New Vhs tapes(new for me anyway...)

[RCMerchant]

 EMBRYO(1977) Rock Hudson grows a Doberman and Barbra Carraras from fetusus super fast.Too dam funny! I recommend it.
The SHOOTiING(1965) with Jack Nicholson and Warren Oates.Never seen it.Looks cool,so I bought it.
BLADE RUNNER(1982) Heard lotsa hullaballoo bout this,so I thought I'd take a chance.
I"M GONNA GET YOU SUCKA!(1988) I yusta find this LOL funny,but I guess it got played out for me.Got it for my kids.
WE WERE HEROS(2002)Never saw it.I like war movies,though.
FROGS(1972) When I was a kid,I went to the Strand to see this,and seems like half the kids in school were there,cuz the commercial with the hand hanging out of the frogs mouth was great.Kinda a let down-no man eating frogs.I like it,anyway!
  Picked these up at a place called Game Plaza in Paw Paw,Mich,for $2 apiece!

                                                             

[soylentgreen]

EMBRYO's a riot but FROGS! I love that one. 

Picked up the MGM dvd as soon as it rolled into Borders(where I worked at the time).  Joan Van Ark is distracting in a way that's hard to explain and it's awesome to see Sam Elliot in one of his early roles(sans cookie duster!) not on a horse and without a revolver strapped to him somewhere. 

Of course, Ray Milland sets the bar high on stubborn grumpy patriarchs.

It's one of my favorite eco-revenge films and makes for an awesome double-feature with Lieberman's SQUIRM.

[Menard]

Frogs was one for which I remember the advertising very well. When it came out at the theater, I was attending elementary school in Georgia. We had a school project one day where we took pictures we cut from local newspapers, then matched the pictures with human characteristics used in a story. I remember one of the kids using the ad for Frogs. The teacher looked at it puzzled and he replied (paraphrased) "Strength; it takes a lot of strength to do that.".

That's a great poster.

[trekgeezer]

My favorite scene in I'm Gonna Get You Sucka  is when Isaac Hayes falls down and the 15 different guns he's hidden on his person all go off and kill him.

[Yaddo 42]

The Shooting is an excellent atmospheric moody film. A minor classic, almost art really. Much bette than its humble low-budget shot on weekends genre origins would lead you to think. The same people shot another western the same way Ride in the Whirlwind, it's decent, but definitely the weaker sister of the two.

Blade Runner - is well known , so I'll let it speak for itself. Is it the original or the director's cut?

I'm Gonna..... - used to like this a lot, still has it's moments for me. Like the Chris Rock cameo in the rib joint. Kung Fu Joe's speech at the traffic stop to the cops then what follows, the confrontation with the mdiget gang in the giant hats, etc. But after this and In Living Color the Wayans (except for Damon at times) have gone way downhill. Less nepotism guys, only a few in the family have any talent, and they get dragged down by the other ones.

[RCMerchant]

Well,the box on BLADE RUNNER says THE DIRECTORS CUT and underneath that it says THE ORIGINAL CUT OF THE FUTURISTIC ADVENTURE.It's also the SPECIAL WIDESCREEN EDITION,and the running time is 117 minutes. What all this means...I honestly do not know.

[Jim H]

My favorite scene in I'm Gonna Get You Sucka  is when Isaac Hayes falls down and the 15 different guns he's hidden on his person all go off and kill him.

Actually, you find out later they "didn't hit anything vital" and he's still alive.

[Yaddo 42]

Well,the box on BLADE RUNNER says THE DIRECTORS CUT and underneath that it says THE ORIGINAL CUT OF THE FUTURISTIC ADVENTURE.It's also the SPECIAL WIDESCREEN EDITION,and the running time is 117 minutes. What all this means...I honestly do not know.

It's probably the version that I have on tape then. It deletes the narration by Harrison Ford's character, includes one short scene that ties in to a major plot point, and has a shorter and different ending. Don't want to give too much away if you haven't seen it before. I like this version better, on it's own as a film, and because it seems more in keeping with the spirit of the PKD book it was based on, the movie changes a lot.

[Torgo]

In the 70's in the states they actually paired up Frogs with Godzilla Vs. The Smog Monster as a double bill in a lot of drive-ins.

[peter johnson]

A small dissenting vote:
I didn't find the original theatrical release of Blade Runner to be all that bad -- I rented the directors' cut thinking it would be a vast improvement, and, to me, it wasn't --
Funny how there are so many different versions of some films --
Anyway, in whatever version you see it, it's a very fine & adventurous picture.
peter johnson/denny crane

[Yaddo 42]

I liked the original as well, but I do give the director's cut the edge for the change in ending and dropping the narration.

Supposedly according to some sources, even Harrison Ford hated the narration and tried to perform it in a very stilted style hoping they wouldn't use it.

But I agree it's worth seeing which ever version you have.