DVD Haul

[HanaBi]

Bought some fairly cheap anime/mangas from Amazon :-

The seminal "Ghost in the Shell"
"Vampire Hunter"
"Patlabor"
"Patlabor 2"
"Tokyo Godfathers"
"Appleseed"
"Legend of the Overfiend"

All of them pretty decent transfers with subtitles rather than poorly-done English dubbing. And most of these were released in the early 00s, what I would consider the best era for Japanese manga.

 

[BAYLOR]

Last night I picked up the complete Friday the 13th The Series a really terrific tv show.

 

[AlexH]

I probably hadn't bought my first DVD when this thread was started but ended up with well over 100, most of which I hadn't watched until the past year. I've recently sold 58 DVDs for £15 - now to watch the rest for more of a clear out, so a reverse of what seems to be going on here...

I hadn't watched such classics as Terminator, Reservoir Dogs, Fargo, Casablanca, The Shawshank Redemption and more until recently. Fargo and Dogs were just okay, but the other 3 are excellent. Avoiding spoilers for some films and TV series is rather difficult. I'm only on series 4 of Game of Thrones, and series 3 of Breaking Bad.

Am a big fan of Japanese actor/director, Takeshi Kitano, and have had the great pleasure of watching nearly all of his films over the last 20 years or so.

But now a handful are coming through as BluRay releases, so couldn't resist buying what I would consider some of his best work:-

Zatoichi
Outage / Beyond Outrage
Battle Royale
Kikurijiro
A Scene By The Sea
Dolls

and of course, Hanabi!

Not a cheap option, but quite frankly I don't care, because the end result of all these films is superb!

I'm a fan too. I haven't seen Dolls or the Outrage films yet though. I'm an even bigger fan of Joe Hisaishi, who composed the soundtracks for a lot of Kitano's films. I saw him perform a few years ago and he played Summer from Kikujiro, one of my favourites. I'm seeing him again next month, but it's for Studio Ghibli, so none of the above will feature.

 

[HanaBi]

I probably hadn't bought my first DVD when this thread was started but ended up with well over 100, most of which I hadn't watched until the past year. I've recently sold 58 DVDs for £15 - now to watch the rest for more of a clear out, so a reverse of what seems to be going on here...

I hadn't watched such classics as Terminator, Reservoir Dogs, Fargo, Casablanca, The Shawshank Redemption and more until recently. Fargo and Dogs were just okay, but the other 3 are excellent. Avoiding spoilers for some films and TV series is rather difficult. I'm only on series 4 of Game of Thrones, and series 3 of Breaking Bad.



I'm a fan too. I haven't seen Dolls or the Outrage films yet though. I'm an even bigger fan of Joe Hisaishi, who composed the soundtracks for a lot of Kitano's films. I saw him perform a few years ago and he played Summer from Kikujiro, one of my favourites. I'm seeing him again next month, but it's for Studio Ghibli, so none of the above will feature.

Joe Hisaishi is one reason why I got so hooked on Takeshi's films! His piano signature was particularly strong throughout "Sonatine", "Hanabi" and of course "Kikujiro". But I have also listened and enjoyed his concerts, thus proving he is no one-trick pony. Shame he had a bit of a falling out with Takeshi a few years back.

Hope you enjoy the concert

 

[AlexH]

Despite posting about getting rid of DVDs a couple of posts back, I've added series 1 & 2 of 15 Storeys High (with Sean Lock & Benedict Wong), a British comedy, to my collection. I seem to be adding TV and getting rid of film.

Joe Hisaishi is one reason why I got so hooked on Takeshi's films! His piano signature was particularly strong throughout "Sonatine", "Hanabi" and of course "Kikujiro". But I have also listened and enjoyed his concerts, thus proving he is no one-trick pony. Shame he had a bit of a falling out with Takeshi a few years back.

Hope you enjoy the concert

Great! He has quite a recognisable sound too - I remember watching a South Korean film called Welcome to Dongmakol, thinking the music sounded very familiar. When I checked, it was Joe Hisaishi. I didn't know about the falling out with Takeshi - that's a shame.

 

[dask]

Picked up a couple of videos at the library's annual Blossom Time book sale. $1 each.

 

[ErikB]

I have a lot of DVD's. Let's see...

Comedies/Family movies:

Captain Ron
50 First Dates
Better Off Dead
Office Space
I Spy
Night Shift
Scrubs (Season 1 - 8)
The Whole Nine Yards
Twins
Junior
Kindergarten Cop
Cutthroat Island
Finding Memo
Analyze This
Quigley Down Under
The Secret

Science Fiction/Fantasy:

Judge Dredd
Star Wars (Episode 3 & 7)
Chronicles of Riddick
Star Trek Nemesis
John Carter of Mars
The Hobbit (1, 2, & 3)
Lord of the Rings (Extended Edition with the making of appendices)
Battlestar Galactica (Seasons 1, 2, 2.5, 3)
Battlestar Galactica Mini Series
Battlestar Galactica Razor
Warcraft
Underworld
Underworld Evolution

Action/Adventure/Drama/Historical:

Lethal Weapon 1 - 4
Cobra
Running Scared
Flesh and Blood
Red Dragon
Desperado
Point Break
A History of Violence
Troy (Plus making of)
Daredevil (Plus making of)
Triple X
Gladiator
Last of the Mohicans
The Emerald Forest
The Legend of Tarzan

Monster Movies:

Lake Placid
Godzilla
King Kong
Reign of Fire

Documentaries/Nature:

Predators
Great White Death
20 Years with Dolphins
Living with Wolves
Disney's Earth
Planet Earth (1 - 5)
Spiders and Beetles
National Geographic in Search of the Jaguar
National Geographic Predators and Hunters



I'm waiting to get Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and 2 (when it comes out on DVD).

 

[dask]

Wow, you ever sleep?

 

[ErikB]

Wow, you ever sleep?

I have heard of this... a state of unconsciousness right?

LOL

 

[dask]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[Rodders]

Killjoys series 2.

Very much looking forward to watching this.

 

[dask]

No bar hopping this weekend:

 

[Vince W]

Quite a haul today:

The Manhattan Project
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Flight of the Navigator
Firefox
Back to School
Weird Science
Waiting for God (complete series)

 

[AstroZon]

I just finish watching Twin Peaks, The Complete Series (The Definitive Gold Box Edition.) Our library district has it, so I checked it out. It took me three weeks to watch it all: the pilot and 29 episodes. I never saw it before - well just an occasional episode here and there. I also checked out the prequel, Fire Walk With Me. I'll watch it tonight (although my expectations are low.)

The Pilot and Season 1 are both excellent - very tight and intriguing. Season 2 journeys into soap-opera-land fairly quickly, but it's still good except for a few ridiculous tangents (i.e, the Civil War) and more than a few unresolved subplots (but I guess that's why Lynch finally made Season 3.)

One thing that struck me, especially during Season 2, is how it almost segues into The X Files.

 

[J-Sun]

Christmas was very good to my DVD shelves. I got Rogue One and seasons two and three of the Miller/Liu Elementary.

 

[AE35Unit]

My partner came home with Forbidden Planet on DVD the other day. She's a good partner!

 

[dask]

Another video rental is biting the dust. $5.99 each or five for $20. Well, I can handle that occasionally. Doing my best to avoid slop, here's what I walked out with:

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro wrote the novelization for DEAD AND BURIED so thought that might be worth watching; BYZANTIUM has Saoirse Ronan so figured couldn't go wrong with that; read good things about THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN in Rue Morgue so that seemed like a good bet; have PHANTASM 1-4 so thought why not get number 5; don't know nothin' about Umberto Lenzi but since everyone knows a little Euro trash is good for the soul how could I not secure the only copy left of his SEVEN BLOOD STAINED ORCHIDS for personal amelioration?

 

[dask]

It's hard to believe an hour has gone by since I made the above post. Now it's too late. I used a term I shouldn't have: Euro trash. I first seen it in the horror magazine Rue Morgue and without giving it a second thought it just shot off the tip of my type writing fingers as easily as Spaghetti Western or Bollywood. Should have used giallo or something along those lines. If I offended anyone in Europe I sincerely apologize. I just ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer. Never have been, never will be.

 

[Rodders]

I just bought Marjorie Prime and Blade Runner 2049.

 

[Judderman]

It's hard to believe an hour has gone by since I made the above post. Now it's too late. I used a term I shouldn't have: Euro trash.

As long as you aren't saying all Euro's are trash I don't think that is an insult. You get "trash" everywhere. There used to be an eye opening tv program called Eurotrash.