Why do I keep watching these ridiculous films? I had the dubious pleasure of experiencing Resident Evil: Afterlife on the big screen and in glorious 3D. And I actually had a good time watching it, despite my better sense. It’s not a good film by any stretch of the imagination but it certainly delivers the thrills. And the 3D wasn’t too bad either! The film will make its way to Blu-ray in just over a months time in both 2D and 3D editions with an otherwise identical feature-set. Details below:
RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE
(December 28, 2010 – MSRP $34.95)
Video: 2.39:1 1080p
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Special Features:
- Sneak Peek of Resident Evil: Damnation
- “Undead Vision” Picture-in-Picture Video
- Filmmaker Commentary
- Eight Deleted Scenes
- Outtakes
- Seven Featurettes
- Back Under the Umbrella: Directing Afterlife
- Band of Survivors: Casting Afterlife
- Undead Dimension: Resident Evil in 3D
- Fighting Back: The Action of Afterlife
- Vision of the Apocalypse: The Design of Afterlife
- New Blood: The Undead of Afterlife
- Pwning the Undead: Gamers of the Afterlife
ALSO AVAILABLE IN 3D EDITION:
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]]>So much stuff to get to today! I’m gonna keep my blethering short and sweet in an effort to get as much news out to you as possible.
And top of the list today, is some animation news. Paramount and Dreamworks have previously announced the release date of Monsters vs. Aliens but now they’ve given us the full details for the Blu-ray disc. The really interesting thing about this release is the lack of 3-D on the feature.
Much has been made of the theatrical 3-D experience lately, with almost every new animated feature turning up in the format on the big screen. In the cinema, we get to experience the film through polarized lenses, colours staying true and image fidelity relatively uncompromised. The best we can do at home at the moment is the old school, blue/green lens anaglyph 3-D format, which changes colours and generally looks a bit shifty on screen at the best of times. While Monsters vs. Aliens was released in 3-D in the theatres, Paramount/Dreamworks have decided to hold off downgrading the film’s image for the Blu-ray release. Instead, issuing only the 2-D version, and keeping the 3-D version on the drawing board, ready to rerelease when the Blu-ray consortium has ratified and standardized a method to bring the experience home.
For those a little peeved that they’re missing out on an opportunity to wear their anaglyph glasses, the studios offer up a little taste of 3-D in the new short film, B.O.B.’s Big Break.
(September 29, 2009)
Video: 1080p AVC
Audio: 5.1 Dolby TrueHD
Special Features:
• B.O.B.’S BIG BREAK in Monster 3D & 2D
• Paddle Ball Game in Monster 3D
• Modern Monster Movie Making
• Three Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scenes
- ◦ Monger’s Plan
◦ War Room Turns on Monsters
◦ If You Don’t Know
• DWA Music Video Juke Box
• Filmmaker Commentary
• The Tech of MONSTERS VS. ALIENS
• Top Secret Sneak Peek Files
- ◦ How To Train Your Dragon (HD)
◦ Shrek The Musical (HD)
◦ Kung Fu Panda World (HD)
◦ The Penguins of Madagascar (HD)
◦ Shrek The Halls (HD)
◦ Secrets of the Furious Five
◦ MONSTERS VS. ALIENS Activision Game trailer
• Karaoke Music Party with:
- ◦ “More Than A Woman” with B.O.B.
◦ “Born To Be Wild” with Dr. Cockroach & Missing Link
◦ “I Will Survive” with Ginormica
• Exclusive Blu-ray Extras
- ◦ Animators’ Corner – Picture-In-Picture
◦ Trivia Track
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Iconic. This is the movie where the Friday the 13th series leaps from being a couple of mediocre slasher flicks into a whole new category. This is where Jason becomes JASON.
Sadly, it’s a 3D movie and this makes for some technical complications. Paramount offers you both viewing formats (2D and 3D), which is brilliant if you have 5 friends over and not everyone remembered to bring their own 3D glasses (the disc comes with two hockey-mask themed, blood-splattered pairs). But sadly, I don’t think much, if any, effort went into cleaning up and enhancing the movie, and I think it’s due to the fact that it’s a 3D flick. And, oddly, the flashback footage from Friday the 13th Part 2 at the beginning of the film looks worse than on the Part 2 disc (read my review here.) All told, whether cleaning up the transfer couldn’t or just wasn’t done, the high-def picture on the Blu-ray still looks better than I remember it ever looking on TV or *gulp* VHS. Better than the DVD release? I’d have to see them side by side.
What you don’t get on the Blu-ray are bonus features with any depth, like the excellent cast commentary track from the 2004 DVD box-set. However, Paramount does offer up about thirty minutes worth of featurettes, a continuation of a Fan Fic story-line and some interesting trivia/trivial interviews. The interviews are definitely worth watching if you are at all a fan of the slasher XII-ology or horror in general but honestly, I was looking for more.
For better or worse, Friday the 13th Part 3 3D is the birth of a horror legend. Even the awkward cinematic moments that are only there to serve the 3D “scares” can’t dampen the entertaining quality of the film. The unfortunate part is that the quality of the transfer seems to have been sacrificed for eye-ball dangling, pitchfork thrusting, machete swinging action.
A fair trade in my eyes.