Now before a bunch of backwater Americans get all excited about any kind of unveiling of a Blu-Ray nature, let us first clear up that we're NOT talking about this guy...
although to be honest we kind-of wish that we were.
No, we're talking the latest high capacity storage device from Sony, which will soon be used to store all of the porn that you don't want your missus to find on the Hard Drive of your home PC. The launch sounds like it's going to be stellar too...Eight Blu-Ray titles will launch on that date from Sony's two major film studios, Sony Pictures and MGM, namely 50 First Dates, The Fifth Element, Hitch, House of Flying Daggers, A Knight's Tale, The Last Waltz, Resident Evil Apocalypse and XXX.
Wow - just check out those launch titles. TWO of them starring Mila Jovovich. In one of them she's practically naked too. We're already getting excited.
A further set of titles will appear on June 13th - with Kung Fu Hustle, Legends of the Fall, Robocop, Stealth, Species, SWAT and Terminator joining the original launch titles on the shelves.
A few nice choices in there we have to admit, but Stealth??? Fucking STEALTH?!?! We honestly thought that it was a Wayans Brothers spoof movie when we saw it. Turns out someone was actually serious. Rumour has it that even Paul W.S. Anderson turned it down on the grounds that it was "too shit".
However, the initial choice available to consumers in terms of what to play their shiny new high definition movies on will be very limited - with only one player, Samsung's costly BD-P1000, set to ship for the May 23rd launch. Further players will appear from Sony and Pioneer shortly after launch.
So there you have it - a list of launch titles containing films that are shit, old, or very poor wank material, and a whopping choice of ONE player on which to play them, and Sony haven't even got their badge on it!
We'll still end up buying one though - they'll probably be shiny and everything. Bastards.
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