Up first My Bloody Valentine 3D. The dvd comes in two versions, 3D on one side and regular on the other. They even include 4 sets of glasses. I did read on Amazon that some dvd's did not have the glasses in a wrapper when they were shipped and the glasses scratched one face of the double sided disc. Isn't that typical. The limit of 4 pairs of glasses is partly why we picked it tonight, Greg was out of town again, so there are only four chairs filled. Not that he was missing much, it's just a mad murderer on the loose movie. Some guy in the movie gets trapped with several other men in a mine. He's in a coma when they find him. All the other men are dead, all their heads punctured with a pick axe. The guy wakes up in the hospital a year later, murders all the staff nearby, and heads back to the mine, where he kills some kids partying. The cops show up, guns blazing, and the murdering miner runs deeper into the mine where he's trapped by a cave in. Ten years later, the son of the mine owner and the only survivor of that fatal evening, arrives back in town to sell the mine. The murders start up again. We bailed on the 3D due to complaints of the effect. It's that red & green glasses 3D, not the polarized 3D. I didn't find it too bad, there was a good depth of field, but there are times when it looked a good bit fuzzy. It was used to good effect, some of the gore effects are sticking right out of the screen at me. Yeow! One kid gets a pick axe to the back of the head and his eye, stuck on the tip of the axe, gets pushed right out of his head. Yuck, huh! Hardly anyone of the people we meet are really great people you'd like to hang out with. Maybe the retired sheriff played by Claude Akin or Kevin Tighe's character. The new sheriff is a hot head, who's cheating on his wife with a young girl who's also pregnant. Most of the rest of the cast are cannon fodder. This is a remake of an 1981 Canadian film with the same name. I haven't seen it. I don't think I need to get a copy of the 3D version myself but I didn't mind seeing it. There's a bit of a twist at the end and it does leave the door open to a sequel.
I had picked up a copy of the 2008 Brendan Fraser movie Journey To The Center Of The Earth when the dvd got cheapish at Target. Last tuesday it was on sale for a ten spot. Like our first movie it too was released in 3D. There is a 3D version of the dvd with red & green glasses. I didn't see that at Target or I might have bought a copy. Like the first movie there's a lot of time spent in a mine and both movies score a 6.0 on the IMDb. Brendan is the brother of Max who disappeared 10 years earlier. Max had gone to Iceland, gone up a mountain, and never returned. Brendan gets a visit from Max's wife. She's leaving her son, Sean, with Brendan for 10 days while she goes to Ottawa, which is going to be her and Sean's new home. She gives Brendan a box of Max's stuff which he explores with Sean. In it they find a copy of Jules Verne's Journey To The Center Of The Earth. It's been written in by Max. Brendan finds some information that leads them back to the lab and eventually to Iceland to inspect a monitor. Brendan is a volcanologist who is singlehandled keeping Max's volcanology work alive at a Boston University. That University is shutting him down. The two guys hire a pretty mountain guide and they all fall into the center of the earth after a wild Indiana Jones style ore car ride through an abandoned mine. There's evidence on their path that shows not only did Max come this way, and sadly expire, but someone a hundred years earlier had also come this way and escaped. It's all in the book. They build a raft and almost get eaten by some giant bitey fish. Then some carnivorous plants nearly get them. That's followed by dinosaurs. Man, that's no tourist destination for me, especially in regard to the exit transportation. I don't want to ride the volcano when the volcano is a volcano. I'm happy to watch the virtual ride from the comfort of my not-on-fire chair. It's a good fun bit of entertainment that has a sequel coming sometime. I'd wait for that to get cheapish at Target too.
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