Recent DVD purchases:
I hit the Wal Mart "Two for $10" bin every now and then. Every now and then you catch a winner. I also found a flea market while vacationing in Mobile, AL. They were selling DVDs at $5 a pop. OK, older DVDs, but good containers and not pirated. Just "remaindered" - another way of saying nobody was buying that particular DVD.
The Wiz - love the music. Story hardly matters.
Doom (unrated version) - Since I play DOOM on my computer all the time, needed to have the movie, vulgar though it is.
Dark City - does in one movie what it took the Wachovsky brothers a trilogy to do (i.e. the Matrix trilogy)
The Man from Snowy River - OK, hokey story - but a great "coming of age" movie set in some really spectacular locations. And I like horse movies.
Some less recent purchases that I absolutely do not regret:
Star Wars double trilogy
Matrix trilogy
The Harry Potter series
The Mummy & The Mummy Returns - great effects, great adventure, lots of fun - with
Brendan Frasier and Rachel Weisz. Who knew that Brendan could play that class of adventurer, a lot more serious than, say, George of the Jungle?
Lord of the Rings trilogy - GOD, what a great realization of Prof. Tolkien's story!
Ben Hur
My Fair Lady
King Kong (remake)
Some purchases I sort of regret (and might soon trade in for something else):
The Avengers (modern, with Sean Connery, Uma Thurman, and Ray Fiennes) - Sorry, but they were not up to the standard set by Patrick McNee and Diana Rigg. Just NOT.
Dune (theatrical release) - with Kyle McLachlan, who must be the second-most wooden actor ever discovered. (Jack Webb was the most wooden - but he was so extreme that he was campy-good, witness the HILARIOUS Dan Aykroyd spoof of Dragnet with Tom Hanks and Harry Morgan.) Anyway, that version of Dune was an incredible disaster on almost all fronts. The SciFi channel's made-for-TV version was superior in every way.
