I Just Bought … (Non-SW Shopping Diary)

[last.caress]

New blu-rays:

Upgrade from DVD to blu-ray:

Arrow are having another 2 for £15 sale. I think I’m reaching my limit of titles I actually want from them, though. I also had Before We Vanish, Contamination, The Driller Killer and The Black Cat in my grubby little mitts. I put them all back. To be honest I was more excited today by this cookbook I picked up while I was buying blu-rays:

Only £2.99 with any £10 spend in HMV. Costs £25 on Amazon. Only glanced at it so far but it looks brilliant.

[Phil_H]

@last.caress

Arrow are having another 2 for £15 sale.

Yep, seems like almost everything they have is on sale. It’s certainly the time to pick up any of their Spags you might have skipped in the past. They are all £7.50 each on their website with the Ringo double bill at a tenner.

Arrow Films UK

And noticeable that none of them are similarly priced through Amazon although they are via HMV or Zavvi.

[last.caress]

Not an “I just bought…”, but an “I just ditched…” (all blu-rays unless stated):

Anchorman 2
The Beyond
Big Hero 6
Chappie
City of the Living Dead
Crimes of Passion
The House by the Cemetery
King of Thorn
Kolobos
Marvel Animation Collection (7-DVD set)
Preacher s1&2
Raising Cain
Sharkwater
Sky Blue
That Mitchell and Webb Look Series 1-4 (DVDs)
This is England '86 (DVD)
This is England '88 (DVD)
Tremors 2
Tremors 4
Turbo Kid
Upstream Colour
Witchhammer
Wreck-it Ralph

All gone to the charity shop.

[makesthemovie]

You’re way better at letting go of items than I am my friend, but I’m starting to really go through my stuff and seeing what I’m honestly willing to part with.

[aldo]

@makesthemovie

You’re way better at letting go of items than I am my friend

I’m overdue for a clear out too - every six months or so I bundle a load of discs I can do without - it feels good getting rid of it.

[makesthemovie]

3 preorders in the last month or so, 1 film double dipped

The XBox I got for my B Day is 4K capable so I figured I’d see if it’s as good as I’ve heard.

[Beaumont-Adam (Ali)]

I am putting things I want to get rid of in piles from now on, the charity shop, trade in shop and for trade on here (if I think it may be interest).

[last.caress]

@makesthemovie

You’re way better at letting go of items than I am my friend

It’s not too bad if you do it in stages. Like, I’ll start a purge just by going through my collection and writing a list. It’ll be titles I bought blind but wasn’t impressed by when I got around to watching them (you might notice Lucio Fulci’s Gates of Hell trilogy up there on that list), or particularly arduous pieces I can’t imagine watching again (I ditched both versions of Funny Games a few years ago. Excellent movies both, but they’re a tough watch. I wouldn’t entirely rule out the possibility of picking either of them up again at a later date in a restored, collector’s edition but as things stand right now I don’t envisage wanting to stick either on for an evening’s fun entertainment), or maybe just examples of my personal tastes changing over time. Sometimes, just the act of jotting a title down helps you know immediately if you’ve made a mistake, and you can grant that title a reprieve.

Then, I’ll leave that list for awhile; just to consider my collection without those movies, even though I’ve not got rid of them at all yet. Am I feeling any regret toward any titles? If so: Reprieve!

I’ve still got another twenty or so titles which are being considered for a purge but which I haven’t seen in ages, and want to grant one more viewing before I make up my mind. Sometimes a fresh watch can help.

I’ve got somewhere in the region of 2200 titles, but if I’d never purged any I’d have closer to 4000 titles but a huge swathe of them wouldn’t represent me or my tastes/interests whatsoever, and they’d simply be taking up much-needed space, gathering dust. I want my collection to be more fluid and representative than that.

[last.caress]

Ordered:

[Ghost_of_Sartana (Andy)]

Awesome! Does that set come with the director’s cut of Wrath of Khan?

[last.caress]

@Ghost_of_Sartana

Does that set come with the director’s cut of Wrath of Khan?

I won’t know for definite until it arrives of course but I’m already almost 100% certain that it does not, no. That’s a separate purchase and one I haven’t yet made, but I think that’s a fairly easy-to-get disc atm. I think it was selling for something like £7 or £8 in my local HMV.

[Beaumont-Adam (Ali)]

Not a massive Trekkie but I really enjoy the movies.

[Ghost_of_Sartana (Andy)]

Ali and I were talking about Bond and he told me about getting an autographed Timothy Dalton picture. I looked up the Dalton Bond blu-rays and it seems they’re out of print but I found Licence to Kill on a used blu-ray site for cheap and ordered:

[Beaumont-Adam (Ali)]

LICENCE TO KILL is the most demonised, miss understood 007 film ever!! I can back this up! Timothy Dalton would be more revered it it was a big success. A violent, balls to the wall action film more Miami vice than GOLDFINGER.

The main reasons that LTK failed were as follows:

1. Bad marketing. The artwork and media exposure were very poor. With the exception of the teaser poster the LTK photographic posters were awful and didn’t represent the film at all.

2. Release. The film was released in the summer of 1989. That summer saw the release of BATMAN, GHOSTBUSTERS II, INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE and BACK TO THE FUTURE II. The competition was huge. If LTK was released in the Autumn it had a better chance of success.

3. People weren’t ready for it. The violence quota could have put viewers used to Roger Moore off. Strange in the Stallone/Schwarzenegger hay day.

[makesthemovie]

Dalton is my second favorite Bond after Sean Connery. Another part of that raw deal he got is that the fans who were sick of Roger Moore clowning around too much complained again that Dalton was too serious as Bond, which was untrue; Bond has a license to kill, so naturally he’s be hard looking. Ironically, Dalton was the only actor to fit Ian Fleming’s physical description of Bond. My favorite aspect of LTK is that it wasn’t about Queen and Country, it was purely personal, Bond needing to avenge the man he has a brother like relationship with. I like LTK and TLD equally.

[Beaumont-Adam (Ali)]

Tim is the most consistent Bond. He did two films and they were both Good. He should be more revered. Connery is my favourite but he had to grow on me. He was the last original Bond I saw.
Dalton could be humourous but it was sadistic humour. Only Brosnan actually measured this kind of humour with his own dry wit.

God I could write pages on this lol!

[Toscano]

*The ‘Musketeers’, (1973/74) and ‘The Great Escape’ (1963

The explanation, as to why I love these films, comes later.

Three films that I love…especially ‘The Great Escape’.
Watching the ‘Three/Four musketeers’ on a big screen in 1973-74, as a kid, I wanted to be part of the action. The music, the set-design, the actors, ( Reed, York, Lee, Heston, Chamberlain, Finlay, Faye)…
How could it go wrong?
It didn’t.
It left behind - at least, for me - a childhood memory at the cinema that has become a firm life-long favourite.

As for ‘The Great Escape’ (1963)… My second favourite film of all-time. This film deserves so many accolades for inspiring me in my youth, encouraging me in my teens, and remaining a constant ‘friend’ in my middle-age.
Seriously, I love it, if only for the reason that it reminds me of family, many years ago, watching it on TV, in black and white.
It also reminds me of when I had Steve McQueen’s motor-cycle poster pinned on my wall when I was in my early twenties.

It also brings back fond memories of speaking to Angus Lennie, ‘The Mole’, in ‘The Great Escape’, whom I spoke to on the phone many times.

My fondest memory is of when Angus told me how much he enjoyed working with Steve McQueen, meeting Steve’s wife, at the time, and then being invited to race around the set in a bike and side-car, ridden by Mcqueen, at full speed. The other cast were invited to do like-wise…
Angus was also very proud of having appeared in two ‘Dr. Who’ adventures - '‘The Ice Warriors’, and ‘Terror of the Zygons’.

A picture of Steve, and Angus, R.I.P.

https://youtu.be/FDi0ElqwHrY

[aldo]

A few bargains found at ‘Ye oldie charity shop’

3 BDs for £2

Just checked the ‘Snowman’ movie,

which I’ve never heard of, it gets a 7% rating on Rotten Tomatoes Yikes!!!

[makesthemovie]

Ordered the Umberto Lenzi/Carroll Baker 4 Giallo Set today.

I already had the 88 Films edition of Paranoia, but I didn’t have the first two titles, and the French edition of Knife of Ice I preordered back in February isn’t English subtitled.

Author edit: Never hurts to have backup copies

[Ghost_of_Sartana (Andy)]

More Bond. Had to order this direct from the UK because prices for the US version are ridiculous.