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19:17:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 14:40:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 04:44:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 04:44:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16502,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00003CXGA\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00003CXGA\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>While my DVD purchases are nowhere near what they used to be now that I don&#8217;t have the extra income and employee discount from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suncoast.com\/\" title=\"Suncoast\">Suncoast<\/a>, I do still occasionally pick one up here and there. I&#8217;ve picked up four over the past month (see? Four in a <em>month<\/em>!) &#8212; here&#8217;s the scoop&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005RDSN\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Atlantis: The Lost Empire\">Atlantis: The Lost Empire<\/a>: Disney&#8217;s most recent animated flick. I thought this one was very under-appreciated when it came out in the theaters, which was a shame &#8212; though not entirely surprising. It&#8217;s Disney&#8217;s first PG-rated animated film since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00004R99W\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: The Black Cauldron\">The Black Cauldron<\/a>, and one of their few non-musicals. It&#8217;s also got a much more adult-oriented sense of humor running through it, which I very much enjoyed. Well worth seeing, though &#8212; I really like the fact that Disney has finally decided to stray from the standard formula that they held to for so long, and I hope that the fact that <em>A:TLE<\/em> didn&#8217;t perform as well as it could have in the box office doesn&#8217;t scare them away from experimenting in the future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00003CY67\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back\">Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back<\/a>: Hey &#8212; it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Smith,+Kevin\" title=\"IMDB: Kevin Smith\">Kevin Smith<\/a>! Sure, there&#8217;s not exactly much in the way of a plot, and many of the jokes won&#8217;t connect with people who haven&#8217;t seen the rest of his films. Being a Kevin Smith fan, though, I think it&#8217;s pretty funny. If nothing else, the news bulletin warning people to &#8220;stay away from the C.L.I.T&#8221; (<strong>C<\/strong>ampaign for the <strong>L<\/strong>iberation of <strong>I<\/strong>tinerant <strong>T<\/strong>ree-dwellers), and watching <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Affleck,+Ben\" title=\"IMDB: Ben Affleck\">Ben Affleck<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Damon,+Matt\" title=\"IMDB: Matt Damon\">Matt Damon<\/a> rip on themselves by selling out to make <em>Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season<\/em> are worth watching. At least&#8230;I think so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00003CXXP\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: A.I. Artificial Intelligence\">A.I. Artificial Intelligence<\/a>: The single best film <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Spielberg,+Steven\" title=\"IMDB: Steven Spielberg\">Spielberg<\/a> has done, one of the best movies of last year (if not the best), and certiainly one of the few must-see &#8220;thinking person&#8217;s&#8221; sci-fi films to come out in recent years (the only others I can think off off the top of my head being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0767805712\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Gattaca\">Gattaca<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0790733226\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Contact\">Contact<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005ASUM\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: 2001\">2001<\/a>). I watched the movie last night, and will probably be digging into the special features tonight&#8230;most likely with a seperate post to follow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00003CXCI\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Say Anything\">Say Anything<\/a>: One of my favorite 80&#8217;s films, and the one to cement <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Cusack,+John\" title=\"IMDB: John Cusack\">John Cusack<\/a> in my brain as an actor to keep track of. This is the second in the unofficial &#8216;Cusack series&#8217; that my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaska.net\/~royce\/\" title=\"Royce Williams' Norwegian Kickboxing Page\">Royce<\/a> and I enjoy, where though they&#8217;re all seperate and unrelated films, we like to put them in a series simply because they star John Cusack, and he plays roughly the same character in each one. For the curious, here&#8217;s the series in full as it stands right now: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005JKFA\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Better Off Dead\">Better Off Dead<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005JLFD\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: One Crazy Summer\">One Crazy Summer<\/a> for his formative High School years, Say Anything for High School graduation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1558908382\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Grosse Pointe Blank\">Grosse Pointe Blank<\/a> for the 10-year reunion, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00003CXGA\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: High Fidelity\">High Fidelity<\/a> for the thirty-something years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Additions to the DVD library: Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, A.I. 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