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| Ignatz Ratzkywatzky | Apr 20 2009, 08:43 PM Post #1546 |
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I took advantage of BORDERS' 50% off red tag DVD sale, and picked up the DEAN MARTIN & JERRY LEWIS COLLECTION VOL. 2 (You're Never Too Young / Artists and Models / Living It up / Pardners / Hollywood or Bust). It ended up being just $17 for all five films. |
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| MovieMan | Apr 21 2009, 06:13 AM Post #1547 |
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This week's choices: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Wanted. 21. Felon. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Apr 22 2009, 06:04 AM Post #1548 |
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And the Borders 50% off sale netted me Kon Ichikawa's Fires on the Plain (1959), Criterion #378 ($15) and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994), with Jennifer Jason Leigh as Dorothy Parker and Campbell Scott as Robert Benchley. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Apr 24 2009, 01:33 PM Post #1549 |
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Big haul today with that giant Murnau boxed set from Kino, with new restored editions of The Last Laugh, Nosferatu, Faust, Tartuffe, Finances of the Grand Duke, and The Haunted Castle. |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Apr 24 2009, 07:05 PM Post #1550 |
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I'm sooooo jealous. I couldn't rationalize spending that money when I already had four of the titles. Have fun, Mr. G -- after Griffith he is the guy who changed movies the most. Guy had an amazing imagination. Word of advice: don't watch The Haunted Castle first. It ain't what you think. |
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| MovieMan | Apr 26 2009, 04:21 PM Post #1551 |
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I just picked up: The Dukes of Hazzard, Series Seven - to complete the collection!! Hustle, Series four. The Dark Corner. The House on 92nd Street. The Man from La Mancha. The Flight of the Phoenix - the original James Stewart version!! |
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| Ignatz Ratzkywatzky | Apr 26 2009, 08:21 PM Post #1552 |
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Do you have The Moonrunners, the feature film on which the show was based? |
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| MovieMan | Apr 27 2009, 08:09 AM Post #1553 |
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That title isn't avalible on Region 2 yet.
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| JazzGuyy | Apr 27 2009, 08:18 AM Post #1554 |
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Don't you have a region-free player? I though everyone outside the U.S. all had region-free players. |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Apr 27 2009, 09:23 AM Post #1555 |
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Trouble is, if you play a Region 1 DVD in the UK, it's one FPS slower, which can make the greatest movie a drag. When we play a Region 2 movie here, it's one FPS faster, which -- not having perfect pitch -- I like a lot. |
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| MovieMan | Apr 27 2009, 11:14 AM Post #1556 |
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Having a Region free player would allow for copyright theft. A Region free player outside the US would allow all the Regions to be invalid and worthless. |
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| JazzGuyy | Apr 27 2009, 11:46 AM Post #1557 |
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No, it doesn't. It just allows you to buy and play out of region discs. I know of several people in the UK who regularly buy discs from the U.S. I buy Region 2 discs to play on my region-free player. Most on-line companies like Amazon and DeepDiscount will ship anywhere. In Australia, all DVD players are region-free because the Aussie government declared region coding to be a violation of Australian law. |
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| MovieMan | Apr 28 2009, 06:17 AM Post #1558 |
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Sorry mate, I misread your previous question. Everyone having "Region free players" would make the Region system invalid. If everything was Region free then there would be no point releasing a film in the US first. Just in: City Rats, Bird on a Wire and Very Bad Things. |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Apr 28 2009, 06:59 AM Post #1559 |
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What IS the point in releasing a film in the US first, pray tell? And while you're at it, what's "valid" about the region system? I ask from pure curiosity. |
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| JazzGuyy | Apr 28 2009, 08:04 AM Post #1560 |
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Mainly because the U.S. studios used to release movies in the U.S. well before the rest of the world. This was especially true if you were in smaller countries or in Africa and large parts of Asia. The region system was meant to protect the local movie distributors in those places so they wouldn't have to compete with a DVD release that reached their country before the movie ever did. I think these days movies tend to open much closer to the same date regardless of the country. The region system is stupid but so are a lot of the things that the studios have foisted upon us. Edited by JazzGuyy, Apr 28 2009, 11:02 AM.
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