Bolt 3 Disc with Digital File and Standard DVD Blu ray
Bolt 3 Disc with Digital File and Standard DVD Blu ray
From the creator of Cars and Finding Nemo, meet Disney s newest hero, Bolt and his faithful hamster sidekick Rhino, in the fully awesome comedy adventure event of thee year. As the star of the biggest TV show in Hollywood, Bolt s life if filled with adventure, danger and intrigue. So when the super pup is accidentally shipped to New York City and separated from Penney, his beloved co-star and owner, Bolt immediately springs into action to save her from the forces of evil. But he s not alone, with the help of Rhino, his number one fan and loyal partner, and a crafty alley cat named Mittens, they embark on an extraordinary mission filled with high flying, action packed stunts. Showcasing the vocal talents of John Travolta and teen sensation Miley Cyrus and featuring a never before seen animated short starring the pint sized rolling ball of thunder, Rhino, this movie will have your whole family cheering for the good guys and getting for more.
Bonus features include All-New Exclusive SUPER RHINO Short
Deleted Scenes
A New Breed Of Director: A Filmmaker’s Journey
Act, Speak! The Voices Of BOLT
Creating The World Of BOLT
Miley Cyrus And John Travolta Sing The Song I Thought I Lost You In Studio
Bolt’s Be-Awesome Mission Game
DisneyFile Digital Copy p>Disney BD-Live
Bolt 3 Disc with Digital File and Standard DVD Blu ray
Bolt 3 Disc with Digital File and Standard DVD Blu ray
From the creator of Cars and Finding Nemo, meet Disney s newest hero, Bolt and his faithful hamster sidekick Rhino, in the fully awesome comedy adventure event of thee year. As the star of the biggest TV show in Hollywood, Bolt s life if filled with adventure, danger and intrigue. So when the super pup is accidentally shipped to New York City and separated from Penney, his beloved co-star and owner, Bolt immediately springs into action to save her from the forces of evil. But he s not alone, with the help of Rhino, his number one fan and loyal partner, and a crafty alley cat named Mittens, they embark on an extraordinary mission filled with high flying, action packed stunts. Showcasing the vocal talents of John Travolta and teen sensation Miley Cyrus and featuring a never before seen animated short starring the pint sized rolling ball of thunder, Rhino, this movie will have your whole family cheering for the good guys and getting for more.
Bonus features include All-New Exclusive SUPER RHINO Short
Deleted Scenes
A New Breed Of Director: A Filmmaker’s Journey
Act, Speak! The Voices Of BOLT
Creating The World Of BOLT
Miley Cyrus And John Travolta Sing The Song I Thought I Lost You In Studio
Bolt’s Be-Awesome Mission Game
DisneyFile Digital Copy p>Disney BD-Live
3 10 to Yuma Blu ray
Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 01/08/2008 Run time: 99 minutes Rating: R
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Right Between the Eyes
3:10 to Yuma is an update of the 1957 movie that’s in turn an interpretation of a 1953 Western short story by Elmore Leonard. The 1957 movie cleverly tweaked the Western, inverting the white hats/black hats trope at a time when the genre was chiefly focused on morality. And yet while it flirted with the notion that good guys can be bad and bad guys can be good, it wasn’t really willing to go so far as to make the characters more than lovable rogues. So perhaps it was inevitable in the era of Westerns like Unforgiven where the West is an unpleasant, unfair place, that the latest incarnation of 3:10 to Yuma is both more brutal and more fanciful than its predecessor.
The story follows Dan Evans (Christian Bale) and his family, a lame Civil War veteran on a struggling ranch. He has been borrowing money and time from Glen Hollander, a landowner who is more interested in moving Evans’ ranch than getting paid. As played by Bale, Evans is a desperate man – as weathered and bitter as a piece of broken leather. He yearns for the respect of his wife and two sons. And when he crosses paths with outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe), Evans sees his chance.
Wade is a gentleman outlaw. Suave, violent, and dressed in black, he leads a ragtag band of murderers who will stop at nothing to get the gold, as exemplified by a daring raid on a stagecoach guarded by a gatling gun. Never mind that the gatling gun’s weight would make it an impractical accessory for a stagecoach, or that the noise from the gun would most certainly spook the horses.
Given the opportunity to deliver Wade for a bounty, Evans is determined to bring him to justice. At first, it’s just for the money, but it becomes clear that it’s for more than that – it’s to regain a measure of respect, for himself and from his family. Wade comes to like Evans, a man of conviction and courage that he finds lacking in his own gang. When Evans’ son William (Logan Lerman) tags along, Wade develops a deeper appreciation for the father/son bond. Through a variety of travails that include Wade’s outlaw past coming back to haunt him, the two become brothers in arms.
By the time they get to Yuma, it’s clear Wade isn’t easily captured or confined; he repeatedly escapes and brags that Yuma prison won’t be able to hold him either. So he’s literally going along for the ride in the hopes of a happy ending for all: giving Evans his life back and Wade going free once more. That’s where the similarities between the movies end. The finale is a gut punch that ratchets up the stakes.
A strong Hollywood Western streak runs through 3:10 to Y uma, starting with the aforementioned gatling gun on a stagecoach. Wade wears a black hat. Charlie Prince (Ben Foster), Wade’s right-hand man, twirls his pistols. And for all the talk about Evans being lame, he only occasionally limps – he can shoot, run, and ride with the best of them.
As a realistic depiction of the Wild West, 3:10 to Yuma falls short. But as a meditation on good and evil that gives its actors an opportunity to showcase their considerable talents, Yuma hits its mark … right between the eyes.
5 Stars Three Tens for Yuma
I’ve never been a Western fanatic. I’ll watch one occasionally, but am not an avid watch and can’t claim to have seen all the classic Western’s. I also hadn’t seen the original 1957 version of “3:10 to Yuma” so I am not comparing this to the original.
With all those asides, I loved this movie and thought it was brilliantly done. For starters, the cinematography was stellar, but it certainly would not be a good sign for a modern Western to have poor cinematography. The acting was top notch, by both by stars, Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, but was surprisingly strong by the supporting characters like Ben Foster and Alan Tudyk, as Charlie Prince and Doc Potter respectively. Additionally, Peter Fonda delivered a first rate performance as Byron McElroy and Logan Lerman had a breakthrough performance as Dan Evan’s (Christian Bale) son.
Dan Evan’s, a Union soldier with an amputated leg has moved to Arizona after the Civil War for the warm, dry climate to help his son’s medical condition. Him and his family are struggling to survive and his chance to help his family arrives in the form of Ben Wade. Wade and his band of outlaws are thugs prowling the Wild West for coaches to steal and thieve. When Ben Wade is finally captured, Evan’s offers to help transport him to be put on the 3:10 train to Yuma and be brought to justice. His reward is $200 and the chance to help his struggling family.
As we follow the transport of Wade, Evans and the rest of the group encounter the usual trouble with Indians and other obstacles. But what really sets this apart is the tension and interplay among Bale and Crowe. The dichotomy of the two characters on the surface is obvious — soldier, family man, father and honest man and outlaw, womanizer and conniver — creates a great deal of contrast and tension that the actors execute flawlessly. Without giving anything away, the final shootout and last scene delivered as well as anything I would expect or want in a Western. This is definitely a movie and Western I’d highly recommend.
1 Star A Case Study for Film Students
One might ponder the point of writing another review when there are already 367 on this website. It’s just that 3:10 is so bad it makes you want to go out and warn the rest of humanity, as if trying to save everyone from a looming and devastating virus of some sort. No purpose is served recounting the absurd story aleady described by others–to include the inexplicable twists of the script and the implausibe motivations and confused morals of the characters. Previous reviewers going easy on the film have used words like “pointless” and “useless.” The Amazon reviewer also uses kid gloves lamenting the film’s “overblown action climax”: an understatement indeed. This portion of the film is more accurately dubbed by another user review as an “absolute departure from reality.” The description I love best is a movie “quality checked by morons.” I suppose 3:10 could be used in film school as a case study in how to make an expensive and awful film. But it’s not clear that there’s any other use for it. I picked this DVD up preowned at Hollywood Video based entirely on the superb reviewer blurbs on the case. Those folks most assuredly were heavily sedated while drafting those remarks. I’ll close simply by saying this was just about the worse–perhaps the worse–film I watched in 2008. What more can one say.
1 Star DUD!
I bought the DVD thinking Russel Crowe’s string of hits would continue. I didn’t. I found this remake of the classic a huge disappointment and threw the DVD away after one viewing. A stagecoach with a gatling gun tailgun? Please.
1 Star Skip it!
Don’t waste you time and money on this overblown leaden piece of crap!
If this is the way they shoot westerns these days, no wonder that westerns are a dying film art form!
Remakes sometimes bring something new to a story, a new angle an different interpretation. But in this case, the remake only serves to bury the story and the tension. But do check out the original (in B&W) filmed 50 years earlier and see the tension between the characters played by Glenn Ford and Van Heflin.
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