I know we’re all basking in the afterglow of Obama’s inauguration, but work must intrude: Here’s my latest Sympatico/MSN DVD column, checking up on the state of the direct-to-video sequel and throwing in “Saw V” for good measure.
Because if any movie should have gone directly to video, it’s “Saw V” …
I’m always so impressed at how thorough your DVD column is! It must be like 2000 words!
Thanks! And yeah, other than the year-enders, I think this week’s is the longest one ever.
It’s the greatest thing about shifting the column online after fifteen years as a page in a magazine; I once asked an editor if I was going too long with something, and she said, “Nah, this is the internet. We’ll just make more pages.”
Imagine hearing that from a print publisher …
Out of curiosity, Norm, do you still think I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER is the bee’s-knees? I just reviewed the Blu-ray, and was surprised to see you quoted on the packaging.
Yeah, that’s an old, weird story — that quote was sutured together from two separate sentences, from two separate paragraphs, extracted from my three-star review. The whole story’s here …
http://groups.google.ca/group/rec.arts.movies.current-films/browse_thread/thread/ab33748465b22594
… assuming that link works after the cut-and-pasting, of course.
I figured it had to be something like that (this *is* the studio that created David Manning), though it struck me as more inexplicable than shameful.