I am going to update this post each time I purchase a DVD. I will attempt to list why I bought it, along with where, how much, etc... some snappy banter if I am in the right mode. Click on to the responses for the first batch!!!
josh [email] said at 9:53 PM 06-11-2008: Raiders of the Lost Ark Temple of Doom The Last Crusade
Since the movie hype is fading, Target had these on sale for $9.99 each... I went ahead and got them, I still love these movies even though I though the new one was pretty shit-tay.
brandonA [email] said at 1:52 PM 06-12-2008: I had very low expectations for it, so was a tiny bit pleasantly surprised when it wasn't as abysmal as it could have been. but yeah not a very good movie.
josh [email] said at 10:03 PM 06-11-2008: Village of the Damned
The John Carpenter remake. I just am a Carpenter completeist.
Repo Man
I like Alex Cox, and we are showing this at the Ottobar! I feel like this movie will disappoint me, I used to love it but haven't seen it in over a decade probably.
Alien Nation
Haha, I loved this movie when I was a kid. I am sure it's terrible now, but it's Jimmy Caan!
Crimson Tide
I was listening to the Hollywood Saloon podcast about Tony Scott and I realized I had forgotten all about this movie... I probably should have just netflixed it, but whatever.
Repo Man and Alien Nation still hold up... meaning they still make me laugh and entertain me.
Crimson Tide has Tarantino stains on the dialogue...which was cool at the time at the age I was, but it got annoying after repeated viewings. Sorta became the only thing that kept sticking out like a sore thumb.
rick [email] said at 2:25 PM 06-12-2008: You mean when Denzel has an earnest, down-to-earth discussion about Spiderman with the cook? That did seem a bit weird at the time.
josh [email] said at 6:25 PM 06-25-2008: having rewatched this recently, its not that jarring of a scene. denzel tells the dude to man up and do his job... and is like "BTW,kirby rules" as a way to like make the guy be like "you are a good boss"
milky [email] said at 2:39 PM 06-12-2008: I can't hate Tony Scott's direction...I rarely do. I just think adding QT's dialogue to make the movie more "hip" and "relavent," no matter how small...gets enlarged in my eyes as a hindrance.
Not any different from any other directors or writers in history, but QT has been on the downslope and is starting to annoy me.
josh [email] said at 11:05 AM 06-13-2008: A Clockwork Orange 2001: A Space Odyssey
From Amazon's "Big DVD Sale". Got the two disc versions of each of these for $12 each.
anthony [email] said at 11:17 AM 06-13-2008: I've not even watched 500 movies in my lifetime. You should probably start wearing a new t-shirt every day and then throwing it away instead of washing it.
josh [email] said at 11:29 AM 06-13-2008: also i haven't had cable since 99 (though we briefly had cable at the dirtfarm i think, but not in my room), and i havent been able to get even any channels in years since abby or kara broke my antenna when i let them borrow it, so it's not that crazy... when i feel like watching TV i watch a DVD instead
woody [email] said at 10:58 PM 07-03-2008: I just noticed that Josh's head always appears to be looking down at the person who replies to him, sort of a little smugly too... I like that.
josh [email] said at 2:56 PM 06-22-2008: Style Wars (2 disc edition) the Hunt for Red October the League of Gentlemen Complete 1st Season Event Horizon (2 disc)
woody [email] said at 10:19 PM 06-22-2008: Red October is one of those movies that, if I see it while channel surfing, I have to watch it. Also Clear and Present Danger.
josh [email] said at 6:23 PM 06-25-2008: Opera Deep Red
The new Blue Underground editions. I bet these will both come out as 2 disc editions in the next year, because these are $9.99 each new on amazon! i love amazon prime.
josh [email] said at 11:12 PM 06-25-2008: this thread has achieved it's purpose. i just tallied it up and realized i have purchased SEVENTEEN dvds SO FAR in june. wtf!!!!!
josh [email] said at 7:41 PM 07-03-2008: Sin City
The deluxe edition. I wasn't the BIGGEST fan of this movie, but it was a nice price and I am curious to hear the Frank Miller commentary. Body Bags
Rounding out My John Carpenter collection. This is an anthology horror movie from the 80s directed by him and Tobe Hooper. Barton Fink
I _almost_ bought BLAST OF SILENCE, but I will at a later date.
josh [email] said at 8:05 PM 07-12-2008: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie Martin (George Romero) Rabid (David Cronenberg) It's Alive/It Lives Again/Island of the Alive (Larry Cohen) Man on Fire (Tony Scott remake) Frontiers
I got most of these used, and mostly to listen to the directors commentary. I got Frontiers because Mondo Movies' review of it piqued my interest...
andrew [email] said at 11:27 PM 08-05-2008: i had a korean roommate who left me tons of action movies - robocop, laser mission, road house, gone in sixty seconds, army of one, some other ones i put away.
josh [email] said at 2:59 PM 08-13-2008: Andrzej Zulawski's Possession : one of the strangest movies I have ever seen. Pre-ordered the new Blue Underground edition.
craig [email] said at 6:05 PM 08-13-2008: Hey Josh, with so many dvd's how do you store/organize them? Do you watch them all on dvd media or have you ripped them to a hard drive? Just wondering because I have a hieg amount as well.
josh [email] said at 3:48 PM 09-02-2008: To expound further, I have a few bookshelves for my main collection organized by DVD title, first letter alphabetical. (meaning that all the As are together, but i dont fully alphabetize).
then i have one bookshelf that is for my horror dvds, with one shelf of that one for TV DVDs and one shelf for documentaries and one for "weird shit"
