For most of you, ogling a glistening, semi-nude Angelina Jolie is reason enough to pick this up. But it’s also worth checking out for some of the most elegant bullet porn ballet this side of your PS3. AND you get to hear Morgan Freeman say the word “mother***er.”
Seriously, Wanted unapologetically makes love to the bullet while you get to watch bullets slowly make love to the peoples’ faces! This stylish and hyper-violent free-for-all pulls no punches, and is the perfect antidote for anyone sick of watching people die off-screen in tired PG-13 action fare.
Bestest Bonus: Through BD-LIVE you can record your own audio or video commentary for the entire film! And since Universal is footing the hosting fees, your masterpiece will probably outlast your PS3.
Iron Man
All hail the Robert Downey Jr. Revolution! If you didn’t check him out in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang or Tropic Thunder then you’d damn sure better watch this. It’s almost a shame Dark Knight had to come along and steal Iron Man’s thunder, since last May it looked like billionaire wino Tony Stark had set the new standard of superhero movies.
Far less brooding than any comic movie to date, Iron Man skips the standard origin story formula to allow Stark, and the audience, to revel in being an unstoppable force with an endless bankroll.
Probably the film that received the least complaints by the comic book nerds in our office. No small feat, especially considering its scant action sequences and emphasis on humor.
Bestest Bonus: The Invincible Iron Man, a 45 minute look into Iron Man’s evolution, featuring many comic heavies from Marvel’s history.
Futurama: Bender’s Game
Nothing like a high-def version of Futurama to make you forget about those four awful years between its cancelation and straight-to-DVD resurrection. The gang from Planet Express’s first Blu-ray is damn near perfect, and fills up the entire screen with a bizarrely topical storyline involving a futuristic energy crisis as well as an adventurous nod to D&D.
Unlike previous direct-to-DVD films, Bender’s Game is much more sustainable as a feature length movie, and not a haphazard combination of loosely connected television episodes. The disc contains a preview of the last scheduled film, Into the Wild Green Yonder. So after that, Futurama’s future is anybody’s guess. More please!
Bestest Bonus: A feature entitled “Dungeons and Dragons and Futurama.” Has there ever been a better time to be a nerd?
There Will Be Blood
You may think this movie moves too slow, but you’d be wrong. Every lingering shot of untouched frontier serves only to point out how badly Daniel Plainview wants to suck it dry. Yes... like a milkshake.
See where that line and many others came from, while enjoying one of the most unlikeable, yet ultra quotable, characters seen in the last decade. Watch it with friends and we’ll guarantee you’ll be spitting quotes from Daniel Day Lewis’s Oscar winning performance until you’re court ordered to stop.
Bestest Bonus: Every special feature on this disc is presented in high definition, but by far the coolest is a 25 minute, silent film “The Story of Petroleum” from 1932 remastered and scored by Johnny Greenwood of Radiohead.
Rambo
What the hell happened, Sly? One year after his sweet serenade to Rocky Balboa, we get this blood drenched blast from the past. Luckily, the fourth Rambo is all the better for it. You don’t need to know much, or anything really, about the events in the previous three films other than that once Ramby goes kill-bot he’s hard to turn off.
Truly, one of the goriest things we’ve ever seen. Plus, the movie has the most over-the-top evil villain of all time:a Burmese guerilla fighter who shoots unarmed civilians, smacks women, molests young boys, and sets babies on fire! You owe it your parents to watch it in high-def.
Above: But games need to be censored?
Bestest Bonus: Legacy of Despair: The Real Struggle in Burma, a ten minute history of the conflicts in Burma that’ll turn your bloodlust into guilt.
