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post #13471 of 28163
1/29/06 at 2:27am
Ray,

I took the liberty of slightly rearranging your layout.


Cees
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post #13472 of 28163
1/29/06 at 5:21am
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Now isn't that better and neater? [cue shouts of "they're too small I canna see em", "get em off!", "no! still too big", "where?", "what?"]

That War of the Worlds dvd cover is a lot better than the region 2 version, can't win them all I suppose.

Currently watching Major Dundee the Extended Version. I don't like the new score much, I prefer the old, probably because I'm used to it, nice copy though.
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post #13473 of 28163
1/29/06 at 6:55am
Steve o matic

Do you have the LD copies of Becket and Robinson Crusoe on Mars?

I watched them both last night in remembrance of this thread.

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post #13474 of 28163
1/29/06 at 7:19am
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Parker, you make me wish I had gotten into LD, no I only have them on tape. Becket was in zoomed in, soft focus pan and scan. Robinson Crusoe on Mars just slightly in widescreen, something like 1.66. It would make my millenium to have them both on dvd this year.

The good news is that every year our want-on-dvd lists gets smaller and smaller.
I'm still waiting for the following films to arrive on dvd:

Becket (1964)
The Challenge (Frankenheimer 1982)
El Cid (remastered 1961)
Fall of the Roman Empire (remastered 1964)
55 Days at Peking (1963)
Forbidden Planet (remastered special edition 1956)
The Forbin Project (correct ratio 1970)
Freebie and the Bean (1974)
Howard the Duck (1986 hey I like it, somebody has to!)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
It's Always Fair Weather (Gene Kelly 1955)
The Jungle Book (1967)
Land of the Pharoahs (Howard Hawks 1955)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Mutiny on the Bounty (Brando 1962)
101 Dalmations (1961)
Quo Vadis (1951)
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
The Skull (1965)
Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)
Taras Bulba (1962)
This Island Earth (remastered 1955)
Twilight Zone the Movie (1983)

Not just Ray who can make lists you know!
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post #13475 of 28163
1/29/06 at 7:29am
Steve, did you know that Warners is releasing It's Always Fair Weather in April, plus a few other MGM musicals in a new box set?

Oh, and Zen...what'd you think of 2046?
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post #13476 of 28163
1/29/06 at 7:32am
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Didn't know Haggai great news thanks, it's one of my favorite MGM musicals, do you know if it'll be available on it's own or only as part of the package? Is it a Gene Kelly box set?
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post #13477 of 28163
1/29/06 at 7:37am
One of my faves as well, I saw it in a theater about a year and a half ago. Full boxset details here, and yes, it'll be available on its own as well as in the box set.
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post #13478 of 28163
1/29/06 at 8:02am
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Restored remastered and some nice extras too, great news indeed. Summer Stock was enjoyable, Ziegfeld Follies had its moments, the other two I'm not very familiar with. Three days before my birthday too.
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post #13479 of 28163
1/29/06 at 8:48am
Steve,

Many, many of those are on my list too (although not all - but I have a few others on mine).


Cees
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post #13480 of 28163
1/29/06 at 9:02am
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I'll bet all those historical epics are on your list Cees, lets hope they release them on dvd before we start on some newfangled dvd format, purple-ray-dvd or something...
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post #13481 of 28163
1/29/06 at 9:43am
Mermaid is getting the deluxe treatment in October Steve.

I've had The Challenge, Land of the Pharoahs, Robinson Crusoe on Mars & The Skull on my too-see list for a while so a DVD release would be most welcome.

Sticking to movies I've seen, here's my Top 50 or so "Why oh why hasn't it been released on DVD yet?" list.


Act of Violence(1948)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
The African Queen (1951)
The Black Swan (1942)
Blade Runner (1982) - remastered special edition
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
Broken Arrow (1950)
Burn Witch Burn! (1962)
Comanche Station (1960)
Dark of the Sun (1968)
The Dawn Patrol (1938)
Desperate (1947)
Doctor X (1932)
Duck, You Sucker (1971)
El Cid(1961)
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
The Fallen Idol (1948)
Forbidden Planet (1956) - remastered special edition
Fort Apache (1948)
From Beyond (1986)
The Glass Key (1942)
The Gorgon (1964)
Great McGinty (1940)
The Gunfighter (1950)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Invisible Stripes (1939)
Island of Lost Souls (1933)
Mad Love (1935)
The Maltese Falcon (1941) - remastered special edition
Man of the West(1958)
The Man Who Would Be King - remastered special edition
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General (1968)
Ministry of Fear (1944)
The Naked Spur (1953)
Outland (1981) - remastered special edition
Phantom Lady (1944)
Ride Lonesome (1959)
Road House (1948)
Rob Roy (1995) - remastered special edition
Sanjuro (1962) - AR cropping fixed
Sea Wolf (1941)
The Searchers (1956) - remastered special edition
Seven Samurai (1954) - remastered special edition
The Steel Helmet (1951)
The Tall T (1957)
Tension(1950)
Twilight Zone the Movie (1983)
Twins of Evil (1971)
Westbound (1959)
Woman in the Window (1945)
The Yakuza (1975)
Yojimbo (1961) - AR cropping fixed

It seems I keep adding to this list every year.

Went ahead and pre-ordered Dog Day Afternoon SE, Kind Hearts and Coronets (Criterion) & Lady and the Tramp SE today and added the world cinema selections of Atragon & Dogora the Space Monster - another I haven't seen since I was in grade school. Seen that one Steve? From the makers of Godzilla, giant hovering jellyfish creatures with an appetite for diamonds invade earth from the depths of outer space.

Anyoo I've still got my eye on picking up that Stalag 17 SE, A Fish Called Wanda SE and a couple of the remastered Apes sequels.
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post #13482 of 28163
1/29/06 at 10:41am
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You've listed quite a few I want Jim, how could I forget Blade Runner? But if we were to list which films we want to see get the special edition treatment mine would be quite a long list.

I haven't seen Dogora heard of it though, looking forward to The Little Mermaid 2-discer and Lady and the Tramp and Dog Day Afternoon and Stalag 17!

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post #13483 of 28163
1/29/06 at 12:04pm
Steve, you're more than welcome to post a list in my thread for Special Edition wants although it's basically for Region 1. Go ahead and post it.
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post #13484 of 28163
1/29/06 at 4:41pm
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I just did Ray, here's a short cut...Special Edition Wish List

I didn't include films that haven't appeared on dvd yet, just dvds I'd gladly buy again as special editions.
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post #13485 of 28163
1/29/06 at 4:51pm
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Did you hear that? They've shut down the main reactor.
We'll be destroyed for sure. This is madness!
We're doomed!
There'll be no escape for the Princess this time.
What's that?
R2-D2, where are you?
At last! Where have you been?
They're heading in this direction. What are we going to do?
We'll be sent to the spice mines of Kessel or smashed into who knows what!
Wait a minute. Where are you going?
The Death Star plans are not in the main computer.
Where are those transmissions you intercepted?
What have you done with those plans?
We intercepted no transmissions.
This is a consular ship. We're on a diplomatic mission.
If this is a consular ship... where is the Ambassador?
Commander, tear this ship apart until you've found those plans and bring me the Ambassador.
I want her alive!
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post #13486 of 28163
1/29/06 at 5:08pm
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Are we the first?
Are we the first to arrive here?
Is the interpreter with you?
I'm not a professional interpreter. My occupation is cartography.
I'm a mapmaker.
Can you translate French into English and English into French?
Yes, I explained to the team leader at Villa Hermosa.
I'm just a little taken by surprise.
-Etes-vous Monsieur Loglin?
-Laughlin, oui.
Oh, Laughlin. Pardon.
They're all there! All of them!
Check for landing marks!
Mr. Lacombe wants the numbers off the engine blocks!
M-447148!
W-445529!
Number 445529, check!
Approximately 46 gallons in the right tank!
447149, check!
Tell me something. What's happening here?
-It's flight number 19.
-19 what?
It's that training mission from the naval air station at Fort Lauderdale.
They were doing target runs on an old hulk.
Who flies crates like these anymore?
No one! These planes were reported missing in 1945.
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post #13487 of 28163
1/29/06 at 5:15pm
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The tank itself was unusual in that it was vertical,
and looked like an old boiler.
Inside the tank the subject wore a heavy glass bubble
and you would have thought the whole contraption uncomfortable to say the least.
It was, however, effective.
Of the 23 students tested, only two found the experience unpleasant.
Some even called it exhilarating.
A number of students hallucinated.
Dr. Jessup found the encephalographic evidence especially interesting.
And one Saturday afternoon, in April 1967 he decided to try the experience for himself.
Arthur. Hey, Arthur.
Are you there?
Can you hear me, Arthur?
Arthur, answer me.
Is that it? You want me to come in and get you out?
I want to get a look at those EEG tracings.
How do you feel?
Not bad.
I hallucinated like a son of a bitch.
A variety of dream states, mystical states...
a lot of religious allegory, mostly out of Revelation.
You were in there close to five hours.
It felt like an hour.
I'd like to try that myself sometime.
You should. You'll like it.
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post #13488 of 28163
1/29/06 at 5:24pm
Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind?, Flatliners?

Toki ni,
seireki sen happyaku hachijuu kuunen...
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post #13489 of 28163
1/29/06 at 5:35pm
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2 out of 3 Chris... it's about 10 years older.
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post #13490 of 28163
1/29/06 at 5:39pm
I've never seen it, but is that from Fantastic Voyage?
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post #13491 of 28163
1/29/06 at 5:57pm
Ah, Altered States then.

LDDb - IMDb combination search! I know it's cheating, but it's quite a trick anyway.
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post #13492 of 28163
1/29/06 at 6:01pm
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post #13493 of 28163
1/29/06 at 7:46pm
I've never even seen Altered States except its DVD cover and it looks interesting enough for me to rent it.

My list bug has caught on!

Thanks for contributing to my thread for Special Editions, Steve-man. If any of you other fellow droogs would like to add a list it'd also be more than welcome.

Here's a random thing I'd like others opinions about... I organise my number, i.e. 12 Monkeys, at the top of lists and not where it might go alphabetically. 12 Monkeys goes at the beginning and not in the "T's" section of my collection. Other people might be different but I figure that's just me. Same goes for whether or not the case is in an AlphaPak or Snap-Case. The Digi-Paks are a whole 'nother matter altogether because they don't have a uniform thickness and other factors. I'll take newer pictures of my collection to better state or something my particular issues on it.
And I seriously need to get a wider DVD rack, shelf thing...
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post #13494 of 28163
1/29/06 at 8:30pm
My shelving arrangements tend to be rather fluid, because I tend to load to capacity, and so have to re-arrange when something new comes along -- and, of course, being for LaserDiscs, aren't a direct comparison to yours. That said:

As far as sorting the discs on the shelf, first I segregate by groups. The biggest distinction is 30cm versus smaller discs. I have some 12 by 36 inch shelves, and the big discs go on those, in "4-sort" wire divider racks intended for dinner plates. The smaller discs, 20 cm and 12 cm [CD size] go on an 8-inch shelf with a few CDs, held in place by a bookend.
After segregating by size, I separate the Japanese animation discs from everything else [it's about a 19-to-1 ratio]. "Miscellaneous" gets one rack, with the slots assigned to: general non-anime; "rotted" bad discs I'm keeping for some reason; for-sale; and spare plastic-lined paper inner sleeves.
At the moment I have the Japanese discs in a separate rack, because they just fill one, and the American boxsets in another [which they do not fill], and the run-of-the-mill American discs in three more. More than likely, in a couple of weeks or so, I'm going to desegregate them, and have all anime discs filed together. The NADIA PERFECT COLLECTION box, however, has to sit on the shelf in one of the spaces between racks, to avoid damage.

The anime discs I alphabetise by title with a distinct "word-first" bias, because I am a human being and not a machine. [Shocking, I know.] Numbers which are spelled out get alphabetised with the rest; figures go to the end. Thus, "Ten Little Gall Force" goes ahead of "Tenchi Muyo", but "3x3 Eyes" comes after "You're Under Arrest". When dealing with series, I group all the discs of one series together, under the series title, and then sort within that group by volume order. When there are multiple related series, they are sorted in chronological order [story time, not release order] under the alphabetical rank corresponding to the chronologically first series. Thus, "AD POLICE Files", "Bubblegum Crisis", and "Bubblegum Crash" are grouped in that order, under A.

On the other hand, when keeping my collection list, everything is in catalogue-number order.

EDIT: Yikes! New page! Everybody duck!
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post #13495 of 28163
1/30/06 at 5:20am
Quote:
Yikes! New page! Everybody duck!



QUACK! QUACK!
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post #13496 of 28163
1/30/06 at 10:52am
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Listen to me! Killing a few hostages is not sufficient!
The Americans must be made to suffer.
We must humiliate them.
You do not go far enough, General Amin.
We must strip their entrails out and drag them to Damascus,
until they include us in the peace process.
Nonsense! This solution is not bold enough for Libya.
I say wipe out Washington and New York.
What? And spoil three years of good PR?
The Americans believe I'm a nice guy.
In some of their polls, I'm more popular than their president!
Gentlemen! Gentlemen! This is getting us nowhere.
If we do nothing else this week,
we must conceive at least one terrorist act
that will show all the world
that the United States, the great Satan,
is but a paper tiger - a weak nation,
a weak people, a people ripe for destruction.
Cowards, no longer willing to fight.
I knew it!
Hey, who are you?
"..................................."

- What's the next line? Anyone? -
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post #13497 of 28163
1/30/06 at 12:01pm
I was watching a bit of The Final Solution last night. At least, I think that's what it was. It's in interesting movie, but disturbing at the same time, to even think that a human being could concieve of what the Germans did to the Jews.
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post #13498 of 28163
1/30/06 at 12:43pm
Allright, so I think its a prerequisite for being a Testy Droog that you love movies, so I dont think I need to go into a bunch of describing why I am strongly considering going to film school.

I have booked a tour at FullSail in Florida for Febuary of this year. I cannot think of anything I might be more passionate about than working to create movies. I know it was expresed by someone in here not too long ago, that the extras spoil their movie experience. But for me, it just enhances it and adds that much more "awe" to it. Seeing how movies are made, I always wind up saying "I am going to do that someday".

So I am going to call a friend of mine who works in Hollywood (has had secondary roles in mission impossible, the west wing...), take the tour of the school, and possibly make the leap into it.

Going from the married with children, homeowner, church trustee, 9-5 worker lifestyle to going back to school fulltime would be a big change for me and my family, but I could see it as being really re-vitalizing for us all. One cool thing that a friend who is already enrolled told me is that it is primarily filled with late 20's early 30's people. As someone who tried college once (and wasnt ready for it at 18) I am now in a position to suck them dry for whatever I can get out of it and do it to the maxx.

Anyway, any of you guys have any opinions on getting into the "film biz", that school (fullsail), or the idea in general.
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post #13499 of 28163
1/30/06 at 1:20pm
Time once again for my weekly post...

Check out my new set of wheels, a Nirve beach cruiser. These are hand made right here in Fountain Valley and they ride like a limo. I love riding down to the beach and along the surf. Now I can throw out my Walmart POS bike and ride in style.




This is the one my daughter picked out...



So, any you testy droogs do anything fun over the weekend? My wife and I went to a silent auction gala for my daughters school on Friday night. It was fun, I was high bidder on a Hurley clothing line basket for my daughter. Got drunk, danced till 2 am and then crashed. We went with 3 other couples so it was a hoot. I haven't had that much fun in a long time. Even got to see some T&A thanks to the drunk neighbors we went with.

Couldn't do much else for the rest of the weekend, had to recoup.
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post #13500 of 28163
1/30/06 at 2:06pm
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Oscar Nominations tomorrow! I predict Star Wars III-Revenge of the Sith will get top noms. Best Picture, Best Director (George Lucas), Best Actor (Ewan McGregor), Best Actor (Hayden Christensensen), Best Actress (Natalie Portman), Best Supporting Actor (Ian McWhatsisname), Best Script (George Lucas), Best Effects (ILM), Best Music (you know who!) and worst utterance of the word "Nooooooo!" in a movie.

After careful thought here are my top 5 picks for Best Picture noms tomorrow.

Revenge of the Sith
Stealth
The Island
Batman Begins
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
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