More To The Pile

The Wife was in one of her “Let’s go to both ends of the spectrum” sort of moods, and so a trip to Eaton Center for a little shopping (and a pre-order payment for October’s LittleBigPlanet) resulted in the picking up of two distinctly at odds Blu-Rays to add to our collection:

The Wife is pretty much a documentary nut.  High-Definition has merely ignited this interest to orbital capable proportions now that everything looks so damn gorgeous.  So after the BBC pretty much knocked it out of the park with what is probably the most beautiful documentary in existence right now, Planet Earth, it was only natural that more favor would be bestowed on further High-Def outings.  Galapagos is it.

I don’t really have much in the way of a burning desire to ever visit these islands off Ecuador, but after watching the first episode of this three part series, I almost feel like I’ve been there myself anyway.  The photography is truly amazing, and you really have to wonder just how long those crazy bastards huddled around in tents hoping to get some of these shots, or whether they nearly died getting the imagery of live volcanoes spewing magma into the air.  Whatever the case, this is a gorgeous series.

This on the other hand, continues the Wife’s continuing need to revisit the simplicity of 80′s movies.  We talk about this on and off, and it seems like one of her chief complaints about current film making is the need to make movies, cinematography, characterization and plotting dark, gritty and complex.  The 80′s, on the other hand, simply tried to emulate a Nagel album cover and if that was achieved visually, it was more or less considered mission accomplished and the fun continued without a care for deep n’ profound plotting that might just net an unconventional Oscar nomination.  Despite all this, however, she has never actually seen The Lost Boys, which I personally associate with a lot of Goth Girls mooning over Kiefer Sutherland and endlessly replaying Cry Little Sister by Gerard McMann.  I haven’t seen this movie in years, so I’m curious to see if it’s actually going to hold up to a post-millenial revisitation.