Breaking Bad: The Complete Series (+UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

Why You Should Watch "Breaking Bad" - Plus List of Blu-Ray Special Features
As I write this, I am anxiously awaiting the final set of episodes of "Breaking Bad". This is my favorite TV show. And though I'm excited to see how it all ends, I'm also sad thinking it won't be back next year. If you've always watched the show, or if you've just found it recently (I discovered the show on DVD before getting hooked in Summer 2011), you know how great the show is. You don't need convincing - rarely has a show had this much universal acclaim (a 9.4 on IMDb, a 99/100 on Metacritic, 3 Emmy wins for Drama Actor and 4 Nominations for Best Drama Series, etc).

This review is more for the people who have not seen the show. First of all, let me say that it's not too late - you can catch up with the entire series on DVD/Blu-ray, and all the prior seasons of the show are also available on Netflix. If you watch one episode per day, you would finish in under 2 months. Of course, it will probably take a much shorter period of time - I dare you to try watching just...
Special Features specs
BREAKING BAD: THE COMPLETE SERIES Barrel Set Special Features Include:

No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad - An all-new, exclusive two hour documentary that chronicles the filming of the final eight episodes.
Additional bonus features include all previously released featurettes and retail exclusives:

Bad Memories - Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul talk about the show ending and some of their favorite moments.
Bryan Cranston: Director - Go on set with Bryan Cranston as he directs the first episode of the season entitled "Blood Money."
Scene Envy - The Cast tell us which scene they wish they could have been in.
Shocking Moments - The stars reveal the moments that shocked them most.
From Walt to Heisenberg - From high school teacher to deadly meth dealer, watch as Walter White quickly transforms into Heisenberg.
How Will It End? - At the beginning of the season, the cast was asked to give their thoughts on how they...
A FULL BARREL
The Xmas present to top all Xmas presents.

This collection contains all six seasons of the truly brilliant Breaking Bad series. Strictly speaking there are only five seasons. But the last Series 5 was broken up into Parts 1 and 2. For convenience here I shall refer to the last Season 5 (Part 2) as "Season 6".

Slight unavoidable spoiler follows - if you have not seen "Season 6" please look away now!

What a clever idea to have the entire collection of this truly outstanding series packaged in one of Walt's black barrels. As regular viewers will know, Walt stashed all his money in seven black barrels before burying them in the New Mexico desert.

With "Season 6" Breaking Bad entered the Guinness Book of World Records for being the most critically acclaimed TV show ever. It received a whopping score of 99 out of 100 on a global critical scale. It overtook the previous holder of the record ("The Wire") which had a score of 98 out of 100...
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Breaking Bad: The Final Season

Lightning in a bottle
Breaking Bad is a once in a lifetime, rare example of the type of show that raises the medium of television beyond the pit of mediocrity it usually resides in. Folks, please don't pass this one up - it may be a long while before another story of this caliber comes by again. This is a series that I will always cherish, and not just for the obvious reasons like the superb acting and the high stakes narrative -- but also for the fact that it gave me hope for the future of television, and the media's potential overall, to serve as a platform for talented writers and actors who actually have something inspired to say about the world we live in.
Wow!!!
Breaking Bad is the best show I've watched on TV in Years. It is so well done, it's absolutely riveting. The script is so good and the actors so perfect, I can't take my eyes off the screen. The actoring is excellent and nuanced. I have watched Seasons 1-5 so far and am now going through them a second time, with my husband who is on his first go round. Even though I know what's coming, I'm seeing things I missed before and enjoying even more.
This is truly the most engrossing series ever. It is really hard to turn off...you'll want to marathon. I've actually watched a whole season in one day...it's crazy good. I just hate that there is only one more season to go, starting in early August on AMC, and am still amazed I didn't know about BB until a few months ago. This is a must see!
"The Final Season" Contains the Last 8 Episodes of the Series
THE FINAL SEASON Blu-Ray set contains the final 8 episodes of the series, plus bonus materials (including an alternate ending).

LIST OF SPECIAL FEATURES:
1. "Blood Money" Table Read - A rare look at the only final season Breaking Bad table read.
2. Cast and Crew Commentaries on Every Episode
3. Featurettes
- The Main Event
- The Final Showdown
- Life of a Show Runner
- Behind-the-Scenes of the Alternate Ending
4. Alternate Ending - A 3-minute alternate version of how Breaking Bad could have ended.
5. Deleted & Extended Scenes
6. Gag Reel
7. Walt's Confession
8. The Layers of a Sound Mix
9. Over 15 Episodes of Inside Breaking Bad
10. Uncensored and Extended Episodes

*****

There are technically only 5 seasons of Breaking Bad. But season 5 has been split across two years.
- The first half of Season 5, or "5A", aired the summer of 2012.
- The second half of Season 5, "5B", is...
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This Is the End (+UltraViolet Digital Copy)

One of the funniest movies of the past few years: Laugh out loud, ridiculous fun.
With the amount of talent this has lined up, it would be strange if it was not a good time at the movies. Based on a short film called Jay & Seth vs. the Apocalypse, this movie ups the ante in every sense of the word. The comedy you have come to expect from Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Craig Robinson, James Franco, Jonah Hill, and Danny McBride is top notch. The rest of the cast, all playing themselves, is also played perfectly. Injected with horror in fact, some right out of famous horror films like Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist, this movie also brings the scares and gore, although it never loses sight that it is a comedy, first and foremost.

When Jay comes to LA to party with Seth, they end up hitting a party at James Franco's new, druglord-type mansion. All the celebrities are there: the main cast of 6 mentioned above, Michael Cera, Rihanna, and others that I won't spoil the cameos for. Then, it comes to a crashing halt when the party is stopped by the oncoming End of...
About time!
Honestly, I have grown skeptical of comedies in general, and what James Franco has produced lately has been horrible (spring breakers etc..). But this movie had me laughing like I have not laughed since Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Super Troopers. It was seriously hilarious. Give this movie a chance. I doubt you will be disappointed.
this is the end
it was really funny. crude. my type of humor. some of it was juvenile and tasteless so may not be appropriate for the whole family.
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