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!
Robert Hernandez
If we had this power, I’d like to replace Kate Holmes in ‘Batman Begins’ with Maggie Gyllenhaal with some cgi and superimpose her in the film so it looks continuous…..
Nicholas DeMaria
I would have to say the worst part of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was Kate Capshaw. That part needed to be less annoying to make the movie more watchable. If that part was cast to a more tolerable actress like Kathleen Turner or Kim Basinger at the time, Crystal Skull would stand alone as the worst of the bunch.
Lukas Bomar
I’d change how Sirius dies in the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The book created so much more tension and confusion in Harry seeing Sirius fly into the curtain and rushing to “check on him” (though he couldn’t have survived the Killing Curse). When his body doesn’t appear on the other side, he tries to jump in after him, but is held back, and then realizes to go after his murderer. This little touch in the book creates so much more emotion than the lackluster fall Sirius does into the void. As minimal of a change as this would be, the impact could easily push this to be the best of the series (above Prisoner of Azkaban).
phill
replace m.night shamalan with ridley scott as the director of the last airbender, might have not saved the movie but at least it couldnt get any worse
Bipple
I would adjust Matt Damon out of the movie and replace him with an actor that actually makes me think action movie like Daniel Craig.
Corey Ries
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Among other deviations from the book that producers thought would make it more palatable was the ridiculous butt-whooping Gandalf put on Denethor. Why did they have to do that? Crazy or not, Gandalf respected the fact that Denethor was the Steward of Gondor at the time. Seemed very out of place to me and well beneath the complexities of the relationship between the two most powerful men facing down Mordor.
Anthony
1. The ending of “Knowing.” Reminded me of the scene in “Bolt,” “Wait for it….Aliens. Aww snap!”
2. The futterwacken dance at the end of Alice in Wonderland. Made me shake my head in shame.
3. The racist robots in Transformers 2. Would’ve made it just a little bit less unbearable to watch.
Edward M Morris Jr
I would remove Alfonso Cuarón from directing the 3rd Harry Potter movie and any other that might happen in an alternate universe and also remove his influence from Mike Newell in not making the 4th movie into 2 parts. AC totally missed the contrast set up for him with the dementors by the Christmasy fell of the Columbus movies which he should have retained until the Dementors were introduced.
George Daley
Matt Damon is so devilishly sexy in this movie.
Brett
Mortal Kombat Annihilation- bring back all of the original cast, then hire someone else to act as Shao Kahn. The movie was awful, but it could have been less awful… maybe.
Joseph Kelch
In “Seven Samurai” I’d … wait, what the heck am I saying! Nevermind.
Joseph Kelch
In “2001: A Space Odyssey” I’d have HAL sing “I’m going to party like it’s 1999” instead of “Daisy”.
Frank Bates
Ben Foster being in The Mechanic kind of ruined the movie for me. I would just eliminate his part altogether. He gives such an emotionless performance and his character almost has no purpose in the movie. His character could be removed from the movie and then it is essentially Transporter 4 and would have just been a fun revenge movie.
Chaz Dumbaugh
The Bourne Supremacy – I would adjust the camera so you could actually see what the freaking hell was going on in 90% of the film
Robert McBride
Remove the scene with Christian Slater from Sta Trek VI. Completely unnecessary cameo.
Robert McBride
Star Trek V…gone.
Kevin
Inland Empire- Lose about an hour… shoot the thing on film, instead of that crappy low-res shit that Lynch went for… and make it at least semi-coherent.
Ross Martin
Bring back Martin Campbell for Quantum of Solace and take more time in pre-production and production to develop a story as compelling as Casino Royale.
Aeron Ives
One of my least favorite things in any movie is misguided comic relief…A few funny lines are good, but, if the movie is not a comedy, there is no need to try to force humor. For example, Transformers 2…Okay, we have the parents for humor. Haha. Then we have Tutorro’s agent. Great. Now we add in the roommate. But let’s add in some potentially-racist robots, just for comic relief…Come on! At the most, there should have been only ONE of these ‘characters’ for comic relief. No more than that…
Second example: I love the Fifth Element. And almost everything was great…except Chris Tucker. Come on!!! If only Ruby Rod could be removed…
But, my number one change I’d make, if I could back and make an adjustment, would be to remove misguided comic relief/kid appeal from Star Wars Episode I…Remove the painful Jar Jar Binks!
Douglas C. McKee
Replace Edward Furlong in Terminator 2 with anybody else.
Delete the last 5-10 minutes of Skyline. The ending made a bad movie just horrendous!
In the remake of Clash of the Titans, give Bubo the owl more than just a cameo. He was my favorite character in the original! 🙂
Douglas C. McKee
In the spirit of “Adjustment”, “Your future has been adjusted”, and “The future is not set”, I am going to adjust the above.
In real life, the T1000 goes back in time and terminates Edward Furlong, mistaking him for the “real” John Connor. A better actor is subsequently chosen to play this part!
Adam
I would change the ending scene in Inception so that it shows the spinning top (the totem) slowly come to a stop.
Cheryl W.
I am going with a newer film because I just can’t get over this one. My choice would be Water For Elephants. I read the book and it was great, but for the love of Pete, why did they cast Robert Pattison? I would definitely keep Reese as the lead, but I think her performance was hindered by Pattison’s. I would have loved to see Jake Gyllenhaal cast instead. Great movie other than that.
Christopher E Zellman
I would change the ending of Matrix Revolutions. Why did Neo and Trinity have to die? And why couldn’t humanity overcome the machine overlords? Seriously? A truce and Neo just falls over dead.
Jeff Thompson
I would change the Special Editions of Star Wars back to the original theatrical versions!
Colton B.
1. Alien 3
My biggest issue with Alien 3 is its gross mistreatment of its predecessor, Aliens, primarily through the slap-in-the-face that is the deaths of Newt and Hicks. These two, along with Ripley, formed the emotional core of Aliens and starting a sequel off on such a low note negatively impacts the film itself. Keeping these characters alive within Alien 3’s own story would bring another emotional element by contrasting the innocence of Newt and Ripley’s motherly protective instincts with the harsh cruelties contained within the prison. This newfound dynamic would add a needed element of familiarity with the material, and would lend the film a more relatable and approachable emotional core. Furthermore, the presence of both Hicks and Newt would make Ripley’s sacrifice much more poignant.
2. X-Men: The Last Stand
X-Men: The Last Stand is full of terrible things, especially as an unfulfilling end to a potentially great trilogy. But where it really falters is in its unforgivable mischaracterization of nearly every character in the film. What makes this so unforgivable is the obvious ignorance of both established characters within the movie continuity and the comic continuity. Wolverine is now a strong leader for the X-Men, which feels out of place given his plot lines in the first two films. Xavier is a far cry from his usual collected self, instead acting inexplicably rash. Jean is now the “Phoenix” in name only, a zombie incapable of speech capable of absorbing everything around her except for Wolverine’s pants. Rogue is more insecure than ever and her arc ends in a total cop out by taking the cure. Magneto is brash in simply discarding his most trusted companion Mystique after she is cured in an act of protecting Magneto himself. An excessive amount of pointless mutants are shoehorned into the film, like Angel and Juggernaut. What this film needs to correct all of these travesties is a new script entirely, presumably crafted by David Hayter and Brian Singer.
Robby Chambrella
change that Matt Damon dies permanently at the end of The Adjustment Bureau
Dennis Lafontaine
I could look through my database and find lots of things wrong with movies that I would adjust, but here’s two recent thoughts. I only say recent because I recently watched them;
Star Trek – Generations, the scene where the Enterprise is pretty much destroyed by the bird of prey. This scene really bugs me. In an all out gun battle, the Enterprise fires just one single shot during the main battle, not very good in battle this flagship of the Federation. I’m sorry but, a shieldless Enterprise vs an old BOP, they could fire a volley of torpedoes or a long blast from the phasers, done. Also, when they realize their shields were breached, what ever happened to the “Shield Rotation” protocol they would use with the Borg?
Next Movie, Snakehead Terror. In the climax of the movie this transformer supposedly falls into the water, electrifying all the fish and saving the day. Ok, so, let’s pretend the power grid for that area has a faulty trip circuit, the transformer doesn’t short out immediately and either melt the wires or the pop a circuit upstream, ok, that doesn’t happen. But would you please explain to me how the whole scene before this had the fish walking on land and entering the cabin, what exactly happened to these fish when the lake was electrified? Once the transformer blows these fish on land will return to the water right?
Benjamin Dotson
I would go back in time to the set of The Crow and save Brandon Lee’s life. He was a great actor and it’s a shame he was taken so soon.
Evan
I’d love to replace Joel Shumacher’s Batman Forever and Batman & Robin from history.
Sofia Coppola in Part III is an obvious replacement. Would have loved to see it with Winona Rider in the role (Francis’ first choice).
Top Gun
The entire second half of Die Another Day. The first half was something interesting — Bond captured and tortured, having his 00 license suspended and going rogue to figure out the truth — and then we get a bunch of over-the-top CGI action and a second half that just completely destroys everything the first half built up.