Transfer on this is exquisite! Colors, details, everything looks natural and sharper than I've ever seen before, with no processing thrown on top of it. The Overture is NOT there, though the Exit Music is. Considering I grew up on the movie's TV showings where I saw neither (or the scene with Scroog...

"A big science fiction action film"? That's THE TWILIGHT ZONE? lol. And I dont quite understand why they're even making this if it's just one, standalone story -- how is it any different than any Shyamalan film then? We know there's going to be a twist in the end (book it now!). EXCLUSIVE:...

Good thing THE THING's budget was only $35 million... That's it? Did they film the whole movie against a green screen? Actually no, no green-screen in this one. It was shot in British Columbia. The budget was low because there's nobody in it, it didnt have expensive writers/director and the CGI eff...

Those estimates are apparently high. THE THING is only expected to do $9 million (maybe less), and A BIG YEAR is going to go down as one of the weakest national openings from a major studio in forever.

Hollywood is apparently worried after another awful box-office weekend is on tap. I mean come on people -- start giving us a REASON to go to the movies again and we might show up! Good thing THE THING's budget was only $35 million...they're likely to end up losing even on that end. Of course the ori...

Love that they've done an HD mastering of the American GODZILLA too. This is going to be the first must Blu Ray of 2012! GODZILLA – BD & DVD Ishiro Honda’s Godzilla is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama made in Japan at a time when th...

Truth be told Mary Elizabeth Winstead is one of the few reasons I do want to see the movie...but it still looks like the same scenes from the Carpenter movie just reworked under the guise of a "prequel" when it's really more of a remake.

The reviews are mostly bad aside from a few here and there that enjoyed it...that said, my cold and CGI special effects that apparently suck will be keeping me and my $10.50 away this weekend. (Admittedly my interest died after I saw the last trailer). I'll give it a look when I get it gratis in a c...

Like I said, action and special effects. The Mask Of Zorro (another throwback to a long-dormant pulp hero) had action and special effects (sort of), and it cost only $60 million to make. I wish studios would learn movies don't HAVE to cost this damn much. Spend less, make more...isn't that the bott...

Excellent film MJ, I agree. I'm overdue for another viewing of that one. I also concur, had it been released now, it would've likely been a much, much bigger commercial success. Funny, I seem to recall a moderate **1/2 review from you back in the day. Is it one of those films that you grew to appre...

It's a good price too, $60 to start and probably will come down too closer to the holidays.

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I've been sick all week with a terrible cold so please forgive any factual errors or lapses in judgement!

http://www.andyfilm.com/10-18-11.html

Excellent film MJ, I agree. I'm overdue for another viewing of that one.

I also concur, had it been released now, it would've likely been a much, much bigger commercial success.

Monterey Jack wrote:If the Coens could make True Grit for $40 million, there's no excuse for this.

Like I said, action and special effects. This isn't going to be a low-key type of western -- with Bruckheimer, Verbinski and Depp...you wouldn't expect it to be.

They should have gone with Old Habits Die Hard as a title, but the studio was probably skittish about using the word "old" in the title of the fifth film in a nearly 25-year-old franchise. I like that one better MJ! It was actually used as a tagline for one of the previous sequels, but I ...