shunty
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Post by shunty on Oct 18, 2008 2:19:40 GMT -5
laz, only the internet can give viruses. a regular movie burning program can't.
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Post by lazario on Oct 20, 2008 8:47:43 GMT -5
Well I don't know where I heard it but it was on some kind of Question-Answer thing and several people complained of getting computer viruses from Bit Torrent type places.
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shunty
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Post by shunty on Nov 14, 2008 11:36:00 GMT -5
i'm talking about burning movies with a burning program. you are talking about torrents that are downloaded from the internet so someone can watch a movie contained in the torrent on their computer.
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Post by lazario on Nov 23, 2008 15:43:15 GMT -5
A few more (yet another Deep Discount sale, I couldn't pass up - 25% off all total prices): The reason I had to re-post this was because Deep Discount put them all on back-order again. Now, 2 out of 3 have shipped finally. If this ever happens again, I'm never ordering from these jackasses again. If only they didn't have so many goddamn sales!
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Post by tsmooth31 on Nov 26, 2008 5:12:01 GMT -5
i thought u didnt like pet semetary
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Post by lazario on Nov 27, 2008 3:35:17 GMT -5
T, are you ever going to understand the difference between LIKE and APPRECIATE? Seriously, it's the most telling thing about you as a horror fan. It's the single reason you're so blind and clueless.
Besides, I buy a lot of movies I don't like on DVD. Remember the post about Day of the Dead and Re-Animator? I don't like The Beyond either, but now I own 2 DVD's of it (one of them was that cheap $3 Diamond DVD, a transfer of the laserdisc).
Let me explain it to you again: a person can LIKE bad movies and DISLIKE good movies, but as a horror fan I actually owe it to the genre to understand them. I've always liked SOME things about Pet Sematary and disliked other things. Movies are really funny things, T, they have a lot of things in and about them. I don't like a lot of movies, however I like watching a lot of horror movies. Because everytime I watch, I learn something. Horror movies are often very complex and the brain doesn't always pick everything up from one viewing.
If I didn't rewatch movies like The Howling and The Beyond, I wouldn't know anything about them worked. I had to watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre more than once to understand it (which you clearly don't). I had to watch The Evil Dead more than once to see how good it is. To know The Last House on the Left was about social issues, I had to watch it both as a teenager and as an adult.
You have to re-watch, and also: compare! Comparing one movie to another is a very important thing to do to understand.
Movies in the horror genre were made for re-watching. You're not supposed to flip through them all like you're a kid with a Viewmaster or a bored person at a Doctor's office trying to find something in a magazine to keep you from boredom. Horror is a true artform. And movies like Pet Sematary are actually some of the most interesting.
Besides I only own the VHS and even on a visual level, the movie is worth an upgrade to DVD to get the full effect. I'm a DVD collector as well as a horror fan. I would never have bought a movie like Phantom of the Opera if it wasn't fun to watch with a stereo system blasting away and the sharp quality of MGM's very good audio transfers (I don't know how it would sound with a full 5, 6, 7 speaker sound system, I've only got the 2 speakers & bass). Anyway, DVD is an amazing way to really see movies as though you were experiencing them for the first time. I'm proud of my collection, even if there are still a few I desperately need.
Technically I bought the movie because of the technical quality of it. It's a big budget movie that is nasty and ugly and has great gore effects, and I enjoy WATCHING that. I don't have to like it to like watching it. Plus... BONUS FEATURES. When have I ever fooled you into thinking I'm not a Bonus Feature junkie???
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Post by tsmooth31 on Nov 27, 2008 5:06:06 GMT -5
doesnt matter, if you dont like a movie it doesnt make sense to buy it when there are thousands of other movies out there you could buy
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Post by lazario on Nov 27, 2008 5:27:54 GMT -5
Interesting theory... (Again, I'm being kind instead of telling you what you really need to hear)
We're talking about DVD. Different standards.
Besides, when all is said and done, I'm not sure there's any rhyme or reason to why I decide to get one movie over another. PRICE is a big consideration as you know if you remember I've said it several times.
Plus, my collection has almost all the important masterpieces and classics of the modern era ('68 to today). Since you've been questioning my purchases, you've failed to realize: They Were All On-Sale.
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Post by tsmooth31 on Nov 27, 2008 5:34:36 GMT -5
well if i dont like a movie i could give a shit about the dvd or anything else
but yea i usually only buy dvd's on sale too, if you spend 15-20$ on a dvd that gets expensive very fast which is why lately i have been downloading movies, havent actually bought one in some time, although i have been eyewing this 50 movie pack
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Post by lazario on Nov 27, 2008 6:36:02 GMT -5
i usually only buy dvd's on sale too, if you spend 15-20$ on a dvd that gets expensive very fast which is why lately i have been downloading movies, havent actually bought one in some time The way I buy is I wait until I can afford one, which yes does take months. The main reason I don't download..I have used excuses in the past but there is a reason - I love my physical DVD collection. It makes me proud. I put the horror masterpieces / classics on one shelf. And the fun & fodder horror movies on a different shelf. And I'm proud to say not only does SAW not occupy a place in my collection anywhere at all... but if it did, it would not be on the same shelf as Carrie, Last House on the Left, Halloween, Deep Red, Rosemary's Baby, An American Werewolf in London, The Evil Dead, Suspiria, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Creepshow, Piranha, Phantasm, Tenebre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Child's Play, Phenomena, The Fog, etc. well if i dont like a movie i could give a shit about the dvd or anything else Well, you know there are a lot of different reasons to dislike a movie. As there are a lot of different reasons a movie is either good or bad. Well, horror is one of those genres where you just have to take the good with the bad. You'll never see anything good, I assume, in The Evil Dead or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The same reason I'll never buy any of the shitty new remakes, or the remakes of Night of the Living Dead and The Blob, and countless other movies. There are good things about The Beyond, Day of the Dead, Pet Sematary, Re-Animator, and etc. That's why I buy them. Fuck, just look at my blind-buys, movies I bought on DVD before ever seeing the movies before: The entire 1st season of Masters of Horror, Masters of Horror: Family, & The Screwfly Solution, Meet the Feebles, Open Water, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Cat's Eye, Chillers, The Newlydeads, Bones, The Boogey Man, Burnt Offerings, The Church, God Told Me To, Dario Argento's Inferno, Manhattan Baby, The Others (2001), Patrick, Riding the Bullet, The Woods, Bad Taste, Basket Case, Blue Sunshine, Brain Damage, The Brood, C.H.U.D., Cat People (1982), The Crazies, Frogs, It Lives Again, Island of the Alive: It's Alive III, Monkey Shines, Monster in the Closet, Piranha (1978), Q the Winged Serpent, Rabid, Scanners, Shivers / They Came from Within: The Parasite Murders, Sisters, Slugs, Society, Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama, Squirm, Street Trash, The Stuff, Uzumaki, Audition, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Black Christmas, Cat o' Nine Tails, Christmas Evil / You Better Watch Out, Deep Red, Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile, Motel Hell, Fright (1971), Hell Night, Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, I Madman, The Initiation, Mountaintop Motel Massacre, Just Before Dawn, May (2002), Dario Argento's Opera, Dario Argento's Phenomena, Argento's Phantom of the Opera, Popcorn, Private Parts (1972), Psycho Beach Party, Satan's Little Helper, Sleepaway Camp 2, Sleepaway Camp 3, Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, Argento's The Stendhal Syndrome, Dario Argento's Tenebre, Theater of Blood, Madhouse (1974), Argento's Trauma, The Vanishing (1988), What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?, What's the Matter with Helen?, Who Slew Auntie Roo?, The Company of Wolves, Def by Temptation, Ginger Snaps, The Howling III: The Marsupials (I had seen some of but didn't remember it), The Hunger, Innocent Blood, Martin (1976), Vamp (1986), Wolfen, The Beyond, Bio Zombie, Cemetery Man, Dead Alive / Braindead, The Dead Next Door, Deathdream, Demons, Demons 2, The House by the Cemetery, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie / The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, Nightmare City, Tombs of the Blind Dead, and Fulci's Zombie.
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Post by tsmooth31 on Nov 27, 2008 18:31:06 GMT -5
The way I buy is I wait until I can afford one, which yes does take months.
The main reason I don't download..I have used excuses in the past but there is a reason - I love my physical DVD collection. It makes me proud. I put the horror masterpieces / classics on one shelf. And the fun & fodder horror movies on a different shelf. And I'm proud to say not only does SAW not occupy a place in my collection anywhere at all... but if it did, it would not be on the same shelf as Carrie, Last House on the Left, Halloween, Deep Red, Rosemary's Baby, An American Werewolf in London, The Evil Dead, Suspiria, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Creepshow, Piranha, Phantasm, Tenebre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Child's Play, Phenomena, The Fog, etc.
i like my dvd collection too, but i download so many movies i just would not be able to afford to buy them all, i will only buy a movie IF...
1- i saw it and loved it
2- i really wanna see it but cant find it anywhere to download
3- if i know i will get multiple views out of it, which is why i buy some of the mystery science theater volumes
before i used to download movies tho i would just blindbuy everything, although now with the holidays coming up i usually get some extra money and have nothing to spend it on so i will prob spoil myself on cduniverse and pick up a few horror movies
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Post by tsmooth31 on Dec 4, 2008 22:06:40 GMT -5
ordered a few MST3K volumes, havent watched the show inawhile and im in the mood for it
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Post by lazario on Dec 18, 2008 7:24:38 GMT -5
Opinions change over time. The fact is, I think a movie is worth buying if there's at least SOMETHING about it you really like.
I wouldn't buy Saw just because Leigh Whannell is a hottie. But Day of the Dead... well, that's the 1980's, and the DVD is packed with interesting bonus features... But mostly it's the 1980's thing.
I can re-watch a movie I don't like and see things about it I learn to like or things that interest me more. One of the movies I have the biggest beef with to this day is Patrick (1978). But there are parts of it that are downright fascinating. I'll always keep the DVD and re-watch it for the hell of it.
Besides, I still have several VHS's of comedies I love. I'm really getting close to being fully satisfied with my DVD Collection. I'm not a forever-collector. I'll pick up a new edition if it's a movie that has never gotten proper treatment.
But everything is going to switch to Blu-Ray anyway. And I don't have the fucking money to start over again. Not to mention, HORROR-DVDS-dot-com say that the quality of 70's and 80's horror movies on Blu-Ray is good. But not truly great. If I'm supposed to upgrade to the highest quality of DVD ever released... MOTHER FUCKER I expect A+ quality. B+ is not good enough. That means we'll all have to upgrade again in 2011 or later. Fuck that.
Besides- they don't have most of the movies I'd bother upgrading for anyway. I don't think Troma will ever go Blu-Ray. And the movies I want to see in the best quality the most - Creepshow, Argento's Phenomena and Opera and Tenebre, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, From Beyond... would take years to get released. Who has time?
And what about TV Shows? They'll only release shit like Laguna Beach and House and crap like that in Blu-Ray. I don't think the BBC will go Blu-Ray. And if they do, it'll be for some Colin Firth movie or something extremely boring.
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Post by lazario on Dec 25, 2008 10:14:59 GMT -5
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Post by lazario on Dec 26, 2008 12:05:07 GMT -5
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Post by lazario on Dec 27, 2008 6:33:25 GMT -5
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Post by tsmooth31 on Dec 28, 2008 7:07:05 GMT -5
have you ever seen dr giggles??, i saw it along time ago and thought i liked it, i then picked up the dvd a few months ago and really didnt like it at all, i thought i remembered it being a cheesy fun movie on par with the dentist movies, i was very dissapointed tho after watching it
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Post by lazario on Dec 28, 2008 14:30:22 GMT -5
have you ever seen dr giggles??, i saw it along time ago and thought i liked it, i then picked up the dvd a few months ago and really didnt like it at all, i thought i remembered it being a cheesy fun movie on par with the dentist movies, i was very dissapointed tho after watching it I was a pretty young kid when I saw it. Back in my Cinemax / HBO days. I remember a very weird scene in some kind of Hall of Mirrors, a circus / amusement park. And I'm dying to see that scene again. I also remember a few other scenes. One where he attacks someone with a golf club, tries to perform an organ transplant, kills someone in a big operating theater place in the beginning, and kills a bitchy housewife woman for eating a big bowl of something white. I remember always thinking it was mayonnaise. But that would make her insane. And she wasn't. Just bitchy. I'm sure it won't be much fun. But it will fit in good with a lot of my DVD collection. As long as the DVD isn't in MONO, which it won't since the movie was from 1992, I'll enjoy watching it somehow. I don't know. I'll have to wait and see.
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Post by tsmooth31 on Jan 4, 2009 5:25:45 GMT -5
just ordered sideshow, a cheesy movie from fullmoon productions and full eclipse, about some cops that inject themselves with a serum and become werewolves, saw it a real long time ago, dont remember much about it but they had it for 5$ on amazon so i couldnt pass that up
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Post by lazario on Jan 7, 2009 9:56:43 GMT -5
just ordered sideshow, a cheesy movie from fullmoon productions and full eclipse, about some cops that inject themselves with a serum and become werewolves, saw it a real long time ago, dont remember much about it but they had it for 5$ on amazon so i couldnt pass that up You saw it a long time ago? It looks direct to video to me. From 2000, but I guess that was a little while ago.
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