Blu-ray movie releases for the week of August 24th

by Alan Tsang { Aug 24th 2008 at 7:15PM }

The much-anticipated former HD-DVD exclusive TV series Heroes is making its way over to Blu-ray this week. That alone is enough to make many of us quite happy, but check out the rest of this week's releases:

A favorite amongst the Hot Topic crowd, a definitive edition of The Nightmare Before Christmas featuring a ton of new bonus materials is a must-have for fans of the film. Ashton Kutcher devotees should savor his comedic films Dude, Where's My Car? and What Happens in Vegas. The Action Starter Pack, which includes the movies Miami Vice, End of Days and U-571, are a collection of rather mediocre affairs that can be used to show off your new HDTV to the neighbors. The Secret takes an old concept of spirit possession and takes it into taboo territory, and the results are a little mixed. Pale Rider, one of Clint Eastwood's lesser known Westerns, is also worth checking out.

Oh yeah, stay far, far away from Postal.

Tags: blu-ray, releases

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Alex @ Aug 24th 2008 7:56PM

I am so looking forward to postal 3
I havent seen the movie, but I would look into it and consider buying it.

Hopefully I like it and everyone else doesnt so I can get it cheap.

BTW for those who dont understand postal, play Postal 2 + Apocalypse Weekend addon, Its hilarious.

blank @ Aug 24th 2008 8:22PM

i neeed a heerooo, im holding out for a hero to august 24th... lol that song jumped in2 my head wen i 1st read this! what happens in vegas is really good, very funny. but my money is saved for the games coming up soon =(

solidslack @ Aug 24th 2008 8:34PM

Pirate Postal, you'll be glad to at least watch it. It's horrible and funny. Don't buy it though, Boll doesn't need money.

NukeAssault @ Aug 24th 2008 8:44PM

Damn Heroes is expensive... Guess ill wait a while. Might get Blue Man Group though.

pat1202003 @ Aug 25th 2008 9:20AM

I know what you mean. $110.90 for both seasons is a lot, and I want it so bad. I need to watch it before the new season starts, because I almost forgot everything.

Daniel @ Aug 24th 2008 9:23PM

i don't get it, Blu Ray holds 50 gbs of data so why are movies still coming in 2 disc sets.
Does the movie being in HD really take up that much space?
one of the reasons I was excited about blu ray was that i thought they would only come on one disc even with special features.

theoneneo81 @ Aug 24th 2008 9:42PM

well look at it this way most Blu ray movies uses loses audio and HD Video thats alot of space right there and basicly all the bonus Features most of them are 3 hrs worth are in hd as 1080p it adds up alot once you think about it.

jq71586 @ Aug 24th 2008 9:47PM

Yeah, if you want everything to be DVD quality then, yes, they could squeeze it all onto one disk. But with lossless audio and 1080p video it takes up space. There are more gigabytes of room but I think it is better to have better quality audio/video than to fit more information.

Cory @ Aug 25th 2008 2:02AM

Also alot of time the second disk contains a digital copy of the movie. I'm fairly certain this is the case with Nightmare. You'll also notice that 99% of the time the second disc isn't even a blu-ray disc its a standard dvd which just contains some SD bonus features that are carried over from the standard issue dvd instead of having it take up valuable space on the blu-ray. And finally the Audio portion takes up the most part of the movie. True lossless audio takes up a boatload of space.

theoneneo81 @ Aug 24th 2008 9:39PM

Geting Nightmare Before Christmas on Tuesday First thing! a long deseverd double dip

nathan @ Aug 24th 2008 10:57PM

http://www.petitiononline.com/RRH53888/petition.html
if we get 1 million signatures uwe boll said he will stop making movies

lorddshadow @ Aug 25th 2008 1:00AM

i am so in

burandon @ Aug 25th 2008 2:08AM

Haha, this thing's still going? I figured they'd have a million by now :)

Ptrack_Git @ Aug 25th 2008 11:44AM

I'll pay to watch Uwe Boll beat Michal Bay to a bloody pulp, dose that count?

j.howlett @ Aug 25th 2008 7:58AM

i want the afro samurai on blu.

gumby @ Aug 25th 2008 9:10AM

oh nightmare how i love thee. will be my first purchase of a bluray movie.

pliny5678 @ Aug 25th 2008 12:05PM

I'll be renting Redbelt, End of Days, Heroes S2, and maybe Postal (if I'm in the mood for a bad movie). Nightmare Before Christmas I'll buy eventually. Love that movie and I've already seen it many times.

Keith @ Aug 25th 2008 2:11PM

Got Heroes season 1 on HD-DVD for free (with 360 addon purchase) and given the price of the Bluray set I'm not going to buy it. Unless it's free I'll stick with streaming the ripped episodes to my PS3.

Debating buying season 2 or saving the money for a new game.