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post #13561 of 28163
2/2/06 at 8:07pm
Watchu talkin bout street crud? I wap that dam stuff offn ma shoes fo I come in da house!

M'kay, sorry about that folks, just a little visit from Captain Normalcy...

I did it, I changed my LD shelving setup. I'm not quite sure I'm happy with what I changed it to, but itme will tell. Basically I took the opportunity to move some discs from a high shelf directly above the LD player to a lower shelf off to one side, while I was in the process of mixing my Japanese and US discs [in expectation of some new items in the next month or two].
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post #13562 of 28163
2/2/06 at 8:14pm
I mostly grabbed that list from the title screenshot site www.shillpages.com
Now, without further adieu, I bring to you the N-Z list of MEGA DOOM!

Naked Lunch (1991)
The Name of the Rose (1986)
National Treasure (2004)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Near Dark (1987)
Nick of Time (1995)
Nighthawks (1981)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Ninotchka (1939)
The Ninth Configuration (1980)
Nomads (1986)
Nosferatu: A Symphony Of Horror (1922)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1978)
Notorious (1946)
The Oblong Box (1969)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Ocean's Eleven (1960)
October Sky (1999)
The Odessa File (1974)
Of Mice and Men (1939)
The Omega Man (1971)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)
Onibaba (1964)
Open Range (2003)
The Outsiders (1983)
Over the Edge (1979)
Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
Panic Room (2002)
Patton (1970)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
The People That Time Forgot (1977)
The People Under the Stairs (1991)
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
A Perfect Murder (1998)
Phantasm (1979)
Phantasm II (1988)
Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994)
Phantasm Oblivion (1998)
The Phantom (1996)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Phantom of the Opera (1943)
The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
Pi (1998)
Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Popcorn (1991)
Prince of Darkness (1987)
Prince Valiant (1954)
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
Quest for Fire (1981)
Rabid (1977)
Rampo (1994)
The Raven (1963)
Ray (2004)
Rebecca (1940)
Red Dragon (2002)
Red Sonja (1985)
The Red Violin (1998)
Reign of Fire (2002)
The Relic (1997)
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)
Repo Man (1984)
Return of the Fly (1959)
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Returner (2003)
Richard III (1955)
The Robe (1953)
Robinson Crusoe (1954)
Robinson Crusoe (1997)
Rollerball (1975)
Rope (1948)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Saboteur (1942)
Sahara (2005)
Salem's Lot (1979)
Saturn 3 (1980)
Scanners (1981)
The Scorpion King (2002)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Secret Agent (1936)
The Secret Agent (1996)
Secret Window (2004)
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1987)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
1776 (1972)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
Shallow Grave (1994)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Shocker (1989)
Shock Waves (1977)
Sid and Nancy (1986)
Siegfried (1924)
Signs (2002)
Silent Running (1971)
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
Sin City (2005)
Single White Female (1992)
Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
Sleuth (1972)
Solaris (1972)
Solaris (2002)
Somewhere in Time (1980)
Sorcerer (1977)
Soylent Green (1973)
Spartacus (1960)
Spartan (2004)
Spellbound (1945)
Stage Fright (1950)
The Stepford Wives (1975)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Straw Dogs (1971)
Sunrise (1927)
Sunset Blvd (1950)
Suspicion (1941)
[b]Swimming With Sharks (1994)
The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
Taps (1981)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
Tarzan Escapes (1936)
Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)
Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941)
Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Terror Beneath the Sea (1966)
The Testament of Dr Mabuse (1932)
Them! (1954)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
The Thing From Another World (1951)
Thirteen Days (2000)
13 Ghosts (1960)
This Island Earth (1954)
The 300 Spartans (1962)
THX 1138 (1971)
The Time Machine (1960)
Titus (1999)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
Topaz (1969)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Torn Curtain (1966)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Trancers (1985)
12 Angry Men (1957)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Under Fire (1983)
Unforgiven (1992)
[b]Used Cars (1980)
Vampyr (1932)
Van Helsing (2004)
The Vanishing (1988)
Vertigo (1958)
Videodrome (1983)
The Vikings (1958)
The Village (2004)
Village of the Damned (1960)
Village of the Damned (1995)
Virus (1980)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
Wag the Dog (1997)
Wait Until Dark (1967)
Walkabout (1971)
A Walk on the Moon (1999)
War and Peace (1968)
Wargames (1983)
War-Gods of the Deep (1965)
The War Lord (1965)
The Warriors (1979)
Watership Down (1978)
Westworld (1973)
When Worlds Collide (1951)
Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
The Wicker Man (1973)
Willard (2003)
The World According to Garp (1982)
X (1963)
Xtro (1983)
Yangtse Incident (1957)
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
Zardoz (1974)
Zorba the Greek (1964)
Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939)
Zulu (1964)
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post #13563 of 28163
2/2/06 at 8:36pm
I can't believe you didn't include Repo Man. As I posted in Steve Tannehill's "What should I review next?" thread, it's an amazing movie. It's not amazingly good, nor is it amazingly bad -- it's just amazing. After it's over, you're left sitting there, saying "My God! What was that?".
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post #13564 of 28163
2/3/06 at 6:58am
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I'm amazed that you're amazed Chris, Repo Man isn't anime, it's live-action.
The first time I saw Repo Man you guys were sittin' in front of the tv watching Bugs Bunny and gnawing on your fudgsicle! (that last bit was a quote from an upcoming special edition of a 1983 classic, which film, anybody?) A cult film, directed by Brit director Alex Cox who is only interested in making 'cult' films.

What is a cult film? Is Star Wars 'cult'? Nope, a cult film is a movie that has a small but devoted group of obsessive fans. Cult films can be low budget like Repo Man or expensive flops like The Postman.

Ray are you randomly adding films to your lists, Zorro's Fighting Legion? Come on how many of those films have you actually heard of before today? The Yangtse Incident? [grabs Ray by the collar] The Yangtse Incident?? Messing Ray, nice list. I have a good chunk of them here in my 1500+ dvd collection, and for the most part blissfully free of foreign cinema (ooh). Chris might wonder where all the anime titles have gone.
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post #13565 of 28163
2/3/06 at 7:02am
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Ray are you randomly adding films to your lists, Zorro's Fighting Legion? Come on how many of those films have you actually heard of before today? The Yangtse Incident? [grabs Ray by the collar] The Yangtse Incident??
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post #13566 of 28163
2/3/06 at 2:17pm
I'm very, very fond of the 1974 John Boorman film Zardoz. In fact, we here at Home Theater Forum were responsible for convincing Peter Staddon over at Fox to commit the film to DVD. We are proud of that.

Man, I tell you, the upcoming war between Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD has me down a bit.

Wonder what films I should screen this weekend. I'm thinking of doing an all-out Marx Brothers thing. Or maybe I'll just look at A Night at the Opera.

After weeks of chilly weather, it's approaching 80 degrees today here in Los Angeles. Nice.

My cat, Attila the Cat, is really doing nicely. Very affectionate. Plays real hard. Runs all over the place. Wakes me up at 5 every morning -- even though I prefer to get up at 6:30, but never mind.

Well, gotta go fellas. Been nice yammering at you. Please be careful. This is, perhaps, the largest-ever thread at Home Theater Forum. Wow. So, anywa
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post #13567 of 28163
2/3/06 at 2:56pm
Mmm, I remember being in LA, in Januari, back in 1981. We were actually sun-bathing on Jan, 21th at Long Beach and on the 24th at Santa Monica.

"Weeks of chilly weather", you say? Something makes me think you mean to say it was actually between 70 and 75 degrees. Terribly chilly, Jack!




Cees
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post #13568 of 28163
2/3/06 at 3:11pm
I know we haven't had any winter at all. I think the temperature has dropped below freezing once or twice, but it has been so dry you wouldn't know. Winter is our rainy season here [not counting summer thunderstorms] and we're in the middle of a record drought. There's been intermittent rain the past few days, but before that it had gotten so dry that it just sucked the moisture out of you, and water mains were breaking in the ground because the earth was so dry.
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post #13569 of 28163
2/3/06 at 3:17pm
Thread Starter 
Jack! Nice to see you again! Zardoz! Yeah! Very um 'cultish', that's the word! You can't go wrong with the Marx Brothers Jack, A Night at the Opera or Duck Soup, their two best IMO.

Cees! Nice to see you again too! I'm watching a documentary on Josef Mengele aka Dr.Death. Gruesome stuff.

Quickie quiz: Which famous actor has played Dr. Mengele on screen?



Hmmmm [scratches head] what film can this be?
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post #13570 of 28163
2/3/06 at 3:32pm
Gregory Peck, in The Boys From Brazil — which sounds like it ought to be about a football [soccer] team, doesn't it?

And I know I've seen that… thing… before -- it looks like a STAR WARS prop, but I'm not sure that's it.
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post #13571 of 28163
2/3/06 at 4:44pm
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DUNE


I think...
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post #13572 of 28163
2/3/06 at 4:52pm
Yeah, that would do it — that assassin-probe thing that shows up in the first chapter? Never seen the film, so I guess my memory's played me false. It looks so much like Boba Fett's head, though…
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post #13573 of 28163
2/3/06 at 5:03pm
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Ray, yes it was Dune, that was the robot fighter Paul Atreides practices with on Caladan.

Chris, yes it was Gregory Peck who played the evil Dr. Josef Mengele in The Boys from Brazil, trying to clone Hitler, and out to stop him Laurence Olivier as Ezra Lieberman (loosely based on real life Nazi Hunter Simon Weisenthal who died last year). Good film, worth seeking out. I think it was one of the first films to deal with cloning. The dvd is so old you can find it for as little as $6 if you shop around, thats cheaper than renting it isn't it?
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post #13574 of 28163
2/3/06 at 6:10pm
Oh, I have a copy of the book Anyway, I think DVD rentals around here run about $2, if I really felt the need to see it.
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post #13575 of 28163
2/3/06 at 6:23pm
Thread Starter 
Yep I have the paperback somewhere on my bookshelves, written by Ira Levin, who also wrote the recently remade The Stepford Wives, but his most famous novel was the chilling Rosemary's Baby -
"What have you done to him? What have you done to his eyes?", "He has his father's eyes.".
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post #13576 of 28163
2/4/06 at 7:51am
Thread Starter 
[pirouettes into frame]In the paper today, a theory as to what wiped out the dinosaurs, it wasn't an asteroid, they turned gay! And the columnist hinted that the same fate awaited mankind. [prances out of frame]
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post #13577 of 28163
2/4/06 at 7:53am
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New Zealand-born director Lee Tamahori, whose films include the James Bond hit "Die Another Day," has been arrested on a sex charge while wearing a woman's dress and a wig, officials said on Friday.

Tamahori, 55, was arrested January 8 in a police sting operation and charged with prostitution and loitering in a public place, City Attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan said.

The filmmaker is accused of offering to perform oral sex on an undercover police officer in exchange for money.

Tamahori had been set to be arraigned on Thursday, but the hearing was postponed until February 24. If convicted of the misdemeanor charges, he faces a maximum of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, Mateljan said.

Bond Director arrested
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post #13578 of 28163
2/4/06 at 10:40am
Did you see the SONG Steve Tannehill wrote about trying to review Dune!?
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post #13579 of 28163
2/4/06 at 2:03pm
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Shocking, positively shocking!

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post #13580 of 28163
2/4/06 at 11:09pm
DAMMIT! I'm going to have to buy DUNE: Extended Edition next week. And what the hell is up with the new font choice for the forum?
I've been watching the Gojira Millenium Series (1999-2004) and so far I've really liked them. The remaining last two are the ones I've yet to see from the series but am highly anticipating their arrival for watching shortly. Sort of pisses me off that Gojira 2000 is only available dubbed here...
I'm seriously hoping I'll be able to be in the Warner chat this year. Question I'd ask is if there're any plans for Special Editions for The NeverEnding Story, Beetlejuice and the Mad Max films. Those four are 1980's films I'd buy very fucking quick-like if they were released as Special Editions. Could also mention it in the Warner thread in Software. And I'm highly ecstatic that Superman II, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and numerous others are FINALLY receiving the Special Edition treatment. More should be said in that thread anyway.

Here's a list of really excellent film sequels which is inspired by an older Empire magazine issue. Alot of choices are my own so yup. (Completely random list though. No certain order since I'm just naming them off...)

ALIENS - Special Edition
ALIEN³ - Special 'Assembly Cut' Edition
STAR WARS: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
STAR WARS: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
STAR WARS: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
GoldenEye
Spider-Man 2
STAR TREK II: The Wrath of Khan - Director's Edition
STAR TREK IV: The Voyage Home
STAR TREK VI: The Undiscovered Country
STAR TREK: First Contact
Superman II
Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Director's Cut
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
DIE HARD: With a Vengeance
Mission: Impossible 2
A Better Tomorrow II
Young Guns II

I think that's enough for now.
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post #13581 of 28163
2/5/06 at 9:41am
Damn, so the show got canceled Friday night. I've been nothing short of a hermit this weekend. I finish my Netflixed Six Feet Under season 1 last night. What an incredible show. Then I say shit, it will be two or three days before the discs for season 2 arrive. I head to Blockbuster and picked up Sin City. Zowie! what an incredible film. I woke this morning and immediately watched it again. Well, now I'm off to Best Buy, when they open, to pick up the 2disc Uncut & Extended.
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post #13582 of 28163
2/5/06 at 9:52am
Sin City sure is great, Zen, one of my faves from last year. The uncut/extended version gives you some extra scenes in the three main stories, some of which are pretty interesting (like Carla Gugino's character appearing in the Bruce Willis story), but I can see why they decided to cut them out for the theatrical feature. The uncut/extended thing doesn't have a "play all" option, just the separate stories, each with their own final credit roll (which is kind of dumb).

There are some cool extras, the featurettes and commentaries give you some good stuff. And I'd never read of any of the comic books before, so it was cool to get The Hard Goodbye (the Marv story) included with the 2-disc SE. Even though I've never been into comic books, I've been reading all the other Sin City stories from the library this weekend, and it turns out to take not much time at all to read the entire Sin City ouevre (gotta get some goatee-stroking in there). There are only six full-length comic books, plus one collection of short stories. In chronological order, the books are:

The Hard Goodbye (the Marv story in the movie)
A Dame to Kill For
The Big Fat Kill (the Dwight story in the movie)
That Yellow Bastard (the Hartigan story in the movie)
Booze, Broads, and Bullets (short story collection)
Family Values
Hell and Back

It's already been announced that A Dame to Kill For will be part of what goes into the movie sequel, I started a thread about it in movies. It's a great story, I definitely recommend reading all of them.

P.S. Zen, I forgot to mention that the dialogue and narration in the books sometimes even reminds me of the way you post, so I *definitely* recommend that you read them!
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post #13583 of 28163
2/5/06 at 11:35am
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Well we finally saw Spielberg's latest opus, Munich, good film, good acting, and mercifully not a gay cowboy anywhere to be seen, but it was overlong. Guys this isn't King Kong! 2 hours would have sufficed!
There wasn't many surprises as I'd read every review and peeked under every spoiler and to top it all I watched an excellent documentary called Mossad's Revenge recently. But anyway we were still pretty much riveted for most of it's 160mins. It's the only Best Picture nominee I've seen and the only one I was interested in seeing, the others I'll catch on cable when they pop up eventually.
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post #13584 of 28163
2/5/06 at 11:40am
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post #13585 of 28163
2/5/06 at 11:51am
Glad you liked Munich, Steve. My first contribution to the official discussion thread for that one was possibly one of the longest posts in history, but if you have a few days to spare, here it is.
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post #13586 of 28163
2/5/06 at 12:20pm
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Humungous post Haggai, you're obviously very interested in the subject, interesting read.
I also have the film 21 Hours at Munich here to watch, made in 1976 and starring William Holden.

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post #13587 of 28163
2/5/06 at 12:57pm
I should go and see Munich before it isn't in theatres anymore.
No comments about my Godzilla watching either or my sequel list?
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post #13588 of 28163
2/5/06 at 1:59pm
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Well Ray I've seen every Godzilla film ever made, even the Japanese ones! If that didn't confuse you I don't know what will. I liked the recent spate of Godzilla bashfests, the effects are much better and the cacophany of roars, crashes and explosions are now in 5.1 surround. CG has reared it's ugly head in the series causing many sleepless nights for the monster-suited 'actors'. I enjoyed Godzilla 2000, and also the recent Final Wars, as for dubbing on these films, I don't really care, it's Godzilla not Rashomon.

Good list of sequels Ray but you missed one, a really good one, better than the first. Which one?

Clue 1: Post-Nucleur Holocaust.
Clue 2: Max Rockatansky.
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post #13589 of 28163
2/5/06 at 2:12pm
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior


I can't believe I missed that one!

Oh, well.

I prefer to watch my foreign language films in their original audio soundtrack with "Engrish" subtitles. Guess you could call it a habit of mine. Foreign I guess meaning languages other than the ones I know and believe you me those are very miniscule in number at the moment. Hell, I even have subtitles on alot of the times just for the hell of it. Guess it's mainly to catch the character names, speelings, locations, random noises and a myriad of other things...

I'm highly anticipating Firewall, Harrison Ford's next picture. It appears that Indiana Jones 4 is coming closer to reality now than it has ever before. Holy shit, I think it's going to be flat-out kick ass!
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post #13590 of 28163
2/5/06 at 2:26pm
Godzilla? I enjoyed the recent Millénium series more than the films from the 70's & 80's - early 90's. But not as much as my favorites from the 50's-60's.

I haven't seen any of the Best Picture nominees. First time in decades that's happened. I really want to see Munich but since I waited this long I might as well just buy the DVD when it comes out. Don't have much interest in catching the others, though I suppose they'll get a viewing from me when the wife rents 'em.

I did manage to catch a few 2005 films over the past week.

Let's see there was Oliver Twist with Ben Kingsley as Fagin (I preferred the '48 version with Alec Guinness in the role)

then Corpse Bride A blind buy and I liked it quite a bit. Songs weren't as good as Nightmare Before Christmas but this wasn't as much of a musical as that was.

Legend of Zorro was a bit of a disappointment. Too much bickering between Zeta Jones and Banderas. Then you've got the kid. [GROANS] Could've been much better.

Well I'm off to watch the Super Bowl.
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