At risk youth I especially can

At risk youth

I especially can t afford the new tv required to enjoy Blu Ray when I have a perfectly functioning tv and DVD player. It may still be a while before DVDs are no longer good enough and a format switch is necessary. At that point, I hope to at risk youth leap frog past Blu Ray altogether just like I am leap frogging Windows Vista to get Windows Agreeing with Freddy although I don t think Richard meant that DVD s are completely dead altogether. Here in Australia Blu-Ray has had a hard-time catching on and still has only a very small percentage of the market. One can only assume that once people hear about the new HVD media then Blu-Ray will be by-passed completely. And that s got to be a good thing not only for our pockets but also for the environment and all those soon to be deprecated blu-ray players. trying to milk people? old technology is still fine, blue ray is still new, give it 10 years or more to wear out. IMO every disc based medium is a thing if the past. A regular 1, 5 hour movie at 1080p format and some compression is about 12GB to download. And with the current Cable/ADSL internet connections this isn t too at risk youth of a hassle. Take then the dropping prices per GB for harddrives in account and I expect disc based to be over and out sooner than we think. Reviewed by Judge Adam Arseneau//September 6th, 2010 Judge Adam Arseneau is burying this one six feet under. Our review of, published August 20th, 2010, is also available. How can you save yourself if youre already dead? is a film about a woman who doesnt know if she is dead or alive. That pretty much summarizes how audiences will feel watching this tepid psychological thriller: cold, lifeless, and uncertain. After a horrific car crash, Anna Christina Ricci wakes up dead, apparently, with her body being tended to by local funeral director Eliot Deacon Liam Neeson. Anna is told matter-of-factly that she died, and so sorry about all that and such, but you better get used to it. Stuck in a weird purgatory on the mortuary table, Anna cant bring herself to believe she really died, but the longer she sits there, the more she worries. She tries and fails to accept her death, but cant escape the nagging suspicion that something is horribly wrong. Meanwhile, Annas boyfriend Paul Justin Long is having just as hard of a time accepting his girlfriends death. Grief-stricken and maddened by the loss of Anna, he begins to suspect at risk youth Eliot is harboring a secret about his girlfriend. Is she still alive? Or has she already begun to pass to the other side? On paper an ambitious and original poses an interesting premise to audiences: What is the definition of dead? Sure, it seems pretty straightforward when youre dead, youre dead but for the hapless numbers who wander through the doors of Eliot Deacons funeral home, it gets a bit muddled. Muddled is the operative word here. has some great ideas, but leaves audiences with a dull and lifeless film riddled with poor performances from its cast. It is hard to pin down exactly what goes wrong with this film, or at what point, but it becomes immediately apparent that there is something fundamentally broken. What should be a subtle, menacing psychological thriller about the introspective nature of death and loss ends up being a muddled and disinterested snooze fest of Christina Ricci sitting naked on a slab in a funeral home, looking bored and disinterested while Justin Long runs around in a constant state of tears. Even Liam Neeson, a man who could turn a diuretics advert into a Shakespearian masterpiece looks pained here, as if unsure how he ended up in this snooze of a film. The execution of this film is so awkward and disjointed that most viewers wont care one iota whether or not Anna is dead or alive theyll only be wondering when the film will be over. In the end, the characters themselves are to blame. Anna, as played by Christina Ricci, is so unpleasant and unlikable as a human being that her so-called death is more schadenfreude than shocking. It is virtually impossible to connect with her on any emotional level or care about her situation. This sinks the whole premise of the film. wants to be this introspective examination into the nature of death, a kind of Twilight Zone or The Sixth Sense spin on a crisis of mortality.