Purchases of the Week - May 15, 2011

It's been a while since we updated. I think I just didn't really want to blog as much since we were all upset after we lost Impostor Cat. Our backyard has been empty without her as she was the one who hung out there all the time.

Anyway, I've been eyeing blu-ray.com like a hawk! A lot of stuff that's ridiculously expensive has been dropping in price like a rock. I've had to be a bit more selective.

Bad Boys - Full of Wil Smith-isms and Martin Lawrence's trademark acting style. No, the famous quote is actually said in Bad Boys II so I am not even saying it. It's a fun movie although I found Tea Leoni's character a little annoying. 

 
Men In Black - If there was any other actor Wil Smith perfectly acted with it would be Tommy Lee Jones. One of my favorite movies! Vincent D'Onofrio's portrayal as Edgar should be just as celebrated as the two stars of this film. He made the big cockroach's awkward movements in the Edgar Suit so believable. That's hard to pull off. 

 
The Quick and the Dead - I try to think of a movie where I liked Sharon Stone as an actress and I am coming up blank except for this one. She had all her clothes on, she had guns and was just a badass. Oh wait, she was in Total Recall. She was still bad there too. I think I tend to like her when she's in action movies. 

 
xXx - "Bitches Come!!!" Seriously that's it. I bought this movie because that line and that scene makes me and Nate laugh.

We bought the stuff listed above earlier in the week and these two below we bought later. I am going to try to summarize Purchases of the Week at the end of each week instead of random dates in between.

Stranger than Fiction - I liked this movie. A lot of people who like Will Ferrell did not. I liked the fact he played a person who was not funny out right. Not his best movie I agree but I still enjoyed it.

 
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - Hayao Miyazaki is a master storyteller and this was the first movie of his that I ever saw as a kid. It made me think about the environment and the consequences of not caring for it. I love seeing strong female characters and he is consistent with this in almost all of his movies. There are only two movies of his that are in blu-ray and the other is Panyo and I am waiting for that to go down in price. Hopefully, Disney will put the rest of his catalog on blu-ray in the foreseeable future.