rhcp1214

http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/shoot-em-up.html

Sounds good to me, but I was hoping for an Unrated version or Collector's Edition.

Order Advertisment:
http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?i...updvdadzk3.jpg

project86

Well Shoot 'em up 2 has already been greenlit I've heard. So exect another release to either promote it, or come out with the sequels DVD.

Zen Peckinpah

The BD will be mine.

I LOVED this movie beyond belief, possibly the definitive entertainment-based movie of the year. Here's hoping this movie can get the afterlife love that benefited Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Running Scared on DVD.

I mean, the easy route would be to say it's Bugs Bunny as produced by Joel Silver, directed by John Woo and written by Shane Black, but Clive Owen was unstoppable and Paul Giamatti was probably the most viciously funny villain I've seen in a movie outside of Kurtwood Smith's in RoboCop. Definite buy.

dpz301

awesome. can't wait to get this.

Drexl

From what I've seen, it looks like Crank with a better cast. Is it like that?

PopcornTreeCt

I loved this movie!! One of the best action movies I've seen. Definitely getting the blu-ray. Is Best Buy open on January 1st?

Great to hear about a sequel coming too.

Rammsteinfan

Definitely will pick up. Will be curious to see a sequel.

asianxcore

This movie was a blast when I saw it in theaters. I really enjoyed it.

Definitely will be picking up the BD.

MrBlonde83

this is BR exclusive?

The Monkees

No. New Line says that they won't release their newer movies on HD-DVD because of the lack of region coding. I think that Nw Line wants mto differentiate themselves from WB by making up thse claims and going mostly BR.

The reason I say this is because there are some New Line movies already available on HD-DVD elsewhere in the world, but not here. And yes I know that the movies are released in other countries, but I think that New Line has something up their sleves.

Big Worms

Blu-ray for me!

MGR

Do you have a link to the story about the sequel? Hope it's true.

Went to an early screening Q&A with the writer/director and I believe that he said he'd already completed a screenplay for a sequel.
He had actually written Shoot 'Em Up seven years earlier, but while shopping it around, the Columbine massacre occurred. Ouch. Not a good time to try and sell Shoot 'Em Up to the studios.

matome

Was gonna check this out at the theaters but never got around to it. Picking up the BD for sure.

Zen Peckinpah

Compared to Crank, I'd say Shoot 'Em Up is Crank as written by Shane Black and an over-caffeinated sophomore in high school watching nothing but that and John Woo's Hong Kong output repeatedly for a week. And it's true: everything is as crazy as Crank, but instead of just batshit GTA-esque insanity for action, it's like Hard Boiled on coke. Both are extremely fun movies and I love them to death, but my experience with Shoot 'Em Up was far more entertaining.

steebo777

Highly entertaining movie that I just had to laugh at so many times. I'll rent it at least to watch it again.

uncle-frank

great movie, ill get it for sure

Dillon

Anybody know what the UPC for the DVD will be?

highclassrob

Whats with making us wait for the HD-DVD? Did New Line sign some contract like Paramount did?

emachine12

HD DVDs don't have region coding. Blu-ray Discs do.

New Line doesn't want to cut into international distributor's profits by having international customers import the movies on HD DVD before or while its still in cinemas.

So they decided to hold off on new titles being day & date on both BD and HD DVD. The BDs come first and are Region A coded, the HD DVDs follow when the international markets stop running them in cinemas.

New Line's only movie to hit both BD and HD DVD at the same time is Pan's Labyrinth since that's available all over the world now on DVD, VideoCD, and VHS.

MTRodaba2468

I see your point concerning an Unrated cut, but with all due respect, you don't think a 2-Disc Special Edition is the same thing as a Collector's Edition?

steebo777

They still release stuff on VCD and VHS?

rhcp1214

Where is their anything on a Two-Disc special edition?
EDIT: WOW I am an idiot.

Dr Mabuse

wow...

some good reviews here... which makes me want to ask a question...

i like Clive Owen... period... especially 'I'll Sleep When I'm Dead'... also i thought 'Children Of Men' was excellent...

i had seen on some other forums this movie was a thinly veiled political 'anti-gun' message?... and it was heavy handed and overdone and stuff, and greatly detracted from the film?... please note i am not trying to introduce that debate in this post... just asking if that's accurate about this movie...

did you guys see that at all?... or did these people bring their own issues to a rocking action flick and screw it up for themselves?...

i like Giamatti and Owen but that stuff i read kinda had me thinking i'd pass...

opinions?...

nezumi

"Thinly veiled political 'anti-gun' message?" That's a laugh. There's a running gag revolving around the trouble with "fingerprint locks" on handguns. Gun control advocates are portrayed as being hypocritical and morally weak. If anything, the movie pushes a strong "carrot control" agenda.

If an action film like Shoot 'Em Up doesn't explicitly express pro-gun messages, is it immediately suspected to have some sort of anti-gun subtext? It makes me wonder what it would take for an action movie to be interpreted as a having pro-gun message. Would a movie be "pro-gun" if, say, Bruce Willis was to give his Beretta a deep, open-mouthed kiss at the end of the film? People are too sensitive, and sometimes it's the people that one would least suspect.

Matthew Chmiel

Regarding the anti-gun message, I think Paul Giamatti's line takes everything into perspective:

"Guns don't kill people, but they sure do help."