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26 July, 2001

Upcoming DVDs

I apologize in advance if this is one of the few articles I write this week. I've been horribly busy with my city's production of "West Side Story" (I'm the bass player). Anyway, while browsing for the new Cake CD (which kicks ass) at Best Buy yesterday, I came across an upcoming DVD calendar and decided to do another special on upcoming releases.

September 25th is a big day. We have two monsters coming out. The complete first season of "The Simpsons" and the A.F.I.'s top movie Citizen Kane. (I need to see Kane still.) Both items are packed! "The Simpsons" set comes with commentaries for each episode, scripts, documentaries, sketches, foreign language clips, and more. All on a three disc set for the low price of about thirty bucks! (That's less than Homer spends on a week's worth of doughnuts.) We also have the biggie, Welles' Citizen Kane. This flick has two commentaries by Ebert and a Welles biographer, trailers, a premiere newsreel , storyboards, a documentary, interviews, and footage of "The War of the Worlds" broadcast. Rosebud....

In October, we have The Mummy Returns. I hated the movie so I don't know why I'm bothering writing about it. It was utter crap. We have a commentary by the director, special effects breakdowns, an interview with The Rock, out takes, a music video, and a documentary. (Is it called "How to rip off Indiana Jones and Make a Profit?) All these extras wouldn't sell me the disc. You'd have to pay me to take it. (Besides, they'll probably re-release it when The Mummy III comes out...)

October is also a big month. We have two gigantic releases of The Godfather and Star Wars: Episode I. Godfather has commentaries on each movie by Coppola, a documentary, deleted footage, rehearsal footage, a family tree, a timeline, Oscar acceptance speeches, and movie. This DVD has more excess than the Corleone Compound at Lake Tahoe. Meanwhile, we got the "fan disowned" Episode I. This is gonna be great. We've got a commentary by Lucas and others (learn from your friend Spielberg), deleted scenes WITH finished special effects, an hour long documentary, multi-angle storyboard comparisons, FIVE featurettes, the 12 part web documentary, the music video, a production photo gallery, poster and art galleries, AND the making of the "Star Wars: Starfighter" video game. Fatter than Jabba the Hutt baby. I don't care if the movie was the worst in the series, it's still damn good and is worth the buy just for the extras! Wait until the originals come out, but this will tie me over...

- Dr. Strangelove (aka Drew Morton)

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