UFC Presents WEC (World Extreme Cagefighting): Aldo Vs Faber [Blu-ray]

UFC Presents WEC (World Extreme Cagefighting): Aldo Vs Faber [Blu-ray] Review

If you're a hardcore MMA fan you already know how great the WEC is and this show is no exception. However if you're unfamiliar with the WEC here's a quick introduction.

The WEC is the "little brother" of the UFC. Both companies are owned by Zuffa, but there's no sharing of talent between the two. The WEC focuses exclusively on the lighter weight classes: lightweight (155 lbs), featherweight (145 lbs), and bantamweight (135 lbs). The fights usually tend to be more dynamic and faster paced than those that take place in the heavier weight classes, and it's because of this that the WEC is quickly becoming one of the best mixed-martial arts promotions in the world.

This card was the WEC's first foray into pay-per-view (all other WEC events are broadcast on the Versus network), and it's because of this that the card is stacked from top to bottom.

The main event is current featherweight champion Jose Aldo defending his belt against former champ Urijah Faber. As one other reviewer pointed out this fight does end up being fairly one-sided, but it's a credit to Faber for going the distance with Aldo since most of the champ's opponents can't make it past the first round.

The co-main event is another title fight, as WEC lightweight champ Ben Henderson takes on Donald Cerrone. These two had a five-round war that ended up as "Fight of the Year" on several lists at the end of 2009, and while the rematch wasn't a repeat of that performance it's still entertaining in its own right.

The main card also features former featherweight champion Mike Brown against "Ultimate Fighter" season 5 runner-up Manvel Gamburyan, a great lightweight showdown between Shane Roller and Anthony Njokuani, and a fantastic fight between up-and-coming bantamweight contenders Scott Jorgensen and Antonio Banuelos.

However there is one fight that stole the show at this event, and it's the fight that's already being talked about as "Fight of the Year" for 2010. Leonard "Bad Boy" Garcia welcomes WEC newcomer "The Korean Zombie" Chan Sung Jung to America, and this featherweight scrap is one for the ages. If you have a friend who isn't into MMA and you want to get them onboard, this is the fight to show them. It's the kind of fight that can be enjoyed over and over again, and its inclusion on this DVD makes this purchase a no-brainer for any fan of mixed-martial arts.

UFC Presents WEC (World Extreme Cagefighting): Aldo Vs Faber [Blu-ray] Overview

In the most explosive World Extreme Cagefighting event ever, featherweight champion and Brazilian phenom Jose Aldo makes the first defense of his title when he takes on former world champion "The California Kid" Urijah Faber. If one title fight wasn't enough, lightweight champion Ben Henderson takes on Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone in a rematch of their 2009 Fight of the Year. Plus, former featherweight champion Mike Brown battles judo ace Manny Gamburyan.

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I Am Legend (Ultimate Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]

I Am Legend (Ultimate Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray] Review

This is a super intense movie at every turn. It didn't feel like one of those cookie cutter Hollywood movies. It was fast paced and action packed. The story line was a bit out there, but that was okay by me. It's great for the entire family. No cursing, nudity or gross scenes. I highly recommend this movie. Ciao

I Am Legend (Ultimate Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray] Overview

Robert Neville is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable, and man-made. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and maybe the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone. Mutant victims of the plague -- The Infected -- lurk in the shadows... watching Neville's every move... waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind's last, best hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. But he knows he is outnumbered... and quickly running out of time.

I Am Legend (Ultimate Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray] Specifications

Will Smith stars in the third adaptation of Richard Matheson’s classic science-fiction novel about a lone human survivor in a post-apocalyptic world dominated by vampires. This new version somewhat alters Matheson’s central hook, i.e., the startling idea that an ordinary man, Robert Neville, spends his days roaming a desolated city and his nights in a house sealed off from longtime neighbors who have become bloodsucking fiends. In the new film, Smith’s Neville is a military scientist charged with finding a cure for a virus that turns people into crazed, hairless, flesh-eating zombies. Failing to complete his work in time--and after enduring a personal tragedy--Neville finds himself alone in Manhattan, his natural immunity to the virus keeping him alive. With an expressive German shepherd his only companion, Neville is a hunter-gatherer in sunlight, hiding from the mutants at night in his Washington Square town house and methodically conducting experiments in his ceaseless quest to conquer the disease.

The film’s first half almost suggests that I Am Legend could be one of the finest movies of 2007. Director Francis Lawrence’s extraordinary, computer-generated images of a decaying New York City reveal weeds growing through the cracks of familiar streets that are also overrun by deer and prowled by lions. It’s impossible not to be fascinated by such a realistically altered cityscape, reverting to a natural environment, through which Smith moves with a weirdly enviable freedom, offset by his wariness over whatever is lurking in the dark of bank vaults and parking garages. Lawrence and screenwriters Mark Protosevich and Akiva Goldsman wisely build suspense by withholding images of the monsters until a peak scene of horror well into the story. It must be said, however, that the computer-enhanced creatures don’t look half as interesting as they might have had the filmmakers adhered more to Matheson’s vampire-nightmare vision. I Am Legend is ultimately noteworthy for Smith’s remarkable performance as a man so lonely he talks to mannequins in the shops he frequents. The film’s latter half goes too far in portraying Smith’s Neville as a pitiable man with a messianic mission, but this lapse into bathos does nothing to take away from the visual and dramatic accomplishments of its first hour. --Tom Keogh

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Final Destination [Blu-ray]

Final Destination [Blu-ray] Review

7.9 THE FILM ITSELF
6.9 VISUALS
7.5 SOUND
7.0 PACKAGING
8.4 EXTRAS

Remembering that Final destination came out in 2000, it's easy to see how old the film looks - especially on blu-ray. But even more so, the dialogue, the some what hammy / cheesy acting and just how young the cast is makes you understand you are not watching an Oscar award winning film.

Final Destination is an above average thriller / horror flick that deals with a young man who has visions of death. When he escapes the "death" that was imminent, the count down is on until death "catches up" to those who escaped. It's an interesting premise and it's handled decently. But after 9 years, it's certainly not the most engaging of stories, it sometimes doesn't really hold your attention and the characters feel cookie-cutter at best. But if you're looking for something different and slightly entertaining, you can do a lot worse than Final Destination.

VISUALS 6.9
There's no reason this should be bought on blu-ray. It looks okay at best, but for visual nuts they will certainly call this "horrible". From the bad haircuts that are really shown well here to the blotchy skin / makeup, some movies just should be left on DVD. Of course, being 9 years old doesn't help, but I've seen movies had 20 years ago that look stunning compared to this. It seems like no remastering has been done here at all.

SOUND 7.5
It's good, but nothing special. And after listening to the entire "isolated score" feature, I'm even more less impressed with this than I originally was. The rest of the sound - dialogue and explosions - are better, but still, nothing that makes you crank up the surround sound or anything.

PACKAGING 7.0
No main menu, the movie just starts with a menu bar that pops up on the bottom. The cover kind of resembles a cheesy teen-horror / action flick, and that's exactly what the film is.

EXTRAS 8.4
Two commentary tracks, one of which is really good (the one with the crew) while the other is average at best (the one with some of the cast members). There is a feature that is commentary by the composer as the entire score is presented over the dialogue. I never listened to one of these before, and this was not a good first selection for a film to do so on. The score just isn't that interesting here and the dialogue is "blah" at best.

"The Perfect Souffle: Testing Final Destination" is an inyteretsing feature I have never seen again. The creators talk about what a testing piece does for the film and what changes after it. Kind of interesting, but glad more films don't have this as it won't be watched by many fans.

"Premonitions" is an obnoxiously cheesy piece about a woman who believes she has the power to see when people are dead or in danger, and that she can see the future. Maybe if she didn't try to force her kids to believe it (that's how it seems anyway) it wouldn't be so bad, but this just seems like a family that will be in the news one day for joining a cult or something.

Then there are 3 deleted scenes that show a radically different ending. These are good because it shows just how far off the ending was, but they're bad because this ending is a horrible decision. So I'm glad they changed it and this is a very interesting original ending.

FINAL VERDICT
Final Destination is a decent film that offers something new to a tired genre, but it certainly hasn't aged well in the 9 years since it was released. The special features are impressive, but aside from the crew commentary and the shocking alternate ending there isn't much substance here.

8.1/10 "IMPRESSIVE"

Final Destination [Blu-ray] Overview

After an eerie premonition leads a handful of passengers to disembark an ill-fated flight, Death with all its ingenious contraptions of doom at the ready stalks those survivors (Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith and more) one by one in the gory, gleeful shocker that launched the fright-filled film series. Final Destination: the start of it all!

Final Destination [Blu-ray] Specifications

While hardly a spiritual upgrade of the slasher film, this high-concept teen body-count thriller drops hints of The Sixth Sense into the smart-aleck sensibility of Scream. Helmed by X-Files veteran James Wong, who cowrote the screenplay with longtime creative partner Glen Morgan, Final Destination is an often entertaining thriller marked by an unsettling sense of unease and scenes of eerie imagery. It suffers, however, from a schizophrenic tone and a frankly ludicrous premise. A high school Cassandra, Alex Browning (Devon Sawa of Idle Hands), wakes from a preflight nightmare and panics when he's convinced the plane is doomed. His ruckus bumps seven passengers from the Paris-bound plane, which immediately explodes into a fireball on takeoff, but fate hasn't finished with these lucky few and, one by one, death claims them. Wong brings such a funereal tone to these early scenes of survivor's guilt and inevitable doom that the already far-fetched film threatens to veer into unplanned absurdity. Thankfully, the tale loosens up with a playful morgue humor: one of the victims winds up the splattered punch line to a grim joke and elaborate Rube Goldbergesque chains of cause and effect become inspired spectacles of destruction. Final Destination is a pretty silly thriller when it takes itself seriously, and the filmmakers play fast and loose with their own rules of fate, but once they stick their tongues firmly in cheek, the film takes off with a screwy interpretation of the domino effect of doom. --Sean Axmaker

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