{"id":16985,"date":"2011-06-14T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=16985"},"modified":"2017-09-01T09:19:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T16:19:36","slug":"bluray-highlights-jun-14-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/bluray-highlights-jun-14-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Blu-ray Highlights for 6\/14\/11 \u2013 To Grandmother&#8217;s House We Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got a pretty weak slate of new Blu-ray releases coming out today, if you ask me. Is there anything worth buying? Let&#8217;s take a look and see what we can find.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the list of discs being released:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"release_dates\">\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/5052\/36th_precinct.html\">36th Precinct<\/a>&#8216; (Palisades Tartan) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/5418\/band_baaja_baaraat.html\">Band Baaja Baaraat<\/a>&#8216; (Dancing Dolphin) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/5163\/battlelas.html\">Battle: Los Angeles<\/a>&#8216; (Sony) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/4758\/battlela.html\">Battle: Los Angeles (Combo Pack)<\/a>&#8216; (Sony) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/4328\/bigmommashouse3.html\">Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son<\/a>&#8216; (20th Century Fox) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/5000\/boondocksaints_tj.html\">Boondock Saints: Truth &#038; Justice Edition<\/a>&#8216; 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But at least it has lots of visual effects and stuff blowin&#8217; up. That might be worth a rental.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, we have to deal with the Farrelly brothers&#8217; latest comedy flop &#8216;<strong>Hall Pass<\/strong>&#8216; (yawn), that &#8216;<strong>Red Riding Hood<\/strong>&#8216; movie from the director of &#8216;Twilight&#8217; (ugh), or \u2013 god help us all \u2013 Martin Lawrence&#8217;s <em>third<\/em> dragsploitation-fest &#8216;<strong>Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son<\/strong>&#8216;. No, just no. These do not ever need to be watched. <\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t get enough of Johnny Knoxville and the boys? (I sure can, and have.) Well, you&#8217;re in luck. They shot so much unused extra footage for &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/4228\/jackass_3.html\">Jackass 3<\/a>&#8216; that they&#8217;ve managed to put together a whole separate movie of stunt-making stupidity: &#8216;<strong>Jackass 3.5<\/strong>&#8216;. As far as I know, there&#8217;s still no 3D on this Blu-ray. If you can&#8217;t watch a guy taking a sledgehammer to the nuts in 3D, then what&#8217;s the point of watching it at all?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s double-dip time yet again for the &#8216;<strong>Harry Potter<\/strong>&#8216; series. This week gives us the <em>Ultimate Editions<\/em> of the franchise&#8217;s fifth and sixth movies. The films have not been extended, to the best of my knowledge. All we&#8217;re getting here is fancier packaging and some extra bonus features. But, if you&#8217;re a completist, here are two more discs to spend your money on.<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s dig up some cult films. The dopey-but-fun &#8216;<strong>Boondock Saints<\/strong>&#8216; gets a totally superfluous <em>Truth &#038; Justice Edition<\/em> double-dip. Keanu Reeves&#8217; idiotic cyberpunk thriller &#8216;<strong>Johnny Mnemonic<\/strong>&#8216; finally makes its way to these shores. (The movie had previously been released on Blu-ray in Japan.) And Radley Metzger&#8217;s softcore cheesefest &#8216;<strong>Camille 2000<\/strong>&#8216; gets a new extended director&#8217;s cut and a high-def makeover, so you can ogle those boobies in HD and listen to that glorious lounge music in pure lossless quality.<\/p>\n<p>The Criterion Collection gives us two obscure &#8217;80s movies that I&#8217;d honestly never even heard of before. Our reviewer Steven feels that &#8216;<strong>Insignificance<\/strong>&#8216; has an intriguing premise that doesn&#8217;t quite come together. All I know of &#8216;<strong>The Makioka Sisters<\/strong>&#8216; is that it&#8217;s a Japanese family drama. <\/p>\n<p>On the TV front, fans of &#8216;<strong>Supernatural<\/strong>&#8216; can finally fill in the gaps in their collections with the release of the show&#8217;s second season. 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