This is probably my favorite version of the Spider Man Theme Song to date…
Obviously The Amazing Spider-Man is the choice this time, with a very unusual release schedule. It hits the big screen tomorrow to try to pull in the holiday audience, and Tuesday releases are not the norm. My first thought was they meant midnight Tuesday night (Wednesday morning, and a Wednesday release date is pretty normal), but when I checked the site the first showings will be at 12:01AM Tuesday morning. Regardless of how offbeat the timing is, I am looking forward to this one.
You know it is a slow week when the only two American offerings to roll out are Elvira’s Movie Macabre: Giant Monsters, a set of four movies, except none of the stores trying to sell you this package have a clue what any of the four movies are called, and Mysteries at the Museum: Season 2, a documentary series from The Travel Channel. That’s it, nothing else on offer this time around. Guessing the US holiday weekend made a major impact on the release decisions.
From an overseas source but still with a US release we have Needless: The Complete Collection as the new offering, where World War 3 has run its course and the survivors are depending on a pervert superhero to put the planet back together. Meanwhile, Ergo Proxy: The Complete Series gets re-released in a cost effective package, so if you shop around you should be able to grab it for just over $20.
If there is anything else interesting coming out on DVD this week, I haven’t been able to find it. If you have better luck, post a comment and let me know.
Looper is the story of a man who kills time travelers for a living, and then goes back in time to save himself. The same himself who is trying to kill him. This is a new trailer for the movie, you can see the last one in my previous blog entry on the topic. And I still do like the tag line, Hunted By Your Past, Haunted By Your Future. Another fine Bruce Willis sci-fi film.
Simultaneously exceedingly cute and eerily disturbing, Ted is about a talking stuffed teddy bear who came to life while its owner (Mark Wahlberg) was a child, and he has never been able to get rid of him since. This is the first feature film project Seth MacFarlane has done since he developed Family Guy, and besides writing and directing it he also does the voice work for the bear.
We have three interesting movies this week, two of them silly. The serious one is Wrath of the Titans, which I didn’t see in theaters because the first one took itself too seriously, and I didn’t need any more of that. I still don’t. I also didn’t see Mirror, Mirror, not so much because it looked too silly (you can never have too much silly in my book) but because I had to work that weekend. Before I decide whether to add it to the permanent collection I will catch it on streamy or HBO or somewhere equivalent. The third one isn’t genre: David Tennant’s The Decoy Bride was made for two and a half million pounds and earned $524 its opening weekend in the US. In part this was because it only showed up on a single screen that weekend, but even later on it wasn’t in that many theaters. Let’s face it, the only reason I will be watching it is because David is in it, and he made a wonderful Doctor. OK, and the trailer looked like silly fun, too.
Notice how I didn’t even mention Sector 7? Even the Korean audiences didn’t go to that one, a bit of a surprise as his earlier work The Host won such critical acclaim around the world.
No genre TV shows this week, but I will mention Casablanca: The Complete Series if only because it has Scatman Crothers as Sam, and one of the tracks he sings is the theme for the show. And yes, the original 1942 movie is where the phrase Play It Again, Sam came from.
Anime has a brand new release this week. Towanoquon: the Complete Collection tells the story of gifted mutant children born with special powers. Government cyborgs are hunting them down to kill them, while a rebel group with their own powers are saving them to train them to use their gifts to defend themselves. Don’t let the fact that the complete series is only 6 episodes fool you, because each episode is 50 minutes long, giving them a full 300 minutes to tell the story.