Your opinions on these movies

I pretty much rarely buy DVD's. I own like 5.

Not real big on Hollywood and all that stuff. Can't stand most of it and thing 90% of what comes out of Hollywood to be junk.

That's just me :)
 
Alien special edition,The original alien was the best, if there is a bonus disc buy it
Akira (Japanese cyber punk cartoon)
Black Bird (sequel to Maltese Falcon starring George Segal)
Blues Brothers, great movie should be in everyone's collection
China Town, another must have
Death Hunt
End of Days
Fargo, Back when I bought this on VHS it came with a snow globe of the wood chipper scene! Can't miss with the Cohen brothers Check out their first movie Blood simple
Fifth Element
Fight Club Awesom movie, There is a ton of stuff on the bonus disc in the brown paper special edition, the first rule of fight club is...
From Dusk til Dawn
Ghost in the Shell (another Japanese cyberpunk cartoon)
Good Bad and the Ugly, this comes in a boxed set, Get it!I think it's called the man with no name collection I think it has fist full of dollars and high plains drifter
Goodfellas
Goonies
Judas Kiss (starring hottie Carla Gugino)
LA Confidential, so many good performances
Lake Placid
Magnificent Seven, Never saw a Steve McQueen movie I didn't like, If you like Steve check out the Sand Pebbles
Milagro Beanfield War, there's no war in it
Mission, awesome move, Thanks for the heads up I am going to look for this one
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Once Upon a Time in America, Long, convoluted, two dfferent endings
Outlaw Josey Wales
Perfect Storm
Platoon
Professional
Pulp Fiction
Relic
Saving Private Ryan, Good movie, Check out A bridge too far also
Scarface, Al or Ed?
Seven Samurai Magnificent Seven was made from this movie
Sting
Taxi Driver
Thirtheenth Warrior
Tombstone, Val Kilmer is the only reason to see this movie
Untouchables the critics hate Brian DePalma, I thought this move was great. And I don't really like Kevin Costner
Wildbunch, in my opinion one of the best movies ever made
X-men 1.5
Yojimbo

Not many of these movies have a bonus disc of extra material. When available, most of the time the bonus disc is worth the extra expense. I only have one or two where it's a waste.

Look for wide screen, lots of stuff gets cut off the edges when they make the pic fit your tv screen.

A couple of suggestions, You have a few westerns, look for Once upon a time in the west. Action movies, Look for Man on fire with Denzel Washington. Another good Scorscee movie is Mean Streets. I am a huge movie fan. When most people go to bed they turn on the tv, I pop in a DVD.
Feel free to email me about older movies you haven't seen
I have a collection of over 200 DVD's

On ebay there are a couple of sellers who have a good price for DVD's and they charge a flat rate of $3.95 shipping no matter how many you buy.
 
silenthunterstudios said:
I'm always up for deleted scenes getting re spliced into the movie!
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In my opinion it ruined Apocalypse Now. The extra stuff craps up the original Star Wars also.
 
ok here it goes:

Alien special edition buy it
Akira (Japanese cyber punk cartoon) buy it
Black Bird (sequel to Maltese Falcon starring George Segal)
Blues Brothers rent it
China Town
Death Hunt
End of Days (worst movie of the list)
Fargo buy it
Fifth Element rent it
Fight Club buy it (awesome movie, get the 2DVD digipack)
From Dusk til Dawn (good movie the 1st time...)
Ghost in the Shell (another Japanese cyberpunk cartoon)
Good Bad and the Ugly buy it (remastered and additional scene put back in the movie, the man with no name boxset is outdated, they will reissue the 2 other movies with same treatment)
Goodfellas buy it
Goonies (if you're 12 years old...)
Judas Kiss (starring hottie Carla Gugino)
LA Confidential buy it
Lake Placid
Magnificent Seven buy it
Milagro Beanfield War
Mission buy it
O Brother Where Art Thou? buy it
Once Upon a Time in America buy it
Outlaw Josey Wales buy it
Perfect Storm rent it
Platoon buy it
Professional
Pulp Fiction buy it
Relic
Saving Private Ryan buy it (DTS version rocks!)
Scarface buy it
Seven Samurai
Sting
Taxi Driver buy it (DeNiro at his best!)
Thirtheenth Warrior rent it
Tombstone buy it
Untouchables buy it
Wildbunch
X-men 1.5 buy it
Yojimbo
 
Silenthunterstudios, I'll respond to the ones with which I have any familiarity:
silenthunterstudios said:
I am going to post my want lists (this is the first one, I also have questions about books and cds) just to see if I should get the regular dvd's or the souped up versions, this is not a request to purchase dvds! Having said that, some of the ones below I have seen, and would like to know, again, if the extras are worth paying the full price on Amazon or at Best Buy, or should I get the used copy from eBay? Thanks for your opinions.

I am looking at

Alien special edition
Akira (Japanese cyber punk cartoon)
Black Bird (sequel to Maltese Falcon starring George Segal)
Blues Brothers
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absolute classic of John Belushi type humor, very off-beat
China Town
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probably the best film noir since the days of Humphrey Bogart
Death Hunt
End of Days
Fargo
Fifth Element
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I like s-f, but this thing is just too weird for my taste, sort of like Sean Connery's Zardoz
Fight Club
From Dusk til Dawn
Ghost in the Shell (another Japanese cyberpunk cartoon)
Good Bad and the Ugly
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THE classic spaghetti western and Clint Eastwood's breaktrhough from TV into the movies
Goodfellas
Goonies
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Weird but a great kids' coming of age story. It is a new take on the classic quest adventure
Judas Kiss (starring hottie Carla Gugino)
LA Confidential
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Good film noir, but not up to Chinatown. Russell Crowe is great in it and there is a great scene where one of the police detectives mistakes the real movie star for a hooker done over by plastic surgery to look like the star.
Lake Placid
Magnificent Seven
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Kurosawa's classic Seven Samurai remade placed in a western setting with hired guns instead of samurai. Yul Brynner is his usual excellent self and Steve McQueen in a very early movie role. Many other famous film stars also appear.
Milagro Beanfield War
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Produced and directed by Robert Redford, this film is quite liberal in its politics and very, very funny in a very humane fashion. Sonya Braga of Moon Over Parador and Kiss of the Spiderwoman appears as a sort of earthmother radical. She is steamy sexy in the role.
Mission
O Brother Where Art Thou?
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This is a funny as Hell take on Homer's Oddyssey set in the 1920's South. Great music.
Once Upon a Time in America
Outlaw Josey Wales
Perfect Storm
Platoon
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Very violent and very anti-military. Shows a grunt in VietNam carrying a Cold Steel Tanto blade(!).So much for accuracy.
Pulp Fiction
Relic
Saving Private Ryan
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I very much appreciated this film and several combat veterans that I know said that it captures the confusion and chaos of combat better than any film that they have ever seen.
Scarface
Seven Samurai
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See The Magnificent Seven, above. This is the classic Akira Kurosawa film from upon which it was based. Very Japanese and very zen.
Sting
Taxi Driver
Thirtheenth Warrior[/i]Terrible take on the Grendel saga. The portrayal of the Norse was simply outrageously bad from an historical point of view. It was so bad that it was funny.
Tombstone
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IMO, simply the best western ever made and certainly the best and most accurate take on the whole Earp vs. Clanton feud ever to make it to film.
Untouchables
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Probably the only action film starring Kevin Costner that is any good, and it is excellent because Sean Connery carries the action part while Costner portrays the historically accurate accountant mentality of Elliot Ness.
Wildbunch
X-men 1.5
Yojimbo
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If you like action films, try Steve McQueen's Bullitt and The Great Escape. The incredible car chase scene in Bullitt is all for real and McQueen did the driving for the shots, not a stunt driver. There is a piece added to the DVD about how he and the other driver trrained for the shoot through the streets of San Francisco. It just has to be the ultimate car chase when you remember that there are no computer graphics involved. Both of these are out on DVD and are just superb. If you like auto racing, try his LeMans on DVD, a truly wonderful look at the classic 24-hour race and John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix, unfortunately available only in VHS format, but the best film on F-1 racing ever made and the one on which Stallone's stupid film Driven was so very obviously based. GrandPrix is better, by far. BTW, every single accident (shunt) shown in that film is based upon real accidents over F-1 history, including the car going into the harbor at Monaco.

BTW, yes, I'm a big fan of Steve McQueen's work.
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Actually, I Believe Lemans is on DVD, I saw a copy at Barns and Noble. I never did watch that one. I do however have the special editions of the the Blues Brothers, Seven Samurai and the Wild Bunch, and I recomend them all highly. I have to agree with Ilovetoolsteel and say I think that the Wild Bunch is one of the best movies ever made. The special edition of the Wild Bunch besides having some great bonus footage, also has a good documentary, and biographys of all the main character's and lists of the other great movies they made.
 
FullerH said:
If you like action films, try Steve McQueen's Bullitt and The Great Escape. The incredible car chase scene in Bullitt is all for real and McQueen did the driving for the shots, not a stunt driver. There is a piece added to the DVD about how he and the other driver trrained for the shoot through the streets of San Francisco. It just has to be the ultimate car chase when you remember that there are no computer graphics involved. Both of these are out on DVD and are just superb. If you like auto racing, try his LeMans on DVD, a truly wonderful look at the classic 24-hour race and John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix, unfortunately available only in VHS format, but the best film on F-1 racing ever made and the one on which Stallone's stupid film Driven was so very obviously based. GrandPrix is better, by far. BTW, every single accident (shunt) shown in that film is based upon real accidents over F-1 history, including the car going into the harbor at Monaco.

BTW, yes, I'm a big fan of Steve McQueen's work.
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I've seen the movie Bullitt, and while I enjoyed the chase scene, it didn't compare to chase scenes of todays movies. BTW, I really enjoyed Great Escape, but I already have that dvd. Were Charles Bronson and James Coburn the only ones to escape alive? Presumably to go onto star in Magnificent Seven and Hardtimes? :D
 
Quicky reviews of the listed films I've seen:
5 stars, fantastic; 4 stars, pretty darn good; 3 stars OK; 2 stars, pretty bad; 1 star, totally crap

Alien ****
Blues Brothers ***
China Town ****
Death Hunt ***
End of Days **
Fargo *****
Fifth Element Zero stars!
Fight Club ****
From Dusk til Dawn ****
Good Bad and the Ugly *****
Goodfellas ****
Goonies **
LA Confidential ****
Milagro Beanfield War ***
Mission ***
O Brother Where Art Thou? ****
Once Upon a Time in America *****
Outlaw Josey Wales **
Perfect Storm ** (damn greedy fish-killers were asking for it :mad: )
Platoon ***
Professional ***
Pulp Fiction *****
Saving Private Ryan *****
Scarface ****
Seven Samurai ****
Taxi Driver *****
Tombstone ***
Untouchables ***1/2
Wildbunch ***
X-men ***

Overall a decent movie list with quite a few that I'd watch over and over again, so owning the DVD would be worthwhile. However, many on the list are ordinary hollywood stuff that once you've seen it, you've seen it.

The only real stinker, IMO, on the list is Fifth Element. Terrible acting, mindless story, and the special effects are cartoon-like. If you want to see a good sci-fi with Bruce Willis, check out Twelve Monkees. That's a four-star movie based on an old short French film, Le Jette.

Sorry I can't address the issue of whether the special features are worth the price or not. Many of these films I saw at the theater or VCR with no 'extras'.

Best Wishes,
Bob
 
I've seen Twelve Monkies and Fifth Element, enjoyed both of them immenseley, own a dvd of Fifth Element, prefer Fifth Element to 12 Monkies, Milla Jovovich running around in those outfits might've helped some :D.
 
silenthunterstudios said:
I've seen the movie Bullitt, and while I enjoyed the chase scene, it didn't compare to chase scenes of todays movies. BTW, I really enjoyed Great Escape, but I already have that dvd. Were Charles Bronson and James Coburn the only ones to escape alive? Presumably to go onto star in Magnificent Seven and Hardtimes? :D
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The difference is that the current car chase sequences are done with CGI while the sequence in Bullitt was done with real cars through the real streets of San Francisco. Sure, you can make it a Hell of a lot more exciting with CGI than with the real thing. Remember, also, that Steve McQueen did his own stunt driving in that film.

I once met a man who had been a part of the real escape that was the basis for the film, The Great Escape. He said that he was still angry at the Germans for what they had done to the men that they recaptured. Do you remember the end where the GESTAPO machinegunned them in a field? That really happened.
 
The blind fellow, superbly played by Donald Pleasence, was killed by German troops as he blundered over the top of a hill where he could not see them. The Garner character had tried to stop him but couldn't. Garner was recaptured and sent back to the prison camp, not shot. Nor was the McQueen character. As I understand it, McQueen did the stunt motorcycle riding in the film. The insurance people must have gone crazy with him in a film.

I do believe that the Coburn and the Bronson characters were the only major ones to get away.

Did any of you ever see the sequel to that movie? It was a made for TV film starring Christopher Reeve as a Canadian cousin of Churchill's that had been in the camp but who had been sent back to Britain by Hitler in an attempt to woo the Brits into a peace agreement. He sets out to track down the GESTAPO officer in charge of the execution of his friends. The person whom I met who had been part of the real escape said that, while it was a bit overdramatized, the story as shown was essentially true. :eek: WOW!
 
Just none more thing. For boys growing into men in the late 1950s and 1960s, Steve McQueen epitomized the essence of "cool". He was even cooler than Paul Newman.
 
also check out Ninja Scroll & Princess Mononoke. There's a new one by the same team that did Akira called Steamboy coming out on the 18th. If you don't mind picking up a whole series I also recommend Evangelion & Last Exile

Frank
 
A couple of other favorites of mine are
1) The Duelists, by Ridley Scott starring Keith Carradine, the non-Kung-Fu brother, and Harvey Keitel playing what he does so very well, the psychopathically obsessed person.

2) The Warlord, an almost unknown film starring Charlton Heston as a Norman warlord with Richard Boone as his chief lieutenant. Wonderful sense of time and place and the weapons and armor details were astoundingly good for the time, or even for today.
 
Couple of things:

Hugh, I see that you liked Tombstone. I know you are very well-versed in history so I am glad to see that you feel it is an accurate film. I love it because I think it is so damn entertaining. This historical accuracy thing is just a big bonus. Thanks.
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Also, to the original poster and anyone else persuing this thread: Based on the content of this list, there is one movie I seldom see mentioned but is an all time classis of violence, characters, humor, gut-wrenching melodrama, action and pure American attitude. The movie is called True Romance.
It needs to go on this list. Although it is a little over the top (what Tarantino-written script isn't?), it is a masterpiece for its genre. It contains two of the most talked-about and intense scenes in movie history. Amazing thing is, if you were to remove these two scenes, it would still be a really good film.

Everything about this movie screams LIFE.
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Ilovetoolsteel mentioned the Coen brothers' first film, Blood Simple. I second that. Awesome, awesome movie. Their best effort, IMO. It saddens me to see the hokey, pretentious crap they are making now. Feh.
 
Komondor, I am not certain about just how accurate the portrayal of the Cowboys and their red sashes is but the portrayal of the Earps and of Doc Holliday and their involvement in the town politics and businesses seems pretty spot on. And it showed the "Vengeance Ride" pretty much for what it was, a use of the Deputy Marshal's badge to cover a vendetta against the Clanton-McLaury bunch. I mean, Wyatt and Doc may very well have had right and even a form of justice on their sides, but they surely stretched the law to and beyond the breaking point in what they did.
 
FullerH said:
Komondor, I am not certain about just how accurate the portrayal of the Cowboys and their red sashes is but the portrayal of the Earps and of Doc Holliday and their involvement in the town politics and businesses seems pretty spot on. And it showed the "Vengeance Ride" pretty much for what it was, a use of the Deputy Marshal's badge to cover a vendetta against the Clanton-McLaury bunch. I mean, Wyatt and Doc may very well have had right and even a form of justice on their sides, but they surely stretched the law to and beyond the breaking point in what they did.
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Earp was a well known cattle rustler, cardshark, etc in Dodge City and through Tombstone on until his death. Did you see a crappy movie starring James Garner as Wyatt Earp and Bruce Willis as Tom Mix? I can't remember the name of it, and can't believe I sat through it!
 
FullerH said:
A couple of other favorites of mine are
1) The Duelists, by Ridley Scott starring Keith Carradine, the non-Kung-Fu brother, and Harvey Keitel playing what he does so very well, the psychopathically obsessed person.

2) The Warlord, an almost unknown film starring Charlton Heston as a Norman warlord with Richard Boone as his chief lieutenant. Wonderful sense of time and place and the weapons and armor details were astoundingly good for the time, or even for today.
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I understood that Harvey Keitel was nuts, but I didn't enjoy the movie, it was a waste of my time.
 
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