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What DVDs/ Video are you watching
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What DVDs/ Video are you watching
#1In the spirit of the "What are you reading" thread, it might be interesting as to find out what you are watching. You can include the current rental if you must, but lets see what you are viewing.
There are three DVD (sets) that I am currently watching.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Homes (The last few episodes with Jerremy Brett)
3 disk set, with 6 episodes.
Gargoyles Season 1
Much animated goodness. One of the few series that can be called authentic American Anime.. or Anime in the American Style and no Japanese elements. Much like the Batman Animates series, Batman Beyond, and the Justice League in art and quality, but better.
Spiderman: The Animated Series
This is the one from MTV. Picked up the last set of episodes I did not have.
Lawrence of Arabia, which I now have in DVD is awaiting some free time AND The Last Samurai is in a similar situation. -
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#2The latest Jason Bourne DVD
Alien Resurrection
Mad Max 1
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#3Bad Boys II
Chronicles of Riddick
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#4Episodes of "As Time Goes By" a british comedy
The Neverending Story(much better in book format)
The Matrix Trilogy
Anxiously awaiting April 29th and the release of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" -
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#5The first season of Angel,that hit Buffy spinoff. -
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#6"seredipity" I am a true romantic after all! :wink:
"With out a paddle" seems like it would be mildly amusing.
and the LotR trilogy My dad just got it! -
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#7Kill Bill Vol. 1-2
Babylon 5 Season 2
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (the animated series from Cartoon Network. No really, it's cool!) -
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#8Enemy at the Gates
Jurassic Park v1
Windtalkers
K-19 Widowmaker -
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#9Made the mistake of watching "Flight Plan" ... SUCKED
Be Cool ... Witty
Serenity ... Excellent. Reminded me of the Mummy type action humor and I really liked it.
Movies I tend to fall back on in a bind. You can consider these some of my top favorites:
Actionish
Fight Club
Gangs of New York
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill 1
Fast and the Furios (I and II)
From Dusk Till Dawn
Ronin
Hunted
Heist
Payback
Italian Job
Armageddon
K-19
U-571
Comedy
Napolean Dynamite
Old School
Road Trip
Office Space
Anger Management
Other
Cool Hand Luke
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Great Escape
The Jackal (original)
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#10Recently re-watched my favorite movie of ALL TIME, A Fistful of Dollars. -
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#11Let's see...
Serenity. Nuff said.
The House on Haunted Hill. I love Vincent Price.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Labyrinth
The original Star Wars Trilogy. Not a big fan of eps 1-3.
Assorted anime; the list is far too long for me to go into.
And as soon as the Sony Corporation consents to release the damn thing, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. -
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#12Just tell us it is the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and our respect will remain intact. :) -
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#13What, you find a singing, dancing Gene Wilder and bad special effects more respectable than Johnny Depp and a set crew on acid?
Just got The Fog today. The original version, which I saw and liked. I don't know if that will apply to the remake or not. -
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#14Labrynth
Sky High
Kingdom of Heaven
Serenity
First season of Firefly
Rio Bravo (The Best Classic Western)
All four seasons of Rescue Heroes (Worthy for any parent of the under six crowd... get them today and teach your kids to be both safe and heroic).
Too much Thomas the Tank Engine (Again, for the under six crowd. Teaches life lessons WITHOUT being preachy. Just get your kids the movies and toys, you will need to do it anyways. If they are not your kids, get them for the parents). -
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#15Constantine: What a freaky cool idea. I am generally not a super fan of the religiously based movies but the ideas revolving around this one were just awesome. Loved the interaction between whatever Constantine was and his Priest that could 'hear' the demon plane or whatever the hell was going on there. The idea of the amulet of protection to save him from the voices and removing it to hear them, something Constantine couldn't do, was a cool symbiotic type thing. Got the ideas rolling about submissions of that type.
Rutger Hauer kick:
Omega Doom or Death or whatever. What utter crap....eeek. I can see the Matrix ripping off some of the looks of it though coincidently.
Blind Fury A blind guy that can fight better than many movie swordsman but can't kill a guy when it counts. Concept of the blind guy was pretty cool actually, enjoyed the very first scene when he kept 'accidently' kicking the asses of some bullies he got caught up in. Fun for the idea again.
Flesh and Blood Not a bad concept going on there if you can get past the bad acting. I like the idea of a medieval setting going through a holocaust of some sort, the plaque in this case, and creating voids of people so that a small band of bandits could actually take over a fortress. Got me thinking of that kind of setting, most of the power has been killed through whatever and now pretty much anarchy reigns with holds of 'good' around but many locations, towns, and castles could actually be reinhabited by the first ones that find it. Perhaps this could be the 'gold rush' of a far away land that discovers this place many years after the plague finishes. Now it is a massive influx of 'settlers' who are finding all these abandoned or poorly defended rich cities.....etc etc.
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#16Lessee...
The NeverEnding Story (also 2, which I have not seen yet)
The Italian Job
The Great Muppet Caper
Muppet Treasure Island (Jim Henson is a tiny god)
Puppet Master
Sleepy Hollow
When I have free time, Howl's Moving Castle -
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#17Lost - season 1 and what i have of season 2 on my comp
firefly - that's a given
sound of music - hey that was my favorite when i was five, just returning to my roots
pink floyd: The wall (movie) - awsome movie
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind - crazy awsome movie
Sniper 1 & 2 - TOM BERINGER BABY!
i'm reading V for Vendetta currently, hopefully i'll finish soon to go catch the movie -
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#18Got on a horror kick...
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
Nightmare on Elm Street
Uzumaki (or Spiral, freaky-ass Japanese movie)
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#19DVD's
1- Baraka (Brilliant!!!!! must be seen!!!!!)
2- Old Boy (Korean flick- highly disturbing)
3- Dr. Mabuse series (old school german flicks)
4- Khartoum (Charleston Heston- miscast as per usual)
5- Gormenghast series (creep, silly, and sublime)
6- Prime Suspect (Helen Mirren is GOD!)
7- Sherlock Holmes (all of them...again...cant get enough.... Jeremy Brett is mesmerizing!)
8- The Good The Bad and The Ugly (for the 10,000th time)
To Strolen- Cool Hand Luke is one of the all time greats!
To Moon- Ditto for Rio Bravo! -
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#20GO RENT "NIGHT WATCH" DVD NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Russia has finally managed to produce a supernatural thriller!! :reddevil:
the story is cliche-ridden, the english dubbing sucks, but some of the concepts and visuals (like the were-owl and the abortion witch) are phenomenal!
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#21One Piece-Im a fan of it n_n
Naruto-have the 1st and 2nd movies
Mahou Sensei Negima
Mahoraba
He is my master
Air
Full metal panic
Full metal alchemist
Im not going to mention any of the anime anymore... (you might get annoyed for a reason)
Forrest Gump - I watch it over and over >_<
Big Fish - I watch it over and over >_<
Magnifico - Filipino movie with a very (very) good story...
Bruce almighty - >_<
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#22Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
uber-special effects, great 1950's sci-fi pulp motif; super science, giant robots, etc. Camera running gag made the movie worth the $7 I paid for it
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Okay, so technically still in theaters, but a good movie, certainly better than 2Fast2Furious but not quite as good as the first one. Action was good, cars really looked awesome, the hybrid at the end stretched credibility (nissan engine in a 1960's mustang?) Being familiar with games like Need for Speed Underground I was not new to drift racing, but the movie makes it look so much cooler than the PS2 game does. -
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#23Agree with above:
My currents are all series and all cartoons.
The Speed Racer series (vol 1-4), which may not be worth it if you didn't see it when you were young. This is one of the first Anime to escape Japan. It is messy and the animation is low grade by today's standards, but really a nice piece.
Avatar, Book of Water (I-IV). while still on TV, this allows you to see this wonderful work in order and its entirety.
Batman - The Animated Series. This is the WB Batman that did all the ground work for all the other WB super series (like New Adventures of Superman Cartoon, Justice League, JLI, Static Shock, and a couple of others). This series is actually credited by many comic writers as the main influence on their writing for the comic book. -
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#24Signs
The Ultimate Avengers
War of The Worlds (New version)
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#25The City of Lost Children - a French semi-horror/fantasy, starring Ron Perlman, of all people. Imagine a movie not only made to be unique and weird, but made by someone profoundly more disturbed than Tim Burton.
The Producers - Really, both of them are good, but the remake was made to be much grander than the original and incorporate the stage production. And the outtakes are hysterical.
The Masters of Horror collections - a series of one hour short horror films made by the horror greats (John Carpenter, etc). Each dvd usually has two movies. -
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#26Been watching lots of DVDs lately... V for Vendetta was alright, though not as good as I hoped it would be.
Brokeback Mountain was decent (and a bit boring) though being a european I was unable to understand what all the fuss was about. Two queer cowboys, so what? We've had queer films for decades over here. I guess the controversy is stronger in the US. -
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#27There are a lot of queers overseas, you are used to them. All of ours are isolated in San Francisco (right Moon?) so the rest of the US isn't used to it yet.
(I think that was horribly incorrect but the devil made me say it.)
I watched The Court Jester (1956). I actually *really* like it. Very witty and fun, family loved it too.
King Kong...eh? whatever.
Grandma's Boy. Pretty stupid but for some reason I kept laughing. Old School and Road Trip and still tops in that area of comedy as far as I am concerned. -
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#28I finally got around to watching Serenity tonight. It was real good until the end, where I became pissed off. -
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#29Underworld: Evolution
I have to say any movie with Kate Beckinsdale in skin tight leather is :up: in my book. The story was a bit strange, but I did like the werewolf, sorry, Lycan-vampire hybrids. It is worth watching for Markus as a truely sadistic monster that knows how to use extra appendages. The nervous old priest from The Fifth Element plays a signifigant role and does a good job as coming across as being rather callous and self righteous. FX were good, but the storyline and writing itself could have used a little work.
UltraViolet
Milla Jovovish, I worship you. That is the only reason I rented this over the top FX smash fest. The technology presented is wild, with dimension containers and 'gravity levelers' that look like miniature suns held in brass rings. Pretty neat watching helicopters chase a motorcycle up the side of a building. It in many ways is a strange fusion of Aeon Flux and the Matrix, plus it has Vampires. Yay! -
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#30OMG!! I never knew silent hill was a logical movie!! -
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#31As a daddy I never get to see stuff on the big screen so yesterday I rented Jarhead and watched it. It was one of those war critic films... Well, I guess they mirror the true nature of war well enough, but... but... Y'know... I used to LOVE the Guns of Navarone and all those heroic-schemeroic films.
I want me a dumb, intelligent movie about the heroes of war, cuz I already know that war is bad. I also know that Desert Storm was strange. Send me some good stuff and nevermind all these cry me a river films! -
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#32Lessee...
Big Fish - Finally got around to watching it. Really sweet, in that slightly creepy Tim Burton way. One of those movies where you're never really sure what's real and what's fiction.
Nightmare Before Christmas - Nuff said.
Blood Dolls - Kind of a cheesy movie. Supposed to be horror, but it's too silly to really be scary. Mostly, I watched it because of my love of all things Full Moon Studios. If you've seen Puppet Master, same general thing.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - You have no idea how hard it was for me to find this movie. It's an old German silent film, horror. Black and white, dialog that you have to read, but still genuinely creepy. The set designer seems to have been on acid, or had an obsession with the expressionist movement, one of the two; and the director was slightly touched himself.
Murder by Death - A Neil Simon script, parodying the great detectives of fiction and movies - Charlie Chan, Sam Spade, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and Nick and Nora Charles. Total insanity and hilarious. -
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#33"The Squid and the Whale" - I don't know what do say about this one other than "dark humorous realism". Then again, what about realism isn't dark?
"Rome", the HBO series. Meh, not bad.
I, too, just watched Underword: Evolution. Good god, what a disaster. I turned it off half-way through. Or rather, let it play as the background music for soup-making. -
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#34Just watched "Tristan" and "Running Scared".
I enjoyed both though I admit that I expected Tristan to be a flop profiteering on the recent LotR / PotC / Harry Potter wave.
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#35My current project is "Dr Who, Season I". This is the new series available on SciFi (currently on season 2). I like it a great deal. It seemed originally to break with the old continuity, a restart to use the comics phrase. However, it is following up with some contact to the older series.
V for Vigillante - Interesting, but not nearly as such as I expected.
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#36Been trying to go through "The Sopranos" series as I get them through netflix. Usually have those in while doing anynumber of other things that have been eating my life. ;)
Got in "The Island" yesterday. Didn't have high expectations but it turned out to be pretty interesting. The futuristic first part was pretty interesting and had you wondering what was going on and then the second half laid it out for you immediately and turned into an action movie from there on. Definately worth watching. I enjoyed "Aeon Flux" which paralleled the ideas somewhat just as much. They both made me think of "Soylent Green" though which I really liked.
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#37I recently watched the ORIGIONAL king kong movie
Star Trek: Wrath of Kahn "KAAAHHN!!"
Monty Python: and now for something completely different "My hovercraft is full of eels"
Monty Python: The Life of Brian "Allwright, Wewease Woger!"
V for Vendetta, I really enjoyed it but then again i'm one of those liberal extremists
The Devil Wears Prada
my mom wanted me to watch this. was dredful to sit through. If i wanted to sit around and watch shallow people whine about their pathetic lives i'd go back to highschool. DO NOT WATCH FOR IRREPERABLE BRAIN DAMAGE WILL OCCUR!!
Domino
Kiera Knightly over-acting again and guess what, she used the same accent she uses in every movie she's in (what a shocker!) though it was nice to see a bad-girl bounty hunter film this was tragically lacking in all things cool.
Havoc
Anne Hathaway's sluttiest performance yet about a suburban white girl who's friends all think they're ghetto. she gets bored of being a poser and tries to join a real gang in the inner city. STUPID STUPID MOVIE. DO NOT WATCH FOR IRREPERABLE BRAIN DAMAGE WILL OCCUR!! *twitch*
X-Men 3: the last stand
I just... I don't get the ending and there was very little of rogue in the movie wich sucked. Terrible ending to what should have been an awsome trilogy
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As a daddy I never get to see stuff on the big screen so yesterday I rented Jarhead and watched it. It was one of those war critic films... Well, I guess they mirror the true nature of war well enough, but... but... Y'know... I used to LOVE the Guns of Navarone and all those heroic-schemeroic films.
I want me a dumb, intelligent movie about the heroes of war, cuz I already know that war is bad. I also know that Desert Storm was strange. Send me some good stuff and nevermind all these cry me a river films!
You mean like that that piece of donky doo "The Thin Red Line"? Holy smokes was that aweful.
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X-Men 3: the last stand
I just... I don't get the ending and there was very little of rogue in the movie wich sucked. Terrible ending to what should have been an awsome trilogy
Trilogy? Poor deluded fool. It is a series. They are working on X4 And they have a Wolverine movie (prequel or the Wolverine in Japan saga) in development.
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X-Men 3: the last stand
I just... I don't get the ending and there was very little of rogue in the movie wich sucked. Terrible ending to what should have been an awsome trilogy
Trilogy? Poor deluded fool. It is a series. They are working on X4 And they have a Wolverine movie (prequel or the Wolverine in Japan saga) in development.
I said "should have been an awsome trilogy" as I am a firm believer that three is enough. wait ten years before you make more and if you MUST make more then three movies just make it into a tv show or a mini series. Unless you're Jurassic park, then you stop at one.
I never said it *was* a trilogy as I know there's still more on the way. I *am* an IMDB junkie :p
IMDB (internet movie data base) Wolverine & the X-men