Is the Fifth Element more popular than I realized?

The whole what-will-replace-your-DVD showdown is starting. Sony is releasing the first titles with their Blu-Ray technology in the next two weeks. That name makes it sound to me like radioactivity will be emitted from my TV. Anyway, they've announced the titles that will kick off the new technology that they hope will take over the world. Their ambassador?

Vin Diesel.

Yes, among the first seven titles they've chosen: XXX. Does that really bode well for the future of blu-ray? The super-cheesy penultimate showdown with the generically European evil male model trying to take over the world looked like it was shot in the filthy subterranean pool from my junior high. Will seeing it in blu-ray make it look better when it looked pretty asinine on the big screen?

One of the other choices will work a little better, Luc Besson's beautiful, manic and wacky "The Fifth Element." Either way, the face-off bores the pants off me. My TV screen is about this wide: -------. I'll take a movie theater over my living room any day.

Explosions go over quite well with the "Look at the Subwoofer I Bought" crowd. Subtext, not so much.

Love The Fifth Element. Such a fun little explosive movie.

Still dislike Chris Tucker, though.

I actually LOVED Chris Tucker from that. He was so unhinged.

I've always thought Tucker's talented. It's not as easy to see in Fifth Element as it is in Dead Presidents, his only real attempt at a dramatic role.