More DVDs

I borrowed a "Star Wars Trilogy - Bonus Material" DVD just for the heck of it. The Empire of Dreams feature was the main meat of the DVD, where Lucas, the actors, and crew told the story of how the 1st 3 Star Wars came to be. You learn that Lucas wanted independence from the main movie studios from the get go, and most of this feature focused on the struggle to produce the 1st Star Wars. After watching this thing, you kinda forgive Lucas for making the changes he wanted to the DVD release of Star Wars today, being a perfectionist and tweaking stuff.

I also borrowed "Mind Meld", but I found it kinda boring as it was mostly Shatner & Nimoy talking to each other in lawn chairs in Nimoy's backyard. It wasn't interjected as much w/ bits from the series as the Star Wars thing was. I didn't watch the whole thing as I didn't watch much of TOS anyway.

Van Helsing is sent to investigate murders of young women, all their corpses looking like shriveled corpses. He finds Dr. Jekyll has been robbing these women of their youth and using that to restore Queen Victoria to her youth. He had fallen in love with the queen a long time ago and in transforming her back to her 20s, she also believes she is as young. Van Helsing chases Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde around town through a fiery hell, subway trains, and fight in a hot air balloon to rescue the queen.

Story was eh. Didn't like the animation much. A good chunk of the DVD was also devoted to Van Helsing (The Movie) type bonus material.