Review: Tropic Thunder DVD

If you don’t want to read all this, we gave it a 87% grade.

We promised this review back when the movie opened in Hong Kong but decided to hold back on it to co-incide with the DVD release which is out now in Hong Kong.

While we saw the film in the cinema back in Octover, the Tropic Thunder on DVD and VCD (no Blu-ray yet) have recently come out here in Hong Kong. HMV has it for HK$159 on DVD and the usual locations in Mong Kok have it for less. But no matter where you go you, if you are a comedy fan or need a smile after watching your net worth go up and mostly down then this is the movie to do it with.

The movie starts with 3 fake trailers to introduce the actor characters played by Ben Stiller (the action hero), Jack Black (the over the top comedian) and Robert Downey Jr. (the serious method actor) and you know that the 3 of them are filming a war movie and end up being part of a real military operation.

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Canon Presents HDV Digital Camcorders

You have a high-end digital camera, why not a high-end DV camcorder?

Forget about shooting your child’s birthday bash! This is the real deal! Take pictures, grab videos and prepare commercial movies and TV programmes or professional quality news footage with Canon’s all new compact, portable and affordable XH G1S and XH A1S digital camcorders.

This New Year we’re looking at these new camcorders with 1.67 megapixel 1/3” 3 CCD system, the camcorders allow 16:9 widescreen recording. You also get 2.8” LCD screen to view the images. You can choose from the 25F or 50i frame rate while shooting professional “cine quality” videos. These camcorders have Jackpack terminals with 3 interfaces for better flexibility- Time Code Input-Output, GENLOCK and HD-SDI output.    

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Benjamin Button Set for Chinese New Year

Brad Pitt’s newest movie arrives in Hong Kong for the Year of the Ox.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has officially released its Hong Kong poster and release date in Hong Kong on January 22, 2009 – that means David Fincher’s Academy Award-buzzed film about a man who ages backwards will be one of your Chinese New Year movies.

Its opened in the US already to good reviews and is being prepped for many awards during the movie award season. See our past post here for trailer and more info.