Tim, the cue you're talking about (I assume it's when Luke bows his head in tears when Anakin dies on the Death Star) is actually still available on the ROTJ:SE 2CD set that was released by RCA in 1997 and has recently been reissued (with less interesting liner notes, but hey it's got screen...
Well, I guess I'll contribute the first horror story to the thread... I arrived home on Wednesday evening from work (which was awful in and of itself, but that's neither here nor there) to find the package from New Line sitting against my apartment door. "Hooray!", I thought. Until I noticed...
I'm curious as to how they're actually going to ship these. I was at Target on Friday and saw the box set of the three EEs on the shelves, and I could not figure out a way to send them without incurring possible damage in shipment, unless they went the extra mile with the packing material. I...
Well, I recently placed an order for five CDs from them and sprung for Priority shipping, since my last few orders took a ridiculous amount of time to reach me (up to three weeks in one case and no less than two weeks). I placed the preorder for these discs about a month in advance so they would...
I guess I'll be the sole voice in favor of money orders here: I've sent them to DVD Empire many times when I haven't wanted to use a credit card and they've always been very fast and very friendly about it. It usually takes me about three days for a MO to reach their offices, and they often ship...
I always saw the "commands of the voice" to have double meanings. "If you build it, he will come" obviously refers to Ray building the baseball field, but Ray himself thinks it was done to let Shoeless Joe come back; in actuality, it was built to allow him a chance to reconnect with his...
Dead Kennedys: either "Plastic Surgery Disasters" or "Frankenchrist." Both are excellent, and the CD of PSD includes the "In God We Trust, Inc." EP. Misfits: as Aric stated, the coffin box set is probably the best way to go with them, but for a cheaper alternative, go with the "Collection 1"...
Dead Kennedys: either "Plastic Surgery Disasters" or "Frankenchrist." Both are excellent, and the CD of PSD includes the "In God We Trust, Inc." EP. Misfits: as Aric stated, the coffin box set is probably the best way to go with them, but for a cheaper alternative, go with the "Collection 1"...
Be forewarned: this is all speculation and might not make a whole lot of sense. :) Well, the impression that I got was that since Doc Graham had lived a fulfilling life beyond baseball (as a doctor, naturally), he appeared as an astral projection to Ray in Minnesota in his "final form" (that...
Be forewarned: this is all speculation and might not make a whole lot of sense. :) Well, the impression that I got was that since Doc Graham had lived a fulfilling life beyond baseball (as a doctor, naturally), he appeared as an astral projection to Ray in Minnesota in his "final form" (that...
I actually stopped going to the theater after "Return of the King" due to the guy sitting next to me and his overly frisky girlfriend to his left. I told the story in another thread, but basically, she kept grabbing at his junk during the film and giggling about it, he kept moving away from her...
I paid $20.66 (after tax) for the three-disc version at Wal*Mart yesterday afternoon. They had devoted a good portion of their "new releases" endcap display to the film, and it was about 50-50 widescreen/pan-and-scan. All the copies on the shelf, both WS and PS, included the bonus third disc...
Thanks for the review Matt. I've been very interested in seeing BR2 since I first heard of it (I really enjoyed the first film), and was wondering when and if Starmax would release an NTSC/All Region/English subbed version. Am I correct in assuming that this 2-disc set is almost along the same...
Sorry it took me so long to reply to you, John. Life intervened and all that jazz. :)
Oh yeah, I knew that. It's just that many of the people I talked to about the film right after it came out didn't get that at all, and I was having to explain it to them all the time. Merely a jab at those...
The one that nobody understands my immense love for is "A.I." It's my favorite movie of the last ten years or so, and I have yet to meet anyone in "real life" who feels as positively about it as I do. Most of the people I tell of my admiration for the film say "Oh, that sucked" or some other...
A while back, someone on the HTF suggested taking a dollar bill from a fullscreen advocate and ripping the ends off so it would be perfectly square in order to make the point about widescreen being better. Yes, it's a little extreme, but when all else fails, you can always relate something to...
Mr. Bungle's "Disco Volante" actually includes a hidden track along the lines of the "double groove" track you mentioned, Scott. On the CD, it's just part of track 3, but on the vinyl, you have to manually put the needle in the "hidden groove" to hear the song. The song is very good, and...
My main fear is that J6P will begin to see these articles and use them as an excuse for their own poor handling of their discs. If something goes wrong, it's automatically "rot" and someone else's fault. This goes along with my theory that people have no sense of personal responsibility and are...
Didn't mean for it to sound like I was saying you had, Randy. The second paragraph of my post was speaking more in general terms. My apologies if it came across as a personal thing, as it was not inteded to be so. :)
Randy, this might certainly be the case with a lot of people, but PDO came right out and admitted their mistake and have taken steps to rectify it, and in their particular case, it is a very widespread problem. I'm certainly glad that you seem to have lucked out and not had this happen to any of...
This is one I always wondered about, actually, given it was released a short time after "American Beauty" won the Oscar for Best Picture. I figured it would have capitalized on the Thora Birch factor, but it never did show up. The only reason I can think of off the top of my head (and I could...
I have to jump in on this... A.I.-Artificial Intelligence: probably my favorite film that doesn't involve a lightsaber so far this decade. I know a lot of people dislike it, but to me, it's simply magnificent, story-wise. A Bug's Life: the "forgotten" Pixar film. With all the hoopla around...
Thankfully I've never had any problems with DVD "rot" (other than my "A.I." DVD starting to pixellate about three or four months ago; DreamWorks sent me a free replacement copy a few weeks back-thanks to them!), but I had a few CDs that experienced "rot" (or what is referred to as "bronzing" on...
You know, I had no idea that this was even out on DVD until I found this thread yesterday. Very odd. I guess this shows how oblivious I am to a lot of things. Will definitely have to pick Season One up, as I've been all over the reruns on TVLand lately. Going off on a tangent here, and kind...
I've always viewed staying through the credits, extra footage or not, to be a sign of respect for the people who put so much time and energy into the film you've just watched. I've never had a problem sitting and watching the names roll by, but I very rarely get to do so. Why? The people who...
Most of the movies I have in my collection that are based on my childhood appreciation of them are ones that I still find great to this day. "E.T.", the Indiana Jones films, and "The Muppet Movie" are all films that I adored as a child and as I've grown up (literally, as opposed to...
You know, I could be mistaken on this one, but didn't Jesus (the South Park version) die in an episode a while back? If I remember correctly, on the episode where the kids went to Iraq to bring Christmas to the Iraqi children and save Santa Claus, wasn't Jesus shot and killed on the rooftop...
Don't know if this is the right thread for this, or if it's already been covered somewhere else, but it seems as if the eventual R1 release of "Wild at Heart" is going to be more or less bare-bones. I have no idea why MGM would skimp out on bonus material, especially after the wonderful job they...
Kind of a semi-related episode topic to "Beaver's Haircut" is one of my favorites, where Wally and a bunch of the other kids at school decide they're going to wear the new hip hairstyle that looks like Wolverine from the "X-Men" in a wind tunnel. As if the look of the hairdo isn't funny enough...