"Where'd you meet this Weenie King?"
Happy Turkey, er week everyone. The new DVDs are getting thick for the holiday season, so let's see what we have this week:
Alias - The Complete Fifth Season Yes, the end of the line for this show. There's also Alias: The Complete Collection available if you want to buy the whole thing (makes a great, if immense, stocking stuffer!).
Da Ali G Show: Da Compleet Seereez Sacha Baron Cohen's HBO pre-Borat TV series.
The Double Life of Véronique Criterion issues the 1991 Krzysztof Kieslowski film.
A Fish Called Wanda: 2-Disc Collector's Edition This is already on DVD, in a poor full frame sans-bonuses version. This SE has been a long time coming and was delayed by Sony's buyout of MGM. I have no doubt that this version is superior to the old DVD.
How I Met Your Mother - Season One
Ice Age: The Meltdown Ah, more CG talking animals and celebrity voice-overs...
An Inconvenient Truth Oh, don't see this one...you know that whole global warming thing was made up, right? ;-)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947) This has been on DVD before, but this time it's coming as a 2 DVD SE including both original black/white and color versions (because you know, kids can't tolerate stuff in black/white). Definitely better than the 1994 version.
Perry Mason - Season One, Volume Two
Preston Sturges: The Filmmaker Collection Universal is getting better about releasing their classic Paramount catalog. These films are a welcome addition since four of these titles are new to DVD: The Great McGinty (1940), Christmas in July (1940), The Lady Eve (1941, Criterion did this one a few years back), Sullivan's Travels (1941, another one Criterion issued), The Palm Beach Story (1942), Hail the Conquering Hero (1944), and The Great Moment (1944). As with many of these Universal sets, zero bonuses (would it have killed them to stick some trailers on?).
Scoop (2006) Woody Allen's latest film about a dog that doesn't like to be picked up.
Seinfeld - Season 7 The season that gave us the Soup Nazi.
Star Trek - The Animated Series The early 70s (crudely) animated Trek series finally makes it to DVD (making it one of the few new things released, Trek-wise to the format in some time). I'm almost afraid to watch these...though it might be amusing. I don't really have nostalgia for this series since I was a bit too young when it first on and it didn't seem to get re-ran that often, unlike the original series that was on all the time when I was growing up. This set also has some bonus features such as commentaries and the ubiquitous text pop-up commentaries.
Comments
I do have some nostalgia for the animated series (I just came across my old Alan Dean Foster paperback adaptations of the episodes the other day). But I fear that I'll be disappointed. We just struggled through a disc of "Land of the Lost" and I was shocked at how gawd-awful they were…and to think I nearly wet my pants with excitement when I first saw it as a kid. I'm afraid the animated Trek will be the same.
I found this really amusing:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/41453
Posted by: Prof. Qwert | November 21, 2006 08:53 AM