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Post by Necroscope on Jul 20, 2008 21:24:02 GMT -5
Hey Laz, you remember that thread I posted about my problems on ebay? That was Street Trash! Seeing you with the special edition just feels like salt in the wounds.... Damn you!
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Post by piggsy on Jul 20, 2008 21:47:01 GMT -5
Ha! I remember that.
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Post by lazario on Jul 20, 2008 22:20:54 GMT -5
ya i usually just browse around the site and can find some good movies or movies i wanted to see for 7-10$$, it just seems like such a ripoff paying anymore then 10$ for a dvd, atleast to me I don't always or even usually, anymore, pay that much for my DVDs. For the last several months, I've just been buying cheap - meaning, whatever was less than $10 when I liked the price and approved of buying it for that. Whatever I could get that I even kinda wanted for the best price I could find. I'm a collector at heart. And I'm still a selective buyer. I don't think that Street Trash 2-discer is ever going to be much cheaper than it is now. Not to mention that Synapse and Elite DVDs go out of print. And then you can't get 'em. Unless, like Brain Damage - they rerelease them. I want to make sure I have a copy. Hey Laz, you remember that thread I posted about my problems on ebay? That was Street Trash! Seeing you with the special edition just feels like salt in the wounds.... Damn you! Did you ever say it was Street Trash that you had the problem with? I don't remember that part of your topic. What price did they have for it?
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Post by Necroscope on Jul 26, 2008 7:44:50 GMT -5
I didn't actually mention it in that post, but rather an earlier post on another thread (possibly this one). Anyway the film cost me $9.88. This was for the single disc, although there were comparable prices for the 2-disc. I just got greedy and wasn't paying close enough attention. I flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami...
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Post by lazario on Jul 30, 2008 15:54:50 GMT -5
Street Trash came in the mail 2 days ago, I plan on watching it tomorrow. Finally I got enough money to get my 2 most wanted to purchase DVD's! The 3-disc Ultimate Edition of: and the 2-disc Ultimate Edition of: Two of the greatest masterpieces the horror genre has ever known in the best DVD editions to be released yet. I'll be waiting a couple weeks probably but it'll be WORTH it! I'm very excited.
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Post by piggsy on Aug 8, 2008 23:14:27 GMT -5
Great choices, Lazario. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Ultimate Edition is absolutely incredible.
I just bought six VHS tapes and one DVD (I love flea markets...)
The Matrix Manhunter Alien 3 Alien Tower of Blood Happy Gilmore (the only Sandler comedy I like) 28 Days Later
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Post by lazario on Aug 9, 2008 12:18:18 GMT -5
Great choices, Lazario. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Ultimate Edition is absolutely incredible. Yeah it is. I tried comparing the two in terms of how they looked. They pretty much looked the same, except Dark Sky brightened it up. The biggest difference is in the "dinner" scene. On the MPI/Pioneer version, when looking over her head and you see the four people sitting at the end of the table, look at the walls. You can't see what color the floor and bottom half of the walls are. In the Dark Sky version, you can. And it's green. Not gray or black or dust-colored / soot-covered. Also, in the shot where "the cook" comes out of the kitchen doorway and raises his fist to threaten the hitchhiker, you can see his face in the Dark Sky version. You can't in the MPI/Pioneer version. The audio is the biggest change. It's amazing how much detail you can hear in the dialogue. I heard things I've never heard before. Like Franklin say, as Sally is wheeling him in the dark woods, "I (can) see a house." And he tells her where he sees it. I don't remember hearing that at all in the MPI/Pioneer version. The stereo track in that version just wasn't very good. The sounds of people's voices blended together and you heard the sound of two voices at once instead of hearing what they were saying. In the Dark Sky version, you can hear everything everyone is saying. The 2 scenes I noticed this in where the van scene where Franklin is talking about the airgun and Sally is yelling at him to change the subject. After she starts talking, he says something and you can actually hear what he's saying over / beside the sound of her voice. The other scene was the dinner scene again. When the hitchhiker starts talking about Grandpa. In the MPI/Pioneer version, you just hear him. In the Dark Sky version, you can hear her whining at full pitch as he's still talking. You hear both at the same time without one drowning the other out. Then, I listened closely to the screeching sounds during the closeups of Sally's tortured-face closeups. On the Dark Sky version, they pierce right through the speakers and hit you. On the MPI/Pioneer version, you honestly barely hear them. I just bought six VHS tapes and one DVD (I love flea markets...) The Matrix Manhunter Alien 3 Alien Tower of Blood Happy Gilmore (the only Sandler comedy I like) 28 Days Later I already own the first 3 Alien movies on DVD. I don't have 28 Days Later on DVD yet, but I want to get it. Wal-Mart has to sell the Widescreen version for less than $9, so I can buy that and Hostel together for under $20. To complete my "Best Horror Films of the New-Millennium" collection (which also needs Jeepers Creepers and Final Destination, but I'm working on it). And the only Adam Sandler comedy I love is The Wedding Singer. Great movie! The rest are either mildly amusing, or plain crap.
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Post by piggsy on Aug 9, 2008 16:07:12 GMT -5
You're right about the audio on the TCM disc. On the old VHS tape I have, I didn't know a news report was playing over the opening credits. On the DVD, I can hear it all.
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Post by lazario on Aug 9, 2008 18:10:44 GMT -5
You only had a VHS before you bought the Dark Sky DVD? I got my DVD copy of TCM in Christmas '02, before the pieceofshit Remake came out. That's when the DVD was $30.00. Then the remake came out, they re-packaged the same disc in 2 different cases. One was a zipper with a shining light coming through it, the other was a hunk of raw red meat with the white styrofoam bottom underneath and shiny plastic wrapper over it. That went for $15.00 at Wal-Mart, which was the same price as The Evil Dead: THX, and I believe MGM's Special Editions of The Fog and The Howling when I bought those in '03. At Wal-Mart.
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Post by piggsy on Aug 9, 2008 18:28:57 GMT -5
I had a DVD before...the Pioneer one, I believe. I have no idea what happened to it. I only watched it a few times.
I prefer watching it on tape. The one I have is about 22 years old. It gives the film a grainier feel, kind of like it has been collecting dust on a shelf in a police station. It brings me more into the atmosphere.
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Post by lazario on Aug 9, 2008 19:17:51 GMT -5
I don't know too many VHS's that are that old and still work. I'm having a SHITLOAD of problems with my older VHS's. Bought one from 1986, a Disney video, about 3 years ago, and you can barely watch it. The whole picture is screwed up.
Not that newer VHS's fare any better.
I'm glad to hear you don't have problems with the tape. I hope it lasts forever. I still have no problems with the way VHS looks or sounds. It's how the VHS's play that bothers me. DVD is just far superior - if you have a good player. The key is getting a good damn player.
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Post by lazario on Oct 9, 2008 15:15:49 GMT -5
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Post by Necroscope on Oct 14, 2008 0:07:46 GMT -5
I'm confused Laz. I thought you didn't like Re-Animator?
PS: Is the company DeepDiscountDVD or DeepestDiscountDVD?
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Post by lazario on Oct 14, 2008 18:54:33 GMT -5
Is the company DeepDiscountDVD or DeepestDiscountDVD? Deep. I'm confused Laz. I thought you didn't like Re-Animator? I don't. I bought it for the 75 minute documentary on the 2nd disc. Hopefully it will help me understand something I missed. I'm sure it's a great movie and I just plain old don't get it. I sure like Re-Animator a lot more than Day of the Dead. But I'm buying that one, as well.
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Post by tsmooth31 on Oct 15, 2008 13:18:31 GMT -5
why waste money for a documentary of a movie you dont like?? should have just got another movie
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Post by shunty on Oct 15, 2008 15:51:23 GMT -5
or just copy the fuckin' thing! by copy i mean burn if you want the extra shit. 99 cents or 10-20 bucks? i'll go with the cheap one.
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Post by lazario on Oct 16, 2008 14:29:46 GMT -5
or just copy the fuckin' thing! by copy i mean burn if you want the extra shit. 99 cents or 10-20 bucks? i'll go with the cheap one. Sorry but it's stealing. Not to mention risk of computer viruses. why waste money for a documentary of a movie you dont like?? should have just got another movie Well I got it in a Buy One Get One Free thing, so technically I didn't pay for it (or even more technically, I did but got the 2 Argento movies for free). Besides, if the other bonus features are a match for the Elite THX Millennium Edition, I'll just sell that since mine's in superb condition and I rarely use it. No one on Amazon has a Used copy in Like-New condition for under $11. And I bought my Elite DVD for only $13 total. Part of the reason was to get 2 free and the other was as I said to Necro - "I'm sure it's a great movie and I just plain old don't get it. Hopefully it will help me understand something I missed."
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Post by shunty on Oct 16, 2008 19:22:45 GMT -5
it's stealing to make us pay that much for a movie. also, burning movies has nothing to do with computer viruses.
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Post by lazario on Oct 17, 2008 6:08:09 GMT -5
I've already found a place that says burning movies can give you a computer virus.
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Post by tsmooth31 on Oct 17, 2008 21:39:22 GMT -5
nah im pretty positive burning movies cant, i have a friend who builds comps and can basically fix any virus, so im gonna always believe his answer when it comes to comp related stuff
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