Isn’t it about time for another contest around here? It sure is! Thanks to the generosity of Universal Studios Home Entertainment, we have two copies of ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ on Blu-ray to give away to our readers. How do you win? Read on to find out.
For this contest, two lucky winners will each receive one Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack copy of ‘The Adjustment Bureau‘ starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. Here’s the studio boilerplate:
A rising politician finds himself caught up in a pulse-pounding, mind-bending conspiracy in The Adjustment Bureau, the acclaimed film coming to Blu-ray™ Combo Pack and DVD on June 21, 2011 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. Academy Award® winner Matt Damon (the Bourne series, True Grit) and Golden Globe® winner Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada, The Wolfman) are the star-crossed lovers chased by mysterious forces that threaten to destroy their futures unless they abandon one another. Deleted and extended scenes, filmmaker commentary and exclusive bonus features offer behind-the-scenes looks at the making of the film. Plus, for a limited time only, the Blu-ray™ Combo Pack of The Adjustment Bureau includes a downloadable digital copy of the film that can be viewed anytime, anywhere, on an array of digital devices.
Written for the screen by George Nolfi (Ocean’s 12, The Bourne Ultimatum) who also makes his directorial debut, The Adjustment Bureau is based on the short story “Adjustment Team,” by visionary writer Philip K. Dick (Total Recall, Minority Report, Blade Runner). The Adjustment Bureau also stars Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker, Eagle Eye), John Slattery (“Mad Men,” Iron Man 2), Michael Kelly (Changeling, Dawn of the Dead) and Terence Stamp (Wanted, Valkyrie).
The theme of this contest is adjustments. For your chance to win, we want you to post in the Comments section below your answer to this question: What one element or aspect of an existing movie do you wish you could adjust? Even the best of movies typically have something wrong with them. Maybe it’s a miscast actor, or a bad musical score, or shoddy visual effects, or just one bad scene that stands out and derails an otherwise good movie. If you had the power to go back in time and alter the course of one movie, what would you fix?
For example: If I had this power, I’d like to replace Keanu Reeeves in ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula‘ with… I don’t know… anybody, really. Reeves is terribly miscast in that movie, and his wooden performance stands out badly among an otherwise stellar cast. How about we take Carey Elwes (who has another part in the movie now) and put him in the Jonathan Harker role, and then grab Tim Roth and put him in the smaller role that Elwes currently plays? That would do. That’s what I would fix.
I’ll allow up to three entries per person, but please keep them short. (Less than 200 words would be good.)
The two winners will be selected based on our own subjective discretion. This contest is only open to entrants from the domestic United States. We will not ship internationally (whether you’re a U.S. citizen or not). Employees of High-Def Digest or Internet Brands and their families are not eligible. Standard contest rules and conditions apply. People who have won any of our previous contests within the past one year are also not eligible to win, but may get Honorable Mentions.
The deadline for entry is this Friday, June 17th. The winner will be announced next week. Good luck, everyone!
Jim Brundige
myself i have a huge qualm with bact to the future part 2. great movie, and i love it but watching it the other day i caught myself screaming at the tv at a huge continuity error that completely contradicts the entire premise of the movies.
when old biff in the future steals the delorian to give the sports bnook to his teenage self how does he come back to the future he store the delorian from and not the future in which he is rich?
doc and marty go back to 1985 and the world is different because of old biff, but in all practicality and the science of time travel if old biff went back in time and gave himself a tool to get rick and powerful when he returned the delorian back to the future why wasnt it the altered future?
you see the conundrum? it ruins the whole story i know, but its just something to think of. doc brown was committed, biff was martys step father, so marty and doc never would have met, nullifying the first movie and ending the second and 3rd prematurely.
it would be a major overhaul in the rewriting to fix this issue, but it really could have added alot more to the rich biff part of the movie.
just sayin
Chaz Dumbaugh
You know I never even caught that, thanks for ruining this movie for me, hehe…but yeah you are right, he would come back to a world that should be changed because of what he did, but he himself wouldnt be the Biff of the future because he’s time traveling outside of the time line….so it actually gets even more messed up when you go further, which of course every time based film does if you actually analyze it 😉
Josh Zyber
AuthorPerhaps when Biff traveled forward, he arrived in a future after Marty and Doc fixed what he did and course corrected the timeline?
Julian
Actually, he does arrive as ‘Rich Biff’ in 2015. A deleted scene explains why he suddenly starts breathing heavily and why he seems to be in pain => he disappears (up in smoke) after the taxi/DeLorean leaves for 1985.
Zemeckis/Gale later explained the deleted scene, saying Biff was probably shot by Lorraine in 1996 (because she had enough of his antics, persona, cheating, gambling etc)
Jim Brundige
good call, i went back and watched the deleted scenes this morning, it clears up some of the mishap, but the fact that marty and docs future never changed is still an issue biff made it so that doc and marty never met in 1985 so therefore the conundrum continues.
i wish though now having seen that deleted scene it was in the movie with a slight bit of clarification and it would make it much less apparent that there is a flaw in the continuity.
time travel films are so hard to get right with all the paradox wormholes. the only movie that ive seen that is smart enough to point out the paradox and use it to its advantage in time travel stories is the indie film primer. if you havent seen it, netflix it. you wont regret it.
Adrian L.
I would’ve liked Jennifer Connelly to play Betty Ross in the Edward Norton version of Hulk because I couldn’t take Liv Tyler seriously as a scientist with her airhead like voice, but I love Liv Tyler still.
Didn’t like the casting of ScarJo as Black Widow, yes, she’s hot as hell but I would’ve preferred they cast someone who could have thrown on a Russian accent. Someone like Milla Jovovich or better Olga Kurylenko. And they really should have just called her Natasha Romanoff.
My last thought is about the Clash of the Titans remake. They really should have followed the original story a little more closely. I don’t mind changes but the chess match between the Gods was awesome. Sam Worthington was miscast. I would’ve casted Jared Padalecki as Perseus because he looks like the son of a God. Andromeda should have been casted differently too. I would’ve casted Amanda Righetti from the Mentalist as Andromeda, that woman is ridiculously gorgeous.
Alex
If I had one dream change in a movie, it would be to replace Alec Baldwin with Harrison Ford in “The Hunt For Red October.” I know Alec Baldwin is probably closer to the Jack Ryan of the books, but Harrison Ford was just too darned awesome in
Oh, and I’d take Emily Blunt over Maggie Gyllenhall (sp?) in “The Dark Knight”.
And finally, I would replace Nicholas Cage in every movie he’s done for the last five years with a Muppet. Why? I just think it’d be hilarious. Seriously, imagine “Ghost Rider” with a flaming-headed Muppet. How awesome would that be?
Adrian L.
Let me throw in one more change. Take McG off directing Terminator 4, that guy is a hack who couldn’t direct his way out of a paper bag. After watching the Crazies, I think Breck Eisner could direct a Terminator film or easily Neill Blomkamp could do it.
Brad
I would go back and have Aliens 3 produced properly with David Fincher working from a complete script.
Clayton Self
If I were a hat-man, I’d be bold and go back and adjust James Cameron’s entire approach to ‘Avatar’. The biggest adjustment is that I wouldn’t let him anywhere near a screenplay. I would have someone like Michael Blake write it, since Camerson basically ripped of ‘Dances with Wolves’ anyway.
Geoff
Jumper: Replace Hayden Christensen with pretty much anyone else (maybe James McAvoy) and it could have made an okay action movie above average.
Clayton Self
Speaking of the Sci-Fi category, I would also adjust ‘Terminator Salvation’ by giving it a lot more levity and raise the stakes. Probably by focusing on John Connor more and eliminating the Marcus charcter. If John was the one on the run with Kyle, it would bring more urgency to the entire mythos.
Eric Butler
First I’d suggest they not make Batman & Robin. If they still wanted to make it I would not let them totally miscast Mr Freeze. Patrick Stewart would have been much better than Arnold. 2nd I would suggest they get someone way more attractive to be Poison Ivy. Uma was the wrong choice…
bright75
Saving Private Ryan: Spielberg should have excised Matt Damon’s cringeworthy “nosedive from the ugly tree” monologue. It is an awkward, out of place two minutes (though it feels much longer) and does nothing to make us glad that everyone is sacrificing their life for this paratrooper. This is the only quiet moment we get alone with the title character? Yeesh. The sheepish expression on the face of Hanks’ Captain Miller says it all. Cut this scene and get back to the uncompromising drama that is the rest of Saving Private Ryan.
Chaz Dumbaugh
Whats wrong with him reminiscing about his brothers, retelling one of his most memorable moments with his brothers was an amazing scene, I really felt for his character at that point, all of his brothers are dead now and all he has are those memories of them together, it WAS the whole reason they were sent to get him, personally I wouldnt change anything in that movie, probably the best war movie ever made IMO
Clayton Self
And for my third and final, I am going over the top. Let’s go back and adjust the ending of ‘Troll 2’. That entire Goblin population from ‘Nilbog’ should have gotten their revenge on Joshua, not by consuming his mother, but instead by tying him down to the dinner table and pissing all over him. How’s that for hospitality?
Chris Clark
A small thing, but I was always bothered by the Scarecrow scene in the beginning of The Dark Knight. I saw no reason at all to include him in the movie. All he does is jump out the back of a van and throws his hands up. Did we really need him in a scene to show that he was dealing with the mob? What does this has to do with the joker?
Chaz Dumbaugh
It has nothing to do with the Joker, but it shows that the Scarecrow has had to resort to common criminal activity, he’s been relegated to that after Batman drove him off, it shows that he is now afraid of the Bat himself, makes perfect sense to me, I loved that they threw him in there
Adam
The most recent example that comes to mind is January Jones as Emma Frost in the latest X-Men movie. She has no presence. She’s pretty, but seems vapid. Re-cast the part. Is Uma Thurman too old for that part? I don’t know how important ages is in the role, but I’m sure Uma could glam up just fine. Yvonne Strahovski from Chuck would have been nice. They’re both better actresses than January.
Michael Olshansky
Han Shot first! Changing that scene is like punching Mother Theresa. It’s just unholy. For the love of god, George, change it back!
Alan Keane
The last 30-45 minutes of ‘Super 8’. It was all going so well
JD
I would have donated the budget for Dragon Wars to charity. At least bad monster movies have some entertainment value. This film has none.
Juan B.
I would adjust the flow of time in the movie Thor. Thor and Natalie Portman’s relationship doesn’t seem strong enough for them to have fallen in love. They could have shown their characters connecting more and increased the amount of time they actually knew each other instead of a day or two.
Chris McCullah
I would go back and change Catwoman… the whole dang movie. Instead of Halle Berry, I’d let Daniel Waters (who wrote the Batman Returns script) write the story, and then cast Michelle Pfieffer in the lead role again. This story would pick up where Batman Returns left off, with Catwoman (Selina Kyle) leaving Gotham City. To do what? Who cares? As long as it isn’t Sharon Stone she’s going up against.
Peter
I love Spider-Man, it’s one of the best superhero flicks around, but that Green Goblin Power Rangers suit is hard to get over…
Eric Schneider
Change Eragon.that movie ruined a great book and totally butchered the story right from the start along with the wrong voice for Saphira and miscasting of Eragon completely, He is not supposed to be a fairy!
JOhn Mays
Adam Sandler in recent films or at least the jokes…
Gerard Iribe
‘Catwoman’ with Emily Blunt instead of Halle Berry.
Screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie.
Directed by Chan-wook Park.
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Irv Haas
Delete any reference to Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars films.
Trevor Bornholz
Prevent George Lucas from altering the original Star Wars Trilogy.
a more recent one, that my friend continuously states now: Captain America should have been Barry Pepper instead of Chris Evans..also more importantly he likes to also note that Captain America is Blond/ Blonde
JOhn Mays
switch Bradley Cooper in The A-Team for Michael Weatherly..
David Spurlock
The Bourne Trilogy – I’d fix the screen plays so that they at least had a little in common with the books they are supposed to be based on.
josh
george lucas would just stop everything
Rickan88
I think a new version of the Star Wars films should be released every 6 months until the end of time! This move will either help the economy or destroy it entirely.
Rickan88
Bring back Beta!
Rickan88
Make the LOTR trilogy as green as possible!!!