Click to viewHoliday shopping used to be a terrifying proposition , until the DVD box seat set make out along . DVDs are jolly much always the best presents for anyone who likes watching stuff . And this holiday time of year encounter a particularly amazing bounty of unexampled releases , include complete telecasting serial publication box sets and remastered classic . Here are the 20 late DVD releases that are the good bets for holiday presents , including clips of DVD extras .
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The Dark Knight just came out on DVD , and pretty much everybody who does n’t detest movies is going to need to own it . Our sister internet site Gizmodojust review the BluRay version , and the picture lineament on an HD screen door is the next good affair to seeing it in actual Imax .
Extras : Nothing to write base about , sadly . No Christopher Nolan comment cut . No outtakes or gaffe , because Nolandoesn’t believe in doing that to his actors . The second disc includes those “ Gotham Tonight ” simulated news political platform that were on the net a while back . Plus some featurettes , like this one :
https://gizmodo.com/review-the-dark-knight-blu-ray-disc-5105005
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imrUksQE9z4
want is an unrated videodisc , which means just a smidge more dotty violence and nudity in this level of a ferment stiff who come upon he ’s the first-rate - powered heritor to a society of mega - assassins .
Extras : There are tons and ton of featurettes , plus a music TV to a song by Danny Elfman . I like this one , about how much playfulness it is to be beaten up by Angelina Jolie :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoNiL5viIJA
This one , about the limited effects work behind the spinning caravan , is also pretty cool :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap5VxK2l7jc
Wall - E is the best reanimate moving picture in twelvemonth , and one of the good moving picture of the year . A lone glass - compacting robot is result behind on a destroyed Earth .
Extras : Two poor films , Burn - E and the theatrically released Presto Amazing . Some deleted scenes , include this one :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsxvNE4vFs4
And some featurettes , including this one about why Wall - E does n’t have elbows :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UsZUhgFe2s
Hellboy 2 : The Golden Army . One of the best director act today , Guillermo Del Toro , takes on a second installment of this supernatural superhero narration , featuring a deeper look at Hellboy ’s alienation and tangled relationships .
Extras : There are two commentaries , one by Del Toro and one by some of the thespian . Plus tons of deleted scene . But for my money , the features that make it most worthwhile are the look inside the making of GDT ’s amazing creatures , and his personal tours of the motion-picture show ’s elaborate set , like the round market :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFsE1ThOzyA
Plus there ’s a giant two - and - a - half - minute documentary , “ Hellboy : In Service Of The Demon . ” And a aspect inside the puppet theatre , and a glimpse of Del Toro ’s notebook computer .
The Incredible Hulk , Marvel ’s less comprehended superhero film of 2008 , is still a pretty satisfying monstrosity romp , and the DVD gives you more of a sense of how challenging a project it really was .
Extras : There are featurettes , showing how Ed Norton became the Hulk and Tim Roth became the Abomination . There ’s the original opening succession , in a snowy barren , where Bruce tries to pour down himself and turn into the Hulk . you could see some cancel scenes , which give you a glance of the much longer , more introverted moving-picture show co - author Edward Norton wanted you to see . Like this one , where Bruce cries over psycho - babble at dinnertime :
Or this one , where Bruce and Betty look at an orchidaceous plant together :
Johnny Mnemonic / Omega Doom / Universal Soldier . Yes , you pick up me right . Sony just collected all three of these awful 1990s instant classic and put them ontoone deal - priced DVD set . ( As cheap as $ 14 on one site . ) This is a whole twenty-four hour period ’s viewing . you’re able to tope coffee tree and watch Mnemonic , then get stoned and watch Universal Soldier , and then tope Drano and see Omega Doom . ( You ’ve never heard of Omega Doom ? It ’s Rutger Hauer playing a post - revelatory golem who ’s drop off his memory . Okay ? )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4VdPUMbFG0
Extras : Ummm … Thai subtitle . Could descend in handy .
Thirteenth Floor / Screamers / Solo . Andhere ’s another one . I play you have a friend who does n’t own any of these picture . Again , going as cheap as $ 14 on some sites . The Thirteenth Floor was in reality a pretty o.k. film , part of the cyberpunk mini - windfall of the late 1990s . Solo is Mario Van Peebles as a first-rate - cyborg .
Extras : Umm … If you get stoned enough , you’re able to check these moving picture more than once .
David Lynch : The Lime Green Set . The notoriously wacky director has just put out a boxwood set , let in a remastered Eraserhead , plus Elephant Man and Blue Velvet . It also includes some new - to - DVDapocrypha , such as Wild At Heart ’s “ Industrial Symphony No . 1 ” and Dumbland . And there are some other poor films , like “ Six Men Getting Sick . ”
Extras : There are never - before - go out Elephant Man DVD supernumerary , plus a fancy booklet and a new speech sound mix for Velvet .
TV boxwood sets :
Lost : The double-dyed fourth season . live over the season when this island - castaway show started get exciting again , thanks to the jiffy - forward and the saga of the Oceanic Six getting off the island .
Extras : There ’s a pretty hilarious Oceanic Airlines safety scorecard , plus two whole discs of bonus feature . You ’ve got that wacky feature about flash - forward that we showed you recently , plus the mockumentary about the put-on of the Oceanic Six . documentary film encompass topics like film on emplacement , creating that massive freighter set , and all the gas pedal that everyone carries . Plusbloopers , which are never as comical as you think they ’ll be . And delete scenes , like this one :
Jericho : The Complete Series . For your ally who just do n’t get why you were so pissed off that CBS ax this series about the townspeople in Kansas that live on a massive number of atomic act of terrorism .
Extras : Supposedly this set has everything the first and second season stage set had , plus some incentive features . Including a wacky list of 100 reason why you should watch Jericho , which include “ Funny Arms Skeet . ” And a documentary film showing a table - read for the playscript for season two , episode one .
The 4400 : The complete series . This show about 4,400 the great unwashed being kidnap and given unearthly superpowers turn out to be a mountain more bizarre and complicated than it looked at first , with a eldritch furor and Summer Glau as a sociopath with mind powers . And Jeffrey Combs as a delirious scientist . Yay . And nowhere ’s the ended thing , for only about $ 66 on Amazon .
Extras : I think you essentially get what you would have get with each of the separate time of year box sets .
Doctor Who : Series Four . In many style , the end of an epoch for the BBC ’s fourth dimension - travel activeness - comedy - soap . The last full time of year starring David Tennant and under the stewardship of Russell T. Davies , plus the last ( likely ) end of the story of Rose , the metre - traveler most besotted companion . It ’s not the right time of year of the RTD years , but contains some substantial gem , like “ FIres Of Pompeii , ” “ Midnight ” and “ Turn Left . ”
Extras : I love the DVD menus , which sport the usual view of the TARDIS set , until you take something – then the Titanic crashes through the bulwark . There are the usual Dr. Who Confidential mini - documentaries for each sequence . The “ Time Crash ” mini - episode , featuring two doctor , is admit , and there ’s also a David Tennant video journal . Plus comment tracks . And deleted view , like this one :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlsNcan2wpQ
And this alternate ending :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0tZtJ7kD18
Mystery Science Theater 3000 : 20th day of remembrance . Has it really been twenty years of the bozo on the space station watching bad movies with robot ? Huh . In any case , this isa comemorative tin box setwith four of the show ’s most popular picture : First Spaceship on Venus ( 1960 ) , Laserblast ( 1978 ) , Werewolf ( 1996 ) , and Future War ( 1997 ) .
Extras : The oral story of MST3 K ( sounds unhygienic . ) A Comic - Con reunification panel . All six versions of the theme Song dynasty . Four fancy vestibule card , plus a Crow T. Robot figurine .
Star Trek : Season Three remastered . Your friends may already have the seminal distance opera on DVD , but do they have thefancy - schmancy remastered variation ? Now you’re able to watch the show slide downhill into obliviousness in better picture lineament , with restore special effects .
Extras : There ’s a unexampled version of the show ’s original original , “ The Cage , ” with improved effects . And footage of the cast and crowd goofing around , from home movies . And footage of makeup trial .
Transformers Energon : The Ultimate Collection If you ’re die to mess around with Transformers Energon , it might as well be theultimate translation , dammit . This was an animated serial running from 2004 - 2005 , most far-famed for featuring a slew of Unicron , the evil robo - major planet formerly voiced by Orson Welles .
Extras : None that I can witness out about .
Bubblegum Crisis 2040 : Complete Collection . There ’s already been a “ Perfect Collection , ” but now there ’s a “ Complete Collection , ” which sound even full . In the backwash of a huge temblor , an evil bay window wants to take over Tokyo using genetically direct monsters . Oh noes ! Luckily four super - powered women stand in their way , in this Zanzibar copal spinoff .
Extras : None that I can watch about .
Voltron Volume 6 A totally new Voltron is constructed to battle the Drule threatin this newfangled DVD box set . This covers episodes 73 - 90 of the eighties series .
Extras : Featurettes let in “ Vehicle Voltron Pilot , ” “ Vehicle Voltron Fans Unite , ” “ Vehicle Voltron Featurette , ” “ Team Up Clips ” and “ Episode Synopses With Original Air Dates . ”
Wild Wild West : The Complete Series . If your own exposure to this weird steampunk jaunt was the Will Smith movie , now ’s your chance to find it in full .
Extras : It let in the two posterior television set movies , which were n’t included with previous box sets . There are also audio interviewswith Godhead like Fred Freiburger , John Kneibuhl , music composer Richard Markowitz , and peculiar effects creator Tim Smyth . And you get to see one of star Robert Conrad ’s Everready battery commercials from the late seventies , plus a connection promo reel .
Other :
Thomas Pynchon – A Journey Into The nous Of [ P ] . This 2002 documentary about the writer of The Crying Of Lot 49 and Mason & Dixonis finally out on DVD as of November . The Dubini brother , Italian - German film - manufacturing business , endeavor to unravel the mystery of the reclusive Pynchon through the consumption of photographs and archival films , plus gross ton of consultation with random Pynchon supporter and hangers on . Somereviewers have been a tad underwhelmed .
Extras : None that I ’m aware of .
Timewave 2013 : The Future Is Now Odyssey Two . Honestly , I would get this just for the title . Your friends will never look at you the same style again . It’sthe sequel to the acclaimed2012 the Odyssey Armageddon Is Not What It Used To Be . Says the indorsement :
This is definitely an adventure into the nature of meter itself , with some of the Earth ’s foremost metaphysicians , sages and experts loan their wisdom . Buckle yourself in for a breathless ride ! The experts in this film reinforce the whimsy of continual change , internal change and the awful opportunities presented by the advent of the galactic alinement in December 2012 .
Extras : You ’ll discover that the remainder of the Mayan calendar is n’t really the end of time . Sort of .
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