{"id":5387,"date":"2010-08-24T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=5387"},"modified":"2013-04-24T13:50:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T20:50:30","slug":"bluray-highlights-aug-24-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/bluray-highlights-aug-24-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Blu-ray Highlights for 8\/24\/10. What Are You Buying (Besides &#8216;Lost&#8217;)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a big week for TV and cult movies on Blu-ray. The new day-and-date movies are much less exciting, but that&#8217;s OK. You&#8217;ll have plenty else to spend your money on anyway. <\/p>\n<h6><!--more--><\/h6>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the release slate:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"release_dates\">\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/2876\/5aday.html\">$5 A Day<\/a>&#8216; (Image) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3712\/222.html\">2:22<\/a>&#8216; (Inception Media Group)  <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3619\/abandoned.html\">Abandoned<\/a>&#8216; (Starz\/Anchor Bay)  <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3660\/ajami.html\">Ajami<\/a>&#8216; (Kino) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3571\/backupplan.html\">The Back-up Plan<\/a>&#8216; (Sony)  <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3815\/bls_doom.html\">Black Label Society: Doom Troopin&#8217; Live &#8211; The European Invasion<\/a>&#8216; (Eagle Rock) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3587\/cityisland.html\">City Island<\/a>&#8216; (Starz\/Anchor Bay) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3436\/deathnotecollection.html\">Death Note Collection<\/a>&#8216; (Warner Brothers) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3713\/doriangray.html\">Dorian Gray<\/a>&#8216; (National Media) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3544\/greatrift.html\">The Great Rift<\/a>&#8216; (BBC)  <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3379\/thelonggoodfriday.html\">The Long Good Friday<\/a>&#8216; (Image) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3024\/lost_complete.html\">Lost: The Complete Collection<\/a>&#8216; (Disney\/Buena Vista) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3025\/lost_s6.html\">Lost: The Complete Sixth and Final Season<\/a>&#8216; (Disney\/Buena Vista) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3411\/machinegunmccain.html\">Machine Gun McCain<\/a>&#8216; (Blue Underground) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3378\/monalisa.html\">Mona Lisa<\/a>&#8216; (Image)  <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3816\/pixies_ae.html\">The Pixies: Acoustic &#038; Electric Live<\/a>&#8216; (Eagle Rock) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3524\/shogun_assassin.html\">Shogun Assassin<\/a>&#8216; (AnimEigo) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3398\/simpsons_13.html\">The Simpsons: The Thirteenth Season<\/a>&#8216; (20th Century Fox) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3595\/square.html\">The Square<\/a>&#8216; (Sony) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3447\/survivalofthedead_ultimateundead.html\">Survival of the Dead: Ultimate Undead Edition<\/a>&#8216; (Magnolia) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3366\/timebandits.html\">Time Bandits<\/a>&#8216; (Image) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3488\/tom_jerry_sherlock.html\">Tom and Jerry Sherlock Holmes<\/a>&#8216; (Warner Brothers) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3444\/universe_solarsystem.html\">The Universe: Our Solar System<\/a>&#8216; (A&#038;E) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3377\/withnailandi.html\">Withnail and I<\/a>&#8216; (Image) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The &#8220;must buy&#8221; of the week is of course (from my perspective, at least) the final season of &#8216;<strong>Lost<\/strong>&#8216;. Sure, you may have heard some whining that the finale episode didn&#8217;t tie up each and every nit-picky loose end. (<em>&#8220;OMG, what happened to that teddy bear that the kid whose face we never saw dragged through the jungle in Season 2? How dare they not address that? I&#8217;ll burn Damon Lindelof&#8217;s house down for wasting the last six years of my life without answering this critical question!&#8221;<\/em>) Never you mind all that. The season is just as good as all the others, and I&#8217;m certain that the finale will be better regarded with time, once the fanboy rage has worn off. ABC is issuing both the Sixth Season on its own or a fancy &#8220;Complete Collection&#8221; box set with deluxe packaging and an extra disc of supplements. Both editions include a new 12-minute epilogue scene called &#8216;The New Man in Charge&#8217; that attempts to wrap up some of those final lingering mysteries. I&#8217;m sure that I&#8217;ll be reviewing this set eventually, but the studio didn&#8217;t send a screener in advance this time, so it will take me some time to dig through it.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the TV front comes &#8216;<strong>The Simpsons: The Thirteenth Season<\/strong>&#8216;. That seems kind of random. The show is about to start its 22nd season on broadcast. Previously, only the <a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/2798\/simpsons_s20.html\">20th season was issued on Blu-ray<\/a>. I haven&#8217;t watched &#8216;The Simpsons&#8217; in I don&#8217;t know how long. So tell me, fans, is there something special about the 13th season that stands out from the rest?<\/p>\n<p>For day-and-date movies, we have two horrorshows: &#8216;<strong>Survival of the Dead<\/strong>&#8216; and &#8216;<strong>The Back-Up Plan<\/strong>&#8216;. The former is George Romero&#8217;s latest low-budget zombie embarrassment. I find it kind of sad that Romero has been a professional filmmaker for over four decades, and yet, for the last couple of those, each of his movies has gotten more and more amateurish than the last. &#8216;Survival&#8217; looks more like a fan tribute film shot in someone&#8217;s back yard than a real movie. And as for &#8216;The Back-Up Plan&#8217;, that&#8217;s the alleged romantic comedy in which J-Lo inseminates herself. I find the thought of that terrifying. <\/p>\n<p>Image unleashes a batch of noteworthy cult films all at once. Bob Hoskins stars in both Neil Jordan&#8217;s early thriller &#8216;<strong>Mona Lisa<\/strong>&#8216; and the British gangster flick &#8216;<strong>The Long Good Friday<\/strong>&#8216;. Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann are drunk and disorderly in the dark (very dark) comedy &#8216;<strong>Withnail &#038; I<\/strong>&#8216;. Perhaps best of all is the Terry Gilliam fantasy classic &#8216;<strong>Time Bandits<\/strong>&#8216;. 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