New DVD:
New blu-ray:
Upgrades from DVD to Blu-Ray:
New Blu-Ray:
I wasn’t especially taken with either Only God Forgives or Under the Skin when I first saw them; funny how much one’s take on a film can change with an extra viewing or with a bit of time to mull over what you’ve seen.
Got another Wild East title added to my collection today:
Now the Wild East collection only lack the elusive Fistful of Trailers and the latest three titles 
Hope you do not sell them this time around 
Haha. I actually never owned this particular release so if I do sell that it will be a first. But no, I only make that mistake once
Had a bit of a purge, so it’s not an “I just bought” this time but an “I just ditched”:
The 40 Year Old Virgin
250 West Ham Goals
AI Artificial Intelligence
Air Guitar Nation
American Beauty
Big Fish
The Big One
Capitalism: A Love Story
Creep
Eden Lake
Election
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Experiment
The Faculty
Flight of the Living Dead
Fright Night (2011)
The Green Inferno
The Haunting in Connecticut
Heartless
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Jurassic Park
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park III
Led Zeppelin’s Music Masters Collection
Men in Black
Men in Black II
Mystery Men
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Old School
Stoker
Thumbsucker
The Truman Show
Vampires
Waiting
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Wasting Away
Upgrades from DVD to Blu-Ray:
New Blu-Ray:
New DVD:
All (more-or-less) replacing old DVDs:
Well, tbh I never owned At World’s End but although I gave my Curse of the Black Pearl and Dead Man’s Chest DVDs to my son a few years ago I always thought they might be decent acquisitions on blu-ray and, now I’ve done it, I figured I may as well fill out the trilogy. I’ll probably buy On Stranger Tides at some point; I have no plans to purchase Terminator: Salvation or Terminator: Genisys, however.
New Blu-Rays:
Last Caress…Excellent choices, and two of my all-time favourites.
I will be watching ‘Zulu’ at Christmas (as I do every year).
As for ‘Zulu Dawn’: a very under-estimated film, with great actors, epic battle scenes, and a magnificent soundtrack score by Elmer Bernstein, which I bought from ‘Amazon UK’ last week…it’s worth getting.
If you are interested in the soundtrack, the actual ‘Amazon UK’ site is listing it today, for £13.55.
The much cheaper option, is to do as I did. I opted for one of the sellers, ‘All Your Music’, at £5.79, plus 1.26 P&P. I’ve dealt with the Company many times…and it has never let me down.
Zulu Dawn is on my ‘Watch Soon’ shelf…think I’ll listen to the extended soundtrack again first…
Happy watching…
Toscano.
I’ve seen one of them but it was something like 30-odd years ago when I would’ve been in the region of ten-twelve years old, so I can’t even recall exactly which one it was (I suspect it was the 1979 prequel, however). Regardless, they’re both movies deserving of a little more respect than that, and having bought Spartacus and Lawrence of Arabia (relatively) recently I’ve clearly got a hankering for classic they-don’t-make-'em-like-that-anymore epics at present. Heroic tales of Colonial Britain have never resonated with me and I’ve long avoided Zulu as a result since I was always concerned that rooting for Michael Caine and co. might leave me feeling like a jingoistic and xenophobic “Little Englander”, but I think I’m less likely nowadays to burden myself with unearned “British Empire Guilt” like a GCSE sociology student and far more likely to simply appreciate it for the “triumph over adversity” story that it is. That, and its qualities as an epic movie, of course.
“triumph over adversity”…a very good quote…I know that that is why I always enjoyed the original ‘Zulu’ film…(and the superlative score by John Barry). I think that the actor/producer, Stanley Baker, was simply trying to show it from both sides: the arrogance of the then Colonial British Empire, (from certain characters), in the film; and the Zulu Empire…which was - after all - simply hacked off ( as we all would be) - if another ‘Power’ came into Our country, and tried to lay down the law.
Last Caress: Can I suggest that you watch ‘Zulu Dawn’ first - before ‘Zulu’; as the action in ‘Zulu Dawn’ literally - in history - takes place the day before the events in ‘Zulu’.
It may also help to explain why - in the original 1879 Zulu War, the British Government attempted to ‘hush up’ the events of ‘Zulu Dawn’, to the general public.
The next day’s events (depicted in ‘Zulu’), helped to cover up many mistakes.
All the best,
Toscano
“triumph over adversity”…a very good quote…I know that that is why I always enjoyed the original ‘Zulu’ film…(and the superlative score by John Barry). I think that the actor/producer, Stanley Baker, was simply trying to show it from both sides: the arrogance of the then Colonial British Empire, (from certain characters), in the film; and the Zulu Empire…which was - after all - simply hacked off ( as we all would be) - if another ‘Power’ came into Our country, and tried to lay down the law.Last Caress: Can I suggest that you watch ‘Zulu Dawn’ first - before ‘Zulu’; as the action in ‘Zulu Dawn’ literally - in history - takes place the day before the events in ‘Zulu’.
It may also help to explain why - in the original 1879 Zulu War, the British Government attempted to ‘hush up’ the events of ‘Zulu Dawn’, to the general public.
The next day’s events (depicted in ‘Zulu’), helped to cover up many mistakes.All the best,
Toscano
New Blu-Rays:
(I voted REMAIN btw my Euro-brethren. Don’t kick me out!)
Well, the exit meant that the UK pound suddenly got a lot weaker which means cheaper movies to be had so no cause for alarm just yet 