DVD/Blu Ray Shed: January 26, 2010

Every week Mike takes a trip out back to the DVD/Blu Ray Shed with the best yeah that's right the best DVD's and Blu Ray Discs coming out that week. Come on with Mike on a journey to adventure and a shed with plastic discs stacked in it

Also this is a special week because most of the DVDs that came out this week stink! Yay!

THE PICKS OF THE WEEK FOR THE WEEK THAT HAS JANUARY 26TH IN IT:

#1. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (dir. Bob Gosse)

"Unrated and Unapologetic". Real cool 'tude dudes, making one of the if not the worst movies of the year and then wearing your refusal to apologize out front on your DVD case like a 14 year old kid that laid down on the floor of his bedroom one Sunday morning and a turd came out and he refused to go to church. This movie has Bill Clinton jokes in it and it was made in 2009. Leave aside that the ad campaign for the theatrical release made light of raping women and focus on the fact that even amongst gutter-raunch randy sex comedies (which I love) this film is electrically He-Man strength not funny ever and avoid this DVD like it has a herpetic sore on the case. Original review here.

#2. Whip It (dir. Drew Barrymore)

This flick I think suffered from a little Juno/Ellen Paige backlash and did pretty lacklustre business which is a shame, because it's really good. It's got some flaws, sure, including some cliched moments and pretty terrible roller-derby action scenes that muddled the whole thing up, but Paige is great at doing what she does and Barrymore shows a really surprising eye for small character moments and detail. Seriously, it's a good movie, with what I think is a hell of a good message for young women. Full review here.

#3. Michael Jackson's This is It (dir. Kenny Ortega)

Patched together in the days after the Gloved One's death, This is It shows Mike in fine enough form rehearsing with a full band for his then-upcoming series of concerts. Billed as a concert film, it's got a couple of good numbers but much more appeal as a documentary of an icon going through his creative process. It's hindered a bit by the sense that a lot of unflattering stuff got left on the cutting room floor (that idea reinforced by the fact that the Jackson estate had a say in the film's cut), but there are a handful of moments where MJ seems... human, which is saying a lot when you're talking about one of the oddest, obscured, most talented dudes of the 20th century. Big review right here.

 

#4. Little Ashes (dir. Paul Morrison)

A compelling story done little justice by a film with a bunch of unintentional goofiness and all-over-the-map tone and pacing. Morrison's film with a script by Philippa Goslett details a supposed love affair between Salvador Dali (Twilight's Robert Pattinson) and poet Federico García Lorca (Javier Beltran) during their time together at school. It's interesting enough in theory, but the film alternates between dryness and hilariously overwrought melodrama and it gets kind of tiring. Oh you're looking for a full review it's right here.

#5. Surrogates (dir. Jonathan Mostow)

I haven't seen Surrogates but it was written by the two dudes who wrote The Net, Catwoman and the last two Terminator movies and it has Bruce Willis in it so as far as I can see there is literally scientifiically no way it could possibly be bad so I am putting this motherf***er on my Ziplist with a cat-like quickness