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My name is Mike, and I'm a movie-holic and I'm addicted to DVDs.

("Hi, Mike!")

In the last couple of months, I've bought the following:

- Blades of Glory
- The Bourne Identity
- The Bourne Supremacy
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- Die Hard
- Die Hard 2: Die Harder
- Die Hard With a Vengeance
- Grosse Point Blank and High Fidelity (A 2-disc set)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- A History of Violence
- Idiocracy
- Knocked Up
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Lonesome Dove
- Major League
- Meatballs
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
- Ratatouille
- Rounders and Swingers (a 2-disc set)
- Shrek the Third
- Signs and The Village (a 2-disc set)
- The Simpsons Movie
- Sling Blade
- Spider-Man 3
- Superbad
- Top Secret
and
- Zodiac

AND, for Christmas, I got a 12-movie Hitchcock retrospective (including "Young and Innocent," "Blackmail," "Juno and the Paycock," Rich and Strange," "The Ring," "Lodger," "Secret Agent," "The Lady Vanishes," "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "Sabotage," "Champagne" and "Murder!"). That's the early "Man Who Knew," by the way, not the Doris Day/Jimmy Stewart remake.

AND I got the 5-disc Ultimate Edition of "Blade Runner". This has 5 different edits of the movie, from a "Workprint" edition, to the original theatrical release, to the re-edit without the narration, and now a new, final, definitive edit by Ridley Scott. Tons of featurettes, several different commentary tracks...It'll take me weeks to see all of it.

That's around 50 something DVDs, all together. Yeah, yeah, most of them were in the bargain bins (ranging from $2 - $5)...and some were just replacements for old VHS versions I can't even watch anymore because my VCR broke...but still...what the *#&$ was I thinking?

On the plus side, I DID put back the 4-hour Tom Petty DVD "Running Down a Dream" (directed by Peter Bogdanovich). But it's still on my wishlist.

Well, I'll have to go buy Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, just to keep my collection of that series complete.

Woohoo!!!

Movie night at KT's! Who's in?!

Superbad???

MarleysGh0st wrote:Well, I'll have to go buy Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, just to keep my collection of that series complete.

OotP isn't bad. It's too damn short, but it's not bad at all.

And as for Shrek 3 and PotC3, they were just bought to finish off their respective trilogies. "The Bourne Ultimatum," OTOH, was bought on merit...it's just has heart-poundingly exciting as the first 2. Nice, twisty plots, lots of action and some cool (and realistic, sorta) car chases... They really should have done better at the box office than they did (and they did OK).

otherindigo wrote:Woohoo!!!

Movie night at KT's! Who's in?!

Well, the apartment is small, but hey, if you're all in town...

jaybee wrote:Superbad???

Hysterically funny. Absolutely filthy, but hysterically funny. I liked "Knocked Up" (also from the Judd Apatow stable of players), but "Superbad" was mucho better.

"You changed your name to 'McLovin'? What kind of name is that? Are you trying to be an Irish R&B singer?"

In the last three days we have seen

Sweeney Todd
The Last King of Scotland
The Namesake
National Treasure
Once
Juno

I think that Juno was the best movie of all of them.

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:In the last three days we have seen

Sweeney Todd
The Last King of Scotland
The Namesake
National Treasure
Once
Juno

I think that Juno was the best movie of all of them.

There are about 10 movies out that I really want to see. I was going to see a couple of them this past weekend, but I had a ravioli crisis (my pasta machine broke halfway through making the Christmas ravioli, and it took me forever to find a good one to replace it...finished making them late Saturday, and had family obligations Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, so no movies yet). And now, realizing I have 50 or so DVDs to view NOW NOW NOW, I'm not sure when I'll get to the real movies.

On my list of "Must See Soon" movies:

Sweeney Todd
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Charlie Wilson's War
Atonement
National Treasure
Juno
No Country For Old Men

KillerTomato wrote:

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:In the last three days we have seen

Sweeney Todd
The Last King of Scotland
The Namesake
National Treasure
Once
Juno

I think that Juno was the best movie of all of them.

There are about 10 movies out that I really want to see. I was going to see a couple of them this past weekend, but I had a ravioli crisis (my pasta machine broke halfway through making the Christmas ravioli, and it took me forever to find a good one to replace it...finished making them late Saturday, and had family obligations Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, so no movies yet). And now, realizing I have 50 or so DVDs to view NOW NOW NOW, I'm not sure when I'll get to the real movies.

On my list of "Must See Soon" movies:

Sweeney Todd
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Charlie Wilson's War
Atonement
National Treasure
Juno
No Country For Old Men

I really want to see Atonement, because I liked the book, as well as Charlie Wilson's War. Waitress and The Lives of Others are both on their way from Netflix. I would also like to see The Golden Compass, though we keep finding other movies to see instead.

KillerTomato wrote:

jaybee wrote:Superbad???

Hysterically funny. Absolutely filthy, but hysterically funny. I liked "Knocked Up" (also from the Judd Apatow stable of players), but "Superbad" was mucho better.

"You changed your name to 'McLovin'? What kind of name is that? Are you trying to be an Irish R&B singer?"

I agree that Superbad wan funnier, but I liked Knocked Up better. Superbad was, indeed, absolutely filthy.

Buying DVDs is cheap and harmless plus they don't take up as much space as VHS tapes.

Recent additions to my collection:
Simpsons Movie
Bourne Ultimatum
Order of the Phoenix
The Invisible
Shrek the Third
Hairspray
Ratatouille
Live Free or Die Hard

In the theater I saw Juno on Saturday. Ellen Page was terrific spitting out the funny lines and the audience applauded at the end. The supporting cast was as strong as the lead. Lots of hamburger phones on eBay now thanks to the movie.

TheCalvinator24 wrote:

KillerTomato wrote:

jaybee wrote:Superbad???

Hysterically funny. Absolutely filthy, but hysterically funny. I liked "Knocked Up" (also from the Judd Apatow stable of players), but "Superbad" was mucho better.

"You changed your name to 'McLovin'? What kind of name is that? Are you trying to be an Irish R&B singer?"

I agree that Superbad wan funnier, but I liked Knocked Up better. Superbad was, indeed, absolutely filthy.

If it hadn't been for the sitcom-y relationship, "Knocked Up" would have been the better movie. But the kid who played "McLovin" and the addition of Michael Cera put "Superbad" on top for me.

MarkBarrett wrote:Buying DVDs is cheap and harmless plus they don't take up as much space as VHS tapes.

Recent additions to my collection:
Simpsons Movie
Bourne Ultimatum
Order of the Phoenix
The Invisible
Shrek the Third
Hairspray
Ratatouille
Live Free or Die Hard

In the theater I saw Juno on Saturday. Ellen Page was terrific spitting out the funny lines and the audience applauded at the end. The supporting cast was as strong as the lead. Lots of hamburger phones on eBay now thanks to the movie.

I was crying at the end, as were some of the other women in my row. Emma was concerned about my crying and gave me a hug and patted my back.

If anyone here saw "Michael Clayton" this year, I'm proud to say that some scenes were filmed right here in good old Orange County, NY (the director was from here originally).

They filmed some inside house shots in the neighborhood up the road from my office (about a mile), some patients even got to get pics with George Clooney, one of which sits in my adjusting room on the tray under where the patients lay (the women requested to at least look at George while they're getting treated).

One scene was filmed under what is called the Moodna Viaduct, a really kewl elevated railroad that connects between two mountains... in my opinion one of the most picturesque places in the county.

And I thought I was a slacker because I have the first season of How I Met Your Mother sitting here unopened for about three weeks.

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:In the last three days we have seen

Sweeney Todd
The Last King of Scotland
The Namesake
National Treasure
Once
Juno

I think that Juno was the best movie of all of them.

Ellen Page freaks me out ever since I saw Hard Candy. But I will probably see An American Crime, if it ever manages to get released.

My sister and I are planning on seeing Sweeney Todd on New Year's Day. We'll look to see if a showing jives with National Treasure so the kids can go see that. Although, if we tell them how gory it is, they might want to see Sweeney Todd with us instead. Ha!

From the teasers it seems Johnny Depp is using the exact same accent he did for Abberline in From Hell. That will probably bug the heck out of me.

KillerTomato wrote:

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:In the last three days we have seen

Sweeney Todd
The Last King of Scotland
The Namesake
National Treasure
Once
Juno

I think that Juno was the best movie of all of them.

There are about 10 movies out that I really want to see. I was going to see a couple of them this past weekend, but I had a ravioli crisis (my pasta machine broke halfway through making the Christmas ravioli, and it took me forever to find a good one to replace it...finished making them late Saturday, and had family obligations Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, so no movies yet). And now, realizing I have 50 or so DVDs to view NOW NOW NOW, I'm not sure when I'll get to the real movies.

On my list of "Must See Soon" movies:

Sweeney Todd
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Charlie Wilson's War
Atonement
National Treasure
Juno
No Country For Old Men

In the last couple weeks we've watched (many of these I'd seen, but the wife had not):

The Golden Compass
The Killing Fields
Flirting
Superbad
Yojimbo
Once (if Juno was better than this, it must have been amazing)
Eastern Promises
The Prestige
Hotel Rwanda
Foul Play
She's Having a Baby
Blazing Saddles
My Favorite Wife
Mr. Mom
Spanking the Monkey
Strictly Ballroom

Ok. So actually a lot of very good movies in there. I think the disappointment of "My Favorite Wife" (I've never seen Cary Grant or Irene Dunne in worse movies. Randolph Scott, I've seen in worse movies) and "She's Having a Baby" (wow, this was astonishingly bad, even for John Hughes. I'd never seen this before, but I thought I had - I think the movie I thought it was was "For Keeps")

Nothing like waiting for an overdue baby to lead to lots and lots and lots of movie watching.

ToLiveIsToFly wrote:

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:In the last three days we have seen

Sweeney Todd
The Last King of Scotland
The Namesake
National Treasure
Once
Juno

I think that Juno was the best movie of all of them.

Once (if Juno was better than this, it must have been amazing)

Once was very good, but something about Juno just touched me more. I really liked the music in Juno and it really reminded me of Napolean Dynamite in some ways. The movie was sad and funny at the same time and I thought really captured what's it's like to be a teenager facing tough choices. I also really liked the relationship between Juno and her Dad.

I am one of the very few people who has seen Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. It is not a bad movie, but Christmas was the wrong time of year for a raunchy R-rated comedy. Knocked Up and Superbad probably would have also bombed if they came out in December.

elwoodblues wrote:I am one of the very few people who has seen Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. It is not a bad movie, but Christmas was the wrong time of year for a raunchy R-rated comedy. Knocked Up and Superbad probably would have also bombed if they came out in December.

I want to see Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, but I have to see it without children, because I think that it's probably inappropriate for both of them.

KillerTomato wrote:My name is Mike, and I'm a movie-holic and I'm addicted to DVDs.

During the last month, with a couple of bulk purchases off Ebay and the DeepDiscount and DVDPlanet 20% off sales, my total number of DVD titles went over 1500.

And since I see most of the new releases in the theater, I don't usually get those same movies when they come out on DVD, unless it's a special edition or I really enjoyed the film.

With the upcoming abyss of network TV programming (American Gladiators, Supernanny, Celebrity Apprentice and the couples version of Teletubbies), we will be going through the DVD pile at a much faster rate.

elwoodblues wrote:I am one of the very few people who has seen Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. It is not a bad movie, but Christmas was the wrong time of year for a raunchy R-rated comedy. Knocked Up and Superbad probably would have also bombed if they came out in December.

It's not just the time of year; it's the subject matter. People who like country music don't appreciate this type of R-rated spoof of their music, and people who enjoy movie spoofs don't tend to like country music or go see movies like Walk the Line in the first place.