DVD Tome "C"

C.

Cell, The - I don't own many Jennifer Lopez movies, mainly because she's not a great actress and also because she's always cranking out romantic comedy crap. Occasionaly someone hires her for a different role, and you get a movie like this one. I dig the visuals created for the inside of the killers mind along with seeing Vince Vaughn getting his intestines twisted. Solid film, even with the former half of Bennifer involved.

Charlie's Angels & Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle - This is pure and unadulterated cheeseball film-making at it's best. Even Drew Barrymore can't stop these two movies from being fun. McG, the director, has a very slick style that doesn't lend itself to dramatic movies . . . but to these types of mindless entertainment, it's all good. Everything in these movies is very tongue-in-cheek . . and they can't be all that bad if the first one launched the career of Sam Rockwell. The first one also has one of my favorite actors living . . . Bill Murray, and it's a crying shame he was replaced in the 2nd movie.

Clerks The Complete Animated Series - Yes, it's blasphemy that I don't own Kevin Smith's first and greatest movie. I should get ten lashes at a Cambodian prison for that. But at least I have the short-lived television show based on the characters from the movie. Although a flawed effort that I'm sure was hampered by the FCC, this collection of episodes still manages to be fun. An essential DVD to own for the Kevin Smith completist . . . and if you are . . . then you also have to buy Jersey Girl *shivers*.

Closer - One of my favorite movies of 2004, I was expecting a director's cut of it but that is not available. Why would I want that? Well, reportedly, Natalie Portman had all her nudie scenes cut out of the movie. She was playing a stripper!! Oh well, one can hope that when the new video format change comes along that someone will be smart enough to release a version of this movie with those scenes spliced back in.

Club Dread Unrated - Those guys at Broken Lizard are silly motherfuckers. This is their third (yeah, Supertroopers was not their first) movie and in this one they takle the slasher genre. The funny thing is, while being humorous, it still managed to scare my wife a little while we watched this. She's such a pansy sometimes.

Coldplay Live - I got this for my wife last Christmas. This was when Coldplay was good, and they weren't all that politically inclined. This concert is also pre-Gwyneth and Apple . . . so the band is in all its depressed glory. Their new stuff blows because Chris Martin seems to be happy now. Someone needs to get those two divorced so that Coldplay can have some good material again.

Cowboy Bebop - My favorite all time Anime series got a movie last year. And it's not like with other series where they try to cram a whole 26 episodes worth of story into a 2 hour reader's digest film. No, this is more like a continuation of their adventures as the events depicted in the movie happen somewhere along episodes 22 & 23. I like the universe that was created for Cowboy Bebop as it has bounty hunters with a wild west feel in space. And the music is to die for. Hunt down those soundtracks.

Chronicles of Riddick, The - I wanted this movie to be better. I wanted David Twohy to write and direct a worthy follow up to Pitch Black. This was supposed to be the first in a trilogy of Riddick movies . . . but it fizzled out at the box office effectively killing any chance it had. Of course, there is the chance that it may continue in direct to DVD movies . . . but those are always crap, and Riddick deserves the full cinematic treatment.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - This is the Chinese epic to own. All the other ones released after this that have people running on air are just imitators. I like that they bundled a dubbed version of the movie on the disc, because I just get tired of reading subtitles. I'm watching a movie not reading a book.

The C's are over, and I think they make for a slightly larger post than the B's. The D's are next, and you know those will be filling out a larger post . . wink wink.