Best film in this $5 DVD 4pk I just bought (Absolute Beginners - W/o You I'm Nothing - Phantom/Opera('89)

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Isn't this such a strange mishmash of films?? Let's be real, I just bought this for Sandra Bernhard's "Without You I'm Nothing". I've already got the Guy Maddin one on DVD and it has my all time #1 fav GM short film on it ("Sissy Boy Slap Party")

Are the other two even worth watching though?

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Option	Votes
Absolute Beginners	2
The Saddest Music in the World	1
Without You I'm Nothing	0
The Phantom of the Opera (1989)	0

― Belami Young (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 10 November 2014 23:43 (eleven years ago)

no vhs?

― milord z (nakhchivan), Monday, 10 November 2014 23:57 (eleven years ago)

When I was 19 I was a clerk at this video rental store and not very confident and pretty good at being cudgeled into things. This middle aged dude was always asking me to go to the movies with him and I finally acceded. When we met at the theater, he wanted to see this arty softcore film. "It's so European," he said. Even I knew that was the red flag. I convinced him to go see "Saddest Music In the World" by lying about how it was supposed to be arty and titillating too it (I really wanted to see it because it had Mark McKinney + a life-size glass leg full of beer + the title). It is not a good movie but I will always remember fondly the passive aggressive pleasure I got from this sexually frustrated old man sighing next to me for the whole film.

― Walter MIDI (Crabbits), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 00:40 (eleven years ago)

love sissy boy slap partay

― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 05:41 (eleven years ago)

feel like thats a good way to see tsmitw crabbits.

is this a homemade dvr burned by a 40 something arty lonelyhearts

― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 05:44 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 16 November 2014 00:01 (eleven years ago)

Absolute Beginners is a better book. Colin MacInnes was interesting as an early 60s youth writer.
I think the film is too glossily 80s.

― Stevolende, Sunday, 16 November 2014 01:53 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 17 November 2014 00:01 (eleven years ago)

Pissed that I didn't notice this thread in time to vote for WYIN.

This set would make more sense w/o The Phantom of the Opera. Wasn't that Robert Englund's straight-up horror version?

― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Saturday, 29 November 2014 03:47 (eleven years ago)

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Best film in this $5 DVD 4pk I just bought (Absolute Beginners - W/o You I'm Nothing - Phantom/Opera('89) - Saddest Music/World)

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