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post #13411 of 28163
1/24/06 at 6:42am
Great sig Zen. One of my favorite films!
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post #13412 of 28163
1/24/06 at 7:52am
Thanks guys. Steve, that would Hero in yours. Yours looks awesome!
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post #13413 of 28163
1/24/06 at 8:11am








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post #13414 of 28163
1/24/06 at 8:25am
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Hmmm...

Thanks Zen, well you were all getting your Ziyi shots (that sound funny? er fugedit) and I didn't want to be left out. Elijah hasn't clocked in for a while I wonder has he had his Ziyi shots? Is Nils taking a break? Ray on holiday? Where is everyone? [bites fist]


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post #13415 of 28163
1/24/06 at 11:54am
I'm here! I posted a "my two cents" on the whole anime discussion last page and nobody commented. I'd like a sig shot but no idea what to do about resizing. I think for awhile I'll be attempting to add more 1980's film titles on DVD to my collection since that department for the particular decade is severely lacking in number.
Most likely going to purchase and re-purchase titles but I already need to buy another DVD rack. (All Region 1 as I've yet to go multi-regional and are OAR. Formerly owned titles will be notated via an asterisk. Never seen before titles will be notated via question mark.):

1984 (1984)?
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across The Eighth Dimension Special Edition (1984)*
Bachelor Party (1984)?
BATMAN Two-Disc Special Edition (1989)
Battle Creek Brawl (1980)?
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
The Big Blue Director's Cut (1988)?
Big Trouble in Little China Special Edition Two-Disc (1986)*
Born on the Fourth of July Special Edition (1989)
Brazil The Criterion Collection (1985)
The Breakfast Club High School Reunion Collection (1985)
Bull Durham Special Edition, Limited (1988)
The 'burbs (1989)
Chattahoochee (1989)?
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Cocktail (1988)
The Color of Money (1986)
The Color Purple Two-Disc Special Edition (1985)?
Communion Special Collector's Edition (1989)
Conan the Barbarian Collector's Edition (1982)
The Dark Crystal Special Edition (1982)*
Das Boot The Original Uncut Version (1981)?
Dead Poets Society Special Edition(1989)
Diner (1982)?
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Special Edition (1988)*
DragonSlayer (1981)
The Dream Team (1989)?
DreamScape Special Edition (1984)*
Driving Miss Daisy Special Edition (1989)?
DUNE Extended Edition (1984)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 2-Disc Limited Collector's Edition (1982)*
Earth Girls Are Easy Special Edition (1988)*
Enemy Mine (1985)
Escape from New York Special Edition Collector's Set (1981)
EXCALIBUR (1981)
Explorers (1985)
Family Business (1989)?
Ferris Bueller's Day Off Bueller... Bueller... Edition (1986)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Flesh + Blood Extended International Version (1985)?
Fletch (1985)
Fletch Lives (1989)
THE FLY Collector's Edition (1986)
Footloose Special Collector's Edition (1984)
GHOSTBUSTERS Special Edition (1984)*
Good Morning, Vietnam Special Edition (1987)
The Goonies (1985)*
Great Balls of Fire! (1989)
GREMLINS Special Edition (1984)
Gross Anatomy (1989)
Gung Ho (1986)
Heart of Dragon (1985)
HIGHLANDER The Immortal Edition (1986)
Hong Kong 1941 (1984)?
JAWS 3 (1983)?
Jim Henson's The Storyteller (1987)
Kagemusha The Criterion Collection (1980)?
The Karate Kid Special Edition (1984)
THE KILLER (1989)*
Labyrinth (1986)*
The Last Starfighter Collector's Edition (1984)*
Legacy of Rage (1986)?
Less Than Zero (1987)
The Lost Boys Two-Disc Special Edition (1987) (Interesting personal factoid, I live in Santa Cruz where this film was made.)
Major League (1989)
The Manhattan Project (1986)? (Although I've seen this when I was younger, it now qualifies as a barely seen, practically unkown feature now.)
Midnight Run (1988)
The Mission Two-Disc Special Edition(1986)?
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life Special Edition (1983)
My Science Project (1985)?
The Name of the Rose (1986)?
National Lampoon's Vacation 20th Anniversary Special Edition (1983)*
National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Special Edition (1989)
Night Shift (1982)?
Overboard (1987)
The Pick Up Artist (1987)
The Postman Fights Back (1982)?
PREDATOR Collector's Edition (1987)*
Pretty in Pink (1986)
The Princess Bride Special Edition (1987)*
Project A II (1987)
Quest for Fire Special Edition (1981)?
Raging Bull Special Edition (1980)
RAMBO Trilogy Special Edition (Various 1980's) (Haven't seen all of Rambo III though)
RAMBO Trilogy Ultimate Edition (Various 1980's)
RAN The Criterion Collection (1985)
Return to OZ Remastered Edition (1985)
The Right Stuff Two-Disc Special Edition (1983)*
The River's Edge (1987)?
RoboCop The Criterion Collection (1987)
RoboCop Unrated Version from RoboCop Trilogy set (1987)
The Running Man Special Edition (1987)
Scarface Anniversary Edition (1983)
Scrooged (1988)
She's Having a Baby (1988)?
Sixteen Candles High School Reunion Collection (1984)
Something Wicked This Way Comes Remastered (1983)
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)
Spooky Encounters (1980)?
STAR TREK III: The Search for Spock Special Collector's Edition (1984)*
STAR TREK IV: The Voyage Home Special Collector's Edition (1986)
STAR TREK V: The Final Frontier Special Collector's Edition (1989) (Just a blatant side note. After I purchase the remainder of the S.C.E.'s for the STAR TREK feature films, this will be the absolute last purchase out of them due to the bleh of it.)
Street Smart (1987)?
Stripes Extended Cut (1981)
Taps (1981)?
Throw Momma From the Train Remastered (1987)
Tiger on Beat (1988)?
Time Bandits The Criterion Collection(1981)
Time Bandits Divimax Special Edition (1981)
To Live and Die in L.A. Special Edition (1985)
Tootsie (1982)
Tragic Hero (1987)?
Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)
TRON 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition (1982)*
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)*
Videodrome The Criterion Collection (1983)?
Volunteers (1985)?
The War of the Roses Special Edition (1989)?
Weird Science High School Reunion Collection (1985)
When Harry Met Sally Special Edition (1989)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit Vista Series (1988)*
WILLOW Special Edition (1988)*
WITNESS (1985)
WITNESS Special Collector's Edition (1985)


Finished although there are dozens of titles I've left off due to myself wanting a Special Edition or greater release. Those 1980's films will be for the next list my droogy droogs of the MEGA DOOM!
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post #13416 of 28163
1/24/06 at 12:10pm
Quite a selection there. I do have to ask: DUNE Extended Edition? I hope that is packaged with the theatrical cut, since the TV cut is, as it were, not the one I would be looking for [note the "Alan Smithee" director's credit, which is code for "get my name off this piece of rubbish"].

As far as the anime comments go, I think that is one of those topics of discussion which comes up around here from time to time, and everybody sounds off in one or two posts, and then it dies down again. It's not as if this were the official anime discussion thread!

Anyway, I'm sure some of us have better things to do than post in this thread and assuage Steve's loneliness. Lucky stiffs...
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post #13417 of 28163
1/24/06 at 12:12pm
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I posted a "my two cents" on the whole anime discussion last page and nobody commented


eek! [points finger at ChrisDAC] He's our anime buff. [phew that got me off the hook].

Ray I'm sure I gave you tips way back on how to practically ensure getting a reply to a post, that is if you really want any kind of response to your post, and that is simply to add someone's name somewhere in the post, the name of a regular testy contributor and unless he's blind, busy, or just plain hates your guts you will get some kind of response even if it's just a laughing smiley.

I noticed you added David Lynch's Dune to your list of might-buys. The special edition comes out next week and includes the 3 hour extended version for the first time in widescreen and 5.1 stereo! woohoo! A huge favorite of mine, looking forward to it.


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I'd like a sig shot but no idea what to do about resizing.


Find a picture and I'll resize it for you Ray.
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post #13418 of 28163
1/24/06 at 12:40pm
Quite a selection there. I do have to ask: DUNE Extended Edition? I hope that is packaged with the theatrical cut, since the TV cut is, as it were, not the one I would be looking for [note the "Alan Smithee" director's credit, which is code for "get my name off this piece of rubbish"]


Christopher, it's supposed to have both the Theatrical and Extended Cut via Seamless branching on the film side of the disc and the extras on the reverse. Supposed to be sort of like an "Assembly Cut" in the vein of ALIEN3: Collector's Edition which was based on notes and such. I myself prefer the television mini-series Frank Herbert's DUNE in terms of accuracy for adaptating from the source, which is a novel, than the David Lynch version. I actually feel bad for Lynch in which he didn't receive creative control over the film which was wrested from him wrongfully so by the producers.
By the way, did laserdisc ever have seamless branching though or is it a DVD invention thing?
I've seriously been meaning to purchase THE FLY: Collector's Edition 2-Disc since the release but I keep forgetting to pick it up. I'm completely unsure of the sequel, THE FLY II, though... Might need to give it a rental before a final decision.
I'm going to edit the 1980's wishlist some more and hunt for a signature shot.
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post #13419 of 28163
1/24/06 at 12:48pm
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Elijah hasn't clocked in for a while I wonder has he had his Ziyi shots?
[crawls into frame]*gasp* Been pretty busy lately, and have been sticking to a pretty strict diet of lurking. What with all the commotion over in the DUNE SE thread, I've been hard pressed to stick to the diet. But just like a green lightbulb in the fridge; you guys have been doing a good job helping me stick to it with the international movies discussions and half dressed Yul Brynner posters flying around [crawls out of frame]
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post #13420 of 28163
1/24/06 at 1:16pm
Well, that's good. I read the novel Dune one time, and it was pretty interesting, but I've never been able to convince myself to read any of the sequels.
As far as seamless branching goes, the technology of DVD is different enough from LaserDisc that the way DVD does it was never possible on LD. The idea existed, though, and was sometimes put into practice.
For instance, the Criterion Special Edition of Close Encounters of the Third Kind was constructed so that, played straight through, it presented the original (1977)theatrical cut of the movie, but the scenes which were changed or added for the rerelease version were placed at the ends of the sides where they would appear, and the corresponding edit points in the film were bracketed with chapter markers. Since this was a CAV disc, proper use of the chapter-programme function according to the included instructions would play back the 1980 cut with very brief (2-3 second) pauses at the breaks.
There were also some interactive CAV discs, e.g. Murder, Anyone? and Many Roads to Murder, which used the auto-still-frame and frame-search functions to allow the viewer to choose various alternative storylines. More sophisticated than these home versions were the arcade games, Cliff Hanger, Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, and the like, which required an external control computer and used the LD for higher-quality graphics than game machines could produce at the time. There were also industrial and educational players and discs which ran the same way, either from a programme on the disc itself or from an exterior computer. I think windows XP may actually include a driver for the Pioneer LD-V8000, the last and greatest of these machines.
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post #13421 of 28163
1/24/06 at 1:53pm
Christopher, I find that extremely interesting. Best way to describe the Criterion laserdisc for CE3K would be a Choose-Your Own Adventure book (remember those?) with instructions as you said. Sort of like a Discovery or History Channel type of thing. Isn't there an exclusive Special Edition type Japanese laserdisc of DUNE?
I remember playing Dragon's Lair and Space Ace (classics and extremely well done animation by the likes of Don Bluth) when I was a youngster at the arcades and might consider getting the DVD version of it. Wasn't there also a sequel to Dragon's Lair in the arcades?
Glad this is bringing back nostalgia.
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post #13422 of 28163
1/24/06 at 2:08pm
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Elijah, do you like to watch films with gladiators? Or.. do you prefer to watch on your own? I kid, have a look at these posters, last ones today I promise. Colorful eh? For all we know these films won many top awards in Italy back in the 60's, who knows Steve Reeves probably won many Best Actor awards back then[STOP IT STEVE!]


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post #13423 of 28163
1/24/06 at 2:34pm
I can't really decide between









Surprise me.
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post #13424 of 28163
1/24/06 at 2:44pm
Thread Starter 
Here you go Ray...



...well you did say surprise you.


Okay from those ones I'd pick



Up to you.
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post #13425 of 28163
1/24/06 at 2:58pm
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post #13426 of 28163
1/24/06 at 4:45pm
I would go with this one also Ray.



Tho this one by Steve is rather nice.

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post #13427 of 28163
1/24/06 at 5:01pm
A shot where he's eye'ing it down or scratching his stubble. That last one from my choices I liked but where he's more in thought then mid-sentence. How about the part where he's glancing back right before the giant rolling boulder? And could you get them just a smidge bigger? PM me a slew of iconic and heroic type screenshots from the Indy Trilogy and maybe I'll pick from those.







^That one looks kick ass!











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post #13428 of 28163
1/24/06 at 5:06pm


I'd officially like that as my sig shot please. I'd also like the two that Joe suggested as back-ups.
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post #13429 of 28163
1/24/06 at 5:56pm
I can't find a record of Kings of the Sun, or any of those other movies except Hercules Unchained and of course Taras Bulba, being released on LaserDisc [though they might have been -- even at 40 000 titles LDDb is not complete]. Hercules Unchained was actually released twice in the US!
Do you know that Taras Bulba was shot in the Argentine Pampas -- among the largest treeless plains in the world? All that wood had to be imported from an immense distance. There was also an LD of the Czech Philharmonic playing Janacek's Taras Bulba, which I think is a cantata -- not Steve fare, I'm guessing?

Ray:
Actually, I was considering comparing the "interactive" discs to one of those Chose Your Own Adventure things, since the choices they gave you led in different directions. With Close Encounters it really was like seamless branching, since there were only two choices, and if you didn't set it up beforehand to get the effect, you'd never know there was supposed to be one.
Speaking of famous animators, Cliff Hanger was made up to a great extent from segments of Miyazaki Hayao's Castle of Cagliostro. You might be amused to know that arcade-style LD games were actually released for the home in the mid-90s. The LaserActive system was available with expansion packs and controllers for LD karaoke and standard Sega and Nintendo cartridges, but the CLD-A100 was a single-side player priced, without any accessories, higher than some of the double-sided models -- even in Pioneer's Elite line!

Here's my Marvin's catalogue, Christmas 1993.

CLD-A100: $970
Sega pack: $600
Nintendo pack: $600
Karaoke pack: $350

Elite CLD-97: $2500
Elite CLD-52: $950
Yamaha CDV-870: $749

Note that you could buy quite a bit of Sega or Nintendo hardware and software for the price of either of those packs, and that the full kit would run more than what is still regarded by many as the best US-market LD player.
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post #13430 of 28163
1/24/06 at 6:21pm
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There was also an LD of the Czech Philharmonic playing Janacek's Taras Bulba, which I think is a cantata -- not Steve fare, I'm guessing?


That may not be Steve fare but the soundtrack to Taras Bulba is, I have Franz Waxman's score on CD, it's superb.

Good choice Ray, here you go, you can always alternate between them.





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post #13431 of 28163
1/25/06 at 8:04am
Ray, that one is cool.

Yeah, I think I missed just a smidge on the width of mine. So, I went back to the Netflix'er. My pocketbook just cant keep up with all the awesome foreign(World) releases.

"Feared by every man, desired by every woman."
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post #13432 of 28163
1/25/06 at 9:05am
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Nils you have PM.

In Blazing Color! - In Daring Color! The days when movies being in color was a big draw in itself, funny you don't see the makers of black and white films bragging about their choice of color on posters, See 'Some Like it Hot' in glorious black, white and various shades of gray at theaters everywhere! On the Waterfront out now in Moody Monochrome!

Here's a classic I'd love to see released on dvd some day.



Great film, great performances, why isn't it on dvd? I have it on video, pan and scanned with stereo sound, I want to see it again but not on vhs again! Doesn't even show up on cable any more. Hopefully on dvd this year?
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post #13433 of 28163
1/25/06 at 10:39am
Becket was announced two years ago (or so), I even pre-ordered it, and then it was retracted.


Cees
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post #13434 of 28163
1/25/06 at 11:06am
Page 449!
You know what? I think I'm quite addicted to making lists and actually I figure it could be considered a good thing. The affinity I have for making lists probably makes my happily insane self a bit more sane.

And I'll post another list later too!

Steve, from the looks of the poster, it appears Becket would be released onto DVD from Paramount.
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post #13435 of 28163
1/25/06 at 11:23am
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So are you finally happy with your sig shot Ray? Yes? Looks like we devoted an entire testy page making sure you had the right picture, bet you enjoyed all that attention hmmm? At least now if we miss replying to one of your future lists you can be a little more lenient [wink wink]. btw if you love making lists why don't you index the whole of testy? Won't take more than few months, index every film mentioned every song lyric every screenshot, it'll come in very handy, no?

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Becket was announced two years ago (or so)

I know Cees, I was looking forward to it, don't know what the problem is, two big stars, classy film, fingers crossed maybe this year.

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Steve, from the looks of the poster, it appears Becket would be released onto DVD from Paramount.

But when Ray? That is the question.
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post #13436 of 28163
1/25/06 at 2:25pm
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Robinson Crusoe on Mars, another film I'd love to see on dvd this year.


QUICKIE QUIZ: Which sci-fi film featured the discovery on Earth of a 5 million year old Martian spaceship. Anyone?
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post #13437 of 28163
1/25/06 at 4:11pm
Quartermass and the Pit or, Five Million Years to Earth -- not to be confused with Twenty Million Miles to Earth, or, come to it, Three Mules for Sister Sarah
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post #13438 of 28163
1/25/06 at 4:41pm
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One of my favorite films Chris, watched Quatermass and the Pit countless times on video back in the 80's.

Quickie Quiz - Which film featured the discovery of a 4 million year old alien artifact in the moon?



An international team of astronomers has found the smallest Earth-like planet yet outside our Solar System.

The new planet has five times the Earth's mass and can be found about 25,000 light-years away in the Milky Way, orbiting a red dwarf star.

The discovery, reported in the journal Nature, was made using a method called microlensing, which can detect far-off planets with an Earth-like mass.

The planet's cold temperatures make the chance of finding life very unlikely.

The planet, which goes by the name OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, takes about 10 years to orbit its parent star, a red dwarf which is similar to the Sun but cooler and smaller.

New Planet Discovered
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post #13439 of 28163
1/25/06 at 5:48pm
Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
2001: A Space Oddity


Steve, thanks for the kick ass signature shots.



^I'd also like that one as a choice too. (Thinking Nathan Fillion could make a great young Indiana Jones based on the Bantam novels from the 1990's. Although I've yet to see both Firefly and Serenity.)

A sort of interesting update from that damn long list of films I'd like to watch. Here are the titles from said list of which I finally got around seeing. (semi-non-alphabetical-slightly-incoherent type listing. )

The Adventures of Robin Hood
Michael Collins
Dark City
Murder on the Orient Express
North by Northwest
KING KONG (1933)
KING KONG (1976)
KING KONG LIVES
The Bounty

I'm quite sure there're others though...

Steve, it also seems you're quite a fan of The Shadow as much as myself.
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post #13440 of 28163
1/25/06 at 6:05pm
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Ray, I love The Shadow, it deserves a special edition, with the comic book superhero craze going on now maybe it's the right time to reissue it, difference being the Shadow originated from radio and pulp fiction. My dad used to read them, he used to tell me about collecting the Shadow and Doc Savage when he was a kid, translated into Greek of course.

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If I had a hint or if it's my collection I could probably guess but I'm as to what it could be.

Well it's only the greatest science fiction film of them all Ray, dum dum dum dum duuuuuum!

EDIT: oh I see you got it now.

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