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Topic: What's New In Your Collection (videos/DVDs) MARCH 2006?
Graham Watt
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Would you people get organazized? All this "What's new?" stuff whilst failing to bookend the damn thing with a time constraint period is futile. When does it end? Do you see what I mean? It's March, nutmegs. I got lots of things in February, but you want find me listing them here. It's March, you dumbells, all the way to the thirty-first day. And then it's April.
posted 03-01-2006 05:31 AM PT (US) Lou Goldberg
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Graham, you're cool, but what's with all the anal retention. Who cares when something is bought or watched. In any case, I've been raiding the library and rental stores and burning DVDs like a wild man so I couldn't even begin to list the stuff I've been getting in as a result.
posted 03-04-2006 02:07 AM PT (US) Graham Watt
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Just trying to get a bit of order here, Lou. But, as you say, it doesn't REALLY matter when we buy or watch things, oh no, not in the great scheme of things. I mean, it's not like we're sweeping crumbs under the rug or anything. Now THAT would be serious.Not much new. Let me think... ah yes,
HOUSE OF WAX, the Vincent Price horror. Not really scary at all. It's way too colourful for that. This came on a disc along with MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM, the same story but first time round. In many ways MYSTERY is better than HOUSE. Lionel Atwill is great, though Glenda Farrell is hell as the newspaper girl ("Say guys, give me a break willya? I gotta doozie of a story here, oh boyoboyoboy. Whatcha lookin' at schmuck?" Etc).
THUNDERBIRDS VOL. 2 - Three episodes from the classic Gerry Anderson show. Great stuff, I love it.
THE OMEN - The 25th anniversary edition with the Goldsmith interview etc. Usually things shrink with age, but I still got a huge thrill out of watching this again. Brilliantly done.
EL CONDE DRACULA - Spain's 1970 attempt at doing something supposedly close to what Stoker wrote. Ouch, this misfires on all cylinders at once. It's way below the standard of the very worst Hammer Drac, because whereas Hammer, even towards its downfall in the mid 70s, had a certain amount of style and class, this is just cheap and tacky and absolutely spiritless. Christopher Lee tries to look dignified, but he's so underused or misused it's embarrassing. And, wow, director Jesús Franco must have fallen in love with the zoom lens on this one. Right, let's make an establishing shot here - better zoom out. What's that? Someone's saying something important? Right, zoom up to his mouth. Don't forget to show some nice shots of the hills, better zoom out again. Right, he's scared, zoom right up to his scared eyeball. Jesus indeed. In fact, when there IS a static shot, you think he's trying to make some kind of point. Almost pure rubbish.
posted 03-20-2006 03:00 PM PT (US) Graham Watt
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I forgot about KING KONG. I forgot I'd bought it! It just caught my eye whilst I was scouring the shelf just now torturing myself about the meaning of life, and miserable about how I have no time to do everything I want to do, and whether it's even worth wasting time doing!Anyway, new(ish) in my collection, KING KONG (the old one, the really old one).
posted 03-24-2006 05:54 AM PT (US) Graham Watt
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Oh deary me, I shouldn't have got that KING KONG, because I went back to the greengrocer's this afternoon for some onions, and he had my single disc KING KONG as part of a nice set along with SON OF KONG and MIGHTY JOE YOUNG. Bah, doesn't matter. I'll never even get round to watching KING KONG. It's just another thing to look nice as part of a collection on the shelf.Quite a lot of nice veggie stuff at the corner shop. I had some spare coins after filling the trolley, so I rescued THX 1138 from a crate of soggy cabbages. A 2-disc set, with some documentaries (which I had a quick look at) and an isolated music/effects track. I'll let you all know what I think of the film if I ever get the chance to watch it. Meanwhile, it's quite nice on the shelf.
posted 03-25-2006 11:58 AM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB