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This Week's Dvds
Topic Started: Mar 2 2006, 04:59 PM (54,666 Views)
marlin lee
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Just picked up Toy Story 3. It is definitely one of the three best Toy Story films.
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marlin lee
Nov 2 2010, 08:48 PM
Just picked up Toy Story 3. It is definitely one of the three best Toy Story films.

Out of three?

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marlin lee
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Nov 3 2010, 08:15 AM
marlin lee
Nov 2 2010, 08:48 PM
Just picked up Toy Story 3. It is definitely one of the three best Toy Story films.

Out of three?

Yes out of three. But seriously I'm a fan of all three. I still think 2 is the best. I'd probably rank 3 close to 2 and ahead of the original.
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Just funnin' ya, Marlin. But, seriously, love the first two and looking forward to the third one.
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I really enjoyed Toy Story 3......totally entertaining and besides it had a very dark and macabre overtone.......throughout the film.......truly creepy moments...
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Finally picked up "A Boy Called Charlie Brown." Very much a time capsule from the height of Peanutsmania. The animation is a bit slicker than the TV specials, but still not quite nailing the Schulz look (by the time the specials got look of the characters exactly right, the specials had become sort of dreary). Rod McKuen contributes a few songs and sings the overly sentimental title number. The backgrounds are perky and colorful, totally unlike anything in the comic strip but somehow appropriate and appealing.

The story -- which takes up surprisingly little of the total movie -- has Charlie Brown entering a spelling bee. In the comic strip version, baseball fanatic Charlie blows it by spelling "maze" M-A-Y-S. In the movie, he wins and finds himself at the national competition. Will he emerge as hero at last or all-time goat?

As noted, this story doesn't really drive the movie until late in the game. In fact, you're nearly a half hour in before it really appears. True to the strip, it amiably wanders through kite-flying, a baseball game, a Red Baron nightmare for Snoopy, and Lucy's dubious psychiatric advice first. And even after the story kicks in, we get a Schroder interlude with some interesting visuals, Sally turning up to annoy Linus and another Snoopy fantasy involving ice skating. And the ending manages to be just right.

It may not be the most exciting or well-executed animated feature, but it's a laid-back pleasure, full of old friends and favorite gags (as in the specials, most of the script is drawn directly from the old strips).

Random note: Whenever they film a book, there's at least one actor who resolutely refuses to jibe with your cherished vision of the character. Sometimes it ruins the film for you. Sometimes, it somehow works. That's how I feel about the animated Snoopy. Deprived of his inner voice, never looking quite right, and way more frantic than anybody else in the movie, he's not the philosophical beagle from the strip. But taken on his own terms, he's a lot of fun. Like Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple.
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I brought 3 more: Beneath Hill 30, Personal Affairs and Personal Services. I know I said I closed this years purchases, but I am getting through some quite fast and the backlog is being cleared and so I sneaked those 3 in!. :D
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marlin lee
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Just picked up Tales of the Gold Monkey the Complete Series.
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marlin lee
Nov 9 2010, 04:33 PM
Just picked up Tales of the Gold Monkey the Complete Series.

Just!?!?!?! What took you so long, Marlin? Great, great series. I am quite enjoying the chance to relive it.

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Chandu the Returner
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Banes and Noble are doing another 1/2 off Critrion sale and I got the 39 steps for $10'00
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Chandu the Returner
Nov 10 2010, 05:06 PM
Banes and Noble are doing another 1/2 off Critrion sale and I got the 39 steps for $10'00
guess I know where I will be going this weekend
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Inspector Carr
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Just placed my first order with Warner Archive with their 30% off veterans day sale (it is good through the 15th) took the plunge hopefully it will pay off. for I have heard mixed reviews about them....anyhow ordered the following

1. From Hell it came (bad movie nice print though)
2. She
3. Dogville shorts
4. Torchy Blane collection
5. Horror mystery collection
6. Jack the Ripper (Tv miniseries with Michael Caine)
7. Blood and Orchids (1940's murder mystery miniseries with Kris Kristofferson)

looking forward to them
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I have the Torchy Blane and Jack the Ripper sets and they are both worth it IMO. You should enjoy them except for maybe the non-Glenda Farrell Torchies which are :'(
TANSTAAFL!
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Nov 10 2010, 09:17 AM
marlin lee
Nov 9 2010, 04:33 PM
Just picked up Tales of the Gold Monkey the Complete Series.

Just!?!?!?! What took you so long, Marlin? Great, great series. I am quite enjoying the chance to relive it.

We just shut down the farm. It was either that or go way in debt upgrading the operation. Unfortunately I couldn't look for work until after the farm was shut down. So I've been saving back as much money as possible. But I've already found work so I can start spending on my DVD collection again.

Also today I picked up Weird Science in the $5 bargain bin at Wal-Mart.
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SuperRog
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I haven't posted here in a long time. Here are some of my recent purchases...a few of these I probably got over a week ago...

The Facts of Life: Season 5
Iron Man 2
Toy Story 3
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
The Thing From Another World (original version)
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