2-Disc Collector's Edition
Directed by Mel Gibson
Starring Mel Gibson, Patrick MacGoohan
Paramount Home Video
Available Dec. 18, 2007
Twelve years. That’s how long it takes a Best Picture-winning, fiercely revered classic to descend into camp and cheese. Not even Titanic got there that fast (it was never that highly revered by anyone male and over the age of 13 at the time of its release). It’s almost quaint by now, isn’t it? This was the movie that made BEN-HURian epics fashionable again and if it weren’t for Braveheart's success, Lord of the Rings wouldn’t have been greenlit in its current incarnation. And it was made in a time that seems so long ago, when we didn’t think of Mel Gibson as… y’know… Mel Gibson...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
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DVD Review: Rise: Blood Hunter
Written and directed by Sebastian Gutierrez
Starring Lucy Liu, Michael Chiklis, James D’Arcy
Rated R
A couple of errant adaptations of Dracula aside, I think it’s safe to say that most vampire movies suck ass instead of blood. But in this warmed over and terminally bad subgenre, there are three towering classics. There’s FW Murnau’s silent German masterpiece Nosferatu, which seems less a film nowadays and more an intangible relic of old and superstitious times. Then there’s Kathryn Bigelow’s cult film Near Dark, which defied every vampire cliché and showed us what happens when bloodsuckers mated with white trash. And even after that, there’s Guillermo Del Toro’s Blade II, which depicted vampires as little more than animals and made them OBSCENELY hard to kill.
But mostly...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
