Todd’s Movie Blog

I was in Best Buy the other day looking for my wife’s Christmas present when I noticed that Battlestar Galactic: Razor was out on DVD. I know that it was annouced that they were going to release it the week after the broadcast on Sci-Fi, but it didn’t really hit me until I saw it in the store, that this is the idea Hollywood needs to latch onto to help their sagging sales due to online “pirate downloads” of their films. Like everybody else I know that over ninety percent of pirating is done over seas and that Hollywood is looking idiotic busting eighty-year-old grandmothers because their grandson grabbed the latest summer blockbuster someone put out on the net while visiting over the Holidays. Instead of doing that, why don’t the studios make a no frills DVD to be sold right outside the theater door. People come out all pumped up from having seen the movie, notice the DVD’s for sale and snatch one up. A few months later the extended version with all the extra features can be released and the same people will grab that one two. Both George Lucas and Peter Jackson have proved fans will buy as many different versions as you can put together. As for what I got my wife I would like to tell you but then she would know because she reads my blog. Well, okay, but keep it a secret. I got her a …