New DVDs!

[thewayne]

I have been promising myself for some time that I'm going to buy Season 1 of Robot Chicken. So yesterday, after making up three hours at work, I trundled off to Best Buy, famous Certegy client! I also was looking for a slip case for my laptop: the one that I had fits like a glove, but it leaves about an inch of the width of my laptop uncovered. I'd like to get one that opens from the narrow side so that my laptop can be slid in and out of my backpack without difficulty.

Well, Best Buy didn't have a slip case, nor did Staples next door. Maybe OfficeMaxDepot will have one, I can check 'em after making up some more time today. Best Buy did have Robot Chicken, which Staples did not. They also had Hot Fuzz! So I also snagged that.

We watched three episodes or so last night, quite fun. I'd seen the Transformers segment where Optimus Prime gets prostate cancer and dies, but I'd forgotten about the last scene where he transforms into a coffin when he dies! Priceless stuff. Russ was struck by how weird it all was, but she also really enjoyed it.

Before our Robot Chicken mini-marathon, we watched The Brothers Grimm. Russ picked up a used copy at Coas, one of our two fav used bookstores. We tried watching it last week on her laptop, but for some reason it just didn't work right. So last night we slapped it into mine, and I had problems! Very strange that it wouldn't work considering that I'd watched part of the opening of the movie last week after it didn't work in her laptop. Then I remembered that Parallels sometimes locks the CD/DVD drive and I had a paused session sitting there, so I closed it and everything worked fine after that.

Brothers Grimm: WOW. Terry Gilliam is such a good film maker/story teller, I think George Lucas could learn a thing or two about the latter from him. We quite liked the story, I figured out a couple of minor things before they were revealed, but that's ok. I seem to be doing that a lot more recently. Anyway, I'd recommend the film.


Also while I was at Best Buy, I saw that season 2 of The Tick Animated was out. I think there were only two or three seasons made, probably only two. I'll snag that eventually. But what was a new release of the 1980 De Laurentis B-movie classic, FLASH GORDON! Beautiful cover art, hopefully good restoration. I was amazed at some of the people in the cast (many of whom I knew about, many surprises): Max Von Sydow (of course), Timothy Dalton, Brian Blessed, Deep Roy(!), Kenny Baker(!), Robbie Coltrane(!), Richard O'Brien, and Topol!

Gotta get it. Gotta see it again.

Comments

[personaminor.livejournal.com]

The first season of Robot Chicken was the bomb. I'm assuming of course that you've seen the Star Wars Special they did? If not, get yo' butt onto youtube and check it.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

You mean Vader calling Palpatine? That was so incredible! I don't know what episode it's in, but we'll get there eventually.

[personaminor.livejournal.com]

Actually, they did an all-Star Wars special some time after season one. It includes some of the SW stuff from the first season, but it was mostly new. You can find it on youtube. It's amazing (of course).

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Nope, didn't see that one. And if it was after S1, then I'll probably have to wait for S2 to see it. I might look it up on IMDB if I find myself loitering over there some time.