The SmarK DVD Rant - Action Comics!
- OK, this one is probably a bit of a stretch, but bear with me.
My eternal quest to string together somewhat-related DVD reviews brings us this time around to a pair of comedic-slanted action movies, one of which is much better than the other. I'll leave it to the reader to guess which one I liked more. See if you can figure it out by the end of the review!
http://thedvdlounge.com/2009/08/22/dvd-lounge-giveaway-two-universal-titles/
Another giveaway from The DVD Lounge (the site I do the DVD reviews for). And my review of Fighting is coming soon as well! So it’s corporate synergy or something.
The SmarK DVD Rant - Cuz This Is THRILLER!
The term "thriller" when it comes to movies is unfortunately a pretty meaningless distinction these days, especially since so few of them actually thrill. It's become kind of a catch-all phrase to cover stuff that isn't easily shoehorned into other genres, but it does make it easier to shoehorn together a pair of smaller reviews into one of my patented two-in-one DVD reviews, so there's that.
Just a heads up that I updated the archive again, adding in the last batch of 24/7 rants and a bunch of stuff that had been saved on the laptop instead of my main computer in the office and thus hadn’t been available before.
So as usual, here’s the link: http://www.rspwfaq.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/full-archive.zip
The SmarK DVD Rant for Cadillac Records
It's a very peculiar sensation to know that history is occurring around you. I felt that way back in 1991 when I first heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on the radio, as suddenly the entirety of the "hair metal" movement of the 80s was wiped off the musical map, loser of a war that it never even knew was coming. I can only imagine that people like Muddy Waters felt much the same way when Elvis Presley and the forces of rock n' roll wiped The Blues out of the minds of America's youth, just like that. It's a subject that surprisingly hasn't been covered by Hollywood up until now, and Darnell Martin's Cadillac Records takes a pretty impressive crack at it with a movie that immediately made me run to ITunes and buy the original recordings. So it's definitely got that going for it right off the bat.
Hey Scott, this is Jake Ziegler, formerly of 411Mania, formerly of the Cool Kids' Table, currently a fellow member of Inside Pulse. Anyway, I was doing WWE DVD reviews for CKT, but since IP has those covered I started my own page to continue the WWE reviews. It's at http://jzsays.blogspot.com. If you would be so kind as to throw this plug up on your blog I would really appreciate it.
Enjoy!
Nothing terribly exciting, but given the amount of content I pump out on a weekly basis I thought it best to update the Rant Archives for those who have already bought it or those who would still like to purchase it. Basically I added all the 24/7, PPV and DVD reviews that I've done since the original offering in August, plus all the PDF versions of the WWE PPVs. So the file is about 20MB now instead of 13MB.
Those who have already bought it, feel free to download the new file and use the same password. Those who would like to purchase it, send $20 US via Paypal to skeith@gmail.com and I'll send you the password. Easy as that.
http://www.rspwfaq.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/full-archive.zip
And here's what you get:
One word of warning: The newer stuff (pretty much anything from 2007 onwards) is written in Word 2007 format, which shows up as a .docx file and can't be read without either Word 2007 or a standalone reader from Microsoft.
The SmarK DVD Rant - Based On a True Story!
I've always found "based on a true story" to be an odd phrase, as normally things are either true or false, whereas it is a uniquely Hollywood proposition to proclaim something as factual while still fudging details to make it more entertaining. Even stranger to do so when the true stories in question are sometimes more unlikely than anything that the overworked screenwriters could have thought of.
The SmarK DVD Rant for the Back to the Future Trilogy
[Note from time-traveling Scott in 2009: This is a repost and update of my original rant on the trilogy from 2002, which has been recently re-released by Universal in single-disc sets. I'm assuming that since it was written 7 years ago, a good chunk of my readership won't have read the original anyway]
Time travel stories give me a headache.
The SmarK DVD Rant for The Best of Saturday Night's Main Event
I have been waiting anxiously for this one for a while now.
Disc One
- Hosted by Mean Gene
- So let us take you back to the Rock N Wrestling era in 1985, as SNME replaces SNL reruns once every few weeks…
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WWE Judgment Day 2002 DVD 2002 US $50.00 |
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WWE New Years Revolution 2006 DVD 2006 US $2.76 |
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WWE The Spectacular Legacy of the AWA DVD 2006 US $.99 |
