I Want My DVD: Tuesday, April 6, 2010

by Zach Oat April 6, 2010 6:00 AM
I Want My DVD: Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham has two movies out this week -- one starring himself, and one starring his life-size, photo-realistic Nic Cage puppet. Man, that thing is creepy.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Despite the fact that the director, Werner Herzog, thinks the title was a bad idea, and original Bad Lieutenant director Abel Ferrara hates that it even exists, this movie still somehow managed to be one of Nic Cage's best performances and one of Roger Ebert's favorite films of 2009. It's not a sequel or homage -- Herzog had never seen Ferrara's film -- and the only connection to the eponymous original is that both feature police lieutenants of questionable morality. (Thank God Cage didn't go full frontal like Keitel. That would have scarred us for life.) Couldn't they have changed the title to "A-Hole Lieutenant" to avoid all the drama?

I'm No Dummy
No, you're no dummy, Jeff Dunham. You've successfully parlayed an annoying ventriloquist act into a TV series, a 30 Rock guest appearance and now, apparently, a straight-to-DVD movie. You are the smartest man on Earth.

High Plains Invaders
Paired with The Burrowers, this would make for a highly entertaining "cowboys vs. aliens and/or monsters" double feature. Thank you, Syfy channel, for introducing us.

Dolan's Cadillac
We couldn't figure out why this title sounded familiar until we read that it was an adaptation of the Stephen King short story of the same name, starring Christian Slater as the gangster and Wes Bentley as the vengeful husband. Hooray? We think?

Little Hercules
Hulk Hogan as Zeus? Elliott Gould as Socrates? Judd Nelson, possibly playing himself? "Clash of the Titans," indeed.

Also out this week:
Icons of Suspense: Hammer Films Six classic British horror films, including... The Snorkel? Really?
The Lord of the Rings (Animated) The Ralph Bakshi classic, remastered to be even more creepy and bizarre.
Dirt! The Movie Narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis, and originally released as "True Lies."

To see this week's TV releases, check out TV on DVD!

1 Comments

April 16, 2010 7:59 PM
Robert Old
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WTF!!! Some idiot let Bakshi's cr_p backflow out of the toilet again??! I guess it wasn't bad enough that he ended the film halfway thru the "Two Towers" book in the trilogy... and the dialog sucked... Someone should've dragged ol` Ralphie - boy down to Moria and fed him to the Balrog.

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