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Sunday I had a Terminator marathon. I picked up the DVDs for Terminator and T2: Judgement Day while on vacation. I hadn't seen either for several years, and had forgotten how much I enjoyed them. T2 is definitely superior as far as special effects and makeup goes, but I think that even T1 was impressive for the year it was made. Although there were times when it was so obvious that you were looking at a rubber Terminator head...

matlock's choice: The Great Escape, an alltime favorite movie of mine which I haven't found the 3 hours to watch yet.

mrs. matlock's choice: Dawson's Creek, 1st season. She's in teen drama withdrawal. Where are the Party of Five's and 90210's of yore?

Of course, neither of us get much of a chance due to:

Princess Maddy's choice: anything with Elmo or the Teletubbies, right now!

(She was sick all weekend which made it tough to tell her that if Daddy had to watch Elmo visit the firehouse one more time he was going to have a nervous breakdown.)

Superfriends or the Fliescher Superman cartoons.

I've been eying a pretty cheap DVD of the Fleisher shorts, on yours have they been restored in any way? I had a few on a tape, but they looked like about 5th generation dupes. Are they in the public domain?

They're in decent shape. Unfortunately they're not restored.

They do look like dupes, but they are not that bad in quality for how old the cartoons actually are.

I got the pack of 2 DVD's for 6 bucks...definately worth the price.

I was so bummed when I picked up the Challenge of the Super-Friends DVD. I thought that it was going to have the entire season on it, but it turned out to only be four episodes

But they're so groovy...and there's another one coming out this month. Only 4 or 5 episodes again...but it's camptastic!

"Moulin Rouge," its two-CD set with the most astounding, amazing special features I've ever seen -- such as the un-cut-away main musical numbers.

Soon to be followed by "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," chosen in the store partly because that DVD's special-features list had me laughing hysterically.

They're our entire owned collection so far. (If you don't count a freebie about the 2003 Oldsmobiles from last year's L.A. Auto Show.) My brother just bought a DVD player six weeks ago.

We've rented about a dozen so far, most recently "North by Northwest," and most of them from the local library. And they survive rough library-patron handling better than most VHS tapes do, to my pleasant surprise.

I have the concentration span of a flea so I've only got music and porn... ahem...I mean art films on DvD, am listening to The Road Home by Heart right now, which is nice..... Crazeeeee on you .... Haven't seen them in concert for about 15 or 20 years so its good to watch and relive my concert filled youth...

i love HEART !!!

all those DIANE WARREN 'power ballads' !!!

Matthew.

i LOVE to buy DVD's !!! there's just something about them !!! but whats funny is, i'll get them [ and then not watch them for ages !!! ]

at the moment i'm watching a few different things each night !!!

i'm going between episodes of 'Buffy' [ i've just finished season 1, i gonna get season 2, next week ]

also watching episodes of 'Ally McBeal' season 2 and watching 'Star Trek: TNG' episodes [ i just got seasons 4,5 and 7 !!! i have all the BOXSETS now !!! ]

Matthew.

I've got one of these (don't recall which) and actually wound up with a duplicate of the same one. But I think that even though it is not restored it is far better than the video copy.

Right now in our player in the bedroom is The Big Lebowski. One of the best movies, ever.

Prior to that we watched Jackass: The Movie. Worth it for the laughs.

On my PC recently I've watched the first Justice League movie. Not too bad. I just wish they'd release the entire series on DVD since we don't get the Cartoon Network where we are. And I've watched the Resident Evil movie and started watching Mr. Bean: The Whole Bean.

I was deeply in love with Ann and Nacy when I was a teenager. And the concert I saw them in (must have been at least 14 years ago) was one of the best I'd ever seen.

I have just about every album, cassette and cd but I'm itching to buy the new greatest hits compilation, The Essential Heart.

Just finished watching The Goodies DVD. It only has eight episodes and I love the Goodies so much that instead of watching everything in one or two goes like I normally do with DVDs I've made it last about a month.

I've still got a few to watch including 24 Hour Party People, Big Wednesday and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Right now I want Spooks (series 1), Twin Peaks (series 2) and Cruise of the Gods.

Can't wait until the Alive in seattle DvD arrives in UK - on the 28th I think - as they're not touring Europe in the foreseeable future (hang on, I'll go check with Nura....) it's the nearest think I'll get to the new incarnation they've got.

I got this from the library last week. I probably haven't seen that movie in 10 years or so. I'd have sworn I still had the whole script burned in my brain, but I was amazed at all the funny bits that had seeped out. It was like my own personal geek homecoming. I hope you liked it since you laid out the $ for it. I also got "Attack of the Clones" which on balance I really did like, although in somewhat of a lowered-expectations kind of way.

Oddly enough, the first time I watched this was in the history portion of my sophomore Humanities class. The teacher claimed that even though the movie was a comedy, it was actually fairly accurate in some of the feudal representations. Personally I suspect that he was just a Python fan

I recently accquired "The Macross Saga" DVD Set and Part Two of the second season of Transformers.

My god, I have a mecha fetish. Maybe I should move to Robotica.

I recently acquired the King of the Hill season 1 DVD set, the Family Guy seasons 1 and 2 DVD set, and the Strangers With Candy season 1 DVD set... I was wavering as to the last two until Lash convinced me, and I'm so glad he did -- they're hi-lar-ious!

What I'm really excited about at the moment is the fact that the Indiana Jones trilogy is finally coming to DVD in November...!

I just got "Standing In The Shadows Of Motown" from the library last night. I've been really wanting to see it, and it was worth the wait. I have a lot of respect for all those studio players from the 60's, the Funk Brothers and L.A.'s Wrecking Crew chief among them. It's definitely a bittersweet film, considering how little known these men have been despite the fact that their music is part of the fabric of American culture. The fact that so many of them have passed on, many before the film was ever dreamed of, just adds to the sadness. Of course the best thing is just seeing them play. They were still at the top of their game, and personally I could have just about left off the vocals entirely to hear them alone.

My only small quibbles: there's a glossing over the fact that even though these men have been overlooked for what they contributed, for some of them the Motown sessions were a just a gig. A fun gig, but a gig nonetheless. It was only with time that some of them realized what they'd been a part of. I also think a brief reference could've been made to the fact that even during the later 60's, Motown was recording in L.A. with L.A. musicians. There's an impression given by the film that all Motown tracks prior to the permanent move to L.A. were recorded in Hitsville.

Still, it's a great tribute to some little known musical heroes.

IT'S ABOUT TIME!!!

I just bought Daredevil for $14.88, so I'm gonna check out the special features.

Collin Farrell... mmmmmmmmm

Scottish accent and extremely fun to look at.

Last DVD in there was "Beautiful Thing", which I am SOOOO glad they finally put on DVD. I LOVE that movie.

We just bought Daredevil. And it has an Evanescence video included. Now I'll be able to see Amy Lee whenever I want.

New Release bump!

Rented The Two Towers last night, which I was unable to get to see during the theatrical release (despite having a free ticket that came with FOTR Extended Edition, go figure!)

I have to say, the Tolkien fan in me simply has a tough time swallowing all the excessive liberties taken with adapting the novel. I won't bore you all with the details, but I might have been better off waiting for the TTT EE instead of the theatrical release. It seems like all the little "Tolkein" moments get bumped to the EE, and might have made the TTT seem a little less weak. Peter Jackson seems to crave throwing in an excess of angst and misguided comic relief wherever he can work it in.

That aside, it was pretty to look at and the cast all did pretty well with what they were given. I really hope that ROTK shows an improvement, because TTT was a letdown. (I'll still get the EE of TTT though... I'm sure that at some point I'll be able to take it for what it is, not what it isn't.)

I'm still torn between wanting to buy Two Towers now or waiting until the special edition comes out. I know I'll end up buying both, just because I'm impatient.

I just picked up Bringing Down the House and Agent Cody Banks. They were both fun, although neither was Academy Award winners. Which isn't a bad thing, I suppose, since lately I've hated most of the Academy Award winning movies

i've never been one to buy movies to own, i cant see any reason to watch movies over and over and over. However there are a few movies i would own just to have cause they kicked ass, I own Lord of the Rings spec. ed. which is fantastic and i will be getting Two Towers spec ed when it comes out in nov. i believe, as i will get return of the King.
I just got my DVD player for Xmas and i tend to want to own music dvd's, i havent really started but i have led zep - the song remains the same, its ok but nothing special and i only paid 8 dollars for it. i did however pick up the new led zep live dvd, which is amazing, a lot of excellent stuff on it, almost 6 hrs of live zeppelin

You know, really if you think you might get it you may as well go ahead. With the discounts on it right now it's not much more expensive to buy it than to rent it in the big picture.

I know. Worse case scenario I just give the basic one to my brother's family after the special edition comes out. That's what I did with Fellowship of the Ring.

The Road to Perdition!!!!

Just bought the two-DVD special edition of the magnificent-despite-itself "Casablanca." Along with its superb video and audio transfer -- even the credits are sharper than ever -- it has four great virtues:

~ A full-length scene-oriented commentary by Roger Ebert.
~ Another full-length production-oriented commentary by Rudy Behlmer.
~ A fascinating 1988 documentary about Bogart.
~ "Carrotblanca," where the Looney Tunes characters demolish the story.

And a half-dozen other great special features, including a radio play version from 1943. Buy it NOW, folks!

And the latest rental DVD: "Dangerous Beauty," the moving and gorgeous historical drama (1998) of Veronica Franco, the courtesan who saved Venice, soul and body. It's impressively mounted, but gains its power from being a true story, based on a lively and scholarly biography of this woman who was the first published female poet in Italy.

Catherine McCormack is ravishing as the red-headed young beauty who wants to break out of her society's expectations. Jacqueline Bisset, as her mother, knows the path she can take. Rufus Sewell is fierce in both following what "his station" calls him to do, and listening when his heart says otherwise. Oliver Platt, as Veronica's nemesis, makes a chilling religious turn of character.

"It's the wanting that keeps us alive," says Veronica's mother. You'll be left wanting more of her story.

very descriptive greybird, you should be writing reviews for all movies,

"THE MOVING AND GORGEOUS HISTORICAL DRAMA, i feel like i reading the description right off the back of the dvd box.

Grey you have a fantastic way with words - when you're not bashing my beloved 5YG of course -

ahem.... wee joke aside, I've just bought another Heart in Concert DVD - Alive in Seattle, and it's jam packed with some great songs, a KICKING version of one of my all time fave Zep songs - Battle of Evermore, loads of their older songs (a tremendous Magic Man!) and I think that the Sisters Wilson sound better than ever... if that's possible!

You're making me jealous SB. I just love the Wilson sisters. I guess its back to listening to Essential Heart now to make up for it.

Gangs of New York is in my player. Maybe I'll watch it tonight.

Scott, I've still to get the essential collection so we can be suitably jealous of each other then....

<editted as SB hadn't looked at what he typed until after he'd pressed REPLY - d'oh!>

I find it hard to get an Angel or Buffy DVD out of my player on my PC - I often find myself minimising the screen to a tiny window and working away on something else while it plays away.

Unfortunately, I just finished the last four eps of Angel I've got on DVD, so it's time to get the old wallet out again.

Other than Angel/Buffy, it's a Kevin Smith DVD. Got 'em all and love every one.

Watched Vanilla Sky over the weekend... it was interesting. Also, The Good Girl which was fairly good too. I wish I'd have had time to listen to Cameron Crowe and Nancy Wilson's commentary track on Vanilla Sky, but it's due back today.

got given home-made comp of the Sealab 2021 episodes. hee.

Also managed to get copies of Steven Chow's last two movies, God of Cookery & Shaolin Soccer.

the latter is about a bunch of ex-Shaolin monks being convinced to use their skills on the soccer field.

This is really accessible for western audiences and is one of the best movies i've seen this year from any country.

laugh out loud humour, great action and an engaging story.

It also impressed me for it's use of cgi special eefects, not just the spectacular ones, but some very subtle touches that really show what a good tool it can be, instead of an end unto itself.