Welcome to October.
It must be fall. When your friendly neighborhood movie blogger can’t even identify the http://www.tvondvdbuzz.com/top-dvds-for-the-week-of-september-24/
top-selling DVD for the week without running off to IMDB, the hot season is clearly over.
That’s pretty much how it goes: I must have blinked and missed We Are Marshall, the trailer for which left only a shadow of an impression on my mind, despite a) being a sad, inspirational death-and-football movie and b) having a pretty awesome cast, including David Strathairn and Ian McShane. (Question: Is there an issue when a healthy young woman would movie-stalk Strathairn over, say, Matthew Fox? Though just barely. And for very different reasons.) It was one of those movies that rings a bell somewhere deep in scary interior of my brain, but I thought it hadn’t come out yet, or had come out a decade ago, or worse yet, I hadn’t thought of it at all. Perhaps they’d have done better with the Alive model? Everyone likes a good football movie (Hello, Rudy), but a football and cannibalism? Bring the Oscar voters running, people. Clearly, nobody asked me to attend those particular vision meetings, and aren’t they sorry now?
The rest of the list for this week isn’t much better. And so it goes: the Oscar releases are already out and the summer blockbusters won’t arrive until Christmas. It’s us, our sofas, the “movies we feel like we should watch” sections of our Netflix queues, and a long, bleak, desert-y stretch of new-release wasteland. Either that, or we can spend $10 to watch the fancy trailers for the the theatrical releases we will want to see as soon as the studio schedule sees fit.
It’s gonna be a long fall.
DVD sales, We Are Marshall, David Strathairn, Ian McShane, Matthew McConaghey, Matthew Fox, football movies
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