Renters Anonymous – June 16th, 2009
New Releases
Friday the 13th – 5.7/10 – Trailer
Starring Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Aaron Yoo, Amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle, Derek Mears
A group of young adults discover a boarded up Camp Crystal Lake, where they soon encounter Jason Voorhees (Derek Mears) and his deadly intentions. A remake of the 1980 horror classic of the same name.
Rated Version Special Features:
2.35:1 Widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1- Theatrical Cut of the Film
Killer Cut Extended Edition Special Features:
- 2.40:1 Widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1
- “Killer Cut” Extended Edition (9min longer)
- Additional Scenes
- Featurette: “The Rebirth of Jason Voorhees”
- Digital Copy of the Film
Blu-ray Features:
- 2.40:1 Widescreen 1080p with Dolby TrueHD 5.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1
- Both the Theatrical cut and the Extended cut of the film
- All of the features of the Killer Cut DVD, plus:
- Terror Trivia Track
- “Hacking Back/Slashing Forward”
- BD-Live Enabled
- Digital Copy of the Film
Recommendation: Pass
The Cell 2
Starring Tessie Santiago, Chris Bruno, Frank Whaley
A serial killer continually flatlines his victims and then revives them, until they beg to die. His latest victim, psychic investigator Maya Casteneda (Tessie Santiago), survived and bent on revenge. Tapped by FBI, Maya realizes the only way to locate The Cusp is by entering his mind. But if she dies there, she’ll also die in real life.
Special Features:
- 1.85:1 Widescreen and 1.33:1 Fullscreen with Dolby Digital 5.1
“The Cell 2: Behind the Scenes”
Blu-ray Features:
- 1.85:1 Widescreen 1080p with Dolby TrueHD 5.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1
- “The Cell 2: Behind the Scenes”
- BD-Live Enabled
- Digital Copy of the Film
Recommendation: Pass
Madea Goes to Jail – 5.5/10 – Trailer
Starring Tyler Perry, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Derek Luke, Robin Coleman, Jackson Walker, Drew Sidora, David Mann, Tamela J Mann, Sofia Vergara
It was only a matter of time before Madea’s run-ins with the law finally caught up with her. After she leads the cops on a high-speed chase, hilarity ensues, but the judge doesn’t find it funny. So when anger management can’t shut her up, the judge locks her down. But even in prison, Madea is large and in charge – laying down the law, changing hearts and minds, and making the most of her hard time.
Special Features:
- 1.85:1 Widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Digital 2.0
- Featurettes: “Madea is Back”, “Leroy Law Brown”, “Looking for the Big House”, “You Have the Right to Remain Silent”, “Bringing in the Heavy Hitters”, “Madea’s Crazy”
Recommendation: Pass
Re-Releases
Ghost Busters (Blu-ray) – 7.1/10
Starrring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts
Three odd-ball scientists get kicked out of their cushy positions at a university in New York City where they studied the occult. They decide to set up shop in an old firehouse and become Ghostbusters, trapping pesky ghosts, spirits, haunts, and poltergeists for money. They wise-crack their way through the city, and stumble upon a gateway to another dimension, one which will release untold evil upon the city. The Ghostbusters are called on to save the Big Apple.
Blu-ray Features:
- 2.40:1 Widescreen 1080p with Dolby TrueHD 5.1
- Digitally Remastered Audio and Video
- Slimer Mode: PiP
- Featurettes: “Ecto-1: Resurrecting the Classic Car”, “The Making of Ghostbusters”, “Interviews with Cast and Crew”, “SFX Team”
- Ghostbusters Garage: Ecto-1 Gallery
- Commentary with Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis and Joe Medjuck
- Deleted Scenes
- Storyboard Comparisons
- BD-Live Enabled
Recommendation: Buy
Friday the 13th, Part 2 (Blu-ray) – 6.1/10
Starring Amy Steel, John Furey, Adrienne King
After killing the crazy Mrs. Voorhees, who was avenging her son Jason’s death, Alice can finally sigh with relief. But there is just one problem. Jason never drowned in Crystal Lake and lived in the nearby woods as a hermit all this time. The day that ALice beheaded his mother, Jason saw everything and his heart filled with thirst for revenge. Two months later Alice gets stabbed by an ice pick in the temple and dissapears. Is Jason behind this? Five years later a camp next do to Camp Crystal Lake is build and the couselors start snooping around the old, abondoned camp ruins. This makes Jason very upset, since his shack is next to the remains of Camp Crystal Lake and what is inside the shack shall be kept secret forever, even if it means killing nine people.
Blu-ray Features:
- 1.85:1 Widescreen 1080p with Dolby TrueHD 5.1 and Dolby Digital 1.0
- Featurette: “Inside Crystal Lake Memories”, “Friday’s Legacy: Horror Conventions”, “Lost Tales from Camp Blood – Part 2″, “Jason Forever”
- Trailer
Recommendation: Buy (for Jason lovers)
Friday the 13th, Part 3 (Blu-ray) – 6.3/10
Starring Dana Kimmell, Paul Kratka, Richard Brooker
Jason, having barely survived a blow to his shoulder from his own machete, is back to revenge on all that visit “his” woods. A new group of friends come over to party at an area close to the campsite. This time, Jason will be stronger than ever, and getting a hockey mask from one of those friends.
Blu-ray Features:
- 2.35:1 Widescreen 1080p with Dolby TrueHD 5.1 and Dolby Digital 1.0
- Includes 3D version of the film with two pairs of 3D glasses
- Featurettes: “Fresh Cuts: 3D Terror”, “Legacy of the Mask”, “Slasher Films: Going for the Jugular”, “Lost Tales from Camp Blood, Part 3″
- Trailer
Recommendation: Buy (for fans of the J-man)
Friday the 13th, Part 4: The Final Chapter – 6.4/10
Starring Corey Feldman, Kimberly Beck, Erich Anderson, Ted White
After the confrontation with Chris, Jason presumed dead, is taken to the Wessex County Morgue. There he escapes killing an attendant and a nurse, making his way back to Crystal Lake Camp. Six teenagers rent a cabin next to the Jarvis’ in Crystal Lake. Soon Jason finds his way to eliminate all who trespasses his way, but not for long. There are two survivors left, a girl and her little brother, Tommy Jarvis. The final battle will define their destiny, be prepared for the Final Chapter.
Special Features:
- 1.85:1 Widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1
- Commentary with Joe Zito, Barney Cohen, Joel Goodman, Adam Green and Joe Lynch
- Featurettes: “Lost Tales from Camp Blood – Part 4″, “Slashed Scenes”, “Jason’s Unlucky Day: 25 Years After Friday the 13th – The Final Chapter”, “The Severed Ending”, “Crystal Lake Massacre Revisited – Part 1″, “Adam Green’s Dead Dance Moves”
- Trailers
Recommendation: Pass
Friday the 13th, Part 5: A New Beginning – 5.2/10
Starring John Shepherd, Melanie Kinnaman, Shavar Ross
Jason is back, hockey mask and all. And he’s up to his old maniacal tricks in Friday The 13th Part V – A New Beginning. This time he seems to have set his sights on the young patients at a secluded halfway house. And more than a few of his teen targets end up in half, in quarters… you name it, Jason does it.
Special Features:
- 1.85:1 Widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1
- Commentary with Danny Steinmann and crew
- Featurettes: “Lost Tales from Camp Blood – Part 5″, “Crystal Lake Massacre Revisited”, “New Beginnings: the Making of Friday the 13th”
- Trailer
Recommendation: Pass
Friday the 13th, Part 6: Jason Lives – 5.9/10
Starring Thom Mathews, Jennifer Cooke, David Kagen, Kerry Noonan, Renee Jones, Darcy DeMoss, Tom Fridley
Tommy returns to the grave to make sure Jason is dead and accidently brings him back to life. Now it’s up to Tommy to stop Jason’s mindless killing and put him back where he belongs.
Special Features:
- 1.85:1 Widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1
- Commentary with Tom McLoughlin and Cast & Crew
- Featurettes: “Lost Tales from Camp Blood – Part 6″, “Crystal Lake Massacre Revisited”, “Jason Lives: The Making of Friday the 13th”, “Meeting Mr. Voorhees”, “Slashed Scenes”
- Trailer
Recommendation: Pass
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Blu-ray) – 8.2/10
Starring Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Slim Pickens, Sterling Hayden
U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely and utterly mad, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He suspects that the communists are conspiring to pollute the “precious bodily fluids” of the American people. The U.S. president meets with his advisors, where the Soviet ambassador tells him that if the U.S.S.R. is hit by nuclear weapons, it will trigger a “Doomsday Machine” which will destroy all plant and animal life on Earth. Peter Sellers portrays the three men who might avert this tragedy: British Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, the only person with access to the demented Gen. Ripper; U.S. President Merkin Muffley, whose best attempts to divert disaster depend on placating a drunken Soviet Premier and the former Nazi genius Dr. Strangelove, who concludes that “such a device would not be a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious”. Will the bombers be stopped in time, or will General Jack Ripper succeed in destroying the world ?
Blu-ray Features:
- 1.66:1 1080p with Dolby TrueHD 5.1 and Dolby Digital 1.0
- 32-Page Booklet
- Interview with fromer Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara
- Interviews with Peter Sellers and George C Scott
- The Cold War: PiP and Pop-Up Trivia Track
- Documentaries
- BD-Live Enabled
Recommendation: Buy
Kickboxer (Blu-ray) – 5.4/10
Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Alexio, Dennis Chan, Michel Qissi
Kurt Sloan is the corner-man for his brother, U.S. kickboxing champion Eric Sloan. When Kurt witnesses his brother become maliciously paralyzed in the ring by Thailand champion Tong Po, Kurt vows revenge. With the help of Zion, a kickboxing trainer who lives in a remote area of Thailand, Kurt trains for the fight of his life.
Blu-ray Features:
- 1.85:1 Widescreen 1080p with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- No special features
Recommendation: Rent
Spaceballs (Blu-ray) – 7.2/10
Starring Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Pattern, George Wyner, Joan Rivers
The planet Spaceball, home planet of the evil Spaceballs is running out of air and the planet’s ruler President Skroob has devised a evil scheme, where he plans to steal the air from the atmosphere of the peaceful planet Druidia. But Druidia is surrounded by a defense shield to prevent the Spaceballs from stealing the air. When Druidia’s ruler King Roland’s beautiful daughter Princess Vespa and her loyal droid Dot Matrix flees from Druidia during her wedding to Prince Valium, The evil commander of the Spaceball fleet, Dark Helmet captures Princess Vespa so King Roland will be forced to give them the access code to the defense shield. But heroic space pilot Lone Starr and his sidekick, Barf (A Mog half man-half Dog) comes to Princess Vespa’s rescue. With help from wise and powerful master of the magic ring “The Schwartz” Yogurt, Lone Starr, Barf, Dot and Princess Vespa set out to save Druida and foil Dark Helmet and President Scroob’s scheme and prevent them from stealing the air from Druidia.
Blu-ray Features:
- 1.85:1 Widescreen and 1.33:1 Fullscreen 1080p with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and Dolby Digital 1.0
- Commentary with Mel Brooks
- Mawgese
- Dinkese
- Spaceballs: The Documentary
- In Conversation: Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan
- John Candy: Comic Spirit
- Watch the Movie in Ludicrious Speed
- Still Galleries
- Trailers
- Film Flubs
- Storyboards-to-Film Comparison
- BD-Live
Recommendation: Rent
The Unrated Blogger’s Cut
Nothing really interesting or amazing coming out this week, well excepet for Ghost Busters on Blu-ray but as you may have noticed, I am still standard definition. I will be picking up Transformers: Complete First Season, such great childhood memories.
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