With the bootleg BIONIC SIX VCD's I got waaaaaaay back near the beginning of this blog, I'm pretty much set for life. Those 2 were the hardest to find (AND STILL haven't been released officially on DVD!). Let's take a look at the checklist...
Bionic Six
Centurions
C.O.P.S. (VHS collection, would like an update to DVD)
TaleSpin (Also downloaded!, but is slowly being released on Damn CopyProof Disney DVD's)
DarkWing Duck (VHS collection, but also seeing the light on DVD)
Gargoyles (Still working on that...)
Animaniacs (Some VHS, vol. 1 on DVD, Work in Progress)
Thundercats (also Work in Progress, Have 1st half of Volume 1)
Battle of the Planets (Went too far back and got the 70's version when I really wanted the chopped up 80's "G-Force" edition.)
Voltron (Heard it's finally out..got it on the Blockbuster Queue)
And it's NOT jus cartoons, ya'll...
Just last month I got homemade DVD's of the short lived police drama "ROBBERY HOMICIDE DIVISION" aka "HEAT" the TV show. Me being the Michael Mann nut that I am, I NEEDED to get a hold of full run of the canceled series.
There's ONE other Dramatic Show I want...David Caruso's "MICHAEL HAYES" his first attempt back on TV after leaving NYPD Blue, playing a District Attorney, that show was cool.
And as for TV comedies, HERMAN'S HEAD & PARKER LEWIS CAN'T LOSE tops the most wanted/Should of BEEN released on DVD already List.
My Hard Drive is gonna be filled to the gills...I gotta burn some stuff on Data DVD's and lighten the load...
On the DVD REVIEW front I saw two weird ass movies that will stay with me for a bit...
First ones a below the radar movie that came out in 2005 that I forgot all about till now...a gritty police gangbanger drama called "DIRTY".
First off, a lotta people compare this to "Training Day" and jus write it off without a fair glance. But hey, in hollywood, shit happens. We had "Mission to Mars" verses "Red Planet", we had "Heist" vs. "The Score", we even just had "The Illusionist" vs. "The Prestige" just because two movies are almost identical doesn't mean one is better than the other...
In DIRTY Clifton Collins Jr (Who I only remember from "187") and Cuba Gooding Jr (Hey, they're BOTH Juniors...HA!) are two cops working in a special undercover anti-gang unit due to their histories AS gang members who bend the law for the greater good. Till something goes wrong and IA tries to turn them or take them down. The Narration by Collins makes this movie a bit spookier and gritter than Denzel's preachy speeches in his movie. The insight of this anti-hero makes you almost want to root for him till the very end when the shit hits the fan. Cuba switching gears and trying buy back some street cred is over the top as a loathing bully, who damn near out-"muthafucker's Samuel "Muthafuckin Jackson and is just as mean as Denzel's "Alonzo" in a role that just might make me take him seriously again. I think he should do a couple more movies like this. The movie also had weird cameos by musicians Wyclef Jean and Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas, I wonder who they paid to get their roles? If you put the similarities of Training Day aside, the movie can be very moving and the ending will really stay in your head for awhile. Check it out, it makes you think.
In 2004, Sideways put B-List actor Paul Giamatti in the spotlight for awhile. He even won a golden globe for best actor in the film, but it almost looks like his 15 minutes is up (Did ANYbody see "Lady in the Water?"). This movie has two memoriable scenes that were so funny they were described in a couple of novels I read. (Most recently in James Patterson's "Cross" which made me borrow the DVD from the Library.)I'm not gonna give those two scenes away because that's about as funny as the whole movie gets. This dragged out misadventure tale of obsessed wine connoisseur (Fancy word, I know...) and his soap opera star best friend about to get married was in a word, boring. Sandra Oh from Grey's Anatomy almost steals the movie in her short role and couldn't help relating myself to Giamatti's loser character as a aspiring writer trying to get his 750 page juggernaut of a novel published. The movie barely went anywhere in the 7 days it takes place and the ending just leaves you hanging like "That's It?". Sometimes I wonder how stuff like this turns into a movie....
In other 2-cent opinions...is it me or is AI's crop of crooner pretty weak this season? On the Guys we got Sunshine Head, the Jack Osborn clone, and Sanjay, who's hair looks like Daphne from Scooby Doo, and then the lil beatbox kid and handful of other misfits with no or forgettable gimmicks. These guys make LAST YEARS bunch look like superheros! Taylor Hicks with his Salt & Pepper do', Chris Daughtry's stunned look of rejection and who could forget the cute country bumkin' Kellie Pickler? I'm starting to think this year could be worst than the year before last with Bo, Constantine and Miss Underwood! Well, if these kids do become losers that seems to be the way to go, with all the success going to finalist and not winners themselves...Is Jennifer Hudson this year's Jamie Foxx? She's winning so many damn awards she may be voted MVP for the NBA this season, and she don't even play!
and finally...HEROES is SO making me forget about LOST! It's getting better and better each and every episode, the storylines, the characters, the plot-twists, the POWERS....very freaking cool!
So, that about wraps things up, you're up to speed now...
We now return to our scheduled program already in progress...
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