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DVD Pick of the Week: Jet Li's Fearless - Unrated Director's Cut

Written by Chris Beaumont
Published July 08, 2008
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Batman: Gotham Knight. Produced by those behind the Christopher Nolan films, this release is a series of six short stories that interlock and tack place between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. It is an Animatrix-like project with a variety of American and Japanese talent teaming up to tell the tales. Looks good to me! This will be available in single disk and two disk editions. (BUY, RENT, SKIP)

Psych: The Complete Second Season. Here is a show that is a heckuva lot of fun. It is like Monk but with a lead character who is more willing to bend the rules. The two shows are a perfect match on the USA Network. If you haven't seen it, you definitely need to give it a shot. (BUY, RENT, SKIP)

WWE: Nature Boy Ric Flair - The Definitive Collection. My wrestling interest has died out over the past few years, but Flair is one of those guys who always puts on a good show. I have seen some debate over the match selection for this three-disk set, but like I said, this guy is always entertaining. (BUY, RENT, SKIP)

The X-Files: Revelations. Just in time for the new movie. This set includes a number of episodes, personally selected by Chris Carter, that are considered essential to the mythology of the series. As an added bonus, it comes with movie cash to see the film and is quite reasonably priced. I do not have much of the show in my collection, so I am looking to pick this up. (BUY, RENT, SKIP)

Stop-Loss. This focuses on a soldier just returned from Iraq and some of his unit-mates. Problems start shortly after coming home when he learns he is being sent back. The film is mediocre at best, but is worth checking out as a rental. (BUY, RENT, SKIP)

The Ruins. This has nudity, blood, guts, gore, laughs, terror, suspense, and killer vines — what else do you need? Sure, the characters could have been fleshed out a bit more and some rough dialogue patches smoothed a little better, but that takes nothing away from what was accomplished here. It is one of the best horror films so far this year and definitely worth taking a look at. (BUY, RENT, SKIP)

Superhero Movie. If you know Spider-Man, you know Superhero Movie. It is a goofy, stupid take on that film with side steps into X-Men, Batman, and Fantastic Four. It is light entertainment, to be certain, but it has plenty of laughs and certainly hit the right notes for me. It certainly helps if you are familiar with the superhero genre, and have a high tolerance for stupidity. It seems that my highly refined sense of taste (yes, that's a joke) fed right into what they were attempting to accomplish. Yes, I was surprised I liked it. (BUY, RENT, SKIP)

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Christopher Beaumont spends much of his time writing about entertainment when he isn't sitting in a movie theater. He is known around the office as the "Movie Guy" and is always ready to talk about his favorite form of entertainment and offer up recommendations. Interests include science fiction, horror, and metal music. His writings can be found at Draven99's Musings and Draven99's Media Center.
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DVD Pick of the Week: Jet Li's Fearless - Unrated Director's Cut
Published: July 08, 2008
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#1 — July 12, 2008 @ 01:34AM — Jason

The new Directors cut dvd release of Jet Li's Fearless is is really messed up.Both disc contain the same thing the original theater release and the old unrated version.Their is no Director's cut anywhere on either disc,and its not just the three different copy's I been through its completely widespread.What a screw up huh.

#2 — July 15, 2008 @ 03:55AM — Alaris

For those of you who are experiencing problems with getting the same theatrical/uncut versions of the movie on both discs, one solution would be to see if you purchase it from a Canadian website like Amazon.ca.

Here in Canada, it appears our copies of this DVD have been ok. I bought mine from a Best Buy store in Toronto and I watched it. The first disc did contain the longer director's cut. It might have something to do with the fact that the movie is distributed in Canada by Alliance Atlantis, not Universal, and therefore manufactured in Canada.

Someone else I know who lives here in Toronto bought a copy from FutureShop and had no problems either.

Hope that helps!

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