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07-09-2004, 03:59 PM
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NORTH and SOUTH: Coming Soon on DVD!
For those of you who hadn't heard, North and South COMPLETE COLLECTION is coming to DVD on October 5th. This is a 5-DVD set.
For more details, please see here: North and South
I've waited FOREVER for collection. Finally, "forever" is ending...
Manendra
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07-09-2004, 07:08 PM
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I can't wait to finally see this, because my dear Elizabeth Taylor is in Book 1.
Andy
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07-10-2004, 05:38 AM
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I remember this. Not sure if I'm a big enough fan to buy, but I'd certainly like a look.
Why's the second extra feature called "The Orrys"? I though Swayze's character's name was "Orry Main", so it should be "The Mains" if it's about his family, as the description suggests.
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07-10-2004, 06:43 AM
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God, it is so about time. I really would have preferred all three books to be released separately (I've heard Heaven and Hell kinda stinks) but beggers can't be choosers. I can't wait.
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07-10-2004, 09:11 PM
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Why's the second extra feature called "The Orrys"? I though Swayze's character's name was "Orry Main", so it should be "The Mains" if it's about his family, as the description suggests.
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I caught that, too. I also realized, though, that the feature is about Orry himself, and not his family. So perhaps it's a play on words? I dunno. I haven't seen this before, though my wife has and swears I'll watch it with her. 
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07-10-2004, 10:43 PM
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so its almost 1400 minutes, yet only on five discs? That is a lot of stuff for only five discs. Probably flipper discs.
Either way, this is one of my mothers all time favorite mini series, so it will make a fine gift for her!
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07-11-2004, 08:28 PM
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>>I just want the first one....oh well.
But the first one is only half a story, it's all the build up for book two.
I was hoping that they'd forget that book three existed. From what I hear, it wasn't that well liked, even in book form.
As for that second feature here's what it says:
"The Orry's: Patrick Swayze talks about his role." Note the apostrophe.
I watched this (books 1 and 2) with my dad a couple of summers ago, and have been waiting for the DVDs ever since. Our tapes were in pretty bad shape, and the sound was horrible for parts 3 and 4 of book 1, and could barely be heard properly.
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07-11-2004, 10:18 PM
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"The Orry's: Patrick Swayze talks about his role." Note the apostrophe.
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I missed that. Good catch. But this actually makes no grammatical sense, the "'s" suggests something belonging to Orry, whilst a straight plural "The Orrys" would suggest a feature about multiple actors that played the character Orry Main, which IIRC was not the case (just Swayze, yes?). |
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07-12-2004, 10:30 AM
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I'll be picking this up. I wish I could get just Books I and II separately, though.
I never saw III, but I started reading the book and hated it.
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06-11-2007, 09:15 AM
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Re: NORTH and SOUTH: Coming Soon on DVD!
I'm thinking about picking North & South up at DDD's sale this week. I've never seen any of this miniseries. I have the following miniseries and like all of them (Revelations was, to me, somewhat of a letdown but I kept it)
Band of Brothers
The Bunker
Rich Man, Poor Man (R2)
Shogun
Winds of War
Holocaust (R2)
Revelations
Roots (not started viewing)
V The Original Miniseries
War and Rememberance (in my DDD cart; never seen)
Would you all recommend North & South as a "buy"? How does it compare to the other miniseries of that were made in the 70's-80's? The IMDB and Amazon write-ups seem to be mostly favorable.
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06-11-2007, 03:29 PM
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Re: NORTH and SOUTH: Coming Soon on DVD!
North and South is up there as one of the best minis of all-time. If you like the Civil War period in history you will love this...a bit soap-operish, but entertaining. The great David Wolper (Roots, The Thorn Birds) produced this, so it is very similar in tone to those.
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