Recent Movie Purchases

[Jack]

Stargate Atlantis season 1-4 on Blu ray.  Show really looks fantastic, though some of the CGI looks a bit low-res.  Kind of a favorite sci-fi show of mine, really like the characters and there are only a handful of bad episodes.

[Trevor]

I ordered the following on Monday:

Wanted Dead Or Alive (Rutger Hauer)

I won't be getting this now: out of stock.  

[Allhallowsday]

I ordered the following on Monday:
The Changeling (1980)
Ghostbusters 1 SE
Psycho (Hitchcock)
The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer)
Wanted Dead Or Alive (Rutger Hauer)
And this: my first Bluray:

I bought it to replace my VHS: the Bluray cost 50% less than the DVD!

I like that movie, and though I have not read the source material, I understand it is another example of SINATRA changing and improving the original ending! 

[Trevor]

I ordered the following on Monday:
The Changeling (1980)
Ghostbusters 1 SE
Psycho (Hitchcock)
The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer)
Wanted Dead Or Alive (Rutger Hauer)
And this: my first Bluray:

I bought it to replace my VHS: the Bluray cost 50% less than the DVD!

I like that movie, and though I have not read the source material, I understand it is another example of SINATRA changing and improving the original ending! 

I wouldn't know about improving the ending of the book - David Westheimer's book is a pulse-pounding adventure and it has a happy ending showing the POWs escaping to Switzerland and 'Von' Ryan lives. The film for me is a bit of a let down but it is a good film if you haven't read the book.   

[Trevor]

Wanted Dead Or Alive is out of stock: bummer. 

[Javakoala]

Wanted Dead Or Alive is out of stock: bummer. 

That has to be one of the best roles Gene Simmons ever played. And Mel Harris...man, now I want to buy it!   

[Jack]

Caught a few minutes of this on TV the other day and it looked kind of good.

[Trevor]

Caught a few minutes of this on TV the other day and it looked kind of good.

It was made in South Africa and yes, it is pretty good, directed by Neil Marshall.

[JaseSF]

Really enjoyed what I've watched of this so far. Heard Trevor praise it quite a few times in the past. Reminds me a little of "The Sixth Sense" series that was eventually cut up and repackaged as Night Gallery episodes in syndication. Psychic phenomenon was kind of a trendy thing in the 70s it seems.

[Raffine]

I've seen already DRAGONWYCK several times and it's an OK sleek Joeseph Mankiewicz Jane Eyre-type melodrama with Vincent Price as the evil master of the house and Gene Tierney as his ever suffering bride. Nice Alfred Newman score.

The real gem is a newly restored CHANDU THE MAGICIAN featuring an at his prime Bela Lugosi as the mad genius Roxor and some nifty effects by William Cameron Menzes and gorgeous photography by James Wong Howe.

Also great is DR. RENAULT'S SECRET featuring George Zucco as one of his very mad scientists and J. Carroll Naish channeling Lon Chaney, Sr. as his ape man creation.

[Chainsawmidget]

Picked up a Universal classic Four pack with Dracula, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, and Creature from the Black Lagoon.  I actually arleady had Dracula and Frankenstein, it was just cheaper getting them this way. 

[Trevor]

Really enjoyed what I've watched of this so far. Heard Trevor praise it quite a few times in the past. Reminds me a little of "The Sixth Sense" series that was eventually cut up and repackaged as Night Gallery episodes in syndication. Psychic phenomenon was kind of a trendy thing in the 70s it seems.

That has to be the most frightening TV series ever and it still scares me to this day, especially the episodes Visitations and Powers of Darkness. I must have waited years for a second series and nothing ever came.

Truly frightening, disturbing and eerie. Great television indeed. 

[jimpickens]

Dear God No special addition, Dark Of The Sun, and The Octagon.

[Trevor]

Dark Of The Sun

That's a film I would like to have in my collection. 

[FatFreddysCat]

In the mail from SwapaDVD. Don't judge me.



I blame my decade long crush on Tara Reid.