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Oliver Stone’s Savages debuts in theaters this Friday! In anticipation of the release (possibly a return to form for the director?), we’re giving away a huge prize pack containing a cool-looking T-shirt, a Day of the Dead bracelet and two DVDs – Scarface and Born on the Fourth of July.

Enter to win today, and watch Savages this weekend.

Normally I would encourage you to read my articles. After all, there is nothing more important in this world than reading my spot-on opinions. But that’s not what I’m going to do today. Instead, I encourage you, my loyal, wonderful reader, to head over to Amazon.com, or to wherever you buy your movies these days, and purchase Platoon, which is now available for the first time on Blu-Ray.

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I love movies. I really love movies. I love watching them, I love playing them, and I love stroking them. Wait, what? Ignore that last part. Getting back on track, as much as I love movies, I’m really not a huge fan of bonus features. It’s not that there aren’t some really good bonus features that get packaged with DVDs – it’s just that the movies themselves are enough for me. The only reason bonus features are included on discs are to sell more – which is fine – but they are, in fact, bonus. And unlike bonus questions on a test that can raise your grade from a B+ to an A-, bonus questions don’t elevate a movie from one plateau to the next.

Given that, I was actually happy to see that W., the George Bush docu-drama from famed director Oliver Stone, had only one real bonus feature. That’s not to say I’m going to recommend the DVD, but when I can knock off a DVD review in a matter of minutes… that’s just awesome.

W. itself is a decent movie, with strong performances from some of the actors (Josh Brolin and Richard Dreyfuss as Bush and Cheney, respectively) and others that are just plain strange (Thandie Newton as a nasally Condoleeza). The movie works for the most part, even though it clips over some important aspects of the Bush presidency and would probably have worked better had it been made a couple years from now, when the taste of Bush is more of a nagging thought than a cringing reminder of what has happened to our country. You can read my full W. movie review here.

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