Post edited 1:19 am – February 19, 2012 by Tue Sorensen

I received Undercover Brother on DVD today – only had it on VHS before. I like it better than its IMDb rating – Denise Richards as the white man's secret weapon is great! :-)

Also splurged today and ordered eleven Blu-rays for a good price (about £6 each, on average – with free shipping): The Fifth Element, Demolition Man, Hellboy II (which I like better than the first), House of Flying Daggers, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Sky High, Chocolate, The Informer, The Last Action Hero, Wall Street – Money Never Sleeps aaaand Ultraviolet (great-looking Milla Jovovich nonsense)! :-D

The above batch arrived today – pure bliss! I've only had a Blu-ray player for three weeks, and I already have 68 Blu-ray titles! :-D

I love that my wife is as weak and impulsive as I am.

She picked up 3 Blurays today (which immediately became OUR Blurays, haha).

Tyrannosaur, which I am dying to see.

Crazy, Stupid, Love. Which I really enjoyed.

And Abduction – nothing's perfect eh.

:-)

Last night I was at a local auction, and bagged some ten DVDs for almost nothing, incl. a handful of horror movies (that I need to see before deciding if I even wanna keep them), a strange TV superhero thing called Prey of the Jaguar, Mads Mikkelsen's Valhalla Rising and a couple of other Danish movies.

Our local sci-fi/fantasy/horror/superhero fandom organization holds an auction about twice a year, where we basically donate stuff (books, movies, comics, collectibles) we don't want anymore, and then other people buy it cheaply, and the organization gets some much needed funds! Kinda like a charity ball, very small-scale! :-)

Just ordered the BTTF trilogy on Blu-ray! And also The Day After Tomorrow, which I quite like.

Kathryn came home today and had picked up Real Steel for me on Bluray. I have yet to watch it but I think it looks like something I will end up really enjoying, despite the schmaltz/predictability factor.

Oh, and the Ebony Ivory & Jade DVD arrived in the mail just now! :-D

Post edited 9:27 pm – March 3, 2012 by Tue Sorensen

I know about the Predator debacle – but there are two versions of it, the earlier being the most well-regarded, and the one I have acquired. :-)

Post edited 10:10 pm – March 3, 2012 by Tue Sorensen

Yeah, apparently there are great differences in quality from Blu-ray to Blu-ray. Sometimes because of difficult source material, and sometimes because the people behind the Blu-ray release didn't do their homework to Blu-ray standards. But when you read about the technical details, a lot of the comments and complaints get bogged down in exactly that: details, which only really matter to technical connoiseurs, of which I am not one. There are many little things I never notice; if I had gotten the other version of Predator, for instance, I doubt it would have particularly mattered to me. On the other hand, there are things I do notice, and if a Blu-ray release is obviously not much of an improvement on the DVD version, one would feel a bit ripped off – or more than a bit. That hasn't happened to me yet, but then again, I haven't watched all my Blu-rays yet…