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10 Things 10th

It's a terrible disservice to 10 Things I Hate About You that ABC/Disney has turned it into an ABC Family Channel series that pales in comparison to the perfect storm that is the now 10-year-old movie. It's a great deal more disappointing that the screenwriters of this movie are now scripting things like The Ugly Truth.


The best parts of the half-hour 10th Anniversary retrospective featurette on the Blu-ray are the significant amounts of vintage interview footage (with a wonderfully prescient Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and the oh-so Hollywood way in which director Gil Junger says "the first time I met Heath Ledger, I knew right then 'Wow... Movie. Star.' " Ledger's entrance on-screen is met with somber reflection by the commentary participants. The marketing, for better or worse, is all centered around Ledger and never-before-seen footage (audition & interview footage in the retrospective). The movie stands up these years later, and the Blu-ray will offer kids who were in elementary school when it came out the opportunity to see it at quality on-par with what I remember from my high school days.

Amazon has the Blu-ray for $19.99 and the DVD for $12.99 (both have identical extras).