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reviewed by f1ipmode

     Horrors and Thrillers are 2 of my favorite genres. The unfortunate fact about the genres is that there aren’t too many well done movies, most movies from these genres regrettable end up easily predictable and some almost laughable particularly in horror. It was just by chance that I came upon viewing The Devil’s Rejects. The Devil’s Rejects star Sig Haig, Bill Mosely and Sherry Moon Zombie and is about the Reject’s being on the run from the a would be possessed Sherriff (played by by the always excellent William Forsythe) bent on tracking them down and doing them in.

     I was staying in Tobermory Ontario Canada for vacation (a beautiful place if you ever think of visiting), loafting in the hotel room I was staying in channel surfing on a 20” t.v. when I stopped on a scene of the Rejects tormenting some hostages in a motel room. I was immediately hooked and a bit creeped out since the room the hostages were had the same generic Comfort Inn look. The first thing I noticed of the movie was how well the acting was in the movie. The hostages conveyed a real sense of fear reacting to there would be hostage takers, the scene involves some pretty hard watch things but if you get through it, the movie has some other charming aspects to it; It may sound weird but without spoiling to much the Reject’s end being semi likeable people because despite the things they do. There are situations arise in the movie between them where the deal with deal with each other like ‘normal’ families do. I’m sure one or two of you who have never scene the movie will be able to relate to these particular family arguements. Being directed by Rob Zombie this movie no doubt sports some great musical arrangement featuring oldies like Lynyrd Skynyrd and David Essex. Another bonus in the movie is the gratuitous female nudity. I never had a chance to see the prequel Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 corpses but I hear that it was horrible, but The Devil’s Rejects was so good that I have to at least give it a shot.

Video: This blu-ray movie has intended grain to it because of the nature of the film. You can immediately notice that Rob was trying to go for the 70’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre look. The most surprising thing is that the grain never becomes distracting, it is used skillfully and is on varied on different level’s throughout the movie for instance: during the beginning of the movie where the sheriff’s are about to raid the Reject’s home there is a fair amount of dust which is kick up by the sheriff’s cars as well as the grain is kicked up but in later scenes like the motel room the grain is almost none existent. High Definition makes it fairly easy to spot wither or not a director is intending to put grain in the movie. The crazy thing about the picture quality despite the grain is that the film still exhibits the crystal clear ‘window’ effect! There is a decent color palette in this movie consisting of drabby beiges and browns of Texas but there are also some nice contrasting neon greens and blue in later scenes. I have to say an excellent transfer by Lion’s Gate

9/10

Audio: This bd comes with a DTS High Resolution audio that plays at 1.5Mbps and a Dolby plus Audio that play’s at 640Kbps. The Dolby Audio track is a slight bit louder and I could not detect any subtle differences between the 2 tracks other then the volume level, so I’ll have to rate the Dolby track slightly better. Having said that the audio in the bd is crystal clear, voice track was great. I’ve never had to play with the centre speaker of my 5.1 audio system. There is great use of the rear channel and LFE speakers.

9/10

Special Features: People have pointed out to me that this bd is missing a segment from the DVD version. But I must say that I usually view the special features once so this missing segment is of no consequence to me. It comes with the usual making of features, trailers for other bd movies from Lionsgate and 2 audio commentaries, one from director Rob Zombie and one from the Main cast. Both are interesting giving anecdotes to the process of making this film. Rob’s commentary is very informative and intelligent and the cast commentary is fun. The actors sounded like they had a blast making this movie give great anecdotes on the more difficult scenes of the movie, great stuff.

7/10 

I loved this movie. I wouldn’t call it a horror(though there is some gore) but I wouldn’t call it a thriller. It’s a great meld between the 2 genres. The bd as a whole is awesome, the movie is a great: the acting, the cinematography, the music and the directing. This bd is in the great words of Captian Spaulding(Sid Haig) and Baby Firefly(Sherry Moon Zombie) “Tootty **** Fruity!”

Overall: 8.5/10 Highly Recommended :D

reviewed by f1ipmode

As my tastes movies begin to change I find myself day by day gravitating to movies that have a lot more substance then style. I've seen Unforgiven when I was younger and just thought it was ok so I've decided to give it a try on Blu-ray. Now I can say since my tastes have changed that I now think that this movie is amazing.

The story is about an old gun fighter William Munny(Clint Eastwood) who has long given up his ways because of a woman he loved dearly, she has since passed on and he is now left with two children to take care of. He tries to make due as a pig famer but it is clear that the money is not rolling and a result accepts a Job to kill a couple of cowboys mangle a womans face for what would seem to be a "little" reason. I love that the characters in the movie are presented in way that it's difficult to determine who is really "good" and who is "bad". There is something in all the main characters to really dislike as well as like for example Will Munny is branded as a Killer of women and children yet you can see that he has indeed changed his ways for the good. Without spoiling the story to much for people who haven't seen it I can say that the movie is great, well acted and well directed.

Movie 9/10

Now I've been enjoying Blu-ray movies for a while on my HD tv and have to say that this is one of the best video transfers I've ever seen considering the age of the movie. The video exibits that window effect where you think that you just looking through glass into another world. Sharpness and detail are amazing site to behold, and the color is vivid from the mandarin orange colored sunsets to the light blue clouded skies. There is not a single spec of dirt or problems which I've noticed on other older movies. Warner Bros. must be commened for this transfer.

Video 10/10

For sound we are given a Dolby 5.1 track that plays at 640kbps. I wish that Warner also included a uncompressed 5.1 track but alas that is wishful thinking. That being said the 5.1 track is decent. It's clear and there is good use of the rear speakers. The voice track is well done and I never once had to adjust my center speaker.

Sound 7.5/10

As for the features we are givin the typical set of how the movie was made and a feature of Clint Eastwoods other works. I do wish that Clint did a commentary for this movie though.

Features 6/10

This is a great movie and a great Blu-ray disk if you want to view a movie more on the serious side of film making.

Review to come soon.

People either love this movie or just absolutaly dispise it, so.... I'm not going to go into specifics about the story cause it's a very wacked out and nutty plot. I'm going to assume that since you are reading this that you already like the movie and just want to know the quality of the blu-ray disk is. I have to say the I expected more out of the video quality, the brightness of the image seems to be turned down a bit, but that's not to say that the quality is all that bad. The image clarity is very sharp and definition is good (my girl friend mentioned to me that you can really tell which actors have funked up skin). Another fault that I had with the disk is that there is NO main menu. You pop in the disk and it plays right away but there is a minor pop-up menu that you can access that is pretty much standard on all blue ray disks. The extras are the same as the dvd and the audio is awesome. It has a 5.1 dolby track and a 5.1 dolby uncompressed. I can't really coment to much about the 5.1 dolby uncompressed cause as of yet I don't have a receiver which does HDMI switching. The regular 5.1 is great though. I really do love this movie, it's put a smile on my face that's been missing from recent comedies and crazy movies like this. If you like this movie as much as I do then this is definitive movie disk to have.

A man with no friends, only live for revenge
Live his life off the henge, cut, through a thousand pens
Blade swing with the force of a cyclone
Cut grissle and bone, missile and chrome
Stand in my path, you're a dead man
I cut the whole world in half for the Number One headband
Rest of a lonely soul, on a lonely road

Short review to come soon.

Just got Ridge Racer 7, review to come soon.            

I have to say that it's not bad. The remote comes with a small instruction book and 2 AA batteries. The button configurations at the top of the remote are similar to the old PS2 dvd remote so all of you who had it should be familiar with it. The button quality is great the push in and out with minimal fuss and don't have a cheap feeling to them. Setup was a snap, a few clicks and button presses and the whole thing was done less then a minute and a half. Interestingly you can power on the PS3 from standby using any button on the remote. Overall I'm pretty happy with it now that I don't have to use my SIXAXIS to control the Blu-ray/DVD functions. If you're using the PS3 as your Blu-ray/DVD movie player then this is a must have.

Just got my remote today going to write a short review pretty soon.