Last Movie You Bought?

I never saw DARK CITY, which would be the best version to watch first?

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I never saw DARK CITY, which would be the best version to watch first?

Director's Cut. You don't even need to see the theatrical unless you're really interested. It's basically the version where the studio came in and ****ed things up.

Actually, either version. The Theatrical I saw first and still fell in love with the film anyway. It has an unnecessary narration opening but otherwise the DC edits are vast and very subtle. There's actually quite a lot of editing involved in the DC but all akin to a Director getting to make his preferred edit without changing any meaning. Color timing is different however.

Jaws and The Bridge on the River Kwai. On Laserdisc. Yep. They were dirt cheap and I couldn't resist.

BR of BULLITT for $7.88 (it had that Art of Editing doc on it, which I wanted as much as the movie!)

and the BR of TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY on ebay for under $10 (well, under 13 w/ shipping) ... more than I've spent on any movie in quite awhile, but shoot, I've already rented it twice after seeing it in the theater.

The Complete Metropolis Blu-ray.
Dressed to Kill Blu-ray.

I thought the DRESSED TO KILL BD only had one version of the film and no extras, but I saw that it had everything from the DVD and ordered it. Pity the CARRIE BD didn't carry over the extras.

DRIVE and BRAM STOKER'S SPATULA, BRs $5 a pop, plus DVD of GHOST WORLD for a buck.

Been meaning to rewatch GHOST WORLD for nearly a decade, and even if it doesn't measure up, no big loss.

I dig GHOST WORLD.

Target had it for 7.50. I love these multi-film sets when they're on sale.

THE GAME (1997)
Michael Douglas

On Criterion's special edition Blu-Ray. I've been waiting for this film to come onto Blu-Ray for, like, 15 years.

The White Tuxedo wrote:

Target had it for 7.50. I love these multi-film sets when they're on sale.

That's a great buy, but I hate the packaging. You'd think Hammer had nothing to do with any of those films.

Although by the look of it, those are the original posters on the DVD cover.

Looks fine to me.

At least it ain't photoshop.

Just got Ill Manors on blu-ray.

UK DK.

Got KISS KISS, BANG BANG on blu for $7.99.

Picked up the Promethues 4-disc Special edition, along with blu-ray copies of YOLT, DAF, OHMSS, LALD TSWLM and GE

The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance, pilgrim

This very affordable box set (only $17), which contains:

THE RAVEN
MADHOUSE
MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
PIT AND THE PENDULUM
TALES OF TERROR

And then two other two-packs:

THE HAUNTED PALACE/THE TOWER OF LONDON
THE TOMB OF LIGEIA/AN EVENING OF EDGAR ALLAN POE

Heh, I got a Poe DVD too. In addition to my new ROSEMARY'S BABY Blu-ray I spotted this for 5 bucks...



Thanks to Best Buy for combining their Blu-rays and DVD's or I'd never have spotted it. I'd watched the film on Quicktime files that I made from a friend's DVDs (so I have the commentaries and everything).

This one has PIT in anamorphic too. Pity it doesn't have MASQUE instead of TALES.

You may have the better deal in the long run, harmsway. MASQUE is an arm and a leg in every other release.

The White Tuxedo wrote:

MASQUE is an arm and a leg in every other release.

Yeah, I noticed. I was also trying to get a DVD copy of THE DEVIL RIDES OUT, and it looked like even a used copy would cost me an arm and a leg.

ROSEMARY'S BABY on Criterion blu. Watched about the first couple of minutes just to get a little preview out of it and I like what I've seen, I won't watch it til next Tuesday when I run a movie night with friends.

October


Body Of Lies / Where The Wild Things Are*

* Dutch title: Max en de Maximonsters


Artificial Intelligence / Mystic River

Latest:

Criterion Blu-ray editions of De Palma's BLOW OUT and Kurosawa's SEVEN SAMURAI.

Both were long overdue.

SUNSET BOULEVARD on Blu-ray, but I had to order it from Amazon because of course Best Buy didn't carry it.

The John Wayne True Grit

Charmed series 1 & 2
Jaws 2

Christmas is coming closer as is Sinterklaas and the kids have wishes too.