Archive for the ‘ on DVD ’ Category

The Island (2005)

  • January 2nd, 2007
  • Posted in on DVD

Watched this across two nights. And wasn’t even totally watching it at that. Put it in initially to check the screen’s brightness and colors—i knew this was a pretty vivid looking movie. So it just kinda stayed on as background noise. I seem to be on a future-themed trend lately with this, Minority Report, and [ READ MORE ]

Batman Begins (2005)

  • January 1st, 2007
  • Posted in on DVD

I wondered where the fictional Gotham was filmed. The flyovers and aerial shots looked great, but weren’t easily identifiable as any real city. According to IMDb, it seems the shots flying through the skyscrapers with the train were Chicago, and i’d guess some of the wider aerial shots were New York City. Both with plenty [ READ MORE ]

Minority Report (2002)

  • December 30th, 2006
  • Posted in on DVD

Bookended this one. Started watching it, fell asleep, then caught the last half hour. I enjoy seeing well-done futuristic visions like this. It’s neat to see what might be the everyday things in our lives in a few decades. Minority Report is very grainy—by design, for sure. But combine that with DVD compression, and then [ READ MORE ]

Huo Yuan Jia (Jet Li’s Fearless) (2006)

  • December 25th, 2006
  • Posted in on DVD

Kinda takes the best of all the martial arts flicks and mashes them up into a pretty good tale. Some really creative weapons fights. I loved the old dude that announced the fights—he was like a Chinese version of the old bank owner’s son in Mary Poppins[ READ MORE ]

I, Robot (2004)

  • December 17th, 2006
  • Posted in on DVD

This was popped in just to have something on, but i ended up watching the whole thing. It’s a fun movie. And i have no idea why Shia LaBeouf is in this movie—his role had nothing at all to do with the plot—but it’s all good, cuz he’s pretty funny. And i really want to [ READ MORE ]

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