What do you call the part-prequel\/part-remake of a remake of an adaptation of a short story? How about the most promising streaming rental of the week?
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The following titles enter the VUDU stream this week:<\/p>\n
No, I still haven’t seen the new premakequel<\/em> of ‘The Thing<\/strong>‘ yet. And yes, the film was a box office bomb that has suffered very mixed word of mouth. But both Luke here<\/a> and Roundtable contributor Adam from DVDTalk<\/em><\/a> insist that the movie has gotten a bad rap. I think that makes it worth a rental. Plus, I’ve been in love with Mary Elizabeth Winstead since the Extended Cut of ‘Death Proof<\/a>‘, and that helps a lot. <\/p>\n Also potentially interesting is ‘Outrage: Way of the Yakuza<\/strong>‘, the latest from Japanese cult icon Takeshi “Beat” Kitano. As I explained in Tuesday’s Blu-ray post<\/a>, I’ve seen very little of Kitano’s work and have some catching up to do. I suppose that this is as good a place as any. <\/p>\n I’m tempted to recommend ‘A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas<\/strong>‘, but VUDU doesn’t offer it in 3D, at least not yet. The movie’s original title was ‘A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas’ and it exists for almost no other reason than to exploit goofy 3D gags. Much like ‘Pinanha 3D<\/a>‘, I just don’t see the point of watching this one in 2D.<\/p>\n I have no themes or tie-ins this week. Today’s random pick from the VUDU catalog is genuinely random. How much so? Let’s try Aardman Animations’ stop-motion prison camp spoof ‘Chicken Run<\/strong>‘. The comedy failed to click (or cluck) with audiences like the studio’s famous ‘Wallace & Gromit’ films, but it’s a fun time all the same. It’s not yet available on Blu-ray here (though I believe a Region B edition was released in Europe), but VUDU offers it in 1080p HDX, which is pretty essential to appreciate the detail in the clay sculpting. <\/p>\n All dates provided refer specifically to rental availability. Check VUDU for sell-through availability, if interested. Be sure to also check for VUDU’s $0.99 Movie of the Day offers, which are announced each day on the company’s Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> pages.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What do you call the part-prequel\/part-remake of a remake of an adaptation of a short story? How about the most promising streaming rental of the week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[3555,4576,4035,2563,4575,2000,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29415"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29442,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29415\/revisions\/29442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Josh’s Random VUDU Pick:<\/h5>\n