The Best DVD Releases Of 2012
The Avengers
($49.99 3D Blu-Ray, $39.99 Blu-Ray, $29.99 DVD; Walt Disney Video)
Marvel’s master plan to bring its A-team superheroes to the screen finally came together in this action packed 3-D hit from nerd deity Joss Whedon. It stands up to repeat viewings, especially the climactic alien-invasion finale.
Weekend was the best of the lot, for me (I don’t want a sequel, though, as the ending was perfect and one of the reasons it was both so poignant and also lingered forever in the memory. No, PLEASE, no sequel).
We Were Here was the most moving and inspirational.
The Avengers was the most entertaining, by far.
Drive I adored on first viewing, then I watched it another four times in the next two weeks and eventually couldn’t shake the suspicion that beyond looking great and having a beautiful kind of melancholy throughout, it was pretty empty and really amounted to nothing much at all, sadly.
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Criterion discs are always 100% on point.
I wouldn’t say that the Drive disc was one of the best this year – it was a bit too light on the bonus features (I heard Criterion’s going to get their hands on it at a later date, but that just might be a rumor), but goddamn if it wasn’t my favorite movie of last year.