Chronicles Narnia Voyage Treader Blu-ray

I saw The Voyage of the Dawn Treader twice and really enjoyed it. Unlike the last film, this one had a better story. I especially liked Eustace and thought the actor did a fine job at portraying him. The ending was good, and this one had plenty of action and suspense. Lucy and Edmond were more developed in this film, as well as the other characters. This will be a enjoyable film for years to come.

Special Features
# Disc 1: Theatrical Feature Blu-ray Dawn Treader
# Magician's Island
# Ramandu's Island
# Lone Islands
# The Dark Island
# Goldwater Island

Disc 2: Theatrical Feature DVD
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Tron: Legacy Two-Disc Blu-ray Combo

All in all I think Legacy is a better movie than the original. Better directed, sound, and acting. While I think the plot was on par with the original. Also, the film just looks great, the art direction is phenomenal. As a sequel though I think they kind of dropped the ball on it's potential. Instead of exploring a "Grid" with personified modern technology, they instead chose to go into a "Grid" only slightly more advanced than the original. Effectively bringing absolutely nothing new to the Grid other than a new special effects paint job.

Legacy has 4 different blu ray options, one of which is a bad deal here on amazon. The 5 disc edition (not the identity disc set)costs $50. That means it's $5 cheaper to just buy the 4 disc combo at $25 and then buy the original Tron on blu ray for $20. You save $5 and you get the original Tron in it's own box and a 2nd disc for dvd format. Read more...

Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 1

The last couple Harry Potter films disappointed me in a myriad of ways. My disappointment didn't cause me to hate them, but I did feel let down and I have to admit that I found Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince pretty forgettable. But, being a Potter fan, I still found myself rushing out to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I today. And to my great relief and happiness, I loved it - really loved it! Yeah!

The chase of the Seven Potters by the Death Eaters and the trip to the Ministry of Magic are tense and exciting, the endless camping trip is just as effective at portraying the helplessness and frustration the characters are experiencing as it was in the book and the scene that gives us Hermione reading Beedle the Bard's "Tale of the Three Brothers" is riveting and wonderfully creative - much, much better than I would have thought it could be. We finally get to meet Bill (and Fleur's briefly-glimpsed wedding dress is gorgeous!) and the whipped cream on top of all this goodness is that the film is much more humorous than I expected. While not everything is included, of course, I didn't come out of this film grumbling things along the lines of "How could they leave out _____?" or "Why did they add ________when it wasn't even in the danged book?" - both comments I have been known to make after viewing some of the other films. Instead, I left the theater feeling like I'd seen a relatively faithful rendering of the "real" story. And there were even one or two things that I thought the film did better than the book, most notably the interruption of Harry & Ginny's kiss. The not-in-the-book added scene of Harry and Hermione dancing was both amusing and incredibly poignant - a true highlight of the film for me. Read more...