The thinking behind selecting titles for our coming soon list is that most people don't want a list of ALL the DVDs coming out every week as it's a pain in the ass to sort through price reductions, specialty product and full frame versions.

ALL real publications have some sort of editorial voice. Each week we focus on certain title which we select as notable. Other sites or publications might select different ones. You're more than welcome to use another sites resource if it fits your needs better, we have a specific focus and will continue that focus.

Also this crap with The Passion is exactly that. CRAP.

To those who suspected that the Passion thing was some sort of DVDTalk related flap, I gotta say Geoff operates with the highest of integrity. Not once has he EVER suggested anything should be customized in terms of editorial content or altering of opinion. Hats off to him since I'm sure he gets pressure from studios (something he never passes on to reviewers, which is another check in his plus column.)

Thanks for the props Gil!

Knowing the DVD Talk Review Panel, I'm sure someone on that panel is going to rent/buy the disc and submit a review anyway. But we'll see.

I think we lost the fun again.

Was there ever any fun in the feedback forum?

As predicted.... One of our reviewers HAS reviewed the film:
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=12121

Wow! And a movie with no extras gets a DVD Talk Collector's Series.! Sure. Whatever. That makes a lot of sense.

5 star replay value?

It was a good film for what it was, a passion play, but the violence is not something I would want to watch over and over. I can't think of a less rewatchable film than this one.

I realize this is a film that moves emotions in Christians, but if I'm going to choose a film about Jesus and give it the DVD Talk Collector's Series its going to be the excellent Jesus of Nazareth or thought provoking Last Temptation of Christ. This film is nothing more than pure shock value to shake up people.

you're not a nun anymore

Last I checked DVDtalk was free... Your not paying for it, so stop with the whining. If you don't like it, go to the other DVD websites which list Passion as coming out. You obviously arn't much of a DVD fan if you didn't even know when POTC was coming out (I have NO intentions of EVER seeing this movie and I knew it was coming out)

It is kinda weird that on the homepage, the big new release picture is of South Park: Passion of the Jew.

Yes... It's weird... And Fahrenheit 9/11 is right below it... Something strange is going on here... I'm figuring out what it is... Kleinman does sound awful jewish... Wait a minute... I'm having a thought...



Nope, it's gone.

First Geoff gets crap for the disc not being on the release list. Now he's getting crap because the disc was rated too high? The guy can't win.

Well lets be honest static, that review for reply value is a bit one sided. Can we get Kevin smith to review it? I want to hear a lot of "FUCK" in the review for passions.

the collectors series review should be saved for when the Collectors edition comes out that will most likely have extras and so forth.

Then again I disagree with a lot of the reviews. Look at the first disc of Azumanga and look at the reviews now. Shows I was right.

I can't really agree with that either. A "Highly Reccomended", I could abide... but you're putting this near-bare-bones release in the same league as the three-disc The Leopard? A release like the Singin' In The Rain SE?

Maybe it has more to do with Kim Morgan, who has less than twenty reviews, but has already given out a "DVD Talk Collectors' Series" rating FIVE times... twice to movies that were still in theaters and weren't even on DVD yet!

Yeah, but haven't you heard? She's like, totally hot.

Seriously though, ratings vary from reviewer to reviewer, so take everything with a grain of salt. I personally thought Challenge of the Superfriends was worth a "Highly Recommended" rating, and got some nasty email because it was a "lame" show that "only had commentary on two episodes", etc.. It's all relative. As in, all of my relatives hate me.

If only someone would suggest a way to improve the DVD Talk Collector Series rating ... nah ...



das

I demand a recount of this rating. Something stinks in Denmark and sure wasn't Mel's performance in Hamlet.

Don't you think its slightly odd that a dvd release this big wouldn't even be pictured with this weeks dvd releases while a South Park single disc with 3 episodes gets a picture?

I don't know if I'm understanding you, but if by "one sided," you mean "one person's (possibly biased) opinion," then of course the review is one-sided. That's what a review is. It's one person's opinion of a film, not a dialogue between him and others (unless that person's name is Siskel, Ebert, or Roeper).

I think by "one sided" he meant "insane". Which after reading her other reviews I totally agree with.

But still, she is hot and I learned to agree with hot chicks a long time ago no matter what the topic.

Yeah, this whole thread sucks.

It's a clear example that no matter what you do, someone will find fault in it.

Well, I suppose I was trying to get at is that perhaps a review that isn't from someone close to the source or devoted to it. Say that example of Azumanga. I loved the show before the dvd hit. So having me review it would be terrible for grammar purposes but most of all it wouldn't be open minded enough to make a solid review of it.

The reviewer did a good job of telling it how it is with azumanga vol 1 and you see how they expand that review through the rest of the volumes.

For a high rank like this to come from a film with no extras seems very odd to say the least.

But then agian having people claim that gkleinman had some sort of secret agenda behind not having this on the coming soon list seems beyond stupid.

Oh well, can't win them all.

It's all so mysterious: This supremely divisive film continues to wreak annoyance even long after it's forgotten.

At this point, I wish Geoff did have a secret agenda and this film would just go away. Silly movie, silly thread.