{"id":77406,"date":"2016-05-02T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=77406"},"modified":"2016-05-09T05:19:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T12:19:10","slug":"bluray-highlights-may-3-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/bluray-highlights-may-3-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Blu-ray Highlights: Week of May 1st, 2016 &#8211; Wave of Regret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sad to say, the most appealing Blu-ray release this week is a catalog title I mistakenly listed as available a few weeks ago. I suppose that&#8217;s good news for those of us who&#8217;d like to save our cash.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-726\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_726\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/blog\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_726_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"720bbe7ded\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"726\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_multiple_ans_726\" name=\"poll_multiple_ans_726\" value=\"39\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Which Blu-rays Interest You This Week (5\/3\/16)?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-726-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11832\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11832\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11832\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/29244\/thejamesbondcollection.html\">007: The Daniel Craig 4-Film Collection<\/a>' (MGM\/UA)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11833\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11833\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11833\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/29873\/the5thwave.html\">The 5th Wave<\/a>' (Sony)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11834\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11834\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11834\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/ultrahd.highdefdigest.com\/32185\/the5thwaveultrahdbluray.html\">The 5th Wave \u2013 Ultra HD Blu-ray<\/a>' (Sony)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11835\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11835\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11835\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31477\/airwolfthecompleteseries.html\">Airwolf: The Complete Series<\/a>' (Mill Creek)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11836\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11836\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11836\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31566\/americansniperce.html\">American Sniper: The Chris Kyle Commemorative Edition<\/a>' (Warner Brothers)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11837\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11837\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11837\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31463\/anesthesia.html\">Anesthesia<\/a>' (MPI)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11838\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11838\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11838\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31131\/arabiannightstrilogy.html\">Arabian Nights Trilogy<\/a>' (Kino)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11839\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11839\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11839\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/28485\/assassination.html\">Assassination<\/a>' (Kino)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11840\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11840\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11840\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/30538\/thebrokenwoodmysteriesseries2.html\">The Brokenwood Mysteries: Series 2<\/a>' (Acorn Media)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11841\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11841\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11841\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/30606\/camino.html\">Camino<\/a>' (Xlrator)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11842\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11842\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11842\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/32250\/thechoice.html\">The Choice<\/a>' (Lionsgate)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11843\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11843\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11843\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31292\/cityheat.html\">City Heat<\/a>' (Warner Brothers)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11844\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11844\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11844\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/29871\/club.html\">The Club<\/a>' (Music Box Films)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11845\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11845\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11845\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/30631\/easyridercriterion.html\">Easy Rider<\/a>' (Criterion)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11846\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11846\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11846\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31461\/emelie.html\">Emelie<\/a>' (MPI)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11847\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11847\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11847\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/33266\/fastfurious7moviecollection.html\">Fast &amp; Furious: 7-Movie Collection<\/a>' (Universal)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11848\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11848\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11848\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31660\/independenceday202.html\">Independence Day: 20th Anniversary Attacker Edition Gift Set<\/a>' (20th Century Fox)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11849\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11849\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11849\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31654\/independenceday20.html\">Independence Day: 20th Anniversary Edition<\/a>' (20th Century Fox)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11850\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11850\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11850\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/33058\/janislittlegirlblue.html\">Janis: Little Girl Blue<\/a>' (FilmRise)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11851\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11851\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11851\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/33275\/joy.html\">Joy<\/a>' (20th Century Fox)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11852\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11852\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11852\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/ultrahd.highdefdigest.com\/32179\/joyultrahdbluray.html\">Joy \u2013 Ultra HD Blu-ray<\/a>' (20th Century Fox)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11853\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11853\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11853\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31297\/akissbeforedying.html\">A Kiss Before Dying (1956)<\/a>' (Kino)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11854\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11854\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11854\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31513\/thelastshipthecompletesecondseason.html\">The Last Ship: The Complete Second Season<\/a>' (Warner Brothers)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11855\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11855\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11855\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31613\/themessenger.html\">The Messenger<\/a>' (Kino)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11856\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11856\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11856\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31760\/mojinthelostlegend.html\">Mojin: The Lost Legend<\/a>' (Well Go USA)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11857\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11857\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11857\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/30763\/pandemic.html\">Pandemic<\/a>' (Xlrator)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11858\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11858\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11858\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/30931\/remember.html\">Remember<\/a>' (Lionsgate)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11859\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11859\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11859\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31031\/rwbyvolume3.html\">RWBY: Volume 3<\/a>' (Cinedigm)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11860\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11860\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11860\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/30406\/sharkansaswomensprisonmassacre.html\">Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre<\/a>' (Shout! Factory)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11861\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11861\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11861\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31704\/steelejustice.html\">Steele Justice<\/a>' (Kino)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11862\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11862\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11862\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/30291\/submerged.html\">Submerged<\/a>' (Shout! Factory)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11863\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11863\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11863\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/32032\/tedvsflashgordontheultimatecollection.html\">Ted vs. Flash Gordon: The Ultimate Collection<\/a>' (Universal)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11864\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11864\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11864\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/30874\/topgun_30th.html\">Top Gun: 30th Anniversary Edition (Limited Edition SteelBook)<\/a>' (Paramount)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11865\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11865\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11865\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/32786\/trailertrauma2driveinmonsterama.html\">Trailer Trauma 2: Drive-In Monsterama<\/a>' (Garagehouse Pictures)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11866\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11866\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11866\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31726\/truecrime.html\">True Crime<\/a>' (Warner Bros.)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11867\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11867\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11867\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31623\/vampiressuckebme.html\">Vampires Suck: Extended Bite Me Edition<\/a>' (20th Century Fox)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11868\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11868\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11868\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31662\/whosafraidofvirginiawoolf.html\">Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?<\/a>' (Warner Archive)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11869\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11869\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11869\">Other (Tell us in the Comments)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11870\" name=\"poll_726\" value=\"11870\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11870\">Nothing for me this week<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(726);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(726); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-726-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n<h2>New Releases<\/h2>\n<p>&#8216;<strong>The Fifth Wave<\/strong>&#8216; \u2013 Hoping to follow in the footsteps of Jennifer Lawrence and Shailene Woodley, Chlo\u00eb Moretz headlines the latest attempt to launch a YA franchise adapted from a moderately popular book series. This one&#8217;s about an alien invasion. It&#8217;s also reportedly terrible beyond description. Fortunately, the film&#8217;s disastrous box office performance will spare us from a string of sequels capped off by needlessly splitting the final book into two movies, as is the annoying trend today and was undoubtedly the studio&#8217;s plan. In addition to the standard Blu-ray, a UHD release is also available, the better to see all the flaws in its shoddy CGI effects. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<strong>Joy<\/strong>&#8216; \u2013 Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro once again reteam with director David O. Russell, and will presumably continue to do so for as long as he lands them Oscar nominations. Even though the film was not particularly well received by critics and was a box office flop, Lawrence indeed did somehow score a nom for the bio-pic about a woman who invents a fancy mop. Yeah, that&#8217;s really what the movie is about. You probably didn&#8217;t realize that because, like most people, you probably didn&#8217;t pay much attention to the movie at all. Also available in UHD, as if this were likely to entice you to adopt that format. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<strong>The Choice<\/strong>&#8216; \u2013 I choose not to watch movies based on garbage Nicholas Sparks novels. You would be wise to do the same. Teresa Palmer and Benjamin Walker were less wise to star in this one. The choice in question: Hunky boyfriend must decide whether to pull the plug on his comatose Barbie doll girlfriend. This will involve much praying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<strong>Remember<\/strong>&#8216; \u2013 Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan has struggled unsuccessfully over the past two decades to live up to his early successes with &#8216;Exotica&#8217; and &#8216;The Sweet Hereafter&#8217;. The director tries to pull a &#8216;Mememto&#8217; here with a thriller about an elderly Holocaust survivor (Christopher Plummer) whose quest for vengeance against the Nazi guard that murdered his family is complicated by his worsening dementia and unreliable memories. That certainly sounds like an intriguing premise, but the movie was strongly criticized for some implausible and poorly thought-out plotting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<strong>Emelie<\/strong>&#8216; \u2013 Sarah Bolger is the Babysitter from Hell in a horror thriller that has some surprisingly decent critics&#8217; reviews on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/emelie\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, but a much poorer audience score both there and among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4503598\/reference\" rel=\"nofollow\">IMDb<\/a> voters. Color me skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<strong>Anesthesia<\/strong>&#8216; \u2013 Actor and occasional director Tim Blake Nelson charts a trajectory direct from film festival to Redbox with an intersecting-lives ensemble drama in the vein of &#8216;Crash&#8217;. Reviews were unkind. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<strong>Janis: Little Girl Blue<\/strong>&#8216; \u2013 The tragically short life of Janis Joplin is profiled in a documentary directed by Amy Berg (&#8216;West of Memphis&#8217;) and narrated by musician Cat Power.<\/p>\n<h2>Catalog Titles<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure whether the disc was pushed back or we simply had the date wrong on our site&#8217;s release calendar, but Amazon currently says that Mike Nichols&#8217; adaptation of Edward Albee&#8217;s searing marital drama &#8216;<strong>Who&#8217;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?<\/strong>&#8216; is actually scheduled for May 3rd. (I previously announced it for April 12th.) It&#8217;s a great movie and worth waiting for.<\/p>\n<p>I already had some uneasiness with the way that &#8216;<strong>American Sniper<\/strong>&#8216; lionized a man whose real life wasn&#8217;t as black-and-white as the Hollywood bio-pic depicted it. That problem is compounded by the <em>Chris Kyle Commemorative Edition<\/em> double-dip, which shamelessly exploits the man&#8217;s death by throwing some of his home movies into the supplement package. I&#8217;m sure that this is all the work of the studio marketing department and that Clint Eastwood had nothing to do with the new release, but the whole thing feels distasteful to me. <\/p>\n<p>As if to tie-in with that, Warner Bros. has also dug up two of Eastwood&#8217;s lesser movies, &#8216;<strong>City Heat<\/strong>&#8216; from 1984 and &#8216;<strong>True Crime<\/strong>&#8216; from 1999. <\/p>\n<p>In time to promote this summer&#8217;s much-belated sequel, Fox has given &#8216;<strong>Independence Day<\/strong>&#8216; a new 4k remaster for the <em>20th Anniversary Edition<\/em>. If you want to go all-out, the lamely-titled <em>Attacker Edition<\/em> gift set comes with a toy spaceship. (Do the aliens in this series really not even have a name, and &#8220;Attackers&#8221; is the best anyone has come up with to call them?) Be aware that a UHD Blu-ray is <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrahd.highdefdigest.com\/32181\/independencedayultrahdbluray.html\">scheduled for release next month<\/a>, in case you&#8217;re inclined to wait for that.<\/p>\n<p>Also from Fox is an unwanted Extended Edition double-dip for the inane Friedberg\/Seltzer spoof &#8216;<strong>Vampires Suck<\/strong>&#8216;. In what way would adding more footage to this cinematic travesty be desirable to anyone?<\/p>\n<p>Kino has licensed the classic noir &#8216;<strong>A Kiss Before Dying<\/strong>&#8216; (the 1956 version with Robert Wagner, not the inferior 1991 remake with Matt Dillon) and the late-career Charles Bronson action flick &#8216;<strong>Assassination<\/strong>&#8216;. The latter is really only memorable as the last movie Bronson made with his wife Jill Ireland before she passed away.<\/p>\n<h2>Repackagings<\/h2>\n<p>Criterion&#8217;s standalone edition of &#8216;<strong>Easy Rider<\/strong>&#8216; is a breakout from the 2010 &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3907\/america_bbs.html\">America Lost and Found: The BBS Story<\/a>&#8216; box set. The movie had also previously been released on Blu-ray by Sony, from which Criterion licensed the same video master. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Paramount&#8217;s new <em>30th Anniversary Limited Edition SteelBook<\/em> for &#8216;<strong>Top Gun<\/strong>&#8216;\tis the same disc first released in 2008 with a crummy, overly-processed video transfer. The SteelBook doesn&#8217;t even bother to throw in the 3D conversion from 2013. <\/p>\n<p>Universal has a new bundle of all seven &#8216;<strong>Fast &#038; Furious<\/strong>&#8216; movies, as well as a peculiar collection called &#8216;<strong>Ted vs. Flash Gordon<\/strong>&#8216;, which pairs up both of Seth MacFarlane&#8217;s talking-teddy-bear comedies with the goofy space epic that&#8217;s referenced as a running gag in them.<\/p>\n<p>MGM tosses &#8216;Casino Royale&#8217;, &#8216;Quantum of Solace&#8217;, &#8216;Skyfall&#8217; and &#8216;Spectre&#8217; into a box for the &#8216;<strong>007: The Daniel Craig 4-Film Collection<\/strong>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<h2>Television<\/h2>\n<p>Mill Creek&#8217;s <em>Complete Series<\/em> box set for the dopey 1980s action drama &#8216;<strong>Airwolf<\/strong>&#8216; claims to have &#8220;All 79 Episodes in High-Definition.&#8221; That would include even the lamentable fourth season, which transitioned the show from CBS to the USA network with a complete overhaul of the cast and a drastic reduction in budget. If I&#8217;m not mistaken, that season was shot on standard-def video and will have to be upconverted, whereas the first three could be remastered from film elements. I watched this show religiously when I was 12 and its ear-worm theme music still pops into my head randomly even to this day, but I can&#8217;t imagine revisiting it now.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if TNT&#8217;s &#8216;<strong>The Last Ship<\/strong>&#8216; winds up being for the kids of today what &#8216;Airwolf&#8217; was for my generation. It&#8217;s kind of dumb, is what I&#8217;m saying. At its best (including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/last-ship-212-recap\/\">penultimate episode of Season 2<\/a>), the show is rousingly fun anyway. At its worst (including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/last-ship-213-recap\/\">finale of Season 2<\/a>), it&#8217;s kind of dreadful. <\/p>\n<h2>My $.02<\/h2>\n<p>I had intended to buy &#8216;Who&#8217;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?&#8217; when I thought it was released last month, but a lack of funds curbed my purchases. That disc is still on my wish list. Beyond that, this week is kind of a bust for me. (I already have &#8216;Easy Rider&#8217; in the &#8216;BBS Story&#8217; box set.)<\/p>\n<p>Do you see anything to your liking?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad to say, the most appealing Blu-ray release this week is a catalog title I mistakenly listed as available a few weeks ago. 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