Black Friday deals I picked up.

I didn't do much shopping this year, but I did pick up some DVD's. A few seasons of shows from a best buy, in Taylor, MI and then I got several deals on used DVD's from Family Video. Here's my haul:

From Best Buy: Dexter Season 4, Justified season 1, The Big Bang Theory season 4. Picked up each for less than $9. I also got a Blu Ray copy of Trainspotting for $3 and for a buck a copy of How William Shatner Changed the World. Also from Best Buy, I grabbed a new pair of ear buds, with Wolverine on them, now I can really rock.


My Family Video deals included Blu Ray copies of Captain America, the first Avenger, True Grit, and Transformers Dark of the Moon, along with standard DVD versions of Pirates: Quest for Snake Island, The Last Lovecraft Relic of Cthulu, Growing the Big One, I Am number Four, Horrible Bosses, Win Win, Your Highness, Boogie Woogie, Legend of the Guardians the Owls of Ga'Hoole, Hard Breakers, Christmas Caper and A Christmas Carol (The Jim Carrey version.)

I'm quite pleased with my haul.

“My name is William Shatner and I was a Starship Captain. But I wasn’t the only one.”

The Captains, minus Chris Pine from the 2011 Star Trek movie.

Last night I had a chance to sit down and watch "The Captains" which is a documentary about all of the actors that played captains in Star Trek throughout the years. My biggest complaint is that I wish that William Shatner would have just been one of the interviews, not the one conducting the interviews with each actor.

The movie is filled with excellent interviews that shows many insights into the careers and lives of the actors beyond just the shows and movies they were in. That's what I'm into, yes I love a good performance, but more than that I love the behind the scenes stuff, seeing the human side of the actors and actresses behind the facade they toss onto the screen.

My other complaint with the film, is that I would have rather seen each interview in it's entirety, not have it split up and switch back and forth in several pieces the way it was shown. It's understandable to see them like this, the pieces are longer than can be expected, in today's TV the scene normally cuts away every few seconds because no one can focus on a static shot anymore. and I'm just as guilty as the next person.

The movie would have been much better with less Shatner, I'm not dissing the man, he deserves anything he wants to do, the man is a legend, but in this format it just doesn't work. I'd rather have a professional interviewer on screen all the time asking the questions, Shatner makes this more about him than about all of the actors.

Overall I enjoyed the interviews, but it could have been oh so much better with just a few tweeks.