Renters Anonymous – May 12th, 2009

Posted by Trevor
May 12, 2009

New Releases

takenTaken – 6.9/10 – Trailer
Starring Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Xander Berkeley, Holly Valance, Katie Cassidy
The seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father, the retired agent Bryan Mills that left the secret service to stay near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart; she convinces the reluctant Bryan to sign an authorization to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When they arrive, they share a cab with the stranger Peter and Amanda tells to him that they are alone in Paris. When Bryan succeeds in contacting his daughter, she tells that criminals have just break in the spot and they are kidnapped by an Albanese gang of human trafficking. Bryan promises in the phone to kill the kidnapper of his daughter and immediately travels to Paris to find Kim and chase the criminals.

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Recommendation: Rent

underworldUnderworld: Rise of the Lycans – 6.7/10 – Trailer
Starring Rhona Mitra, Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen, Kevin Grevioux, Steven Mackintosh, Kate Beckinsale (sort of)
The prequel story traces the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires and their onetime slaves, the Lycans. In the Dark Ages, a young Lycan named Lucian emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor, the cruel vampire king who has enslaved them. Lucian is joined by his secret lover, Sonja, in his battle against the Vampire army and his struggle for Lycan freedom.

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Trilogy Special Editions (DVD and Blu-ray)

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Recommendation: Rent (for Underworld fans only)

passengersPassengers – 5.5/10 – Trailer
Starring Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson, Clea DuVall
After a plane crash, a young therapist, Claire, is assigned by her mentor to counsel the flight’s five survivors. When they share their recollections of the incident — which some say include an explosion that the airline claims never happened — Claire is intrigued by Eric, the most secretive of the passengers. Just as Claire’s professional relationship with Eric — despite her better judgment — blossoms into a romance, the survivors begin to disappear mysteriously, one by one. Claire suspects that Eric may hold all the answers and becomes determined to uncover the truth, no matter the consequences.

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Recommendation: Pass (unless you really love Anne Hathaway)

grudge3The Grudge 3
Starring Johanna Braddy, Shawnee Smith, Gil McKinney, Emi Ikahata, Matthew Knight, Jadie Hobson
A young Japanese woman who holds the key to stopping the evil spirit of Kayako, travels to the haunted Chicago apartment from the sequel, to stop the curse of Kayako once and for all and save a family who are currently being haunted by her malicious spirit.

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Recommendation: Pass

possessionPossession
Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Lee Pace, Tuva Novotny, Michael Landes, Chelah Horsdal
Jess, a woman whose life turns surreal after an automobile accident leaves both her husband Ryan and her brother-in-law Roman in a coma. Things take an even darker turn when Roman wakes believing that he is Ryan. As Jess tries to deal with these increasingly disturbing events, she also struggles with the possibility that either the spirit of her husband has returned to her or that something very sinister is at work.

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Recommendation: Pass

Re-Releases

Star Trek: Motion Pictures (3-Film Set) (DVD & Blu-ray)

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Recommendation: Pass (get the full 6 film set instead)

Star Trek: Motion Pictures (Original Motion Picture Collection) (Blu-ray)

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Recommendation: Buy (for any Trekkie)

uglybluThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Blu-ray) – 8.3/10
Starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach
The Good is Blondie, a wandering gunman with a strong personal sense of honor. The Bad is Angel Eyes, a sadistic hitman who always hits his mark. The Ugly is Tuco, a Mexican bandit who’s always only looking out for himself. Against the backdrop of the Civil War, they search for a fortune in gold buried in a graveyard. Each knows only a portion of the gold’s exact location, so for the moment they’re dependent on each other. However, none are particularly inclined to share.

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Recommendation: Buy

fargobluFargo (Blu-ray) – 8/10
Starring Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, William H Macy, Harve Presnell, Peter Stormare
Jerry works in his father-in-law’s car dealership and has gotten himself in financial problems. He tries various schemes to come up with money needed for a reason that is never really explained. It has to be assumed that his huge embezzlement of money from the dealership is about to be discovered by father-in-law. When all else falls through, plans he set in motion earlier for two men to kidnap his wife for ransom to be paid by her wealthy father (who doesn’t seem to have the time of day for son-in-law). From the moment of the kidnapping, things go wrong and what was supposed to be a non-violent affair turns bloody with more blood added by the minute. Jerry is upset at the bloodshed, which turns loose a pregnant sheriff from Brainerd, MN who is tenacious in attempting to solve the three murders in her jurisdiction.

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Recommendation: Rent

majorleagueMajor League (Wild Thing Edition) (Blu-ray) – 6/10
Starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Corbin Bernsen, Rene Russo, Wesley Snipes, Chelcie Ross, Dennis Haysbert, Bob Uecker
An exotic dancer marries the owner of a baseball club. He does not survive the honeymoon and she is in control of his ball club. Looking at a small stadium, she wants to move to warmer climes where some new stadiums have been built, but her lease has only one escape clause, poor attendance. She fields the worst team she can find. The attitude of the owner gives the misfits and losers something to rally around and they fight back.

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Recommendation: Rent (from some sporty laughs)

wayneWayne’s World (Blu-ray) – 6.9/10
Starring Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere
Wayne is still living at home. He has a world class collection of name tags from jobs he’s tried, but he does have his own public access TV show. A local station decides to hire him and his sidekick, Garth, to do their show professionally and Wayne & Garth find that it is no longer the same. Wayne falls for a bass guitarist and uses his and Garth’s Video contacts to help her career along, knowing that Ben Oliver, the sleazy advertising guy who is ruining their show will probably take her away from him if they fail.

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Recommendation: Rent

wayne2Wayne’s World 2 (Blu-ray) – 6.1/10
Starring Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Christopher Walken, Tia Carrere
Wayne is back, this time trying to organize a rock festival with help from friend Garth and the spirit of Jim Morrison (Doors). Meanwhile, his girlfriend’s manager is busy trying to woo her away from Wayne and move her to LA. Life gets interesting when Wayne must rush from the concert to try and stop the wedding. Aerosmith are featured at the concert.

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Recommendation: Rent

t3Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (Remastered) (Blu-ray) – 5.9/10
Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, Kristanna Loken
After his mother passed away, John Connor begun a life as a drifter, and deep down, knew what he, his mother, and the T-800, had done at Cyberdyne only delaying the completion of Skynet. A Terminatrix, T-X, sent back from 2032, to assassinate the future officers of TechCom, and the Resistance sent a T-850 to stop her.

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Recommendation: Buy (only to complete Terminator collection and to please Skynet)

questGalaxy Quest (Deluxe Edition) – 6.1/10
Starring Tim Allen, Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Daryl Mitchell, Enrico Colantoni, Robin Sachs, Missi Pyle, Justin Long, Rainn Wilson
Eighteen years after their sci-fi adventure show “Galaxy Quest” was canceled, actors Jason Nesmith, Gwen DeMarco, Alexander Dane, Tommy Webber, and Fred Kwan are making appearances at sci-fi conventions and store openings in costume and character. They’re wallowing in despair and at each other’s throats until aliens known as Thermians arrive and, having mistaken the show for fact and consequently modeling their entire culture around it, take them into space to save them from the genocidal General Sarris and his armada.

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Recommendation: Pass

The Unrated Blogger’s Cut

I heard really good things about Taken so I was enclined to see it in theaters, until I read that we got a limp PG13 cut of the film.  So now that the original UK cut is out, I’ll be renting that one for a good revenge film.  And even though I love Anne Hathaway (yes I do own Devil Wears Prada), I think I might have to skip out on Passengers (unless I get really bored one day).  And once again it looks like another good Blu-ray week with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and the first six Star Trek films.  On a side note, it looks like I will soon stop renting from Blockbuster (due to their increased fees and once again introduced late fees) and might try out Zip.ca (a Canadian version of Netflix).  So if any of you Canadians have tested it out, let me know how it is.

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  • What a useful post here. Very informative for me..TQ friends...

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  • I just hate American film trying to copy Japanese Horror films. Stop doing it, it's embarrassing it's not even close of having the real scary scene like the Japanese did it.
  • The Grudge 3 is really freaking me out one of the greatest movie that i had seen, well there are lots of version of it around the world and I think they are all really frightening.
  • Taken - One of the best film I have seen and the kidnapping concept is very unique. Action sequence are superb because it is very much possible to do that in real life except of course when the bad guys tied him up and still escaped. But all in all a great movie to watch.
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