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[JackWade]

Just made three new Blu-Ray purchases from Amazon last night:

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
THE 40-YEAR OLD VIRGIN/KNOCKED UP/FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL Box Set

[tdalton]

Tropic Thunder (Director's Cut)

[Otis Fairplay]

[At the risk of sounding mildly reactionary]

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari [Robert Wiene, 1919]
Nosferatu [F.W. Murnau, 1922]
Metropolis [Fritz Lang, 1927]

Well you know what they say; there is nothing like a bit of German Expressionism to start your day.

Edited by Otis Fairplay, 05 January 2009 - 05:04 PM.

[DamnCoffee]

Doctor Who: The Complete Series 2
Doctor Who: The Complete Series 3

[DR76]

Tropic Thunder (Director's Cut)

I had purchased the above and the two-disc copy of 1995's "HEAT".

[golrush007]

My most recent DVD aquisitions:

Hansie - South African film about former cricket captain.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - 2 disc steelbook DVD

Jaws - timeless classic

The Prestige - great film

Angels One Five - old British war flick about Battle of Britain

[Safari Suit]

The Who: The Kids Are Alright
McVicar

[Vauxhall]

Hansie - South African film about former cricket captain.

Fantastic. I've been trying to find out if cinemas in the UK are going to show HANSIE but no luck so far. Please let us know what you think of the film.

[Qwerty]

Tropic Thunder (Director's Cut)

Great stuff. Be sure to check out the Dispatches from The Edge Of Madness extra for some further hilarity, especially from Robert Downey Jr.

[Turn]

Top Gun Blu-ray. The '80s live again.

[Blofeld's Cat]

Hansie - South African film about former cricket captain.

Fantastic. I've been trying to find out if cinemas in the UK are going to show HANSIE but no luck so far. Please let us know what you think of the film.

You might have to bride them, Vauxhall.

[golrush007]

Hansie - South African film about former cricket captain.

Fantastic. I've been trying to find out if cinemas in the UK are going to show HANSIE but no luck so far. Please let us know what you think of the film.

I enjoyed Hansie very much as I grew up in SA in the early 90s, obsessed with cricket during Hansie's reign as captain. The film is well made, well acted and accurate. However, many hoped that the film would shed new light on the Hansie story, but it basically just covers the well known facts and doesn't go into any new detail. The cricket scenes are good, although perhaps not quite as good as they could have been, and some of the details in terms of equipment used then etc. could have been better.

Overall, the film is heavily slanted towards Hansie's spirituality and the way in which his Christian life affected, and was affected by his involvement in corruption and the guilt he felt afterwards. Some might find this puts them off, but it doesn't for me, as a Christian myself I felt that there was much to be learned from the Hansie story. Overall, I felt it was well worth a watch, and I hope that it does get a release in the UK, as the film has a huge (in South African terms) budget to cover, so it needs the international revenue!

The DVD set is really good - as well as including the film and deleted scenes, extensive making-of etc. it also has a four hour documentary about Hansie, made up of interviews with about 60 people who knew him, as well as plenty of archive footage of him playing cricket and home movies etc. In a way, I actually enjoyed this more than the film itself, and anyone interested in Hansie's story would find the documentary entertaining and more enlightening than the film was.

Edited by golrush007, 11 January 2009 - 06:04 AM.

[DamnCoffee]

Doctor Who: The Mind Robber.

[Blofeld's Cat]

Get Smart Seasons 1, 2 & 3.

[Agent 76]

[Qwerty]

Vicky Christina Barcelona

[Scottlee]

CSI Las Vegas Season 4 Part 2

and...

Dead Set

[Agent 76]

Dr. No - blu-ray
From Russia With Love - blu-ray
Thunderball - blu-ray
Live and Let Die - blu-ray
For Your Eyes Only - blu-ray
Die Another Day - blu-ray

[Vauxhall]

THE PIANIST
CRASH

[Joe Bond]

Nice choice.

Mine are:

Iron Man

4 Film Favorites: Superman

Edited by Joe Bond, 28 January 2009 - 11:58 PM.

[Harmsway]

I last purchased two Stanley Kubricks:

BARRY LYNDON
THE KILLING

[Joe Bond]

I last purchased two Stanley Kubricks:

BARRY LYNDON
THE KILLING

I saw The Killing a couple months ago, pretty good heist caper and it has Sterling Hayden, who could forget his character's obsession with water in Dr. Strangelove, and he's pretty good in The Killing. I have been meaning to see Barry Lyndon but never got the chance.

[DamnCoffee]

Doctor Who: The Sontaran Collection:
- The Time Warrior.
- The Sontaran Experiment.
- That Invasion of Time.
- The Two Doctors.

[Vauxhall]

THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY (Le scaphandre et le papillon)

[DamnCoffee]

I bought:

Ghostlight
The Curse of Fenric
Survival

The last three storys of the classic Who series of the 80's.

[tdalton]

Eden Lake

[Blofeld's Cat]

Received in the mail today....



Box art back for details



Vol 2 expected sometime next week.

[Qwerty]

Sweet and Lowdown
Running with Scissors

[Safari Suit]

Ever Decreasing Circles: The Complete Series

[Agent 76]