decent videos/DVD's?

chubbster · Post by **chubbster** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:32 pm

ive recently joined a video shop club, its one of them excellent ones that you can barely move in as its stuffed from floor to ceiling with millions of films. the problem im having is the choice available. im quite upto date with films out recently but with the others over a few years old how do you pick the good 'uns from the zillion different boxes and back of the box write-ups. its come to the point where ive watched my favorites and now need you good folks to guide me. can you help me get a list together?

im practically into any genre except the romantic crap (briget jones etc.). my personal favorites are;
usual suspects
flatliners
americian beauty
shallow grave

any good titles would be excellent cheers!

D4V1D · Post by **D4V1D** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:02 pm

i dunno if itll be your thing, but im quite partial to my gang-star flicks. essex boys is a good-un, based on a true story an stuff.
also freddy got fingured is damn funny. bit out there, definitly a film to get drunk to.
cant think of much else really. not to much of a film perso to be honest.

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:23 pm

*rubs hands* hmmmm another bit of fresh meat to pull under a sea of animÃ©

hehehe

chubbster · Post by **chubbster** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 12:37 am

@D4VID.....seen essex boys, brillant film. have you seen colors?(american film hence the spelling) i'll try freddy got fingered, ta very much

@tahrey....bit of a fan are you? ive seen a few of them, and i love them. cant really remember much about the ones ive seen, one i think had a dragon god thing in the sky and another a giant black ameoboid that ate everything. ring a bell? didnt think so! i also seem to remember tentacle stuff as well but im not sure if that was a dodgy porn one. any good titles spring to mind?

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 1:35 am

i'm a bit short on the porno ones...... i have trouble getting all the way through to the video section of the websites without, er, losing my motivation
/ahem...

im more the artsy/old fashioned pg/12a-rated actioner type in that respect. probably cuz of too much saturday morning 80s tv in front of cities of gold and all that stuff thats been tidal waved by power rangers and yugioh... (yeah, i know there was enough minging tv material back then as well, but it was a little balanced at least)

studio ghibli and all that bumf...

laputa castle in the sky, nausicaa*, my neighbour totoro, porco rosso, princess mononoke (i think your big black blob is possibly a rememberance of part of the last 15 mins of that? maybe**).... and so on and so forth, other things like that from other companies.
though i do like a good bit of the akira/ghost in the shell sci fi gubbins as well

.
possibly showing my out-of-touchness however if any hardcore... (shudder) otaku are reading. not like i've had too much chance to keep up except for about 1 or 2 films a year of late. hoping to rectify that soon.

not like its my entire film collection however. more of a traditional intellectual thriller (eg, The Fugitive was on Five tonight, and was most enjoyable) thru scifi actioner bloke however, not sure what i might suggest on the suspense/horror genre (hmm, Leon? you've probably either got that, or dont want to). will have to give the DVDs a whizz. maybe look thru the 200+ VCDs as well.

* see my dashboard (and flight bag) for details

** or possibly Urotsukidoji / Legend of the Overfiend.... which i might be able to spell, but never seen very much of. seems a bit overhyped and gratuitous, like a lot of the barrel scrapings that were imported and talked up in the early 90s.

fishtoasty · Post by **fishtoasty** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 9:47 am

well some of my favorite older films consist of the following

CON AIR
ALIEN
ALIENS
FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR
BATMAN
BATMAN RETURNS
PULP FICTION
RESOUVOR DOGS
AIRPLANE
SHORT CIRCUIT
RAISING ARIZONA
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT

Check this site out too http://www.fast-rewind.com

Ross

deadcat · Post by **deadcat** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 9:53 am

Tahrey1043 wrote: ** or possibly Urotsukidoji / Legend of the Overfiend.... which i might be able to spell, but never seen very much of. seems a bit overhyped and gratuitous, like a lot of the barrel scrapings that were imported and talked up in the early 90s.

Urotsukidoji Rocks!
I bought My missus the entire series, cost me a packet, but she loves it.
Lots of blood, guts and sex.
Also Akira is possibly gods own film, ghost in the shell is ace, I also suggest Blood, the last Vampire, that rocks.

Filmwise, go and rent a few old zombie films, they are the best. Just watched Evil dead 2 again, That is one cracking film.
If you can get your hands on it, going back to the japanese theme, Battle Royal is a really ace film (not the second one, that sucks) or Suicide club.

chubbster · Post by **chubbster** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:54 am

have any of you seen repo man? they were talking about it on that late night show flipside tv. i was thinking about getting it yesterday but cos i was with the bird i went for a newer film. its on the website you posted toasty (nice one!) and it was right next to remo williams, which is another genius film.

deadcat · Post by **deadcat** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 12:49 pm

chubbster wrote:have any of you seen repo man? they were talking about it on that late night show flipside tv. i was thinking about getting it yesterday but cos i was with the bird i went for a newer film. its on the website you posted toasty (nice one!) and it was right next to remo williams, which is another genius film.

Repo man rocks.
What an ace film.

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 2:22 pm

80s Rewind.... i bow down in awe.... as does my bank account

well i suppose you have to try everything once, i might well have to go watch more than 10 consecutive minutes of an overfiend film, but probably still not the right cup of tea

... kind of went off the whole gore thing after seeing Brain Dead

(now there's a... ahem... "quality" movie, hehe)
Do want to get to see the full (40-minute?) glory of Blood at some point though. The style of the art is just... mmm*mwah*... like, you have yu-gi-oh somewhere down here (shoves hand under a nova), and Last Vampire around here (thumps roof of blinged mk3)

Very nearly bought Repo Man when I was led astray into an "alternative" music/video shop up in edinbro.. that and a Ulysses 31 DVD ("part 3") ... but for the fact i was trying to save money for other bits (and the U31 box screenshots suggested lower quality than my own VCDs). It's got such a cool rep and the blurb suggests a properly twisted up story

get your ass to the internet shops

chubbster · Post by **chubbster** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 5:45 pm

ulysses 31? is that the cartoon with the eye ship and the little robot dude, and hes got that sword/gun combo going on. if it is that who makes it i want!

chubbster · Post by **chubbster** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 5:47 pm

do you remember jason and the wheeled warriors?

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 7:36 pm

unfortunately the wheeled warriors were more my younger brother's thing (along with Mask and the original Transformers toons). I think they were on after i'd gone to school but he was still home

yes, ulysses is what youre thinking of mate

it's far more of a headf**k and makes a bit less sense than you remember though. all the same big up the literary based cartoons

i could probably rattle off several companies involved in its production but they will have little or nothing to do with it's uk distribution - from the look of the boxshots, these guys have transferred it off some ancient rental VHSs and then applied for a distro license (non official cover artwork a go-go). just found it on the shelf in "Fopp" audiovisual stores - possibly on amazon as well.

with it being from the same stable as cities of gold that makes me hopeful for a *very* long awaited proper uk video/dvd release of it... someone somewhere has made a very, very nice transfer of it from hard-sought master films, but is holding onto it like a total b*stard... so i'll settle for similar VHS transfers

so long as we dont end up with the diabolical "new adventures of esteban" instead

building up the litertoon stable (it was based on some minor classic novel about the conquistadors, with plenty of fantasy scifi "elaboration" on top), along with willy fogg, dogtanian, and... um.... he-man and the masters of the universe, thundercats and defenders of the earth

OGDMX · Post by **OGDMX** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:01 pm

Happy Gilmore

funny as hell

chubbster · Post by **chubbster** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 1:12 am

wheeled warriors used to be on sundays as well, excellent to wake up and watch funky space age cars batter cars made out of vegetable materials. i used to love it! shame on me i know!