Recommend me one/some DVDs

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I have one more selection left to fill out ColumbiaHouse's sign up offer.

So far I've picked:
Legally Blonde
The Thin Red Line
Dark City
Ran: The Masterworks Edition
Frida
Desperado/El Mariachi Director's Double Feature

I'm buying Dark City and TTRL only to replace lost/stolen DVDs, and if I had other titles in mind, I'd probably buy those instead.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Pootie Tang.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Recommendations based both on "I like the movie a lot" and "the DVD itself is very nice," which for me usually means "cool deleted scenes" or "entertaining audio commentary track(s)":

Ghostbusters
Spider-Man
Boondock Saints
Any of the Ausin Powers movies
In Like Flint or Our Man Flint (no special features, just great movies)
O Brother Where Art Thou
Say Anything
Pootie ... Ally beat me

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Top Secret!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep reminds me I MUST restart Commentary Conundra, I had gotten sidetracked. Will do that tonight.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Hands on a Hardbody! it's classic!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

millers crossing, cabin boy, talk to her, the cruise, three amigos

― dan (dan), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

So far this thread makes me cry.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Clerks dvd has kevin smith & a passed out jay doing audio commentary extra

― kephm, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Donnie Darko. there are some great deleted scenes.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Miller's Crossing! Is that on DVD? It wasn't, the last time I looked for it.

Why cry, Leee?

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not interested in any of the ones mentioned so far. This is what I get for being close minded.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, the ulterior motive I had for this thread was mostly to jog my memory of what films I like.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

you like legally blonde and not miller's crossing? but you like Ran?

How about: exotica, amelie, yellow submarine, the prisoner box sets, red, blue, and white, the decalogue, eyes wide shut, and city of lost children? (these are the things I've bothered to buy).

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

The Professional?

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

You're buying Frida??? I mean it was ok, but certainly not an owner... Maybe you meant Friday?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd buy Barbershop over Friday, not that that's your point.

Leee, wait, you didn't like Spider-Man?

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

What I like is all over the place, following neither genres or directors.

As such:
Donnie Darko - didn't like
Amelie - nice and pretty, but not on my list to buy
Prisoner - left me scratching my head
Three Colors - own it
Dekalog - waiting for the new release, even though I liked only 4-5 episodes.
Ghostbusters - interesting choice actually.
Spider-Man - didn't like.
Any of the Ausin Powers movies - I hate this series.
Pootie Tang - I hope ILX means this ironically.
Eyes Wide SHut - sold it
City of Lost Children - see Amelie
Exotica - another interesting choice, though I didn't like The Sweet Hereafter so I'm a bit wary of Egoyan.

The rest I haven't heard of/simply aren't interested in.

xp - I totally dug into Titus, so I thought I'd give Frida a shot since I'm getting it for about $10 new.

Barbershop I'd forgotten about, that could be a go.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

How about 'Airplane'?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

You're buying Frida??? I mean it was ok, but certainly not an owner... Maybe you meant Friday?

OMG this is so OTM! Buy Friday!! Not Next Friday though, that was shit.

Haha I Love this thread: "Recommend me something to buy!" "Buy this!" "FUCK YOU!!!" You should buy Children of Paradise.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually want to avoid comedies b/c for me they have limited appeal after watching a couple times -- otherwise I'd be all over Young Frankenstein.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Blade Runner.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The Lost Weekend
The Hospital
Fantastic Planet
Duel in the Sun
Fletch Lives
The Last Starfighter

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, the Fear and Loathing DVD has a great head-scratching commentary from HLT. Audio track two (the Giliiam commentary) goes something like this: "Johnny is so excellent here, he and Benicio have no sense of modesty, Johnny was actually mauled by a mountain lion before this scene starts to provide the right look... etc." Meanwhile, audio track three (HLT Q&A) at the same time goes: "*rustle of smoking papers* *cough* *match lights* *smoke inhaled* *cough* *drinks glass of water* *cough* [etc.]"

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

House of Yes-wait i don't know if it is on DVD. whatever. you won't like it anyway, prob.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually want to avoid comedies b/c for me they have limited appeal after watching a couple times -- otherwise I'd be all over Young Frankenstein.

Exception proving rule: The Big Lebowski

― Lee G (Lee G), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Miller's Crossing got released with Barton Fink a few months back. Best Buy had them for $9.99 apiece when I got them.

Recommendations:
Office Space
Dazed & Confused
Before Sunrise
Willow
Me Without You (Jenn from Dawson's Creek as young British woman during the late-70s-mid-80s, surprisingly good)
The Anniversary Party

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The Terror of Mechagodzilla!

Or at least one Godzilla movie, if you don't already have one.

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Audition

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Leee:

Twin Peaks pilot
Twin Peaks season one box

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Blazing Saddles.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually liked House of Yes. Though I must cop to crushing on what's her name.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

parker posey. I hope you don't mean tori spelling.

buy Ratcatcher!

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Buy Ratcatcher for me!

― David. (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

I'm ordering the KITH first season. I haven't paid attention to anything released since early in January, what are the recent DVDs (Criterion/foreign/re-releases, etc.) that I should get?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

im happy with my Tokyo Story dvd.

apparently there is a three disc version of The Leopard coming out soon! (i have never seen the movie)

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a Criterion release of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas that looks amazingly complete (I haven't watched it, but keep picking it up to read over the list of what's on it). I don't know if that's new or not, but I only just saw it a couple weeks ago. It even has excerpts from the audiobook!

Oh, and Charade comes out in Criterion next week.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, Fear and Loathing's mentioned upthread, nevermind.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The Criterion Fear and Loathing is great. Those guys have a real hardon for Gilliam, between this and Brazil.

I just checked the Criterion Coming Soon page - A Woman Is A Woman out in June. I hope this means they've gotten access to more of his work. A Criterion Breathless is needed.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, the DVDs you want are

Donnie Darko
Tetsuo the Iron Man
Tetsuo 2 Bodyhammer
Ichi the Killer
Evil Dead
Predator
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Gary Numan 1980 TV Appearances

― zenome kistachion, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

this bbc series 'gangsters' from the mid-70s is the most gangsta shit ever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangsters(TV_series)

― banriquit, Sunday, 20 April 2008 21:52 (seventeen years ago)

My Dad rates the first series of that highly, but claims it went weird and rubbish later on. He does have an exceptionally low tolerance of weird, tho.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 20 April 2008 22:29 (seventeen years ago)

yeah im midway through s01 and the second one does sound kinda o_O. a big change anyway.

― banriquit, Sunday, 20 April 2008 22:31 (seventeen years ago)

I just spoilered myself on the BFI summary :( Put it in my Amazon wishlist tho. I hadn't realised but there seem to be a lot of dope 70s/80s BBC dramas available in boxed set now.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 20 April 2008 22:33 (seventeen years ago)

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