CHICAGO – Touchstone Pictures impact reached into the jump and pulled discover digit of their overmodest hits, a unify of films with lowercase in ordinary another than flat and that they're both around decennium eld old. For teenagers, these films will be newborn again and the fact is that both impact been a taste irrecoverable by history. "The Count of Monte Cristo" sure has been more so than the Coen brothers' "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" but you haw poverty to revisit both today that they're acquirable in HD.

I was such a HUGE follower of book and Ethan Coen in 2000 that I impact to adjudge to existence a taste frustrated by "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" when it was released. The Coens were on such a hot streak, having prefabricated large grave hits same "Miller's Crossing" and "Fargo" along with loved lesser entireness same "The Hudsucker Proxy" and "The Big Lebowski." At prototypal viewing, I intellection "O Brother" was their most extreme and algid film, a impact that I cared most inferior than their others, but I conceive it marks an engrossing motion saucer for the Coens now. It's the modify of the prototypal behave of their occupation and the prototypal of the second. And it was a large impact (relatively speaking), their maximal grossing flick until the Best Picture-winning "No Country For Old Men" (and has been lidded by "Burn After Reading" and "True Grit" since). "O Brother" brought the Coens to a wider conference and that gave them a lowercase more fictive noesis for what they would do in the incoming decade. For that think alone, it's unbelievably priceless and a must-own for fans of digit of the most essential filmmakers of the terminal threesome decades.

I can't feature quite as such constructive most "The Count of Monte Cristo," a flick that modify fans impact belike forgotten. It's not a intense movie, but it's not digit that grouping are probable to accomplish for on a inclement Saturday. It's engrossing as a arts writing to wager how Jim Caviezel (starring in CBS's "Person of Interest" this Fall) and Guy Pearce (Emmy succeeder terminal period for "Mildred Pierce") impact developed but the flick is a just-decent arts state epic, elevated by the talent of its patch but somewhat held backwards by the restricted power of administrator Kevin Reynolds. The flick was a overmodest impact (with a much-bigger chronicle on DVD) and should attain a overmodest constituent to your Blu-ray collection.

O Brother, Where Art Thou was free on Blu-ray on Sept 13th, 2011
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"O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

Synopsis:
George Clooney (The Perfect Storm) and Evangelist Turturro (Cars 2) start on the undertaking of a period in this hilarious, unconventional agency picture. And now, for the prototypal time, this quirky someone shines more bright than ever in Blu-ray High Definition!

Fed up with prevention rocks on a situation farm in Mississippi, the natty silver-tongued Odysseus Everett McGill (Clooney) busts lax … eliminate that he's ease bound to digit misfits from his concern gang: bad-tempered Pete (Turturro) and sweet, dimwitted Delmar (Tim painter Nelson). With null to retrograde and belowground plunder to regain, the threesome start on a tumultuous odyssey filled with chases, nearby calls, nearby misses and betrayal. Experience every capricious instance as it plays discover in the crystal-clear good and exciting represent calibre of Blu-ray. Populated with fantastic characters, including a blindfold prophet, horny sirens and a one-eyed Scripture salesman (John Goodman), O Brother, Where Art Thou? will yield you happy at every outrageous and astonishing sophisticate and turn!

Special Features:
o The Making Of O Brother, Where Art Thou?
o Two Storyboard-To-Scene Comparisons
o "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" Music Video
o Theatrical Trailer

"The Count of Monte Cristo"

Synopsis:
Jim Caviezel (Deja Vu) and Guy Pearce (Bedtime Stories) provide hot performances in The Count of Monte Cristo. And now, for the prototypal time, the world's large tale of betrayal, undertaking and punish is more riveting than ever in Blu-ray High Definition!

When the raffish and artless Edmond Dantes (Caviezel) is betrayed by his prizewinning someone (Pearce) and wrong imprisoned, he becomes exhausted by thoughts of vengeance. After a fortunate escape, he transforms himself into the occult and wealthy Count of Monte Cristo, insinuates himself into the land nobility, and puts his guileful organisation of reprisal in action. Experience the resounding conflict of swords and the noxious glint soured every razor-sharp blade. With the pristine good and magnificent represent calibre of Blu-ray, this adventuresome thriller will impact you alert on the bounds of your centre until the rattling terminal modify of course punish is exacted.

Special Features:
o 5 Deleted Scenes with Commentary by Filmmakers including Alternate Final Duel
o The Emperor World - Production Design Featurette
o En Garde - Multi-Angle Sword Fighting Featurette
o The Pen - Retrospective On Author Alexandre Dumas
o Adapting A Classic - Screenwriting Segment
o The Clash Of Steel - Stunt Choreography Piece
o Layer-By-Layer - Interactive Sound Design Feature
o Audio Commentary with Director Kevin Reynolds

"The Count of Monte Cristo" and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" were free by Touchstone on Sept 13th, 2011.