Blu-ray releases on November 17th 2009

The biggest blockbuster of the year finally gets to see the light of Blu today and we can all enjoy those weird lighting effects in HD in the comfort of our own home. But also this week, there are a few new shows from Fox and HBO as well as more than one all time classic like Fight Club and The Professional. So in other words, if you don't see something you like this week, you don't like movies or TV shows.

• Star Trek (Paramount)
• Bruno (Universal)
• Chasing Amy (Miramax)
• Clerks (Miramax)
• Fight Club (Fox)
• It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia: A Very Sunny Christmas (Fox)
• Franklyn (Image)
• Galaxy Quest (DreamWorks)
• Gone With The Wind (Warner)
• Is Anybody There? (Magnolia)
• Janacek: The Cunning Little Vixen (Ideale)
• Lords of the Street (Phase 4)
• Moonshot (A&E)
• My Sister's Keeper (New Line)
• National Geographic: Darwin's Darkest Hour (National Geographic)
• The Open Road (Anchor Bay)
• The Professional (Sony)
• Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Sony)
• Rome: The Complete Series (HBO)
• Scrubs: The Complete Eighth Season (Disney)

[EM1 Posted Nov 16th 2009 8:40PM]

It's time to get poor!!!! Fight Club, Scrubs, and It's Always Sunny.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2009 9:06PM]

Really? Star Trek 87 is the highlight of the week?

You do know the highest grossing movie in the history of cinema came out today?

Gone With The Wind

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 17th 2009 3:12AM]

Well the good news is that cinema has gone and gotten a lot less boring. Still just as ham-fisted, though.

[Big Wizz Posted Nov 17th 2009 10:30AM]

sorry, I agree with koehler83. The only people exciting about Gone with the Wind on Blu-ray are my two grandmas.

Oops! nevermind, they don't have an HDTV, much less a blu-ray player.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 17th 2009 10:38AM]

Yeah: GWTW has been released on Beta, VHS, Laserdisc, DVD...

Star Trek: well, it's being released FOR THE FIRST TIME.

So that pretty much makes it a lot more specail than GWTW.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2009 9:15PM]

Ben where did the links for the movies go?

C

[oppizzippo Posted Nov 16th 2009 9:15PM]

Hey Ben where did the links for each movie go?

[BenD Posted Nov 16th 2009 9:16PM]

They've been gone for a long time. Not many people notice.

[oppizzippo Posted Nov 17th 2009 12:12AM]

I notice a while back, just never said anything about it. I liked the links, but I understand it adds a bunch of work on your end to add the links when we lazy people can just copy and paste into netflix. Thanks for all of your hard work!

C

[BenD Posted Nov 17th 2009 8:30AM]

I played around with where the links went for a while, but everyone seemed to have a different idea of where they should go. I even tried to work with another site that already composed a list of movies to add links to netflix etc, but it didn't work out. Ideally there would be links to IMDB, Netflix, Wikipedia, Amazon and Rotten Tomatoes. But man who has time for that.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 17th 2009 9:12AM]

Ben, just include links to all the sites for every movie!

You or someone could probably write a script/program to code the output for you.

[Leicaman Posted Nov 17th 2009 11:53AM]

@Ben

Times are tough, but who's got the time to maybe increase the revenue possibilities of the links? Uh, let's see...

Check out how the Blu-ray fansite does it...

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/

[BenD Posted Nov 17th 2009 11:57AM]

I used to link to HDD, but they have never been the same since they sold out and the original owner left.

[Jeff Kibuule Posted Nov 16th 2009 9:33PM]

Star Trek is on it's way from Netflix right now. Hopefully Amazon will have some good deals on Black Friday so I can own it myself!!

*blu-ray version of course*

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2009 11:46PM]

GALAXY QUEST!!!!!!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 17th 2009 12:29AM]

The two best Star Trek movies of the last ten years are out on the same day! Sweet!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 17th 2009 7:44AM]

Fight Club !!!!!!!

[James5mith Posted Nov 17th 2009 9:10AM]

"...we can all enjoy those weird lighting affects in HD in the comfort of our own home."

EFFECTS. Lighting effects. Unless there is a reported case of CGI lens flare inducing seizures in over-caffeinated Japanese school children, they aren't lighting affects. They are lighting effects.

Words have meaning. Use them carefully.

[TraderMike Posted Nov 17th 2009 10:25AM]

You beat me to it!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 17th 2009 12:58PM]

GWTW is the only title of substance this week.

[Demolition Man Posted Nov 17th 2009 1:14PM]

Whaaaa... and no love for Clerks and Chasing Amy? Boohoo to you too.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 17th 2009 5:21PM]

Galaxy Quest trumps them all with Alan Rickman in one of his best roles!

Seriously, I like GQ, but Star Trek's receiving high marks for overall quality. Getting blockbusters like this, The Professional, and Fight Club on Blu-ray for only 20 bucks in stores and on Amazon is what everyone's been waiting for.

And I thought Transformers 2 was "the biggest blockbuster of the year." Oh, you mean biggest among films with actors and a plot that weren't overshadowed by gratuitous CGI every five minutes. I totally get it! :)

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 18th 2009 7:27AM]

Actually, Star Trek was only the 5th biggest blockbuster of the year, after Transformers 2, Harry Potter 6, Up, and The Hangover. If you look at the worldwide figures, it drops to 8th.