Deep Impact

Deep Impact [Blu-ray]
$29.99
Although this movie is now over 10 years old, it still is as captivating as ever. Deep Impact premiered in theatres along the same time as Armageddon with a similar premise. This film, however, has more heart and feels less like a summer blockbuster. Add to that Morgan Freeman portraying the President, and you have a total package! The transfer looks perfect and the acting is superb. Only a few onscreen moments date this film: specifically the technology the characters use. Check it out to see Elijah in his pre-The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy (Theatrical Editions) [Blu-ray] career!

Deep Impact (Special Collector's Edition)
$12.98
Although this movie is now over 10 years old, it still is as captivating as ever. Deep Impact premiered in theatres along the same time as Armageddon with a similar premise. This film, however, has more heart and feels less like a summer blockbuster. Add to that Morgan Freeman portraying the President, and you have a total package! The transfer looks perfect and the acting is superb. Only a few onscreen moments date this film: specifically the technology the characters use. Check it out to see Elijah in his pre-The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy (Theatrical Editions) [Blu-ray] career!

ECW (Extreme Championship Wrestling) - Deep Impact Uncensored
$24.98
More? The structure of the DVD is identical to that of ECW's "Path of Destruction". There seems to be nothing ECW can do wrong, and this DVD showcases shining examples of this.

The best of ECW matches part 2, so to speak, this DVD is pretty much what you expect from ECW, but also includes bonus promos which showcase another great aspect of ECW, including the promo featuring Steve Austin imitating Hulk Hogan.

Two matches stand out in my mind, however. The best one and the worst one.

Yoshihiro Tajiri vs Psicosis
To any critic of ECW who thinks it too violent, too bloody, too raunchy, anything like that, this is the absolute antithesis of that all. In the same vein as Eddie Guerrero vs Dean Malenko in their last ECW match, this one was no weapons, no blood, pure raw athletic wrestling at its best, with no fake-punches, and amazing feats of chain-wrestling, technical wrestling, and high flying from two guys who look, to the average eye, normal, or even handsome to some. The shining example of what makes up ECW---not just violence, wrestling.


Beulah McGillicuty vs Francine
Unfortunately, ECW doesn't break the mold of the women's division being mediocre. There was a lot of nothing in this match as Beulah catfights Francine, then slowly strips her down. Francine botches most, if not all moves given to her, including completely fumbling a sidekick by Stevie Richards, and selling Raven's kick to the gut about a half second too late. If you like women in bra and panties catfighting... this one would be good for you, but you can see that in the WWE all the time.



ECW goodness

The Core (Widescreen Edition)
$9.98
The Core: 5 out of 10: Disaster movies always seem to do better when the disaster is local in scope. A city threatened by avalanche, a tower threatened by an inferno, a Poseidon threatened by an adventure, that kind of thing. Earth killer movies are always a harder road.

You have your 4 standard horseman of the earth disaster; nuclear war, space invaders, plagues (esp. those that create zombies), and meteors. Lately earth killing movies have gotten creative and lets face it stupid, global warming (The Day after Tomorrow), President George W Bush (Fahrenheit 911) and now The Core with it's well I'm still not sure what broke.

The core of the earth stopped spinning (not the earth itself mind you) which is causing the electromagnetic field to dissipate. Okay, that sounds serious. So that would cause what exactly? Apparently the movie wasn't all that sure so we get scenes of some the lamest and implausible disasters ever. Lets put two under the scientific microphone shall we.

One involves birds going all Hitchcock in London due to their inability to navigate using the magnetic field. Okay that may effect the birds ability to fly south (Oh my god the pigeons they're going east!), but even the Mr. Magoo of the avian world wouldn't start flying into statues and buses.

In another of the all too short montages of disaster a lightning storm destroys the Roman Coliseum. I'm not sure which are more unlikely, lighting striking relatively short rock structure, or the granite exploding when it does. Lightning, last time I checked, was attracted to metal.

But what would you expect from a movie that puts a giant windshield in a rock-drilling machine (Made with that magic metal Unobtainium). Keep in mind I've only scratched the surface of the silliness.

Acting wise Stanley Tucci is a joy, Hillary Swank still kind of looks like a guy, and everyone else is forgettable. The Core is enjoyable in that bad 50's sci-fi kind of way. But they needed more (and more plausible) disasters, and much less well everything else.