New Geek DVD Day - 06/02/09

Wow, talk about your slow weeks for geeky DVD releases.  There's not really anything of major excitement this week.  Seriously.  Nothing.  The big items this week were things like Prison Break, sports DVD's and romantic comedies.  If you're looking for cool geeky things to watch this week, it looks like you'll be better off renting or hitting up netflix for some older geeky goodness.  Unless of course you really want to see Navy Seals on Blu-ray.

 

Due to this lack of quality geek titles this week, I'm only really making one solid choice here and two random picks that I've never heard of before but which just sound pretty cool.

 



 

The Good:  The Hunger - The Complete First Season

 

Why It's Good:  I don't really get any of the movie cable channels you have to pay for, and since this show is on Showtime I'd never even heard of it until today but the product description on Amazon has me definitely interested in checking it out.  The show is a horror anthology series that is influenced by the classic Tony Scott film The Hunger.  The series is presented by both Tony and Ridley Scott and it has some amazing cast members listed such as Daniel Craig, Lena Headey and Margot Kidder.

 

I don't know about you, but any show that features James Bond, Sarah Connor and Lois Lane in it is something I definitely need to see.  Especially when the show's premise is described as, "each episode will draw you into a mesmerizing world of horrific characters and erotic encounters, where demons feed on the weakness of men and temptation consumes reason."

 



 

The Badass:  RetarDEAD

 

Why It's Badass:  It's a zombie film I've never heard of before.  It has absolutely no product description on its Amazon page, and there are no customer reviews for it either.  But it does happen to have one of the funniest movie titles I've ever heard, and it has zombies so of course I'm going to have to watch it.  This could either be one of the greatest films of all time or it could be one of the worst things I'll ever see in my entire life.  I'll never know for sure though until I see it.  This is being added to my netflix queue right now.

 



 

The Awesome:  Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children on Blu-ray

 

Why It's Awesome:  When the original Final Fantasy film entitled The Spirits Within was released in theaters, fans everywhere were vastly disappointed because all anyone really wanted to see at the time was a big CG movie of Final Fantasy VII.  Well, Square/enix eventually got their heads out of their asses and had just such a film made . . . and the fans loved it.  Continuing the story of Final Fantasy VII, Advent Children gave fans everything they could have hoped for.  It had all of the game's characters in beautiful CG detail, it had amazing fight scenes and just like the game it had a plot that made no sense whatsoever.

 

But really, who needs plot?  All we really wanted from this film was to see Cloud, Tifa, Barret and Vincent kick a lot of ass and look good while doing it.  And that we got in spades.  Now the film is on Blu-ray, which means the CG will probably look a lot better and the fight scenes will be that much prettier.