Beer is the Reason: September is going to be a kick ass ride!

Kids are back in school.  Oil prices seem to have dropped slightly.  I've got the final main parts for my home theatre set up.  My birthday apparently is coming up.  Oh and the crown jewel of what was once HD DVD's catalogue is now on BLURAY! 

Yay that's right Transformers Directed by Michael Bay is NOW on Bluray.   The video quality is light years beyond what DVD was able to store, and during a frame by frame analysis by xylon from AVS forums it seems that still picture quality is better then HD DVD.   Watched quality you can't really tell the difference. 

Now for the audio....the BASS is back!  For the brief time I owned an HD DVD player I watched their version of this movie on my THX certified Logitech Z5450's (soon to be replaced by Polk Audio speakers).  It was a showcase movie for the format back then but the audio sound was missing alot of the bass that was present in the movie.   Where was the bassy boom during the EMP attack?  The Autobot's coming to earth?  The city fight?  Well they're back baby!  Feel that floor shake and glass vibrate!  Mmm mmm goodness.  

Next up and also on BLURAY is the legendary first fight between Jackie Chan and Jet Li.  That's right, your chance to enter the Forbidden Kingdom is on September 9th.  Yada yada yada.  All you armchair directors that bitch and whine that they should've done this movie earlier in their careers. That the main story was bad (which it was).  That they were selling out.  You know what?  Who the hell cares?  It's Jet vs Jackie and they're still both freaking amazing.  This was a visual feast for HK Kung Fu fans.  Lots of humor, lots of references to famous old chinese movies, gorgeous scenery and a magical tale of boy meets Monkey King.  

You can somewhat gloss out the obligatory white boy for Hollywood main character since he gets the shit beaten out of him by practically everyone.  Gotta appeal to the lowest common denominator, the North American teen y'know, but the real meat, the main draw is still the fight in the temple between Jackie and Jet.  Yay, when you're that old and the director is still telling you to slow down because your action sequence is still too fast to catch on camera you can criticize.  

September 17 is awesome simply because it's September 17.  'Nuff said.

The hits just don't stop coming.  On September 22, the three hour premier of Heroes Season 3 begins.   The Villains are here!  (and Peter may not be whiny....)  I've seen the first hour and it is good.  I'll blog about it on the 22nd.

And to end off the month comes one of my favorite comic book heros come to life.  Iron Man on Bluray September 30th!   Robert Downey Jr IS Iron Man.

Ah it's a good month to be a Bluray supporter.   As for you HD DVD supporters I'm sure those tears go well with that beer.  Tony Stark says so and he would know.