Dirty Grandpa Blu Ray Review. I have seen many films, some good, some bad, some mind boggling in their awfulness. I can safely say though that no film has ever been delivered to me in a package that contained a condom, a pill bottle full of Tic Tacs and an H M bikini top. But when I received Dirty Grandpa, now on Blu ray from Lionsgate, that little goodie bag came spilling out. Oh dear, I thought, gazing upon the strange pile of trinkets. This does not bode well. Dirty Grandpa is one of those films that makes one ask some age old questions, like Why and Did they read the script and How much is Robert De Niro getting paid for this True, the latter question is one that many of us are asking nowadays, but there is still nothing quite so painful as watching the erstwhile star of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Godfather Part II once again lower his bar to such depths that he neednt even raise his foot to step over it. De Niro is still a good actor when he wants to be, so I assume that he realized he did not even need to try with Dirty Grandpa. The plot, such as it is, involves nice, boring guy Jason Zac Efron, doing his damnedest, bless his heart taking his elderly grandfather De Niro down to Florida, following the funeral of his beloved grandmother. But now Grandpa just wants to get his freak on, and so forces a detour to Daytona Beach to party it up during Spring Break and find some nubile young lady to make him feel young, just one last time. GameTrailers is your destination to see official trailers first. Powered by IGN, you can expect to see worldfirst exclusive gameplay and the hottest new tra. Dirty Grandpa is far too boring to be shocking, too rote to be offensive, and too stupid to be a movie. Ever notice how Christopher Nolans movies Interstellar, Inception, The Prestige feel like an anxiety attack Well, maybe thats overstating things a bit. But. 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While bad taste comedy can be an art in itself, Dirty Grandpa fails to land any of its jokes, despite peppering the script with disgusting non sequiturs, scatological details, swear words and more than a few un PC comments about gay people, women, African Americans, WASPs, Jews, pedophiles, stoners and frat boys. There are funny moments, one of them being a naked Zac Efron doing the Macarena, but those sight gags do not make for a particularly amusing film. A major running gag is De Niro trying to jam his thumb up Zac Efrons ass. Hilarious, rightThis Blu Ray release is the Unrated version of the film, which presumably means that the theatrical release had a slightly shorter runtime a great mercy on those who went to the theater. Most of the scenes with bits added are fairly self evident, though it might have helped for those with an abiding interest in this film to provide info on where the extended scenes come in and what lines were cut or not for the theatrical release. The purpose behind most Blu rays is to either present the film in all its 1. Hi Def glory, or to provide some interesting features that will justify the extra cash, or both. Comedies like Dirty Grandpa dont really need the high definition, though it looks and sounds perfectly fine. And for those who actually enjoy the film, the Special Features come thick and fast. Theres a filmmakers commentary, which gives some insight into why director Dan Mazer a man who acted as a producer on Sacha Baron Cohens Borat, Bruno, and directed episodes of Da Ali G Show thought it was a good idea to make this film. Bizarrely, the commentary actually made me like the movie even more, as the filmmakers evidently took it more seriously than what appears onscreen. Other features include a surprisingly in depth making of featurette, Lessons in Seduction from Aubrey Plaza character Lenore, and a short faux reality series audition Daytona Heat, featuring two of the more entertaining secondary characters in the film. These little snippets manage to make Dirty Grandpa look more interesting than it actually is while also hammering home the fact that there are good comedians hiding in the shadows of this wretched film. Truth be told, I find it hard to even summon contempt for Dirty Grandpa. Its far too lazy to be contemptible and too boring to be offensive. As it moves from one predictable joke to the next, it even begins to recognize how meaningless it has become. Like an aging frat boy who suddenly undergoes an existential crisis in the middle of a beer bong, it takes a step back, wondering what it has done with its runtime. Divx Ipod The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!. Has it really wasted the best minutes of its life on masturbation jokes and boob shots Can it ever get those minutes backNo, it cant and, unfortunately, neither can we. The Uncanny Sound Illusion That Creates Suspense in Christopher Nolans Movies. Ever notice how Christopher Nolans movies Interstellar, Inception, The Prestige feel like an anxiety attack Well, maybe thats overstating things a bit. But the director does have a knack for creating an unnerving degree of tension. Turns out hes using a little bit of musical magic to do it. The magic is actually a science based audio illusion called a Shepard tone. Named after psychologist Roger Shepard, a pioneer in our understanding of spatial relation, the effect sounds like an infinitely ascending or descending scale. The tones are constantly moving upwards or downwards, but they never seem to reach a pinnacle or nadir. This is accomplished by stacking scales on top of each othertypically one treble scale, one midrange, and one basswith an octave in between, then playing them in a continuous loop. A Shepard tone is sometimes referred to as the barber pole of sound. You can even see the similarity, when you hear it and look at the spectrum view of a Shepard tone. Dont listen to this too long, or you might lose your mind Anyways, Christopher Nolan just loves this. With longtime collaborator Hans Zimmer, the acclaimed director has used a Shepard tone in almost every one of his films in the last decade. He even writes his scripts to match the effect. In a recent interview, Nolan explained how he used Shepard tones in his newest film, Dunkirk The screenplay had been written according to musical principals. Theres an audio illusion, if you will, in music called a Shepard tone and with my composer David Julyan on The Prestige we explored that and based a lot of the score around that. And its an illusion where theres a continuing ascension of tone. Its a corkscrew effect. Its always going up and up and up but it never goes outside of its range. And I wrote the script according to that principle. I interwove the three timelines in such a way that theres a continual feeling of intensity. Increasing intensity. So I wanted to build the music on similar mathematical principals. Knowing this, you gain a deeper understanding of films like Interstellar, Inception, and The Prestige. It also explains why these films seem somehow inconclusive. A Shepards tone creates a conflict that cant be resolved, just like Nolans plots. Digg, Business Insider.