First on the list being released today is Disney’s Toy Story 3. Pixar outdid themselves with this film. They truly did. After Toy Story 2, I wasn’t sure they could cram any more heart or care into a film about these toys and I was proven wrong in every way. Following Buzz, Woody, and the gang to their final adventure through a day care and eventually to their final fate. This film is a tearjerker, and I know a lot of people who were too macho to go see it in the theatres and have been waiting for this release to watch it in the privacy of their own home where they can cry unseen. It’s worth every penny you’ll spend on it.
The Blu-ray looks fantastic, as it does with every Pixar release. They’ve really set a standard in home video picture quality and they manage to exceed it with every subsequent release.
The Day and Night cartoon that was featured before the film theatrically has a spot on this DVD and is one of the most clever and beautifully executed shorts in animated film history and I was incredibly pleased to see it again.
All of this is combined into a 4 disc package (Blu-ray, Special Features, DVD, Digital Copy) that make it a hard to resist purchase for anyone.
An old school favorite of mine is hitting a Blu-ray release today: The Bridge on the River Kwai. Starring William Holden and Alec Guinness, this World War II film directed by David Lean is perhaps one of the finest of the genre.
If you’ve never seen it before, I give it my highest recommendation.
The next big, important release of the week is a Blu-ray release of The Goonies. The DVD release of the Goonies was pretty special, including a great video commentary that reunited the whole cast of the film and Richard Donner as they recorded their thoughts and memories of the film.
One of my biggest guilty pleasures of my childhood is getting a Blu-ray release today: Highlander. Starring Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, and Christopher Lambert, and featuring a great soundtrack by Queen, this is one of the best sci-fi action movies the 80s had to offer. This release is the directors cut, which features some great scenes cut from the theatrical edition that take place during Connor’s time in World War II, among others.
Highlander II came out, also, but let’s all just forget that movie ever happened.
And those are my picks for the day.