actor/writer Terrance Zdunich will screen REPO! The Genetic Opera at the Esquire Theatre on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009, introduce the film and hold a post-show audience Q&A and autograph session.
So, just what is REPO! The Genetic Opera?
In the year 2056, the not so distant future, an epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GeneCo, a biotech company that offers organ transplants, for a price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession and hunted by Repo Men.
Tickets are $15 each and available now at the Esquire Theatre Box Office and online.
It’s part musical and part horror film, how could you go wrong? Think of it as a Rocky Horror Picture Show for the 21st century.
Sound interesting to you? I’d love to go see it, but is it worth the money and the drive to Cincinnati? You decide. Watch the trailer for REPO! The Genetic Opera
The adorable Bret Harrison and the rest of the cast of Reaper will be returning to the CW’s television lineup for season 2 on Tuesday, March 17 at 9 p.m.
If you didn’t watch season 1 you should pick it up on DVD. It may start off very formulaic but it quickly finds its groove and provides many hours of entertainment.
The supporting cast of Tyler Labine as Bert ‘Sock’ Wysock and Ray Wise as The Devil keep me laughing and keep me watching.
By Tony Black | Thursday, January 8, 2009, 09:20 PM
When season 3 of LOST was released on Blu-ray, I immediately started wondering when the previous two seasons would be re-released in high-definition. Then, when season 4 was announced for Blu-ray, I wondered if seasons 1 and 2 would ever make it to Blu-ray.
So, when will they hit store shelves? Unknown. The press release announces dates for every title except LOST. Oh well, I can wait. Hopefully, with high definition will come new bonus features, but what kind of extras could they have for seasons that are more than 3 years old?
Will you buy seasons 1 and 2 of LOST on Blu-ray, or will you be sticking with your standard definition versions?
Personally, I find the first 2 seasons to have great quality already on my HDTV so I see little need to re-purchase them on Blu-ray. Also, after the final season of LOST has aired, Disney will probably create a LOST complete series box set for Blu-ray, so I will just wait for that.
So what does this mean? Well, if you know anything about the Harry Potter series, you’ll know that the books get progressively darker in tone with each installment. Half-Blood Prince being the sixth out of seven books makes it one of the darker novels. A PG rating means that most of the darker elements are probably toned down or removed from the film.
As I have said many times before Half-Blood Prince is my favorite Harry Potter book so I have a lot of expectations for the film adaptation.
So, do you think the PG rating is more bad news for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince? Or is it meaningless? Do you think the rumors about Twilight being the cause of Half-Blood Prince’s delay are true?
That’s right folks, the former boy doctor whose currently playing man-whore Barney Stinson on the hit CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother will be hosting Saturday Night Live this Saturday.
Harris is bound to be a perfect host for the live sketch comedy show due to his extensive theater background.
So what kind of skits can we expect? Since this is Harris’ first time hosting SNL, I am sure we’ll see a Doogie Howser, M.D. parody. Harris loves magic and is a certified magician so expect something magic related. We might see a How I Met Your Mother gag as well. I wouldn’t get my hopes up for Dr. Horrible to make an appearance however. I just don’t think the SNL writers would write a skit based on a character a lot of people might not know about.
Don’t know what Dr. Horrible is? Joss Whedon (creator of such shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and the upcoming series Dollhouse) created the popular Internet musical-comedy sensation Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog in which Harris stars as the villain Dr. Horrible.
Battlestar Galactica fans were shocked at the end of season 3 to learn that several main characters were Cylons. We knew there were 5 Cylons hidden in the fleet, but only 4 were revealed. The second half of season 4, the final season, promises to deliver the identity of the remaining Cylon.
EW.com is having a bracket contest for people to make their predictions as to who the final Cylon will be. A winner will be decided by how close their picks are to the popular vote. The winner will receive a $20 Amazon gift card. You’ll have to set up a username and password to be eligible.
Paul Campbell as Billy Keikeya on Battlestar Galactica
My final choice was Billy Keikeya (played by Paul Campbell), former aide to President Laura Roslin. Yeah, I know he’s dead, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t a Cylon.
The 4 Cylons that were revealed at the end of season 3 discovered that they were Cylons after music only they could hear drew them to meet each other in a room on Galactica. Why wasn’t the fifth and final Cylon also drawn to that same room? Because they’re dead. At least that’s what I think.
I am a former “Roslin is a Cylon” proponent, but her illness makes me doubt that she is a robot since Cylons don’t appear to get sick (the exception being that nebula in the first season). However, I can still see her as the final Cylon simply for the “wow” factor it would cause.
Who do you think will be the final Cylon? President Roslin, Admiral Adama, Starbuck? The humans and Cylons have found Earth: Now what? What other surprises and revelations do you think season 4.5 will bring?
By Zack McGhee | Friday, January 2, 2009, 08:12 PM
The cinematic pickings are traditionally slim the first week of each new year, although one of 2008’s most acclaimed films is premiering in the Dayton area this weekend.
The French import A Christmas Tale — recently voted the #2 movie of the year in indieWIRE’s annual critics’ poll — is playing exclusively at the Little Art Theatre in Yellow Springs this weekend. I should offer full disclosure by saying I sometimes work at the Little Art as a projectionist and event programmer. (It’s home to my soon-to-be-annual horror marathon, for example.)
That said, I think I can legitimately claim I’m not shilling for Tale, since I don’t really see what all the fuss is about. Though it’s certainly worth seeing — and with all the praise it’s garnered, what do I know? — after a genuinely exceptional first half, the movie slides awkwardly downhill as one cruel familial act begets another. (I dare not reveal the details, but the final trajectory of one subplot in particular really put me off the film.) Though it features an extraordinary ensemble cast — including Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric, Jean-Paul Roussillon and Melvil Poupaud — this is essentially the French equivalent of the heinous suburban horror show The Family Stone.
To be honest, I’m eager to revisit A Christmas Tale on the big screen, if only because I feel like I must be missing something. (My alternate hypothesis? Critics who indiscriminately deride overly accessible American movies tend to eagerly praise their foreign counterparts; for these disapproving hipsters, it’s as if subtitles give them the permission they require to be populist.) If I do see the film again, I’ll try to set aside some time and write a longer, more detailed review. If you make it out to Yellow Springs to see it, please share your thoughts — I’m eager to hear them.
Also new this week: The mildly lauded Holocaust drama, The Reader, starring Kate Winslet, goes wide this weekend, after an exclusive one-week run at Cincinnati’s Mariemont Theatre. I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m going to try to fit it in over the weeked.
Still in theaters: The best movie in Dayton-area theaters right now is Gus Van Sant’s Milk, which is currently playing at The Neon in Dayton. John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman, is also worth your time. And, to paraphraseMike D’Angelo, some people like Slumdog Millionaire; if nothing else, it’s fun to argue about.
By Tony Black | Thursday, January 1, 2009, 02:05 PM
I am not nearly as big a movie-goer as my partner (and co-blogger) Zack. I have seen maybe a fourth of the new movies he has seen in 2008. Of that handful of movies, I have seen a lot of crap. That having been said, here is my list for Top 10 worst movies I’ve seen this year:
10. Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay We walked out on this movie. Partially due to the annoying people sitting behind us, but mainly due to the film’s lack of laughs. I would be willing to give it another shot simply to see Neil Patrick Harris.
9. Run Fat Boy Run Yet another movie I stopped watching after 15 minutes. Simon Pegg is usually funny, but he plays it more serious in this predictable “comedy” and lost my interest.
8. Quantum of Solace After the refreshing reboot of the James Bond in Casino Royale, I expected this follow-up to continue breathing new life into the franchise. Instead I got a nauseating return to the Bonds of old with a twist of Jason Bourne.
7. Get Smart I enjoyed watching the TV show when I was younger on Nick at Nite. I had high hopes for the movie to renew that joy. There were a couple gags that made me giggle but it just wasn’t enough. Another miss for the lovable Steve Carrell (Evan Almighty, Dan in Real Life).
6. You Don’t Mess With the Zohan Adam Sandler movies are generally bad and I don’t know why I thought this one would be any different. Maybe someone told me it was funny and worth a watch. Whatever the case, I shouldn’t have bothered with the Zohan.
5. The Strangers From the trailers, I had hopes that this movie would be different from the rest of trashy horror films on the market. And it has Liv Tyler. It starts off extremely slow and then quickly turns into a predictable piece of garbage. The movie is frightening but I wish it had been more about psychological terror rather than physical. And then they set it up for a sequel… sigh.
4. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Yay, a new film staring everyone’s favorite archaeologist (except my friend Liz, who is an archaeologist). Wait, what’s going on? Is that an alien in a body bag? Is that fridge really going to save him from an atomic bomb? More aliens and a UFO!? Lucas and Speilberg want to make another one!?
3. Step Brothers I never had any plans to watch this movie. I knew it would be bad. But then I could swear I had heard people telling me it was “surprisingly funny,” so I decided to give it a shot. The parents, played by Mary Steenburgen and Richard Jenkins, were the funniest parts of the entire movie.
2. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor The worst part of the movie for me was the fake British accent of Maria Bello (replacing Rachel Weisz as Evelyn O’Connell). She really came off as one of the worst actresses of our time.
1. The Happening I can only hope that the dismal reviews and poor sales force M. Night Shyamalan to stop making movies. This isn’t just the worst movie I have seen this year, but one of the worst movies I have seen of all time. The acting is emotionless, the dialogue is lame and the plot is just outright ridiculous. This movie is so bad, but I am sure people are still going to watch it because they want to know what’s causing people to kill themselves. I will save you the 91 minutes and just tell you: Plants. Plants are pissed off at humanity for hurting the environment so they excrete something into the air that makes people want to kill themselves. There. I just saved you time and money.
Runners-up:Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Mamma Mia!, Hancock
Now, just for fun, here are the Top Fifteen Worst Films I Didn’t See in 2008 (in alphabetical order):
10,000 B.C.
The Bucket List
Bangkok Dangerous
Death Race
Disaster Movie
Fool’s Gold
The Love Guru
Meet Dave
Over Her Dead Body
Punisher: War Zone
Rambo
Semi-Pro
Stop-Loss
Superhero Movie
Witless Protection
Do you agree with my list? What terrible movies did you see in 2008?
Fenwick graduation 2012
Ponitz graduation 2012
Cars and Parts Swap Meet
Director Patrick Lussier started out in movies editing Wes Craven’s New Nightmare in 1994, and he’s edited all of Craven’s films since then. You can hear him on the commentary tracks for the Scream movies, where he’s incredibly charismatic and has a knack for remembering interesting anecdotes. He made his feature directing debut with the underrated Dracula 2000, but since then has been consigned to direct-to-video work. (He continues to work as an editor, even on his own films, including this one.) My Bloody Valentine 3D is Lussier’s first “big” movie, and it borrows heavily from the conventions of horror movies, which is what we expect. We want to see a horror movie in 3D. Although it’s gory, it’s not torture porn; it uses gore to have fun with the 3D process.
Ten years later, Warden is dead. We learn that Tom left town, and returns now only after his father’s death. Tom’s dad owned the mine, and Tom plans to sell it. In his absence, Sarah turned to Axel (now the town sheriff) for comfort, and they’ve since married and had a son. As all the would-be victims of Warden are together again, the anniversary of the Valentine’s Day massacre approaches, and the murders begin again.
The RealD process — used previously for movies like Bolt, Monster House and the semi-annual re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas — is not perfect. Sometimes parts of the image seemed blurry or unstable to me, and the digital print we saw had a handful of severe artifacts; but these are not constant problems, and certainly this is an improvement over the 3D processes of the past. (Nothing has yet topped the current IMAX process, however.)
DVD of the original movie, which I plan to have a look at this weekend.) And while there will be no particular reason to see the remake of My Bloody Valentine on DVD or cable, nor in a theater that is showing the flattened “2D” version — in a movie theater, with a raucous crowd, in 3D, it’s a lot of fun.
