ROTTEN TOMATOES: RT on DVD: Transformers, Starship Troopers To Invade; Avoid Jessica Alba's Eye

RT on DVD: Transformers, Starship Troopers To Invade; Avoid Jessica Alba's Eye

Plus downloading at Blockbuster, Tinkerbell talks, and the ultimate Dirty Harry box set!

by Jen Yamato | June 02, 2008

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Look out! Starship Troopers and Transformers are about to assault your senses in HD, and soon you can choose Harold and Kumar's adventures. This week's new releases are mostly stinkers (The Eye, Semi-Pro), but Dirty Harry's got your back with a fantastic new box set. Are you feeling lucky, punk?

Make it a Blockbuster...download...night?

Are video stores headed the way of the dinosaur? Not if Blockbuster can help it. The rental chain has begun testing new in-store download kiosks where customers can zip in, ATM-style, and download movies right onto their digital media players. The goal is to have you in and loaded in 30 seconds -- that is, only if you have the Archos media player, which you can buy in a Blockbuster store, which you can use portably or plug into a TV set...which sounds all too troublesome to us lazybones DVD buyers.

Choose Your Own Harold and Kumar Adventure!

Those folks over at New Line must be smoking the good stuff, because making the release of Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay a Choose Your Own Adventure-style DVD is inspired, to say the least. In addition to switching between new and alternate scenes, you can get up close and personal with the real Harold Lee and "the guy who plays George W. Bush." Look for it July 25.

An HD Transformers extravaganza!

The web is abuzz with the official news that a Transformers Blu-Ray release will hit stores September 2, supervised by director/spectacle aficionado Michael Bay himself. The 2-Disc Special Edition is expected to boast no less than 30 extras, featurettes, trailers and Easter eggs -- all in glorious, ear-shattering, eye-popping HD.

Another Starship Troopers sequel is coming...

Casper Van Dien is back as Johnny Rico, Roughneck soldier and extinguisher of space bugs, in the third installment of the saga that began with Paul Verhoeven's 1997 boob-, bomb-, and bug-filled satire. Ed Neumier makes his directorial debut with Starship Troopers: Marauder, which comes to DVD and Blu-Ray August 5; if you're really Starship crazy, you can buy the entire trilogy the same day.

Disney To Make Movies for Fairies

After you're done fueling your testosterone levels with Starship Troopers, get in touch with your softer side with the first of four all-new direct-to-DVD Disney films...about fairies! Disney's had enough of the lame super sequels -- Ariel's racked up a lot of mileage over the years -- so they're turning their attentions to Peter Pan sprite Tinkerbell, who will appear along with her fairy BFFs and talk for the first time in Disney history -- unless you count Julia Roberts in Hook, which we admittedly don't count either.

Click for this week's new releases!

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sportzboy698 writes:
on Jun 02 2008 05:09 PM

Tranformers! Starship Troopers! Wait, what?

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jokerboy1991 writes:
on Jun 02 2008 05:29 PM

Im definately looking foward to Transformers on Blu-Ray. I couldnt say that for Starship Troopers 3, which will probably be funny. I wonder what the unrated version of Harold and Kumar 2 will be like. I really want to get The Dirty Harry box set on Blu Ray sometime this week. Im gonna rent Control (which I have been really looking foward to), I think it comes in my netflix tomorrow. Maybe I will check out the UNRATED version of Semi Pro to see if it as an improvemant, because it sucked when I saw in theatures. -STILL NO NEWS ON THE DARK CITY'S DIRECTOR'S CUT

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Mishmerized writes:
on Jun 02 2008 06:35 PM

I wish this starship troopers was the 2nd cause they stuffed up the that one bigtime, they released it before it got a big enough cult fan base and offcourse not including Casper Van Dien and hardly any of the supporting cast! Now this will be bad......but maybe hilarious!

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Jen Yamato writes:
on Jun 02 2008 06:36 PM

jokerboy, I highly recommend Control. Glad it caught your eye!

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kooks25 writes:
on Jun 02 2008 06:37 PM

Control and..... Yeah. That's pretty much it.

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the whole idea writes:
on Jun 02 2008 06:58 PM

ok that's it!!! the only reason i'm going to REBUY transformers is for micheal bay// at least he fought for this out on blu-ray when it was first realased on hd-dvd(what a joke that was) i wanted the movie so i went standard thinking it would not be realeased on blu-ray for quite some time.. if all these movie company's want us to convert so readily they need to release the blu-ray when the stadard def comes out cuz' i'm tired of rebuying the same movies over and over with special ed or dir. cuts or high def. every single time// i do not buy standard anymore cuz sooner or later they put it out on blu-ray// good thing i waited and was patient for there will be blood // it came out months ago on standard and just this week is coming out on blu/// ggggrrrrr!!!! signed: one angry rebuying schmuck!!!

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Silverevilchao writes:
on Jun 02 2008 07:12 PM

STOP MAKING STARSHIP TROOPERS MOVIES!!!!!

You're going to make Heinlein rise from the grave and kill every last one of you.

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the whole idea writes:
on Jun 02 2008 07:12 PM

c'mon that movie about another dead rocker dude// nobody even new who joy division was over here til' they had already become new order// no wonder it's going strait to dvd// rent sid and nancy again and call it a day!!

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thereign writes:
on Jun 02 2008 07:42 PM

Another Starship Troopers?! NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

However, animated Tinkerbell's looking sort of shapely. Disney should release an "adults only" version with The Tink topless...I'd be there.

:-P

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jokerboy1991 writes:
on Jun 02 2008 08:24 PM

In reply to this comment (#1770766)
Control came out in theatures in like October, it was actually suppose to be really good.

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jokerboy1991 writes:
on Jun 02 2008 08:27 PM

In reply to this comment (#1770646)
Yeah thanks! I think I first heard about it when you wrote about, im excited about seeing it. Also this totally off topi but deals with Dvds, but do you guys possibly think you could look into a story of an extended version of Spiderman 3 supposedly coming out?- I read about it once, and I know they cut out alot of cool footage, do you think you guys could look into that and possibly the Dark City's Director's Cut? Thanks again for recomending Control!

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T45Red writes:
on Jun 02 2008 09:11 PM

Yeah, I too was wondering about the Director's Cut for Spider-Man 3. I signed a petition and everything and have heard rumors of it being released soon but never actually any real dates or confirmations. I would really like to buy it when it comes out, seeing as how lackluster the original version was compared to the other 2 films, which I loved. Hopefully these additional scenes will add some credibility to the film; if not, then at least I get to see all those extra scenes I've been drooling over XD! Also, Steven Seagal in that trailer was hilarious. "I don't think you have the balls." Awesome.

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Young Turk writes:
on Jun 02 2008 11:37 PM

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Dark City? Director's Cut? The?? Where did you hear of this?

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~*Admiral Snowstorm*~ writes:
on Jun 03 2008 03:36 AM

I'm sold on Control. It's sitting there somewhere on my Queue.

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sportzboy698 writes:
on Jun 03 2008 03:45 AM

Transformers is awesome. By the way have you guys heard about Michael Mann's new epic, Public Enemies starring Christian Bale and Johnny Depp. I'm working behind-the-scenes on it with other prooducers, well, actually I'm just bringing coffee to the cast members but still.

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flamingbagofpoo writes:
on Jun 03 2008 06:47 AM

haha. Someone isn't paying attention. Control wasn't a straight to DVD release.

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whiskeyriver writes:
on Jun 03 2008 07:12 AM

Nobody SAID Control was straight to DVD. It's just coming OUT on DVD this week. And it was excellent.

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Bigbrother writes:
on Jun 03 2008 08:44 AM

In reply to this comment (#1770799)
Definately the sauciest Disney creation, but not to sound sexist or anything, but I think it'll ruin the mystique if she talks. Used to date a girl that played Tinkerbell at Disney in Orlando. Unfortunately she wasn't nearly as interesting out of costume, but que sera sera.

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CFM writes:
on Jun 03 2008 08:45 AM

The Eye didn't win one award. In fact, it wasn't nominated for one award. Not one. That's right.

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jokerboy1991 writes:
on Jun 03 2008 08:52 AM

In reply to this comment (#1771226)
Theyve been talking about a Director's Cut for that for years, they finnaly set a date for JULY 29. It has 15 minutes more footage added to it, they took out the opening narraration, they improved some special effects, new music, roger ebert has a commentary track on it. Its going to coe out on Blu Ray too.

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