RT on DVD & Blu-Ray: The King's Speech and Rabbit Hole

At least slightly more than half of this weeks release is worth getting or watching! Their is at least two releases I wouldn't touch at all- not saying that they're not good by the way!

Apr 18 - 04:49 PM

Brian Barreto

I'm going to get "The King's Speech" on Blu-Ray next week, not this week because I'm nearly broke after paying for "Portal 2" and "Mortal Kombat".
Anyways, I thought "The King's Speech" was a fantastic film, but I don't think it deserved to win 'Best Picture'. In all honestly, it was one of the weakest 'Best Picture' nominees this year, alongisde "The Kids Are All Right" and "Winter's Bone".
I would've been more satisfied with "The Social Network" winning 'Best Picture', seeing as it was my 2nd favorite movie of 2010, just behind "Inception", and since the Academy is prejudiced against all films that are written or directed by the mastermind who is Christopher Nolan, such as "Memento", "The Dark Knight", and "Inception".

I think this is David Fincher's year. I feel that he will deliver a homerun on "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and the Academy might finally give him the Oscar for 'Best Director'. I'm hoping something similar happens next year when Nolan concludes his brilliant Bat-trilogy with "The Dark Knight Rises".

Apr 18 - 05:45 PM

karl anderson

The 2 best films last yr were Black Swan and The Kings Speech, so Ill have to disagree with you, but I think Nolan should have won Best Director and he wasnt even nominated... If there was a more impressive feat of direction in the last few yrs, I dont know what it would be...

Apr 18 - 06:29 PM

Dylan Hair

I agree with you on that, Black Swan was my favorite with King's Speech a close second. Both are fantastic. And yes Nolan should have had a directing nod by now.

Apr 18 - 07:09 PM

Alan Smithee

The King's Speech looks to me like a decent quality film that will be forgotten in due time. Granted I have yet to see it so I could be wrong. On the other hand the Social Network will almost undoubtably go down as a classic. I thought it was the perfect choice for the Academy. Inception was too high concept for them so that was obviously just a nod. 127 Hours & Black Swan were both incredible films and had more artistic credibility than you can shake a stick at; however, their subject matter makes them appealing to only a niche market. True Grit was also very good, although possibly too close to the win of No Country, which was a superior film. Honestly the picking of ten Best Pictures and only five Best Directors is absurd since they almost always coincide with one another. As for Fincher's next project, I would much rather see him take on something else besides an unnecessary Americanized version of TGwtDT. Same way I felt (still do) about Nolan's Insomnia.

Apr 19 - 03:18 AM

karl anderson

some great comments for such a busy director such as yourself...and Im a little puzzled by the TGWTDT remake as well...

Apr 19 - 02:07 PM

skyler harrington

Ditto on Mortal Kombat, though I passed on P2. I just went with the Kollector's edition (I hate fight sticks). I'll buy King's Speech next week, but the others are probably rentals. I work at a video store, so I can check them all out without having wasted $$ on the terrible ones.

Apr 19 - 10:33 AM

Chris Moore

Getting King's Speech first thing in the morning. I'll rent Somewhere somewhere down the road.

Apr 18 - 06:06 PM

The Watcher

King's Speech + The Way Back for me. Rabbit Hole was pretty good but not something I ever want to watch again and IP Man 2 has been out for years.

Gulliver's Travels can crawl into a ditch and bleed out slowly.

Apr 18 - 06:13 PM

Gene Arnold

I'll probably rent The King's Speech, because I don't love it enough to buy it on blu-ray. It's a good movie, but a little overrated. I'll also rent Rabbit Hole too. Guliver's Travels just looks like a 'F*ck You' movie

Apr 18 - 06:47 PM

Dylan Hair

The King's Speech, wholly deserving of all Oscars, fantastic film, Rabbit Hole was excellent, but not exactly a "happy" film, but impeccably made and acted, Somewhere was wildly underrated, Stephen Dorff should have gotten an Oscar nomination, he was terrific as was the delightful Elle Fanning, 3 SUPERB films. I'll check out The Way Back, it flopped so never got to see it, and Gulliver's may as well go straight into that dollar bin at Big Lots for all I care, no thanks.

Apr 18 - 07:08 PM

Greg Guro

I really liked IP MAN. . . so I'll be getting IP MAN 2.

I saw King's Speech in theaters. . .real version, not the newly released pg-13 version. I liked it, but I didn't think it was the best film of the year. I liked SOCIAL NETWORK, FAIR GAME, CONVICTION, and BLACK SWAN better. . .

Apr 18 - 07:41 PM

Greg Guro

Also liked WINTER'S BONE and INCEPTION better. . .

Apr 19 - 11:14 AM

Kadeem Stewart

I gotta go with the King's Speech. The R rated version looked better than that horrid PG-13 re-edit.

Apr 18 - 08:18 PM

Chris Moore

I don't know about looked, but it sure as hell sounded better.

Apr 19 - 06:31 PM

Cory B

Gonna watch The King's Speech tonight, I'll finally see if it was worth all of the awards attention it got.

Apr 19 - 11:58 AM

Crornk Kaleidescope

I'll check out The Way Back eventually. It actually looked pretty good. Maybe I'll finally get to see Saoirse Ronan's talent in a movie that isn't horrendous (Never again will I subject myself to a Joe Wright film).

Apr 19 - 01:38 PM

Omar Siddiqui

I may be in the minority, but I think King's Speech was painfully mediocre in everything BUT acting.

Everything else just seemed like pure Oscar Bait. It's almost as memorable as Invictus, with neither being good enough to encourage repeated viewings.

My opinion.

Apr 19 - 04:59 PM