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This Week's Dvds
Topic Started: Mar 2 2006, 04:59 PM (54,740 Views)
Chandu
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Alas! Indeed, conjuring up all three seasons of The Wild Wild West, proved to be Chandu's best magical trick of the season, but that doesn't diminish the enjoyment to be exacted from said feat! B) :P :D
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Grampy
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The folks at Paramount have been doing a great job of getting West and the Mission Impossible seasons out just in time for Christmas and Father's Day. It's made gift buying a breeze when Grandma goes out looking for stuff for me. There should be one more season of Wild Wild West coming and 4 more of Mission Impossible.
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Used some gift cards today to score two Criterions, And God Created Woman (#77) and Touchez pas au Grisbi (#271).
"I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley
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Chandu
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Thanks for the reminder about Mission Impossible, Grampy, it had slipped my mind in all the excitement of the holidays. :o
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Okay, tonight, still taking advantage of gift certificates, post-Christmas sales, and what arrived in the U.S. mail...

From Grapevine Video (thanks!) arrived a double feature of Horace Takes Over (a/k/a One Thrilling Night, 1942) and the Hal Roach streamliner The Last Three (a/k/a Nazty Nuisance, 1943); two documentaries, The Forgotten Village (1941) and The Quiet One (1948); "Selected Short Subjects", which contains 6 shorts from 1929-1934, with such stars as Edward Everett Horton, Billy Gilbert, Andy Clyde, Ginger Rogers, and Junior Coghlan; and The Red Raiders (1927) with Ken Maynard. This is the 64 min. (full, I think) version, and includes a 1924 Felix the Cat Western, too!

From Borders, buy 2 get 1 free: three Criterions! Based on Mr. Panzer's urgings, I picked up Fellini's Amarcord (newly restored edition), Criterion #4; Bellocchio's Fists in the Pocket (1965, and #333); and de Sica's The Children are Watching Us (1944, #323).

Nope, not quite done. R5 Records netted me another Criterion, Renoir's Grand Illusion (Criterion #1, believe it or not); Woody Allen's Play it Again, Sam (a fave, even tho Woody didn't direct it -- Herbert Ross did); Bob Livingston as the Eagle in the 12-chapter serial The Vigilantes are Coming (from Alpha); and the new Harry Langdon Collection: Lost and Found boxed set, which I'm a-gonna open first.

"I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley
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The Batman
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Found under the Batcave's Christmas tree this year:

Smallville: Season 6
The Simpsons Movie
Futurama: Bender's Big Score
Hollywoodland
Slingblade: Director's Cut
Towering Inferno: Special Edition
Addams Family: Vol 3
Simpsons: Season 10 (Bart Head - Whoo-hoo!)

And the first seasons of some sitcom guilty pleasures:

Benson
News Radio
Silver Spoons

(That's right, 80s sitcoms rock!)
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Black Tiger
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Christmas 2-for-1's from Deep Discount just arrived:

Mr. Ed Vol 1 & 2
Addams Family Vol 2 & 3
Lost in Space Season 2 Vol 1 & 2

Also thanks to everyone who recommended Red Raiders with Ken Maynard. I haven't watched the whole thing yet, but it's really enjoyable. Ken is usually fun to watch in action. His horse, Tarzan has some pretty good moments here also. Yak does a lot of stunts including his famed speeding horse team bit. Lots of good Indian attack footage, some of which I've recognized from later B-Westerns. One historical note mentioned: George A. Custer's actual Indian scout has a bit part in this film. Yes, his scout survived and went on to became an actor. He plays a particularly unlikeable Indian here as well.
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"George A. Custer's actual Indian scout has a bit part in this film."

Uhhh... Pardon me for casting aspersions here, but wouldn't Custer's Indian scout be considered, like, the WORST FRIGGIN' INDIAN SCOUT EVER?!?!? Or what? What temp agency sent Custer THAT Indian scout?!?

And while I'm musing, did this scout guy's great-grandson have a job inspecting O-rings on space shuttles? Performing steroid tests on baseball players? Checking Chinese toys for high lead content? Checking security in the tiger pens at the S.F. zoo? Providing intelligence on pre-war WMD in Iraq? Acting as chaperone between President Clinton and his interns? What?!?!?
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Large Marge
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Okay, enough pickin' on other webmasters. I've deleted an inappropriate comment. I've been silent long enough, and am gonna start starin' down people 'round here... I would rather get narsty a'fore the Balcony does.
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Greypilgrim
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Dec 27 2007, 01:12 PM
Found under the Batcave's Christmas tree this year:

Smallville: Season 6
The Simpsons Movie
Futurama: Bender's Big Score
Hollywoodland
Slingblade: Director's Cut
Towering Inferno: Special Edition
Addams Family: Vol 3
Simpsons: Season 10 (Bart Head - Whoo-hoo!)

And the first seasons of some sitcom guilty pleasures:

Benson
News Radio
Silver Spoons

(That's right, 80s sitcoms rock!)

How would you know? You were probably in Bat-dydees at that time and sucking on your Bat-binky!!


"Santa" brought me Casino Royale.

I just love the free-running chase scene in the beginning.
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Inspector Carr
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Dec 27 2007, 03:46 PM
Okay, enough pickin' on other webmasters. I've deleted an inappropriate comment. I've been silent long enough, and am gonna start starin' down people 'round here... I would rather get narsty a'fore the Balcony does.

Love the avatar........what the heck or who is it?
"Life is a Crapshoot however you need a pair of dice to participate"
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The Batman
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The mailman has come and gone again, and still no package from VCI. *sigh*
Always be yourself! Unless you can be Batman...then always be Batman!
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Laughing Gravy
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Marge appreciates your understanding; she's trying to keep things contained and especially doesn't want to see things spread to other areas of the message boards.
"I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley
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Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
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Yesterday, a 50 buck Best Buy card and 20 bucks got me:

The Jazz Singer 3 disc set.

The Host, a 2 disc collector

A Grindhouse double feature...The Teacher, with Jay (Dennis The Menace) North, who acts alot like Peter North in this film and The Pick Up. These 2 films will serve as a reminder that future buys of Grindhouse movies will be Death Proof and Planet Terror.
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
Dec 28 2007, 04:47 AM
Peter North .

The myth.....the legend......nicknamed "Beercan" ;)
"Life is a Crapshoot however you need a pair of dice to participate"
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